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Raider Invader April 2015

Jeff Lynch Devin Weaver

RHS presents You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown By: Melissa Clipse

On April 9th -11th our school gave a mu-sical presentation of Y ou’re a Good Man Charlie Brown. The cast and crew has been rehearsing and working on the set since early February. The musi-cal started at about 7:30 P.M. ending around 9:30 P.M. with a fifteen minute intermission.

The cast was led by Sophomore Tanner Yake starring as Charlie Brown and Sophomore Kiernan Coburn playing the role of Lucy. When asked about playing Lucy, Kiernan commented, “It was nice being able to play with my sarcastic side; in addition, I loved being able to participate in my first musical at RHS.”

A lot of people came out to support and said that their favorite scene was when Linus and the blanket, Tristan Mull and Ariel Dietz, did a dance. During this Ariel was dressed as a blanket and could not see, so the whole dance Tristan had to lead her.

When interviewed, Senior Ashley Reimold had this to say about the whole musical, “It was fun getting to act like children, it was a good way to end my senior year.” Other than the high school cast, teachers helped as well, such as Miss Morris, Mrs. Heckman, Mr. Young, Mr.Swegard, and Mrs. Helms. Along with them Brandon Mills was the student director. It was a major hit and they all hope more musicals will follow in the future.

Aiming for 1st

RHS students participate in state-wide archery competition

By: Mikealina Stanec

On Friday April 10th, Saturday April 12th, and Sunday April 13th

there was an archery tournament in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Two kids from

our school competed in it, Breonna Sweinsky and Curtis Ferguson. Breonna

was in the group called the “Golden Grain” and Curtis was in a group called

“Bills Field and Stream.” In nationals there was sixty target butts, four tar-

gets, and two lines for two days. In the tournament there were various age

divisions. This was the 45th year of the tournament.

Breonna has been doing archery for two years. She first heard about

archery from word of mouth. She has placed a lot in her archery career. She

plans on continuing archery to about the age of twenty-one. Her group,

“Golden Grain”, had a bunch of variety in placements.

Curtis has been doing archery for about two years as well. In his group,

“Bills Field and Stream”, there were about twenty-five participants. He plans

on continuing his archery career for as long as possible.

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Members of 2014 - 2015

Raider Invader Staff

Adam Ballish

Brik Bateman

Cassidy Bonner

Brooke Bresnan

Alex Bucher

Julia Carlson

Melissa Clipse

Shawn Engstrom

Nick Fuchs

Courtney Green

Macy Greenfield

Jake Hart

Patrick Hart

Zack Huffman

Nicole Lengacher

Ali Metz

Nick Nottingham

Debbie Novel

Andrew Osborne

Kaleb Owens

Logan Payne

Tessa Russell

Emory Shrock

James Slater

Meghan Slater

Mikealina Stanec

Dustin Taggart

Desiree Totten

Kris Weaver

“A Passport to Paris” Prom 2015

By: Desiree Totten and Julia Carlson

On April 17, 2015, juniors and seniors were able to enjoy the prom festivities at the Corinthian in Sharon. The theme for the prom this year was “A Passport to Paris.” Grand March was held in the auditorium before the prom. Students then went to the Corinthian and were able to en-joy a delicious dinner which consisted of chicken francaise, roasted potatoes, corn, salad, baked ziti, and rolls. They also had a variety of cookies and a chocolate fountain. The students were also able to enjoy the photo booth.

When asked about how she thought prom went, Mrs. Hoovler said, “Prom 2015 was truly a night to re-member. We spend an endless number of hours making decorations and setting up. It all came together and was just what we wanted. I feel everyone had a good time and will have memories to talk about for the rest of their lives.”

Mrs. Coburn, a chaperone who danced her heart out, said “Prom was elegant. The décor was spot on and I appreciate the various activities, like the photo booth and the chocolate fountain.” They also named the 2015 Prom Royalty. Frankie Bennett and Michael Millero were named queen and king. Chad McConnell and Ashley VanSickle were named prince and princess. When asked how she felt about being named Prom Queen, Frankie said “I felt shocked because not five seconds before, I told everyone that I wasn’t going to win. But in the end I did. I never thought I would get the chance or opportunity.” Michael commented, “It felt good. I was surprised to be named King. But it was a cool experience.” The Prom was put on by the Class of 2016 and was dedicated to the Class of 2015. Students seemed to have enjoyed them-selves.

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National Honor Society inducts new class By Nicole Lengacher

National Honor Society honors students who have had a 92 % and above average throughout high

school. These students are important role models in school. On March 30th, 2015 at 6:30pm in the high schools

LGI juniors and a few seniors were inducted into NHS.

