Portland Public Schools
Portland, Oregon

Franklin High School

Home of the Quakers

5405 SE Woodward | Portland, OR 97206
Phone: (503) 916-5140 | Fax: (503) 916-2694

KUDOS

Franklin HS senior Damian Woods signed a full ride letter of intent to play football at Sioux Falls University if South Dakota.  The 6'1" 185-pound senoir will play wide receiver for the Cougars for the next four years.  A Big QUAKER congratulations to Damian.  View a picture of Damian signed the letter of intent here.

More GREAT Franklin Constitution press!  http://www.pps.k12.or.us/news/6994.htm

 

Franklin students' Mary Lao and Sierra Brambila, along wtih students from other Portland high schools, participated in this year's "Free the Bowl" contest.  "Free the Bowl" is an annual national anti-beer advertising contest that challenges youth to create short videos exposing the harm of exploitative alcohol advertsing during the Super Bowl.  Their video can be seen here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVmn9apqhcg&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1. 

 

 

Congratulations to the FHS swimmers who will represent FHS at the 2012 State Swim meet on Feb. 17th and 18th.  200 Yard Medley Relay: Talullah, Margret, Clair, Sadie, katherine and Madison.  200 Yard IM and 500 Freestyle Claire.  100 Yard Freestyle Sadie.

 

 Mr. Buckmaster offers congratulations to the FHS Robotics Team!   Congratulations go out to the FHS Robotics teams for their participation in Oregon FTC Qualifying Tournament at Oregon State University this Saturday 2/11/12.  One of our teams made it to 4th place in the semi-final rounds out of 26 schools attending! (We are still waiting for the final scoring results to find out who will advance to the state finals.)Thanks go out to everyone in the Engineering Robotics class as it was a group effort that resulted in the building of the robots that went to the competition.  Special thanks go out to the following students who were able to attend: Hadrian, Bin, Chase, Fletcher, Mikael, Daniel, and Karen. Thanks also go to Mr. Jerome Mannenbach and to the students parents for all their help.

 

Congratulations to Tyler Cardwell and Ali Alshujery for the recent 2012 Wrestling Championships!  See more

here.

 

 

 

Congratulations to the 703 Franklin students who had a 3.0 gpa (grade point average) or above on their first quarter grade reports.  These students represent 48% of the student body! (55% of Freshmen, 40% of Sophomores, 42% of Juniors and 55% of Seniors.)  PTA will recognize their achievement with a dessert event on Friday, December 9th.  Way to Go Quakers!

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Thank you to all who participated in the recent Red Cross blood drive.  Oregon Red Cross reports that 189 lives were impacted by the generous donation of live-saving blood by our students!
CONGRATULATIONS....... 
Yulia Mironchuk and Veronika Chepel for successful completion of the Future Connect Challenge.   Yulia was one of the grand prize winners and received a $50 Fred Meyer gift card.
 
Mikaeli Rhodman and Matt Gauss for being accepted to the Oregon Music Educators Association ALL-STATE CHOIR!  All-State takes place at the University of Oregon in Eugene, January 13-15, 2012.
 
Mitchell Mundorff for his selection as an American Council of Teachers of Russian (ACTR) Russian Scholar Laureate for 2011!
 
Mitchell Mundorff and Daniel Scott, both named National Merit Scholarship Program Semi-finalists. Josh Edel and Fletcher Hazlehurst, both named Commended Students in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program.  "These young men have demonstrated outstanding potential for academic success," commented a spokesperson for NMSC.
Way to Go Mr. McClendon!  Psychology instructor, William McClendon, was selected to participate in advanced placement program reading.  The news release from College Board may be accessed here.

Congratulations to 2011 OABSE Scholarship recipient, Perpetua Ejike!  Perpetua received the honor at the Oregon Alliance of Black Student Educators' 29th Annual Student Recognition Banquest on May 26, 2011.  More information about OABSE may be found here.

Journalism Adviser Kate Moore offers Congratulations to the 2011-2012 Staff of The Franklin Post: Co-Editors in Chief:  Daphne Carlson and Chelsea Pagan; News Editor:  Zoë Chrisman-Miller; Co-Forum Editors:  Natalie Nicholl and Nick Johnson; Feature Editor:  Olivia Jones-Hall; Co-Sports Editors:  Liliana Gomez and Darby Marioth; Co-Arts & Entertainment Editors:  Wednesday Burke and Remi Darr; Posterior Editor:  Alexandra Wallachy; and, Art & Photo Editor:  Blake Stewart.

Franklin student featured in the District's Young, Gifted and Black publication.  Read it here.

MESA Day, 5/13, finds 3 State Champions (Mike Mengitsu, Cody Croydon, Fletcher Hazelhurst) headed to the National competition in Seattle June 21-24.  Categories and awards found here.

Freshman Haley McKinnon's poem "An Old Man" won Second Honorable Mention, Senior Level, in the Manningham Poetry Trust Contest 2011 of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.  Read her poem here.

46.5% of Student Body made 3rd Quarter Honor Roll!  See list here. 

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEW ASB OFFICERS ELECTED FOR THE 2011-12 SCHOOL YEAR!  Activities Director Mark Tucker announced the new officers for the upcoming school year.  RISA LUTHER and DAMIAN WOODS were elected President and Vice President, respectively.  Serving with them will be ZOE CHRISMAN-MILLER (Secretary), EDEN HASKINS-DAHL (Spirit Commissioner), TOMMY BURKE (Activities Editor), CAITLYN MCLAIN (Publicity Chair), and, LADARA BRYDSON, JASMINE NAVARRO-REYES AND SYDNEY FULLER from the BizTech campus (Marshall) will serve in the temporary positions of ASB Representatives. THE RESULTS OF CLASS ELECTIONS ARE IN!  NEXT YEAR'S:  Sophomore Class (2014): Pres. Amen Mangistu and VP Amanda Bartunek; Junior Class (2013): Pres. Dane Hilts, VP Erick Spears and Spirit Commissioner Analy Thi; and, Senior Class (2012): Pres. Mara Anderson and VP Steve Morales.