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2014-2015 Calendar
December-Angel Gift Tree donations
12/5 AP Fees due ($91 per exam) Pay the bookkeeper OR on
line on the webstore
www.rhshuskies.com.
12/8 AAA Meeting in Library
at 7pm-Grad Night meeting
prior at 6pm.

Reno Huskie Families,

12/10 WTP Dress Rehearsal in

Alumni Center 6-8:15pm

We hope everyone has a safe and enjoyable holiday season. Finals are around the
corner and it is really important for our students to communicate with their teachers
regarding their progress. Parents, please check attendance and grades in Infinite Campus as we make one last push toward finals. Seniors, dont forget to turn in your service learning hours for Government class ASAP. Lets earn our credits Huskies!

12/10 Parent University Class

offering Basics of College Financial Aid 6:30-8:00pm at
RHS

RETIREMENTS

12/13 WTP District Competition at University of Nevada

This winter is a little different this year as we have 3 staff members retiring. Linda
Brady, our College and Career Center Facilitator, Jeanine Mortensen, our bookkeeper and SGM Ron Rillon from JROTC are three long-time Huskie staff members who will
be dearly missed. They have been a huge part of our school and we thank them for
their dedication, professionalism and service.

12/13 JROTC District Meet and

RHS host Speech & Debate
Tourney

Goodbye Mr. Link Piazzo

In November the Reno community lost someone special. Mr. Link Piazzo was a community business leader, philanthropist, military veteran and one of the most generous
supporters of education our area has ever seen. If you spend anytime on the RHS
campus you will see his name emblazoned everywhere you look. He helped fund the
Alumni Museum along with multiple additions and improvements to our buildings
over the years. He also supported students with scholarship money. I only met him
once when I was an assistant principal. We had just unveiled our new basketball floor
with his signature stamped into the wood. He was enthusiastic, funny and kind. We
may never see another man like Mr. Piazzo. The Reno High School Community offers
its deepest condolences to the Piazzo family and he will be someone Reno High School
never forgets.

Winter Break Office Hours

Reno High School will be closed the first week of Winter Break Dec. 22-Jan. 6. We will
resume regular 7:30-3pm office hours the last week of break Jan. 5 thru Jan. 9th.
School resumes Jan. 12.

12/12 Ugly Sweater Day

12/15 thru 12/18 FINALS

WINTER BREAK 12/22 thru
1/9. Credit Recovery labs will
be open-See counselor with
questions
Mr. Hackbusch Principals
Blog-will resume after Winter
Break.
www.rhsredblue.com

ATTENTION RHS
Community!!!!!
RHS is in need of funds to
replenish our Adopt-aFamily efforts over the
holidays. Please contact
our bookkeeper if you are
interested in donating $ to
this account. All money will
go toward our less fortunate
families during the holidays. Thank you

BE HUNGRY, HUMBLE AND THE HARDEST

WORKER IN THE ROOM...
A Friendly Reminder from Re-Wa-Ne
Yearbook
Yearbook price will include late fee after January 15, so please purchase your students
yearbook before that date. $95 now will guarantee a yearbook reserved for your student
when they are delivered in May. We do not
order extras (we order the number of books
pre-ordered by January 15), so there are very
few additional copies (from students withdrawing between now and spring) available in
May. If youd prefer to make payments, contact Jeanine Mortensen in the Finance Office
before school ends in December. Call 3335050 to set up a plan.

SAVE THE DATE!

2ND ANNUAL MARCH MADNESS GALA
MARCH 21, 2015
Please plan to join us for an evening of
NCAA Basketball and tons of fun!

Safe Talk For Teens is a Nonprofit Re-source

Center. We offer teens & par ents a safe place to
talk while maintaining Confidentiality. We offer
FREE assistance, guidance, and early intervention/
prevention services. We will refer, when necessary,
to counseling services and/or programming.
FOR MORE
INFORMATION,
ASK YOUR
SCHOOL
COUNSE-LOR
ABOUT US
AND/OR
CALL 775-823-2700 TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT with Joe Dufur, Director/Case Manager

Quote of the month:

Tickets go on sale in December

Reno High, an official Adidas

school!

Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open oneMalcolm Forbes

20142015 CALENDAR
11/9/2015 Parent UniversityDemystify the Federal Financial
6:30-8:00pm at RHS
1/12/15 Semester 2 begins
1/19 MLK Day
1/26 thru 1/31 Winterfest WeekGame/Crowning Friday the 30th
and dance 31st 8-11pm
2/5 and 2/6 Black Ivory 5:307:30pm in the theater.
2/16 Presidents Day
2/26 SCHOOL SBO Elections
Assembly schedule
3/2 thru 3/6 HSPE

...and in other news...

3/16 thru 3/20 Awareness Week

3/20 Assembly
3/18 Spring Blood Drive

Recognitions:
Nikki Hamada and Matt McKinley won 1st
place in Governor Sandovals Video Contest for a PSA on YouTube! PSAs require a
call for action, the class used Safe Talk for
Teens a local non-profit organization.
Link below:

http://www.nv-psa.com/videosmenu/42-psa/321-winners
Blood Drive Data:
At the blood drive, 42 lifesaving donors
stepped up to donate. Giving 33 successful
donations, 29 whole blood, and 4 double
red cell donations, resulting in 37 products
for our community. The 33 donations
collected will help save up to 99 lives in
our area. Spring RHS blood drive on
Wednesday, March 18, 2015.

