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GraduationAwards,

ceremony, plans, and more

—Page 20­21

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With the recent budget cuts approved by the school board in response to the state legislature’s failure to pass the 4 percent allowable growth funding, many students and teachers see changes in the near future as the district addresses its shortfall of more than $800,000.

Currently, the state provides about $6,000 in funding for each student enrolled in the district. Over the last two years, the district’s enrollment has decreased by 66 students, resulting in a loss of $396,000 in state funding. While funding has gone down, however, the district’s !"#$#% &'!()*&'+% ,-+.#/% 0.'.1$#/% )$&(&$&.#/%maintenance, transportation, fuel, and more have continued to increase.

Personnel expenses make up about 85 percent of the district’s budget according to George Pickup, high school principal. Given that statistic, the district knew

personnel reductions would have to be made to offset the decreased state funding.

EARLY RETIREMENT INCENTIVE OFFEREDOne method the district employed to

reduce personnel expenses was to offer an early retirement incentive to district staff. Three teachers accepted the district’s offerand will retire at the end of this school year: Language Arts 10, Philosophy, and Publications teacher Christine Gilroy, Vocal Music teacher Jeannie Dean, and special education teacher LaRee Godes. “Not one teacher was told that being a veteran teacher was a bad thing,” Pickup said. “It was just an incentive for them to take an early retirement.”

The early retirement incentive helps to reduce the budget by allowing the district to hire younger replacement teachers who have lower personnel costs. “Whenever we

hire somebody,” Pickup said, “we’ve got to 2-3.%#)4.%&$5#%$6.%4&+6$%1$%7"4%")4%#!6""(8

“I’m looking for the best,” Pickup added. “Out of the pool of candidates, I’m 6"9&'+%$"%1'*%$6.%0.#$8%:7%&$5#%-%$.-!6.4%,&$6%little experience, obviously they don’t cost as much. That’s not what we’re looking for. That’s not what (Superintendent Dan) Peterson has asked us to do. He’s -#3.*%)#% $"%1'*% $6.%0.#$% $.-!6.48;% %<6.#.%replacements are Jacquelyn Daters for Gilroy, Noah Cornelius for Dean, and Jason Guerin for Godes.

HS TEACHERS ADD MS AND IS CLASSESStaff reductions at the middle school

have created a need for high school teachers to spend part of their school day teaching classes in the middle school. Language arts teacher Liz Dague, social studies teachers Matt Ohnemus and Molly Giese, and

instrumental music teacher Josh Greubel will pick up the slack in their respective disciplines.

DAGUE ACQUIRES 8TH GRADE LA CLASSDague currently teaches contemporary

literature, freshman language arts, and honors freshman language arts. Next year, Dague will spend one high school block teaching 8th grade language arts in the middle school every day. Dague was unsure how she felt when she was told she was going to teach in the middle school. “I had mixed feelings,” Dague said, “because I really love my position at the high school, and I would love to continue to teach high school classes. However, I also see it as an opportunity to make connections with younger kids.”

Dague will have to adapt to the different learning environment in the middle school. “I student-taught seventh grade,” Dague said, “so I know things are a little different in middle school. It will be an adjustment

UNCERTAINTY OF FUNDING

DISTRICT BUDGET

Teachers adjust schedules to make up for shortfalls in funding

Photo by Aidan Connolly

—TEACHERS ADAPT

Continued on Page 3

Staff HonorSawvel is named Grad Student of

Year—Page 22

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ON CAMPUS2!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

The welding program has been suc-cessful, with lots of welders competing in welding competitions.

Welding instructor and teacher Mr. Lynn Daniels has been teaching here for seven years and enjoys teaching welding and seeing his students compete against other schools.

Daniels says students gain more expe-rience and learn a lot more when they go head to head with other good welders.

“The thrill of welding face to face against an opponent motivates me to focus on the complicated welds I have to make,” Drew Shroeder said. “Welding doesn’t only take focus, but also precision and ac-curacy.”

Throughout the semester there were two Midwest Technical Institute welding con-tests in Moline and Peoria. Junior Grant Sievers took fourth place at Moline while

The heat is on.

Welder Nick

Johnson takes the

challenge given

by instructor Mr.

Lynn Daniels at the

welding festival.

Photo by Emmitt

Enyeart.

Welders heat up competition at contest

An area community audience got a taste of what students can do.

In the Central Performing Arts Center, students put on their annual Central’s Got Talent Variety Show March 16. There were many different types of acts such as sing-ing, acting, talent, and drama.

“My favorite act of the show was Bri-gitta Meyer’s and Heidi Stofer’s dance,” Chloe Mangan said. “It was very inter-!"#$%&'#(')*#+,'*%-'$#'*--!-'.*/(0' #(' #,!'show.”

“My inspiration is my friend Blake Van Vark who passed away in February of lest year,” Jenna Scheckel said. “He knew how much I loved to sing and he knew that I was a shy girl. He always wanted me to perform in front of people. He knew how much I like to sing.”

Getting out on the stage is a nervous thing to do for some students. “I thought going on the stage was going to be nerve racking for me,” Scheckel said, “but once I got on the stage, I felt com-fortable.

“Chamber sing-ers helped me a lot )$#,'12'+(%3-!%+!45'6+,!+7!8'+(%#$%9!-4'“and the support of my family and friends in the crowd sure did help a lot.”

The show was put together by Mr. Thomas Dean and Mrs. Jeannie Dean.

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friends chillin’.

Aidan Connolly,

Miah Betz, Ta-

sha Becker, and

Colleen Gannon

(in back) play a

comical eight-

hand piano piece

Galop-Marche by

Albert Lavignac.

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page performance

(11 pages per duo),

Betz pauses to

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reads an edition of

The Purple Onion.

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“The show had a lot of comical scenes in it,” Skyla Moen said. “I thought it added a lot more to the show than a regular per-formance would’ve been.”

Every act had its ()%' "$&%$3+*%+!'to the show and a wide variety of what kids can do.

“My favorite part of the show

was the song What Makes You Beautiful,” Aaron Tarchinski said. “I liked how they had Molly Andresen come out on stage and start the song, and then the Chamber Sing-ers joined in to sing the song.”

Variety show produces wide spectrum of performances

competing against about 55 kids. “I wasn’t expecting to get fourth place

because there were a few points I wasn’t sure about. Overall I thought I did all right,” Sievers said. “The toughest chal-lenge in the competition was welding the key points and holding up against the more gentle and complicated welds.”

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the competition factor that comes to me when I’m welding for a prize or medal, it makes me go work harder and take my time on the welds,” Locey said. “The chal-lenges of this competition were the intri-cate welds along with the groove welds #,*#'0!*882'1*-!'$#'-$=3+98#'#('>!'<!0=!+#?5

Daniels’ advice for future competitors is, “Kids attending the welding contest should practice.”

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ON CAMPUS 3!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

An average of 21,000 deaths occur from starvation every day around the world, while at the same time there is enough food made every day to feed everyone.

National Honor Society, with adviser Ms. LeAnn DePue, worked to raise money for an organization called Kids Against Hunger, a program working to reduce the number of hungry people in the United States and to feed starving families around the world.

They raised money through their Chicken Patty Day (students raised $250 to have an extra Chicken Patty Day for that month), buffet fundraisers at Hall of Fame, Pizza Hut, and Happy Joes, jeans day (teachers paid to wear jeans), and hat day at Ekstrand (students paid to wear a hat that day). The money that they raised al-lowed them to host an event where people could come to the school to help package food for Kids Against Hunger.

People worked together April 6 in an !""#$%&'(&)*#+ ",'&#+ ,-+ ./,+ 0-1,)2#3+ 0--3+into packages and boxes for Kids Against Hunger. Kids Against Hunger then offers the food to people in need for a cost of only 25 cents.

“I thought the food packaging day was fun,” DePue, sponsor of the event, said. “The high school kids looked like they would rather have been in bed until

NHS and Kids against Hunger support local food drive

Mr. Keith Townsley and the Boy Scouts showed up, then they woke up and started joking around. We packaged 3,000 meals in just over an hour.”

But DePue wasn’t in it alone, she had tons of help with the event from local stu-dents always looking to get more involved and help other students who are less fortu-nate, like Brooke Chapman. 456#+)3#!+,-+6#&.+276,+6/*7#1+!8,/!&&'+

came from a Quad City Hunger Banquet

that some National Honor Society mem-bers attended. At the banquet, we learned about Norman Borlaug who worked to 276,+9-1&3+6/*7#1:+;-6*+<##1#="+)*>-&>#-ment with world hunger, hunger in our 8-$$/*),':+96!,+-,6#1"+6!>#+3-*#+,-+276,+hunger, and what we could do to join the 276,:?+@6!.$!*+"!)3A+4B#+&#0,+,6#+%!*C/#,+1#!3'+,-+0/&2&&+,6#+

challenge that we had been given,” Chap-man said. “We were asked to do something

to help with the problem of world hunger. The bold statement was our focus. We want people to realize that there are students in our district who do not always know what they are going to eat after school, on the weekends, or on breaks.

“We want people to realize that world hunger is a problem in our little town of DeWitt. We hope that people stop viewing starving children as children from Africa, but also children from Iowa.”

LOGAN HALEY STAFF WRITER

TEACHERS ADAPT—Continued from Page 1to see the eighth graders every day instead of every other day, as I do now with the ninth graders. I will need to adjust when planning for lessons to effectively use the extra time. It should allow me to cover more content and to go more in depth.”

Dague’s high school classes could be affected, as her class sizes might grow. “I try to give my students a decent amount of one-on-one time,” Dague said, “but that’s 7-)*7+ ,-+%#+$-1#+3)028/&,+ ,-+3-+ )0+ D+6!>#+larger classes. I will also have to adjust some of my classroom routines, especially how papers get graded.”

Dague seemed excited, however, and looks forward to the change. “I’ll probably really love it,” Dague said. “I am excited to teach new content and try out some new things.” She also looks forward to work-ing with other teachers. “It will be great to have Mrs. (Staci) Mercado as my col-league,” Dague said. “There are probably a lot of positives that will come out of it.”

OHNEMUS ADDS 7TH GRADE, NEW TOPICS

Another teacher who looks forward to adding middle school classes to the school day is Ohnemus, who enjoyed teaching in a middle school in Chicago before being employed by Central.

“It makes sense that we can share teach-ers,” Ohnemus said. “Sometimes it seems [middle school and high school] don’t al-ways know what the other’s doing, and the more we can get those two buildings to connect, especially through teachers, that opens doors and creates opportunities.”

Ohnemus believes the changes will not negatively affect his high school courses.

“We found that a lot of my class sizes were somewhat smaller,” Ohnemus said. “There wasn’t a real conformity in the number of students, so we found a way to get all class sizes in the high school on the same level. We moved some students around, and that allowed me to open up my schedule so I could go down to the middle school.

Ohnemus said class sizes won’t be any larger than in the past, but the few sections that have a small number of students oppo-site huge sections of the same class will be combined to be more equal. “I don’t mind that,” Ohnemus said, “because it’s chal-lenging to create group work and it’s chal-lenging to do a lot of things with really small classes.”

O h n e m u s hopes the mid-dle school set-ting will spice up his daily schedule. “When I teach the high school courses,” Ohnemus said, “I teach six sections of the same class over two days, so I have three sections on Day 1 and three sections on Day 2. By the end of the year, that gets to be a lot.”

Ohnemus says teaching in the middle school will provide him with something different. “It breaks it up for me,” Ohne-mus said, “and allows me to explore topics in ways that I wouldn’t otherwise get to.”

GIESE ADDS 7TH GRADE, LARGER CLASSES Giese anticipates a larger number of

students and increased preparation for four separate classes when she travels to the middle school for part of her day next fall.

“I will be teaching four different cours-es, which is more planning, and my high

school classes will be bigger,” Giese said, “but I will adapt and try to be a good addi-tion to the middle school.”

Giese said she looks forward to changes next school year. “A new topic of teaching is always interesting,” Giese said. “I am sure I will be excited to be back in the fall.”

GREUBEL TUNES IN TO 6TH GRADE STUDENTS

Greubel will begin next year as the 6th grade instrumental music teacher. With current middle school instrumental music teacher Andrew Vickers resigning at the end of the year, the district hired Brittany Manning as the middle school instrumental

music teacher for 7th and 8th grades.

G r e u b e l said he will no longer have lunch room duties.

“I will be shifting my duties toward the 6th grade band,” he said. “I already teach the beginners in the summer as part of my summer contract, and I really enjoy that. So, the trade-off to lose lunch duty to do more teaching made more sense.”

Greubel said he looks forward to work-ing with more kids. “Each year is new,” Greubel said, “just because of the make-up of the group. I’ve been teaching high school band for 13 years, but every year it’s different. I’m excited about teaching and I love doing it.”

With all of the changes going on in the music department, Greubel will have to accept extra responsibilities. “Half of our music staff will be new to the district,” Greubel said. “We’ve been in a transition mode for a couple of years with the build-

ing realignment, a new auditorium, and new classrooms. The transition still contin-ues and new staff means we have to get to-gether and get on the same page and decide where the music program is going to go.”

Greubel will have to spend lots of time with the middle school band teacher to make sure students get the information and skills they need. “I will have a lot of col-laboration with the new teacher,” Greubel said. “We’ll be working on plans for the future, compacting our summer program, !*3+ ,1')*7+ ,-+ 2,+ #>#1',6)*7+ )*A+ D+ 9)&&+ %#+teaching the 6th grade rehearsal, but Ms. Manning will teach the lessons, so we will collaboratively teach the students.

“Even though it will be co-teaching,” Greubel added, “as the senior staff, I’ll have the extra responsibilities of concerts and honor bands, and the responsibility of making sure they learn everything they need to before I hand them off to Ms. Man-ning for 7th and 8th grade.”

PICKUP DOES NOT ANTICIPATE MORE CUTS

As far as next year goes, Pickup said there have been no talks about budget cuts.

