New Head Women’s Basketball Coach Announcement – Congratulations to Teiko Ikemoto, our new YLHS Women’s Head Basketball Coach. Teiko teaches Japanese Language and Math-Geometry for us. Her experience in basketball includes four years playing at UCLA. She became Head Coach at South Torrance HS, before moving to PYLUSD in 1997 to teach and coach at Valencia HS. She has been coaching youth sports while teaching here at YLHS and decided to take over our women’s program starting this spring. I have worked with Teiko at EHS and YLHS and look forward to her bringing her classroom experience and “on the court” playing and coaching experiences to our women’s program. Again, congratulations and good luck to Teiko and our lady Mustangs as we head into the 2013-14 school year.
All School Rally – I hope you had the chance to see our final all school rally on Friday. It was TERRIFIC!! ASB planned the event and decorated the gym. Cheer, Dance, Color Guard and the YLHS Drum line were outstanding in their individual performances. In musician language, the Color Guard and Drum line were “VERY COOL”.
Congratulations to Rey Lejano - for receiving the 2012-13 Yearbook Dedication. Well deserved for all the time and commitment to his classes, tennis teams and the 1st ever “YLHS Olympics”!
Don’t Forget - Senior Awards, Monday evening at 6:30 at Lakeview Friends Church Auditorium. Our staff will be recognizing students for academic excellence, scholarship awards, community service and the overall “Mustang of the Year”. This is a great end of the presentation and recognition.
YLHS Jazz Band Concert – Tuesday, May 21st – at 7:00 p.m. in the Forum Theater. Special guest artist, Jeff Clayton will perform on saxophone with our students. It will be a great night of music and fun.
Did you Hear? - ROP Celebration of Success Night recognized three of our Mustang students:
Alexandra Millsap – Nominated for Child Development
Morgan Jones – High School Culinary Arts Pathway winner
McKenna Case – Career Training for Transition Pathway winner
Great job students and teacher Jenni Messick!!
AP Testing is finished! - We gave 1078 AP exams to 434 10th, 11th and 12th grade students. Great job and thanks to Joey Davis and Terry Kerans for coordinating the exam schedule. A Big Thank You to our AP teachers for preparing their students to take the exams:
Rich Cadra – Studio Art
Dan Eliot – Computer Science
Amber Ferris – English Language
Kelly Fritz – Studio Art
Jess Gomez – Biology
Mark Honig – Government
Jean Jacquot – Physics
Rey Lejano – Economics
Wendy Lowry – European History
Sissi Mueller – German
Mavis Nam – Chinese
Carmen Nicholson - Spanish
Wes Peacock – Calculus BC
Megan Scott – Calculus AB
Desi St. Amant – English Lit
Gabby Stephenson – Statistics
Lisa Tully – US History
Lloyd Walls – US History
Tiffany Ward – Chemistry
Linda Yakzan - French
Upcoming Staff Events -
Annual Staff BBW – Wednesday, June 12th @ 12:30 at the lunch shelter
End of Year Breakfast – Friday, June 14th @ Black Gold GC at 8:00 a.m.
Thought for the Week
“STAR Testing is finished on Tuesday! Looking to “Beat It” for a 900!!!”
Yorba Linda High School – Meeting/Activity Schedule
Week of May 20 – May 25, 2013
Monday, May 20
STAR Testing – Special Schedule
Senior Awards Program 6:30 Yorba Linda Friends Church
Tuesday, May 21
STAR Testing – Special Schedule
Jazz Band Concert 7:00 Forum Theater
Wednesday, May 22
STAR Testing – Make ups - Library
Thursday, May 23
STAR Testing – Make ups – Library
Friday, May 24
Saturday, May 26