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The Oakwood School District is conducting five community meetings to inform the residents about the 1.8 mill Permanent Improvement Replacement Levy on the ballot May 8. A question and answer period will begin the meeting during which residents will hear what this levy is about, how it will help the district, and how passage will not increase their taxes. Participants will also tour the school to see what was accom
plished with the 2002 Bond Issue and what would be accomplished with the replacement of the Permanent Improvement Levy in May. The meetings are scheduled as follows:
Tuesday, April 17 – Lange Elementary – 7:30 p.m. - Library
Wednesday, April 18 – Harman Elementary – 7:30 p.m. - Library
Tuesday, April 24 – Smith Elementary – 7:30 p.m. - Library
Monday, April 30 – OHS./Junior High – 7:30 p.m. – Library
Tuesday, May 1 – Oakwood H.S./Junior High – 4 p.m. - Library
If anyone has questions about the Replacement Levy or these scheduled meetings, they can contact Kevin Philo, the Oakwood School District’s Treasurer/ Business Manager at 297-5332 or email kphilo@oakwood.k12.oh.us.
Oakwood Junior and Senior High School will offer summer school classes beginning Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Summer school packets are now available to students.
Open enrollment began on Monday, March 19. A completed registration form
with parent signature as well as full tuition and any fees for all classes must be paid in the form of cash or check at the time of registration. Registration will take place in the Senior High Bookroom. For more information please call 297-5325.
The Oakwood City School District is announcing that written nominations are now being accepted for the Sam Andrews Educational Hall of Honor. Nominations must be submitted to the Superintendent, Dr. Mary Jo Scalzo, and mailed or delivered to the Board Office, 20 Rubicon Road, Dayton, OH 45409, by April 20, 2007.
The nominee should be retired from school employment or voluntary school-related service for three years or more.
Your nomination should include how the honoree has made “a distinguished and significant contribution toward the beneficial growth and education of the students in this community which shall serve to commemorate the high ideals that characterized the life and career of Sam Andrews.”
Please include adequate background information on the nominee so that he/she may receive optimum consideration by the selection committee.
A nomination form and information on the background of the award is available by calling Sandy Maresh at the Board of Education at 297-5332, or email at maresh.sandy@oakwood.k12.oh.us; however, submissions may be made without using the form.
Nominations for the 2007 Sam Andrews Educational Hall of Honor must be submitted by April 20, 2007. Names of the nominees will be published in the local papers in April. Supporting letters for these nominees should be submitted to the school district by May 25, 2007.
Prior nominees include: Year three nomination - Ralph Furguson, Oakwood Junior/Senior High English Teacher from 1968-1996. Year two nomination – Warner Simpson, School Psychologist/ Director of Special Services from 1981-1995). Letters of support for both Ralph Furguson and Warner Simpson are now being accepted.
Oakwood Junior and Senior High School will offer summer school classes beginning Tuesday, June 12, 2007. Summer school packets are now available to students.
Open enrollment began on Monday, March 19. A completed registration form with parent signature as well as full tuition and any fees for all classes must be paid in the form of cash or check at the time of registration. Registration will take place in the Senior High Bookroom.
For more information please call 297-5325.
Erin Stamper, a resident of Oakwood, Ohio and a student at Beloit College, is spending the spring semester studying in Washington, D.C. as part of American University’s Washington Semester Program in journalism.
The Washington Semester in Journalism provides students with a realistic picture of news reporting and an introduction to the principles, ethics and issues of American journalism. Students use the resources of American University and Washington, D.C. to gain hands-on experience through an internship in the field and acquire an in-depth understanding of journalism by writing a research paper on a related topic or taking an elective class at American University.
Kyle Adams, son of Judith Guenther –Adams of Ivanhoe Avenue in Oakwood, has been named to the Merit List at Kenyon College for the first semester of the 2006-07 academic year. A graduate of Oakwood High School, Adams is a junior majoring in mathematics at Kenyon, a private Liberal Arts college in central Ohio.
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