In total there were eighteen new members. During the induction all of the current members read a speech about each new inductee. These inductees show character, scholarship, leadership and service. They will be taking the seniors place in making school more enjoyable. They will show teachers their appreciation,

take junior high to the skating rink, and many other things around the school throughout the year.

Prom Promise Activities By Macy Greenfield and Meghan Slater

This year for Prom Promise, student council members decided to do different activities than they have

in the past years. On Monday, April 13th, sophomores, juniors, and seniors met in the LGI to watch a brief vid-

eo on texting and driving to show the similar consequences of drunk driving. The following day, students were

pulled from their English classes to participate in a drunk driving simulation course. Students drove golf carts

through a course in the parking lot “sober” and then once again “drunk” with beer goggles, realizing how diffi-

cult it is to drive under the influence.

A statistic shows that every 15 minutes a person is killed in a drunk driving accident. To show this, on Thursday, every 15 minutes a student was pulled from their classes by coroner Nick Fuchs who pronounced them dead. An obituary was read about the student and their faces were painted white, showing that they were

unable to talk for the rest of the day. 25 students “died” altogether. Throughout the week, students were prompted to sign the Prom Promise, stating that they promised to have a drug and alcohol free prom weekend.

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College within high school: new opportunities for seniors

By: Tessa Russell

Once students begin their junior year here at Reynolds Jr. Sr. High School, they have the valuable op-

portunity to take accredited college classes given by the guidance counselor Ms. Dobson. The material and

credits are provided by the Butler County Community College. Regular tuition prices are discounted a consid-

erable amount, starting at one hundred and seventy five dollars a credit.

The classes are scheduled to start next fall of 2015, with hope for expansion next spring, offering clas-

ses such as psychology, general physiology, contemporary sociology problems, and health sciences. These

courses are entirely chosen by the students. The plan is to hold selected lessons four mornings a week for one

hour. So far, thirteen of our students are signed up to join, eligibility entailing a B average of 84% or higher.

If you are interested in taking college credits while still in high school, please contact the guidance de-partment.

Choir sees Beauty and the Beast By: Aleksandra Metz

This past month the choir class went on a trip to see a musical. The musical they saw was of “Beauty

and the Beast.” After the production they all went to the Hard Rock Café. The choir class has done trips simi-

lar to this in the past, but this was their first adventure this year. I had asked Frankie Bennett how she felt

about their trip, and she described it as being “pretty rad.” She and many others felt the acting and the singing

was phenomenal, and that overall it was a great experience that they all talked about for days after.

Frankie also brought up how the special effects used were different than she had expected, in a good way. She mentioned her favorite scene as being when they had 3D wolf puppets controlled by actors wearing all black. The wolves, in her opinion, looked really realistic and life-like. Frankie had even said that some of

the others in her class were getting really involved with the musical during its showing. Hopefully this is something the choir class will do again in more years to come.

My busted bracket March Madness leaves basketball fans both frustrated and excited

By: Jake Hart

March Madness consisted of ups and downs with many upsets including the upset of Virginia, and

probably the most important upset was the fall of the Kentucky wildcats. Kentucky was highly favored to win

the national championship, but they fell to the Wisconsin Badgers by a score of 71 to 64 in the semi-final

round.

The national championship game consisted of the Wisconsin Badgers coming off a huge upset facing Duke who had also came off a huge win against Gonzaga. After it all was finished and the damage was done

the Duke Blue Devils hoisted the trophy and cut down the nets.

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Going pro RHS star basketball player starts his professional career

By: Emory Shrock

Reynolds very own Russ Conley has done what very few athletes do, go pro. Most remember Russ as one of the star players of the 08-09 Raider Basketball team. He was one of two players on that team to break the thousand point club, and helped the Raiders break a very long playoff drought. Russ then continued to have a successful college career. At Penn State Behrend Russ had a successful career and holds the most points scored record with 1,771 averaging 19.1 points per game. In an interview with him via Facebook Russ said, “The skills I needed to extend my career and knowledge of the game both came during my college years.”

After college Russ continued his career by playing in Slovakia. When asked what it was like to play overseas Russ said, “Playing overseas was a great experience.” Upon returning to the states Russ was signed to the Erie Bayhawks. When asked about his opin-ion on the differences in play from here to overseas he said, “Overseas is a total-ly different experience basketball talk-ing. Some of the rules and the game was much faster, but not as fast as the D-league.” Russ is working his way up on the Bayhawks roster, and will hopefully play a bigger role each game. I know I speak for all of Reynolds when I say, “Good Luck Russ.”

Students for Charity hold jelly bean contest By: James Slater

In the week leading up to Easter, from Monday to Wednesday, the Students for Charity Organization at Reynolds High School put on its annual jelly bean guess contest, organized again by Mrs. Jones.

