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MHS to honor seven distinguished alumni

Sep 01, 2021

The public is invited to attend the Mundelein High School 2021 Distinguished Alumni Awards Luncheon honoring seven MHS graduates. The event will take place at noon on Saturday, September 25, at the West District Office, 1500 Hawley Street (adjacent to the high school campus). The cost of the event is $12 per person. The deadline for registration is Monday, September 20. Register by visiting this website. The seven honorees range from the MHS Class of 1967 to the MHS Class of 2006.

MHS Open House 2021

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Back to School Bash 2021

The Back to School Bash is a welcome back to school activity following the Scarlet and Gray scrimmages. The cost of admittances is $5. There will be fun games such as ax throwing, Frisbee, football, bags, as well as giant oversized tricycles and the Wrecking Ball. Admission also includes pizza, chips, cookies, and a drink.

The Osco pharmacy manager and two school officials stand next to a red pickup truck loaded with masks and hand sanitizer for Mundelein schools.

Jewel donates PPE to schools

Aug 16, 2021

About a week before the new school year began in Mundelein, Jewel-Osco made a significant donation of face masks and hand sanitizer to School Districts 75 and 120. The retailer presented school officials with 3,400 face masks and 1,100 bottles of hand sanitizer. The donation was facilitated by Dr. Yara Lucht, the Osco Pharmacy Manager who also happens to be a Mundelein resident and District 75 parent. The timing was good because Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker had just mandated masks for all student

District 120 welcomes new staff

Aug 10, 2021

Mundelein School District 120 welcomed a total 12 new staff members prior to the start of the 2021-22 school year. The new employees include teachers, instructional aides and district employees. The new Mundelein High School teachers are: Payton Berg, Special Education; Gissele Drpich, World Languages; Colin Franklin, Intervention; Alex McArthur,

9th & 10th Grade Orientation

New Link to Power School

Student created mural featuring 100 oval heads of real and imagined people connected to MHS. Front and center is Maverick the Mustang

Senior class donates student-made mural to MHS

A gift to Mundelein High School from its graduating senior class is a genuine masterpiece. The class of 2021 is donating a 20’ x 15’ mural on an interior wall designed by one of its own members. The mural is expected to be installed shortly after school resumes for the fall semester. After polling the class to find out how to spend money raised for a senior gift, the students recognized that their high school days were a rad

MHS AVID grad earns Golden Apple Full Ride Scholarship

Jasmine Moreno, an MHS 2021 AVID program graduate, just received news that she is a Golden Apple Scholar. The Golden Apple Scholars of Illinois Program encourages academically talented Illinois students, especially minority students, to pursue teaching careers, especially at high-need, hard-to-staff schools by providing tuition assistance (tuition, fees and room and board or commuter allowance) at one of the participating colleges. All in all, she will be awarded $23,000 over the course of four

Dr. King receives her Distinguished Alumni Award from Superintendent Dr. Kevin Myers

MHS Distinguished Alumna earns advanced degree, new career move

MHS Class of 1987 alumna and 2019 MHS Distinguished Alumni honoree Amy Aufmann King has completed an advanced degree and moved on to a new career position. She recently earned a doctorate from the University of Southern California and with that accomplishment, she has moved into a new career path as Executive Director of West Coast University Texas. WCU is a regionally accredited university, founded in 1909, providing bachelor, master and doctoral degrees, largely in healthcare. “I’m delighted