SJ Schools: Eastern High School

Eastern High School, located on 1401 Laurel Oak Rd in Voorhees, is the home of seven Robert Byrd scholars, 34 Bloustein distinguished scholars and was voted #1 in the Best 100 Communities for music education. The average class size is 24, and the school provides students with a large amount of educational services to promote lifelong learning.

The Home of the Vikings has two exciting activities coming up including:
Eastern High School will celebrate its 2003 Honor Societies Inductees on Tuesday April 15th. The Thespian Honor Society and Art Honor Society will begin at 6:30pm and the Foreign Language Honor Society will begin at 7pm. The Tri-M Honor Society will begin at 7:30pm and is followed by a concert in the media center.

Sponsored by the Eastern Viking Football Booster Club, the Viking Wall Project is the creation of the new entrance to McAleer stadium at Eastern High School. The grass has been replaced with over 10,00 bricks with a carved “V” to represent the Vikings. Students, parents and friends of Eastern are invited to purchase a brick to personalize and become a permanent fixture to the Viking walk. There are three brick sizes and the cost ranges from $50 to $150 and will support the football team for pre-game meals, videos and scholarships. For more information, please contact Carey Monaghan at (856) 751-9092.

Eastern High School students achieve several academic and athletic awards each year. Congratulations to the following students for their exceptional contribution to the school:

Seniors Tomi Akanbi and Matthew Craig were recently honored as the student representatives to the Board of Education. Akanbi and Craig had the opportunity to discuss their future goals with the Board and offer suggestions for improvements for underclassmen.

Congratulations to junior Sarah Chang who was selected as a member for the 2003 National High School Honors Orchestra. The orchestra is comprised of 111 musicians across the United States. They recently had the chance to perform at the American String Teachers Conference in March. Chang is also a member of the 2003 All-South Jersey Orchestra.

On April 15th, 15 new members will be inducted into the 2003 International Thespian Society Troupe 5214. Congratulations to Justin Becker, Liz Blessing, Rachel Boehm, Brian Browne, Shanna Caines, Jonathan Cornfield, Megan Dailey, Laura Dicht, Mike Fox, Kerrie Husband, Mi Kim, Rubina Kwon, Joey Lesiak, Emaleia Levey, Stephanie Lewis, Emily Maffucci, Brian Petronchak and Cheryl Pollack. In order to achieve this honor, students had to accumulate at least 100 hours of dedication to theatre arts as well as earn a good grades point average. The ceremony will also honor Becky Feldman, Lisa Lombardelli, Megan Pisors, Evan Schapiro and Bryan Shilowich as honor Thespians.

Congratulations to sophomore Dan Tavana for receiving top honors at the Future Business Leaders of America competition in East Brunswick, NJ. His competitive event was "Introduction to Parliamentary Procedure." He now qualifies to compete with students form all over the world in the national competition in Dallas, Texas.

The Eastern Regional Robotics Team won first place out of 44 teams at the FIRST 2003 Philadelphia Regional competition at Drexel University in Philadelphia. After nine weeks of hard work and a tight budget the team beat out other competing engineers with large budgets. Congratulations to these talented students.

Congratulations to the following student athletes who signed a commitment to college next year. Rachel Dawson, Field Hockey, North Carolina; Shaun Banta, Field Hockey, Penn State; Athena Yiantsos, Soccer, Villanova; Allyson Vernon, Lacrosse, Ohio State University; Michael Hume, Track, North Carolina (Wilmington); Sharon Heilig, Track, East Carolina; Cleo Kirkland, Princeton, Football; Ron Tanner, Penn State, Football; Ed Carter, Lafayette; Football. Congratulations to these students for recognizing their athletic ability and running with it!

The Eastern Regional High Schools' Debate Team captured the South Jersey Debate Team Championship on Wednesday, February 26th, with two wins over Cherokee High School, and a win in tiebreakers over Shawnee High School. The negative team finished its perfect season with Jeff Kaplan winning all 1st speaker awards for the championship, and Maya Deshmukh winning team first speaker for the season. The affirmative team bounced back from tough losses to win its match, with Julian Fox and Neel Bhuta taking all 1st and 2nd speaker honors.

For more information about what’s going on in our local schools, and what today’s students are up to, visit our SJ Schools page.

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Author: Melissa Samuelson