In the three days leading up to the announcement, students were able to stop by the office at any time and view the jar of jelly beans and submit a guess. Up for grabs were two Easter prize baskets full of assorted goods such as candy, sunglasses, and flip flops!

When the polls closed after lunch on Wednesday, the jelly beans were counted and the guesses tallied to see who was the closest. The final count was 677 jelly beans. With two baskets up for grabs, two winners were picked. The first place winner was senior Debbie Novel who had an incredible guess only two off, of 675. The second place winner was junior James Walden with a guess of 666.

On what she thought of this year’s contest, Mrs. Jones was quoted as, “It was something nice for the students to do in the spring and for them to have fun with the prizes!”

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Raider softball By: Cassidy Bonner and Andrew Osborne

The 2015 RHS softball season has only begun. This year’s team consists of fourteen girls; two of which are seniors, Casey Rhodes and Madison Stoner who are also the captains.

“Although the beginning of the season has been rough we are hopeful to make playoffs this year.” said Madison Stoner. The girls’ softball team has made playoffs the last three years and this year would be their fourth year in a row. Especially for the seniors, this would be a big deal. Stoner also said, “We have a good starting lineup of talented girls and I expect a lot from our junior class.” The team is working on improving and hopes to see more stu-dents at their games supporting them at the field. They all have optimistic attitudes and they are determined to make this a great season.

The baseball recap The Raider baseball team has officially started their season, even though they do have more cancellations than games played at this point. They hold an even 4-4 rec-ord right now. They are fighting for a playoff spot early in the season with a big region win against Lakeview. How-ever the team did fall to Hickory and Wilmington.

Some stat leaders are Jacob Reimold hitting with an average of .650 and Nick Fuchs with a .410 average. Adam Ballish is leading the team in home runs, getting his first one against Sharon. Nick Fuchs is leading the team in innings pitched with 18 and he has 22 K’s. The team’s out-field has been very solid including Ballish, Leipheimer, Blair, and Palmiter. All of them combined have only com-mitted one error so far. The Raiders are looking forward to games against Greenville who is their biggest rival. Please come out to a game and support!

Track & Field looks for strong finish By Brooke Bresnan

The Raider’s track and field team started off their season by competing in a quad meet at home against Sharps-ville, Kennedy Catholic and Commodore Perry. The girls and boys both defeated Kennedy and Commodore Perry; how-ever, Sharpsville wasn’t so easy to beat for the girls, and the guys finished the meet in a tie.

Their next meet was held at West Middlesex against them only. Although both the girls and guys took a loss, there were some impressive individual victories.

The same stood true at the Raider’s first invitational of the season at Hickory High school. At this meet and the previous two, several members of the team qualified for the district meet both individually and on relay teams, which is a great accomplishment especially this early in the season.

The team competed at the Erie McDowell Invitational this past Saturday, and they will participate in the Pine Richland Invitational this coming Friday.

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A City of Fallen Angels: Book review By: Zac Huffman

This month’s book review is about the book A City of Fallen Angels. This book was written by Cas-

sandra Clare. This book is about a race of half angel people who hunt and kill demons. Shadow hunters, as

they call themselves live alongside werewolves, vampires, warlocks, and fairies.

The two main characters have just survived an attempt of destruction of their entire race. They return to New York, only to have an entire new set of massive problems thrown at them. The book was so thrilling that I

could barely put it down. It is a thrilling read that makes monsters and fairies come to life. Huffman’s rating is a 3/5. If you like this book, would encourage you to try reading the entire series. Courtney Green has not yet finished the book but, she thinks that is a great book so far, and she likes the series.

College of the Month By: Emory Shrock

Hello RHS! I hope you have enjoyed the insight I have given you on the college world. Remember if

you have any suggestions for colleges please send them in. This month’s college is Clarion University. Along

with being close to home, Clarion is an excellent campus. There are tons of clubs and restaurants, and if your

grandparents come to visit there is a bingo club. The campus is close to everything so if you hate walking this

is the place for you.

Now you may be asking how do I get in? One must score at least a 1180 on the SAT and you are not required to take an ACT. One must also maintain a 2.5 GPA in high school to be considered. According to Pat-

rick Hart who will be attending Clarion in the fall, “Do a good job in school.” That’s all you need to know. You can find more information on their website. Good Luck!

Enjoy a day out in the community By: Debbie Novel

Did anyone from the Life skill class tell

you they went to the Art Show on Monday April

13? The Art Show was at Grove City College.

There were about 150 pieces of art work.

They went and looked at their art work and then

looked at other people’s art work. Many pieces of

art work were very interesting and showed a lot of

talent and creativity.

