November 3, 2017

Parent Help Needed

The Fremd Viking Booster Club is proud of all our student-athletes and want to remind you of the upcoming Fall Sports Awards Night on Tuesday, November 14th at 7pm in the main gym. As with every Sports Awards, the Booster Club is organizing the cookie / snack drive.  Please consider signing up to bring in cookies for a post event snack.  You can drop them off at the tables in the main hallway on your way into the ceremony.

We have many student-athletes this fall and we will need well over 100 dozen cookies to have enough for the kids and their families.  

Please sign up for Spring Sports Awards Cookie Signup!

Here's how it works in 3 easy steps:
1. Click this link to go to our invitation page on Volunteer Spot: http://signup.com/go/KCgfxrc      

2. Enter your email address: (You will NOT need to register an account on VolunteerSpot)

3. Sign up! Choose your spots - VolunteerSpot will send you an automated confirmation and reminders. Easy!

Note: VolunteerSpot does not share your email address with anyone.

Highlights and Successes:

• Congratulations to Coach Andrew Kittrell and the Girl’s Swimming and Diving Team on taking 2nd place in the MSL Varsity Conference:

The following are the top 6 finishers:

• Diving—Carly Goodsite, Champion
• 200 Medley Relay—2nd, Sophia Kuehn, Rebecca Ballo, Kristina Buzuloiu, Emily Bolger
• 200 Freestyle –Marie Grzybek, 4th; Sarah Rothmeyer 5th
• 200 IM—Sophia Kuehn 5th, Rebecca Ballo 6th
• 50 Freestyle—Emily Bolger 2nd
• 100 Freestyle—Emily Bolger 3rd
• 500 Freestyle—Marie Grzybek 5th, Lauren Streitmatter 6th
• 200 Freestyle Relay—2nd, Sophia Kuehn, Sarah Rothmeyer, Anna Miller, Emily Bolger
• 100 Backstroke—Sarah Rothmeyer 5th, Sophia Kuehn Champion
• 100 Breaststroke—Rebecca Ballo, 4th
• 400 Freestyle Relay—3rd, Sarah Rothmeyer, Marie Grzybek, Anna Miller, Lauren Streitmatter

• Congratulations to the Public Forum and Lincoln Douglas Debate Team on their performance at the Schaumburg Saxon Invitational. Fremd earned the First Place awards in all levels of Public Forum. In Public Forum: Abhinav Balu and Adhith Palla, 1st Place Varsity, Michael Murakami and Ben Wilson, 3rd Place Varsity, Nikhil Sriram and Sharon Wu, 1st Place JV, Mayank Bhatia and Matthew Kim, 2nd Place JV, Zaid Iqbal and Rida Ahmed, 1st Place Novice, Will Zhong and David Phillips, 2nd Place Novice, Souvik Ghosh and Ed Zhang, 3rd Place Novice. Speaker awards in PF were earned by Michael Murakami , Ben Wilson, Nikhil Sriram, Mayank Bhatia and Souvik Ghosh. In Lincoln Douglas, Kylie Zhang earned 3rd Place in JV. A speaker award in LD was earned by novice Vasuda Cidambi

Staff Spotlight

Name:

Robin Quinn

Position:

English Teacher, Production Assistant for Musical & Winter Play, Speech Team Coach

Years at Fremd:

2

Life Before Fremd:

I attended Rolling Meadows High School, then went to Augustana College, where I studied English Education and Theatre Arts. One particularly bad winter, I came down with frostbite on my hands, and decided that I would move somewhere warm as soon as I graduated from Augie! I ended up relocating to Phoenix, AZ. I taught English and Drama classes in a small, rural, cowboy town about an hour west of Phoenix. While at that school, I served as the head of the Theatre department, directing all the plays and musicals, and I also sponsored the fashion club. Last year, I returned to IL to face the cold again...so far, so good!

Hobbies/Interests:

As my theatre background suggests, I love the arts; watching a play, musical, or concert is when I'm at my happiest. I'm also a singer and guitar player, and love to write music. In addition to arts, I run marathons, love to hike, and am a big movie buff; my husband and I go to the movies nearly every weekend!

Insider Tip for Parents:

Oscar Wilde said, "It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it." Encourage your student to read about the things that they are passionate about outside of school.

Ask the Principal

Are you curious about something at Fremd but have never asked? Email me at ktenopir@d211.org. If your question is pertinent to a wider audience, I will include it in the next blog post.