JEA/NSPA DC Trip Results:

2,168 participants in contests, 829 winners in all the contests available
(38% of students earned an award,
122 Superiors, 263 Excellents, 444
Honorable Mentions)
Mika Alvarez won an excellent in yearbook copy and caption writing:
student life
Molly Mattingly won an honorable mention in yearbook interior pages
design
Tyler Arden won an honorable mention in
newswriting.

We discovered the Re-Wa-Ne had

been featured in two places in

the most recent edition of
Elements, Balfours quarterly idea
magazine. http://issuu.com/
balfour/docs/elements_fall_2014?
e=2276235/9923179 pages 9 and
15

FBLA:
Interested in participating in Future Business Leaders of America? Please join us at
lunch in room N6 Monday-Thursday for
more information and to register to compete.

FINE ARTS:
Come one, Come all - Please join the RHS
Visual Arts Department in their 3rd Empty
Bowls Project! It takes place on Thursday,
Dec. 4; 5:30-7:30 in IA-4.
Empty Bowls is an international grassroots
effort to fight hunger and was created by
the The Imagine Render Group. The basic
premise is simple: Potters and other
craftspeople, educators and others (IN
THIS CASE RENO HIGH STUDENTS AND
WITH THEIR HELP, ABOUT 90 KIDS AT THE
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB) work with the
community to create handcrafted
bowls. Guests are invited to a simple meal
of soup and bread (SOUP DONATED BY
WHOLE FOODS SUPERMARKET!). In exchange for a cash donation, guests are
asked to keep a bowl as a reminder of all
the empty bowls in the world. The money
raised is donted to an organization working
to end hunger and food insecurity (OUR
PROCEEDS WILL BENEFIT THE RENO
SPARKS GOSPEL MISSION FOOD PANTRY!)

3/21 MARCH MADNESS FUNDRAISER @ Eldorado

3/23 thru 3/27 Spring Musical
3/30 thru 4/10 SPRING BREAK
(credit recovery lab open and
HSPE support-times/dates TBD)
4/18 JR/SR Prom (Tentative)
4/27 thru 5/1 Spring Fling Week
4/27 thru 4/29 HSPE Seniors
5/1 PINK OUT DANCE-proceeds
go to Moms on the Run.
5/4 thru 5/8 Teacher Appreciation
Week
5/4 thru 5/15 AP TESTING
5/29 Senior Assembly/BBQ
6/13 Graduation 2pm in Lawlor,
rehearsal at 11:30am same day

FALL DOWN 7 TIMES, STAND UP 8

COLLEGE AND CAREER CENTER
We are happy to announce Stephanie Lerude as our NEW
CCC Facilitator. She is a former RHS Parent who has experience as a College Financial Planner and has worked in
marketing. She will be replacing Mrs. Linda Brady who
will be retiring in January.
College and Career Center is presenting a FAFSA Hands
on Workshop Thursday, 12/4/14 from 12:00 -3:00 PM. in
the CCC. Seniors and their Parents who have questions
or want help in FAFSA application for 2015-2016 are invited.
College and Career Center is offering the free ASVAB
vocational test on 11/6/14. Sophomores, juniors and
seniors need to sign up to participate.
College and Career Center is offering a free TMCC 20152016 admissions application 11/19/14 and
11/20/14. Seniors need to sign up with their counselors
to participate.

common-core-reading-the-high-achievers

The original documentary from American Public

Media:
http://www.americanradioworks.org/documentaries/
greater-expectations/

Speech and Debate Results

We had a great weekend in Fernley!
2nd place Novice Storytelling- Sam Krueger
2nd place Senior Storytelling- Michael Huang
3rd place Senior Storytelling- Kabriel Hoover
4th place Senior Storytelling- Almas Chowdhury
2nd place Novice Expository Speaking- Kuulei Hunter
4th place Novice Expository Speaking- Griffin Taitel
1st place Senior Expository Speaking- Kendall Cox
2nd place Senior Expository Speaking- Ariyani Challapalli

Huskies in the News...

Brien Karlin and 2014 alumnus Maddi Eckert are
featured in a story about Common Core on NPRs
Morning Edition. This story is based off the radio
documentary by Emily Hanford that came out in
August. The links to both are below. Congratulations to Mr. Karlin and all his hard work.

4th place Expository Speaking- Taylor Pittman

4th place Novice Duo Interpretation- Haeden Hughes & Jackson Stoever
2nd place Novice Extemporaneous Speaking- Jake Hoberg
1st place Senior Extemporaneous Speaking- Heather Foster
1st place Senior Lincoln Douglas Debate- Ariyani Challapalli
2nd place Senior Lincoln Douglas Debate- Sierra Jickling
3rd place Senior Lincoln Douglas Debate- Michael Huang

This mornings NPR story:

2nd place Policy Debate- Karla Burcham & Miranda Cross

3rd place Policy Debate- Andrew Brooksbank & Jake Hoberg

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ed/2014/11/13/356358135/

CONTACT
Mr. Hackbusch
khackbusch@
washoeschools.net

333-5050 ex 8
www.rhshuskies.com
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