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Indian Hill Journal
February 18, 2010
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Technology enhances Spanish program
By Forrest Sellers
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Years ago Spanish instructor Elvira Carrillo would never have dreamed about using a computer in her classroom. She said she was intimidated by them. Now laptops, flash media cards and videoconferencing are part of
an almost daily routine. “It’s fascinating,” she said. Carrillo, who has taught at Cincinnati Country Day School for 26 years, regularly uses technology as part of her Spanish curriculum. “We are connecting with schools in the area,” she said. Her students recently had a videoconference with students at
HONOR ROLLS Indian Hill Middle School
The following students have earned honors for the second quarter of 2009-2010.
Sixth Grade
Straight A Honor Roll – Trisha Atluri, Peter Bosworth, Katie Burdette, Anna Defendiefer, Madeleine Entine, Michelle Feng, Lucia Grandison, Connor Hjelm, Rhiannon Horton, Victoria Jay, Hannah Kaplan, Bradley Lewis, Maren McKenna, Natalie More, Rohit Musti, Laney Myers, Bridget Pavlick, Azl Saeed, Kishan Sheth, Adam Sichel, Claire Stewart, Kara Tauer and Joshua Young. A/B Honor Roll – Nicolas Abouchedid, Otto Ackermann, Holyn Alf, C J Allen, Katherine Anning, Teja Atluri, Alec Bayliff, Noah Bayliff, Tyler Blevins, John Bosworth, Meredith Breda, Claire Brown, Emma Campbell, Luis Campos, Nicholas Carmichael, James Chantilas, Essam Chaudhry, Lauren Collette, Durham Colohan, Cameron Davis, R J Dein, Mary Dorger, Elizabeth Drerup, Matthieu Dufourcq, Jake Feitlinger, Ana Fernandez, Abby Fovel, Piper Fries, Jeremy Gibson, Gabby Goeke, Grant Gottdiner, Andrew Hall, Emily Hallahan, Tanner Helms, Jake Innis, Armin Jalilvand, Clayton James, Grace Johnson, Kara Johnson, Rachel Jung, Ben Korengel, Molly Kubicki, Spencer Kuhlman, Devin Landstra, Julian Lee, Ben Lefke, Anna Marie Logan, Julia Majchszak, Faisal Mami, Lainey Mees, Matthew Meyer, Danny Mutasim, Michael Nazzaro, Logan Nelson, Matthew Neumann, John O’Shea, Avery Pearson, Jane Petrie, Emily Pirozzolo, Hunter Pittman, Falyn Purcell, Priya Rajan, Ella Rattigan, Isobel Riant, Catherine Sanders, Allie Satterfield, Emily Satterfield, Maggie Seiler, Caroline Skaggs, Lucy Slattery, Megan Sneider, Elise Sum, Claire Taghiof, Zen Taylor, Kyle Thompson-Taylor, Jacob Ward, Sam Wegryn, Emily Wentz, Caroline West, Ryan Wilkins, Natalie Woodward, Kate Yamaguchi and Madison Youngblood.
Seventh Grade
Straight A Honor Roll – Katherine Arnold, Claudia Ayala, Sophie Bell, Alexandra Boster, Benjamin Brown, Sabrina Bulas, Nicole Callirgos, Lara Chammas, Prashanth Donepudi, Kathleen Farrell, Michael Folz, Nathan Gibson, Daniel Harder, Alexandra Hart, Madison Hecht, Emily Hellman, Ashton Irvine, Rebekah Kim, Mazie Krehbiel, Gabrielle LaBarbera, Riley Lange, Samuel Markiewitz, Grace McCormick, Ivana Mowry-Mora, Josh Obermeyer, Mackenzie Owen, Natalie Pavlick, Caitlin Powell, Nadia Rahman, Colin Rajczak, Anna Renfro, Jack Robertson, Kate Robinson, David Ruttenberg, Troy Schwab, Vaughan Shanley, Arjun Sheth, Paige Siegert, Alex Skidmore, David Tripathy, Mitchell Trout, Rita Vagh, Trip Waltman, Andrea Wright and Emily Zurek. A/B Honor Roll – Claire Barker, Marlee Bathalter, Priya Blair, Camille Bode, Michael
Bortz, Anna Braverman, Brenden Brewer, Jake Brockhoff, Paige Brockhoff, Gibson Bullock, Josh Burgher, Mary Carroll, Wells Coalfleet, Philip Collins, Carissa Contra, Graydon Cowan, Luke Deimer, Andrew Denoyer, Kevin Dirr, Jack Dowling, Christopher Duncan, Kelli Gerlinger, Nicholas Kohl, Julia Kokenge, Jake Korengel, Kara Korengel, Anu Kovilam, Sarah Krott, Chase Kuhlman, Taylor Lance, Anna Leibel, Julia Lenhof, Will Lightcap, Jason Littman, Seth Lobo, Jay Lucien, Mackenzie McMillan, Chris Metz, Kyle NeCamp, Liam O’Donnell, Phoebe Paniccia, Cristian Pesci, Abigail Pitner, Laura Proffitt, Evan Pugh, Brooks Renfro, Nate Ringer, Madeleine Roark, William Ruppert, Lauren Sahlfeld, Scott Schaefer, Austin Schneider, George Schneider, Sara Schwanekamp, Madeline Siedling, Abigail Singer, Ivana Spasic, Anneke Stern, Grace Stimson, Jeffrey Tang, Marie Taylor, Mark Toler, Monica Valentini, Lauren Vanatsky and Cooper Winans.
