SADD Club Promotes Good Driving

Mrs. Diane Coleman, Advisor of S.A.D.D. (Students Against Destructive Decisions) at Bellport High School recently secured funds from Allstate for teen driving awareness. The SADD club members and Mrs. Coleman held an assembly that focused on good decision making. The guest speaker was Chris Memoli and his mother Deborah Memoli who spoke to teens about the perils of poor driving. Chris was injured several years ago in an automobile accident that left him physically disabled. In addition the SADD club members painted 16 on the parking spots in the students parking, and displayed 16 throughout the high school, to remind drivers that 16 teens are killed each day in teen related car accidents. Posters with slogans such as "Be alert - Accidents Hurt" and "Anger is one letter from Danger - Drive Carefully" were placed in the Senior/ Junior Cafeteria. 16 seconds of silence were held in honor of the 16 teens who would die that day as a result of teen related car accidents. Listed below are students from the SADD Club, Principal Nelson C. Briggs, advisor Diane Coleman together with representatives from Allstate Insurance Company receiving a $1,000 check to be used for promoting good driving habits.

Noteworthy Achievement of BHS Students

May 2008
It is my sincere pleasure to share with you noteworthy achievements of Bellport High School students.

John Morgan, a senior at Bellport High School recently completed an Eagle Scout project at the Old South Haven Presbyterian Church. John constructed and erected a peace pole and a bench on the church grounds. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held in his honor where John thanked all those people who supported him and his efforts.

Matthew Gonzalez was commended for his efforts and commitment at an Evening of Good Taste Competition at the BOCES Career, Technical and Adult Education Program Center. Matt was congratulated for creating a first place dessert, second place entrée; second place overall table presentation, third place appetizer, and third place for his ice sculpture.

John Brite earned second place recognition in a photography contest through BOCES. John’s work was entered in a state competition held in Syracuse, New York. John was also commended for his cooperative spirit and camaraderie displayed.

Several Bellport High School students achieved Honor Roll status for the third quarter at the Edward J. Milliken Technical Center. These students demonstrating hard work and academic success are: Michael Albanese, Wendell Allen, Efren Cortes, Christopher Maffei, Jessica Martinez, William Palladino, Nicholas Paukner, James Plummer, Jonathan Vasquez and Lee Wiggins.

Congratulations to all of these students and please continue to use your talents, skills and knowledge to achieve your goals.

Nelson C. Briggs
Principal

BHS Voted Most Outstanding Key Club

The Bellport High School Key Club recently attended the New York District Key Club Convention where for the first time they were awarded the Most Outstanding Key Club for Division Two. The club was honored because of their hard work and dedication toward service throughout their community as well as the world. Congratulations to all and thank you Ms. Lauren La Bella, Bellport High School Key Club Advisor for guiding these young adults.

Pictured from left to right: Elise Budd, Sarah Martinez, Vanessa Verni, Katie Betuel, Nicole Brown

A Signed Welcome for Hospital-Bound Children

Mrs. Lisa Conk’s 6th period class at Bellport High School created a “Welcome to Pediatrics” sign for children being admitted to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital. The students in this Studio in Art class casted their hands in plaster using sign language. Each student selected a letter of the sign language alphabet and placed them in order to spell out the welcome sign.

Bellport High School Press Release - 5/6/08
Nelson C. Briggs, Principal
730-1621

Students participating were: Ben Anderson, Michael Arroyo, Erin Blake, Brianna Cirillo, Matthew Clark, Ashley Franklin, Jacqueline Jacabacci, Corrine Kerins, Rebecca Murpghy, Arielle Nash, Rebekah Sneed, Courtney Palermo, Victoria Richard, Vaughn Wahington, Rahsaan Pressley and Tyler Giaewski.

Earth Day Contest Swings BHS Into Spring

Bellport Senior High School celebrated Earth Day this year by inspiring our students to get creative and enter submissions to express “What Earth Day Means to You”. This was our first year creating and sponsoring the Earth Day Contest. It really made everyone think about our earth and what they can do to make a difference.

The winners of the contest were as follows: First Place ( $100 gift card) was awarded to Antero Machin for his submission “Earth Day Rap"; Second Place winners ($50 gift card) tied and went to Desirae Gooding for her poem, :”Mother Earth” and Kerin Lawlor for her essay, “Earth Day 2008: A Call to Action"; Third Place ($25 gift card) was awarded to Kaitlyn Dougherty for artwork which depicted Earth Day in a colorful and creative way; Honorable Mention (Friendly's gift certificates) went to Daquan Neal, Matt Wagner and Alex Scavelli. Congratulations to all of the winners!

In order to be fair we created a panel consisting of teachers and students to judge: Lisa Conk, Gail Freeman, Ellen Hoffman, Dan O’Connor, Rodney O’Neal and students: Danielle Christensen, Aubrey Russo, Scott Polis. The judges utilized criteria which were scored numerically for each entry in order to ensure fair judging.

