Pomona students recently helped Chinese orphans by making 30 quilts. The students from Patty Lancaster’s fifth hour Fashion and Clothing class, offered by the Consumer and Family Studies Department, worked numerous hours last semester on the project members of FCCLA also helped.
If Broadway is calling your name or if you just want to take a fun and relaxing class, there is no better place for you to be than in a Pomona Choir.
The Student Council at Pomona High School is a very involved organization. They have been especially busy working on recent projects which qualify as forms of community service.
Student Council sells Jolly Ranchers twice a month and the money that is raised is donated to charity.
These are some of the comments that the Pomona Marching Band often heard this past winter break in jolly old England where they participated in the 2001 London New Year’s Day Parade. Pomona’s musicians rang in the New Year with British flags, the theme song of Monty Python ringing through the streets, and millions of people clapping along to the familiar tune.
Sadie Hawkins is the annual “girl asks guy” dance at Pomona High School. This year it was held on Saturday, February 27, at the Double Tree Hotel in Westminster.
What does Spain have to offer? Seven excited Pomona students eagerly wait to take
a trip to that historically rich country this June to find out.
Where can you go to hear obnoxious British accents, see some classic miming, and enjoy more laughs than a barrel of monkeys? The Pomona Catwalk Theatre Company's latest production, Noises Off, is exactly what you're looking for.
Do you have an issue that only someone your age can understand? Do you want to discuss a concern that is too embarrassing to talk about with an adult? Pomona's peer counselors are here to help.
"We train juniors and seniors to help students with any issues they aren't comfortable discussing with an adult," explained Kelly Tamburrino, Pomona counselor and Peer Counseling sponsor. Julie Stamper, another Pomona counselor, also sponsors the program.
This summer, Pomona Spanish teacher Elfa Rodriguez took seven of her students on an "educational" trip to Spain. Rodriguez is a firm believer in the success program is called International Student Exchange (ISE), which organizes student centered trips to various countries.
Katie Wolver, better known as Katie Shanely, is now one of Pomona High School's newest teachers. Her name changed just two weeks before the new school year due to her marriage to Kevin Wolver. " It is great to be married," says Wolver enthusiastically. She was introduced to PHS for a short time at the end of last semester while substituting for History teacher Tracy Boychuck, who was out on maternity leave.
The youngest teacher in the history department Wolver, 23, is ending a year and a half of substituting at various schools, this is her first full-time teaching position. Currently she is teaching World History and American Government classes.
The competition is fierce…mate.
The XXVII 2000 Summer Olympiad is being held in Sydney, Australia, the land down under. Over 80 countries from around the world are competing in 32 events for the prized gold, silver, or bronze medal.
The last Summer Olympics was held in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia.
The staff and student body of Pomona High School have always known their's is not the typical high school, and Pomona's newest counselor, Pam Stinson, agrees "Pomona feels as if it's the right place for me!"
It was only eight years ago that Stinson started her career helping Colorado's youth. In 1992, Stinson was an English teacher at Wheat Ridge High School. Unexpectedly, she was offered a counseling position. That opportunity was "a stroke of luck," Stinson exclaimed. With" little hesitation," she said she took the position.
FCCLA, what's that? Although FCCLA enjoys a long, proud history at Pomona, many of Pomona's newcomers and even upperclassmen are still not quite sure what exactly the club entails.
Family Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is the only national school organization that focuses on family as its number one concern said district officer Sarrah Trager. It is a non-profit organization that has over 22,000 national members and was established in 1945.
Susan Howar, one of Pomona's newest math teachers and recent California transplant, has already climbed several of Colorado's legendary Fourteeners: six of them to be exact.
She is currently teaching Pre-Algebra and Algebra/Geometry I. She taught biology last year in San Diego.