Eighth Grade
Straight A Honor Roll – Emma Ackermann, Sarah Bailey, Annie Banks, Megan Bierer, Michelle Chu, Lauren Epcke, Quinn Falter, Hannah Fereshtehkhou, Corinne Florentino, Paige Gloster, Lydia Grote, Steven Gu, Ryan Helms, Maria Hooker, Jack Hooton, Elena Horton, Julie Keighley, Caroline Kirk, Victoria Klee, Connor Klinedinst, Joshua Leibel, Jordan Lenchitz, Edward Lim, Joe Majchszak, Will Muller, Drew Rice, Zenab Saeed, Claire Schweikert, Ambika Singh, Jillian Skale, Delaney Smith, Nicholas Stern, Caroline Swain, Chris ThompsonTaylor, Lindsay Tracy, Cassie Wegryn, Michael Whitman, Connie Yin, Vivian Zheng, Corey Zhu, Anna Zuo and Harrison Zwolshen. A/B Honor Roll – Mohammed Ajwah, Tony Alford, James Amato, Max Anthenelli, Shay Bahner, Maddi Bennett, Noah Brackenbury, Ben Brendamour, Grace Burnside, Katina Calamari, Gibran Chaudhry, Bradley Collins, Max Damaska, Rebecca Daun, Liza David, Will Dowling, John Duong, John Ernst, Richard Feng, Geoffrey Ferguson, Abbey Froehlich, Tekla Gaughan, Charlotte Golnik, Caroline Greiwe, Kelly Grogan, Madeline Grossi, Michael Hamilton, Theo Holmes, Samantha King, Sarah King, Emma Kinsel, Sam Knowles, Jun Ko, Karl Koster, Sheena Kothari, Brandon Kuy, Elle Lance, Emma Lowe, Animaesh Manglik, Jessica Marsh, Danielle Matthews, Rosie McCormick, Maggie McGraw, Madeline McIntyre, Ellie Mees, Mary Ann Miller, Logan Moreira, Jack Muller, Katherine Murphy, Saeed Nassef, Ellen Neumann, Johnathan Nguyen, Korrin Perry, Michaela Phillips, Caroline Pirozzolo, Blake Pittman, Logan Powers, Finley Quible, Tyler Quible, Devon Reich, Annabel Reick, Jake Rhoad, Wini Robertson, David Robinett, Leonore Salvado, Brad Seiler, Marisa Seremet, Ben Sorscher, Summer Staff, Sarah Vester, Johanna Wagner, Nicholas West and Alison Yeager.
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Spanish instructor Elvira Carrillo, right, uses technology such as videoconferencing in her classroom. Carrillo and eighth-grader Ishan Ghildyal watch a video recently prepared in class. Summit Country Day School. During the videoconference, Carrillo’s students talked about a project they were working on involving the study of various countries. Eighth-grader Ishan Ghildyal discussed the flag of Mexico. “(Elvira) uses technology to make sure we’re understanding,” said Ghildyal, who is a resident of
“If you put technology in the hands of creative teachers, great things happen.”
Greg Martin Academic dean at Cincinnati Country Day School
Indian Hill. “It helps us put images with words.”
