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ABOUT THE COVER PHOTOJunior Maddie Wagley, left, and freshman Zoe Miller are all smiles as they warm up for their race at Regional Cross Country in Cimarron on Oct. 24. Wagley set a personal best for the 4K, and Miller placed 10th to qualify for state. (Photo by Morgan Anderson)

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Zero toHave you ever wondered about all the cool stuff going on around SHS, and then thought of all the unfortunate stuff to happen? Here’s your guide to all the hot, and cold, stuff going on at SHS.

MADDIE WAGLEY, a junior at SHS, uses this quote as one of her life mottos. “Getting out of you comfort zone is super important, and

it’s something that I’ve never been really good at,” Wagley said. “That quote just reminds me to do

things i’m not comfortable with.”

SENIOR SMILESMac Thrasher walks of the court after winning a game at regional tennis. “We were on a strict no-sweet diet during regionals so after my loss I said ‘Lets get ice cream!’” Thrasher said. Thrasher ended her senior season with only three losses, and a Central Kansas League title.

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“A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what

ships are for.”

Sophomore Trent Jones walks off the field after the Bears’ JV loss to Lyons.

Senior volleyball players huddle before the last home match of their high school careers. The Lady Bears went undefeated on the night.

The fire drill on Oct. 21 marked the third of the 2015-16 school year. “I see the point in having fire drills, but I don’t like that they’re so loud,” senior Tabitha Frederick said.


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New members inducted in NHS

This year, several students from Sterling High School applied for membership in the local chapter of National Honor Society, and 12 of those students made it in and took part in the Induction Ceremony on Oct. 19 at Ster-ling College.

NHS is a national organization that sets the rules and all the standards. In the end the selection committee makes the final decision in who can be a member.

“The purpose of NHS is to honor excellence in our building by looking at several factors, such as academics, character, community service, and general involvement.” NHS sponsor Todd Vogts said.

Students inducted into NHS included seniors Jody Gunther, Emma Lambert, Baylee Maskil, Shelby Schro-eder and Keena Schwiezer; and juniors Bethany Ander-son, Kyler Comley, Nicole Dowell, Lindsay Gilmore, J.J. Oden, Madeline Wagley and Edward Weiner.

Besides bringing the new members into the organiza-tion, the Induction Ceremony is also host to the Black Bear Award presentation.

The Black Bear Award is given to an outstanding alumnus of SHS. This year’s winner was Mr. Timothy Gordon, who does work for NASA as an aerospace engi-neer working on satellites orbiting the Earth.

“Mr. Gordon was a very deserving recipient of this award,” Vogts said. “He has accomplished many great things since his time at Sterling, and I was happy we were able to honor him for all of this work.”

Overall, Vogts said the Induction Ceremony went well, but now the real work begins, he said.

“All NHS members will now begin working on their individual community service projects,” he said. “This will be an opportunity for them to give back to a town that has undoubtedly given them so much.”

ANNA TUSZYNSKICub Reporter

SHS debate team wins league title

People see debate as something Sterling High School is always going to win, but the competitors here at SHS don’t just win by showing up.

Teacher Betsy Dutton, year after year, prepares her com-petitors for success.

“It’s all about dedication,” senior Brayden Hosman said. “Betsy pours her heart and soul into the debate program. Her years of experience are an asset to debate here at SHS.”

With 41 students out for debate, there is expected to be a drop off.

However, a drop off is the least of the team’s worries.“With such a huge group, you would expect the qual-

ity control to go down, but we have had someone medal at every meet. So that hasn’t happened yet,” Dutton said.

Year after year, the debate team continues to win throughout the regular season, and the students thank Dut-ton for their success,

“Betsy really helped me and gave me all the necessary resources that I needed to get through the tournaments,” ju-nior Preston Nichols said. “I really enjoyed all the games we played in class, and the mock debates we did really helped all of us novices.”

Every year there is a fresh group of novices, and Dutton is always able to get them prepared for their first tourna-ment.

“We have had a number of novices place this year,” Dut-ton said. “This group has handled it very well even though this is new to all of them and overwhelming at first.”

