The CHIEF April 2018

18th Annual Life Skills Play

This past month, weeks of hard work and preparation by our Life Skills classes and peers went into a successful performance of the 18th annual play, Jack and the Beanstalk . Many members of our school and community were able to watch the play during 1st hour on March 21, and this year, people had a second opportunity to see it. For the first time, the production was also put on that night at the Eagle Theater here in Pontiac. Congratulations to everyone involved in this show!

Woodburn Named to Scholastic Bowl All-Sectional Team

Henry Woodburn, a senior on the PTHS Scholastic Bowl Team, has been selected as a member of the All-Sectional team by the Illinois High School Scholastic Bowl Coaches Association. PTHS is in the Mahomet-Seymour sectional group, which consists of 32 schools and covers a huge area from Streator and Joliet in the north down to Mattoon and Danville in the south. Only twelve students from those thirty-two schools were selected to the All-Sectional team by the coaches within the Sectional. Woodburn’s selection, therefore, places him in the top 3 or 4% of all players in that group. Serving as captain of the Pontiac varsity squad, Woodburn led all PTHS players, scoring 129 tossup questions this year, 12 of which were given power points, for a total of 1350 individual points on the season. He also responded to hundreds of bonus questions, adding approximately 2000-3000 additional team points and leading the team to a very successful season record of 22-11. Woodburn has been a four-year member of the school’s scholastic bowl team, and he has been a leader at both the JV and varsity levels. He plans to attend the University of Minnesota in the fall, majoring in chemistry and taking a minor in pharmacology.