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from the HALL WEEKLY BULLETIN
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NEXT WEEK—
Monday, June 9
• Hall All-School Picnic
• 7:00pm Special School Board meeting, Hall Library; see
agenda (Budget Hearing)
Tuesday, June 10
• Hall TJ’s Mexican Lunch—LAST TJ’s LUNCH!
• 11:40am(?) Assemblies: 6th/7th grade awards, Hall Gym
Wednesday, June 11
• Bike/Walk to School Day
• NO JAMBA JUICE
• 9:00am Assembly: 8th grade awards, followed by graduation
rehearsal
• 3:15pm 8th grade graduation pictures, Hall Gym (grads should
be there by 3:00pm)
• 4:00pm 8th grade Graduation, Hall Gym
• 7:45pm 8th grade Graduation Dance, Hall Gym
Thursday, June 12: LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!
Adjusted Day Schedule; 1:05pm dismissal
– 6th/7th grade: 8:40am–1:05pm
– 8th grade: 10:00am–1:05pm
Friday, June 6
• Teacher Work Day (no school for students)
AHEAD—
June 19: School Board meeting; an agenda will be
posted as soon as it is available
IN THE FALL—
Aug. 15: Freshman Orientation at Redwood High School
(RHS)
Aug. 20: First day of school at RHS
Aug. 26: Hall student schedules available for pickup,
9:00am
Aug. 27: First day of school at Hall & NC
Detailed month-by-month District
Calendar
Year-at-a-Glance 2002-2003 District
Calendar (pdf) |
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| PRINCIPAL’S
MESSAGE: June 9, 2003 |
Year’s End
This will be my final Principal’s Message. I am grateful
to have had the opportunity to serve as interim principal at a school
I have always admired. The parents, teachers, administrators, support
staff, and students at Hall have, in my mind, always served as a
model educational community. Everyone has been focused on the same
objective: the best possible education for the students. Disagreements
naturally arise, but these have been addressed in a civil and professional
manner. Thank you to everyone in the Hall community. You have made
my time as interim principal a time of growth and increased respect
for the work of my predecessor, Bob Cone. I know that the new principal
will thrive under the tutelage of Superintendent Cone.
Site Council
In the fall there will be elections for Site Council representatives.
I am including the words of outgoing president Johnny Prewitt that,
I hope, will encourage you to apply. “As a member of the Site
Council it was a genuine pleasure to meet monthly with representatives
from the Student Council, teachers, administrators, and parents.
The Site Council is more than just an opportunity for parents to
get involved and learn more about what is going on at HMS. It is
an opportunity to have a real impact on our school and its programs.
Any parent looking for a meaningful way to participate should consider
running for the HMS Site Council. If elected, you will not be disappointed.
Go for it!”
Last Week of School
This last week of school will be filled with exciting events.
Today the school is attending the end of the year picnic at Indian
Valley College. Thank you to all the parents who volunteered to
drive the sixth grade students. The Sixth and Seventh Grade Awards
Assemblies will be held on Tuesday morning. The Eighth Grade Awards
Assembly will be held on Wednesday morning. The graduation ceremony
will be on Wednesday at 4:00pm. The last day of school, Thursday,
June 12, will be an adjusted day. Dismissal will be at 1:05pm.
Marilyn Dineen
Interim Principal
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| 8th-GRADE GRADUATION
ACTIVITIES
Wednesday & Thursday, June 11-12 |
|  Dress
Guidelines for Graduation*
Girls should wear an age-appropriate
dress with straps, or a pant suit. To reserve our new gym
floor, wide-based heels MUST be worn. Boys should wear a dressy
shirt and tie. A sport coat is optional.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11
9:00am: The 8th Grade Awards Assembly in the
Hall gym. All are invited to attend.
Immediately following:
Graduation rehearsal. When it ends, 8th graders will be free
to leave school, hopefully by 12:00 noon.
3:00pm: Graduates
should arrive at the gym for photos before the graduation
assembly.
4:00pm: Graduation
ceremony, followed by a reception in the outdoors lunch area
(while the dance decorations committee begins working on the
gym.)
7:45–11:00pm: Graduation
Dance**
*NO HEELS AT GRADUATION CEREMONY,
AND NO SHOES OF ANY KIND AT THE GRAD DANCE!
The 8th grade girls know this already, but moms, family and
friends need to know — narrow spike high heels are very
bad for our new gym floor! Please wear flats or wider heels
to the Graduation ceremony, and pass the word on to your guests.