Carrillo, a Madisonville resident and native of Colombia, will frequently take a flash media card with her when she travels. She then incorporates the video she has taken into her lessons. “If you put technology in the hands of creative teachers great things happen,” said Greg Martin, academic dean at Cincinnati Country Day School.
Moeller High School celebrates Founder’s Day, presents awards Moeller High School, along with their Marianist Brothers, celebrated Founder’s Day with Mass and a presentation of their annual Founder’s Awards. Fr. Chris Wittmann, S.M., was the main celebrant. “In his homily, Fr. Chris commended the students for their dedication to Christ and the public symbols of that dedication, which are so easily observed among them,” program coordinator Sister Judy Klei said. At the end of the Liturgy, Moeller’s Founder’s Awards were presented to The Rev. Thomas Kreidler and Ed Jamieson. Kreidler grew up in Deer Park and attended St. John grade school and then St. Xavier High School, graduating in 1969. From St. Xavier he went to St. Gregory Seminary and graduated in 1973 with a degree in English. In 1977 Kreidler received an master’s in sacred theology from Mount St. Mary Seminary and in 1984 he earned a M.Ed. from Xavier University in education administration. Four years later he earned an Ed.D. from the University of Cincinnati and spent 19 years in Catholic secondary education. Kreidler came to Moeller in 1977 after his ordination and served as chair of the Religion Department and later assistant principal and dean of students. He also coached Moeller’s freshman baseball team and reserve soccer team. During his years at Moeller, Kreidler, who is pastor of Immaculate Heart of Mary parish, also served as associate pastor at Sacred Heart in Reading, Good
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Moeller High School recently celebrated Founder’s Day with Mass and a presentation of their annual Founder’s Awards. Those who participated in the celebration include, from left: Moeller guidance department chair Brother Robert Flaherty, S.M., Founder’s Award recipient Father Thomas Kreidler, Founder’s Award recipient Ed Jamieson and principal Blane Collison. Shepherd, All Saints and St. Susanna. In 1990, the Archdiocese reassigned Kreidler to Springfield Catholic Central High School, where he served as principal until 1996. However, he remained connected to the Moeller community and now serves on the school’s Advisory Board. “Fr. Kreidler received Moeller’s Founder’s Day Award for both his dedication to Catholic education and his commitment to Moeller and its Marianist vision of education,” said principal Blane Collison. Jamieson is a 1995 graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he majored in business administration and minored in theology. He then worked at G.E. and earned the company’s Capital Marketing Leadership Award in
SCHOOL NOTES Pancake breakfast
Indian Hill School District’s 12th anniversary Band and Orchestra Pancake Breakfast is 8:15 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, March 6, in the middle school’s cafeteria, 6845 Drake Road. Breakfast is $6 and includes all-you-can-eat pancakes with sausage, fruit and beverages. Volunteers to help set up, cook, serve and clean up can send an e-mail to cindyneu-
mann@fuse.net for more information. To order tickets, mail checks, payable to “IH Schools – B&O Breakfast”, by Feb. 26, to: Sharon Nelson, 5121 Autumnwood Drive, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45242.
Spelling Bee
St. Gertrude School (Madeira) eighthgrader Max Suddendorf recently won his school’s Spelling Bee for the fourth consecutive time. Suddendorf was one of 73 Spellers that qualified for participation in the WCPO Region II Final Local Bee held Feb. 13 at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. He is from Loveland.
1998. That same year he came to Moeller to teach religion and business and computer systems and to coach wrestling. When Moeller introduced the House System five years ago, Jamieson was named Pillar House dean and then later became the House System’s director. This year he initiated and worked with the House deans to create the Man of Moeller course, which is based on “The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens” by Sean Covey and also focuses on teaching the students the five characteristics of a Marianist education. “His dedication to the students and particularly to the Marianist Characteristics is present daily in his work at Moeller,” Klei said. “He has led many endeavors to teach students how to be men of faith and justice.”
COLLEGE CORNER Dean’s list
Kyle Bennett has been named to the 2009 autumn quarter dean’s list at Columbus State Community College. He is from Indian Hill.
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Morgan Powers has been named to the 2009 fall semester dean’s list at the University of Vermont. She is from Indian Hill.
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Michael Tincher has been named to the 2009 fall semester dean’s list at Coastal Carolina University. He is from Indian Hill.
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Suzanne Gouda has been named to the 2009 fall semester dean’s list at Emory College. She is from Indian Hill.