The Woodlands Lifestyles & Homes Magazine October 2009
Executive officers of TWHS Thespian Troupe No. 1053 are Jessica Trinque, Kris
Jacobsen, Elisa Regulski, Steven Lanier, Keith Hale, Tegan Dunnican, Vic
Shuttee, Camille Shotts, Travis Meador and Tyler Lewis.
Coming This Year to The Woodlands High School Theater - The Woodlands High School Theater Department promises an exciting season of
theater. The first show will be the classic,
The Man Who Came to Dinner by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman. In this hilarious comedy, Sheridan
Whiteside, a theater critic, slips on the doorstep of the Stanley family and
injures his hip. He spends his six weeks of confinement as a tyrant in their
household. This will be directed by new theatre teacher
Tammy McClanahan.
In November, Technical Theatre teacher Tim Jackubek will coordinate The Twilight Zone based on the original series by Rod Serling. Four of the original episodes from
the television show will be adapted for the stage and directed by student
directors utilizing all students new to the TWHS stage. These four shows will
be in a contest for awards as they are judged by a panel of adjudicators after
an evening of competition.
Little Shop of Horrors by Alan Menken and Howard Ashman will be the musical offering this year and
produced in January, directed by Theater Department chairman
Carlen Gilseth. Based on the low budget black comedy by Roger Corman, this rock musical is the
story of a hapless florist shop worker who finds an unusual plant with special
powers.
To round out the year, the department will produce 24 Hour Theatre as students
write, rehearse and produce an original play in 24
hours. Writer’s Ink, the playwriting group, will produce an original show written by the
students. The Improvisation troupe, Instant Theatre, promises to present a few
performances directed by former TWHS theater teacher and professional actor
Larry Wood who studied at the famous Second City in Chicago.
All shows will be performed on the main stage or black box of The Woodlands High
School.
For ticket information, call 936-273-8530.
(R-L, back row) Taylor Powell, Summer Nasser, Camille Thierry, Kaitlyn Zoeller, Sarosh Nandwani, Emma Ryan, Catherine Sannino;
(front row) Milan Nolen, Emilie Cleary-Sullman, Sandy Subkuryard, Vittoria De
Ceglie and Hailey Gaige.
New Coach at Woodlands Prep - Coach Courtney McMahon began her first year as middle school volleyball coach at The Woodlands
Preparatory School.
(Back row) Pam Powers-Devine, Juana Jimenez, Adrian McIntosh; (front row)
Kennedy Bucher, MacKenzie Roberts and Devin Devine.
New Black Belts at The Woodlands Taekwon-Do - Pam Powers-Devine, owner, head instructor of The Woodlands TaeKwon-Do 6777, traveled to the
University of Austin where she tested for her 6th degree black belt along with
five of her students who all tested for their 1st degree black belts. The
testing board was conducted by Master
Fred Akard, 8th degree black belt, and Master Fabian Nunez, 8th degree black belt.
Powers-Devine is now one of the highest ranked woman in the world and the
highest ranked woman in the American Taekwondo Federation.
Fourth-grader Payton Bergeron and her teacher, Donna Hunter, help Bishop Arborelius locate Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, on
the globe.
Woodland Prep NJHS Members Participate in Jeans for Teens Drive -Former Woodlands Prep National Junior Honor Society member Eric Menees came up with the idea to collect ‘Jeans for Teens’ in Montgomery County. Current NJHS members were excited to help out with this
project, and asked for donations from The Woodlands Preparatory School
community.
Bishop of Sweden Visits St. Anthony Of Padua - His Excellency, Bishop Anders Arborelius of Sweden, a Carmelite priest
visiting the Houston area for a retreat, visited the students of St. Anthony of
Padua Catholic School. Bishop Arborelius is the first ethnically Swedish
Catholic bishop in Europe since the Reformation.
Sue Moehring (far right, kneeling), VBS outreach and mission director for Tree
of Life Lutheran Church in Conroe, organized a VBS hands-on mission project
called Operation Kid to Kid.
Operation Kid to Kid Reaches Out to Children in Shelter - The Vacation Bible School program at Tree of Life Lutheran Church in Conroe
organized a mission project called Operation Kid to Kid whereby children at the
church could reach out to children residing in emergency shelter.
“This was a way our children could spread God’s love to another child,” Moehring said. “We also asked that the children expand their giving by bringing in specific
items the women
’s shelter was in need of like: school supplies, toiletries and baby items.”
Moehring chose the Women’s Center as the agency of choice because the shelter was in the same county as
the church and she taught school for five years in the Conroe ISD.
(L-R) Devan Norman, Alexis Steger, Morgan Taylor and Peter Elliott
Cooper Lit Mag Garners Top Awards,Proving “It’s Hip to be Square” - The John Cooper School literary magazine, Inkblots, has been awarded top honors for the second consecutive year by two scholastic
literary organizations.
Volume 12, a four-color, square publication titled “Core,” features literary and visual works of students in grades 9-12 at The John
Cooper School. Faculty sponsor
Peter Elliott announced at a first-of-year Upper School assembly that Inkblots, Volume 12 was awarded the highest honor, a Gold Medal, by the Columbia Scholastic Press
Association and a First Class Ranking by the National Scholastic Press
Association.
Seniors Devan Norman and Morgan Taylor were co-editors of last year’s magazine. Additionally, bonus points were awarded by the NSPA for a short
story by junior
Alexis Steger, titled “A Few Walks Too Many,” which the judge highly praised in the comment section. “This volume proved that it’s truly hip to be square,” Elliott said.
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