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Monday, January 14, 2013

Greater Metro Schools Team Up in Effort Against Child Abuse

All conference games on Jan. 25 will be dedicated to overcoming the scourge of child abuse and will push for funds to aid programs at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin.

The Greater Metro Conference will hold its 1st Annual Child Abuse Prevention Awareness Night on Jan. 25 to support Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s Child Abuse Prevention Programs. Sixteen GMC teams will be competing that night in boys and girls basketball at eight GMC locations. Boys games will be at Brookfield Central, Brookfield East, Marquette University High School and West Allis Central. Girls games are at Menomonee Falls, Wauwatosa East, Sussex Hamilton and West Allis Nathan Hale. All eight host sites will distribute literature, and all athletes will be wearing “blue ribbons for kids” temporary tattoos to create awareness and combat the national and local epidemic of child abuse. The Wauwatosa East High baseball team will also …

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Tosa East's Thaney Among First Inducted to Theatre Hall of Fame

Closing in on 50 years of teaching and directing, he is selected to inaugural group of directing giants, mostly for his work in the Elmbrook district.

The Wisconsin High School Theatre Festival dates back to 1930 — which makes it almost, but not quite, as old as the Tosa East Players, the renowned drama group founded in 1928 at Wauwatosa East High School. Both are a bit older than Players' director Tom Thaney, but you'd have to say he's been involved in student theater for awhile. Thaney started teaching and directing in 1962 and is still going strong. Thaney was honored last week by the Wisconsin High School Forensic Association as one of its first 11 inductees to the new Theatre Directors Hall of Fame in a ceremony at UW-Whitewater. "We are mostly veteran or retired directors," Thaney said. "Which was neat for me because I got to see many of the people I began this career with." …

Sheila Fabiszak

7:06 pm on Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Tom, this is an honor that you so richly deserve! It isn't possible to calculate the immense amount of young people whose lives you impacted positively through all of your amazing work! Your huge talent is a gift to all who know you. Keep doing what you do so very well! Ed, Sheila, John, and Meg Fabiszak   more ›

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