J. T. Lambert Intermediate School
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J. T. Lambert Intermediate School (JTL) is part of the East Stroudsburg Area School District
in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
, United States
. The school holds sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in the south region of the district. The John T. Lambert Intermediate School was built between 1990 and 1992, and opened in September 1992. The Sixth Grade came from North Courtland Elementary Center and the Seventh and Eighth Grades both came from the J.S. Bunnell School.
. The School Band goes on a few field trips as well. Cavalier Voices have traveled to Disney World
and several major cities, including New York City
, Washington, D.C.
, and Chicago
. Every year Good Morning JTL travels to New York twice, once with Web Page Design and once by themselves. Good Morning JTL has been on the set of Martha and met Dylan and Cole Sprouse
. They have also been on the set of WNEP
.
Club, Art
Club, Band
, Chorus, Cavalier Voices, Creative Writing Club, Digital Photography Club, Fitness Club, Intramurals, A Yearly Spring Production, Ski Club, Builders Club, Science Olympiad
, PACE, Reading Olympics, Golf Intramurals, Football
, Spirit Squad (Cheerleading
), Field Hockey
, Wrestling
, Boys Basketball
, Girls Basketball, Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Baseball
, Softball
, Volleyball
, and Cross Country
/Mets
game at PNC Park
in Pittsburgh
, and then travel to Chicago.
, Beauty & the Beast Jr.
, and, most recently, Alice in Wonderland Jr.
. The shows are directed by Mrs. Mercy Shemansky (an art teacher at JTL) and Laurie Favini.
East Stroudsburg Area School District
East Stroudsburg Area School District is a public school district located in the Poconos of northeast Pennsylvania. The headquarters are located on North Courtland Street in the Borough of East Stroudsburg...
in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania
The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...
, United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. The school holds sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in the south region of the district. The John T. Lambert Intermediate School was built between 1990 and 1992, and opened in September 1992. The Sixth Grade came from North Courtland Elementary Center and the Seventh and Eighth Grades both came from the J.S. Bunnell School.
Students, Faculty, and Staff
As of September 2009 there are 1,199 students, 151 faculty members, and 1 administrator in JTL. Before the district split in 2000 there were over 1,700 students in JTL. The main principal is Mr. John Burrus (who is also the principal of Smithfield Elementary). He and the assistant principals are principals of both schools. The Assistant principals are Mrs. Margaret Vitale (who was a student at JTL the year that it opened) and Mr. Eric Kerstetter.Teams
The School is split up into 8 Divisions, known as teams: 6 Birch, 6 Maple, 6 Oak, 7 Birch, 7/8 Maple, 7 Oak, 8 Birch, and 8 Oak. The team name is based on grade and team. The Teams were originally Red, White, and Blue. The teams decide several things such as teachers, and what time classes have lunch. Even though the teams' schedules are different, they all are dismissed at the end of the day at the same time.Field Trips
Each year each grade normally goes on one field trip. The 6th and 7th grades go to Knoebels' Grove and the 8th Grade goes to Dorney Park & Wildwater KingdomDorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom
Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom is an American amusement and water park located in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The park features nine roller coasters, other adult and children's rides, and a waterpark, Wildwater Kingdom....
. The School Band goes on a few field trips as well. Cavalier Voices have traveled to Disney World
Walt Disney World Resort
Walt Disney World Resort , is the world's most-visited entertaimental resort. Located in Lake Buena Vista, Florida ; approximately southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort covers an area of and includes four theme parks, two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort hotels Walt...
and several major cities, including New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
, Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
, and Chicago
Chicago
Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
. Every year Good Morning JTL travels to New York twice, once with Web Page Design and once by themselves. Good Morning JTL has been on the set of Martha and met Dylan and Cole Sprouse
Dylan and Cole Sprouse
Dylan Thomas Sprouse and Cole Mitchell Sprouse are American actors. They are twins and are collectively referred to as Dylan and Cole Sprouse or the Sprouse Bros. Their first prominent major theatrical film role was in Big Daddy, where they starred alongside Adam Sandler...
