Field Trips

Field Trips!

Arlington Cemetery

Jamestown Settlement

Colonial Willamsburg

The Capitol DC

Monticello

Monticello

The Memorial DC

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Dolphin Watching Tybee Island, GA

Savannah, GA

Savanna, GA

Fort Pulaski GA

Fort Pulaski GA

Museo de Arte de Ponce, PR

Museo de Arte de Ponce, PR

Museo de Arte de Ponce, PR

My family and I are subscribers to the Joffrey Ballet in Chicago. We see at least 3 shows a year! 

The Art Institute

Great Smoky Mountain National Park

Community Service

Joel Hall Dance Company Bake Sale

Edgewater 5K Volunteering 

Begin forwarded message:

From: Ally Brisbin <ally@edgewater.org>

Subject: Big huge thank you!

Date: September 28, 2015 at 12:09:53 PM CDT

To: Ally Brisbin <ally@edgewater.org>

Hello Edgewater 5K volunteers,

Thank you all for helping us pull off another great event! We quite literally could not have done it without you, I truly appreciate your willingness to come out and support a community event bright and early on a Sunday morning!

I'm sorry I didn't get more of a chance to check in with everyone yesterday, but the nature of a 2-hour event is that I'm busy for just about the whole thing!

Please let me know if you have any feedback on what went well and what went not so well from your perspective as a volunteer. We're always looking for ways to improve! 

You're now in my database of event volunteers. Feel free to ask to be removed from this list at anytime. Mostly you'll hear from me before EdgeFest and before the 5K. I also share other volunteer opportunities in the community from time to time.

If you took any great photos yesterday, please send them my way! We're on a shoestring budget and did not hire a photographer for the event, so I'm crowdsourcing it!

Thank you again for your service!

Best,

Ally Brisbin

Marketing & Events Manager

Edgewater Chamber of Commerce

1210 W. Rosedale, Chicago, IL 60660

p: 773-561-6000 | edgewater.org | facebook | twitter

Helping My Mom

Undy Run

Indiana Ballet Theatre

To Whom it May Concern;

Katie Johnston volunteered with Indiana Ballet Theatre's March 15, 2014 performance of Gaite Parisienne.  She spent 8 hours working backstage, selling tickets as well as any other task that was asked of her.  Katie completed her volunteer assignment with a wonderful attitude and is a role model to everyone around her.  It is always wonderful when Katie volunteers her time with us. 

Thank You so very much,

Michelle Wilson-Hartman

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Michelle Wilson-Hartman
Studio Manager
Email: michelle@IBTNW.ORG
Studio: 219 755 4444
Studio: 219 987 6601

Joel Hall Dancers & Center

To Whom It May Concern,



Katie Johnston has been a dancer with the Joel Hall Dancers Youth Company for the past 4 years and throughout her time has accumulated 133.5 hours of volunteer work. She has been actively involved in dancing in benefits for Misericordia, a multitude of street festivals, organizing and running bake sales among a great many other other activities. She is a much loved company member and we are so sad to lose her as she continues her dance journey in college.




Heather Zimny

Co-Artistic Director, Jhdyc

www.joelhall.org

Freshman Year

Electives

Korean 1

Art
Cartooning and Manga

DANCE!

JHDYC

JHDYC

Nuts and Bolts

JHDYC

Nuts and Bolts

Speech & Debate

My freshman year I did 2 speeches, one on vegetarianism and one on pointe shoes. The latter my mother video taped, but the video was lost when she updated her phone! Oops! 

Here's a copy of the speech:

American History

English Composition & Literature

While reading Our Town my freshman year we were asked to write a story about our own town. 

Since I live in both Indiana and Chicago, I chose to write about Chicago.

My Windy City

Chicago is home to many people. It is filled with many beautiful things as well and has a fascinating history. The city's people are kind and there is a lot of diversity and acceptance every where you go.

Downtown Chicago is a very popular place among tourists and even Chicagoans themselves. Many visit the museums; the Willis Tower; the shops, stores. Navy peer is another fun, but packed place. There's a Farris wheel, boats to explore the lake on and many events happen in the main building.

Now for the history part. Chicago's first citizen was a young, freed African man from Haiti. He arrived in 1770 and was a trader. His name was Jean Baptiste Point du Sable and he was the first to stay in the marshy lands.

In the 1850s, the city began to grow. The population was doubling and the city was changing too. Sewers were installed, raising the streets and adding more levels to buildings. Sadly most buildings, streets and sidewalks all burned when the Chicago Fire of 1871 broke out. Still, no one is completely sure how the fire started. But the location was 558 W. DeKoven St. Only few buildings remain from the fire, such as the water tower building where many people hid from the flames.

Chicago rebuilt quickly. And almost all the debris from the fire was dumped into Lake Michigan as landfill, forming the grounds for what is now Grant Park, Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago.

20 or so years later, Chicago's people decided the celebrate their city's comeback with the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893. One of the Exposition buildings was rebuilt to become the Museum of Science and Industry.

Another fun and historical fact is that Chicago was the first city in America to have a skyscraper. The building was 10 story's tall and was built in 1884, but demolished in 1931. Another skyscraper was also made. It was called the Sears Tower—now the Willis Tower—and was finished in 1974. It is the tallest building in North America and the third tallest in the whole world.  Chicago was also the first place to have TV remotes and the car radio as well so you can see that the city had a lot of potential.

The current population of Chicago is 2.715 million people and is still growing. Many fantastic people have come from this city and it is a place everyone in their lifetime should visit at least once in my opinion.

This is my City.

“... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.”
― Nelson Algren, Chicago: City on the Make

Reading from Our Town



I wrote a sonnet for my literature and composition class.

❝summer leaves,

winter's bare trees.

brown, green;

blooming buds

lasting circles; 

never ends.

humming days, 

flapping wings,

fumbling hands, 

won't stay the same.

summer never lasts,

spring fades away,

but winter seems to stay.

it stays all the same.❞

More Poetry

❝stop yelling, stop screaming.

let's just stop this for tonight.

so we can close our eyes 

and shut them tight.

and act like

we love each other tonight.❞

-

❝with your hands to cover my eyes,

i shall wait for my demise.

with flowers in my hair,

i'll follow you everywhere.

and as we decay,

i will stand by the bay

and wait for the sun to rise.❞

-

❝my world is so dark,

it's just black and white.

but you, my darling,

you are the light.❞

-

❝close your eyes,

and i'll close mine.

as we dream

across my mind.

to escape the hateful world below.

oh, please, my darling,

never let me go.❞

-

❝let's run away,

and escape these days.

till time runs out,

and our legs start to ache.

till the sun won't shine,

and our words run dry.

let's run away,

and escape the world

we began to hate.❞

-

❝she watched as the world went by,

without a glint in her eyes.

she saw all the hate,

that love couldn't replace.

but her eyes did sparkle

when she noticed the few

who tried so hard to fix it all

with ace bandages much too small.

and the little acts of kindness

she did see;

lead to what she came to love,

Math
Pre-Algebra

American Sign Language