Mauldin High News April 9-15

From Mauldin High School:

Boys State and Girls State Delegates
Congratulations to our 2012 Palmetto Boys State Delegate, Clayton Stoddard and our 2012 Palmetto Girls State Delegates Katie Byram and Olivia Baddley

Sirrine Scholarship Application Due 4/15
Seniors, the Sirrine Scholarship Committee must have a completed application and a copy of the Student Aid Report from FAFSA postmarked by April 15, 2012 to be considered for the scholarship. If you have questions, please see Ms.Dalton Kelsey in Guidance.

Completing Registration for the 2012-2013 School Year
Students should have completed requesting courses for next year. Counselors will begin the process of checking and fine tuning requests over the next few weeks. Once completed, students will receive a Student Course Request Letter that will show all requested courses. Parents and students will be required to sign the letter indicating that all is correct. The date the letters will go home will be publicized soon. Students no longer have access to the portal registration icon. Students must see counselors if there are problems.

Mauldin High - Greenville Literacy Donation Site
The Greenville Literacy Association is looking for donations of children's and young adult and adult books for their Really Good, Really Big, Really Cheap Book Sale. Please drop off any new or gently used books in the media center from now through May!

Attention Parents of Seniors!
The senior picnic is scheduled for Friday May 4! This event is completely parent funded, and we need your help! We are accepting donations of cash and canned soft drinks. Cash donations are to help fund food and supplies. If you are donating cash, please put it in an envelope addressed to Shawn Price. Please turn in cash and drink donations to the front office ASAP, or by April 20. Thank you so much for your much needed help!

PSTA Staff Appreciation Week - May 7-11 – Gift Cards Needed!
We will be celebrating our teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week May 7-11. PTSA would like to have gift cards as door prizes for our teachers/staff during this week and we are hoping that you can help! The gift cards can be in any amount and some examples are: gas, ice cream/yogurt shops, grocery stores, hardware stores, shopping, movies or spa treatments. If you can help, please send your gift cards to the front office with the dollar amound noted and marked "Teacher Appreciation". Thank you so much for helping make our teachers/staff feel appreciated.
If you have any questions, please email us.
Sue Ann Acott rsmascott1@charter.net<mailto:rsmascott1@charter.net>
Dana Cockman dwc589@yahoo.com<mailto:dwc589@yahoo.com>
Wenda Berglind jwmlsla@medscape.com<mailto:jwmlsla@medscape.com>
Roxanne Padgett roxpadgett@gmail.com<mailto:roxpadgett@gmail.com>

The Mavs Booster Club Needs Volunteers
The MAVS Booster Club provides $75,000 worth of support for all of our athletes at Mauldin. Funds from the Booster Club provide uniforms for teams every three years, equipment for the weight room and athletic facilities, upkeep of all of our fields, as well as entrance fees to tournaments. Funds are raised primarily though the membership drive in the fall, corporate sponsorships, concession sales, and MAV wear sales. We are currently seeking the following officers for the 2012 - 2013 school year.
Treasurer - We need someone with a strong accounting background to handle our funds.
MAV Wear – Need one or two people to handle sales of Mauldin MAV Wear. Shawn Price is willing to train the volunteers who take over this position.
Please contact one of the following nominating committee members if you are interested in any of the positions above.
Lin Bloomquist, lin.bloomquist@gmail.com<mailto:lin.bloomquist@gmail.com>
Gary Chew, gchew@aholdusa.com<mailto:gchew@aholdusa.com>
Vicki Bynum, vbynum@charter.net<mailto:vbynum@charter.net>
Brenda Cox, bcoxj@charter.net<mailto:bcoxj@charter.net>
Rosemarie Arnau, rqarnau@gmail.com<mailto:rqarnau@gmail.com>

GCYO Concert 4/24
All five ensembles of the Greenville County Youth Orchestras program will perform at the Peace Center Concert Hall on Tuesday April 24th at 7pm. Tickets are $6.00 for adults and $3.00 for students and are available from the Peace Center box office. This program of the Greenville County Schools serves 290 middle school and high school students from across Greenville County. This concert is a wonderful opportunity for these students to perform on the stage of this world class venue.
The Greenville County Youth Orchestras is the after school orchestra program of Greenville County Schools. Its Young Artist Orchestra is the Orchestra-in-Residence at the Fine Arts Center. Young Artist Orchestra members represent many of the high schools in the district, as well as other public and private schools from across South Carolina's Upstate. Young musicians interested in joining any of the GCYO orchestras can find more information at www.gcyo.net.

For more information about the Greenville County Youth Orchestras, contact Holly Caprell, Executive Director, GCYO Association at holly.caprell@gcyo.net.

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