Gateway H.S.

Spring Play Auditions

“And Then There Were None”

A Murder Mystery by Agatha Christie

Auditions will be held on:

• Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Sign up for an audition time on the green room door

If you have any questions, please see Ms. Farnsworth

New Rodeo stars will be born the wild and crazy “DAIRYLAND DONKEY BASKETBALL SHOW” at Gateway High School on March 7, 2015 starting at 7pm!  Its basketball played on real, live donkeys and it will be wilder than a rodeo and funnier than a circus!  All local players will be riding; so come out and see someone you know try to ride a donkey and play basketball at the same time.  It’s a thrill a minute, a spill a minute.  Laugh as you’ve never laughed before at the wild and crazy donkey basketball show!   Check out their website

This fun-filled show sponsored by the Gateway High School DECA/Marketing class.  All of the proceeds will be for the benefit of Gateway DECA students for local, State and national conferences and events. Advanced tickets can be purchased from members of the sponsoring group or contact Mr Ed Ralston at (303) 326-3860.

Thank you for your support and helping  in this event.

If you are interested in getting free college credit starting next year, please speak with your counselor as soon as possible.  The Community College of Aurora will be administering the Accuplacer test, which is necessary in order to take CCA classes, on March 19^th at 3:30.  In order to sign up for this test, students must inform their counselor and register with CCA before March 12^th.

Sophomores and Juniors, are you interested in leaving your legacy at Gateway High School? Now is your chance! If you have 3.0 gpa or higher and have been a student council officer here at Gateway you are eligible to run to become one of next year’s Student Body Officers! If you meet these qualifications and are interested in running Student Body Officer packets will be available in Mr. Wiggins room (204) tomorrow Tuesday February 24^th! If you have any questions please see Mr. Wiggins asap!

On February 7th, 18 Aurora Public Schools students joined 530 other singers from around the state to participate in the Colorado All State Choir.  15 of those students were Gateway musicians.  Congratulations to these outstanding young singers! Go Olys!

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Today’s “Little Known Facts” honors the medical brilliance of Dr. Charles Drew

Charles’ early interests were in education, particularly in medicine. After graduation from Amherst, Drew took on a position as a biology teacher at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also served as the school’s Athletic Director. During his two years at Morgan State, he helped to turn the school’s basketball and football programs into collegiate champions.

In 1928, Charles decided to pursue his interest in medicine and enrolled at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He was received as a member of the Medical Honorary Society and graduated in 1933 with Master of Surgery and Doctor of Medicine degrees, finishing second in his class of 127 students. In 1935, he returned to the United States and began working as an instructor of pathology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. He was also a resident at Freedmen’s Hospital (the teaching hospital for Howard University), and was awarded the Rockefeller Foundation Research Fellowship.

He spent two years at Columbia University in New York attending classes and working as a resident at the Columbia University Presbyterian Hospital. During this time he became involved in research on blood and blood transfusions. Now at Columbia, he wrote a dissertation on “Banked Blood” in which he described a technique he developed for the long-term preservation of blood plasma.

Prior to his discovery, blood could not be stored for more than two days because of the rapid breakdown of red blood cells. Drew had discovered that by separating the plasma (the liquid part of blood) from the whole blood (in which the red blood cells exist), and then refrigerating them separately, they could be combined up to a week later for a blood transfusion. He also discovered that while everyone has a certain type of blood (A, B, AB, or O), and thus are prevented from receiving a full blood transfusion from someone with different blood, everyone has the same type of plasma. Thus, in certain cases where a whole blood transfusion is not necessary, it was sufficient to give a plasma transfusion, which could be administered to anyone, regardless of their blood type. He convinced Columbia University to establish a blood bank, and soon was asked to go to England to help set up that country’s first blood bank. Drew became the first Black to receive a Doctor of Medical Science degree from Columbia.

Senior cap and gown pictures are scheduled for Wednesday April 1^st starting at 8:00. Location as of right now is the theater lobby. This could change

Students, if you are on Free & Reduced Lunch you may qualify for low cost internet service through Comcast.  The cost of the program is $9.95 per month and the program also provides computers for $149.00.  Informational fliers are available in the Main Office, Counseling Office and the Library.  If you have additional questions, you can see Ms. Felker in the Counseling office. 

Infinite Campus

Now Has a Mobile Parent/Student Portal App!!!

(You Must Have a Parent/Student Portal Account to use it!)

Download the App at either:

The Apple App Store
Or
The Android “Google” Play Store

Cost: Free!!!!

APS District ID #  is:
qwtpsd

You continue to use your same username and password