. They have also been on the set of WNEP
WNEP-TV
WNEP-TV is the ABC-affiliated television station for northeastern Pennsylvania licensed to Scranton. It broadcasts a high definition digital signal on UHF channel 50 from a transmitter on Penobscot Knob in Mountain Top...
.
Extracurricular Activities and Sports
There are about 30 activities and sports including Web Page Design Class, Good Morning JTL, ChessChess
Chess is a two-player board game played on a chessboard, a square-checkered board with 64 squares arranged in an eight-by-eight grid. It is one of the world's most popular games, played by millions of people worldwide at home, in clubs, online, by correspondence, and in tournaments.Each player...
Club, Art
Art
Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
Club, Band
School band
A school band is a group of student musicians who rehearse and perform instrumental music together. A concert band is usually under the direction of one or more conductors...
, Chorus, Cavalier Voices, Creative Writing Club, Digital Photography Club, Fitness Club, Intramurals, A Yearly Spring Production, Ski Club, Builders Club, Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad
Science Olympiad is an American elementary, middle, or high school team competition which tests knowledge of various science topics and engineering ability. Over 6,200 teams from 49 U.S. states compete each year. Most teams compete in three levels of competition: regionals, states, and nationals...
, PACE, Reading Olympics, Golf Intramurals, Football
American football
American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by...
, Spirit Squad (Cheerleading
Cheerleading
Cheerleading is a physical activity, sometimes a competitive sport, based on organized routines, usually ranging from one to three minutes, which contain the components of tumbling, dance, jumps, cheers, and stunting to direct spectators of events to cheer on sports teams at games or to participate...
), Field Hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
, Wrestling
Wrestling
Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
, Boys Basketball
Basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...
, Girls Basketball, Boys Soccer, Girls Soccer, Baseball
Baseball
Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...
, Softball
Softball
Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand...
, Volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, and Cross Country
Cross country running
Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road...
Cavalier Voices
Cavalier Voices is a singing group in JTL. The only way to have the ability to participate is to be in the chorus. There are two groups in the Cavalier Voices: the Cavalier Voices Cadets, who are sixth graders, and the Cavalier Voices, who are seventh and eighth graders. Cavalier Voices is only for the intermediate school level; there is a similar group at the high school level called the Choraliers. The Cavalier Voices has won many awards at adjudications in Pennsylvania and elsewhere, and also has taken tours to New York City, Pittsburgh, and Disney World. On this year's tour, the group will sing at a PiratesPittsburgh Pirates
The Pittsburgh Pirates are a Major League Baseball club based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They play in the Central Division of the National League, and are five-time World Series Champions...
/Mets
New York Mets
The New York Mets are a professional baseball team based in the borough of Queens in New York City, New York. They belong to Major League Baseball's National League East Division. One of baseball's first expansion teams, the Mets were founded in 1962 to replace New York's departed National League...
game at PNC Park
PNC Park
PNC Park is a baseball park located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is the fifth home of the Pittsburgh Pirates, the city's Major League Baseball franchise. It opened during the 2001 Major League Baseball season, after the controlled implosion of the Pirates' previous home, Three Rivers Stadium...
in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Pittsburgh is the second-largest city in the US Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the county seat of Allegheny County. Regionally, it anchors the largest urban area of Appalachia and the Ohio River Valley, and nationally, it is the 22nd-largest urban area in the United States...
, and then travel to Chicago.
