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Red & BlueReviewSanta Fe Trail High School

Where Do They Go?

Aaron Ackerman, 11, kicks up dust as he sprints onto home plate. Photo by Maria Penrod.

Sprinting Through the FinishSchool may be slowing down, but baseball, softball, boys’ golf, and track and field are still winding up on page 2.

Seniors share worries, excitement, and plans for the future on page 6

Volume #45 Issue #6May 2013

Carbondale, Kan.

Brand New SchoolRead about remodeling and monolithic dome construction to begin this summer on page 4

Musical Throwdown Band and choir students bring the noise to regional and state music festivals on page 5

Flying the Coop Find memories, advice, and future plans from the Class of 2013 on page 11

What gets you pumped up for your sport?

Chaz Wright, 10, likes to listen to music and mess with friends.

Starting Off HotBY JAEDEN ROMINE

1. Weston Gloss, 10, tries to score some

more runs while playing Eudora at

home. Photo by Maria Penrod

2. Morgan Brown, 12, gets ready to

throw the ball to second base during

warm ups. Photo by Mike Beckman

3. Austin Reser, 12, stares down the

competion. . Photo by Mary Burgett

4. Andy Dennison, 12, does pole vault at

the track meet.

Photo by Julie Iwig Preston

5. Adam Fischer, 10, waits for his turn to

golf. Photo by Mary Burgett

6. The Varsity softball team huddles

together after getting an out against

Nemaha Valley.

Photo by Mike Beckman

7. TJ Kemble, 12, does his field event,

triple jump, at the Track meet.

Photo by Julie Iwig Preston 2.

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Spring sports are in session

Jennifer Hall, 11, said that her team-mates get her pumped up.

“Gripping the shaft of the club gets me pumped,” Connor Simmons, 11, said.

High Point

Low Point

“My high point of all four years I’ve played would have to be senior year. We are stacked!” said Morgan Brown

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There has been a lot of coach-ing changes this year. Brenda Dahl has become an assistant coach for softball . Jim Dun-can has become head coach for baseball . Another change for baseball would be Josh Cauthon being the junior varsity baseball coach. Scott Flanary is now the head track coach. The only thing that remains the same, coaching wise, would be the golf team. Despite all these changes all teams are going strong. “Jim Duncan’s coaching style is good. He’s doing a good job with discipline, and he has a strong coaching staff behind him as well,” Lane Clark, 12, said. All of the athletes don’t seem bothered by the changes. “I don’t mind the coaching changes because I like all of the coaches that I’ve had. Flanary has always been coaching so it’s not a big difference,” Natasha Ward, 12, said. The golf team has done well so far. The team has brought home a third place medal from Osage City. They have also got-ten fourth out of ten teams and sixth out of fourteen teams. Austin Reser, 12, Dakota Boyd, 10, and Caleb Snyder, 12, have all brought home individual medals. “The best score I have gotten this year is an 84 at Emporia. Emporia is probably my favor-ite tournament to go to. I have gotten a medal at the Burlington tournament as well,” Reser said. Baseball has had a rough

start. So far the team’s record is 1-7. “The season has been a little rough so far. We’ve have played the best teams in our league so things should look up from here. I believe that we will have a 500 or above record be the end of the regular season. As always re-gionals will be tough, but I think that we will be able to work our way through that as well . Any-thing beyond that is icing on the cake,” Clark said. The softball record so far this season is 6-2. “We shouldn’t have lost to the team that we did. Our batting just wasn’t there and our execu-tion could have been better in the field. There is always room for improvement,” Amber Moore, 11, said.

Morgan Brown also stated that a low point would have to be not being able to catch every game her last year for SFT because she is playing third base.

