WELCOME BACK & WELCOME TO MLHS!
Last week Thursday, August 22 we began the 2024-25 school year. We are excited to welcome 72 freshman, 85 sophomores, 63 juniors, and 57 seniors into our halls for a total of 277 students, this is the largest we have been in well over a decade, praise God! We are also blessed to be fully staffed this year with 44 faculty and staff members.
We welcome to the teaching faculty three new instructors. Ben Kopczynski, who comes to us from St. John's in Milwaukee, will be teaching sophomore English as well as geography. Jason Schultz comes to us from Divine Savior in Doral, FL, and will be teaching a variety of our theology courses. Carrie Ungemach returns to the MLHS faculty after teaching the last several years at First German, here in Manitowoc. Carrie will be serving as our art and foods instructor.
We also welcome several new faces to our staff this year. Roxanne Anderson and Valerie Behnke join our school lunch staff to assist in the making, serving and clean up of lunch each day. Abbie Flitter began serving as our new Director of Finance as of June 1. Pastor Jason Hacker was officially installed the President of Manitowoc Lutheran High School on the first day of school at our opening service. Lastly, we welcome Jonah Melso to our custodial/maintenance team. God is blessing our school in so many ways, we are so thankful for this.
CAMPAIGN AND CAMPUS UPDATE
The gym progress is coming along, doors have been hung around the addition, basketball hoops are up, paint is on the walls, and the decorative sound panels have been installed. On the exterior of the building the new parking lot area allows for convenient and well lit parking for nearly 250 vehicles, we are so grateful to end our street parking! Around campus, where the construction disturbed the grass has all been replanted.
SAVE THE DATE
DECEMBER 15, 2024
MAIN GYM DEDICATION SERVICE
FALL SPORTS PICTURES
Fall sports picture day is THIS WEEK Wednesday, August 28. Pictures must be ordered PRIOR TO PHOTOS being taking via Shellie Kappelman's website.
To order fall sports photos click here
SAVE THE DATES
Homecoming Bonfire - Wednesday, September 18
Join us for our annual big bonfire following the Homecoming court announcement and powderpuff football game.
Homecoming Football Game - Friday, September 19
Lancer football takes on Horicon-Hustisford at 7:00PM
Fall Festival & Concert - Sunday, October 20
Our theme this year is Americana- where all the music is patriotic musicals, and shows! Festival begins at 2:00PM
Veterans breakfast and service - Tuesday, November 12
Giving Tuesday - Tuesday, December 3
Funds raised this year will offset our General Budget, Tuition Assistance,
Endowment, and to "Finish Strong"
Gym Dedication Service - Sunday, December 15
Christmas concert – Friday, December 20
Join us at the Capitol Civic Centre at either 4:00PM or 7:00PM for 'Come and
Worship', our annual sacred Christmas Concert.
ALUMNI ARE YOU PLANNING A REUNION?
WE'RE HERE TO HELP!
Please contact Kevin Buch at kmbuch@mlhslancers.org or 920-973-0465 in the Mission Advancement Office when when you begin the process; we have many options to take advantage of when planning your reunion.
SAVE THE DATE
Let us do the work and send out a Save the Date notification email. MLHS recommends that you send this out six months prior to the reunion. (A postcard will be mailed to any classmates who do not have an email)
MLHS can design the save the date announcement/image. All we need from you is the following: (If you have a design in mind we can work with you.)
Date of the Reunion
Time of Reunion
Location of Reunion
Any extra information you want on there.
If you have an image you would like included you can attach it to your reply.
Please Note: You will receive a list of your classmates and their contact information to verify before we send out the Save the Date. That list will come to your email soon, so watch for that.
INVITATION
Let us do the work and send out your Class Reunion invitation. MLHS recommends that you send this out six to eight weeks in advance of your reunion. The invitation will look similar to the save the date, but will include all of the detail about your reunion that you provide.
PROMOTION OF YOUR REUNION ON MLHS SOCIAL MEDIA
MLHS is happy to help promote your reunion through our social media, website, and upcoming publications. If you form a social media group, we can share a link to that as well!
BOOKLET
Let us put together a Class Reunion Booklet for you to share!
This booklet would contain any updated information that your classmates want to share. Their updates are collected by having them all fill out an online form. A link to that form would be included on the Save the Date email/mailing, or on the invite, whichever you prefer.
MLHS will print them all out for you and have them available for you to share at the class reunion. A digital copy can also be sent to everyone. This is a nice feature especially for those that are not able to make it to the reunion.
TOURS OF YOUR HIGH SCHOOL
A lot has changed since you have graduated, and we would love to share these blessings with you. This is a guided tour with lots of fun facts and maybe even some stories you didn’t know about. These tours tend to bring out memories from your time at MLHS. You might even learn about something you never even knew about!
SPEAKER AT YOUR REUNION
If you would like someone to come to your celebration and give a presentation on MLHS, or be available for a short Question and Answer Session, we can line up someone to do just that!
PHOTOGRAPHER?
Would you like an MLHS representative to come and take some updated class pictures? Don’t worry about finding someone in the building to take the picture! Just let us know and we can provide someone to take a class picture and some candids too! For 1 hour of your reunion we can capture the memories for you!
VIDEO MONTAGE/SLIDESHOW:
If you would like MLHS to put together a short video of your times here at MLHS from photos that we have on file or photos submitted from your classmates, we can do that too! This feature will depend on whether there is enough turned in to make a montage. Some classes have each person’s senior picture on the screen with any updated photo they submit along side of it. Sort of like a “that was then, this is now” type display. Of course, all of this depends on what can be pulled together. On the Save the Date and Invitation, we would include instructions on how classmates could submit their photos or short video clips for the montage.
In this new section, information shared by the Federation congregations and Lakeshore Lutheran schools with MLHS regarding the happenings, job openings, upcoming events, news. etc. can now be found weekly all in one place! Right here in the Lancer Express.
To be featured, have questions, or have something to be included from your congregation coming up? Please email Paul Durkee (pdurkee@mlhslancers.org) in the Mission Advancement office for more information.
Jobs & Openings
Events
Repeat Performance
Hours: M-F 9AM-1PM
Repeat is always looking for volunteers to help sort and move donations, stop in the store and ask for Carol about helping out.