Good Morning JTL
Good Morning JTL is a TV Channel broadcast on TVs throughout the school every morning. The cast, which consists of 20 students from 7th and 8th grade, arrives early each morning to prepare for the broadcast. Two students, who vary each day, come on the air and professionally broadcast school news, weather, sports, and the various happenings at school. Each broadcast runs between 10 and 12 minutes each morning. Specials guests frequently appear. After the broadcast, music is played along with written announcements throughout the day. The show is directed by Mr. Terry Toth. As a computer teacher at the building, he dedicates much of his time to the school. With his technology and media backgrounds, students have had the opportunity to do this activity since 2004. In January 2010, they reached their 1000th consecutive broadcast, which makes it the longest running TV show in the East Stroudsburg Area School District.Webpage Design Class
7th and 8th grade students selected for this class create the school's website and update it on a regular basis. The students also create the end of the year video, various media projects for other teachers, such as movies for chorus, or programs for the spring production, and the students also compete in the PA Middle School Computer Fair. Since 2006, the first year they competed, Mr. Toth's students have brought home 28 first place regional awards, 8 second place regional awards, and three 3rd place regional awards. At the state level, they have brought home 5 third place awards, and 3 second place awards. Regionals are held in March, and States are held in April outside of Harrisburg.iRock
No school year would be complete without at least one concert from our rockers. Starting in 2005 as Full Tilt, this rock n roll show has grown into a must see for all grade levels at the end of the year field day activities. In 2006, the group changed its name to iRock and has kept the name ever since. Mr. Toth, computer teacher is the lead vocalist, Mr. Moran, security guard, plays lead guitar. (Mr. Moran is resting comfortably in 2011, and will rejoin in 2012.) Bass is currently played by Ian Detrick, one of the original members of Full Tilt who has come back many years since he was a student at JTL. He is currently in college. Ryan Bridges, the drummer, is currently a freshman at East Stroudsburg High School South and has played with the band for three years now. New members Logan Zucchino (Piano & Vocals) and Bobby Rutherford (Guitar & Violin) are now playing with the group in 2011. Other members of the group have included Jon Ali (Drums), Andy Normann (Guitar), Tyler Lyons (Guitar), Andy Glusiec (Bass), Tommy Detrick (Bass & Guitar) and Jeremy Judd (Keyboards). Songs are all rock based. Covers from Green Day, Lenny Kravitz, Queen, Poison, Billy Idol, Kiss, Lynard Skynard, SImple Plan, Linkin Park, Journey, Bon Jovi, and many others make up the set list which always run at least an hour. Three shows are performed on three different days and the audience gets a full real life concert experience. Students play instruments on stage, work the lights and sound, and help promote the shows especially when they perform to benefit others like the Concert for Katrina in 2006 or the Concert to Help Haiti in 2010. The group has raised thousands of dollars for various charities.Spring Production
Every spring JTL holds a spring musical. All grades are eligible to try out. For a lead you must sing by yourself and act. To try out for ensemble, you must sing with a group. A group of judges decide your role based on your acting and singing abilities. Each year, the musical is from the Broadway Junior collection. They have done plays such as Annie Jr.Annie (musical)
Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster...
, Beauty & the Beast Jr.
Beauty and the Beast (musical)
Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical...
, and, most recently, Alice in Wonderland Jr.
Alice in Wonderland (1951 film)
Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based primarily on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a few additional elements from Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was released in New...
. The shows are directed by Mrs. Mercy Shemansky (an art teacher at JTL) and Laurie Favini.
| Year | Production |
|---|---|
| 2006 | The Wizard of Oz Jr. The Wizard of Oz (1939 film) The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs... |
| 2007 | Annie Jr. Annie (musical) Annie is a Broadway musical based upon the popular Harold Gray comic strip Little Orphan Annie, with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. The original Broadway production opened in 1977 and ran for nearly six years with a blonde Annie as the poster... |
| 2008 | Honk! Jr. Honk! Honk! is a musical adaptation of the Hans Christian Andersen story The Ugly Duckling, incorporating a message of tolerance. The book and lyrics are by Anthony Drewe and music is by George Stiles... |
| 2009 | Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Jr. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is a 1964 children's book by British author Roald Dahl. The story features the adventures of young Charlie Bucket inside the chocolate factory of the eccentric chocolatier, Willy Wonka.... |
| 2010 | Beauty & the Beast Jr. Beauty and the Beast (musical) Beauty and the Beast is a musical with music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman and Tim Rice and a book by Linda Woolverton, based on the 1991 Disney film of the same name. Seven new songs were written for the stage musical... |
| 2011 | Alice in Wonderland Jr. Alice in Wonderland (1951 film) Alice in Wonderland is a 1951 American animated feature produced by Walt Disney and based primarily on Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland with a few additional elements from Through the Looking-Glass. Thirteenth in the Walt Disney Animated Classics series, the film was released in New... |