The debaters who mentor the novices also seem to think they are handling this season well, too.

“I think it had a rough start,” junior Sierra Emery said. “But now I think they are getting it down and doing amaz-ing.”

The debate team took two pairs to the league tourna-ment.

Junior Edward Weiner and senior Hannah Hendricks were a pair, and senior Alex Veliz teamed up with Hosman to make the other pair.

“I was really happy with league. Hannah and I re-ally complimented each other’s strengths,” Weiner said. “Brayden and Alex also debated very well, and came out with a 3-1 record, which was a very good, considering the level of competition.”

The two pairs finished the day at 7-1 and took the league title, with Nickerson being just behind them at 6-2.

“They all debated very well,” Dutton said. “Finishing 7-1 all together was great, and finishing first was great for them.”

DALLAS LACKEYCub Reporter


NEWS

Sterling High to put on ‘Babes In Arms’

This month “Babes in Arms” will take the stage for this year’s fall musical.

Superb musicals are something Sterling students expect, but only those who are in them actually understand the amount of work that goes into them, especially the choreog-raphy.

“This is a much different show than we’ve done before,” director Betsy Dutton said. “It is very dance oriented. We have only done two other shows with a little bit of tap in them. This one has quite a bit off tap in it.”

When it comes to tap, Dutton has entrusted a lot of the tap to senior Mac Thrasher.

“It is really helpful to have someone who has dance expe-rience and can help handle choreography,” Dutton said.

With almost every number including some sort of dance, and a number having tap in them, Thrasher has had her work cut out for her.

“It’s nothing like what we have done before,” Thrasher said. “She has really trusted me to make the tap sound and look good.”

Tap is a difficult style of dance on it’s own, but Thrasher has to get their tap to a level that they can sing while tap-ping.

“It is a lot of fun, but teaching them all tap well enough to where they can sing at the same time is really hard,” Thrasher said.

Even those in the production who don’t have to tap un-derstand the level of difficulty.

“Since this show has started, I am very thankful I don’t have to tap at all,” junior Will Dutton said. “Dancing nor-mally is hard enough for me, but throw in tapping and my mind just could not handle it.”

With Thrasher’s high school musical career almost over, this one has already been different,

“This being my senior year, I really enjoy having more responsibility and being in charge of more,” she said. “This one is a much bigger deal to me than the others.”

For those who don’t know about “Babes In Arms,” it is the story of a backstage musical production group who wants to put on their own show.

“I think that our cast will be able to get past all the dance and put on a good show,” Betsy Dutton said. “I think we can pull this show off.”

The cast members seem to really be into the musical, and are ready to put it on.

“I think it will be pretty interesting,” junior Max Ful-bright said. “I get to play a funny role, and I am ready to see how the audience reacts to the play. I hope they enjoy it.”

The musical is set for Nov. 12, 13, and 14. The show will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Sterling High

School Theater.Admission tickets for children will cost $4, and adults

will pay $6.“I recommend it for everyone,” Will Dutton said. “I think

it will be good for all ages, people will come and see a good show, and get a few good laughs from it.”

DALLAS LACKEYCub Reporter

(Photo by Dallas Lackey)

Senior Hannah Hendricks leads one of the Musicals dance numbers during re-

hearsal. “I like being a part of something that is big, and inclusive to a lot of people,”

Hendricks said.


This year Sterling High School hosted the annual FC-CLA Fall conference.

There were a total of 16 schools slated to attend the school this year for the conference.

The students listened to a number of speakers. Some of the speakers who were scheduled to attend were Dustin Galyon, Gene Zaid, Catherine Leake, Scott McPherson, Sean Groves and a number of Hutchinson Community Col-lege representatives.

“There are 12 districts in our big FCCLA group. Sterling is titled District G”, Prather said.

FCCLA stands for Family Career and Community Lead-ers of America.

Being a member of FCCLA has many benefits, such as fellowship, role model improvement, and scholarship advances.

