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In the Halls ... of Marysville High School
November 02, 2009 at 7:15 am
Featured senior Shelby Allmon
By Chelsea Burns
Shelby Nicole Allmon, daughter of Angie and Greg Hatfield and Beau Allmon, is a featured senior this month. She is a three-year varsity letter winner for softball, two-year varsity and a captain for volleyball, a two-year captain for powder puff football, and is also involved in travel softball, FCA, FCCLA, Leo club, Freshman Focus, yearbook staff and Challenge Day. She is also a volunteer for Special Olympics and Personal Needs Pantry. Shelby in employed at Studio 31 Salons and The Maize in Little Darby Creek.
Her favorite memories of MHS are prom and all of the homecomings. In particular, getting together with all the girls for fall homecoming 2009. “It was a very fun and memorable experience,” she said.
Shelby will miss the teachers the most. “Mrs. McConn was always there for me through everything. She’s been a wonderful friend and an incredible teacher,” she said.
She will also miss her sister Sydney and best friends, Lindsay, Jess and Dan. Her future plans include attending The Ohio State University and majoring in exercise science.
Featured senior
Brendan Barrett
By Chelsea Burns
MHS senior Brendan Sean Barrett is the son of Mike and Susan Barrett. He is involved in activities, including track, power lifting, Leo Club, peer tutoring, Freshman Focus, volunteering and football, where he is a senior captain. He will miss sports and being around his friends the most.
After graduation he plans to attend a four-year university and major in education. Brendan expresses gratitude to all of his teachers and classmates for making high school such a great experience.
Featured senior Amanda Heyder
By Chelsea Burns
Amanda Marie Heyder, daughter of Gary and Theresa Heyder, is a senior at Marysville High School. She has been involved in calculator club, Job’s Daughters for seven years, symphonic band for four years and the Marysville Marching Band for four years.
Her favorite memory of MHS is the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity of dotting the “I” for script Ohio. She will miss Friday nights in the Sousa room, band trips, band camp and Saturday competitions. Amanda plans to attend a four-year university in Ohio and major in early childhood education.
Featured Senior
Nate Weeks
By Chelsea Burns
Nathaniel Owen Weeks is the son of Scott and Loretta Weeks and is another of Marysville High School’s featured seniors. He participates in football and wrestling. In football he is a fullback/ linebacker and is a three-year starter, as well as voted captain this year by his teammates. In wrestling he is a two-time state placer.
Aside from athletics he enjoys hanging out with friends, playing video games, and going to the park to play basketball. His favorite memories of MHS are playing in the state tournament as a sophomore and preparing the week before the first playoff game in football. He will miss his friends, teachers, coaches and participating in sports. After high school he plans to attend a four-year college to play football and major in sports nutrition.
Creative writing
By Ashley Shope
MHS offers creative writing as an elective class. It is taught by Mrs. Staley and Ms. Mesi. The creative writing class consists of poetry, fictional or nonfictional story writing and free writes of the student’s choice. Each week teachers give a new prompt or topic for students to write about if they wish.
Creative writing allows students to express themselves whether they are good writers or do it just for fun. There are no quizzes or tests in this class but students receive a portfolio that they are required to submit a certain amount of work. The portfolio is considered the final exam and is displayed in the creative writing showcase at the end of the semester. As a creative writing student you have the privilege to enter your writings of any kind to the MHS Vibe.
Mock Trial
By Dan Sabol
Following a very successful season, the Mock Trial program at Marysville High School is poised to fare even better. The mock trial program has a good amount of returning veterans, along with many promising rookies. The trial this year deals with a student’s first amendment right to free speech. It involves a student writing a blog about a teacher who he is not happy with and eventually being suspended. This topic is very relevant in today’s world.
The mock trial team is coached by Mr. Smith, who has helped the team to many great finishes in the past. With the strong returnees, there is no reason why the mock trial program should again have a great year.
MHS welcomes
Lauren Hutchins
By Taylor Bump
New to MHS this year is Lauren Hutchins. Mrs. Hutchins, an intervention specialist in the MH classroom, came to us from Northwood Elementary, where she was also employed as an intervention specialist. In her spare time Mrs. Hutchins coaches the volleyball team at the middle school, and enjoys spending time with her family.
Hutchins’ favorite words of wisdom are, “You have to take the good with the bad. Smile with the sad, love what you got, remember what you had, always forgive, but never forget, learn from your mistakes, but never regret, people change, things go wrong, but just remember life goes on.”
Leo Club
By Molly Jenkins
October has been a very exciting time for Leo Club! At the beginning of the month, members started off with a school-wide blood drive. Students were able to volunteer with several opportunities to donate blood, food or their time at the drive. Overall, they received about 65 donors, and will conduct another drive in the spring.
They are also working on the Halloween Can Drive sponsoring the Marysville Food Pantry. Members will be around town passing out fliers notifying citizens that on Halloween they can place canned goods outside their mailbox and members will pick them up and take them into the pantry. Keep a look out for these fliers throughout the neighborhoods.
