Arrowhead High School Welcomes 

14 New Teachers to our Staff.

Mr. JOHN HOCH

Position:  Health and Physical Education

College Attended:  Carroll University

Hometown:  Merton, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  Sports

Describe one guilty pleasure: Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away?  An old summer basketball camp T-shirt from 1996

What is your favorite sport? Basketball

Ms. BRIANNE MEHLOS

Position:  School Counselor 

Last Employed:  Somerset Elementary School

College attended:  U of Minnesota – Twin Cities, UW-Stout

Hometown (state):  Merrill, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  cooking, listening to music, yoga, running outdoors

Describe your 15 minutes of fame or brush with fame?  Elected as vice president of Wisconsin School Counselor Association

Describe your one guilty pleasure (food you must have, TV show you watch, or books you read).  Ice Cream J

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away?  Dark blue jeans

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Football – GO PACKERS!    Participant-volleyball

Mr. CARL ANDERSON

Position:  English Teacher

Last Employed:  Camp Lincoln for Boys, Nisswa, MN

College Attended:  Marquette University

Hometown:  Amherst, MA

Hobbies/Interests:  playing soccer, hockey, Lacrosse, and coaching hockey and Lacrosse, Marquette Basketball, Boston Sports, UMass Hockey

What was the worst job you ever had?  Working in the kitchen at a restaurant was both awesome, and the worst job I’ve ever had.

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  Clive Cusslernovels.  As an English teacher I feel guilty devouring all of the “airplane novels” and they all have the same plot, but I cannot get enough.

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away?  My Liverpool FC Men’s ¾ Pants (basically Men’s athletic Capris).  My girlfriend hates them, but they are the comfiest piece of clothing I own.

Tell us anything else that we don’t know about you.  I have been to Japan and New Zealand before I’d been to England.

Mr. THOMAS STUBER

Position:  School Counselor – SC

Spouse:  Jenny

College Attended:  UW-Milwaukee (Graduate), George Washington University (Undergrad)

Hometown (state):  Waukesha, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  soccer, cross country skiing, cooking, woodworking

What was the one interview question you didn’t think you answered well?  Why should we hire a new grad???

What was the worst job you ever had?  Waiter at The Machine Shed.  Had to wear overalls, red/white plaid shirt and a hat with pigs on it.

Describe your 15 minutes of fame or brush with fame.  Shared the Arlington Bridge with the President and his motorcade in D.C.

Describe your one guilty pleasure (food you must have, TV show you watch, or books you read).  Ice Cream!  Any kind.

What is one piece of clothing you cannot throw away ?  My crocs

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Spectator – golf, Participant – cross country skiing

Mr. FRANK TAYLOR

Position:  Social Studies Teacher

Spouse:  Andrea

Last Employed:  Waukesha School District

College attended:  Lawrence University, UW-LaCrosse

Hometown:  Viroqua, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  Reading, Golfing, Ice Hockey, Camping, Traveling

What was the one interview question you didn’t think you answered well?  Maybe I shouldn’t have said we don’t need to teach the 20’s…

What was the worst job you ever had?  Dishwasher in Lawrence University’s Downer Cafeteria

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  Video games

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away?  A rugby polo my wife believes is the ugliest shirt created.

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Ice Hockey

Tell us anything else that we don’t know about you.  I spent 6 months studying and traveling in Europe!

Mr. DALE J.DESTACHE

Position:  Mathematics – NC/SC

Spouse:  Beth

Children:  Erica (10 years old) and Eden (8 years old)

Last employed:  New Berlin Public Schools

College Attended:  UW Madison – Undergrad       

UW Milwaukee – Masters in Administrative Leadership

Hometown:  Rice Lake, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  woodworking, photography, outdoor activities

Describe your guilty pleasure:  Coming across a bad movie while channel surfing, getting hooked and watching the whole thing.

What is one piece of clothing you cannot throw away?  A couple of old T-shirts I wear when painting, changing oil, and/or landscaping

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Badger Athletics

Mr. DAVE BECHTEL

Position:  Special Education – SC

College attended:  UW-Oshkosh

Hometown (state):  Wisconsin

Hobbies/Interests:  fishing, football, reading

What was the worst job you ever had?  Counted worms

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  Ice Cream

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Football

Mr. DEREK MICKE

Position:  Special Education Teacher – SC

Spouse:  Theresa (Tess)

Last employed:  Lawrence University

Hometown (state):  Kaukauna, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  reading, hunting, fishing, coaching

What was the worst job you ever had?  Dishwasher at a restaurant when I was in high school

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  I can’t throw away my shoes.  I wear them until they have holes.

NICK BRENGOSZ

Position:  Algebra/Geometry SC

College attended:  UW-LaCrosse

Hometown (state):  Nashotah, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  baseball, football, softball, lifting, reading

Describe your 15 minutes of fame or brush with fame.  Winning the 2009 summer championship as an assistant coach.