“The majority of schools with a Family and Consumer Science class have FCCLA,” said Carol Prather, FACS teach-er and FCCLA sponsor, “but some schools don’t even have a FACS class due to funding cutbacks. We are very lucky to have what we have.”

Other than the Fall Leadership conference, FCCLA has put on Big Buddy.

Big Buddy allows a high school student to gain role-model experience by being paired with a second grader doing different activities every few months.

“Big Buddy was definitely a success,” Prather said.Another activity FCCLA organizes is Powder Puff. The

members of FCCLA have a few more ideas for events that are being thought over.

Along with the multiple social events put on throughout the year, FCCLA also raises funds for a number of different

causes, such as Pennies for Patients, which benefits leuke-mia and lymphoma victims. They also collect food for a local food drive.

With the different activities and fundraisers, the mem-bers of FCCLA are able to learn leadership and fellowship skills that can open up new pathways and opportunities.

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FCCLA kicks off the 2015 school year with Big Buddy. Big Buddy groups a second grader with a pair of high school students to participate in various activities. The second graders deco-rated cookies, played games, and trick-or-treat-ed around the school.


FEATURE

Sterling High School hosts of a variety of students, ranging from those who have come from dif-

ferent parts of the country and even the world, but some of most diverse students have always lived in Sterling.

This is the case with junior Harri-son Randolph. He has lived in Sterling most of his life but was home schooled before enrolling at SHS.

“I was homeschooled for most of my life, and that was hard for the most part because if you do that you have to be motivated and I wasn’t,” Randolph said. “I did enjoy being home schooled, but it was hard to meet people. So I was glad to make the change to public school.”

Shifting from homeschool to public school, Randolph went through a tran-sition period to accommodate the new school his freshman year.

“To an extent public school is more easy because the assignments are more directed to getting a grade, as opposed to home school where everything is more goal oriented, and we went more in depth until I understood the content,” he said. “I did like that this is a smaller school simply because I kept the one-on-one aspect with the teach-ers. People are nice, and I just knew I couldn’t really adapt going to a bigger school.”

Randolph felt going to public school was more liberating in terms of his personality.

“It’s almost freeing in a sense that I can be free to show off the real me, not just to my siblings, but to my friends,

too,” he said.Going to a public school has also let

Randolph expand his participation in different clubs and organizations.

“I couldn’t do things like debate and forensics, and if I wanted to do sports, I couldn’t do that either. So it’s nice now that I have the opportunity,” he said.

Since his freshman year, Randolph thinks forensics has helped him with the transition of switching school systems.

“I really liked debate my freshman and sophomore years, but forensics has really opened up. I really like express-ing myself in weird ways, and forensics has really helped with that,” he said. “I also get the opportunity with foren-sics to meet some cool people, and, actually, I have made a lot of friends through forensics. It has really helped

ALEX VELIZCub Reporter

(Photo by Alex Veliz)

Junior Harrison Randolph poses with his desktop, artwork, and anime t-shirts. “I guess all of my stuff is important to me because they’re what I enjoy and they make me what I am,” he said.

A Whole New WorldHarrison Randolph dives into SHS, design classes


in a social aspect in my transition.”Besides his extracurricular activities

at school, Randolph also works at the local grocery store.

“I work at Dillons, and I think that working now gives me a work ethic. I think that I had some kind of a work ethic before, but it helped me make that stronger,” he said. “If I see a point in doing something, I like to work at it, and I see the point at working at Dil-lons. I mean, beside getting money at an early age I also can get scholarship opportunities.”

Diving deeper into Randolph’s interests and hobbies, the prominent of those are his interest in the digital design field.

“I do pay for a website that is called digital tutor, which has anything that you need for software programs,” he said. “So I watch a lot of Illustrator videos, a lot of Photoshop videos, and cinema 40 and cryogen 3, which is a video designing platform, so when I have time I can really teach myself any-thing.”

Although not specific, Randolph

hopes to pursue a career in the digital arts realm.

“I think it would be cool to apply all the things I know, but I don’t know what. Generally in the digital field,” he said. “It could be game design, concept art or logo design. I do know though that some of the things I learned could go toward college or a career, and I can go to a school to really hone my skills.”

