Hi-Q Home
about
what is
schedules n scores
team scores
past finalists
pictures
results grid
2010 References, News &
Current Events Info
PESHTIGO - The champion Menominee, runner-up Wausaukee, and
third place Crivitz high school teams were honored May 16 during the 2010
Hi-Q awards banquet at Schussler’s Supper Club.
Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust President Thomas Maxwell presented the
winning Menominee players with a $2,000 check for their school. Second
place Wausaukee received $1,500 and third place Crivitz $1,000.
Maxwell told the team members, advisors, parents, and family present that
Farmers & Merchants Bank & Trust is proud to be the principal sponsor of
this annual academic quiz competition.
“It’s important to provide opportunities for our brightest young people
who will be future leaders in education, law, science, and medicine,” he
said. “Hi-Q helps these future leaders develop poise and self-confidence,
and it proves that learning can be fun.”
Kimberly Clark Corp. is a co-sponsor of Hi-Q in cooperation with UW
Marinette.
Teams from Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine, Carney-Nadeau, Coleman, Florence,
Gillett, Goodman-Armstrong Creek, Lena, Marinette, Niagara, Oconto, Oconto
Falls, Peshtigo, Saint Thomas Aquinas Academy, Stephenson, and Suring, in
addition to the three teams honored, competed during the regular Hi-Q
season that began in January.
Wausaukee scored an astonishing 150 points to finish first in the regular
season standings. Crivitz took second with 116. Both teams qualified for
the championship round.
Menominee, which finished fourth with 114 points during the regular
season, defeated Marinette and Oconto Falls in the semi-final match to
qualify for the championship round.
Menominee won its first H-Q championship by scoring 97 points in the two
title matches. Wausaukee scored 66 to finish second. Crivitz took third
with 51.
The members of Menominee’s championship team are: Claire Anderson, Adam
Chartier, Catherine Haight, Margaret Hitch, Erik Thomas, Ryan Thomas, Tony
Verkerke. The faculty advisors are Ron Jackson and Tim Leinonen.
Wausaukee’s team is comprised of: Brett Edlbeck, Joe Jaworski, Jennifer
Klimek, Jonelle Lesniak Cutler Lewandowski, William Porter, Jacob Rich,
Caitlyn Tracy, and Brooke Wickmann. Suzan Schlies is the faculty advisor.
Crivitz team members are: Joshua Chilcote, Lindsey Fickler, Chad Kahles,
Nicole Malchow, Justin Myszka, and Stephanie Trottier. Elizabeth Anderson
and Jerry Heroux are the faculty advisors.
Linda Wilke is the Hi-Q program coordinator. Dan Kallgren, associate dean
and associate professor of history at UW Marinette, is the quizmaster.
In what has become a popular and amusing closing for the banquet, Kallgren
read a few
original poems about the competitors in Hi-Q. He wrote this about champion
Menominee:
“Hail. Hail you mighty Maroon!
Who made the student body swoon
An not because you’re some brainless loon
But because of your amazing Hi-Q tune!
The teams you played against all sensed doom
And felt a growing sense of gloom
As your incredible scores dominated the room!”
This year was the 33rd anniversary of the Wisconsin-Michigan High-Q
program and the 62nd anniversary year of Hi-Q nationally.
Press release by Donn Williams 05/19/10
Welcome to the new Hi-Q pages. Just click on a link of interest above such as "about."
When finished, click on the Hi-Q logo to return to the Hi-Q Home page or
click on a link on the left to return to other bank pages.
