If you are interested in advertising your business, group or team in the 2012-13 Student Directory, we are now taking orders. In addition to appearing in the Directory, your ad will also be listed all year in the PTO website and in PTO e-blasts. Both the Directory and the website are in constant use by the community you desire to reach. There is also the opportunity to have your full ad appear on the PTO Home Page for a month, or series of months. By advertising with us, you will also facilitate the PTO’s wonderful programs supporting students, teachers, staff, and the community such as Book Grant Scholarships, Teacher Appreciation and helping HCHS Families with emergency needs.
Also available to corporates, businesses and individuals is the opportunity to be a named Book Grant Scholarship Sponsor. $800 Book Grants are need-based and are awarded each year to graduating HC seniors to help them meet the expenses of purchasing text books in college. Since 1976, the PTO has provided grants totaling over $400,000 to almost 650 students. This sponsorship includes the option of having a full page ad in the Directory.
For complete details on the advertising opportunities and Book Grant sponsorship and/or to place an order, please go to the "Forms" link in the upper right listing of this page or call/email Maria Pierce at 630-258-9304 or mbpierce23@aol.com. (Please note that the information for getting your student's name in the Directory will come out in a few weeks.)
Hinsdale Central Buy-A-Brick Program Orders Due May 25
Orders for engraved 4"x8" bricks that will be located at the school's entrance are due May 25. Bricks are $100 and each brick can hold up to three lines of type with 13 characters per line. Call Laura Sievers at 630-570-8273 or email lsievers@hinsdale86.org. Please click HERE for the order form. Profits from the sale of engraved bricks will benefit the students of each class and is sponsored by the HC Class Boards.
PLEASE SUPPORT THE
HINSDALE CENTRAL PTO BOOK FAIR
at
BARNES & NOBLE, OAKBROOK MALL
SATURDAY, JUNE 9th, 9 AM to 10 PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 10th 10 AM to 8 PM
Please support our 4th Annual Summer Reading Book Fair which benefits the HC PTO Book Grant Program and Families Helping Families. All of HCHS's English Department's Required Summer 2012 Reading Books will be available for purchase, as will Hinsdale Central's and Hinsdale Public Libraries' Recommended Great Young Adult Reads. If you have students in District 181, we will also have the Recommended Summer Reading Books for grades 6, 7 and 8.
Any books, and most other products and cafe items that you purchase during the Book Fair weekend will benefit the philanthropic programs of the PTO.
If you would like to pre-order your child(ren)'s English Department Reading Books, please use the form that is available on the PTO's website:
If you plan on visiting the Book Fair, please use the vouchers that are also available on the PTO website, or at the HC table at the Book Fair, or at the B &N cashiers. If you can not attend the Book Fair, but would still like to support the PTO's initiatives, you can shop from June 9-15 online at www.bn.com/bookfair and type in HCHS's Book Fair ID # 10715993
The Hinsdale District 86 Board of Education Meetings are now being streamed on the D-86 BOE website and are available to be viewed on Podcast. This was made possible by a PTO donation to the District of a camcorder and tripod, thus giving everyone the opportunity to follow the meetings on a regular basis even if you can not attend them. To view please go to http://hinsdale86.org/sb/Pages/default.aspx
Student Directories are at the HC Bookstore
Directories will not be mailed home this year
If your student did not pick up the 2011-2012 Student Directories over the scheduled times in the cafeteria, the Directories are now in the HC Bookstore. Please let your student know that they should go to the Bookstore to pick them up. They will still need to show or state their ID number and sign for the book.
If you did not purchase a Directory, a very limited quantity is still available at the Bookstore for $25 each.
If you are picking up the Directory, you will need an ID to enter the school from the 55th Street entrance.
At the November 14, 2011 PTO meeting AP Psychology teacher, Erin Fratella, presented crucial information affecting the students of our school. The presentation was entitled “Depression, Suicide and Teens” and covered important warning signs of depression and suicide in teens. This is a very real issue facing the students of Hinsdale Central and we have linked the PowerPoint presentation if you would like to educate yourselves on some warning signs and ways that you may prevent a tragedy. Mrs. Fratella is a co-sponsor of a club called SPAN (Suicide Prevention Awareness Network) at Central, whose mission is to educate students on how to recognize signs of depression and suicide in their friends, and which adults they should go to if a friend is in danger. If you have any ideas about how to spread this important message around our community, please email Erin at efratella@hinsdale86.org
PLEASE CONSIDER DONATING TO FAMILIES HELPING FAMILIES
Families Helping Families is a PTO committee that works with the HC Social Work Department to help Hinsdale Central students and their families (who remain anonymous to us) with whatever problems they might encounter. This philanthropic group often helps, on short notice, students and families in crises situations. We provide financial aid or specific items like backpacks and school supplies, clothing, food and gasoline gift cards, access to community resources, holiday meals, and a huge variety of individual needs. Much of this is accomplished through the generosity of Hinsdale Central's parent donations. (For more information on this committee please see page 4 and 5 of the Student Directory) If you are looking for a way to give back to your community and help those having some difficulty, please consider making a donation to this committee. You can do this on this website by going to the "Donations" tab, use the Donation Form (page 5) in the Student Directory, or contact Julie Glazko, julie@glazko.com. Thank you for any help you can give to this terrific cause.
LIBRARY MEDIA CENTER (LMC)
Under Hinsdale Central’s Electronic Device Procedure, students who currently use mobile electronic devices at school or home may find the following free apps useful during their academic studies.
·Gale Cengage Accessmylibrary-school provides Central students with the same 24/7 access to the Gale reference databases they currently enjoy on their PC/Mac. Ask a Central librarian for the password.
·OverDrive Media Console ensures that students can download audiobook and ebook resources from Central Library. After installing the app, search for the District 86 Library. Hinsdale and Indian Prairie Public Libraries also use the OverDrive platform for ebooks and audiobooks which means that students with a public library card can use this app to access their public library’s ebook and audiobook collection.
·EasyBib for iPad and iPhone will scan a book’s barcode and create an accurate MLA, APA or Chicago style citation.
PARENTS WANTED - Please sign up to volunteer for a PTO Committee position or as a Volunteer for Special Events. Our organization appreciates your support and depends on parents like you to assist us in any way you can!
We look forward to meeting you.
Your PTO Co-Presidents Terry Edwards and Maria Pierce
Check out "The Best Nonfiction Writing" from Hinsdale Central's English Department
The English Department is proud to announce the publication of the 2011 edition of "The Best Nonfiction Writing," which is a collection of the best student nonfiction writing submitted to English classes last year. The essay book, which is filled with a wide range of creative and insightful student writing, is one of the ways that the department tries to help all students become excellent writers.
You can find the book at local libraries, or you can purchase your own copy for $15 by contacting English Department Chair, David Lange dlange@hinsdale86.org.
Click here to read about the book and follow other good news and announcements from the English Department by following the department's blog, "Department of English, HCHS".
HINSDALE CENTRAL PTO is designated a 501(c)(3)
Thank you for Supporting our Community Advertisers
Thank you to our Advertisers who are featured on our Advertiser page. Check out their websites to see how you can benefit from the services they provide. The PTO appreciates the generosity of the businesses, organizations, and individuals whose ad purchases and Book Grant sponsorships enable us to continue our philanthropic endeavors and to positively impact the experiences of Central students and staff. Please support the Advertisers and mention HC PTO!