His interest started to become more obvious to him after he took one of the courses offered at SHS.

“I was always interested in the digital aspect of the things, but I was sort of more of a left brain and didn’t see the need for liberal arts. Now that I have been exposed to it, I really want to build off of it,” he said. “I say the graphic design course here really got me started on getting some of the edu-cation I need for digital stuff, so that really helped me too.”

Some of the projects Randolph has done in the past few years have stemmed not only from his time in graphic design but also his past.

“My parents got me a pre-built computer and that lasted me for a while, but now that the games have become more computer immersed I needed something new. So I decided I would make my own computer,” Randolph said. “I did a lot of research online to see which parts were the best and how to get started, so now I have all my parts, it is just a point of when I can get them.”

While building a new computer, Randolph has also made different ob-jects with the some of the technology offered at the school.

“I have made a face mask with the 3-D printer from the game Dishon-ored,” Randolph said. “And once again, through graphic design, I had the opportunity to use the laser engraver, and I have engraved some pretty cool pictures.”

Throughout all of his advance-ments, the one constant Randolph has in all of his projects is the Internet.

“It has helped me understand any-thing I don’t know basically,” he said. “I

“Forensics has really opened up, I really like

expressing myself in weird ways”

— Harrison Randolph

(Photo by Alex Veliz)

Two of Harrison’s engravings one on glass and the other on wood. The glass engraving is a portriat of himself, and the wood engraving is of his first name intitial.

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(Photo by Alex Veliz)Harrison Randolph poses next to his desktop comput-er, monitor, and joystick controller.

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doubt the library would have any information on the stuff I work on, so I would have been at a standstill. I am glad that I have had it to help me from watching videos to helping me with my projects.”

Randolph has also tried his hands at cosplay, which includes building his costume from the ground up through different mediums, including 3-D printing and shaping objects through different techniques.

“I took a piece of PVC pipe and a heat gun and heated it up so it was pliable. Then I started molding it until I got the shape I wanted to, and then I cooled it down with water,” he said. “I found a file for the mask from the end game model, and I put in a 3-D model rendering program called blender.”

Building a costume is not always easy.Hee has to buy all his materials, and he also spend hours,

or as much as several days, composing his parts. “Time is a big complication when building the costumes,

and so is the money because I need to budget money and not spend all my money on the costume I am making,” he said. “It is also hard getting the resources I need for the cos-tume and just the experience to make it because the Internet can show you, but I need to know how to do it hands on.”


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People skills are something one can acquire by simply coming to school, but business teacher Eric Wenzel has started to take matters into his own hands through market-ing.

“I am a big people person,” Wenzel said. “ I believe marketing goes over the idea of making a product good for people.”

This will be the second year marketing has been offered to Sterling High School students, and the class has already set out to do more for the public.

“I like it a lot because if my future career has anything to do with marketing, the things we have learned will be really helpful,” freshman Garrett Sankey said.

The class has given away rally towels, and pom-poms and wristbands, all by getting sponsors for these items.

“Everything has been student created,” Wenzel said. “We started with some surveys of the student body, and then I let the class take over from there.”

The class really focuses on student control as they go throughout each new project.

“I really am just kind of guiding the way,” Wenzel said. “They are doing all the little step-by-step processes by them-selves, which is awesome.”

The class has spent much more time contributing to the student body this year, and the students seem to enjoy it,

“Everyone notices how they put an effort to trying to get people involved with cheering on different sports and helping with team spirit, like putting up posters and selling shirts,” junior Bethany Anderson said.

The football players seem to have taken a liking to the support the class has shown to the team.

“I like that that they are trying to get more people to come to the games by doing giveaways,” sophomore Blake Richter said.

Junior Brett Oden also had the same thoughts on the topic.

“I think it’s really cool that they are working so hard to get more people involved in our games,” Oden said.

For the marketing students, whenever they see students waving their rally towels or wearing one of the class-de-signed shirts, such as the Straight Outta Sterling T-shirts, it creates a sense of pride within them.

