On April 14, 2016, the 5th annual Dallas Summer Musical High School Musical Awards ceremony was held at the Music Hall at Fair Park. The orchestra from R. L. Turner’s production of My Fair Lady was announced as winner in the best student orchestra category.
This is an amazing honor and recognition for R. L. Turner High School and CFBISD!
RL Turner Theater had several nominations for the Schmidt and Jones Awards:
Lyric Stage proudly presents The 2016 Schmidt & Jones Award Nominees…
Best Musical
Best Actor in Lead Role
Arthur Teater as Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner
Best Actress in Lead Role
Chandler Bates as Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner
Best Actor in Supporting Role
Dillon Odle as Colonel Pickering in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner High School
Ben Stegmair as Horace Vandergelder in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Actress in Supporting Role
Chelsea Mayo as Mrs. Pearce in MY FAIR LADY- R.L. Turner High School
Best Actor Minor Role
Alec Eoff as Barnaby in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Actress Minor Role
Morgan Amalbert as Ernestina in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Katelyn Garcia as Mrs. Higgins in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner High School
Best Male Ensemble Performer
Jesus Mitchell-Hall as Fritz in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Female Ensemble Performer
Lindsey Couvillon as Featured Dancer in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Orchestra
MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner High School
HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High Schoo
The following R. L. Turner students won district awards for softball:
First Team All District
Audrey Pena (So.)
Aubrie Burgess (Sr.)
Summer Bryant (So.)
Second Team All District
Idalisa Reyes (Jr.)
Angela Guatemala (Jr.)
Erika Montantes (Sr.)
Honorable Mention All District
Lizette Wiggins (So.)
Anna Ruano (Fr.)
Jocelyn Avina (Sr.)
Academic All District
Angela Guatemala (Jr.)
Chelsey Salazar (Fr.)
Also, Senior, Erika Montantes earned the Texas High School Coaches Association Academic All-State Honorable Mention Award.
Congratulations to R. L. Turner High School senior Chelsea Mayo for winning the Dallas round of the National Endowment for the Arts’ Musical Theatre Songwriting Contest. In its inaugural year, the Musical Theatre Songwriting Challenge began with local contests in Dallas, Seattle, and Minneapolis, leading to a final national contest held in New York City. Chelsea’s original composition, “Say Goodbye”, won the Dallas round, well representing R. L. Turner HS and CFBISD in a contest where the 2nd and 3rd place Dallas finalists included students from Highland Park HS and Booker T. Washington HS.
Chelsea will be awarded a $2,500.00 scholarship in addition to a fully funded trip to New York City to participate in a songwriting workshop with industry professionals leading up to the final national contest this summer. Chelsea’s musical pursuits while at R. L. Turner High School include serving as a violinist in the Symphonic Orchestra under the direction of Christy Myers, an alto in the A Cappella Choir under the direction of Brian Murray, and an AP Music Theory student.
Congratulations to the Newman Smith Girls’ Golf Team for winning 2nd place at the 11-5A District Golf Tournament. The Team now advances to regioanls. This is the second consecutive year that the team has advanced to Regionals.
Congratulation to NSHS AP Government Teacher Amanda Ledwon for being named a Fulbright-Hays Scholar for 2016.
Ledwon received the prestigious scholarship recently and will participate in an extensive five week study assignment in Jordan later this summer.
The topic of the study assignment is “Through the Lens of Jordan: Integrating Middle Eastern Narratives into North Texas Social Studies Curriculum.”
She and nine other North Texas social studies teachers will visit historic Jordanian sites and conference/study with scholars from various countries in the Middle East this summer.
Congratulations to NSHS Social Studies Teacher Angela Hardy for recently completing a prestigious U.S. State Department Fellowship in The Kingdom of Morocco.
The fellowship, part of the Teachers for Global Classroom program, selected Hardy to join a fifteen member cohort group of educators for two weeks of extensive fieldwork in Morocco in North Africa.
The fieldwork involved university seminars, meetings with educators from various countries, and teaching assignments at a school in Taroudant, Morocco.
Taroudant is a Moroccan city located in the southern part of the country.
The program was administered via the Washington, D.C. based educational non-profit International Research and Exchange Board and the U.S. State Department.
Hardy completed the program this past February.
RL Turner Theater had several nominations for the Schmidt and Jones Awards:
Lyric Stage proudly presents The 2016 Schmidt & Jones Award Nominees…
Best Musical
Best Actor in Lead Role
Arthur Teater as Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner
Best Actress in Lead Role
Chandler Bates as Eliza Doolittle in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner
Best Actor in Supporting Role
Dillon Odle as Colonel Pickering in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner High School
Ben Stegmair as Horace Vandergelder in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Actress in Supporting Role
Chelsea Mayo as Mrs. Pearce in MY FAIR LADY- R.L. Turner High School
Best Actor Minor Role
Alec Eoff as Barnaby in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Actress Minor Role
Morgan Amalbert as Ernestina in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Katelyn Garcia as Mrs. Higgins in MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner High School
Best Male Ensemble Performer
Jesus Mitchell-Hall as Fritz in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Female Ensemble Performer
Lindsey Couvillon as Featured Dancer in HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Best Orchestra
MY FAIR LADY-R.L. Turner High School
HELLO DOLLY-Newman Smith High School
Newman Smith orchestras competed in UIL competition this week–we took four orchestras (sub-non varsity, non varsity, varsity string, and varsity full orchestra).
We made “sweepstakes” with all four groups which is the highest honor for orchestras at UIL—averaging a superior rating in both the concert and sight-reading portions of the event.
Ours and Liberty High School were the only two schools in our region (out of 15 schools that competed) to win sweepstakes with four groups.
This is also the 29th consecutive year that a Newman Smith varsity group has won sweepstakes at UIL
Heeyong is Texas State Champion!
Congratulations to NSHS student Heeyong Huh for winning the Texas State Japanese Speech Contest recently in Houston.
The contest, sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan, the Japanese Association of Houston and the Japanese Business Association of Texas allowed top students of Japanese language and culture from throughout Texas to exhibit their skills in speech and oratory.
Heeyong earned a first place award in Free Speech for Beginners.
Again congratulations to Heeyong and his teacher Ms. Kay Sanada.