HOPE brings a message
May 11, 2012 • Gustavo Ramirez, Community Editor
Filed under Parents & Teachers, Top Stories
Following the popularity of the KONY 2012 video, the DHS Helping Other People Everywhere (HOPE) Club journeyed to the office of U.S. Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard on Friday, April 26, in order to help initiate action towards the crisis in Uganda. HOPE came about as a response to the tragedies... Read more »
In the background: Mrs. Tina Campos
April 27, 2012 • Roy Mendoza, Co - Editor in chief
Filed under Parents & Teachers
While students go about their daily routines, there are many people that contribute to the wholesomeness of each school day—one of those being Mrs. Tina Campos in the College and Career Center. As the Career Technician, Mrs. Campos deals with the majority of aspects related to education after... Read more »
PTA: April 2012
April 27, 2012 • Kathy Ochoa, Staff Writer
Filed under Parents & Teachers
PTA met in the B-building theatre, on Monday, Apr. 23, at 6 p.m., to discuss upcoming school events. They started with the Pledge of Allegiance, and Principal Tom Houts explained how he has been busy due to sports and that it may be the first year that football, baseball, and basketball win league in... Read more »
Uncovering the Unnoticed
April 6, 2012 • Kimberly Dominguez, News Editor
Filed under Parents & Teachers, Top Stories
Several things can go unnoticed on a campus of more than 4,000 people including the students and staff at DHS, but one thing that shouldn’t is the interpreters that facilitate communications between teachers and pupils. Created around forty years ago, SELACO (South East Los Angeles County),... Read more »
Reading rainbow redux
March 21, 2012 • Gustavo Ramirez, Community Editor
Filed under Parents & Teachers
Teachers and students gather at C-110 to read The Unbearable Lightness of Being in order to appreciate literature and converse with a group of like-minded literati. The club came about as a result of a class that Ms. Barbeau is taking. For her comparative lit class, she figured that it behooved her to... Read more »
Testing and tuberculosis
March 21, 2012 • Irene Luna, Editor in Chief
Filed under Parents & Teachers
At the monthly scheduled PTA meeting on March 12, Principal Tom Houts invited members of the Health Department to talk about the tuberculosis scare on campus, in addition to dealing with other monthly business. First and foremost, the principal began with an overview of the events to come, like the Sadie... Read more »
They work together, they live together
February 29, 2012 • Kimberly Dominguez, News Editor
Filed under Parents & Teachers
DHS has some teachers that miss their spouses during work.; however, for the Warhursts, Overgauuws, the Sanders, and the Beans, that is not an issue because they work on the same campus as their spouses. Test coordinator Heidi Warhurst and math teacher Grant Warhurst have been married for a... Read more »
PTA: February 2012
February 10, 2012 • Irene Luna, Editor in Chief
Filed under Parents & Teachers
At their usual spot in the B-building theatre, the PTA met on Monday, Feb. 6 at 6 p.m. to discuss what will be occurring during the second semester. They proceeded with the usual honoring of the flag with the Pledge of Allegiance, and then Principal Tom Houts introduced yet another segment of the renovations... Read more »
Undergoing change once more
February 10, 2012 • Gustavo Ramirez, Community Editor
Filed under Parents & Teachers
As the school readies to commence construction that will last up to three years, administrators, counselors, and certain teachers are being displaced to different locations beginning the second semester to make way for changes. The new administration building is one in a long series of changes to occur... Read more »
The birds and the bees of 2011
January 22, 2012 • Kimberly Dominguez, News Editor
Filed under Parents & Teachers
The end of 2011 was a time of new life and new love at DHS. With weddings, new babies, and new pregnancies, the staff tells about their experiences. On July 8, 2011 in Laguna Beach, math teacher Aaron Whitt married fiancé Kerry Gilfillan—a previous student teacher for health teacher Juliet Santa Cruz. ... Read more »
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