Huntingtown High School

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Huntingtown High School, home of the HHS Hurricanes, is located at 4125 North Solomons Island Road, Huntingtown, Maryland (MD), 20639. Completed and opened in 2004, HHS is currently home to some (estimated) seventeen hundred students from grades 9 to 12. HHS is in Calvert County, and is part of the Calvert County Public Schools, (CCPS).

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[edit] Staff

Mr. Rick Weber is the principal at Huntingtown High, assisted by Trey Sirman (9), Dave Taylor (10), Larry Barker (11), and Yovonda Ingram (12). Mrs. Voelker is the Librarian and Media Specialist, assisted by Mrs. Byrne. The teachers and other faculty offer a wide variety of academic, honors, and Advanced Placement courses.

[edit] Programs

Music

Huntingtown's Music Department is directed by Mr. Donald Naumann (Band), Mr. Daniel Boyer (Chorus), and Mrs. Sara Moran (String Orchestra). The department sends several students yearly to Maryland All-State music programs, as well as various other honors ensembles, and is regarded as one of the best in southern Maryland and the region. {see Marching Band below.)

Sports

HHS hosts a variety of sports teams directed by Jason Harlow including Football, Soccer, Golf, Cross-Country, Basketball, Baseball, Wrestling, Lacrosse, Swim Team and more. Huntingtown's softball team has won every division state title since the school's inception. Huntingtown's Boy's Swim Team recently won the 2008 SMAC and 4A/3A South Regional Titles. Huntingtown started an ice hockey team in 2008 winning the Southern Division Championship and making it to the Regional State Playoffs losing to Easton High School. The hockey team boasted the third highest GPA out of all Maryland public schools missing the first place spot by 1/10 of a point.

Theatre

Huntingtown's Eye of the Storm Productions (EotSP), under the direction of Mr. Derek Anderson, has been recognized by the American Alliance for High School Theatre as one of the top 35 high school theatre programs in the nation. The company produces a fall play and spring musical, in addition to "Black Box" shows throughout the year. Several EotSP students participate in both Maryland State and National Theatre Festivals, garnering numerous awards since the school's opening.

Journalism

The school's nascent journalism program, under the tutelage of Ms. Cathy Sutton, Mrs. White and Ms. Turner, produce the erudite news-magazine Hurricane Nation about 5 or 6 times a year. The yearbook staff work on the yearbook year round and issue one copy per year along with a spring supplement. The school's Broadcasting program is called H-TV and is streaming all school TV at 2:07 every day. Hurricane Nation Online has a beta site [hurricanenationonline.com] currently, but there are plans to completely revamp the website for the coming school year.

[edit] Extra-Curricular Activities

Marching Band

The HHS Marching Hurricanes, directed by Mr. Donald Naumann, is composed of students playing a wide range wind and percussion instruments as well as many Guard members. The Marching Hurricanes, composed of 63 instrumentalists and guard members at the time, earned second place in the 2007-2008 Tournament of Bands Atlantic Coast Chanpionship (ACC).

Manifold other extra-curriculars are available to students at the school, including Mock Trial, the It's Academic team, and the United Nations Association.

[edit] Library/Media Center

A favorite place of students to study, work, and relax with a good book is the library, which is a quieter alternative to the cafeteria or noisy classrooms. Featuring a full working library, two computer labs, and lots of state-of-the-art multimedia equipment, the HHS Library / Media Center which is run by Media Specialist Christine Voelker and her assistant D. Byrnes provides a foundation for many of the school's services and programs.

[edit] Campus

The HHS campus features, aside from its building and traffic pattern, a full working football field, a baseball field, and a track field. The large, 3-story building is surrounded by these and two parking lots and a bus loading/unloading zone, which have their own exit and intersection on the nearby routes of MD 2 and MD 4 (commonly known as MD 2-4).

[edit] External links

see List of high schools in Maryland

[edit] References

All of the above information can be found in the annals of the

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