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  Chicken enchiladas

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  NCAA football

Ms. HEATHER HACKBARTH

Position:  Social Studies – SC

Last Employed:  School District of Beloit

College attended:  UW-Oshkosh

Hometown (State):  Kewaskum, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  reading, hunting, fishing, running, and biking

What was the worst job you ever had?  Busser/dishwasher at a supper club back home

Describe you 15 minutes of fame or brush with fame.  I worked in retail through high school and college and a man came in the store wanting to return a computer.  Prior to coming in, he had told us the GEEK SQUAD tried to “fix” it.  We could not return the item to our facility due to a second party handling the item-therefore, the warranty to us was null and void.  The man said he was going to call Channel 2, the local news station because we did not give adequate customer service.  The manager and I gave the man all the information about us he would need to give to the news reporters and we waited patiently to see ourselves.  Surprisingly enough-we were never featured.

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  I love ice cream and Law and Order

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Spectator – hockey   Participant-whatever I am coordinated enough to do. J

Tell us anything else that we don’t know about you.  I love going to museums.  Strawberries are amazing!

Mrs. JEN KLIGORA

Position:  Business Teacher NC/SC

Spouse:  Brad

Children with ages:  Payton – age 6, Brady – age 4

Last employed:  Milton High School

College attended:  UWW

Hometown (state):  Black Earth, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  traveling, reading, sports

What was the one interview question you didn’t think you answered well?  “Tell me a great idea you had in the last 3 months”.

What was the worst job you ever had?  Gas station attendant for Town Mart

Describe your one guilty pleasure .  Very cliché’ but it has to be….CHOCOLATE!!

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Basketball

MIKE DAHLE

Position:  Business Education NC/SC

Last Employed:  Lake Mills School District

College attended:  UW-Whitewater

Hometown (state):  Roscoe, IL.

Hobbies/Interests:  disc golf, fishing hiking and video games

What was the worst job you ever had?  I worked at a toilet parts factor, standing in the same spot for 8 hours doing the same motion.

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away?  My hats cannot be thrown away no matter how disgusting they look.   I wear them every single day in the summer and don’t feel right without one on.

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  The Green Bay Packer to watch, and disc golf to play.

Mr. ALEX HAMMEL

Position:  Tech Ed – NC/SC

Spouse:  Iris

Children (if applicable):  None

Last Employed:  Mukwonago

College Attended:  UW-Stout

Hometown (state):  Erin, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  Motorcycles, travel

What was the worst job you ever had?  Trailer manufacturer

Describe your 15 minutes of fame or brush with fame?  David Copperfield bumped into me

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away (visual aids are nice)?  8th grade gym T-shirt

What’s your favorite sport as a spectator and/or participant?  Football

Tell us anything else that we don’t know about you.  I traveled from New York to San Francisco on motorcycle

Ms. NAOMI FULTON

Position:  Mathematics

Spouse:  Luke

Children with ages:  Quinn (18 months)

Last employed:  West Bend West H.S.

College attended:  UW-Parkside

Hometown:  Hartland, WI

Hobbies/Interests:  running, reading

Describe your one guilty pleasure.  Dark chocolate

What is one piece of clothing that you cannot throw away?  High school track uniform (don’t tell Mulrooney I have one)

What’s your favorite sport and a spectator and/or participant?  Football – Aaron Rodgers

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National Merit Finalists

2012-13 National Merit Finalists 

Announced at AHS

Seven Arrowhead High School students are among the best and brightest in America competing for a National Merit Scholarship.

Zachary Bednarke, Kevin Jin, Meredith Johnson, Parker McColl, Leah Pelegrin, Nathan Schneider, and Griffin Tschurwald received the designation in this year's 58th annual National Merit Scholarship program.

To become a finalist, the students must submit a detailed application that focuses on academics, participation in school and community activities, demonstrations of leadership, and other honors received.  Finalists will be determined in February, and winners will be announced from April through July.

“These are outstanding students,” said Superintendent Craig Jefson.  “We are extremely proud of them and the honor they have earned. These seven students represent Arrowhead High School in an exceptional manner and the entire community can be very proud of their achievements.” 

Each of these students earned a score on the PSAT that was high enough to rank them as a National Merit Scholar semifinalist. Roughly 1.5 million high school juniors representing more than 22,000 schools across the country entered the 2012-13 National Merit Scholarship Program by taking the 2011 Preliminary SAT/National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test last year. To qualify as a semifinalist, a student’s score must be among the highest in the state and the total number of semi-finalists represents less than 1 percent of all high school students in the nation.

The number of semifinalists varies from state to state because the number selected is proportional to the percentage of the total number of graduating seniors in each state. There are 16,000 semifinalists nationwide.

The seven semifinalists at AHS will continue in the competition to become National Merit Scholar finalists by fulfilling several additional requirements in the coming months.

First, they must attain an SAT score that confirms their achievement on the PSAT qualifying test. They must also demonstrate a record of outstanding academic performance throughout high school and be endorsed and recommended by their high school principal.

In addition, the students and school officials must complete a detailed scholarship application that includes a student essay and information about their participation and leadership in school and community-based activities.

Congratulations Zachary, Kevin, Meredith, Parker, Leah, Nathan, and Griffin.

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