“I think everyone likes what we’ve done so far,” Sankey said. “I think that’s why we enjoy being in the class as much as we all do.”

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EDITORIAL

I’m not going to beat around the bush, this is an opinion after all.

I think that the deci-sion to switch leagues from the Central Kansas League to the Heart of America League is one of the worst things to happen during my high school career.

Sure, I have bias be-cause it will be my senior year when we actually make the switch, but that doesn’t change what I believe.

The CKL is considered by many to be the best league in the state, especially for 3A and 4A schools.

Not only does it have multiple athletic state champion-ships in it’s history, but the CKL is home to some of the best academic schools in the state. So why are we leaving?

To be clear, this is not me trying to diss the HOA. I have nothing against the schools in that league.

This is me expressing my remorse.The CKL has brought me, along with many other stu-

dents of SHS, some of the best friends I could ask for.Thanks to league tournaments, basketball games,

softball doubleheaders, and even choir contests, I have met some great people that I otherwise wouldn’t have.

Knowing that after this year I probably won’t get a chance to see most of them outside of a couple times a year is heartbreaking for me.

Even harder to cope with is that some of the activities at Sterling will not have the kind of competition, or even the diversity of activities, available that we had in the CKL.

We won’t have Hesston, we won’t have Smoky Valley, we won’t have those challenges that the schools in the CKL bring anymore when it comes to activities. Sports and academics alike.

I’m extremely sad that my fellow students, and I won’t have the connections or competition that we once had.

We will miss it.

LINDSAY GILMORE

Playing politicsWhen someone turns 18, it is common to align

with a political party that represents general concerns that a group of citizens have. The

problem with aligning to a group is the pressures put on by those around the voter, whether it be their friends, community, or even their state.

After the general populace of a state votes in an elec-tion, political maps can be made to show how many citizens voted for each party and its candidates. In the midwest of the United States, most of the states, including Kansas, are Republican oriented.

So you can imagine what the new voting generation will decide to be . . . Republican. Of course, this raises the question, is it bad to stick out from the social norm and align oneself with a party that is not largely accepted by the state?

We believe that outside influences should not affect the voter’s decision when it comes to choosing a party.

Often times in the case of students at any level, opin-ions from their parents, classmates, and teachers will in-fluence, and even change, their political views. The prob-lem is not the diversity brought about by those around the voter, but rather when the voter cannot make an opinion for themselves.

A simple way to combat this problem is by voter educa-tion and self-awareness. If a voter truly understands what a party stands for, then they are less likely to change their minds when others put in their opinion about the party.

For example, instead of a student completely rejecting the idea that they can be either Republican or Democratic, they can come to the conclusion that they are more con-servative with liberal opinions on certain topics.

Furthermore, if a voter knows what they are looking for when it comes to politics, they will be able to be more understanding of both the liberal and conservative sides of the spectrum.

These solutions can help pave the way for better par-ticipation in politics by everyday citizens. It can also bring both political parties to better compromises, while allow-ing them to still retain their identities and ideals.

—The Editorial Board

Missing out on CKL


SPORTS

For the first time since 2011, the Sterling High School boys cross country team has qualified all seven members to the State Meet, taking third out of 10 teams at the Regional Race.

The whole-team berth gives the Runnin’ Bears a chance to win the State Title for the first time since the team’s three-peat in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

“We had our best effort as a team on Saturday. Norton’s number five runner actually beat our number five, but we put four runners in front of their number three runner,” Head Coach Dan Whisler said.

Along with the boys traveling to state, freshman Zoe Miller also earned her spot by placing 10th at the Cimarron Regional with a personal-best time of 21:41.00.

“She really decided that she wanted it,” Whisler said. “We’ve talked to all the team members all year, there’s a difference between running and racing. Zoe decided on Saturday that she wanted to race.”

Sterling High School saw a less-than-stellar football season last year, which caused some to speak negatively of the team.

However, this year, under the leadership of new head coach Tyson Bauerle, the push for success is growing.

“To me, the snide comments don’t really matter,” Bauerle said. “It doesn’t stick with us coaches too long. We usually brush it off pretty quickly, and the guys just use it as motivation.”