“We’ll have to look at our enrollment,” Pickup said. “Can I look into the crystal ball and say 100 percent no, we’re not go-ing to have to cut some? No, but we made a pretty substantial cut this year.”

Ohnemus said, “Nobody wants bud-get cuts, it’s really frustrating. It’s the last thing that we want. People are doing the best they can with what they have. It’s re-!&&'+7--3+,6!,+9#=1#+,1')*7+,-+2*3+,6#+")&-ver lining as best we can. It’s not the ideal environment, it’s not the ideal way to do it, %/,+)0+9#+8!*+,1'+,-+2*3+"-$#+.-"),)>#+-.-portunities out of it, it’s going to be the best way to go forward.”

“...if we can try to "nd some positive opportunities out of it, it’s going to be the best way to go forward.”

—Matt Ohnemus

Helping the world,

one meal at a time.

Students spent their

Saturday morning

April 6 mixing, seal-

ing, and packaging

over 3,000 meals

for hungry families

in the surrounding

area and beyond.

Front row: Colleen

Gannon, Gretchen

Henningsen, Sher-

lock Palma, Cynthia

Ciriac, Katie Burken,

Hunter Ilg. Back

row: Marci Nielsen,

Adrian Templeton,

Tom Burken, Cam-

eron Donovan, Jor-

dan Porth, AJ Smith,

Drew Dieckmann.

Contributed Photo.

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Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

“Let me take you for a ride…So sit

back and let me be your TV Guide.”

Many students experienced the Life in Living Color of Frank Abagnale, Jr.

April 7 on the Chicago musical trip.

“After having seen the movie, it was

really interesting to see it in musical for-

mat,” Tasha Becker said.

Emily Reed agreed. “The show was

awesome, but I like the movie better.”

For the sixth year in a row, Mr. Josh

Greubel, band director, has organized a

trip into Chicago for a musical, dinner

and shopping.

!"# $%&# $'# ()*#a show that will

catch the inter-

est of the stu-

dents,” Greu-

bel said. “The

movie Catch Me if You Can has

great music in it

so after looking

up reviews and

asking around, it was the choice for the

date.”

“The plot didn’t hold my attention

in the same way that last year’s show

(Green Day’s American Idiot) did,”

Hannah Macumber said. “I’d heard of

the movie Catch Me if You Can, but I

recognized and enjoyed the music from

American Idiot much more.”

!"# ()*# $+,)-.# $+/$# /%0# /# -''*# 1/%,-ance where activities and the show are

concerned,” Greubel said.

Catch Me... ...if you canMusicians travel to Windy City to attend musical, visit Chinatown

Solofest. A term band and choir kids

may shudder to hear across the state. To

be successful with a Division I or II rating,

students need to start practicing in Decem-

ber and intensively keep at it until March.

State Solo Festival was held at Central

High School Saturday, March 23. Students

from across the state traveled to perform as

soloists and small groups. Entries could get

a rating from a Division I to a Division V,

the lower the number the better the result.

The students had mixed feelings about

having the contest at home.

“It had its positives and negatives,” Ta-

sha Becker said. “It was a lot easier to have

it at home so we knew where everything

was, but I think part of the solofest experi-

ence is going to another school.”

“I like how it was at home because

the atmosphere as really familiar,” Sara

Hasenmiller said. “I don’t like how it was

like a normal school day, I got really bor-

ing waiting for results between the differ-

ent events I was in.”

2$+0%.# 30%0# 4'%0# *0(),$0# /5'6$# +'3#$+0&# 708$# $+0# !+'40# (08*# /*1/)$/-09#worked. “I did not like having it at home,”

junior Katelyn Siegel said. “I couldn’t

sleep on the bus ride and we had to help

with stuff since we hosted.”

Most of the time students take multiple

entries, either a mix between band and

choir or more than one event from each

group. “I had three solos,” Siegel said,

“and I was apart of too many other events

to count.”

“I was a part of three different events,”

Hasenmiller said, “woodwind choir, wood-

wind quintet and I had a solo.”

Some take beyond what anyone would

expect them to, like Tasha Becker, who

was a part of 10 events throughout the day.

“I was a part of percussion choir, and

I had a snare drum solo, and piano solo.

These all received Division II ratings,”

Becker said. “I was also a part of mallet

choir, timpani solo, marimba solo, piano

quartet, vocal solo, vocal duet and cham-

ber singers. These all received Division I

ratings.”

“I felt I was fairly prepared,” Becker

said. “There were only a couple things I

*,*):$#7008#/.#;')(*0)$#')#/.#"#3/)$0*#$'<9# No matter what the outcome was,

students either feel like they should have

practiced more to do better, the judge was

unfair, or they thought they received what

they deserved.

!"# $+,)=# 7'%# $+0# (%.$# &0/%# "# *,*# >%0$$&#good,” Hasenmiller said. “I continued

playing my solo even though I wish I could

have stopped at the time.”

“I didn’t get a one on the solo I thought

was my best piece,” Siegel said. “I was up-

set about that, but otherwise the day went

okay.”

“I feel like on my snare drum solo, I

didn’t quite understand the judge’s cri-

tiques and the rating he gave me,” Becker

./,*?#!56$#"#3/.#./$,.(0*#3,$+#$+0#'6$;'40#of everything else.”

Speech is a hard class for many peo-

ple, getting up in front of an audience and

speaking with no crutch words or mess-

ups. That is not problem, though, for the

Sabers.

“I work on memorization, just making

sure I know my speech correctly,” Rylee

Kerper said.

It doesn’t just come naturally, though.

The Sabers still spend a lot of their time

practicing to make sure their speeches are

the best they can be.

“I prepare all of my introductions and

transitions beforehand,” Aidan Connolly

said. “The day of the performance, I spend

a lot of the morning sleeping and relaxing,

getting myself ready.”

It’s not an easy thing to do, though. The

Sabers know how to handle their nerves

and get the job done.

“The hardest part is simply performing

in front of the judges,” Adam Pacha said.

“The nerves can get to you sometimes.”

Getting the students ready and comfort-

able is the main goal for speech teacher Mr.

Thomas Dean.

“When the students qualify for state

.>00;+?#$+0&#+/10#%0;0,10*#/#(%.$#>8/;0#%/$-ing at district speech. We get a ballot back

from district. The judge has given hints on

how to improve the performance for state

speech. I encourage the students to come

in often to work on those suggestions from

the judge,” Dean said.

Many people think that once you are

(),.+0*#3,$+# $+0# .>00;+# &'6# +/10# -,10)?#the nerves just go away. Not exactly.

“My favorite but most scariest part was

checking what your rating was,” Kerper

said.

“Waiting for the ballot is super scary

with the anticipation of knowing how well

you did,” Pacha said.

All around, the state speech contest was

a success for the Saber state speech con-

testants.

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“As these trips are for the kids to

experience something different both

culturally and activity-wise, Chinatown

was a good contrast from the show we

saw,” he said.

“The best part of the whole trip was

Chinatown,” Kaytlinn Duesing said.

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ished Mr. Greubel let us go get pictures

3,$+#$+0#(%040)#/)*#-0$#AB.+,%$.<9“The trip as a whole was a great ex-

perience,” Lydia Ahrens said. “I had

never been to Chinatown in Chicago so

just seeing the architecture and shops

on our way to dinner was really inter-

esting.”

To refrain from doing the same thing

twice, Mr.

Greubel keeps

a wide variety

of activities in

mind when he

plans a musi-

cal trip.

“The trip

last year to

Navy Pier was

a lot of fun,”

Kaelyn Ha-

gens said. “The Ferris wheel wasn’t

open yet when we were there, but all of

the venders were set up with their trin-

kets and things.”

!"# 8'10*# .+'>>,)-# /$# $+0#@''*(08*#mall,” Reed said. Macumber agreed,

“It was really nice getting to go to all

the shops that we don’t have in our own

mall at home.”

Greubel said, “I loved seeing the

kids enjoying themselves as well as just

enjoying the experience of the trip.”

“The movie Catch Me If You Can has great music in it, so after looking up reviews and asking around, it was the choice for the date.”

—Josh Greubel

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Birks said. “I like to sculpt and model in it because creating things from my imagina-tion and with Blender adds an extra dimen-*78&+#$"#+>+E4*#+1"&F#+@(#+67#$+5"5()GB+

=>+27?(+68)?7&@+67#$+#$(+@";(+(&@7&(3B+H8;+A4)?(&+*"7'3B+:(1"4*(+89+"22+#$(+#$7&@*+you can use to manipulate the 3D environ-;(&#GB+

The class is entirely student taught. Open-ended problem-solving is one of the skills that working in VREP teaches. This year in the class were three returning #("1$()*I+C";()8&+JFK(723+L";(*+M88&(D+and Logan Haley. There were four new *#4'(&#*I+N((@"&+O"**3+H8;+A4)?(&3+C8'D+A7)?*+"&'+M71"7"$+K7(*(&G+

“I have learned ways to use my com-54#()+98)+;8)(+#$"&+E4*#+$8;(68)?3B+O"**+*"7'G+ B>+ %&'+;D*(293+ 8&+ "+ 9(6+ 811"*78&*3+playing with it at home just to learn more ":84#+A2(&'()GB+

The class was started to help students who enjoy working a lot on their comput-ers and lack challenge from conventional classes. =>&+ #$7*+ 12"**3B+ A4)?(&+ *"7'3+ B>+ $"<(+

2(")&('+ :8#$+ #$(+ *?722*+ 89+ 4*7&@+ A2(&'()3+:4#+"2*8+$86+#8+5)8:2(;+*82<(3+"&'+%@4)(+84#+6$D+#$7&@*+")(&F#+68)?7&@GB+

One of the main problems any student in the program will have to begin with is becoming familiar with software that is not very user-friendly. P$(&+ D84+ %)*#+ 85(&+ #$(+ *89#6")(+ D84+

")(+ @7<(&+ "+ *7;52(+ 14:(+ #8+ 68)?+ 67#$3+ "+1";()"+#8+1"5#4)(+67#$3+"&'+"+*7;52(+27@$#G+From just that you can literally create any-#$7&@+#$"#+D84+1"&+7;"@7&(I++9)8;+K7**(&F*+tornado that crashed Blender due to how ;"&D+ 5")#712(*+ 7#+ 6"*+ (;7##7&@3+ #8+ A7)?*F+;8'(27&@+";"Q7&@+'(;8&R27?(+%@4)(*+67#$+his drawing tablet and moving them direct-ly into Blender with ease.

“I would encourage anyone that wants #8+ E87&+ #$(+ -./!+ 12"**3B+ A7)?*+ *"7'3+ =79+they are willing to gain experience with '7@7#"2+5)8@)";*3+8)+6"&#+ #8+(S5)(**+ #$(7)+1)("#7<(+":727#D+7&+"+'7@7#"2+98);"#GB+

All seven students packed into a school vehicle at 5:30 a.m. April 9 and traveled to Des Moines to attend the VREP show-case attended by schools from all across #$(+ *#"#(3+ "*+6(22+ "*+ 9)8;+M7&&(*8#"+ "&'+Illinois. During the event the students got to attend classes taught by other kids who were extraordinary in their own respects.

They learned how to better align arma-#4)(*3+8)+:8&(*3+7&+"+TU+;8'(2+*8+#$"#+#$(D+don’t horribly mess up and deform; how to animate sprites in eight- and sixteen-bit video games; observe what can be done with a bit more practice in Blender.

The future of the class is entirely driven :D+*#4'(&#*3+"*+28&@+"*+*#4'(&#*+1"&+*#(5+45+to the plate and transition from having little to no knowledge of the software to having to teach new kids all about Blender — even if you yourself still have almost no idea why things work the way that they work.

Friendly competition gets students and teachers excited for basketball

March is the month for basketball mad-ness. Everyone gets excited to implement the special selection process to predict the 67&&()+ 89+ #$(+ M(&F*+ KCVV+ A"*?(#:"22+Tournament. Students and staff participat-ed in the March Madness event sponsored by Future Business Leaders of America.=/S17#(;(&#+ %22('+ #$(+ "7)3B+ :4*7&(**+

teacher Mr. Bill Petsche said. H$(+18*#+ #8+(&#()+KCVV+571?*+6"*+WT+

5()+(&#)D3+"&'+:(*#+89+"223+5)81(('*+6(&#+#8+the March of Dimes.

Petsche said prizes were awarded for X*#3+Y&'+"&'+T)'+52"1(G+Z7)*#+52"1(+6"*+984)+lunch buffets at Hall of Fame and Saber throwback apparel.

Second and third place winners were awarded Saber throwback apparel.

Petsche said students who wanted to (&#()+ 1842'+ 5)7&#+ 84#+ #$(7)+ 86&+ :)"1?(#*3+%22+84#+:)"1?(#*+ (2(1#)8&71"22D3+8)+571?+45+brackets from him.C8;52(#7&@+ :)"1?(#*+ 6()(+ T[+ 5(852(I+

Y\+*#4'(&#*+"&'+X[+*#"99+;(;:()*+(&#()7&@+the contest.

M)G+C)"7@+.(4#()3+ *17(&1(+ #("1$()3+6"*+#$(+X*#+52"1(+67&&()3+27:)")7"&+M)*G+V&')("+]$(2#8&+#88?+Y&'+52"1(3+"&'+$("'+27:)")7"&+M)*G+H";;D+M1C27;8&3+T)'G+

Petsche said the contest raised over WX\\+98)+#$(+M")1$+89+U7;(*3+"&'+$(+6"*+happy to support such a wonderful cause.

Reuter said he was pretty surprised he 6"*+ 8&(+ 89+ #$(+ #85+ %&"27*#*3+ :(1"4*(+ $(+4*4"22D+&(<()+%&7*$(*+6(22+8&+#$(*(+:)"1?-ets. He doesn’t follow college basketball ;41$3+:4#+(&#()('+#$7*+#7;(+:(1"4*(+#8+*45-port the March of Dimes.