Hi-Point Satellite presentation
On Thursday, Nov. 5 during ninth period, the Ohio Hi- Point Satellite Programs held at Marysville High School will make a presentation to interested second year students in the auditorium. Students will also be offered opportunities to visit these programs at a later date. The Hi-Point Satellite Programs offered at MHS are: Health technology, Teaching Academy, construction trades and biomedical sciences. See your guidance counselor if interested in one of these programs.
Health tech program
By Lindsay Hershberger
Marysville High School is very fortunate to have the Ohio High Point Health Tech program on site. Health tech classes provide students with hands-on learning experiences for those who want to pursue a career in medicine, work in hospitals or nursing homes or any other health careers. Students learn how to empty a catheter, check vitals, ambulate a resident, make an unoccupied or occupied bed, how to give someone a bed bath and many more helpful skills. At the end of the course, students are able to become registered STNA if they pass their written and skill tests. In fact, Brittany Brown, a senior at MHS, is a registered STNA and is currently working at Heartland in Marysville. This program has been extremely beneficial because health careers are in such a high demand.
The Monarch
Marching Band
By Mekenna Sandstrom
The Marching Monarchs have done it again! This past weekend, the Monarchs traveled to two band competitions; The Springfield Shawnee and Tecumseh High School Band Contests. Not even the cold could stop the band from receiving superior ratings at each contest, and senior Doug Dafler from being credited as best trumpet soloist. The band has received superior ratings the whole season, including the Buckeye Invitational hosted by The Ohio State University.
But the band doesn’t stop there. It will also be competing at the OMEA state band competition Nov. 6 at 9:45 p.m. at Dublin Coffman High School. The band has been working very hard this season to get to where it is today. Its performance will surely prove its time and dedication. But alongside all this work on their Spanish Fantasy show, tonight at half-time during the Marysville football game (the game starts at 7:30 p.m.), the band will perform the famous Script Ohio one last time this season. Marysville High School Band is one of the very few high school bands that perform the famous script, Please come out and support the band.
VIBE
By Joseph Boyd
This year MHS has another great Vibe staff, and great articles and entertaining reads. With a successful first month selling out more than 350 copies, the group is led with superior editor leadership. Hilary Daniels and Haley Wolfe host the head positions of editors-in-chief. They organize the magazine and decide what goes in and what does not.
Steven Rodger, the news editor, makes sure all world news is accurate while keeping it understandable for a high school audience. Our copy editors, Lyndsey Davisson and Niki Fitzgerald, edit and revise all information and layouts to mere perfection. This year, I, Joseph Boyd, am sports editor. I edit all sports information and cover athletic events while still reporting on topics of choice.
Selling out means we make good amounts of profit. In turn, it means that we need a good business manager to be responsible for accounting of the money. Erin Walters has the honor of doing so. The feature editor, Kayln Humble, covers all featured athletes and seniors while still reporting in the field. Last but not least is Ian Graham, hybrid editor, who covers all the reviews of new albums, movies, books and all forms of entertainment. We hope to have a fantastic year and hope to make huge strides towards the top!
OCIS
The Ohio Career Information System (OCIS) allows students to do career exploration, technical school, two-year and four-year school searches, obtain scholarship and financial aid information, etc. It provides a wealth of information for all students and parents.
Included in this year’s system is the IDEA Interest Inventory. This allows students to do a quick and easy interest inventory that provides for them their areas of interest and strength and directs them to careers and occupations that fit those areas. OCIS can be accessed from a home computer by using the following Web site: http://ohcis.intocareers.org. Stop in the guidance office for the user ID and password. Many other useful publications also are available for students’ use in the guidance office.
FCA retreat
By Paige Thompson
It’s almost that time again; FCA students are heading to Camp Cotubic for the Weekend of Champions, Nov. 13 through the 15th. Everyone is invited, even if they haven’t attended a FCA meeting yet.
Students need to be registered ASAP or sometime before Nov. 13. The cost of the weekend is $78. Make checks payable to FCA. Students who attend the weekend will receive a Bible and T-shirt to keep. Anyone who wants to go will need to fill out a registration form they can get from Mrs. Isaacs in the guidance office or receive one at the FCA meeting.
The weekend will be very action-packed with fun games such as flag football, ultimate Frisbee, volleyball and more. Weekend of Champions will also be filled with lessons and group discussions about the Lord. It’s a great way to meet people from other schools and become closer to the students at MHS who attend. Remember to dress warm for the weekend!!
ASVAB
The tool we use to help third year MHS students with their career planning is the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB). This is a series of 10 tests which take approximately 2 1/2 hours. The ASVAB will be administered to junior students in the cafeteria on Nov. 17 and 18, periods one through three, by military personnel and civilian employees of the military. The results of the aptitude test will be returned to the students in an interpretation session run by a civilian military employee on Dec. 9. The cost is free to the school and student for the test and all the interpretation materials. There is absolutely no military obligation for anyone who takes the test.
