January featured seniors recognized
By Reagan Traucht
Nicholas Benjamin Wever is the son of Benjamin and Rebecca Wever. He has been an active participant on
the Marysville Golf and Basketball teams. He has earned a varsity letter and obtained the captain title for
both sports. In addition to his athletics, Nicholas is a member of the National Honor Society and Rho Kappa. Nick’s favorite memories at MHS consist of enjoying practices and games with the basketball team, golf occ matches, and post-round dinners with the team. He says he will miss all the close friendships he has made, along with the staff who has shaped him. Following graduation, Nick plans to attend Hope College in Holland, Michigan, where he plans to play basketball and obtain a degree in Education or Business.
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Brady Mark Seger is the son of Mark and Nancy Seger. Brady is a 4-year varsity letterman on the Marysville Wrestling team as well as a captain of the Football team. Outside of sports Brady is a member of the MHS National Honor Society and a Dairy Feeder Exhibitor in Union County 4-H. Other hobbies he enjoys include hunting and fishing. Brady’s favorite memory at MHS is the Homecoming Football game during his junior year against Darby. He says, “the stadium was packed, and it was a great game.” Brady will miss the people of MHS the most. He loves all of the staff, coaches, and classmates. He plans to attend a 4-year college to study Agriculture or Welding Engineering.
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Molly Rose Gregory is the daughter of Michael and Jami Gregory. Molly has swum for the Monarchs for the past four years and has been a captain for the past two years. She also runs on the cross-country and track teams for the past two years. Another activity Molly enjoys is coaching the union county Special Olympics. Molly attended a private school for her first two years of high school but has made many memories in the past couple of years. These include being homecoming queen and having her best friends be on the formal winter court. Molly says she will miss everything from the community to the helpful teachers and being with her closest friends daily. After graduation, Molly plans to attend Miami University with an undecided major.
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Abriana Rene Schmutz is the daughter of Robin and Bo Schmutz. Abriana is a four-year member of the Lady Monarch Softball team, two of which s has been a captain. She also played basketball for three years. Other hobbies she has include camping, running, fishing, and traveling with her family. Abriana has made memories from MHS that will last a lifetime, including swimming a district title in softball, spending time with friends and classmates, school dances, football Friday nights in the pit, and two years of high school with her brother. She will miss all the sports events she’s gotten to play and watch, the environment at MHS, and all of her friends. Abriana’s plans are to attend the United States Coast Guard Academy and play softball there. Lastly, Abri would like to say she is very thankful for the support from her family, friends, teachers, and coaches during her time here.
Foreign Exchange Program resumes at MHS
By Ameilia Russell
The city of Yorii in Saitama, Japan, became Marysville’s sister city in 2013. The foreign exchange program between the two cities has been in place since 2015. Summers are alternated between high school students from Marysville traveling to Japan and students from Yorii traveling to Marysville. The students can spend a week of their summer vacations experiencing school life in a foreign country and practicing their language skills. The program was suspended for multiple years because of the Covid-19 pandemic but will resume this August. Students will live with host families and attend classes at Marysville High School during their time here.
The “Vibe” offers endless opportunities
By Malia Burkhardt
While sports have always been a staple at Marysville High School, many students are also taking advantage of non-athletic opportunities, such as extracurriculars such as the student newspaper. Both athletes and non-athlete students are discovering that the latest public-school clubs are not only building students’ profiles for college applications, but they’re also providing rare opportunities for travel, competitions, awards, and even college scholarships. A strong club that improves a student’s profile at the high school is The Vibe. The Vibe is advised by the English and Journalism teacher Kathryn Kozak, and student-led by editor Malia Burkhardt, managing editor Josh Anliker and of course the students of the club.
In 1998 Mrs.Boylan created The Vibe. She published monthly print issues, but since covid, there were some complications to do so. As of now publishing online is how we get our articles out, but would love to try and get print issues back up and running. Check out our website for recent articles and videos:https://sites.google.com/d/1Ng_UPPtYMGZeHlkm1wNm59SkSCJ7Cmmn/p/1IJAvAsLSIk7MNrTbqVosA5IJCtmGV82G/edit?pli=1 allows you to visit our page with all articles, media, and videos on it! Our media includes TikTok (@mhsvibe), Twitter (@MHS_Vibe), and Youtube (The Vibe Marysville). Being able to make videos is opening up new opportunities for students.
Even though Vibe is classified as a club, it has been rooted as a class. Students start by taking Intro to Journalism, which then goes on to the next class which is Advanced Journalism. If students are interested in joining The Vibe but aren’t in the class we can figure something out that allows the student to be a part of the club. Just contact Mrs. Kozak at kkozak@mevsd.us. The class counts as an elective course. The skills we work on are analyzing media coverage, what constitutes news, ethics of journalists, research skills, interviewing skills, and journalistic writing.
Journalism benefits students by working on communication skills, developing a creative mindset, working on projects that are both challenging and exciting, having plentiful opportunities to travel and explore, obtaining multiple career options, becoming up to date with the latest news and applications, and maintaining a good social life. Malia Burkhardt expresses how you’re able to use these skills in college. Her articles from the club were able to be used in her applications and were a strong reason she got into most of her schools!
A great thing about journalism is the factor of getting to explore your own interests, discover new ideas and facts, cover clubs such as Invent to Prevent, doing difficult topics students are too afraid to ask such as parking passes. Some students have felt like they can apply for problems that they can advocate for such as environmental issues.