It takes a lot to create a solid team, such as a strong bond between players.

“We’re definitely putting more focus on relationships this year than we did last year,” Bauerle said. “You can be as demanding as you want, but you’re not going to get anywhere unless you have a good relationship between the coaches and players.”

Besides being able to work together, players also need to be able to deal with setbacks and losses.

“The players bounce back sometimes quicker than us coaches do, which is a bit difficult when we’re writing out plays or practicing,” Bauerle said.

Senior lineman Steven Hinshaw said he and his team-mates are held to a high, but attainable, standard.

“The coaches expect a lot from us, but they don’t expect anything they know we can’t handle,” he said. “It takes a while for us to completely bounce back; sometimes a few days, sometimes just one night. It depends on the loss and how much you put into that specific game.”

The team’s rallying cry for the season has been, “prove them wrong,” and with a record of 4-4 as of Oct. 23, many players believe they are doing just that.

“So far, I believe we have been able to uphold our man-tra, but we’re not finished yet,” Hinshaw said.

Football team surpasses pre-season predictions

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Volleyball squad earns state berth

The Sterling High School volleyball team, despite their 20-16 record, overcame the two-loss record of Lakin High School to secure the first state trip in SHS history.

“The experience of going to state itself is so exciting,” head coach Sheri Bennett said. “Having gone prior as a coach, I know that this something that I will never forget.”

The Lady Bears succeeded at sub-state, partly thanks to the level of competition during their regular season.

“We get experience from our league, and it allows us to get some tough wins and losses under our belt,” junior Kadie Smith said. “It prepares us both mentally and physi-cally for sub-state.”

The squad headed to Emporia on Oct. 30 in search of a state title during the two-day tournament.

KYLAH COMLEYCub Reporter

(Photo by Morgan Anderson)Senior Holly Davis sets to fellow senior Sydney Wil-son during the Lady Bears’ opening match against Southwestern Heights at the Sub-State Tournament.

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SHS girls tennis performs well at regionals, state

The 2015-2016 Sterling High School girls tennis team started out the season out with a record of 44-0. It was the goal of the team to not only start strong, but finish strong, and the girls did just that.

“The back of our shirts said, ‘make it happen’ and that means go perform and win tournaments,” senior Jessica Thorpe said. “We won 6 out of 7 tournaments this year and we had that mindset going into Regionals.”

As Regionals rolled around on Oct. 9-10 in Kiowa South Barber, Sterling’s single player, senior Mac Thrasher, had many mixed emotions for the day.

“I honestly wasn’t that nervous at the beginning of Re-gionals,” Mac Thrasher said. “Then when I knew that I had to play Conway Springs to make it to the semis, I got a little nervous, but it was fine.”

Freshman Lydia Miler felt a lot of pressure to succeed with doubles partner, Jessica Thorpe.

“I felt really bad that we didn’t win because Jessica is a senior and had never made it to state before,” Miller said. “I was also so happy and excited for the other girls that made

it because I knew how bad they wanted it too.”Maddie Thrasher placed second at the meet, qualify-

ing her for state. Gilmore and Wilson finished fourth, also qualifying for state.

“Kaci and I were the first doubles team to make it to state since 1989, I believe,” Gilmore said. “Just making it to state itself was a great honor, but knowing that we were the first duo to make it for coach made it even more special than it already was.”

State tennis took place in Kansas City on Oct. 16-17, Thrasher finished third after losing to defending state cham-pion Anna Riedmiller.

“I was very pleased with how I finished because my goal after last year, taking fifth, was to get into the top four,” Thrasher said. “Exceeding those standards was just the cherry on top.”

Gilmore and Wilson finished 5th after losing early on and fighting their way through the backside of the bracket.

“Even though we had the one loss, we recovered well and were able to come back,” Wilson said. “It was a really awesome experience to go undefeated my last day of high school tennis.”