Reuter said the team that won it for him 6"*+M71$7@"&G+^(+7*+"&+"<7'+>86"+9"&3+:4#+

he was rooting for Michigan during the #84)&";(&#G+ P$(&+ $(+ %)*#+ #4)&('+ 7&+ #$(+:)"1?(#3+$(+*"7'3+=>+%@4)('+>+6842'+:(+84#+89+7#+"9#()+#$(+%)*#+)84&'+:4#+7#+6842'+*#722+:(+"+@88'+'8&"#78&+98)+"+@)("#+1"4*(GB

Petsche said the biggest challenge was the short time frame that students and staff had to complete their brackets and get #4)&('+ 7&+ 8&+ #7;(3+ 67#$+ 8&2D+ #68+ *1$882+days to get them completed. ^(+*"7'3+=H$(+:(*#+5")#+6"*+#$"#+(<()D-

one had fun keeping track of their teams’ 67&*+"&'+28**(*3+#"2?7&@+"+27##2(+*;"1?+67#$+8&(+ "&8#$()+ "&'+ (*5(17"22D3+ :(7&@+ ":2(+ #8+)"7*(+;8&(D+98)+"+@88'+1"4*(GB

The FFA chapter has a long history of taking hardware home from any competi-tion they enter. This year was no different. H$(+1$"5#()3+"'<7*('+:D+M)G+L";(*+N27&(3+recently participated in the district contest. L"18:+ .(7*#)899()+ "&'+ ]#(<(&+ C8&&(22+

both received State FFA Degrees in April. “This is the highest degree a state can be-*#86+458&+ 7#*+;(;:()*3B+.(7*#)899()+*"7'G+“Two star greenhand awards will also be @7<(&+84#+"#+#$(+4518;7&@+1$"5#()+:"&_4(#3+but the recipients will have to wait until #$"#+&7@$#+#8+@(#+#$(7)+&";(*+1"22('GBV#+ '7*#)71#*+ C2"7)(+ C";5:(22+ )(1(7<('+

a gold in creed speaking and advanced to state contest.

Amber Meyer participated in extempo-)"&(84*+*5("?7&@3+(")&7&@+"+*72<()3+"&'+"'-vanced to state. Reistroffer received silver in prepared public speaking. O"4)(&+ P(7)453+ /)71+ P(7)45+ "&'+ .(-

istroffer interviewed for a position in the Y\XTRY\X`+ *#"#(+ ZZV+ 89%1()+ #(";G+ ^(7'7+Andresen also interviewed for the position 89+Y\XTRY\X`+>86"+ZZV+!)(*7'(&#G+=>#+ 7*+"+)7@8)84*+#68R'"D+5)81(**3B+.(-

7*#)899()+*"7'3+=67#$+*(<(&+)84&'*+89+#(*#*3+5()*8&"2+"&'+@)845+7&#()<7(6*3+6)7#7&@+(S-

()17*(*3+"&'+7;5)8;5#4+*5((1$(*GBStudents enjoyed the fun activities FFA

has to offer. Seth Weirup and Logan War-ren agreed state convention was the most fun activity of the year. They got to meet other students with similar interests.

“I love challenging myself to be better #$"&+ >+ ";3B+P(7)45+ *"7'G+ =>+ 28<(+;((#7&@+&(6+9)7(&'*3+#88GB=M((#7&@+&(6+5(852(3+$"&@7&@+84#+67#$+

friends and learning new things are the rea-*8&*+>+(&E8D+ZZV3B+P"))(&+*"7'G+

FFA is more than just fun. Members learn life lessons and skills for their future. =ZZV+ $"*+ #"4@$#+ ;(+ #8+ :(+ 18&%'(&#+

6$(&+ *5("?7&@+ 7&+ 9)8&#+ 89+ 2")@(+ 1)86'*3B+P(7)45+*"7'3+=+"&'+:(7&@+":2(+#8+#$7&?+8&+;D+9((#GB+

“It has taught me how to be a good lead-()3B+P"))(&+*"7'G

Reistroffer is one of the most praised ;(;:()*+ #8+ 18;(+ #$)84@$+ C(&#)"2F*+ ZZV+program.

“I am very involved and have a burning 5"**78&+ 98)+ #$(+ 8)@"&7Q"#78&3B+ .(7*#)899()+said.

“Some up-and-coming involved mem-:()*+")(+](#$+P(7)45+"&'+M822D+M1a47)(3+:8#$+(2(1#('+ #8+'7*#)71#+ZZV+89%1(3B+.(7*-troffer continued. “Seth is district treasurer "&'+M822D+ 7*+ K8)#$("*#+ *4:R'7*#)71#+ <71(Rpresident. She was elected to my position 7&+#$(+'7*#)71#GB

AUSTIN HOLSTSTAFF WRITER

KYLE BAUERSTAFF WRITER

LOGAN HALEY STAFF WRITER

!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

“Technology isn’t 100 percent and 7#+ &(<()+ 6722+ :(3B+ L"?(+ .(7*#)899()+ *"7'G++“It just happened to be that I got ‘lucky’ (&84@$+#8+@(#+"+:"'+18;54#()GB

Many students share these sentiments after dealing with growing technical issues with 1-to-1 laptops.

“My computer would shut down to a :2"1?+*1)((&+":84#+*7S+#7;(*+"+'"D3B+V')7"&+Templeton said. Templeton was not the only one to have screen issues.=>#+ ,#$(+ *1)((&0+$"'+ #4)&('+D(2286+"&'+

:24(3B+*"7'+.(7*#)899()G+=H)D7&@+#8+*((+"&D-#$7&@+8&+*1)((&+6"*+)("22D+'79%142#+"&'+8:-<784*2D+;"'(+7#+$")'+#8+68)?GB+

Marty Green had similar issues with his laptop screen.=H$(+*7#4"#78&+7*+E4*#+?7&'+89+"&&8D7&@3B+

Reistroffer said. “I got my loaner in Feb-ruary and I still haven’t gotten my actual 18;54#()+:"1?GB

“I didn’t have any problems with the 28"&()+>+6"*+@7<(&3+:4#+>+*#722+;7**('+$"<-7&@+;D+18;54#()3B+a)((&+*"7'G+H(;52(#8&+"@)(('3+=>+E4*#+6"&#+;D+18;54#()+%S('GBK8#+ "22+ #$(+ 18;54#()*+ $"'+ 7**4(*+ #$"#+

#88?+"*+28&@+#8+%S+"*+8#$()*G“I got my computer back relatively

_471?2D3B+a)((&+*"7'G+=>+8&2D+(&'('+45+$"<-7&@+"+28"&()+98)+":84#+#$)((+6((?*GB

Various issues that students have had ")(+:)8?(&+#)"1?+5"'*+,;84*(+5"'*+8&+#$(+18;54#()*03+ :)8?(&+ 1$")@()*+ "&'+ 1$")@()+58)#*3+"&'+*1)((&+@27#1$(*G/<(&+67#$+#(1$&71"2+'79%142#7(*+(S5()7-

enced by many of the students throughout #$(+ D(")3+ #$(7)+ 857&78&+ 8&+ #$(+ XR#8RX+ 5)8-gram hasn’t been negatively affected.

“This program will prepare us for our 94#4)(+68)?52"1(+'86&+#$(+)8"'3B+H(;52(-ton said. “It’s going to make the transition 9)8;+$7@$+*1$882+#8+1822(@(+;41$+("*7()GB++a)((&+ "@)(('+ "&'+ *"7'3+ =>#F*+ "+ @88'+

learning tool but it can be really distract-7&@GB

“I feel like I’ve learned a lot about Mac 18;54#()*3B+ .(7*#)899()+ *"7'G+ =>+ 9((2+ 27?(+I’m going to be better off in the real world &86+:(1"4*(+89+#$7*+5)8@)";GB

Let’s take a look. Tech adviser Tammy Mc-Climon helps Brandy Rossmiller with her computer woes. Photo by Lydia Ahrens.

FFA’ers come home with the hardware earned at district contest, earn state

Experiencing technical di!culties:

Sta" addresses computer glitches

LYDIA AHRENSSTAFF WRITER

ON CAMPUS6!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Superior rating at state contest

In the past seven years, high school

band has received six division one ratings

at the annual large group state band com-

petition.

!"#$% &"'()*'(+,% -'.)-/% -'0'.1$% 1"'%hard work both band director Josh Greubel

and his students put into their music.

The large group state band competition

was held Friday, May 3. It is a compilation

of all the bands in the area of similar school

size. There were six division 3A schools

attending the event: Assumption, Clear

Creek Amana, Maquoketa, Solon, and of

course Central. There were also 7 division

1A schools present.

“The event went very smoothly for the

2-$1%1#*'%)3-%$.")),%")$1'/%#145%$+#/%6-'3-

bel. “Music boosters took care of conces-

sions, Ann Green was in charge of volun-

teers, and parents, high school and middle

$.")),%$13/'(1$%"',&'/%)3175Past or present music directors who

were asked to judge the event judged the

PETER KEEGANSTAFF WRITER

All show, no tell: art brings home awardsKAELYN HAGENS

STAFF WRITER

Seven schools participated with a total

of 140 entries (20 from each school) in 15

different categories at the annual WaMac

art festival held on April 10.

The process for choosing a piece for

the WaMac Art Conference wasn’t an easy

one, but for Kayla Leming it was. She

chose a mixed media, computer-enhanced

$',89&)-1-+#14%:"#."%);'-+,,%<)1%+%2-$1%&,+.'%ranking in Graphic Design.

“I’ve always loved to make things, it

*#<"1%';'(%='%&+#(1#(<%*>%-))*45%?'*#(<%said. “Art is a kind of therapy for me, it

helps me work through my issues I might

"+;'%<)#(<%)(%+1%1"'%1#*'75%As part of curricular requirements, art

teacher Mrs. Sue Sawvel’s part is getting

students involved with the arts.

“To get students involved with their art,

giving them as much room as possible as

far as personal options within the required

:)-@% #$%)('%:+>45%A+:;',%$+#/7%BC()1"'-%way is to use criterion-based grading; that

is they don’t compete against anyone else,

just themselves. Their work isn’t compared

to anyone else’s. So personal effort and

work ethic carry a lot of weight academi-

cally as far as a grade. That is a relief for

*+(>%$13/'(1$4%+(/%+%*)1#;+1)-75The way the students are judged at

WaMac based on quality and at the CCC

contest is more based on what judges like.

“For the most part it says ‘go with the

0):D%=31%E3/<'$D%)&#(#)($%/)(D1%*+11'-4%#1D$%:"+1%>)3%1-3,>%1"#(@%+=)31%>)3-%+-1%:)-@45%Heather Clark said.

Students who participated were Mor-

gan Palmer, Courtney Arndt, Cody Birks,

Heather Clark, Sierra Moore, Evan Rock-

well, Kristofer Alexander, Josh Arey, Josh

Schmidtke, Elizabeth Shreeves and Heidi

Stofer.

Students who participated at the CCC

Annual High School Fine Arts Festival on

April 19 were Morgan Palmer, Abbi Bro-

Band receives Division I rating playing a four-movement piece

Showing off. Front row: Heather Clark, Kristen Coomer, Becca Huseman, Kayla Leming, Justine Kage-

mann, Morgan Palmer, Brigitta Meyer, and Abbi Brokaw. Back row: Josh Schmidtke, Courtney Arndt,

Josh Arey, Cody Birks, Bailey Peyton, Sierra Moore, Heidi Stofer, Kris Alexander, Jennifer Stofer, Sam Barr,

Elizabeth Shreeves, Evan Rockwell, Ellen Green. Photo contributed.

Division I rating goes to band at state contest. Director: Joshua Greubel. Front row: Katelyn Siegel, Amber Haack, Emily Reed, Katie Burken, Rachael Bertolino, Taylor McGranahan, Adrian Templeton, Cassie

Blaser. Second row: Karlee Eberhart, Eden Tarchinski, Katie Roling, Kaelyn Hagens, Lydia Ahrens, Andrea Weiss, Rylee Kerper, Emalee Thul, Sara Hasenmiller, Kailei Riggs, Shannon Coyle, Allison Letcher, Amber

Meyer. Third row: Brittany McNamara, Kaitlyn Dickey, Emily Lowery, Marissa Braddock, Andi Sheehan, Maggie Grell, Erica Laures, Danielle Marvin, Hailey Franzen, Andrew Darland, Nick Jerew, Tyler Ketelsen,

Heidi Stofer, Erin Izer, Morgan Palmer, Mikayla Coyle, Kate Tarchinski, Mathew Townsley, Erin Lubben, Sarah Schoel. Fourth row: Logan Haley, Lucas Block, Aidan Connolly, Lucas Franzen, Brooke Chapman, Matt

McWilliams, Aaron Hagens, Annie Ladehoff, James Mooney, Colleen Gannon, Ellie Ladehoff, Hunter Ilg, Jen Stofer, Skyla Moen, Adam Pacha, Morgan Congrove, Seth Weirup, Sarah Courtney, Darcy Bertolino.

Back row: Tasha Becker, Miah Betz, Hailey Saunders, Claire Campbell, Savanah Necker, Hannah Law, Clay Giese, and Abbey Hansen. Not pictured: Marci Nielsen. Photo by Josh Greubel.

kaw, Justine Kagemann, Kayla Leming,

Bailey Peyton, Jen Stofer, Courtney Arndt,

Sam Barr, Cody Birks, Heather Clark,

Kristen Coomer, Sierra Moore, Evan Rock-

well, Kristofer Alexander, Josh Arey, Ellen

Green, Becca Huseman, Brigitta Meyer,

Josh Schmidtke, Elizabeth Shreeves and

Heidi Stofer.

bands.

A band can score anywhere between a

division 1 rating and a division 4, 1 being

the best and 4 being the worst; 1 meaning

BA3&'-#)-45%F%*'+(#(<%BGH.',,'(145%+(/%I%*'+(#(<%B6))/75%J3-%.)(.'-1%=+(/%3(/'-%the direction of Josh Greubel received a 1

(Superior) rating at the state level.

