Oregon High School will host a virtual Senior Honors Night on Wednesday, June 17th beginning at 6:30 PM. Honors Night will be broadcast on the Oregon CUSD 220 Facebook Page for seniors, their families, and our community to observe safely from home. Award recipients will be receive their certificates and all other information pertaining to the scholarship they received at Graduation on June 19th.

Performance Date: Monday, May 11^th (rain date: Tuesday, May 12^th)

Performance Time: 3:00 Oregon / 4:30 Mt. Morris

If you live in or near* Oregon, your musical telephone performance will begin with Mr. Eckardt, Mr. Beske, and Mr. Hall performing through the football stadium loud speakers at 3:00. If you live in or near* Mt. Morris, we will start you off from the Church of the Brethren at 4:30.

Students’ job

·         Get to your starting location at the times mentioned above.

·         Have your music ready. You should be ready to play/sing from 30 seconds up to 30 minutes (any music you want).

·         Listen carefully. Whether you hear our initial performance or music from any other person in town, THAT IS YOUR CUE! As soon as you hear any music, you need to start playing. It could come from anywhere!

·         If you receive no audio cue by five minutes after the start time (3:05 in Oregon / 4:35 in Mt. Morris), that means the fuse went out somewhere. Text Mr. Eckardt your location and someone will be near your location soon to relight the fuse.

·         Parents: Take videos of this fun performance. We’ll try to share them in a google drive once it’s all said and done.

This is meant to be a performance opportunity for our musicians that missed out on their spring concerts. We hope your family members and neighbors will enjoy your playing and singing. Word of the event is going to local media outlets (you never know, a Rockford news station could show up to do some filming). It will also be advertised to alumni, Kable Band members, and on Facebook. We are going to ask anyone who wants (you do not need to be a current student) to join in this community-wide performance that will hopefully last about 30 minutes with no mowing of lawns- just music and lots of barking dogs.

Please email me if you have other ideas, questions, or concerns.

Mr. Eckardt

*If you live outside the city limits (including Silver Ridge, Etnyre Terrace, and Mt. Morris Trailer Park), you will only be part of the telephone if you join us from a location in town. Otherwise, you can take a video of yourself from your out-of-town location. Here are some options of where you could go in town:

·         Oregon students: Casey’s, Mix Park, Lion’s Park, Nash, VFW. Mt. Morris students: Casey’s, Library, Pinecrest

·         Friend’s house (driveway- 6 ft apart!)

·         Ask Beske/Eckardt/Hall to assign a location to you

SENIORS: Ms. Leamanczyk needs your senior pictures (if you haven’t already sent one) for the newspaper April 30^th and for the yearbook May 31.  If you don’t send one, she will use your ID picture.  If you did not get an id pic and you haven’t sent a picture, you will be “not pictured.”

Students, staff, and parents:  Ms. Leamanczyk needs candid photos for yearbook of what you’ve all been doing since school has been closed.   Some ideas are: doing remote learning, hanging out with family, playing games, screenshots of zooming with friends and family, playing with your pets, cooking, hobbies, exercising…whatever.  She has some spring pages to fill up!  Email them to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Last call for purchasing this historical OHS yearbook!  You can purchase it for 55.00 until May 15.  Mail your request and check made out to Oregon High School and address to the attention of Janet Greenwood. 

www.joebauerdetasseling.com

Click here for a PDF version of the application. Paper applications can be mailed to The Bauers Detasseling 408 N. Hannah Ave Mt. Morris IL 61054. If you have any questions you may also call 815-501-8757.

Please follow the link below to stay up to date on information specific to Oregon High School during our extended absence:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-ftBqOdWhf76pbRkAVLqaEA1xqhfTWQzEYYrX8r8VtQ/edit?usp=sharing

**Note: The Google Doc will be updated in real time as new information comes through. Please check back to look for new updates as they may arise.