OcHS Principal’s Report

January, 2010

CONGRATULATIONS! Congratulations to the following students who qualified as Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholars: Alexandra Dean, Richard Eiselen, Joseph Massaglia, Katelyn McClung, Carly Montanero, Jenna Nickas, Edwin Nusbaum, Connor Ortolf, Robert Pullyblank, Tyler Reich, Laurie Vogel, Kristen Winte. The Higher Education Student Assistance Authority (HESAA), an independent agency of the State of New Jersey, administers the Garden State Scholarship Program, which includes the Edward J. Bloustein Distinguished Scholar and Urban Scholar awards. Each year, more than 7,000 students statewide receive scholarships in recognition of their high level of academic achievement. Students may use these awards to continue their education at New Jersey institutions of higher education.

FORENSICS ACTIVITIES & VISITORS In Mrs. Bowen‟s Forensics Class, students are learning how to take their own fingerprints and how fingerprints are considered individual evidence. Officer Cusack helped organize the

Ocean City detectives as well as volunteer law enforcement parents to come into the classroom to help the students learn the

fundamentals of fingerprints and to help show how to take fingerprints correctly.

On December 14th Detective Jones gave a presentation about

what fingerprints are and the importance of fingerprints in law

enforcement. On December 15th Sgt. Jones, Det. Morgan, Det. Shaffer, Officer Reichanek, and Mr. Sal Ippolito (Retired Undercover officer) took small groups and helped the students learn how to take the prints. The students then fingerprinted each other. On December 16th Sgt. Jones, Det. Morgan, Det. Pancoast, Officer Reichanek, and Mr. Sal Ippolito will be showing the art of taking latent prints from a variety of surfaces. On December 22nd Officer Pancoast demonstrated how to develop latent prints using cyanoacrylate (super glue). This is called the fuming method. Forensics classes invited Mr. Ippolito, a retired undercover narcotics officer from California, to speak about a unit in forensics called Toxicology. It was a fantastic presentation that shed new light on substance abuse, the effects of drug use and his first hand experiences being an undercover officer deep in the L.A. drug world. His position to my students was to keep their

standards high, without compromise, when they go off to college and to be aware of their own ability to make wise choices based upon those self-imposed standards. Mr. Ippolito's unique approach is the result of a combination of "book" knowledge of drug toxicology and his first-hand experiences in the arrest of over 1500 narcotics related individuals. Mr. Ippolito has been a presenter of this type of training to students, parents, community groups, casinos and police departments.

TEACHER WORKSHOPS Pam Wilson and Sharon Norton ran the Hotel and Lodging Management event at the Southern New Jersey DECA Regional Conference on January 7, 2010.

DECA COMPETITION On January 7, 2009, Ms. Pam Wilson, OCHS DECA Advisor (along with Miss Sharon Norton, Mr. Eric Baroni, and Mr. Nick Salvia), took 38 Ocean City High School DECA students to compete in the Southern New Jersey DECA Regional Conference which was held in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. Tom Alvord, Rachel Berman, Christina Brady, Taylor Broadley, Sean Bryce, Matthew Caulfield, Kendell Davis, Vince DeSantis, Tori Donlevie, Caroline Eisenhauer, Lauren Freas, Joseph Gleason, Justin Healey, TJ Heist, Ty Jackson, Amanda Jamison, Darcy Johnson, Michael Kelly, Robert Kelly, Adrienne Lam, Julia Manno, Colby Meloy, Keenan Murray, Christopher Olandt, Emily Petrini, Stephanie Porreca, James Ruff, Ryan Santiago, Matthew Schad, Christina Shannoh, Zach Trout, Jordan Weisbecker, Lindsey Wilkins, Kristn Winte, Katelyn Wintz, Richard Woolley, Carly Wray and Steve Zellers represented OCHS in a series of DECA events.

DECA is an organization with over 185,000 high school students in 5,000 chapters. It is an association of high school and college students studying marketing, management and entrepreneurship in business, finance, hospitality and marketing sales and service. The students competed with 950 participants from schools throughout the southern New Jersey area in the events below:

Accounting Applications Hotel and Lodging Management Apparel & Accessories Marketing Internet Marketing Automotive Services Marketing Marketing Management Services Business Law and Ethics Quick Serve Restaurant Business Services Marketing Restaurant /Food Service Management Buying and Merchandising Retail Merchandising Customer Services Sports and Entertainment Marketing Financial Services Supermarket Careers Food Marketing Technical Sales Hospitality Travel and Tourism

OCHS had an outstanding day with twelve students bringing home eighteen awards ranging from overall medals to 1st place trophies! We are proud to announce that our OCHS DECA students received the following awards:

Principles of Business Management and Administration Individual Event:

Matt Caulfield o 1st place Overall o 1st place Role Play 1

Christopher Olandt o Overall Finalist

Hospitality Services Team Decision Making Event:

Emily Petrini and Taylor Broadley o Overall Finalist

Sports and Entertainment Marketing Team Decision Making Event:

Joe Gleason and Colby Meloy o 3rd Place Overall

Travel and Tourism Team Decision Making Event:

Caroline Eisenhauer o 1st Place Written Event

Accounting Applications Individual Event:

Vince DeSantis o 1st Place Overall o 1st Place Role Play 2 o 3rd Place Written Event o Overall Finalist

Katelyn Wintz o 2nd Place Written Event o Overall Finalist

Kristina Brady o 3rd Place Role Play 1

Ty Jackson o Overall Finalist

Sean Bryce o Overall Finalist

Ms. Pam Wilson ran the Sports and Entertainment Marketing events and Miss Sharon Norton ran the Retail Merchandising events. Mr. Eric Baroni and Mr. Nick Salvia were great assistants throughout our day! OCHS students now have the opportunity to compete at the DECA State Conference to be held at the end of February in Cherry Hill with the ultimate goal of attending the National Conference later this year in Louisville, Kentucky.