“I chose the piece Elements by Brian

Balmages. It was made of four movements

(Air, Water, Earth, Fire) and met all re-

K3#-'/%.-#1'-#+45%$+#/%6-'3=',7%%!"'%.)(.'-1%band is made of 70 students, making it one

of the largest bands in the east side of the

conference. “Size is not always an advan-

tage. Judges look for balanced instrumen-

tation. Sometimes numbers actually hurt

$)3(/%K3+,#1>75%A+#/%6-'3=',7The band played a concert on the Sun-

day before the event. It helped them get out

the nerves, and the band saw improvement

in just two rehearsals.

6-'3=',%:+$%B'.$1+1#.5%:"'(%+$@'/%"):%he felt about the results of the competition.

Greubel said, “With a few more volunteers,

more signage, and smoother concessions, I

think the event could be even better next

>'+-75

ON CAMPUS 7!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

Foods teacher Dr. Valarie Betz has been teaching foods classes along with meal management classes, but every year there is one contest that gets all the students ex-cited.

The pie contest is just for Foods II class-!"#$%&#"'()!#"*!#*+"#,-!#.//0#)1+""!"#!+)*#)1+""#2+0!#+$/%&#,-!#3'!"4

“Having the pie contest gives students freedom of choice, cre-ative freedom and a chance to try something they may have never done,” Betz said. The pie contest gives students the chance to work together and decide what kind of pie to make and what it will look like in the end.

Each class is given time to make the )5%"&6#&*!#,11'(76#+(0#&*!(#,('"*#'&#"/#8%07!"#who are teachers with an open block can come and taste each pie to pick a winner. 9:;#75/%3#2+0!#+(#<2!5')+(#=+76#+(0#

even though the judges didn’t pick us they still liked the design,” Brandee Rus said.

Students are already competitive with

sports they play or how involved they get with their music, but foods classes got just as competitive during the pie contest.

There was one winner from each class, and then a new judge tasted the rest of the pies before picking an overall champion.

“I don’t like to eat pies, so when my class had to do the contest I was not look-ing forward to it at all, but once I saw how fun making the pie was I was happy that I had to participate,” Sheila Lowery said.

The pie contest is a regular thing for Mrs. Betz since she has been doing it for

about six years. “It is something that most stu-dents don’t think about doing, but it teaches them about how easy it is to go out and bake a pie that may be good, but they could make

one from scratch by themselves that is just as good,” Betz said.

Anyone who would like to do the pie contest would need to take Foods I and II. The contest is only for Foods II students, even though many students have said that they would enjoy participating in another pie contest even if it wasn’t for school.

“The contest was fun and showed me that even though I don’t like eating pie I still can like to make it,” Lowery said.

Making a good crust is easy as pie

The ending of every school year teach-ers apply for grants of all kinds from Cen-tral’s Education Foundation to help stu-dents have a better way of learning in the classroom.

Thirteen out of the 15 teachers who ap-plied for grants received them.

Mr. Cody LaKose, the anatomy and physiology teacher, received a grant for lab work. The grant is a Pelham Grant.

It’s for about $2,600 worth of equip-ment to be used in the lab setting and it represents a total of $5,200 worth over the past two years toward the anatomy & physiology.

“I’m very appreciative and thankful to receive this grant,” LaKose said.

This grant is going to be used for the Anatomy and Physiology classroom.

The sensors included in the new equip-ment are surface temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, EKG sensor, hand dyna-mometer, spirometer, oxygen gas sensor, and 25g accelerometer.

There are 25 labs that will be included and each will touch on some aspect of ev-ery human organ system. # 9>&#?'11# 0!,('&!1;#2+@!# +(# '23+)&# /(#

my teaching,” LaKose said. “Students are able to use technology

for data collection and analysis. This is a meaningful way to use technology produc-tively in the class, Kids have enjoyed most labs that I choose to do in class, but I’ll have more probes which will make time 2+(+7!2!(&#2/5!#!.,)'!(&6A#B+C/"!#"+'04#

Right now only four students can work actively with the probes. Next year, at least eight students can be working at any given time during a lab.

“It will help tremendously, because right now students that are waiting to par-ticipate were distracted by the students en-gaged in the lab but this will be avoided next year,” LaKose said.

Mr. Craig Reuter, the biology teacher in the high school, applied for four skeletons for the anatomy & physiology classes.

The skeletons include those of a human, rat, pigeon, and bat.

Currently, the human skeleton on hand *+"#(/#8+?$/(!#+(0#&*!#,(7!5"#+5!#2'""'(74

Once purchased, the skeletons will be

used in anatomy & physiology to study the skeletal system and in biology to study comparative biology and common ances-try.

This grant is in memory of Henry Pel-ham, therefore they will name the skel-etons ‘Henry.’

“The past year I have had to use com-puter pictures to perform this activity,” Re-uter said, “So having an actual visual will help all students.”

Touching and seeing everything takes learning to a whole new level for the stu-dents.

Tammy McClimon, the middle and high school media specialist, got a grant for eB-ooks to be used for the 7-12 grade students.

The media center already has more than 50 eBooks available for teachers and stu-dents to check out on the media center Web site. This grant will help Central purchase even more books.

“I am willing to get any books you want on the eBooks,” McClimon said. “I would love to have a collection of eBooks that students actually want to read.”

Having eBooks will make an impact on teaching at Central because it will enable the teachers to share different passages of a

book for discussion, and now students can no longer use the excuse, “I left my book at home.”

Eddie Mercado received a grant for the multi-media class and it incudes funding from the Central Education Foundation to expand the productive resources for a new course offered in the fall and spring next year.

This course is for students to explore several options related to multi-media pro-duction including movie editing, sound ed-iting and podcasting, digital photography, and Web design.

Mercado will also be able to purchase a podcasting kit, two external hard drives for off-line storage of student’s footage and work, and a second HD camcorder.

The total for all of these materials was estimated to be about $1374.45.

“Students need to remember that digital learning is expanding by the day,” Merca-do said, “ so this class is one of the many I facilitate that allow students to direct their own learning.”

This class is offered to any students who set their mind to it and have the imagina-tion and willingness to challenge them-selves.

“Having the pie contest

gives students freedom of

choice, creative freedom and

a chance to try something they

may have never done.”

—Dr. Valarie BetzFCS teacher

This looks good. Delaney Brainerd and Emily McAleer try out their pie after the

pie contest in Dr. Betz’s foods room. Photo by Sarah Risinger.

Time well spent. Mrs. Laurie Wildes,

Ms. Lori Walker, and Supt. Dan Peterson

take time to be judges in the pie contest.

Photo by Sarah Risinger.

!"#$%&'() *'+,) This patriotic pie was

created by Brandee Rus, Tori Cerach,

Dillon Daniels and Bailey Garrity. Con-

tributed photo.

SARAH RISINGERSTAFF WRITER

ALYSSA KENTSTAFF WRITER

Betz holds annual pie-baking contest

Education Foundation grants awarded for science items, eBooks, multimedia classes

PROM8!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Prom isn’t cheap or easy to get ready

for. But students and junior class sponsors

seem always to have a stressful but suc-

cessful prom.

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nitely worth my time,” junior class sponsor

Mrs. Denise McAleer said.

McAleer said she really enjoys being a

sponsor of the junior class because she gets

to interact with the juniors even more than

just in her language arts classroom. Being

an 11th grade language arts teacher makes it

easy to communicate with the juniors.

“Getting to know some individuals

outside of class is always a good thing,”

McAleer said.

Mrs. Laurie Wildes is also a junior class

sponsor. Wildes is in charge of baking the

goods, and taking charge of the concession

stands at basketball games to raise funds

for prom night.

“I really enjoy baking the goods for af-

,(#&'#$%/&4$$5)+6&)*&2(3+),(7.&%.&,8)+6/9&said Wildes, who worked at the middle

school as a past kitchen manager for seven

years, so cooking is something she loves

to do.

“Knowing I can make great treats that

the kids love makes me feel happy,” she

said.

The most stressful part of the prom prep

is managing the concession stands.

“Making the money isn’t hard, it’s

some of the junior class that doesn’t like to

take their time to help run the concession

stands at basketball games,” Wildes said.

McAleer said she loves planning events.

When she was younger she and her sister

had a catering business called “Planning

Themed Parties.”

McAleer said she really enjoyed doing

that when she was younger so that’s anoth-

er reason why she chose to be junior class

sponsor.

“It hasn’t gotten stressful yet, and it

won’t be until we start building the sets

for the grand march and the photographs,”

McAleer said. “Building the grand march

takes a lot of time to make sure it looks

nice, and it’s what the kids want.”

McAleer also gets help from the ju-

nior prom committee, which meets every

Friday to discuss the theme for the grand

march, what they want for catering, and

how to fundraise everything for the night.

With the hall, food, decorations, DJ,

and after prom, the total comes to almost

$6,000.

“It is not cheap, that is why it’s im-

portant everyone helps fundraise,” Wildes

said. “Being part of the prom committee is

actually pretty fun, I like having a say in

what’s going to be happening at prom.”

“Seeing kids get excited and being

there for their reaction to the event is al-

ways a fun thing for me,” McAleer said.

Prom was held on May 4 at the Eldridge

skating rink, with catering from Buzzy’s

restaurant in Welton.

“I really look forward to seeing every-

one there, all dressed up looking pretty or

handsome,” Wildes said.

Over the years, many kids have said

they like prom but after-prom is so much

better, especially all the delicious food and

fun games the school provides us with.

Students’ parents also help to make our

after-prom the best part of the night.

Behind the scenes on prom duty

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PROM 9!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

“I was thinking how many more bal-loons I have yet to blow up,” Christian Wright said. “Right as she opened the door I thought to myself I should not be in her closet, I feel kind of like a creep.”

Wright blew Courtney Burmeister away by having over 200 balloons in her room as his message said, “You blow me away, Prom?”

“I wanted to do something over the top,” Wright said. “It took a good couple of hours to blow them up, but I had Ashley Lane, Maggie Grell and Becca Grell assist me in my operation.”

This took place on a school night of Monday, March 4.

“I knew he was going to ask me because we talked about it, but I had no idea what he was going to do or how he was going to do it,” Burmeister said.

“I was so shocked, I didn’t even know he was in my closet when I walked in with all the balloons everywhere, until I turned around to leave the room and he came out to get my attention, and of course I said yes.”

From a different point of view, Mollie McCulloh had a “cheesy” way to ask Gage Fuller to prom. McCulloh showed up at Fuller’s house with a cheese pizza, saying, “I know this is cheesy but will you go to prom with me?”

“I had no idea she was going to do it that day, but she did mention it to me about go-ing to prom with her,” Fuller said.

“Allie Andersen helped me make a cheese pizza,” McCulloh said. “It’s hard to come up with a good way to ask a guy to prom, so I had no choice but to do a cheesy idea.”

“I wanted to ask her in a way nobody has yet this year,” Alby Saliu said. “What better away to ask her to prom than during a sport we both love.”

Alby asked foreign exchange student !"#$%&'()*+,*-*.&%/&0*.&1.)/&2,*.$3%+&$+-door soccer game with the help of David Holm, Keegan Lass, Wade Sandry, and Joe Pena. They spelled out “PROM?” on their chest while Julia was in the game.

“I stood above them with my arms up in the air yelling her name to get her attention to look,” Alby said. “When she realized I was asking her she look excited; after the game I gave her a rose and she said yes.”

“I was so excited when I realized he did that for me, I didn’t know he was asking me,” Rosenmeyer said. “It was really cool, I was so surprised.”

Emily Burke said she had to ask her date in a “special” way or else he wouldn’t go with her.

Emily Burke asked Chase Kueter with two signs that said “Surprise, Prom? “I have been tell-ing him for a couple of weeks that I had a surprise for him. He thought it was prom, but I tried to convince him that it was something else,” Burke said.

“When I asked him he was in alge-bra, but I knew he would be looking out the door window because every Day 1 he would look out and see me walking back from lunch and wave to me.”42/&1.)/&5&6%)&%&#$//#*&3(+7")*89:&;"*/*.&

said. “But then I realized what she was do-ing.”

“When I held up the surprise sign he looked confused,” Burke said. “But then once he saw the sign that said prom? he smiled, shook his head yes, and game me a thumbs up.”

Some seniors had the same idea to ask their girl to prom, not only spelling out prom somewhere, but over the top with candles lit outside.

Senior AJ Smith asked Andrea Weiss to prom with beautiful lit candles in his yard.

“I just heard of people spelling out prom in big letters and it seemed like it was something she would like,” Smith said. “So I put 100 lit candles in my yard to spell out p-r-o-m.”

“I was shocked when I came over to see that in his yard,” Weiss said.

Mitchell Kirby had the same idea to ask foreign exchange student Ulrikke Adolfsen with candles to spell out prom.

“I set it up in her garage; it took some time but it was worth it,” Kirby said. “I was thinking she was going to be really surprised which she was, because she hates suprises.”

“I was so shocked and excited, it looked so pretty,” Adolfsen said. “It was a good 6%-&/(&<*/&%)=*8&/(&,-&1.)/&>.(,?:

KAYLA LANCASTER

STAFF WRITER

Balloon celebration. Christian Wright

asked Courtney Burmeister. Photo by

Courtney Burmeister.

Cheesy celebration. Mollie McCulloh

asked Gage Fuller. Contributed photo.

Soccer celebration. Alby Saliu asked Julia Rosenmeyer with help from Pablo Curiel-

Garcia, David Holm, Nick Woodford, Joe Peña and Keegan Lass. Contributed photo.

THE MUSE10!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Frost—Kaelyn Hagens

The cold, frigid frost snips at my nose.

Winter is soon approaching and I can feel it

suffering in my bones. I feel a surge of hy­

pothermia. I’m afraid to see that sinker of

yours and fall into depression, even more.