KYLAH COMLEYCub Reporter


1983Solomon Dold is currently majoring in musical theater with a minor in dance perfor-mance at Wichita State University. He lives on campus and says this about his first year college experience:

“College is like trying to play a game, but you have no

clue what the rules are. If you lose, your future is McDonald's. Right now

I’m broke and am an understudy. It’s not as easy

as I suspected.”

1983Sam Brashear is currently living with his wife Holly in San Clamento, Calif. He and his wife are both pilots for United Airlines. Sam enjoys golfing, surfing and spending time on the beach in his free time. “I remember high school pretty clearly. Back then, we had an auto shop, which I enjoyed” he said. “One of my favorite memo-ries was winning state football my senior year.”

1995

Christina Rowland is a stay-at-home mom to

three children right here in Sterling. “Betsy proofread one of my important college

papers, and Mr. Richter looked over my resume and

helped me perfect it when I was preparing to graduate from Sterling College,” she said. “Your building's full of people who truly care for you, and that isn't something you'll find everywhere you go.”

Gellerman is currently attending quali-fying school in Edmond, Okla. If he makes it through, he will play on the Web.com Tour (the tour right below the PGA tour). He would like to pursue golf for the rest of his life. “I always wanted to become a professional; however, I never knew how much work it would take until college came,” he said. “The work is tough and often times frustrat-ing. There are many trials and tribula-tions of this life, but it's also a ton of fun. Needless to say, it's tough, but also a blast.”

1999

2003

2011

2015

John Vanover is living in Los Angeles where he is a freelance director and producer. His work consists of commer-cials, network shows and music videos. He is now working on an NBC show called “The Great Light Fight,” a Christ-mas Lights competition. John also

volunteers at Habitat for Humanity when he is free. “The best thing

about SHS is that you’re able to participate in many diverse things,” he said. “Going to Sterling was really such a

blessing. It’s a great place to be.”

Donna Edwards graduated from Southern Nazarene University where she majored in Biology-Chemistry. Edwards now lives in Jackson Heights, N.Y., with her husband and two year old son. She played volley-ball and basketball in high school, and was part of the state runner-up women’s basketball team in 1999. “Dream big and work hard,” she said. “The journey will not go as you anticipate, but don't give up on prayer and people. In the end, both will make your life complete.”

Sam Brashear

Michael Gellerman

Donna Edwards

Christina Rowland

Solomon Dold

John Vanover

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1983Solomon Dold is currently majoring in musical theater with a minor in dance perfor-mance at Wichita State University. He lives on campus and says this about his first year college experience:

“College is like trying to play a game, but you have no

clue what the rules are. If you lose, your future is McDonald's. Right now

I’m broke and am an understudy. It’s not as easy

as I suspected.”

1983Sam Brashear is currently living with his wife Holly in San Clamento, Calif. He and his wife are both pilots for United Airlines. Sam enjoys golfing, surfing and spending time on the beach in his free time. “I remember high school pretty clearly. Back then, we had an auto shop, which I enjoyed” he said. “One of my favorite memo-ries was winning state football my senior year.”

1995

Christina Rowland is a stay-at-home mom to

three children right here in Sterling. “Betsy proofread one of my important college

papers, and Mr. Richter looked over my resume and

helped me perfect it when I was preparing to graduate from Sterling College,” she said. “Your building's full of people who truly care for you, and that isn't something you'll find everywhere you go.”

Gellerman is currently attending quali-fying school in Edmond, Okla. If he makes it through, he will play on the Web.com Tour (the tour right below the PGA tour). He would like to pursue golf for the rest of his life. “I always wanted to become a professional; however, I never knew how much work it would take until college came,” he said. “The work is tough and often times frustrat-ing. There are many trials and tribula-tions of this life, but it's also a ton of fun. Needless to say, it's tough, but also a blast.”

1999

2003

2011

2015

John Vanover is living in Los Angeles where he is a freelance director and producer. His work consists of commer-cials, network shows and music videos. He is now working on an NBC show called “The Great Light Fight,” a Christ-mas Lights competition. John also

volunteers at Habitat for Humanity when he is free. “The best thing

about SHS is that you’re able to participate in many diverse things,” he said. “Going to Sterling was really such a

blessing. It’s a great place to be.”