The Morning Wave wants to share more exciting news regarding the work our “Wave” crew recently completed. Once again, the crew is a featured school on the national website, Schooltube. Schooltube is a national website where video production students from across the nation post their work to be evaluated by their peers, educators, and industry professionals. A segment about “Driving Distractions” has been selected as a “featured video”. The video competed with literally thousands of posted segments from high schools throughout the United States. Mr. Trauger and Mr. Wheeldon are proud of their students‟ work and wanted to share their honor with the rest of our OCHS family. Log onto www.schooltube.com to see their work!

CLUB ACTIVITIES Ocean City High School SADD received a warm welcome during a visit to the Ocean City Intermediate School on December 18th. Every year, SADD members prepare a holiday activity as well as an informative presentation to Ms. Patti Mallas‟s fourth grade class. The following students attended the field trip: Rachel Berman, Taylor Broadley, Chris Curran, Victoria Donlevie, Rosin Dougherty, Joseph Gleason, Deanna Lugo, Colby Meloy, Amanda Penza, Emily Petrini, Lauren Price, and Jordan Weisbecker.

SADD, which stands for Students Against Destructive Decisions, prepared a PowerPoint explaining the importance of living a healthy, substance free life. The danger of smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol, and taking illegal drugs was emphasized in the presentation and included facts and statistics about each topic. After the presentation, SADD members spent one on one time with the fourth graders. They helped the students assemble holiday crafts and gifts for their parents which demonstrated their pledge to live a substance free existence.

Advisors Debbie Cathcart and Pam Wilson are grateful to Ms. Mallas for allowing the high school students to visit her classroom.

On Thursday, January 7, students from Ocean City High School auditioned for Playtoe Records. Mr. Paul Bennett was here to listen to the talent of Katelynn Shoemaker, Levin Gibbs, Nigee Neiman, Alyson Roberts, Ample Stem, Last Try, and 123Draw. From here, one or more of these individuals/bands will move on to a Show Case performance at the PAC in Middle Township. The winner of this Show Case will have the opportunity to work with the established Record Label, Playtoe Records. The premise of this contest is to show young adults that you can be in the entertainment business substance free. On Friday, January 8, Mr. Tym Cox took a group of students to the OC Community Center to perform jazz music for the Mayor‟s Reception.

Project Haiti Psychology Club and Leadership Club will be collecting change in the cafeteria and at the front doors at the beginning of each day. We plan to do this for the week of February 8 and possibly the week of February 15th. Goal…to collect as much money as possible and donate it to our local branch of the Red Cross

Leadership Club and Student Council are going to send letters to business people to see if they want to sponsor one of 2 basketball games – 2/2 or 2/4 at a suggested cost of $50.00. In addition, we are asking if anyone would like to donate $5.00 for each 3 point basket made those evenings. We are planning to have a table in the lobby with information about Haiti. There will be a drop bucket there if anyone would like to contribute. The goal is to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake, particularly the orphanages. Clothing Drive for Haiti – The OCHS Student Council is hosting a clothing drive through the Salvation Army for the victims in Haiti. We are collecting the following: pants, shorts, tees, shoes, and tank tops. All donations can be dropped off in the big box in the main lobby. Our Goal is to help those in need over in Haiti by collecting as much clothes as possible.

Lima Beans and Drawstring Bags for Haiti Students and staff are making small drawstring bags for families in Haiti. At our first workshop over 90 students attended and we made 143 bags! This Friday all of the International Crafts classes are making these bags. The more bags we make the more mouths we feed! Each bag will hold a bunch of Lima Beans (high in nutrition and fastest growing beans). These new beautiful pocket size drawstring bags that the students create will hopefully bring a smile to the individual, knowing that they cared enough to send their love. Goal:

To help re-establish the family garden and to help feed the wildlife

The more bags we make the more people and animals we feed!

To provide a small handbag for future use

To Unite - Bring sunshine- and Warmth to our friends of Haiti! We are working with the Farmers to Farmer organization „Partners‟ www.partners.net along with a few local churches. Each organization will take lima bean bags to their respective place in Haiti and deliver them to the families. At a recent meeting for the Partners The lima bean idea was presented to two men who are botanist who teach at Rutgers. They are our representatives with Farmer to Farmer for NJ Haiti Partners. They thought it was a sound idea from a botanical, practical, and educational point of view. They have worked in Haiti and of course they know botany & education. They were excited. The Partners also support a program of teaching raising rabbits. Rabbits are a very efficient method of producing the most food with the least impact on the economy. I suggested that the beans could be delivered to the same farms where the rabbit programs are being developed. The lower large leaves & the pod can be used for rabbit food while the limas are people food. They told me that the current rabbits are developing eye weakness because they are not getting enough fresh green in their diet. Win! Win!

STUDENT OF THE MONTH

Each student was chosen to be Student of the Month because of exemplary behavior, character and performance. We appreciate the support of each of the community organizations. There is a critical connection between a successful public high school and a strong relationship with its community.

Kristen Winte was the Rotary Club Student of the Month. Robert Pullyblank was the Exchange Club Student of the Month.