Oswego East High School

Oswego East High School
Address
1525 Harvey Road Oswego, Illinois 60543
Information
School type	Public secondary
Established	2004
Opened	2004
School district	Oswego Community Unit School District 308
Principal	Dr. Jeff Craig
Vice principal	Jim Seput & Brent Anderson
Faculty	141
Grades	9–12
Gender	Co-ed
Average class size	25.35
Hours in school day	7h30m
Campus type	Suburban
Color(s)	navy      silver
Fight song	Oswego East Fight Song
Athletics conference	Southwest Prairie Conference
Mascot	Wolf
Nickname	Wolves
Rival	Oswego High School
Newspaper	'The Edge'
Website	www.oswego308.org/schools/oehs

Oswego East High School, or OEHS, is a public four-year coeducational high school located in Oswego, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is part of Oswego Community Unit School District 308, which also includes Oswego High School. Established in 2004 because of the growing population in Oswego, Illinois.

Principal history

Name	Years
Dr. Edward Howerton	2004–2008
Dr. Jeff Craig	2008 - present

Administration

Name	Office
Dr. Jeff Craig	Principal
Jim Seput	Assistant Principal
Brent Anderson	Assistant Principal
Laura Waibel	Athletic Director
Jennifer Wikoff	Dean of Students, A - Gi
Jerry Wicks	Dean of Students, Gj - O
Eric Koranda	Dean of Students, P - Z

Cocurricular

Athletics

Oswego East High School is a part of the Southwest Prairie Conference and the Illinois High School Association.

Boys teams

• Baseball
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Football
• Cross Country
• Golf
• Soccer
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Track
• Volleyball
• Wrestling

Girls teams

• Badminton
• Basketball
• Bowling
• Cheerleading
• Cross Country
• Gymnastics
• Soccer
• Softball
• Swimming
• Tennis
• Track
• Volleyball

Clubs

Academic Decathlon

This is a ten-event competition. Every team member competes in mathematics, science, economics, social science, language and literature, fine arts, prepared and impromptu speech, interview, essay and superquiz. Each team is made up of three honor students, three scholastic students, and three varsity students, by GPA; honor (3.75-4), scholastic (3-3.75), varsity (0-2.99).

Drama/Theater

The OEHS drama and theater company puts on three main stage shows each school year: a fall play, a student-directed winter show, and a spring musical.

The Productions of the 09-10 year: Fall: The Taming of the Shrew. Winter: w00t! the musical. Spring: Chicago.

The Productions of the 10-11 year: Fall: 1001 Arabian Nights. Winter: A Sketch Comedy Show. Spring: Ragtime.

The Productions of the 11-12 year: Fall: Hamlet. Winter: Take That, Hollywood! Spring: The Producers.

Interact

The OEHS interact club is dedicated to doing community service and is sponsored by The Oswego Rotary club.

Mathletes

Students volunteer in Honors Math classes. Mathletes coach makes the final selections. Mathletes compete against various schools in math contests as well as in the Suburban Prairie Conference.

Pom Squad

Membership is for freshman, sophomore, junior and senior classes. Poms perform at football and basketball games as well as at student pep assemblies. There is also a summer clinic and camp that students are expected to participate in to increase their skills. Fundraising activities are a major aspect of being a Pom.

Robotics Club

Started as an engineering club, the robotics team is about to begin its fifth year. The club has since grown to attract students from both Oswego High School and Oswego East High School to design and create robots.

Scholastic Bowl

Membership on the Scholastic Bowl Team is made by the sponsor of the team. Students compete in College Bowl format of competition against various other schools as well as the I.H.S.A. state series. The highly favored JV team will be competing on January 28th, 2011, with most of the members being first year.

Speech Team

Speech Team is open to all students who wish to improve their public speaking and/or stage skills. Competition at meets consists of the areas of oratory, oral declamation, prose, verse, humorous/dramatic interpretation, impromptu, humorous/dramatic duet acting, extemporaneous, radio speaking and original comedy. The season runs from November through February. They also had a state winner in OC during the 2010-2011 season.

Wolfpack News/East T.V. 16

Students involved with East TV 16 produce the morning announcements via live TV hooked up to all OEHS classrooms. Experiences range from floor director, camera operator, videotape playback, video switching, video editing, teleprompting, computer graphics, audio engineering and producing. This is a club who holds anchor tryouts every spring for the upcoming school year. Mr. Gutman is the director of the group. Broadcasting 1 and 2 students are the ones who creat most of the advertisements on EAST TV.

The Executive prodcer for the 09-10, 10-11 period was Alyssa Bare and Co producer Gil Bothom. For the 11-12 year is Andrea Esquinca.

The opening theme song for Wolfpack News during the 2006/2007 and half of the 2007/2008 school year was "Let It Ride" by Bachman–Turner Overdrive. From the second half of the 2007/2008 school year to the end of the 2010/2011 school year, it was "Through the Fire and Flames" by Dragonforce. Currently, the opening theme song is "The Adventure" by Angels & Airwaves.

Staff

• Paul Hurt LRC Director
• Gerri Brazeau LRC Assistant
• Carol Kline LRC/AV Assistant
• Greg Malnick Computer Lab/AV Assistant

External links

• Official Website