Four Homewood-Flossmoor High School graduating seniors have been selected for 10-week paid engineering internships through the Exelon Generation program this summer.
Author: Marilyn Thomas
Retired H-F Racquet Club tennis coach honored for adaptive tennis initiative
Nancy Hoekstra’s dedication to making the game of tennis accessible to all won her Member of the Year-Illinois honors from the Professional Tennis Registry (PTR) during its 2018 International Tennis Symposium in Hilton Head, South Carolina, in February.
Bill Beverly sets sights on NASA career
Bill Beverly of Homewood has a goal — he wants to work for NASA. Beverly’s excitement about his future profession derives from his selection for the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars Program that gave him the opportunity recently to learn from engineers and scientists at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
H-F freshman’s music passion is as a blues band drummer
Stacy Norris needs your vote. No, she’s not running for office, but the 15-year-old freshman at Homewood-Flossmoor High School is the outstanding drummer with the blues band The Instinct that has been nominated for a Chicago Music Award in the ‘most talented teens’ category and they will win through online[Read More…]
Rotarian Rick Thiernau shares message of caring with D153 students
Homewood District 153 found a way to say “thanks” and recognize Rick Thiernau, a dedicated volunteer who has given years of service. In fall, the district’s nomination to the Illinois State Board of Education for Thiernau was accepted and he received a “Those Who Excel” award as a community volunteer. He[Read More…]
The rise of fencing
Forget Zorro. He wasn’t a fencer. The masked man’s swashbuckling movie scenes that capture the clatter from dueling rapiers as opponents fight on isn’t what today’s fencing is about. Today’s fencing requires one-on-one strategy, physical agility and intensity and it’s drawing the attention of students at Homewood-Flossmoor and Marian Catholic High[Read More…]
Biology students at H-F learn the lessons of Henrietta Lacks
African-American Henrietta Lacks isn’t a household name, but Homewood-Flossmoor High School teacher Jeanettra Watkins believes it should be.
No easy answers available on videotaping H-F meetings
District 233 board members have been considering whether or not to videotape and post board meetings to social media and the district’s website. At its Committee of the Whole meeting Jan. 29, board members said they have been studying the question but haven’t come to any resolution. It often seems[Read More…]
H-F school board will decide best practices on field trips
After months of discussion, the District 233 school board decided it would review its 20-plus year practice of approving field trips. In the mean time, the board decided to continue its standard practice of voting on Homewood-Flossmoor High School out-of-state trips. Superintendent Von Mansfield told the board at its[Read More…]
Musician’s ideas brought jazz fest to PSC 30 years ago
On Feb. 15, 16 and 17, Valerie Nicholson and friends will mark 30 years of the Prairie State College Jazz Fest. The highlight of the three-day event will be the 7:30 p.m. concert with leading jazz musicians in the PSC Barnes & Noble Auditorium on the campus at 202 S.[Read More…]