28 • Thursday, May 30, 2013
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OVER THE MOUNTAIN Journal
Tops in Math
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Homewood High Teams Win State Championships
tudents on the math teams at Homewood High School have been named the top mathmaticians in the state. The school’s math teams are celebrating two state championships and a runner-up finish at the state level competition. Both the Comprehensive Team and the Algebra II Team won 2013 state titles. The Geometry Team was runner-up at the state tournament by one point. On the Comprehensive Team, 13 members were among the top 25 scoreres in the state.
Those students included Tyler Williams, first, Grant Smith, second; Chris Simpson, third; David Selden and Chris Myers, seventh; Aaron Stansell, 13th; Rebecca Riley, 14th; Sarah Grace McDuff, Josh Gardner, Chris Campbell and Aubrey Wallace, 21st; and Yevgeniy Gavrikov and Joey Crittenden, 24th. On the Algebra II Team, 13 members scored in the top 25 in the state. They included Houston Wingo, second; Hunter Kimbrell, third; Chase Kelly, fifth; Joy Korley, sixth; Taylor Lummis, seventh; Connor Biggio, 11th; Katie Gardner, 12th; Will Hunt,
Homewood High School students celebrate winning state championship titles in math. Both the Comprehensive Team and the Algebra II Team won 2013 state titles. Photo special to The Journal
13th; Jake Schiller, 14th; Dixon Simmons, 16th; Morgan Abney, 17th; Caroline Karson, 18th; and Wilson Smith, 19th. On the Geometry Team, 12 members scored in the top 20 in the state.
They included Duncan McDuff, second; Molly K. Richardson, third; Laughlin Ashe, fifth; Jeffrey Ji, eighth; Will Beaumont, ninth; Jacob Patton, 11th; Nick Dutton, 12th; William Jackson, 14th; Kennedy
Joe, 15th; Jonathan Cross and Hunter Poole, 17th; and Mary Chalmers, 20th. Tim Hurry and Mark Hellmers sponsor the math teams at Homewood High School. ❖
The sold-out event was at Mountain Brook High School’s Fine Arts Building. The event was hosted by Principal Betsy Bell, teacher Rick Hedrick and Assistant Principal Jennifer Galloway. Committee chairmen for the show were Amy Roberts and Amy Scofield. The variety of talent at the show included a comedic restaurant skit, athletic gymnastic routines, baton twirling, magic, a trumpet rendering of “When the Saints Go Marching In” and a piano rendition of the “Star Wars” theme played by “Darth Vader.” Many classes, including the school’s entire sixth-grade class, and the CBS staff performed as a group with entertaining themes. Musical acts included the Glo-Rida dancers, tap, hip-hop and jazz dancers, a rap artist, guitarists, duets and a musical theater. Winners in the kindergarten through third-grade category included Anna Bella Foster and Rachel Lebensburger’s dance, “Little Shop of Horrors,” Harrison Wood’s drum solo and Kathryn Huddleston’s “Lolli Lolli” gymnastics routine. In the fourth through sixthgrade category, winners were Chandler Vargas’ piano piece, “Great Smoky Mountains”; Carly Cole’s solo, “Beautiful”; and Aaron Weil’s rap song, “Ladi Dadi.” Kindergarteners Mary Jackson Darnall, Maddie Freeman, Catie Gasque, Libby Geisler, Annie Kerr, Courtney
Koleszar, Hannah Lebensburger, and Lilly Nomberg received the People’s Choice Award for their dance routine, “Party in the USA.” Proceeds benefited the CBS ParentTeacher Organization. For more about the event, visit www. thebendsgottalent.com. ❖
School Notes technology. John Carroll also plans to refurbish its stadium with a new all-weather track, a new press box, a weight room expansion, reconditioned bleachers, a new alumni area and a new stadium entrance.
million toward its endowment fund, which provides financial aid awards for qualifying students. Future plans for infrastructural renovations include expansion of the cafeteria, a new roof, security upgrades, renovations to the front office, new lighting, window replacements and up-to-date
Cherokee Bend Students Showcase Talents Students, teachers and family members joined together at Cherokee Bend Elementary School recently to celebrate the school’s second annual “The Bend’s Got Talent” show.
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Gwin Students Wins Arbor Day Essay Contest John Thomas Deery, a fourth-grade student at Gwin Elementary School, wrote an award-winning tree essay in celebration of Arbor Day. His essay was about his favorite oak tree at his grandparents’ house and why it is special to him. The ceremony for the award presentation was held at Aldridge Gardens on March 2. During the ceremony, Deery was recognized for the award and had photos made with Hoover Mayor Gary Ivey and Arbor Day chairman Michael Zarichnak. Deery received a wood-carved plaque award, a three-foot-tall Japanese maple tree, an oak tree, a book about trees and a membership to Aldridge Gardens. After the ceremony, he participated in planting an oak tree at Aldridge Gardens. The tree was one of six of the largest oak descendants of Auburn University’s Toomer’s Corner Oaks. Deery said it was one of the greatest honors of his life.
Students from Bluff Park Elementary School in Hoover took a tour at Vulcan Materials as part of their earth science studies. Photo special to The Journal