Hills Bank Youth Salute

Display board (part of it...) that was at the bank

Congratulations, Dylan!!

From The Press Citizen

Thirty-two students from area high schools have earned the honor of qualifying as a National Merit Semifinalist. The students, which include 17 from West High, 12 from City High, one each from Iowa Mennonite School and Mid-Prairie High, and a home-schooled student are among about 16,000 students nationwide to receive the recognition in the 56th annual contest by the National Merit Scholarship Corp. in Evanston, Ill. West High tied for the most semifinalists in the state with Ames, while City High was tied for second most with West Des Moines Valley.

They were selected from more than 1.5 million students in about 22,000 high schools who took the 2009 PSAT and National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test as juniors. The semifinalists represent less than 1 percent of U.S. high school seniors and include the highest-scoring entrants in each state, according to a news release.

About 90 percent of the national semifinalists will become finalists after they take the SAT and further apply for the award. Then, about half will be selected as winners. They will receive one of 8,400 awards worth a total of $36 million. The awards will be announced in the spring.

MERIT SEMIFINALISTS

City High: Razzi Abuissa, Stephen Chan, Charles Foster, Zachary S. Greimann, Ajay Gupta, Jeffrey Haidri, James B. Haight, Cameron J. Herting, Gabriel E. Lawson-Duck, Bryan D. Martin, John D. McCullough and Alic R. Szecsel.

West High: Kabir O. Abiose, Garrett A. Anstreicher, Bob C. Chen, Tianfang Dai, Sophie M. Donta, Jordan K. Gunning, Eunice F. Hsu, David Y. Huang, Kaspar K. Mueller, Julia A. O’Donnell, Lillian C. Oetting, Molly F. Parsons, Nathan D. Rossen, Alissa M. Rothman, Lydia V. Somers, Matthew J. Staib and Vivian L. Zhu.

Iowa Mennonite School: Taylor A. Fulton.

Mid-Prairie High: Dylan J. Hochstetler.

Davis County - District Title?

It was a nasty night - 30 minute delay in the middle of the first half because of lightening.  Our guys made a bunch of mistakes - pretty frustrating to watch.  We lost 20-10.  Parents and players went to Barthelmans afterwards.  (Except Aldemans - they had to take Michael to the ER.  He had a slight concussion) We all came home to change clothes first.  Dylan was nasty wet from the sidelines.
Tough week... Jaemin's brother, Addison, died Saturday night from cancer.

Clear Creek Amana

tall guy on sidelines...

Dylan and Nicole

Back to the field where this injury happened! It was a little bit easier for all of us to watch the game this week.   Hopefully it will continue in that pattern.  Brody played great with 5 touchdowns.  He had 232 yards on 36 carries.  Michael Aldeman had 13 tackles and 2 interceptions. We beat Clear Creek 36 - 21.  The coach wouldn't shake Cav's hand afterwards.... thought we left Brody in too long or something.   It was football weather - blankets and sweatshirts.

First Football Game

Washington was our first opponent of the season.  It was Parent Night.  Even though Dylan had just had surgery on Monday, he insisted that he couldn't watch that game from the stands.  So he stood on the sidelines, making me (and other moms) rather nervous.  It was hard on all of us - seeing the boys that Dylan had played FB with since 6th grade out there and he couldn't be part of it.  The team wanted him to be one of the captains for that night.  We took a tough loss, 21-13.  People were kind and encouraging - to Dylan, as well as us.  It was a cool night for Aug. 27 - and the place was packed.

Fisrt Day of Senior Year!

Tuesday, Aug 24 was spent differently for Dylan than any of us thought it would.  He was home recovering from shoulder surgery.  Dr. Langland repaired the tendon that attaches to the rotator cuff (subscapular).  He was injured during a 7 on 7 FB league at Clear Creek on June 13.  He was doing physical therapy, but he only got better to a point. The week before school started he had an MRI.  We were told he needed surgery and that he would miss all of FB season and some (if not all) of basketball season. 
  Things went well according to Dr Langland.  1.5 hr surgery –  didn’t have to do anything with the bicep. They had to hold up several muscles  etc to get down to what they needed to fix. Our good friend, Ruth Brenneman,  was a nurse in the surgery so that was SO helpful to have her there. That  surgery center was very impressive.  Several people from Kalona area, as  well as our church in IC ,work there.

after he got to take the bandage off

In the recovery room, Dylan let  them know he was already in pain... So they gave him various painkillers   They said that the pain block they had given him  prior to surgery (that is supposed to last for 12+ hours  after he comes  to) must have just worked on 2 of the 3 nerves they go for. He said “It  HURTS...” several times. He threw up back there and then 2 more times  throughout the day.  After they gave him the 2nd half of an IV dose of  the absolute LAST thing they could give him for nausea (at 7:30 pm.) he came  around!  Whew.  He was starting to watch the Titans game on the TV –  we knew we were good.  Ok... Not really... We weren’t sure what we were  going to get into in the next few hours.
Got home around 8:30 – he  plopped down in front of the TV and got on his  phone.(I’m sure AJ will  think he is just fine)  In a few minutes  it caught up with him and  he went to bed with some of those high powered drugs (our private nurse,Ruth,  came over (and brought jenna home) and made sure we understood all the orders.   It IS overwhelming.)
He  ate the most he has yet ( at 1:30  a.m.) and took more pain meds.  Dave and I took turns getting up at night to give him painkillers.
I feel SO much better about things – they fixed him all up.   Now God & Dylan (and  Pat)  will have to do the healing.  
The only disappointing thing was that he was never goofy  under the meds.  He was his under control self.  SO... I didn’t find  out any scoop!   :)

   Happy first  day of school.  Oh yea, my student teacher, Amy Goode (who I just met yesterday) ran  my Open House at KE for me Monday night.

Dave  stayed home with Dylan  Tues.  Dylan wanted to go to school on Wednesday.  I stayed at home with him and took him over to the HS to get books and talk to teachers.  Choosing not to listen to me, Dylan went to school all day on Thursday - including FB practice and the team meal.  He slept in until 11:00 and went to school at noon on Friday.  He's catching rides with Christian or Justin since he can't drive.