You are as cold as winter, and I’m as hot as a hellish day during summer. Your cold

front won’t stop this heat wave. I deserve

better. Something so insanely better than

you. I don’t need these constant changes of seasons, on feelings I feel over you. I try to

move on, but the seasons always change.

Being bipolar doesn’t help this sick love

story of complete lies you spill across the

sky. The only thing I’ll ever need is my

alibi. And I am done with you.

I, too—Kaelyn Hagens

I, too, disagree with you. I feel your voice,Screech and scratch Pounding the alarms,Causing my mind to

Blur, And not focus.Tomorrow

Won’t be the end.I’ll still have to wait another day,

A day again,To be tortured

By your annoying soul.

Besides,Who really needs your advice?Analyzing can only get you so far.

I, too, hate you.

I am from…—Shelbey Koester

I am from Dixon, where my journey began,!"#$#%&%'#(%')%*#+(%,$-#./%0./%')%1$+(%*2),$-#./3

Where I learned from my mistakes.&%0'%,$2'%4050'6+3%7"#$#%&%'#(%("#%*#+(%/0/%186$#%26(%("#$#3%90:#%;2".3

!"#$#%&%$#<#-:#/%')%=6,,)%,$-#./3%>-/.-8"(3Where everything seemed to be perfect.

I am from DeWitt, where it was just the three of us,Where I grew up and made life long friends.

I am from Shannon, who has taught me life goals, And who has made me who I am today.

I am from Kenny, who hasn’t been the best he could be.&%0'%,$2'%>0$?3%7"2%-+%')%+(#@A/0/3But has taken me in as his own.

I am from Kyle, who has taught me to stand strong, And do as I wish with no regrets.

I am from Tanner, who has taught me to respect everyone and their disabilities.I am from Sean, who has shown me not to be afraid of life,

And to live as if tomorrow was your last day.I am from Cody, who has taught me to cherish every day with your loved ones,

Because tomorrow they might not be there.

&%0'%,$2'%>-/.-8"(3%("#%*-8%,0(%*50<?%<0(3Who has tolerated me for 15 years.

I am from Kandi, the chocolate lab we all dreamed of having,Who broke all of our hearts when we had to make her life choice.

&%0'%,$2'%/-.8A/2.8%/-(<"-.83%7"#$#%#:#$)%(-'#%7#B/%8#(%<"0+#/CI am from goat carting, which busted up our arms,

And got grass in our pants.I am from picnics, which took place on my dad’s porch,!"#$#%7#B/%2.5)%#0(%"2A"2+3%<$0<?#$+%0./%#0+)%<"##+#C

I am from cops and robbers, which was my brother’s excuse to beat me up.

I am from Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow, where my mom and I sang our hearts away.

I am from A Bella Vita, where I put up with a lot,Because after everything I couldn’t give up tanning for free, and cheap haircuts.

I am from TC’s, where I work with two of my good friends,And walk out with cash as the night ends.

I am from respect, From honesty,From love, From trust.

I am from faith.

Where DoesA Forgotten Dream Go?

—Sierra Moore

Once a dream in a mind,Brought joy, terrors, memories, someAthing imaginary into their head.

A dream that you never want to wake up,

Live in that moment forever.But when you open your eyes,

The dream ends.

Dreams go off into the vast beyondInto a realm of lost things,

Searching for somewhere to go.

Some still straggle inside the being’s mind to reappear another night.Others never to be used again,To be left in that realm with all the

other lost things,Like when that little girl doesn’t like

her rag doll anymore,That memory is just like the one of the

dream.Lost,Faded,

Never to reappear.

What to do. Heidi Stofer and Brigitta Meyer look over this year’s submis-sions and decided which entries they should choose for the publishing in the Purple Onion. Photo by Kaelyn Hagens.

Students herald The MuseThe Muse was published electronically

for the second year in a row. Seniors Hei-

di Stofer and Brigitta Meyer have helped

with the program again.

“I always want it to be kept alive since

it’s a student publication,” teacher and ad-

viser Ms. Liz Dague said.

“We thought it should be an opportu-

nity that every student should be able to

have every year,” Stofer said.

Their main objective for posting it elec-

tronically to a wordpress.com blog site

was to move away from paper. Publish-

ing with paper there is a chance of ripped

pages, water damage and wear. But posting

electronically on the Internet doesn’t have

those problems. Publishing electronically

makes it available every year instead of

every few years due to the cost of printing.

This gives students more room for more ar-

tistic and writing options.

While picking and choosing your best

pieces for The Muse some consider the fol-

lowing guidelines.

! "#! $%&'(! )*! +(',-! %(./,0122(3! 4&()'!I wrote this year,” senior Shelbey Koes-

ter said. “My poems are always about my

family or loved ones, I can’t write about

anything out of the blue. It has to have

meaning.”

Sophomore Bailey Peyton’s artwork

of the Rolling Stone’s album cover was

submitted under the title piece “Roll-

ing Stones.” Her inspiration for the piece

was born during her Advanced Art Studio

I class, as she wanted a break from writ-

ing her huge essay. Her tactic on choosing

what piece to submit was having people

vote.

“You want to get as much stuff out there

as possible.” Peyton said. “I want to be no-

ticed and be the cause for inspiration.”

“I chose to submit this piece because I

felt like it was something that needed to be

shared with others, and not just kept to my-

self,” Katie Burken said. “That, and hon-

estly, I surprised myself. I never thought I

could write something like that, and it just

kind of happened without me realizing it.”

Fuscus —Brigitta Meyer

FrecklesScattered across planes of bronze,D*+<6$#/%*)%0$(-1<-05%5-8"(+

Because angel kisses are only visibleWhen seen under the sun.Your bedroom door

In the only house you ever knew—E#,2$#%("#%1$#3%0./%0,(#$%+(-553

But darker,And with foul memories attached.

Dad’s old leather jacketScented with a unique mix ofYou and the car’s interior andWhat little remains of Dad.

Dirt under nailsFrom crossroads andGunpowder residue

That never quite cleans offCompletely.

Empty whiskey bottlesThat you can’t recall drinkingSo you blame your brother,

But he knows that you have a problemAnd he says he didn’t touch

Your damn drink.42,1.+%0./%$20/+-/#%<$2++#+And all graves unmarked,

Save the dead grass that refusesTo grow.

F26$%'2("#$B+%,0:2$-(#%=0..#5Before blinding hues

Engulfed it.

KAELYN HAGENS

STAFF WRITER

THE MUSE 11!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

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THE MUSE12!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Clockwise, from top le":Untitled Work, Joshua Schmidtke

Vast, Kaelyn HagensUntitled, Kaelyn Hagens

Sanctuary, Joshua SchmidtkeAllure (palm tree), Kaelyn Hagens

Divine (#ower), Kaelyn HagensPinhead, Bailey Peyton

Rolling Stones, Bailey PeytonTHE MUSE.

THE MUSE 13

STUDENT ART WORKSUBMITTED FOR THE MUSE.

Clockwise, from top le!:Acid Rain, Bailey Peyton

Medusa, Aubry MayerhoferSanctuary, Heidi Stofer

Icarus Flew Too Low, Brigitta MeyerPresence, Joshua Schmidtke

"e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

THE MUSE14!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Whales don’t have legs, !"##$%&'()*+%',"-.'/*&

—Heidi Stofer

Your heart beats so rabbit fast, so bloody when it’s running.

Running and beating

and bloody, you come to me wanting.But water

is where a whale belongs, and your glass is not an ocean.

It hurts to have a heartthe size of a small car

in the space between shoulder blades.It isn’t big enough to hold youor me

or anything in between us now. What happened to us?

My heart slows down with the divebecause I will be gone a long time,and my lungs are so very needy.

“’Tis your duty, ma’am. I shall think none like being unaware of who they are to wed,” Maria said.

“Thou shall be at the wedding, correct?” Anna­bella’s hand quivered with fear and anger. Being the princess of North Yorkshire was not the hardest job in the world and Annabella knew that. However, she constantly found herself wanting a commoner’s life; a job, food shopping, house chores, taking care of her kids, and of course falling in love with whomever she pleased.

In three weeks, she was to be married to the Prince of Cumbria to break a decade long feud be­tween the England counties. Annabella longed to make her own decisions; she often tried sneaking out of the palace walls to get a taste of what life would be like if she had not been born of royal blood. She rarely made it past the guards but when she did, she was unable to get the full experience because all of the town folk would bow down to her or treat her just as she was treated inside the palace.

!"#$%&'# ($&(#$%# )*# &#+),$(-#./%# 0&12# *33($2#$%#is a woman­charmer!” Maria threw her hands up and sighed into the air. Anna started to laugh as she jumped on the bed to join her nursemaid.

!45(#)6#"#7&*#(3#8%#(&9%/#8-#&#+),$(-#./%#0&1#already, would his charms work still?” Anna’s eyes were wide with anticipation. Maria hopped to her feet and her voice tightened.

“I do not understand what you are implying, my lady. You are under oath to wed in three weeks. You are not to be fraternizing with a commoner!” Maria scolded, folding her hands over her chest and devil­ishly eyeing Anna. “I must go check on your sisters. Dear Anna, I love you with all my heart, you must do this for your country and you know this. Please take care, ma’am.” As Maria shut the door behind her, Anna lay on her bed wondering when this would all seem normal. She closed her eyes and pictured what life could be like if she was a commoner. The sun

outside was setting, she knew from her years of es­caping that in a few minutes, she would easily be able to sneak out. She went into her closet and slipped her homemade dress off its hanger. She quickly shim­mied into the tight bodice and slumped a shawl over her head to cover her long light brown locks. With a swift lift of her legs she jumped out her window and onto the roof of the palace greenhouse, which was conveniently positioned right under her window. She slid down the ladder on the side of the green house and through a circular cut out on the side of the pal­ace stonewalls.

Annabella wandered through the streets of North Yorkshire, looking at the many different sites. She found herself in the middle of a street market. She wandered past the fruits and meats, picked up an apple and continued down the street. A large bouquet 36# :37%'*# ;3<%'%1# )/# ,0)++%')/,# 1%7# ;&5,$(# $%'#%-%2#*$%#*0)/9%1#$%'#7&-#(37&'1*#($%#:37%'#*(&/1=#>#hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her into a corner; her lips begin to tingle and the apple fell out of her $&/1=#?)*#0)@*#'%*(%1#3/#$%'*#&/1#*$%#(7)*(%1#$%'#./­gers into his hair.

“An apple? What a choice for a fair lady such as you,” he said, his lips barely moved an inch from her face.

!"#7&*#$3@)/,#(3#./1#-35#$%'%=#A$%#$35'*2#($%-#seem so treacherous do they not?” She lifted her head so their eyes would meet, she giggled and pulled him closer.

“Such a sentence would only come out of your mouth. So proper and breathtaking.” He backed away and pulled the shawl off of her head revealing her light brown braid. His eyes lit up and burned with passion, and Anna felt the sudden urge to leap into his arms. She fought the urge and played it as cool as she could.

“Oh Jeremiah, are you saying I’m too proper for you? Now dear, if that is the case I should be on my way!” Anna turned to walk away and took the .'*(#*(%@#8&;9#)/(3#($%#*('%%(#7)($35(#'%&0)B)/,#($%'%#was a step in front of her. She let out a squeal and *(&'(%1#(3#:&)0#$%'#&'+*#&*#*$%#6%00#63'7&'1=#C%'%+)&$#caught her wrist just before she smacked the ground. With a swift pull she was up on her feet and in his arms. Jeremiah chuckled and held her close. Anna­bella muttered a faint thank you as she buried her face in his chest.

“Hey! You there! Let her go at this instant!” Their heads snapped in the direction of a booming voice, a palace guard had noticed her absence and had found Annabella with Jeremiah. Jeremiah was already wanted for stealing and murder. Annabella grabbed Jeremiah’s hand and began to run as fast as she could, hoping Jeremiah would take the lead and whisk her away somewhere safe. He pulled her in the opposite direction and into a building that was empty. He led her down winding paths inside the building until they leaped out a window and he grabbed her waist and thrust her on top of a canopy. They safe­ly rolled onto the ground and continued to run. He pulled her into another building.

“We’re safe, don’t fret, Anna. You’re safe with me!” He gently stroked her cheek.

“We’re in a lot of trouble now!”“Why do you say that? I will just return you

safely into the palace walls tomorrow.”“No Jeremiah, they will tighten the guards and

they will have searches for me. Even if we were to get myself safely into the palace walls, you will still be arrested for kidnapping!”

“You’re not a kid.” Jeremiah laughed at him­self.

“Now is surely not the time for pitiful jokes.” Anna turned her back to Jeremiah and crossed her arms in stubborn anger.

“Come Anna, just sleep for a while, everything will be okay. On a cluttered mind, however, it will not. So clear your mind, just sleep.” Jeremiah pointed to a pillow that lay on the ground. This must have been his home, or at least where he resided at night. She hesitantly walked towards the pillow. As she fell to her knees, exhaustion hit her like a rock. Jeremiah walked closer to the pillow; Anna’s body gave way and she fell onto the pillow with a thud. His voice boomed with laughter and echoed through the stone building. He knelt down next to her and held her hand; he lightly stroked her hair and leaned down to kiss her forehead.

“What will become of us?” He stared into her eyes.

“I do not comprehend what you are asking.”“What happens now? What if I can not get you

back into the palace?”“You did just say there would be no problem

getting me into the palace.”“I know except…Well nothing, my lady, you

are right. No trouble.” He lay himself down next to her and began petting her head to comfort and sooth her. Annabella’s mind was racing, what will happen? What if his worries came true and they did not make it safely into the palace walls? What will happen if she does make it safely into the palace walls but the guard still pursued Jeremiah? After a while ev­erything began to turn fuzzy and Anna’s mind went blank.

