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Hilltopper highlights news Jacob Heinen ’15
Faculty member Carl Kaiser completed his fourth Ironman competition (a triathlon consisting of a 2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike race and 26.2-mile marathon), the Ironman Wisconsin held in Madison, Wis., in September. He completed the race with a time of 10:52. His personal record is 10:05. Social studies teacher Chris Lese ’92 presented at the annual International Society for Technology in Education convention in San Antonio in June. Lese presented “Dreams 2 Mars,” a project he developed with a Dutch middle-school teacher to discuss Mars exploration and potential settlement through cross-curricular lenses. Director of College Counseling Annette Cleary was named Outstanding Key Club Faculty Advisor of the Wisconsin–Upper Michigan Key Club district. This award recognizes an individual’s personal involvement, counseling and leadership. Rev. Mike Marco, SJ has returned to MUHS as special assistant to the president. Previously a regent at Marquette High, Marco served as campus minister at Creighton Prep, and was president at Walsh Jesuit High School in Cleveland and Georgetown Prep in Washington, D.C. Pat Foran ’78 has returned as director of campaign gifts. He previously worked the past nine years at Marquette University as a development officer and before that, director of alumni relations and faculty member at MUHS. Megan Doering joined MUHS as director of instruction and parttime English teacher. She previously taught English and chaired the English Department at Brookfield Central High School. Ryan Grusenski has started teaching German. He previously taught and coached at Sussex Hamilton High School and St. Peter’s Prep, a Jesuit high school in New Jersey. Chris Reis joined MUHS as a math and computer science teacher. Reis taught math and pre-engineering courses at Kettle Moraine High School and has worked as an electrical engineer. Teaching theology, Michael Lex, SJ ’00 is an MUHS regent for 2013–14. He served at Creighton Prep as a theology teacher. Assisting John St. Peter in his Biblical Literature classes, Max Bindernagel, SJ is a Jesuit novice for the spring 2014 semester. In addition, Chris Ackels, English teacher; Sean Koscielak, Learning Services teacher; and Joe Poirier, English teacher, are the Alumni Service Corps members for 2013–14 school year.
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Twenty students traveled last summer to the Dominican Republic and Ecuador to participate in the Somos Amigos service trips. Faculty members Javier Reyes, Dan Holahan, John Azpell and Alexis Cazco led the trips. Additionally, science teacher Mike Chaney ’63 and six students went to Playa del Carmen, Mexico, as part of Marquette High’s Introduction to Marine Biology summer class. During the one-week trip, the group participated in eight ocean dives, two cenote dives and a whale and shark expedition. The following seniors have been recognized as National Merit Semifinalists, Ernst Arnhold, Patrick Byrne, Eric Carlson, Christian Gummin, Ben Sanders, Jordan Sylvester, Redmond Tuttle and Nick Visser. Eleven students received the recognition of Commended Students: Nathan Anonuevo, AJ Bolles, Ethan Davison, Nolan Diffley, Quinn English, Joe Hushek, Brian Kodaski, Kyle Madigan, Patrick O’Grady, Daniel Riley and Steve Seward. Daniel Ogunkunle received recognition as a National Achievement Program Outstanding Participant. The MUHS CyberPatriot Team finished in 87th place out of more than 1,000 teams representing approximately 850 high schools in Round 1 of the Air Force Association’s CyberPatriot National High School Cyber Defense Competition. The team, comprising Evan Tobin ’15, Andrew Cayen ’15, Kevin Mikolajczak ’15, Christian Gummin ’14 and Ben Schwabe ’14, had six hours to secure multiple computer systems from outside attacks. The Flambeau Newspaper received the highest category rating in the Kettle Moraine Press Association 2013 Publication Contest. An out-of-state journalism educator critiqued three issues and awarded the homeroom with its highest score of ALL-KEMPA. In November, Hilltopper Robotics Team 1732 invited fifththrough eighth-grade students to attend TEDxYouth@Marquette, held at Marquette University. The event featured six keynote speakers and was designed to promote science, technology, engineering and mathematics among middle schoolers. The team also hosted a FIRST LEGO League Regional Tournament at MUHS in which 36 elementary and middle school robotics teams participated in the “Natures Fury” challenge.