Westerman's Top 10!

From Mr. Ken Westerman, Pioneer High School Director of Choirs, 1982-2010:

One of the things that twenty five years of teaching at Pioneer lets me do is think about who were the most successful while they were here. Success is a relative term. I can't honestly talk about favorite students. Having Erica and Michael (my own children) in class and those students that learned with me when I first arrived at Pioneer (with hair, very close to my college weight, and no real idea of how to accomplish what I was supposed to accomplish) make them special just for putting up with me. I think we worked harder (both the students and I) in the beginning, got less done but appreciated what we had more because we (all of us) worked harder. Some measures of success are outside our feelings of pleasure, personal satisfaction, and knowing we did our best. So, because records and lists let me do such things, here they are, some are other people's opinions, some are facts; State Honors Choir, Solo & Ensemble, Skills and Focus Tests:

State Honors Choir

All four years!

Kamilah Neighbors '94 - 91,92,93,94

Michael Martin '95 - 92,93,94,95

Kevin Tolin-Scheper '96 - 93,94,95,96

Wesley Robertson '99 - 96,97,98,99

Daniel Coupland '02 - 99,00,01,02

Christopher O'Keefe '02 - 99,00,01,02

Larkyn Baily '05 - 02,03,04,05

Eric Zinn '08 -05,06,07,08

All three years!

Jeff Smith '84 - 82,83,84

David Gray '90 - 88,89,90

Kourtney Hart '92 - 90,91,92

Solo & Ensemble

Melissa Swain '00 was chosen best at Solo Finals and sang with the orchestra at Youth Arts Festival her senior year.

Tracy Plester '89 was chosen for the Youth Arts Solo Recital twice, her junior and senior year.

Britta Hudson '88 was chosen for the Youth Arts Solo Recital her senior year.

Mary Hejna '97 was chosen for the Youth Arts Solo Recital her senior year.

Ashley Park '09 was chosen for the Youth Arts Solo Recital her senior year.

Choraliers was selected to sing at Ensemble Finals in May 1984.

Skills

The columns are total, rhythms, scales, warmups and melodia.