A bird’s chirping is always the best way to wake up. When Anna opened her eyes a smile was plastered on her face, the shiny silk of her bed canopy created a glare. As she sat up to get away from the blinding light she recognized more and more of her room. A sigh of sadness escaped her lips. Anna walked over to her window and stared out onto the palace walls. There was no palace greenhouse, no cut outs in the stone walls, and no ladders anywhere on the palace grounds. A knock came on the door that made Anna jump and spin around.

“You woken yet, ma’am?” Anna looked at Ma­ria as she poked her head through the doorway. Anna nodded and walked over to her bed. Maria signaled for the royal dresser to come in. A stubby man came into her bedroom with a long lacy white wedding gown.

“Art thou ready for the wedding?” Maria’s cheeks were rosy with happiness as she clasped her hands together.

“Ready as I’ll ever be.” Annabella looked back out the window and asked for a moment alone. When everyone was out of her room, she made her way back over to the window and spoke to the air.

“Good bye, my sweet Jeremiah, I know you never existed but I feel as though you were my one true love.” Anna turned and walked towards the door.Holding the handle, she took a deep breath and braced herself for the future. A future without know­ing what true love really was.

Night in Yorkshireby Kailei Riggs

FEATURES 15!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

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high in the air. Front Row: Alyssa Kent, new Publications teacher Ms. Jacquelyn Daters, Mrs. Christine Cash Gilroy JEA/CJE, Kayla Lancaster, Sarah Risinger, Kaelyn Ha-

gens, Hailey Franzen. Middle Row: Emmitt Enyeart, Joseph Peña, Jolene Sanger, Amber Haack, Allison Anderson, Courtney Burmeister, Shelbey Koester. Back Row: Kyle

Bauer, Akash Chaudhari, Peter Keegan, Austin Holst, Logan Haley, Lydia Ahrens, Mr. Jim Straub of Walsworth Publishing, Aidan Connolly. Contributed photo.

SPORTS16!e Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Starting the year off with two new soccer coaches, Eddie Garza and Javier Ramirez, soccer boys were anxious to begin the sea-son. “I like our new coach,” David Holm said. “We haven’t gotten to experience all he has in store for us this season, since the season has not fully started yet.”

Garza will be taking the reins of head varsity coach, while Ramirez will be tak-ing over as the freshman coach. Garza is a graduate of the University of Ashford, where he played soccer. Garza was a three-time All-Conference player and NSCAA All-Region his senior year.

“I wanted to stay in the game and com-pete and this was the best way to do so,” Garza said. “Coaching is different than playing so there is more of an intrinsic re-ward.” Ramirez is now a student-athlete at Ashford and is currently playing for the Ashford soccer team.

The team has been preparing for this season throughout the year. “A large sec-tion of our team has been playing indoor soccer all winter,” David Holm said. “We would have open gym on Sundays nights from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. before the season.”

“This year things are a lot different, we have practices at 6:30 to 7:30 a.m. before school and then 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. after

school,” Billy Dolan said. “Practices this year really help prepare and condition us for our games.” !"# $#%&"'()*$&# +*$,# -.$-+#/$&0$# "$1,2#

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This has added extra motivation to the players. “If we work hard we will make it to state,” Spanish foreign exchange student

Pablo-Curiel Garcia said. “I expect us to make it far into the playoffs or even make it to state,” Holm said. “I also expect a top '8.#%61"+#16#.:&#-.6;*&*6-*4<#

There are two foreign exchange stu-dents on the boys’ soccer team, Garcia from Spain and Felix Kirchgaessner from Germany. Garcia said some of the differ-ences here compared to Spain were, “Here you are always in contact with your coach and teammates while practicing every day

so we can get in shape quickly,” Pablo said. “In Spain, soccer is an out-of-school sport so you only see your coach three times per week.”

Garza said there were no challenges coaching the two exchange students.

Holm said, “At times they may be hard to understand, but they really know how to play the game and are great teammates.”

This year began with the annual Clin-'.6# '.:&6$3*6'2#8+*&*# '+*#9.)"# '..=#%&"'#place beating Bellevue Marquette 7-0 and beating Clinton 3-1 in the championship.

As the season progressed, the boys lost to Center Point-Urbana 1-3, Clear Creek-Amana 0-5, and beat Anamosa 4-0. On April 13 the boys traveled to Davenport to play two games at Brady Street Stadium. The boys beat Dubuque Hempstead 1-0 but then lost to Davenport Central 0-2.

From there on, the boys went on a three-game win streak beating Western Dubuque 7-3, Mount Vernon 3-0, and West Delaware 4-0. On April 30 the boys’ streak came to an end, losing to Dyersville Beckman, the returning 1A state champions in a double PK shootout.

“I feel like that game brought us closer as a team, and helped us realize that we can compete with any team,” Dolan said after the Beckman game.

“Our soccer team is extremely close,” Holm said. “Most of us are friends already and have been playing soccer our whole lives together.”

Front Row: Nick Costello, John Stanmeyer, Pablo-Curiel Garcia, Felix Kirchgaess-ner, Billy Dolan, Alby Saliu, Elliot Arnessdorf, Cameron O’neil, Dylan Hance, Cart-er Cahill, Wade Sandry. Back Row: Coach Javier Ramirez, Keegan Lass, Connor Cahill, David Holm, Matt Moore, Colin Duffy, Lucas Block, Nick Woodford, Chris-tian Hansen, Hunter Ilg, Drew Dieckmann, Spencer Kerr, Brett Henningsen, Jordan Porth, Coach Eddie Garza.

“A gym court is nowhere near compa-&$9>*#'.#$#?&$"")#%*>,2<#"*-.6,#)*$&#-.$-+#Ashley Dexter said, “and it is also nowhere near the size.”

The girl’s soccer team has put up with harsh weather throughout the entirety of their season. It is the one thing every player can agree on.

“The weather has been the worst part,” Samantha Callender said. “It sucks playing in the cold.”

Erin Lane agreed. “The hardest thing about the season would have to be dealing with the weather, during both games and practices.”

A more positive view of the situation came from Maggie Grell.

“When we practiced indoors it was pretty hard on us,” Grell said, “but it really taught us how to control the ball in tight situations that helped us when we got out

.6'.#.:&#$-':$>#@>$)16?#%*>,4<#Coach Dexter seemed to agree. “The weather is no excuse,” Dexter

said, “every team in this region is dealing with the same conditions.

Not only is the weather different, but Coach Ashley Dexter is in her second year and that in itself seems to be a big change.

“With Coach Dexter in her second year here,” Grell said, “our team knows what she expects our level of play to be.”

“Dexter seems so laid back,” Jordan Kent said. “She’s more fun to be around this year.”

Dexter herself seems to be on that same page.

“This year the biggest difference is, I know the girls,” Dexter said. “I know what each is capable of and I can push each indi-vidual to reach their full potential.”

Unity is a major aspect for any team to be successful.

“We know what to expect from each other after playing soccer together for years.” Grell said. “I feel we can do some great things.”

“We are starting to work as a unit, a real team,” Lane said. “We work really well to-gether to pull out a win in a game.”

Kent agreed. “I feel like we have be-come a strong team, and hope the next few weeks bring us more wins.”

Along with unity, any athlete knows the progress of a team can accelerate or decel-erate depending on the time and effort the team puts into the game.

“We keep on improving each game,”

Callender said. “It’s easier to do, because we focus on the things we need to during practice.”

Cassandra Blaser added, “We are get-ting a lot better at being aggressive dur-ing practice and it is carrying over to the games.”

“We started the season off a little rough, 6.'# 816616?# .:&# %&"'# ?$3*# :6'1># '+*# 816#over Anamosa,” Dexter said, “but we are ,*%61'*>)# 13@&.A16?# *$-+# @&$-'1-*# $6,#game.”

Even with the seriousness of the game, the players all know how to have fun. “Team dinners with everyone is the best.” Callender said. “Oh, and being able to play forward was a lot of fun, too.”

“Practices with PK (JV Coach Pam Kennedy) are so much fun,” Blaser said. “She’s the bomb-dot-com.”

“Being successful is bringing us more wins,” Grell said, “which is always fun.”

“Just being around the team,” Kent said, “large groups of teenage girls don’t always ?*'#$#>.6?2#$6,#8*#,.#B:"'#%6*4<

“Everyone starts singing on the bus rides,” Lane said. “It’s what we do to get pumped up for the games, and it’s a blast.”

Getting along well and acting as a big family are the key to success, and a suc-cessful season is what every coach and player hopes for.

“I expect us to win conference, and I ex-pect us to go to state and do well,” Dexter said.

“We have the ability and potential, we just have to play our game and prove it.”

HAILEY FRANZENSTAFF WRITER

EMMITT ENYEARTSTAFF WRITER

Boys’ soccer begins the season with changes

Talk with your feet, play with your heart

Kickin’ it indoors. (left) Maggie Grell, Jordan Kent and captain Erin Lane practice their touches inside to help improve their game when they get outside. Photos by Hailey Franzen.

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COURTNEY BURMEISTERSTAFF WRITER

!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2012

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for the boys. The keglers had a very excit-

ing season with a positive outcome, claim-

ing their state berth.

The bowlers were very excited to be

going to state and hoped to perform at the

same intensity that helped them reach this

accomplishment.

The Saber girls came up with the 2nd

highest score during the 1A state qualify-

ing meets.

The state event was postponed in Febru-

ary to March 11, because of a snowstorm

on the original scheduled date.

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overall

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Bailey Walker bowled a 312 and Erica

Miller-Lee came up with 312.

“The girls’ team bowled so well dur-

ing the season, because of the amount of

time and effort that was put into each prac-

(#7)%'45%)'7"%G'(7"%,0'A)59I%='++#)+%$'#51%%“They worked together and maintained a

constant positive outlook on each game.”

“There was not any one person that can

be considered the key to the team’s suc-

cess, but the contributions by everyone on

the team individually provided a winning

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='++#)+%5#54J(%"'?)%'%.'?-+#()%G))(%3@(%claimed that sub-state was pretty exciting.

The energy level was higher than they

experienced the whole season and they

went out and bowled the way they were

supposed to. The team plans on practicing

more and keeping a positive attitude in the

off-season.

Mumm advanced to state as an individ-

ual bowler for the boys, rolling to the 6th

-.%:%$,-($%'(%(")%G))(1%!"#$%&'$%"#$%$)7-45%year in a row to compete at state. Mumm

*4#$")5%B8nd overall with his two-game se-

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Ending the regular season Mumm cur-

+)4(0A%+'4>$%6th in class 1A with his series

'?)+'/)%-.%;6C%.+-G%$@3L$('()1%“My biggest challenge, personally, was

to keep his thoughts positive and to not let

a bad shot or game create any negativity

during his matches,” Mumm said.

The person who has helped Mumm the

most has been his dad, the reason he bowls

at such an intense level.

“My dad has been my inspiration and

not only to me but also to my teammates,”

Mumm said. “ My dad has helped me per-

form to the level I have reached in bowl-

ing.”

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“We bowled against 2A schools that

were larger and for the most part had high-

er averages than the Sabers, but the team

prevailed and ended up causing an upset to

win the tournament,” Mumm said.

“My favorite moment of the season was

winning the team invitationals and to be

'30)% (-% "-05% @,% -@+% *+$(L,0'7)% G)5'0$% #4%front of the other schools.”

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“Don’t chase your dreams, run them

down.” This quote motivates the boys’

track team to do their best and meet their

season goals.

The boys’ started off the season well

with the opening meets mostly Saber dom-

ination. This motivated the team’s efforts

to place in the yearly Drake Relays.

“This being my last year in track, I re-

ally went hard and focused on my running

and took it more serious,” Jake Thumann

said. “Making it to the Drake Relays made

me more determined to win.”

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rd in the state for 3A track.

Jake Thumann, Mitchell Kirby, James

O+)009% '45% P'>)% <)05,'@$7"% +'4% '% ;;QKD%making them a top team in the state and

added pressure on the other teams to get to

the state tournament.

“Being one of the best relay team in the

state is more than I would ever imagined,”

Feldpausch said. “It makes me excited to

move on with the season and hopefully go

to state.”

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“Track is different in high school,” Jes-

sica Machovec said, “because the meets

are harder and there is more pressure.”

Many agree that as a freshman or as

a senior there are many adjustments not

just changes in school alone, but in clubs,

groups, and sports like girls’ track.

“The meets are more intense and prac-

tices are tougher,” Hailey Saunders said.

Moving up to another grade hasn’t been

the only adjustment the girls have had.

Everyone on the team also had to adapt to

Iowa’s changing weather.

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have been cancelled.”

Everyone has a different reason for go-

ing out for track.

“It is a really fun sport and I love hav-

ing a big team where everyone gets along,”

Elyse Arensdorf said.

Track is an individual sport but is also

a team sport.

“I love to spend time with the girls,”

=-+#%T)()+U'0)>%$'#59%R'45%&'(7"%)?)+A-4)%improve throughout the season.”

Everyone makes a huge difference to

the girls’ track team no matter how old.

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ter team is a top prospect in the state.

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ton Meggers, Kirby, Feldpausch, and Jake

E'/)G'44% '55% (-% =)4(+'0J$% #4(#G#5'(#4/%track team.

“Being one of the top teams in the

event,” Kagemann said, “makes me proud

of my teammates for getting this far and

makes me more anxious for state.”

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teams, Feldpausch is also ranked in the

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3A.

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R\(J$% 7+'UA% 3)#4/% +'4>)5% #4% ("+))% -.% GA%events. I owe it to my family, teammates,

and coaches for pushing me to make me a

better athlete.”

“I would say the best thing about our

wins are, they weren’t just schools from

our 3A-class,” Kirby said. “They were

from all the classes.

“Some wins were easy, and others we

really had to work at in order to win.”

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Golfers. Front Row: Coach Greg Weller, Allen Mumm, Brice Bowen. Second Row:

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Haack, Zach Eden, Walker Wegener, Joe Hill, McClain Steffens, Brody Tiefenthaler.

