Art Club

Advisor: 
Dawn Romano-Bloomer

This cultural based organization is open to all students who harbor an interest in the arts, be it drama, music, literature, or the visual arts.  Students need not be in an art class or have any special talents, just appreciation for the arts.

The function of the club is to foster an interest in the fine arts, promote artistic scholarship, and learn to enjoy the arts through first hand experience.  These endeavors are achieved through creative fund raising activities.  Meetings are bi-monthly unless a special activity is in production.

Spirit Squad (football)

 Cheerleading



Advisor:
Chris Wagner

Assistant Advisors:
LaSabra Ashley
Jodi Wood

The object of the Spirit Squad is to promote school enthusiasm, spirit, and sportsmanship.  Our duties are to include cheering, pep assemblies, fund raisers and miscellaneous charity events.  The Spirit Squad will lead the school in involvement and support of our football and basketball teams.  A separate cheerleading squad will be chosen for the wrestling team.

Chess Club

 
Advisor:
Dan Hummel

The Oriole Chess Club invites students from all grades to become members.  You do NOT have to know how to play chess.  All you need is an interest in learning to play chess.  Joining the Chess Club will improve your chess-playing ability very quickly with some basic steps.  The Chess team travels to different parts of the state and plays against other schools and in various state tournaments.  There are generally around 20-30 members - both boys and girls.  The season begins late September and usually lasts through April. There are awards earned for attendance at meetings and participation in matches.  The club meets once a week for a business meeting and travels or hosts conference meets from December to March.  Every other year members attend the national competition.

Class Officers

Advisor:
Ron Schlitt

The officers of the freshman class are elected in September, while the sophomore, junior and senior classes hold their election in the spring for the upcoming year. To run for an office, you need to obtain the proper papers from the Main Office, and fill out the application for the office you wish to hold. The officers are very busy during Homecoming as they must organize and work on the Homecoming activities. They must be able to set a good example at the float building and they must also get all class members involved... not just their friends! The sophomore class officers work with class rings. Junior class officers have Prom as a major assignment and the seniors have a Senior Dance, Senior Brunch and Graduation. Students are encouraged to run of office if they feel they have the time, energy and leadership qualities.

DECA

Advisor: 
Peter Matson  

DECA, an Association of Marketing Students, is a co-curricular, student-centered organization specifically designed to provide activities that motivate HUHS students to learn marketing, management, and entrepreneurial skills that will prepare them to become skilled, employable workers in the field of marketing.  Activities include local civic consciousness projects, district, state, and national competitions, and social activities.  Any student in grades 9-12 can join.  To excel at competitions, students are encouraged to enroll in one or more of the following market courses available at HUHS:  Marketing, International Business and Marketing, Sports & Entertainment Marketing, and Marketing Co-op.

Drama Club
Dramatics (3-Act Play)



Advisor:
Patricia Johnson

The dramatics program seeks to teach as well as entertain.  The Spring Play, a non-musical, is aimed at teaching students all of the aspects of theater production.  Actor auditions are conducted approximately ten weeks prior to the opening performance.  In addition to on-stage experience, students chair and manage the technical aspects (set design, construction, lighting, scenic finish, props, make-up, costuming and sound).  They also have responsibility in producing the play (marketing, box office, public relations, and seating-house management).  Students interested in learning techniques of play direction can also apply for the position of stage manager.  A major goal is to encourage student participation; most of the plays selected attempt to involve ten or more actors.  There are two advisors; the director, having responsibility for the overall production, and an assistant director who oversees the technical aspects of production.

Drama Club is an organization for students interested in theater. A weekly Drama Club meeting is held on Mondays at 3:00 p.m. in Drama Lecture.  Activities are discussed and theater games are played at the meetings. 

Drama Club participates in various activities throughout the year:  Prom Fashion Show, Seasonal Performances,  Performing in the AFS Talent Show, Kid's Day (day in which kids in grades 2-5 can learn about theater), Summer car washes, one-act play competitions, and an annual trip.

Environmental Club

Advisor:
Larry Wehrheim

Advisor:
Dan Bugenhagen

This club is for students who appreciate the outdoors.  The club meets as needed for the entire year, and students can either participate for the whole year or during seasons when they do not participate in a sport.  Past projects and activities include:  Druid Lake Marsh rehabilitation project, ice fishing on Pike Lake, water testing in the Rubicon and Ashippun Rivers, nature hikes at Pike Lake, presenting at the Wisconsin Lakes Convention in Stevens Point, observing prairie chickens, visiting the Central Wisconsin Environmental Station, presenting at CESA-6, and bio control of purple loosestrife.

In the future we plan to continue our partnership with the Druid Lake Management District which will include many future projects.  The newest project will include the construction of an artificial walleye spawning reef for Druid Lake.

