OUHSD administration, faculty and staff,

This past Saturday, OUHSD & VCOE co-hosted the 6^th Annual Statewide Speech and Debate Tournament for migrant students, grades 5 – 12 at Oxnard High School.  On behalf of the VCOE Special Populations Division and myself, I want to thank the administration, faculty and staff at Oxnard High for hosting this prestigious event on their campus.  Along with the 400 students from Ventura County, we had an additional 500 competitors join us from throughout the State. 

I am pleased to announce that OUHSD had individuals who placed in the speech competition in the English or Spanish division from CIHS, FHS & PHS. 

In the Spanish Debate, it was a sweep for OUHSD!  First time competitors and 3^rd place, Pacifica High School; State runner up, Channel Islands High School; and the State Champions, Rio Mesa High School.  This year we did not have a team place in the English Debate.

Please congratulate the coaches from your school site and ask them for additional details as to who competed and how they did.

Coaches:

            CIHS- Francisco Reynoso & Estrella Manriquez

            FHS- Kim Dallape

            HHS- David Ramos & Esther Ultreras

            PHS- Christina Maggio

This past Saturday, Terrie Romines and her wonderful CSF students coordinated and held the CSF South Central Regional Spring Conference along with the help of CIHS faculty – current and retired!!  This event was extremely successful and truly allowed Channel Islands High School to shine.  Genuine compliments flowed from all of the CJSF and CSF advisors, parents, and judges regarding the poise of our CSF students, the generosity of time and love of our students as exhibited by our staff’s willingness to “give up a Saturday,” the energetic performances of our very own award-winning Banners, Drill, Short Flags, Co-Ed Dance, Brian Ramirez, Concert Band and Sabor Latino, and the overall Channel Islands High School pride!!! 

A BIG THANK YOU goes out to EVERYONE who helped make Saturday’s event possible starting off with Mrs. Terrie Romines for hours, weeks, and months of preparation, and all of her CSF students for taking charge and confidently “running” the day’s events, especially Julian Roque (give him a “mike” and he’ll wow you with his poise and presence!!), Vince Labinpuno and Ryan Gonzales (who very much liked utilizing the “radios” to get things done).  Helping Mrs. Romines and her CSF students were the following educators who gave of themselves to make Saturday a very special day:  Ms. Darlene Johnson (who sang the National Anthem beautifully and danced a special Hawaiian dance in honor of the CSF Seymour Finalists), Mr. Brett Zielsdorf, Mr. Jose Hernandez, Ms. Marsha Craig, Ms. Brianna Davis, Ms. Lauri Markson, Mr. David Haynes, Mr. Loreto Teruel, Ms. Imelda Blanc, Ms. DeeDee Manzano, Ms. Evie Arellano, and Ms. Elzbieta Dabrowska, as well as all of the staff, individuals, and community members who contributed to the success of the event:  Drumline Revolution, United States Navy’s Color Guard, Kathy Matthews, Sue Baier, CIHS Track Team, CIHS ASB, Blackstock Junior High’s CJSF, Irene Sy and Lee May Little, VCCAA – Ventura County Chinese Language School, Shannon Klemann, Kim Visser, Phyra Prum, Virgil Cardinez, Mylinh Sajor and family, John Grennan, Lita Hernandez, Dustin Duran, CIHS Math Department, Susan Robles, Randy Ortiz, and anyone else I may have missed!!!

As visitor after visitor came up to me on Saturday gushing about our students, our staff, our school, I thanked them for their kind words and agreed that we have an exceptional staff and great students here at Channel Islands High School.  Congratulations to each and every one of you who chooses to make a difference in the lives of our students and our community!! 

Thank you again to Mrs. Romines for agreeing to host this event and allowing Channel Islands High School to shine!! 

Bijou S. Beltran

Principal