Donna Edwards graduated from Southern Nazarene University where she majored in Biology-Chemistry. Edwards now lives in Jackson Heights, N.Y., with her husband and two year old son. She played volley-ball and basketball in high school, and was part of the state runner-up women’s basketball team in 1999. “Dream big and work hard,” she said. “The journey will not go as you anticipate, but don't give up on prayer and people. In the end, both will make your life complete.”

Sam Brashear

Michael Gellerman

Donna Edwards

Christina Rowland

Solomon Dold

John Vanover


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PROLOGUEThe Planet Donald, many mountains, many glorious

adventures to be had. One such adventure was sought after by many-a-hero: The Quest for the Sword of Righteous and Holy Redemption. A magical sword that is 100% necessary for the stopping of the undead scourge that plagues this land. Adventurers of all different types and backgrounds venture forth, a fury inside them fueling their journey to their incredibly righteous goal.

One adventurer, a low-level Knight of 25 years of age, had spent his short life trying to climb a managerial ladder with broken rungs. His name? Sir Levingston of the small country of Gallahadra.

CHAPTER ONELevingston exited his house on the south side of Galla-

hadra’s capital Merlinia, after packing up what little gold he had. He was headed for the stables to collect his horse, when suddenly, an Elven peasant appeared!

“Help!” Said she, “My brother’s been kidnapped by bad-gers, You must save him!”

“Badgers you say?” said Levingston, “How many?”The peasant thought on this point briefly then answered:

“Seven, I would say about seven full grown Badgers.”“Well, I think I can handle that. I’ll be off then.” and he

got on his horse, and rode away.After Traversing the hills of Gallahadra for sometime, he

came upon a band of unusually merry men.“Ho there” He said “ What might a band of men such as

yourselves be doing out here in the middle of nowhere?”The tallest of them, who seemed to be the leader, stepped

forward and said: “Well sir, we are robbers, and you may just have something we need.”

With that Sir Levingston rode off on his horse, as the area he couldn’t properly swing his sword in the area. As he was riding in a wide circle, for purpose of catching the men unaware. He spotted a cave, further up the path. As he got closer to this cave however, he realized that it was in fact, full of badgers.

Along his path past this cave full of badgers, he realized

that there were quite a few badgers, the majority of which started chasing him upon noticing him. At this point Sir Levingston found himself in quite the pickle, as the band of men had shifted course according to Sir Levingston’s wide arc. It was at this moment that an epic battle ensued, Sir Levingston came around a corner, fast, and in this action he absolutely obliterated one of the band, trampling his uncon-scious body into the ground, leaving him to die in the next few seconds. The Band of Men were thrown into a shock by this display of brutality, giving Sir Levingston time to get off of his horse, and draw his sword.

He didn’t get a chance for a fair fight with the men how-ever, because as soon as he was off his horse, the badgers who had been following him, came around the corner, and rushed the band of un-merry men. Ripping them to shreds. Many died, and in the end, when all of the merry men were merry no longer, t’was only one badger left. And he, hav-ing tasted the blood of humans, and his hunger quenched by the meat of merry men, followed Sir Levingston as a friendly companion.

After this horrid battle took place Sir Levingston and the badger returned to the badger cave, and found the elven peasant’s brother lying there. Dead. And thus was com-pleted Sir Levingstons first glorious quest. He carried on, in search of more quests to be done.

After many weeks of wandering through the hills, and being completely unable to find any quests, or even a name for his new badger, the travelers came upon a treasure cave.

Sir Levingston let out a yell, “Huzzah!” he bellowed, “‘Tis a treasure cave! It says so right here on this sign.” There was a sign next to the entrance to the cave, which read “Treasure Cave”

The two entered the cave, and were immediately hit by an incredible wave of light. When there eyes adjusted, they beheld in awe the scene before them. That scene was an incredible open space full of gold and cascading waterfalls flowing into pool of diamonds, and other precious gems.

King, the Badger KingBY BEN PATTISON

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. . . To Be Continued

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