Jennifer Goebel, former NJHS Prez, is a Senate Page - 2008

Matt Mackowiak, Spokesman for Sen Hutchison
"Jennifer has accomplished quite a lot at a young age and her community service, academic record and leadership traits are outstanding,"

Schimelpfenig NJHS President 2004-5, Jennifer Goebel, will spend her Junior year Spring semester in Washington DC.
In her first week on the job, she met the vice president and had a front-row seat to President Bush's State of the Union address.

At 16, Jennifer is living in Washington, D.C., doing things that few teenagers get to experience.

Jennifer is one of 30 high school juniors selected this winter to take part in the Senate Page program, which allows the students to work closely with the U.S. Senate. While working, the students also continue their schoolwork. Jennifer received the appointment from the office of U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison.

As a page, Jennifer's responsibilities include delivering legislative material within the congressional complex, preparing the chamber for Senate session, and taking messages for senators or calling them to the phone. Senate pages also carry bills and amendments to the presiding officer's desk. Pages are salaried employees of the US Senate.

NJHS ----MAY 2005

Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.

Exams are almost here, but we aren't slowing down on our community service! You can help out at the Induction Ceremony, adopt a teacher for teacher appreciation, or even help make birthday surprises for the May teachers...and much, much more! PLEASE REMEMBER TO CHECK THE CALENDAR
We want YOU on this website! Just e-mail ANY volunteer pictures to - Jennifer Goebel.

PLEASE PUT A LINK ON YOUR WEBSITE TO THIS BLOG TO KEEP IN TOUCH!

NJHS SMS students help out Carlisle Elementary

Carlisle Elementary is AWESOME. Thanks for letting us volunteer at your Beach Blast!!! It was great! See your 5th graders next year at Schimelpfenig!

NJHS helped KEEP PLANO BEAUTIFUL!!!! IT WAS AWESOME! 8am-Saturday, April 2 Look who showed up!

Ms. Mullen gets "REALLY FRIENDLY" with Molly the Cow!!! And WHO's mouth is full of food pigging out at the picnic (pic at right)??? Click on the picture above and select "slideshow to findout!!!

NJHS - YOU can help keep plano beautiful!

Check out the below link and you can register to clean up plano with a group of friends! If you participate, you get a free t-shirt, free lunch, and the opportunity to win free concert tickets from Radio Disney! The event takes palce on April 2, 2005!

NJHS at WFAA Channel 8 Family First Event - Plano Centre Jan. 22

Schimelpfenig, Frankford, Haggard, and Renner Middle Schools teamed up on Saturday, January 22, 2005 to be Ambassadors for the City of Plano at the Plano Centre. Back row from left to right is Annie Bateman, NJHS President from Haggard Middle School, Ryan Breault, Aparna Ramanan, Ms. Robin Popik Director of Volunteer Services for the City of Plano, Alyssa Zarro, Emily Kong. Front row is Jennifer Goebel, and Kevin Barnett NJHS President of Frankford Middle School. Kevin is in a wheelchair because the day before he was in the hospital for an appendectomy!!!and he still showed up to volunteer...insanely incredible!
Everyone had a great time, and this marks the first time that middle schools have joined together on their own to help the City of Plano. Ms. Popik was really great to work with, and we intend to support her to our fullest!
There are other volunteers from Frankford and Renner not shown...they were at stations handing out literature during this photo.

NJHS - Operation: We CAN do SOMETHING!

NJHS and Student Council are working together on a cash drive to raise money for the tsunami relief effort! Our goal is to get at least $1 from eah student at SMS. You have untile the 21st, so start bringing in money! Thanks!

NJHS - Fun Facts about this time of Year!!!!!!!!

Christmas was declared a national holiday in 1890.

President Franklin Pierce was the first President to decorate the White House Christmas tree.

Since the 1970’s, the Kennedy Space Center has made their shuttle landing facility available for emergency landing by Santa Claus should problems develop during his annual visit to children around the world!

Each year, Florida Christmas tree growers produce over 120,000 freshly cut quality trees for the holiday season.

Hanukkah is celebrated every year between the end of November and the end of December. It begins on the 25th day of the Hebrew month of Kislev, which varies from year to year on the Western calendar. The eight day celebration commemorates the rededication of the Jerusalem temple, and the miracle of the sacred lamp that burned for eight days on a single day’s oil.

Kwanzaa is a seven day celebration of African culture begun by Dr. Maulana Karenga, a professor at California State University. Celebrated from December 26th to January 1st, Kwanzaa (which means “first fruits of the harvest”) is meant to honor African heritage and present day life in America. The holiday ends with a large feast on the final evening called Karamu.

NJHS - Our Adopted families need items for happy holidays!!

Don't forget to bring gifts for the families that we adopted! If you didn't get a chance to sign up- talk to Mrs. Johnston or Mrs. Mullen and they will give you somebody to get a gift for! Thank you soo much! The gifts are Due Wednesday, December 15!

NJHS - The letters have come in from Hsinchu!

The responses from our sister city, Hsinchu were just delivered on Tuesday! You will be receiving your letter throughout the week and maybe even into the beginning of next week! Thanks for participating!