Back Row: Derek Miller, TJ Sikkema. Not Pictured: Mitch Scott. Photo courtesy of

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ALLISON ANDERSONSTAFF WRITER

AUSTIN HOLSTSTAFF WRITER

SPORTS 19!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

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Saber wrestlers go to state

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in the bowling tournament. She com-peted with classmates, freshman Mol-;9(S$/-%&%$(5;0D#$G(,-&*'(0$/(%#G+*+(grade student Nici Lowery placing third.

Next on the list of activities to D"75;%*%( )0&( D+%%-;%0/#$G6( L+%(D+%%-;%0/#$G( *%07(A.0;#,%/( *"(G"(*"( &*0*%( D"$*%&*( #$( C")0(<#*9( "$(March 9 and received a second place rating.

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Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

May 25, 2013

Nothing beats family. Shelby and Tyler Carlson had a senior picture taken together. Photo contributed by Shelby Carlson.

From the time they’re born, twins live practically the same life. They share every-thing from birthdays to the same genetic origins. They grow up together and share all their milestones.

Senior year is stressful enough as it is, trying to apply for scholarships, deciding !"#$%&'(()*)%$'%*'%$'+%#,-%$./0,*%$'%1*2.)%out what to do with your life. Deciding whether to stay with your twin, or go your separate way, only adds to the stress.

Twins Shelby and Tyler Carlson will be going separate ways after graduation while

twins Brittany and Tiffany Allers will be attending the same university.

“We’re not going to the same college because we are both going somewhere that focuses on what we want to do, and they happen to be in different schools,” Tyler said.

“I had decided in sophomore year that I wanted to go to Iowa State,” Brittany said. “Our mom took us to several differ-ent campuses to visit, but Iowa State just stuck. The fact that it happened to be the one we both wanted was purely coinciden-tal.”

“It was an individual decision. I loved Iowa State’s campus. Britt just happened to like the place also,” Tiffany said. “We didn’t decide together. I had actually looked at other colleges before deciding on Iowa State. Britt wanted it from the begin-ning.”

Growing up with someone and sharing every birthday and sharing every mile-

Carlson and Allers twins look forward to separate college experiences

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we’re so used to seeing each other,” Ty-ler said. “But we’ll get used to it and look forward to the times we do get to see each other.”

“I want to get away and I don’t think we should go to the same place,” Shelby said. “It might be a little different not see-ing each other every day, but I think it will be a good change for us.”

Although they will be at the same school, Brittany and Tiffany have already decided that they won’t be spending as much time together and so they’ve request-ed to be in different resident halls.

“Up until this point in our lives, we’ve shared a life. Most people don’t think Tif-fany and Brittany, they think the twins or the Allers,” Brittany said. “While at Iowa State, I want to be Brittany. I want people

to be surprised when they hear I’m a twin. My whole life I’ve shared habits, lifestyles, and friends. College is our time to change that.”%7:)%-)1,0$)(/%!',;$%9)%$'*)$").<%='(-

lege is my chance to be an individual rath-er than thought of as a unit,” Tiffany said. “Not everybody realizes, but twins are two people with completely different personal-ities. It is saddening that most people don’t take time to distinguish between us.”

Tiffany and Brittany are both headed to Iowa State University where Brittany’s major is engineering and Tiffany’s major will be chemical engineering with a minor in Spanish.

Tyler and Shelby are headed in opposite directions. Shelby is headed off to Univer-sity of Northern Iowa where she will study elementary education and Tyler is headed to either Iowa State University or Scott Community College where he will study either interior design or landscape design.

Still sisters, no longer classmates. Tiffany (left) and Brittany Allers show T-shirts of Iowa State University where they will pursue different majors. Contributed photo.

Steven Adams: NR*Kristofer Alexander: University of Dubuque, Aviation Manage-ment/Flight OperationsBrittany Allers: Iowa State Uni-versity, Engineering/UndecidedTiffany Allers: Iowa State Uni-versity, Chemical EngineeringBrandon Anderson: NR*Hannah Anderson: NR*Elyse Arensdorf: Des Moines Area Comm. College, NursingJoshua Arey: NR*Anthony Ballard: Scott Comm. CollegeTaylar Banowetz: Kirkwood Comm. College, BiologyColton Bauer: NR*Austin Becker: NR*Cassandra Blaser: Univ. of Northern Iowa, Nursing and His-toryDustin Block: NR*Jared Bolinsky: NR*Jacob Boswell: WorkBrice Bowen: University of IowaSamantha Callender: Loras Col-legeLeonard Camacho: NR*Shelby Carlson: Univ. of North-ern Iowa, Elementary EducationTyler Carlson: Scott Comm. Col-legeMadeline Carroll: NR*Brad Carver: NR*Steven Connell: NR*Joshua DeMoss: Scott Commu-

nity College, Heating, Ventila-tion, ACDrew Dieckmann: University of Iowa, PharmacyCameron Donovan: University of IowaGreyson Doolittle: Iowa State University–Fisheries biologyKrista Duffy: DMACC, Radiol-ogyTravis Ewoldt: NR*Mitchell Federspiel: University of Dubuque, PsychologyNoelle Feldpausch: Iowa State UniversityRechal Foster: NR*Derek Fox: Scott Community College for 2 years then transfer to University of Iowa, Studying busi-ness Administration/managmentLeighana Franks: Clinton Com-munity, General EducationMaddison Fuller: Scott Commu-nity College, NursingAlexander Galloway: WorkJonathon Gautreaux: NR*Margaret Gehlsen: University of Alabama, broadcast journalism and political science. Pre, lawEllen Green: Iowa State Univer-sity, SpanishMitchell Green: Simpson College to play football and major in Busi-ness AdministrationsMaggie Grell: Iowa State Univer-sity, Diet and ExerciseDylan Hance: Work

Abbey Hansen: NR*Cory Hansen: NR*Timothy Hansen: NR*Jessica Haring: Scott Community College, business and hospitality Emily Hawkins: University of Iowa, health studiesNicole Heath: NR*Carter Hemesath: Iowa State University, mechanical engineer-ing and minor in nuclear engineer-ingSkylar Henningsen: Iowa Central Community College – special edu-cation/childhood educationWade Henningsen: Clinton Com-munity CollegeDavid Holm: Iowa State Univer-sity, College of liberal artsMelissa Huseman: NR*Hunter Ilg: Iowa State UniversityAlexis Jackson: Working as CNA; then college laterNicholas Johnson: NR*Christopher Keitel: Saint Am-brose, occupational therapy, foot-ballJordan Kent: Loras College, bi-ology and pre-dental; Iowa State University to be an orthodontist.Rylee Kerper: University of Iowa, anthropology and interna-tional relationsAbby Kilburg: NR*Caleb King: NR*Mitchell Kirby: WartburgShelbey Koester: Ashford Uni-

versity, Health AdministrationEmily Kremer: Wartburg, Bio-chemistryWilliam Kruse: NR*Ashley Lane: Ashford UniversityCory Lane: NR*Erica Laures: Scott Commu-nity, Physical therapy and running cross countryHannah Law: Clinton Commu-nity for a year then Hawkeye com-munity college. Dental hygiene programBrett Lawson: Wyotech for light diesel mechanicsAustin Lechtenberg: Wartburg to play baseballKatie Lincoln: Kirkwood (Iowa City) then transfer to University of Iowa, nursingDustin Locey: Welding for Local Union 25 Rock IslandEric Lopez: NR*Hannah Macumber: NR*Chloe Mangan: Kirkwood Com-munity College then University of Iowa, NursingChristopher Marlowe: NR*Austin McAleer: NR*Matthew McWilliams: NR*Remington Meggers: University of Dubuque and running track. Majoring in Criminal JusticeBrigitta Meyer: University of Iowa (Possibly transfer to college in UK later), majors: creative writ-0,*% '.% 1(4<%>0,'.3?% (#$0,+% #.$+% '.%

mythologyJames Mooney: Clinton Commu-nity CollegeAllen Mumm: Scott Community CollegeIvy Nevenhoven: Clinton Com-munity College, NursingMatthew Nichols: Clinton Com-munity CollegeMitchell Nielsen: Not attending college; farmingCameron O’Neil: University of Iowa, engineeringMorgan Oldsen: Loras College, biology (playing softball)Theodore Papuga: UndecidedLucas Perdieu: NR*Cori Peterzalek: Mount Mercy, nursing (playing volleyball)Jordan Porth: Simpson CollegeBrooke Posey: Playing Softball and Black Hawk CollegeJacob Reistroffer: DMACC in Ankeny & transfer to ISU for BusinessAlisa Sage: NR*Albinot Saliu: Scott Community, business administrationLogan Sanderson: NR*Joshua Schmidtke: NR*Justin Schnoor: NR*Mitchell Scott: Concordia Uni-versity, PharmacyLucas Sheppard: University of IowaElizabeth Shreeves: UndecidedAJ Smith: Coe College and play-

ing football. Major undecided. Heidi Stofer: University of Iowa, English Major, Russian MinorTyler Sullivan: NR*Mackenzie Sulzner: NR*Aaron Tarchinski: Kirkwood for two years, majoring in liberal arts for psychology. After Kirkwood, going to medical school to become a psychiatristEmalee Thul: DMACC in Anke-ny, then transferring to ISU, social workJacob Thuman: Wartburg Col-lege, Biology, playing baseballBethany VandeVoort: NR*George Volrath: University of Iowa, businessChristopher Vrba: NR*Hunter Wagener: NR*Alicia Wiepert: Scott or Clinton Community College, nursingNickolas Woodford: Scott Com-munity College then transferring somewhere for physical therapy. Dakota Zimmerman: Iowa State University – major: mechanical engineering and minor in business

Following graduation, what do Central High School seniors plan to do?

NR* = No Response indicates student did not respond to request

for information

Senior Future Plans

Jolene Sanger

JOLENE SANGER

EDITOR IN CHIEF

GRADUATION 21

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CENTRAL COMMUNITYHIGH SCHOOL

AWARDS PROGRAMMAY 14, 2013

David Knudsen Memorial Schol.: Shelby CarlsonDeWitt Police Foundat’n Schol.: Remington MeggersArthur Memorial Agriculture Schol.Ellen Green, Mitch GreenCustom-Pak Educational Foundation Schol.Jacob Reistroffer, Noelle FeldpauschGuardian Industries Schol.: Krista Duffy, Maggie GehlsenCCC/Sharar Foundation: Red & Gold Schol. Joshua SchmidtkeHarold Birney Memorial Schol.Cameron O’Neil, Maggie GehlsenDeWitt Nite Lions & Lioness/Robert and Patricia Becker Memorial Schol.: Emily Hawkins!"#$%&'()*+,-.+%/(0.12"$%3"4(%&45.$6Krista Duffy, Shelby CarlsonCCCDA (Clinton Co. Comm. Development Assoc.) Austin Lechtenberg, Tiffany Allers, Greyson Doolittle, Cameron O’Neil, Emily HawkinsFFA Alumni Schol.: Emily Kremer, Jacob ReistrofferAnn Feldpausch-Symens Memorial Schol.Jacob ReistrofferClinton Co. Kennel Club Schol.: Jacob ReistrofferCentral Realty Schol.: Greyson Doolittle, Drew DieckmannClinton Co. Bar Assoc. Amer. Citizenship AwardCameron DonovanBernie Saggau Award: Cameron DonovanGene Farris Academic Golf Award: Krista DuffyDwight Spangler Schol.: Emily Kremer, Mitch KirbyStudent Council Schol.: Cameron O’Neil, Maggie GehlsenFlorence Schrader Schol.: Maggie Gehlsen, Hunter Ilg, Jordan Porth, Emily Hawkins, Maggie Grell, Austin Lechtenberg, Cassie Blaser, Ellen Green, Emily Kremer, Krista Duffy, Jessica Haring, Kate Haring, Taylor Banowetz, Emalee ThulMasonic Lodge Schol.: Wade HenningsenLillian Fell Schol.: Drew DieckmannNellie Le Mon Schol.: Noelle FeldpauschClass of ‘54: Alicia WiepertMarilyn Mangan Nursing Schol.: Chloe ManganDonald G. Henricksen Schol.: Jacob ReistrofferDeWitt Junior Women’s Schol.: Cameron O’NeilDeWitt Area Fine Arts Schol.: Krista DuffyJanice Kruse Nursing Schol.Alicia Wiepert, Cassandra Blaser, Chloe ManganMitchell Ertz Memorial Schol.: Remington MeggersTammy & Judy Kilburg Schol.: Cameron O’NeilNeil Padgett Schol.: AJ SmithDennis R. Barr Family Schol.: Derek FoxDeWitt Bank & Trust Bathalter Schol.Cameron O’Neil, Drew Dieckmann, Krista Duffy, Cassandra Blaser, Noelle Feldpausch, Maggie Grell, Emalee Thul, AJ Smith, Elyse ArensdorfGeorge M. Cromer Schol.: Shawna Becker, Heidi StoferAnderson Family Schol.: Heidi Stofer, Skylar Henningsen, Alicia Wiepert, Cameron O’Neil, Mitchell Green, Huner Ilg, Maggie Grell, Drew Dieckmann, Cassandra Blaser, Noelle Feldpausch, Austin Lechtenberg, Emalee ThulLois Paarmann Family Schol.Hannah Anderson, Brittany AllersCDEA Schol.: Heidi StoferAuthor’s Anonymous: Brigitta MeyerEugene Kastler Citizenship/Leadership AwardMaggie Grell, AJ SmithAmerican Citizenship Awards: Jordan Porth, Mitch Green, Maggie Gehlsen, Shelby Carlson, Cameron O’Neil, Jacob Reistroffer, Drew Volrath, Hunter Ilg, Krista Duffy, Hannah Law, Austin Lechtenberg, Cori Peterzalek, Aaron TarchinskiPresident’s Award for Educational Excellence: Tiffany Allers, Brittany Allers, Samantha Callender, Rylee Kerper, Emily Kremer, Jordan Porth, Heidi Stofer, Emalee ThulClinton Co. Soil & Water Conservation DistrictGreyson DoolittleJed Rogis Memorial Schol.: Wade HenningsenEastern IA Light & Power Co-op Schol.: Heidi StoferIowa Bowling Council Schol.: Derek Fox, Lucas Perdieu“Quad-City Times Salute to Academics & Achievements”Jordan Porth, Academics; Heidi Stofer, Arts; Rylee Kerper, Humanities; Maggie Grell, Leadership; Drew Dieckmann, Math/Sciences; Emily Kremer, Vocational Education; Tiffany Allers, Young JournalistHilbert Family Memorial Schol.: Rylee Kerper, Shelby Carlson, Tyler Calrson, Heidi Stofer, Remington MeggersBarnes Schol.: Skylar HenningsenSpeech Award: Rylee Kerper

Central grads hear ’05 grad encourage them to make a di"erence for others

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Rickard honored. Board members hon-

ored Dr. Kurt Rickard with a plaque for

his 10 years of service. With Rickard

and his wife, Barb, are board members

Jim Irwin, Jennifer Naeve, Steve Fugl-

sang, board president Christine Kunz

and Supt. Dan Peterson.

