End Of Year Choral Concert Tonight At EG

Elk Grove High School's choral department will showcase its many performing groups in a year-end concert, tonight, Thursday, May 31, at 7:30 p.m. in the school's gymnasium.

Recently returning from a five-day concert tour, the choirs are well-rehearsed and ready to give their best for Elk Grove audiences.

Included on the program will be the Concert Choir, Freshman Choir, New Horizons, Towne Criers, and Men's Glee Club, with a variety of featured student soloists. Music performed will include show tunes from musical theater, pop, spiritual, and classical works, directed by Jerome Swanson and accompanied by Kay Swanson.

Refreshments will be served in the foyer following the concert, courtesy of the EGHS Music Boosters. Admission is $2 for adults and $1 for students; seniors are admitted free.

For more information, call the choral office at (847) 718-4499.

3 Hersey Students Earn Scholarships From AH Art Guild

Three John Hersey High School art students have recently been named as scholarship recipients of the Arlington Hts. Art Guild, which will provide funds to help further their studies in art this fall.

Scholarships have been granted to the following: Alexa Domas of Prospect Hts. and Mikael Klefstad of Mt. Prospect, both attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; and Lauren Kwiat of Mt. Prospect, attending the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Hersey art teachers are Simeon Costea, Gary Drake, Rich Lane, and Sue Renner.

At the Great Frame-Up in Arlington Ht. on April 18, several art students were also featured at the store's Creative Self-Expression Show.

Winning "Best of Show" cash awards at this juried exhibit were the following artists: Natalia Broz of Mt. Prospect, sculpture; Alexa Domas, photography; Mikael Klefstad, painting; Chris Mastalerz of Mt. Prospect, drawing; and Rocky Senise of Wheeling, computer imaging.

State Scholars At Hersey, Wheeling

76 students from John Hersey High School in Arlington Hts. and 50 students from Wheeling High School in Wheeling have recently been named Illinois State Scholars by the Illinois Student Assistance Commission (ISAC).

The following Hersey seniors are Illinois State Scholars for 2001-2002:

Arlington Heights residents: Matthew Adams, Dorothy Ambrogi, Tyler Baldocchi, Brianne Block, Jessica Brizzolara, Daniel Caceres, Maria Chaudhry, Eric Chovanec, Winston Deleon, Christopher Eriksson, Mathew Ferrante, Andrea Frey, Scott Gallagher, Ronald Haaker, Christopher Hall, Yusuke Inoue, Tanya Inventor, Christopher Koeppen, Emilia Kruzel, Kathleen Madden, Taryn McCook, Michael McKerney, Deanna Michalopoulos, Amy Osgood, Traci Powers, Jessica Pyzyna, Melissa Schaefer, Carrie Schmidt, Monica Schmidt, David Sharer, Michael Sheehan, Molly Sissors, Jason Skowronski, Matthew Stonecipher, Andy Walenga, Rebecca Walz, Laura Westerkamp, and Hilary Young.

Des Plaines: Erin Conneely.

Mount Prospect: Joseph Ahrens, Meriam Amedin, Donovan Arndt, Natalia Broz, Adam Bush, Jason Cardella, Jinny Choi, Darren Franck, Rebecca Gehm, Elizabeth Hellstedt, Andrea Kaplan, Hana Kim, Sharon Kim, Andrew Klamm, Emily Klamm, Cassidy Kuhlmann, Jeannine Kusta, Chris Lee, Janna Louie, Marissa Lutz, Anna Matyja, Katie Meyer, Michael Milicevic, Lea Panek, John-Michael Porretta, Andrea Price, Julie Rushkewicz, Christina Schupple, Jaime Sikora, and Shivani Thaker.

Prospect Heights: Matthew Bell, Sarah Hahn, Theodore Marino, Edward Neumann, Darcy Thompson, and Tim Troemner.

Wheeling: Jonathan Henner.

The following Wheeling seniors are Illinois State Scholars for 2001-2002.

Arlington Heights residents: Jonathan Chang, Eugene Choi, Thomas Eng, Ludwig Herard, Jennifer Lewellen, Roger Lin, and Laura Spencer.

Buffalo Grove: Laura Fraczek, Erin Fries, Dana Hilgenberg, Jeanette Jordan, Kimberly Merwin, and Douglas Pietrzak.

Prospect Heights: Matt Frano, David Hanrahan, Ryan Isaacson, and Randall Lerner.

Wheeling: Jennie Anderson, Joy Bellito, Lily Choi, Eva Christian, Ryan Croke, Deanne Curcio, Jake Dorman, Evgene Doroshenko, Robert Fagerman, Danielle Fortier, Eugene Gelfand, Jeremy Goodman, April Henrickson, Michael Henry, Jeffery Hunt, Helen Johnson, Joshua Kalov, Jonathan Kaplan, Andrew Kasettratut,Amy Komorowski, Kevin Laux, Alan Luckman, Robert Mackey, Lisa Mehta, Anthony Morales, Sheetal Patel, Ana Peso, Kristin Schwind, Elena Sklyanaya, Megan Thoma, Sean Walsh, Gregory Winzentsen, and Brian Wolford.

In order to enter the competition, high school students must take the ACT and/or SAT examination between Sept. 1-June 30 of their junior year. Selection of scholars is based on a combination of test scores and class rank at the end of the junior year. Nearly all will continue their education after high school.