The categories consisted of: Poetry, Rap, Art or Essay. The contest was co-sponsored by the South Country Central CSD Character Counts District Steering Committee promoting our pillars of Trustworthiness, Respect, Responsibility, Fairness, Caring and Citizenship!

Bellport Senior High School would like to thank all of the students who entered our contest and all of the teachers and staff members who promoted the contest. The competition was tough and it took literally three days to judge the submissions.

We received a good response especially since this was the first year this contest was created .We hope to continue the tradition next year and have even more students enter. The winning entries will be on display in the Bellport Senior High School Library through the month of May.

Commended Student Night

The most recent of positive happenings at Bellport High School was last Thursday, April 10, as the first Commended Student Night was celebrated. Students were recognized in all areas of accomplishment and effort for academic achievement, musical and art talent, athletics, volunteerism, extra curricular activity and perfect attendance. Students were presented with a certificate and a token of appreciation.

Principal Nelson Briggs would like to thank all those teachers, coaches, counselors, advisors and administrators who were responsible for fostering the academic growth and talents of the fine young men and ladies that we are proud to call "Bellport's Finest".

Below is a list of all the students who were invited to our ceremony.

Barbara Nagle, Secretary

ACADEMIC AND EFFORT RECOGNITION
ART Christine Jaeger-Academic	ENGLISH Matthew Petronzio-Academic Karen Lo-Effort
ENGLISH REGENTS PREP Shalimar Scribner-Effort	GUIDANCE Julie Harrow-Academic Camille Salcedo-Watson- Academic Meghan Caiazzo-Effort
ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE Mauro Portillo-Academic Laura Medina-Effort	LANGUAGE OTHER THAN ENGLISH Jason Hopper-Effort Katherine O’Connor-Academic Emily Geiger-Effort
MATH Grace Healy-Academic Nicholas Bredy-Effort Katherine O’Connor-Academic Aisha Grier-Effort	MUSIC Devin Nelson-Academic Kenneth Mc Aleese-Effort
SCIENCE Julie Harrow-Academic Andrew Varney-Effort Matthew Smith-Academic Timothy Veitch-Effort	SOCIAL STUDIES Sean Hurney-Academic Michael Albanese-Effort Richard Roman-Academic Nikita Cortes-Effort
EXTRA CURRICULAR RECOGNITION
LONG ISLAND CHALLENGE Matthew Askaripour Julie Harrow Katherine O’Connor Matthew Smith Timothy Veitch	SCIENCE BOWL Julie Harrow Deanna Lally Katherine O’Connor Amanda Rivera Matthew Smith
MATH TEAM Gourav Khadge Jessica Nardulli Katherine O’Connor	AMERICAN MATHEMATICS CONTEST Gourav Khadge Matthew Smith
*VOLUNTEER PROGRAM PAUMANOK VETERINARY HOSPITAL* Jessica Russ	PARRISH ART MUSEUM EXHIBIT Christine Jaeger-Honorable Mention Lauren Grucci-Award of Excellence in Photography
NEWSDAY’S LONG ISLAND SCHOLAR ARTIST Christine Jaeger-Award of Excellence	LONG ISLAND’S BEST YOUNG ARTISTS- HECKSCHER MUSEUM Charles Stravinsky-Honorable Mention Ryan Kroog-Work on exhibit
MEDIA ARTS SHOW- FIVE TOWNS COLLEGE Lauren Grucci-Photography-Best in Show Christine Jaeger-Computer Graphics-Best in Show Zachary McCarthy-Computer Graphics-Best in Show
BELLPORT HIGH SCHOOL BLOOD DRIVE DONOR (Six Times) Erik Fujii Chelsea Tonsic Stephanie Tampellini	BELLPORT HIGH SCHOOL BLOOD DRIVE DONOR (Five Times) Ashley Curreri David Farinella Arianna Fountis Jonathan Hancock Nicole Lariccio Matthew Petronzio Andrew Seidman
PERFECT ATTENDANCE (First two quarters)
Danielle Christensen Andrea Hardalo Matthew Hernandez Lester Holmes Dana Mangiacapra Gow Mosby	Rebecca Murphy Nico Puglisi Victoria Racaniello Brandon Schlosser Rachael Seldin Kathryn Torres
DIVISION III ALL-COUNTY MUSIC FESTIVAL
Division III Band Ali Blumenthal-Flute Peter Harjes-Trombone Kyle McAleese-Euphonium Steven Seidman-Trumpet	Division III Chorus Vivianna Amaya-Soprano Taylor Drenzyk-Bass Ryan Duffy-Bass Brittany Miller-Soprano Rich Roman-Tenor
Division III Orchestra
Katelyn Albanese-Viola Elise Budd-Clarinet Paul Celentano-French Horn Chris Lisinski-Trumpet	Katherine O’Connor-Flute Jessica Polins-Viola Paulina Salcedo-Watson-Viola
KEY CLUB
Katherine Betuel Nicole Brown Elise Budd	Sarah Martinez Vanessa Verni
WINTER CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS
BOWLING
Keith Bradley Nicolas Fuoco Antero Machin Steven Machin	Kyle Mc Coun Anthony Muglia Steven Taylor
DANCE TEAM
Brittney Ayala Tiffany Bredy Michaela Burrows Mariah Jackson Alissa Jimenez Rebecca Kunstadt Dina Milano Brittany Nunziata	Keri Olsen Natasha Ramroop Briana Schlosser Alicia Schloth Christina Tinch Geetanjali Toronto Reina Van Florcke
WINTER EXCEPTIONAL ATHLETES
Steven Edwards – Basketball Christopher Torres - Basketball Antonio Scott – Basketball	Kaitlin Hughes - Bowling
Ashley Barone - Winter Track Josephine Champlin - Winter Track Victoria Crump - Winter Track Melissa Del Rosario - Winter Track Rebecca Denise - Winter Track Samantha Isla - Winter Track Kaitlyn Kendrick - Winter Track Nereida Malave - Winter Track Regina Miller - Winter Track Nicole Padilla - Winter Track Aubrey Russo - Winter Track Rachel Tirelli - Winter Track Laquanna Willett - Winter Track	Jaquan Holland - Winter Track Scott Polis - Winter Track Jonathan Rosero - Winter Track Dennis Scruggs - Winter Track Matthew Smith - Winter Track Matthew Wagner - Winter Track
Cameron Balcarcel – Wrestling Mario Pereira - Wrestling Louis Gazzola – Wrestling Kyle Trent – Wrestling