**And remind your grads that, like
at the 7th/8th grade dances, there will be NO SHOES AT THE
DANCE! This is a sock hop, and there will be a place to store
shoes.
THURSDAY, JUNE 12
10:00am: 8th graders arrive at 10:00am for
a brunch provided by the PTA, and their final day at Hall
Middle School. They will be released at 1:05pm (this is an
adjusted day. Last week’s bulletin listed the wrong
ending time).
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| BYE, BYE, BIRDIE
COMING THIS FALL
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| The Hall Musical Theater Committee
has been working on the plans for next year’s musical.
Two important decisions have been made:
(1) The play will be Tony Award-winning Bye Bye Birdie
— the story of an Elvis Presley-type character named
Conrad Birdie who has been drafted into the Army at the peak
of his career in the 1950s, and the furor it causes among
his fans and his songwriter. The era, costumes and humor of
the play are very similar to Grease.
(2) The timing of our production has been changed to Autumn,
to avoid the many school projects and tests that occur in
the Spring (especially for 8th graders). The performance weekend
will be Nov. 21-23, right before Thanksgiving.
We need a producer and a costumer to sign up now!! (We’ll
also need a set designer, tech director, prop coordinator,
and rehearsal volunteer coordinator, but those jobs can be
filled after school starts.) If you are interested in any
of these positions, contact director Becky Reed. |
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| HALL
SCHOOL NEWS: Information |
| LIBRARY NEWS
—From Carol Halpern, Librarian |
| Hall Library
News: Cartridges for Kids
Don’t throw away those empty printer and copier
cartridges during the summer. Hang on to them and bring them
to school in September. Recycling is good for the environment
and the library makes money too.
Hall Library News:
Book Lists & Reading This Summer
The Hall Library Summer Reading List was sent home
in backpack mail on May 27 with all students. Please encourage
your children to read a lot this summer. They are REQUIRED
to read at least one book from the list (or the new Harry
Potter - which I forgot to add) and to fill out a Book
Review Sheet which will be turned in to their Language Arts
teacher in September. Encourage them to participate in one
of the summer reading programs available at the public library.
Have a good time enjoying books with your kids. [Both
Book Lists and the Book Review Sheet will be available on
this website, soon! —webmaster]
Other Library News:
Larkspur Library’s Summer Reading Program
Summer is for reading all those fun books you did not
have time to read during the school year. Join LL’s
summer reading program (June 16–Aug. 30) and receive
prizes after your third visit. These include chocolate chip
cookies and dollars to spend at the Book Passage Book Store.
Register now and enter to win bigger raffle prices to be announced
each month!
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| 8th GRADE GRADUATION
THANKS
—From Dee Hadfield |
| Thank you in advance to the parents who have
and will be helping make 8th grade graduation a special day
for all the graduates. To the parents who are coming to help
and don’t even know it yet… Thank you!
The biggest thank you with hugs and kisses to Cyndie Fox
for the huge task of decorations and her husband, Kenny for
giving her up for the last 2 months!! (3months?)
The DO-IT-ALLS Maija Norstad, Diana Putterman, Ann Morrison,
Shawn DeMont, Beth Stewart (for ideas, paint and the stealing
of greenery and husband’s& ties, for early morning coffee
and strawberries and the use of the cleanest garage I have
ever seen), and Robin Moller (for keeping everything so incredibly
organized and level-headed in the kindest voice you could
ever hear when you are freaking out!). Becky Reed (Need I
say …o-r-g-a-n-i-z-e-r). Muchas Gracias to
Ann Arabian and Lia Lee for the ceremony and never calling
to ask for anything! Thank you to Anne Gustafson, Birgit Andre,
Renie Dupar, Linda Malatesta, Fran Prewitt, Mary Eaton, Suman
Vyas, Catherine Ghirarduzzi, Cynthia Abbott, Marilyn Spoja,
Jean Hand and Sue Peirano (for every other little detail and
thing that got done!). If I have missed your name, I am so
sorry!! Good luck to all our graduates in all you do!
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| MORE MEMBERSHIP
THANKS FROM PTA
—From Karen Deist (newly retired) &
Liza Mathews, PTA Membership Co-chairs
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Thank you to John McCormick and Jan Gauthier
for joining Hall PTA! AND BIG THANKS TO ALL WHO JOINED PTA
THIS YEAR! It's been a great year!
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