FBLA

Advisor: 
Chris Cheske

Advisor: 
Jana Danay

Do you want the opportunity to meet people from different schools across the state and nation?  If so, then FBLA is for you.  Future Business Leaders of America is a national organization for all high school students participating in business education classes.  FBLA members take part in various competitive events at the local, regional, state and national levels.

FBLA gives students the chance to learn, first hand, about the business community as they prepare to become part of it by demonstrating professional business skills and participating in business activities while in high school.  Members can transfer their business skills beyond high school to PBL, the post secondary affiliation of FBLA.

FFA

The FFA is the largest, most active and oldest high school youth group in the nation, in Wisconsin and at HUHS (the Hartford FFA was chartered in 1938). The primary purposes of the FFA Organization is to:
1. Develop competent and aggressive leadership among members.
2. To strengthen students' self-confidence.
3. Help students in career choices.
4. To develop citizenship, community improvement, patriotism and character.
5. Participate in cooperative efforts.
6. Encourage financial independence.
7. To strongly encourage improvement in scholarship and public speaking.

The Hartford FFA is involved in many recreational and "fun" activities as well as lucrative fund-raising. This includes the huge undertaking of manning the Washington County FFA Ice Cream Booth at the Wisconsin State Fair. The chapter finds this endeavor rewarding for the students as well as the chapter. . . and it's fun.

Chapter members have ample opportunity for travel throughout the state and country, as well as the globe through numerous programs. We also attend leadership workshops and compete in skills contests. We meet once per month. The most common misconception about the FFA is that you must be a farm youth. Over half of FFA members in Wisconsin (and in Hartford) are from non-farm backgrounds. All students are more than welcome to join our chapter.

Forensics

Advisor:
Sarah Meyer
                  

 
Advisor:
Eric Moser

Advisor: 
Rachel Rosenthal-Garza

Advisor:
Heather Weise

Advisor:
Tom Zachek

Advisor:
Matt Ziebarth

H-Club

Advisor:
Russ Grundy




Advisor:
Scott Helms

H-Club is open to any athletic letter winner (sports or cheerleading). Membership is approximately 75 members. Goals are both social and service. Meetings are held throughout the school year after school. Yearly activities include the annual Toys For Tots Drive, selling concessions at the home football  and soccer games, and other charitable community projects. Throughout the years, H-Club has purchased items for the school such as trophy cases, record boards, trees for new track field and an ice machine. We also provide the "wall of fame" board for individual all-state athletes, and teams. At the end of each year, H-Club provides scholarships for athletes and awards an outstanding senior athlete plaque to a boy and girl from the senior class. Members can earn various incentives from service points.

H-Club is a great opportunity to meet other students, learn about our community and be a part of Hartford Union High School.

International Club


Advisor:
Patricia Johnson

This club is open to any student who is interested in other foreign languages and cultures. We provide a home for foreign exchange students. Our major project is the AFS Talent Show which takes place in February and earns about $1,000 each year for the Exchange Program at Hartford Union High School. Some of this money is used to support Hartford Union High School students who become exchange students in foreign lands. We have monthly meetings on the first Thursday of each month. We plan a fun activity on every third Thursday of the month. Some of our activities have been visits to the Milwaukee Folk Fair, the Christmas Market in Chicago, foreign films, ethnic restaurants, and Great America. We also participate in school activities such as Homecoming, Foreign Language Week, and the Foreign Language National Honor Societies

Math Team


Advisor:
Chad Ellefson

The Math Team is made up of students who are currently taking honor math courses. The team participates in two types of events. There are 4 invitationals each year in which we compete against the following schools: West Bend East, West Allis Hale, West Bend West, Hartland, Germantown, Kettle Moraine, Oconomowoc, Whitnall, Watertown and Wisconsin Lutheran. There are also 6 Wisconsin Math League contests sponsored by Beloit College in which we compete with schools throughout the state. These contests are held in our school and last 30 minutes. Students can compete on the Math Team and still be out for a sport.

The purpose of the Math Team is to promote an interest in mathematics outside the classroom and to expose the students to more problem solving situations for which they have not specifically prepared.

Model U.N.

               

Advisor:
Sheila Parker

Advisor:
Matt Geracie

Hartford Union High School's Model United Nations' Club has one of the highest student participation percentages in academic co-curriculars offered at our school. Students find excitement in researching foreign countries and then participating as "delegates" from those countries in university sponsored competition/conferences; such as the Ivy League Model UN in Philadelphia, the Harvard Model UN in Boston, the University of Chicago Model UN in Chicago, the National Competition in New York City and others.