BHS Jazz Band Gets Audience On Their Feet

The Bellport High School Jazz Band, directed by Eric Roeske, performed at the Patchogue Theater Saturday night. They performed along with four other local High School bands. It was a wonderful evening in a great theater watching and listening to the music. Even with Pat-Med’s home court advantage Bellport Jazz Band received a standing ovation for their sound. Mr. Roeske was the only director to include vocals in his band. Erin Pelkey made it sound like you were on Bourbon Street. It was a great performance by all the musicians. Thank you Mr. Roeske and the Bellport High School Music Department for a job well done.

David Murolo
Assistant Principal

The Congressional Art Competition

The following students had their work selected to be exhibited in the Congressional Art Competition:
William Bradford - Computer Graphic
Chistine Jaeger - Mixed Media
Zach McCarthy - Digital Photography
Christian Mojalalli - Mixed Media

The work will be ion exhibit at Gallery 4222 form April 18 to May 4.

Juliette Marotta, Art Dept Chairperson

Here it is !!! Our Principal Mr. Briggs
Kissing a Llama on the Lips!

Llamas Y Briggs

The Interact Club would like to thank all of the students, faculty and staff members that contributed to their fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Even though we did not reach our fund raising dollar amount goal, Mr. Briggs was a great sport and kissed the Llama anyway. He not only kissed the baby Llama pictured here but also the Llama’s mama, pictured below.

Bellport High was able to raise over $500 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the Bellport Rotary Club that sponsor the Interact Club have generously agreed to match our fund raising amount. That means that $1000 can be donated for Cancer research and that is why we all donated the money, to save lives!

Look in the “Advance” for additional photos of the Llama kissing event.

Thank you again for all of your support for this worthwhile cause!

The Bellport High School Interact Club

Ellen Plain
Interact Club Advisor

Parrish Art Museum Showcases BHS Student Art

On Saturday March 15th, the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton held its Fourth Annual High School Art Exhibition and Competition. Bellport High School students were well represented with over forty pieces of art on display. In attendance were Juliette Marotta, Bellport High School Art Department Chairperson, Suzette Fandale, Lisa Conk, Brandon Payne, Brian Gauler, art teachers and Dave Murolo, Assistant Principal.
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Bellport High School is proud to congratulate Lauren Grucci who received a cash award for her work and Christine Jaeger whose project had an Honorable Mention. It was a proud moment as hundreds of students with their parents from high schools across Long Island exhibited their artwork with pride in an upscale Southampton art gallery.

Pictured back left to right: Megan Lane, Kerrin Richard, Lizzie Patterson, Christine Jaeger
front left to right: Ashley Barone, Lauren Grucci, Darshana Pathak, Kerin Lawlor

The Art Department has done it again!! Bellport High School has sent two young artists work to Long Islands Best Young Artists at the Heckscher Awards. There were over 300 pieces of art work sent in from all different High Schools across Long Island vying for 80 positions in the show. Bellport was selected to show two pieces, one from Tyler Healy and one from Ryan Kroog, and Tyler received an Honorable Mention. Congratulations to both students for a job well done. Congratulations and thank you also to the dedication and professionalism of the Art Department.

Bellport High School Blood Drive Record