The military has indicated that it is possible that students may be contacted by the recruiters, but if there is no student interest in a military career, a polite “no” from the student will guarantee that no more calls will be made by that branch of the military. If this is not the case, please let us know. In past years we have received positive feedback from students who took the ASVAB about its value as a career-planning tool.
Students also have enjoyed using the extensive interpretation manual they receive (and keep) as part of the process. We also have information from the military in the guidance office which the student can view on his/her own if he/ she wishes to further explore the careers identified in the results of the ASVAB.
Eighth grade orientation
On Feb. 8 at 7 p.m., a meeting for the eighth grade parents/students will be held in the high school auditorium. Scheduling information will be discussed and questions will be answered at this time. Please bring your student’s scheduling materials and course description book with you, as our extra supply is limited.
Eighth grade gifted meeting
On the same evening at 8 p.m., parents of students who are gifted and any other parents and students who want to know about accelerated opportunities and challenges may stay for a discussion of what they need to know now to plan for a successful high school career. National Honor Society, PSEO, honors, AP, and weighted grades will be explained. This meeting will be held in the new Monarch Commons.
PSEO meeting
On Feb. 8 at 8 p.m., we will also have admissions representatives from Marion Tech and Ohio State-Marion speak about their policies regarding Post Secondary Education Options (PSEO). The primary target audience for PSEO is parents of next year’s 11th and 12th grade students, but next year’s ninth and 10th grade students are also eligible.
It would be helpful if you read the PSEO section of the Course Planning Handbook prior to this meeting to familiarize yourself with PSEO and jot down specific questions you may want to “ask the experts.”
FAFSA completion night at MHS
MHS parents of senior students who are planning to attend college are invited to attend a work session where college financial aid representatives will walk participants through filing the FAFSA form online.
Financial aid workshop
Mark your calendar for a very important meeting on financial aid for those seeking information on financing post-high school education. This workshop will be held Jan. 6 at 7 p.m. in the high school auditorium. A representative from OSU Marion will be speaking about helpful hints for the financial aid application process, questions to ask financial aid officers, and helpful hints on how to complete financial aid forms. Past participants have found this evening very helpful in navigating through the financial aid maze.
Dodgeball is back!
Paige Thompson
It’s time for the annual dodge ball tournament! The entrepreneurship class at MHS runs it every year for one of its fundraisers. It will be held in the main gym at 5:15 p.m. Nov. 5. Students that have a team need to fill out a form. Students can find the forms outside of room A221. It costs $5 for players and $3 for spectators.
The concession stand will also be open and filled with food, candy, beverages and more. Dodge Ball Revolution will be a blast! So come support the teams and our entrepreneurship class, and we hope to see you at the tournament!
What’s going on in the fine arts?
By Lyndsie Anderson
Marysville High School art students are busy at work. Here at MHS eight different art classes are offered, giving students a chance to work with a variety of mediums in several different ways. Currently, Art 1 classes are beginning self-portraits using their choice of graphite, ebony or charcoal. Students in advanced art are working on double painting, a style of art made challenging due to the extensive planning which must be put into it. In ceramics, students are learning how to use the “slab method” to construct jars with lids. Meanwhile, in drawing and painting, students are drawing still lifes , a collection of inanimate objects. Stained glass students are now using their artistic skills to create three-dimensional pieces. In metalsmithing students are sweat soldering. Photography students are currently going out on assignment and taking and developing photos. Lastly, in computer generated art students are creating a series of four artworks based on four different emotions.
Ernest Boyer once said, “Art is humanity’s most essential, most universal language,” and with all the activities going on currently, it looks as though many MHS students are learning how to effectively speak this language and put their creativity to good use.
FFA
by Anne Sabol
Recently, the FFA of Marysville High School had a very special event. The group participated in the National FFA Convention, which is an annual event for the members. This convention is held in Indianapolis, and the members miss a week of school to attend. They tour agriculture-related businesses such as the Chicago Board of Trade and the John Deere factory. There are also guest speakers and recognition of award winners.
Four members from MHS, Christy Bohlman, Jarisah Carl, Karisah Carl and Jennifer Wickline, won the American FFA degree, the highest degree awarded. To win this award, the person must participate in leadership activities and improvement projects. Also, the person must raise a net total of $7,000 from an agricultural project. This is quite an achievement.
In other FFA news, FFA is having its annual fruit sale, which brings in a net profit of $20,000 for the group. This club has had a busy start in the school year.
Career Day
The Ohio Hi-Point Career Center offers a Career Day every year for second year students. Career Day is a time for students to visit Hi-Point and two programs of their choice. This year’s Career Day will be held Nov. 12.
Students wishing to attend will need prior parental approval. A permission form will be given to students requiring a parent’s signature.
For the Career Day visit, students will eat lunch fifth period, board the bus to Hi-Point at 11:20 a.m. and return by 2:30 p.m. Please see your guidance counselor if you have any questions.
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