Starting in October, students meet with other Hartford Union High School students to form "delegations". They research their assigned country by developing cultural, political and societal understandings of them and then go on to represent "their" new country at one of several conferences. While at the conferences, our students experience both formal and informal diplomacy as they meet with hundreds of other high school students from around the United States.

Through the Model UN Club, students are given a chance to develop leadership skills as well as being given a format to discuss current world events in a format that's fun, challenging, but most of all educational!!

Musical

Advisor:
Sue Gilbertson

Advisor: 
Stephanie Klockow


Advisor:
Ernest Brusubardis

The musical is one of the most exciting and rewarding activities the school offers. It will be held in November, as a complete production of a well-known Broadway musical. The production is full-scale, including orchestra, comedy, drama, dance, music, lights, and make-up! No prior experience is needed; the directors will teach you everything you need to know about performing on stage. Tryouts are announced in April throughout the school and notification is given to incoming freshmen. For those who do not wish to appear on stage, help is always needed for technical assistance; including lights, sound, set, and costumes. One "summer camp" will be held in August for solo and chorus rehearsal, orchestra rehearsal, choreography, and costume fitting. Rehearsals will being in September.  There will be about six performances given over two weekends in November at the Schauer Arts Center.  Ask anyone who has ever been in one of the musicals - they will tell you it was a lot of hard work, but probably the most memorable and exciting activity they participated in during high school.

National Honor Society

Advisor: 
Randy Gehring  

Advisor:
Greg Zimmer

This nationally recognized high school organization is open to all juniors and seniors who reflect outstanding accomplishments in the areas of academics, character, leadership and service. Juniors must have a cumulative grade point average of 9.5 after five semesters, while seniors must have a cumulative grade point average of 9.5 after completing seven semesters. Service hours, honor course enrollment, and a positive character rating are also part of the criteria for being selected. All old and new members are installed at a traditional candle lighting service held every March. We challenge you to strive for academic excellence and to offer your services so that you may be eligible to join the National Honor Society.

Peers For Peers

Advisor:
Patti Christel

This is a club designed to train student volunteers to provide information and referral services to their peers. This club is active throughout the year. The members act as listening resources to friends, peers and others. They provide the empathetic ear for those who may not otherwise open up to someone. It is required that the Peer maintain a lifestyle free of drugs, including alcohol. Anyone interested in helping others may apply to become a Peer for Peers. Applications and interviews are taken in the spring for the following school year.  Students interested in being a Peer must commit one week during the summer for training.

Pom Pon Squad

Advisor:  Cayan Benjaminn

The Pom Pon Squad of girls varies from 15-20 members and they are considered a dance group. They are an entertainment group for half-time at athletic events. Competitions are a major part of our program. We annually compete at summer camp, Great America, and Badgerette Clinics. We have 2 squads with tryouts in November for the winter squad and again in April for the summer/fall squad. Practice is held 3 days a week for the winter squad. You will agree the practice is worth it when you see our performances.

Student Council

Advisor:
Lauren Fuller


Advisor:
Connie Kreuser


Advisor:
Holly Oleshko

Student Council is made up of representatives from every class.  We are the student government of the school.  If you have any rules that you would like changed or any problems within our school you should direct them to the Student Council for review.  They will help to resolve the problem.  Student Council has several major projects throughout the year.  They include Homecoming, Can-Food Drive, Blood Drive, Frosh Orientation, Honor Roll Rewards, and February Frenzy.  We are an organization that provides leadership and service to our school and community.  Early spring is when the selection process occurs.  It is at this time that you can run for Student Council position to represent your class.  Freshman representation is open to all members of the freshman class.  Applications are accepted in February of the 8th grade year.

Skills USA


Advisor:
Joe Nied

Skills USA - VICA is a national organization serving a quarter-million high school and college students and professional members who are enrolled in technical, skilled, and service occupations, including health occupations.

Skills USA prepares America's high performance workers.  It provides quality education experiences for students in leadership, teamwork, citizenship and character development.  It builds and reinforces self-confidence, work attitudes and communications skills.  It emphasizes total quality at work, high ethical standards, superior work skills, life-long education and pride in the dignity of work.  Skills USA also promotes understanding of the free enterprise system and involvement in community service activities.

Zyzzyva -
Literary Publisher

Advisor:
Lin Courchane

Yes!  That is spelled correctly!  ZYZZYVA is Hartford Union High School's literary magazine.  Anyone who lives in this community may submit creative works to ZYZZYVA.  We would like to publish your best short story, poem, and/or black and white illustration.  There are two issues each year.  Their deadlines are always December 15 for the winter edition and May 1 for the spring edition.  They are published at the end of each semester.  See Ms. Courchane for more details.

Advisor:
Jeff Luetschwager

Advisor:  Anne Zechel