Looking back on 2010
May 25, 2011 • Garrett Farlow, Editor in Chief
The final bell has rung for the 2010-2011 school year, and the chaos has stopped for the journalism department at Shawnee Heights. Summer is finally here! When I look back on the 2010-2011 school year, I remember all of the progress we made. At the beginning of the school year we had been getting approximately... Read more »
Trip of a lifetime
May 25, 2011 • Julia McCraw
What should I have been doing the week before finals? Studying, doing homework, getting the recommended eight hours of sleep. The normal stressy blah blah. But no! I refuse to conform to the normal grind of pre-finals week. Taking a holiday to Florida would be much more fun (Warning #1: The administration... Read more »
“I’ll be back”
May 25, 2011 • Kate Slayton
At the end of the year, Shawnee Heights will bid farewell to a teacher dedicated to connecting with her students, sharing her passions, and keeping creativity alive in schools: Mary Dormer. Almost everyone at the high school knows she taught various levels of English for 40 years; however, it may amuse... Read more »
Master of the language arts
May 25, 2011 • Andy Hecker, Senior Sports Editor
It is safe to say that few teachers have taught as diverse a list of classes as Lon Dormer. After 38 years of teaching, Dormer is going to retire along with his wife Mary Dormer, also a teacher at Shawnee Heights, at the end of the school year. His college education included a BS from the University... Read more »
Arachnophobia
May 6, 2011 • Elise Woody
Did you know that the estimated ratio of insects to humans is 200 million to 1 person? But that doesn’t scare Zoology teacher Kerry Kapfer one bit; her 6th hour Zoology class wasn’t as calm as the professional herself as the class was handed Argiope aurantia (garden spiders). These quarter... Read more »
Recycling has its rewards
May 6, 2011 • Harmony Crump
In April chemistry teacher Kimberlyn Uhl made a “contest” for her classes about recycling. It involved each class recycling the most plastic bottles and cans that they could. The “contest” is until April 22, which is Earth Day. It started as a contest, and the winner would get a party, but... Read more »
It’s all about me
May 6, 2011 • Serena Katsbulas
A person’s past makes them who they are today. The important moments, the dull moments, and all the bumps along the road affects how people act the way they do. That’s the reason Nick Harris’s Psychology students are doing a project to learn about each other’s past and how it affected who they... Read more »
Students salsa
May 6, 2011 • Julia McCraw
Walking through the halls in third hour, a sound out of the ordinary was coming from the foreign language hall. No, Miss Dill hasn’t composed some ingenious new song. The sounds are emanating from Señora Schmitt’s Spanish 4/5 class. The upper level Spanish class... Read more »
Learning about countries from Africa
May 6, 2011 • Heidi Jo Hayen
In a project that I recently completed in my World Geography class I had to learn all about the history of South Africa. The class was given a list of countries in Africa and had to pick one, but no one could use the same country. I had to know the meaning of South Africa’s flag, type of government,... Read more »
Back to the past
May 6, 2011 • Bailey Auten
At Shawnee Heights, during junior year, students are required to take U.S. History. In this class students learn about many wars, battles, and interesting topics, and during second semester, students learn about WWII. While learning about WWII, many classes might be assigned... Read more »