All smiles. Following the graduation ceremony and traditional tossing of the caps,

GPA 4.0 valedictorians Jordan Porth, left, and Drew Dieckmann, right, gather with

AJ Smith and David Holm to celebrate their awards and accomplishments.

As thunder grumbled in the distance and rain threatened, families and friends gathered for graduation ceremonies Sun-day, May 19, in the new gymnasium.

Seniors were exhorted by 2005 gradu-!"#$%&"'($)&*'+,*$"+$-*.$"(#&/$*&'(#$&*$"(#$world and then serve others.

Lincoln, guest speaker for 114 seniors graduating at the 3 p.m. ceremony, is a 2009 Coe College graduate who works with New York City schools in low-income areas plagued with high dropout rates and low expectations.

Lincoln, who has also worked in Ugan-da, infused his exuberance for life into the crowd by telling students they should seek challenges like bungee jumping, and expe-

riences like travel to broaden their outlook.Ending his speech, Lincoln gave to the

seniors eight words representing the eight years since his high school graduation: “Find yourself, and then give it to others.”0"1.#*"$/#2#'"&+*3$4#/#$'+*5/!"1,!"+/6$

from Maggie Gehlsen, student council vice president; thankful from Mitchell Green, senior class president; and witty from Cameron O’Neil, student council presi-dent, who “accidentally” began with the Gettysburg Address.

Dan Peterson, superintendent, asked the seniors to remember the changes in the high school in the last four years, including being on the prowl for a parking spot . He urged students to extend their thanks to the school and staff, then began a school board ceremony for Dr. Kurt Rickard, who with his wife, Barb, will be moving to Texas af-ter 10 years on the board.

Christine Kunz, board president, pre-sented Rickard with a plaque for his 10 years of service, then chuckled as she pre-sented Rickard and his wife, Barb, with lifetime activity passes to district events.

Kunz reminded the seniors that Rick-ard came onto the board when they were in third grade. “Dr. Rickard achieved tre-mendous things,” Kunz said, “in instruc-tional excellence, curricular advancement and technical facilities — incredible stuff,” she said, and reminded them that Rickard’s wife, Barb, had also served the district in many volunteer ways.

Counselor Nancy Murphy gave out aca-demic recognition medals.

Valedictorians with a straight 4.0 GPA throughout high school were Drew Dieck-mann and Jordan Porth, who sported gold-ribboned academic medals in addition to National Honor Society stoles.

Receiving purple- and gold-ribboned academic medals for a GPA of 3.75-3.99 were Brittany Allers, Tiffany Allers, Han-nah Anderson, Krista Duffy, Margaret Gehlsen, Mitchell Green, Emily Hawkins, Hunter Ilg, Rylee Kerper, Morgan Oldsen, Alisa Sage, Austin AJ Smith, Heidi Stofer.

Receiving white-ribboned academic medals for maintaining a GPA of 3.5-3.74 in their high school career were Samantha Callender, Shelby Carlson, Noelle Feld-pausch, Maggie Grell, Christopher Keitel, Emily Kremer, Ashley Lane, Brigitta Mey-er, Cameron O’Neil, Emalee Thul, Drew Volrath, Nickolas Woodford.

Band director Josh Greubel led his mu-sic students in the processional and reces-sional, and vocal director Jeannie Dean’s choir performed during the ceremony.

Principal George Pickup presented the class to the board, and board president Christine Kunz accepted the class. Activ-ites director Kurt Kreiter read names, and guest speaker Mitch Lincoln, incoming student council president Aidan Connolly, and Supt. Dan Peterson assisted Pickup with diploma presentation.0#*&+/$ ',!33$ +7-'#/3$ !/#$%&"'($8/##*9$

president; Samantha Callender, vice presi-dent; Noelle Feldpausch, secretary; and :!/"#/$;#<#3!"(9$"/#!31/#/=$:,!33$2+4#/$&3$the wild rose; class color is gold; and class motto is, “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us,” by Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The program concluded with seniors tossing their graduation caps in the air in the traditional celebration.

Make a difference. Central 2005 gradu-

ate Mitch Lincoln urged seniors to make

a difference in the world by working to

help others. Contributed photo.

Away they go. Seniors throw their grad-

uation caps into the air in celebration

after the ceremony. Contributed photo.

Well done. Austin McAleer is congratu-

lated by board member Jennifer Naeve.

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Turn up the heat. Senior Lawson Lawson stands in his comfort zone next to a mi-

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Money for many. Clowning around after raising $5,013 for children with cancer in

the Dance Marathon are: Front Row: Sheila Lowery, Andrea Weiss, Hailey Franzen,

Maggie Ghelsen, Bryant Woodford, Wayne Mooc. Back Row: Emily Reed, Thomas

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FEATURES 23!e Purple OnionCentral High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742May 25, 2013

Rising above the expected. Mikayla Coyle and Breanna Rhode sang in the choral solofest contest on Saturday, Feb. 16 at Central. Coyle and Rhode were awarded Best of Center for their solos. Photo by Kaelyn Hagens.

Rule Ur Game, a Channel 4 television segment which spotlights local schools and teens in a personally unique situa-tion, chose April 7 to interview senior Maggie Gehlsen, the epitome of ad-venture when it comes to choosing a college.

Gehlsen will attend college at the University of Alabama and twirl for the Alabama Crimsonette Twirling Line.

QWhy were you chosen to go on television?

A. Mike Mickle, owner of Mickle Com-munications, produces a TV segment for Channel 4 News called Rule Ur Game. I’ve known Mike for several years, so when he found out I was going to school down south, he asked me to be on the program.

QWhat was the purpose of the televised interview?

A. The purpose of the televised inter-view is to make people aware of my plans for the future and how it’s slightly different from the norm. But really, the number of teens deciding to go out of state every year for school is rising at an incredible rate; all of my roommates are from the Iowa and Illinois area.

Q Who else took part in the inter-view?

A. One of my closest friends, Noelle !"#$%&'()*+,-./",(&.$,0,(*1'#$,23$,(14"-one to interview me, so I immediately chose Noelle. She did a wonderful job and I was so proud of her and thankful for tak-ing part.

Q Who was in charge of putting the interview together?

A. Mike Mickle was in charge of the in-terview but his camera guy Harry helped us out a ton.

QWere you nervous to go on television?

A. Sort of. I’m pretty used to being in front of a lot of people, especially from performing so much, so this wasn’t any different. I enjoyed it a lot.

QWhat questions were you asked? What was your reply?

A. I was asked a lot about why I chose to go out of state, what my plans were, and my previous experience twirling for our high school and being involved in pag-eants. I chose Alabama because I knew I wanted to go out of state and hopefully twirl, too. I audition for the Alabama Crim-sonette Twirling Line on April 27, so I’m nervous, but ready. (Editor’s note: Gehlsen found out April 27 that she was accepted to twirl for the Alabama Crimsonette Twirl-ing Line in the fall of 2013.) I’m extremely excited for the fall to be put out of my com-fort zone a little at a new place. My parents

I’ve got the magic in me. On senior night, Maggie

Gehlsen twirled to I’ve Got the Magic In Me during the halftime show at

the boy’s bas-ketball game.

Photo by Lydia

Ahrens.

and four older siblings all went to Iowa. That’s where I’d like to end up for gradu-ate school eventually but for my under-grad it was time to try something new. I also explained how I’ve been involved with pageants for six years and the ti-tles I’ve held which include Jr. Miss Clinton County, First Runner Up- Jr. Miss Iowa, Teen Miss Clinton County, Teen Miss Scott County, Teen Miss Muscatine, First Run-ner Up- Teen Miss Iowa.

Q What was your favorite part of the experience?

A. Working with Noelle, def-initely. It was great to explain my reasoning for attending an out-of-state school, too, be-cause I think that’s some-thing people don’t really think about. They just au-tomatically think I want to get away from here, which isn’t really the entire case; I just want to try something new. It was nice to have theopportunity to explain that to people.

Am I considered famous yet? Senior Maggie Gehlsen presents her future college plans to attend the Universtiy of Alabama on the Channel 4 News Rule Ur Game. Gehlsen is interviewed by senior No-elle Feldpausch. Feldpausch was choosen for the interview-ing postition by Gehlsen. Con-tributed photo.

The high school was host to a local solofest for Mrs. Jeannie Dean and choir students Feb. 16. Every year choir stu-dents compete for Best of Center, awarded to the best performer at each center.

Juniors Mikayla Coyle and Bre Rhode earned Best of Center by being selected by the judges.

“I was really surprised and so ex-cited,” Coyle said after being selected for Best of Center.

“I felt incredible,” Rhode said. “I worked so hard the three weeks before the contest because Mrs. Dean said, ‘It’ll creep up on you,’ and it sure did.

“The night before I was up until 11 making sure everything was perfect,” Rhode added.

After being selected for Best of Center Coyle and Rhode attended the State solofest competition.

GEHLSEN TO TWIRL FOR CRIMSONETTES

AMBER HAACK

YEARBOOK CO-EDITOR

EMMITT ENYEART

STAFF WRITER

OPINION24The Purple Onion

Central High SchoolDeWitt, Iowa 52742

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Texting? You may become a statistic

Turning 16 is the greatest feeling you will experience during your teenage years. You’ve passed the driving test, you’ve gotten experience behind the wheel with your parents in the passenger seat, and you passed drivers education.

You’ve done everything required of !"#$%&'$!"#$(&%))!$*+,$!"#-$)./+&0+$%&'$suddenly you have so much freedom. You no longer have to rely on your parents, older siblings, or older friends to give you rides to places. You’re feeling invincible until suddenly, disaster strikes.

You never think it’s going to happen to you until it does. Your parents always said driving was a privilege and a big re-

sponsibility. But it all happened so fast and you didn’t realize what was happen-ing until it was over.

Maybe you were changing the radio and you ran through a four-way stop and hit someone’s car. Maybe you were talk-ing to friends and having a good time and rear-ended someone. Maybe you were talking on the phone and didn’t see some-one pull out in front of you. All of these would result in an accident.

Auto accidents are the No. 1 killer of teenagers in the United States. On the average, 4,000 teenagers nationwide will lose their lives in an auto accident due to distracted driving. 1//"-'.&*$ ,"$ %$ +2%.)$ 3"))$ (&%).4+'$$

March 4-5 in the high school, 58.7 per-cent of students polled drive distracted by texting, eating, or changing the radio behind the wheel; 25 percent of students polled have been in an auto accident but only 8.7 percent of those accidents were due to distracted driving. Of students polled, 87 percent have friends who drive distracted and 89 percent of students have been in a car where the driver was driving distracted.

Kate Haring recalls her sister’s acci-

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dent due to distracted driving. Kate was riding with her sister when they were rear-ended because another driver was not paying attention.

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slipped off the brake,” Haring said. Their car was totaled, but neither of

them was hurt. “It could have been a lot worse if we

had passengers in the back or hadn’t been wearing our seatbelts,” Haring said.

Savannah Necker: Texting may seem like a harmless act but in reality it is one of the most dangerous issues that teens and even adults face today. There have been more than 100,000 car colli-sions in one year due to texting while op-erating a moving ve-hicle. The numbers will only continue to rise if people don’t take action to solve this problem. We teens think we are invincible and nothing will happen to us if we were to

Something unpredictable. This is the wreckage of the Haring car after it was rear- ended when the other driver became distracted. Photo contributed by Kate Haring.

text and drive, but that is not the case. Annually 12 to 13 teenagers die per day due to

distracted driving. Life is precious and I wouldn’t want someone’s life to end early because of something like this. I really want people to think ev-ery time they get into a car that if they choose to text and drive, they

aren’t only endangering their life, but the lives of so many other individuals.

/456789%:-/.%;8<7%=77>?%="%@A"BC%=7D=B><%@>C%C8BAB><Shawn Zeimet: I believe a

good way to reduce texting and driving would be by step-ping up enforcement of the texting law and E@AB><% EB<E78% 5>7?%for violating it. Cur-87>=#F%=E7%5>7%4"8%;?-ing an electronic de-vice while driving is $127.50, after court cost and surcharge. Although this may seem high, I believe a EB<E78%5>7%GB=E%=E7%@CCB=B">@#%mandatory loss of your driver’s #B67>?7%G";#C%C75>B=7#F%C8BA7%the point home.

What would I say to anyone who takes that chance to text and drive? Don’t do it. That text

will still be there when you get to where you are going. Way too many people think they can text and drive at the same time. And maybe you have, may-be you think you’re good at it. But it only takes a second or two for things to go terribly

wrong. Don’t take that chance. If you do, eventually you will get in an accident or caught. Please don’t text and drive.

Shawn Zeimet12H%07?";87%/45678

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Central students polled on texting and driving