Welcome to the Menomonie High School Website!

Welcome back to another exciting year at Menomonie High School! This year promises to be another exciting year as we work to together to help our students become lifelong learners, caring individuals, and responsible citizens.

Please take the time to check our website. It has new and changing information on a daily and weekly basis! Please come back and visit us often!

Greg Corning      Steve Kolden       

Memonomie High School Co-Principals

The following is the MHS Mission Statement

"The MHS Community ensures learning, caring, and responsibility for ALL!

We have formed a Parent Email Network which is used to communicate different kinds of information to parents. Examples of that information would be a Weekly Report for the Principals stating what has happened that week at MHS. Another example of information provided would be articles that would provide parents information on topics of interest.

If you are interested in being added to the Parent Email Network please email Greg Corning at the following email address gregory_corning@msd.k12.wi.us or by contacting the MHS Office at 232-2606!

The Wisconsin Covenant Program is in its second year.  The goal of the program is let all Wisconsin 8th graders know that college is an option for them if they are working hard to do well during high school.

Students in grade 8 are invited to sign the Wisconsin Covenant Pledge.  Enrollment for students who are in the 8th grade will open on April 14, 2008.  Students will have until September 30, 2008 to sign the pledge and enroll in the program.

To garner more information look at the website www.wisconsincovenant.wi.gov  There you will find details about the Wisconsin Covenant, a video with a brief overview of the program.  Pledge and membership forms are available at this site.

MHS was recently honored for 100 years of membership in the North Central Association at a luncheon in Chicago on March 16-18, 2008.

The North Central Association is an accrediting agency for colleges and high schools in the North Central Region of the United States.

This is another way to view directions to the different sports venues where scheduled to lay - www.bigriversconference.org

You are also able to sign up to receive e-mail notifications of new or updated schedules.

This will be especially helpful as weather changes and an event gets cancelled.  Once it is cancelled at this site, the system will send an e-mail notification to all that have signed

The Menomonie Athletic Booster Club (MABC) sells the "Blue Seats" at the Don & Nona Williams Stadium each year with the proceeds going to benefit activities at Menomonie High School.  These numbered blue seats are in a special section of the stadium and are available with seat backs.  Once you purchse admission to get into the game, they are available for an additional fee of $3.00 for each game or $15.00 for a season pass beginning with the September 5 home game.  "Blue Seats" tickets are not sold for the playoffs.  WIAA admission prices apply to all seating.

This year, MABC is offering you a chance to retain your "Blue Seat(s)" from last year.  If you wish to keep the same seats, please send a payment of $15.00 per seat to:  Doug and/or Pam Gane, (Check payable to MABC) - E4504 410 Avenue, Menomonie, WI  54751 - Phone: 715-235-9714.  All payments must be received by August 11.  Any seats not paid for by August 11, will be put together with the rest of the unsold tickets and be available on a first come - first serve basis beginning at 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday, August 13 in the MHS Activities Office.  Volunteers from MABC will be on hand that day to sell "Blue Seat" tickets and Memberships.

• Earlier in the 2007-08 school year, all Menomonie High School students participated in the Menomonie Student Survey.    Slightly over half of all students in grades 9-12 don’t use alcohol and in the last 30 days before the survey 72% of all students used no alcohol. 
• 62% of students in grades 9-12 who earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher don’t use alcohol.
• Nearly 85% of Menomonie students “agree” or “strongly agree” that there is at least one teacher or adult in school who will listen to them if they have problems, and nearly 70% that there is a teacher or adult who knows them well.
• Student belief that their parents care about them, that their family wants them to do well in school, and that teachers expect them to do their best seemed to have an especially strong relationship to lower student use of tobacco, marijuana, and other drugs.
• Perception of risk of harm to ourselves by using chemicals is growing.  Each year a greater percent of students perceive a “high risk” to themselves in using chemicals. Alcohol is perceived as having the least risk followed by tobacco.  Amphetamine and cocaine perceived as most harmful. 

• Perception of parental disapproval for trying chemicals by students appears to be increasing especially for alcohol. 

• Protective factors and mental health status have a direct impact on chemical use rates.

_{Red Cedar Medical Center will be holding their WIAA physicals on the following dates:  Thursday July 24, 2008 and Tuesday, July 29, 2008.   This year due to the new vaccine requirements for school children there will be an immunization clinic on these dates.  The following immunizations will be offered: the required Tdap and Varicella vaccines as well as HPV and Menactra to grades 6, 9 and 12.} 

The class of 2008's tenure at MHS is nearly at an end. We have been busy getting ready for graduation. Seniors are busy turning in uniforms,library books, paying fines and fees, etc. All students are taking finals on Thursday and Friday. Friday afternoon we will hold Graduation Practice at UW Stout Johnson Fieldhouse. Sunday, June 8, 2008 at 2 PM is Graduation/Commencement. That evening the Senior Appreciation Night Party will be held from 9 PM to 5 AM. Much planning and work by the parents of the Senior class has gone into planning the Appreciation Party. It is always a great time for the graduating class. Track concluded its season last weekend with Grant Luer taking first place in the discus. It is always exciting to have a state champion in the school. Thursday, our baseball team concluded its season by advancing to the WIAA Sectional Finals in Stevens Point. Unfortunately the team lost 5 to 3 to Eau Claire Memorial and thereby missed out on a chance to advance to the state tournament. However the team like a number of our teams led by our senior class came on strong at the end of the year and advanced farther than many people felt possible. Our Science Olympiad team did a great job in Washington D.C. coming in 25th out of 60 schools. This in itself is really great but the team also won the National Science Olympiad Spirit Award for High Schools. Besides receiving a beautiful trophy in recognition of this honor, our Science Olympiad Program will receive a check for $2,000 from the Lockheed Martin Corporation which will be used to further the program. The Band and Choral groups held their final concerts of the year this week and gave out letters and other awards. The concerts were excellent as usual. MHS students have been participating in a year long project called H2O for Life with the purpose of raising awareness of the world water crisis and building a well in French-speaking Mali, Africa. The project was initially sponsored by the DECA and French Clubs, and was later supported by other student groups including: FCCLA, the MHS Student Council, the Multi-Cultural Club, a service learning class, the Middle School, and River Heights Elementary. Students at MHS raised $10,000 by June 8, 2008, to donate for the purpose of building a well for this school. (The cost of the well is $20,000, the other funds are matched by the Save the Children Organization.) The well will provide students with separate latrines for boys and girls that will be equipped with hand washing stations. The program meets the "WASH" criteria, (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) supported by the US State Department. Recently MHS was given a plaque featuring a "flying M" and a Wisconsin flag which were flown about STS 118, the flight of our first Educator Astronaut. The school was awarded this because of our participation with research that took place on board the missions working with C. elegans nematode worms through a not for profit group, Orion's Quest, which brings NASA research into the classroom.