Mrs. Kozak says “even the quiet kids who wouldn’t otherwise have opportunities to open up or speak outside of their comfort zone “often benefit from doing interviews”. In fact, almost everyone has interviewed the principles. There are opportunities that allow students to explore places outside of high school. Students had the opportunity to go to stem and see what school is like there. It just brings opportunities to all students’ interests. Kozak states, “I have kids that don’t trust the media which gives journalists a chance to understand why they are so important. They have a better sense of the role the media should play in our democracy.”
People are able to express their strong feelings in their writing and reach a spot where they can freehand their own art and styles. Another opportunity for students to design layouts to publish their articles. This also goes into students having to obtain self-motivation (work at your own pace) which helps with learning how to use their time and becoming independent. As a journalist, Burkhardt expresses, “The Vibe has made the biggest impact on my life since I came to high school and I am very excited to use it at college. “If there are any questions leading up to this club, feel free to check the website out and email!
Performing Arts Students of the Month
By Delaney Hill and Aubree Scior
For this month’s Combo PASM, we are pleased to announce…Morgan Fetzer! Morgan is a senior at ECHS who plays the trombone in Marching Band, Jazz Band, and Swingers unlimited Combo. That sure is a lot of work already, but on top of all the bands she’s a part of, she is also a valuable member of our National Honors Society. In her free time, though, she loves hanging out with her pets. At her house, you will find two dogs, Piper and Bennett, and a beta fish, Peter Parker. To add to that list, she also has a car called Domino! Her favorite movie is Elf, and her favorite TV-Show is Gilmore Girls. A fun little fact about Morgan, her 18th birthday was last month! With all these exciting things we now know about Morgan, we wish her the best throughout her life
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The Performing Arts Student of the Month for Band has been given to Will Mason! Will is a senior at ECHS who plays the alto saxophone in Jazz and Concert Band and the Synthesizer in Combo. During the Marching Band season, Will is one of the four field commanders. Along with Band and Combo, Will plays handbells and participates in NHS (National Health Service). Will has just turned 17. At home, Will has one dog, a poodle named Maple, and likes to listen to 80’s music. Will Mason has shown responsibility, professionalism, proficiency in his craft, and kindness. Congratulations on the well-deserved honor of the PASM for January.
Program visits ODU
By Linnea Olofsson
The Global Scholars Year 1 program recently went on a field trip to Ohio Dominican University. The Global Scholar Program is designed to encourage students to connect with other cultures and people from various schools and is made accessible through various field trips. Multiple Global Scholars programs from multiple schools gather and discuss current global issues and collaborate to expand their knowledge of connections. The most recent field trip, the third of the year, focused on global careers and encouraged students to look into marketing, trade, and culture in different countries. Students listened to multiple presentations from different people with international careers and learned how vital global connections are to any company or organization. Global Scholars Year 1 students have one event left in the year, a wrap-up in which they will experience some of the projects that the Year 3 students have curated throughout their time in the program.
High 5 REACT club begins mentoring
By Jonathan M. Thomas
The High 5 REACT club began its mentoring program last week at Mill Valley Elementary School, with 41 fourth graders and all 79 third graders. Last week’s lesson was lesson 1.1 of the Invent2Prevent curriculum, centered around social and self-awareness. Shannon Cordle, a junior at Marysville High School, created the lesson plan.
We began the lesson with mentor introductions and a “would you rather” style game called “this or that,” where we gave the students two choices and had them go to the side of the room that matched their opinion. Their two options consisted of things like “do you like to read the book or watch the movie,” “would you rather get a cat or get a dog” and “do you like chips or candy more”? We did this because it would allow the students to see what they have in common with their peers.
We then led a discussion with our small student groups, where we talked about how we treat our friends, how we treat people who are not our friends, whether we treat our friends differently than how we treat people who are not our friends, and how we feel/what we do when someone disagrees with us.
After our small group discussions, we split our small groups into groups of two or three and gave them the challenge of finding everything they had in common in 30 seconds. The team who found the most similarities won. Then we would split into different groups and start again!
Afterward, we combined all of our small groups into two larger groups and gave both groups two minutes to find everything they had in common. After they completed this challenge, we played this or that again with different questions to help show growth from before the lesson until the end.
Finally, we gave each student the challenge of talking to someone at school whom they usually would not talk to at a given time. We did this to help the students apply the concepts from our lesson to their lives outside of our 30-minute lesson.
We are very excited about our partnership with Mill Valley Elementary. Our next steps are to teach our lessons to all of the third and fourth graders at Northwood Elementary, as we recently pitched and got approved to do so. We are excited to see what the rest of the year will bring for our club.
Mock Trial has successful start
By Eliza Mosier
Mock Trial is a club that offers a fun approach to learning about law and the legal system in America. Students, guided by the club and legal advisors, will act out an original, improvised trial written by actual attorneys. High schoolers participating will have the opportunity to argue for both sides of the case, which will occur in courtrooms across the state.
Marysville High School’s Mock Trial recently competed at the 40th Annual Ohio High School Mock Trial Competition. The competition took place on Friday, January 27th, and the case for this year involved an “evidentiary hearing for a student suspected of being involved in a prank.” Members of the club played the roles of attorneys and witnesses to create a fully immersive court experience. The team won three separate awards for their work.
MHS’s Mock Trial begins in September, then works on a new case in late October. Students who are interested in joining should come to future meetings to learn more about the club or contact one of the club’s two advisors, Mr. Ricki Schultz or Mr. Luke Sundermeier.