After the Art show the class went to

Hoss’s to eat lunch. They could choose from the

salad bar or have a sandwich. They enjoyed their

dinner at Hoss’s and had a good day.

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What does the law say? Controversy over allowing religion in public schools

By Dustin Taggart

The question is one that is disputed among school administrators, politicians, and even students. Should organized, student-led religious groups be allowed in public schools? This article will primarily look at what the law says about the issue.

According to the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, “Students are allowed to organize religious groups as long as the school allows other non-curricular groups to meet.” For example, if the school allows clubs such as Key Club or a Biology Club, then they are also required to allow students to form a club such as a Bible Club. The extent of which the school can go to support the club is unclear, as the subject itself is controversial.

Another source, ReligiousTolerance.org, plainly stated that “A percentage of public school teachers and principals have interpreted the law incorrectly…” Additionally, the Federal Equal Access Law requires this (organizing religious groups) of all school districts that receive federal funding, however the school is le-gally not allowed to force religion upon any student.

The topic is controversial for that reason; the school is required to allow the clubs to form, but is not allowed to force the students to participate. Mrs. Coburn commented, “I think allowing a [Bible] club would be a positive moral influence on students. However, if there were a Bible club, there would also need to be a door opened for other religions to start similar organizations.”

Senior spotlight: Taylor Reimold By Patrick Hart

Taylor Reimold is known famously throughout the Reynolds Marching Band for her ‘incident’ at senior night. Her plans are to attend Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh where she plans on studying in the psychology field of science. She has enjoyed being in several extracurricular activities such as Marching Band, Key Club, Students for Charity, Ensemble, Girl Scouts, end even the re-cent Musical ‘You’re a good man Charlie Brown’. When she isn’t busy being in one of her many activities, Taylor enjoys hanging out with her friends at and out of school. Among some of her closest friends she is called Taylortot.

Some of her favorite memories for high school include her senior year, tormenting her friends, as well as her time being with the Reynolds Marching Band. In Marching Band she will forever be remembered for her ‘fail’ at senior night. There, when walking off to the side of the football field, she slipped and fell flat on her butt elic-iting a laugh from the audience, as well as fellow band members. From that point of anyone who fell were referred to as ‘pulling a Taylor’. Band Director Mrs. Morris jokingly told her that she could not have a do over after it happened. Later that night the song Wipe-out was played especially for her. This girl will forever be remem-bered by her peers and those to come. We wish you the best of luck for the future, Taylor Reimold.

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Two MCCC instructors re-

tire, relocate

By: Dustin Taggart

Change is coming to Mercer County Career

Center beginning in the 2015-16 school year. Auto

Body instructor Ron Yoder is resigning and relocating

to the equivalent of the program at George Junior Re-

public’s votech.

Computer & Office Technology instructor,

Mrs. Barb Magee, found it to be a good time to retire

because the program is being replaced by an Entrepre-

neurship program where students will learn marketing

techniques and operate a school store. Go to

www.mercerccc.org for more information.

MCCC Hosts Annual

SkillsUSA Dance

By: Dustin Taggart

On Friday, March 27, the Mercer County Ca-

reer Center hosted its own spring dance, funded by the

SkillsUSA program. The dance was attended by al-

most 60 people. The prices were reduced from $5/

single tickets to $1 per ticket or 4 “STRIVE” tickets

due to a low sign-up rate. The dance was a success

and lots of fun for all that attended, faculty and staff

included.

RHS hosts annual covered bridge craft show By: Alex BuCher and Shawn Engstrom

On March 28th, Reynolds High School Key Club hosted

the annual Covered Bridge Craft show here at RHS. The show

was from 9:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. and showcased many different

vendors from the area.

Tables that were showcased include Students for Charity

and the Entrepreneurship class. Other vendors sold homemade

baked goods and hand crafted decorations. Many people attended

and participated in a Chinese auction where many prizes from dif-

ferent vendors were awarded.

Due to the great turnout, we can expect Key Club to spon-

sor the Craft Shows for many years to come.

Reynolds Wrestling banquet awards

By: Nick Nottingham

At the wrestling banquet the community gathered to congratulate and commemorate the team and the

individuals who stood out in their season or seasons of wrestling. Some of the awards given out were the VFW

Award, Bittle Ambassador Award, Lineman Award, Moffett Award, Dan Stoyer Award and the Kaine Kulka

Award. The individuals who won those awards are: VFW Award - Mike Bartolo; Bittle Ambassador Award -

Mike Millero; Lineman Award - Seth Hogue; Dan Stoyer Award - Chaise Hauck; Moffett Award - Nick Not-

tingham; and the Kaine Kulka Award - Seth Hogue.