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Coming ChangesBY APRYL CORLEY

IMAGES BY APRYL CORLEY

On April 2, USD 434 voted yes to the bond issue. Santa Fe Trail will have more space to accommodate all the performing arts students and to have another gymnasium. According to Principal David Swaim the bond issue is intended to give band and choir more space so that they can expand in the coming years. The domes will cost approximately 4.6 million dollars to build. Construction won’t start right away Swaim said before that can happen the district has to actually sell the bonds. Once building starts students won’t be able to see much change until the dome’s are built. When the dome is built Swaim said the students should be able to see changes more quickly. “The day after the bond issue was passed I came to school and saw students looking at the board with all the bond issue plans like they were trying to picture what it would look like,” Swaim said. Swaim thinks that the biggest advantages to having these dome buildings is that kids will be able to come to a school that is not over-crowded. Plus the sports depart-ment could stop worrying about putting visiting teams in class-rooms since the gym dome will have a locker room for the opposing team to use during games. Students also need to realize that the rooms for fine arts, the stage, and Ryan Reed’s room will be replaced by the domes. Swaim said that he does not know what he is going to do with the rooms that will become available yet. The domes will be used by the gym teachers, theatre department, and the music department. Gym teacher Jayson Duncan is looking forward to the completion of the domes because they will give the school more space for all of its activities. With the domes the physi-cal education department won’t be put out by the blood drives, testing, or assemblies. Instead, they will have an alternative place to take the students for the day. The domes

will also allow the students to have more options when they divide up for class. “Adding on a bigger weight room should also give us the option for a fitness area. That is perfect for those students who want to work on a treadmill or an exercise bike,” Duncan said. Theatre director Ryan Reed be-lieves that the domes will be cheap-er and better on utilities. He also believes that with the extra space the domes bring will allow students to focus on their ac-tual classes instead of focusing on the noises coming from the hall-way. “With the perform-ing arts students having a space of their own, it’ll help them take ownership of the domes. I believe that the students work ethic will increase because they’ll feel powerful,” Reed said. Music director Lari Jarrett believes that the performing arts students will thrive more than they already have with all the obstacles they’ve had to overcome already. Jarrett is looking forward to being able to teach without having to fight for her physical space. “Our shows would be able to have a proper set because the stage will not be used as storage space for the wrestling mats,” Jarrett said. Over the summer break other changes besides the domes will be occurring. Dorreen Seely-Francis’s room and Mary Burgett’s room are being remodeled. Burgett is excited for the changes that will be coming to her room this summer break. She is excited about the small and big facilities plus the new equipment that will be added. Burgett has had to sort, clean, and do price and quality comparisons while shopping for new things. Burgett said that the shopping was stressful yet fun. She believes that the students will be excited about the changes. Burgett said that stu-

Construction on renovations and additions starting this summerdents have been working in 1970’s conditions, but coming this school year they will be able to work in newer conditions. Burgett’s room will be more spacious and students won’t have to work in groups of five or six, instead they’ll now be able to work in groups of three. There will be more stations in her new room, but they will be smaller to allow for more hands on activities for all students. “Its fun to be fresh,” Burgett said.

Top right picture is of Mary Burgett’s room now, it shows the classroom area and some of the stations. Top left picture shows the wall that will be knocked down to allow more space. The bottom photo is a blueprint of what Burgett’s room will look like after summer break.

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SFT has it’s own StyleBY APRYL CORLEY

IMAGES BY SUBMITTED

On April 13, the band and choirs loaded up on two buses and headed to Baker University to compete for small ensemble. Small ensemble is were Seraphim, Choraliers, and the soloists or triplets compete individu-ally. A couple days later they load up again and head to large ensemble. At large ensemble the band com-petes as a whole, and Seraphim and Choraliers come together to com-pete. At small ensemble the entire vocal department all got three’s. Choirs and soloists are judged by one judge and are then scored on a scale of one to four. Four being the worse and one being the best. For the Santa Fe Trail groups that got a three, it just means that they performed at an average level . To be able to advance onto state competition groups or a single per-son need to obtain a ranking of a one. For SFT Michael Crook,12, got a one for his trumpet, and Trevor Jones,12, got a one for his vocal tal-ents. Lari Jarrett said that very few one ratings were handed out. She also said there was a room that only handed out one all day long. Jones and Crook competed at Andover on April 26, where they both earned a one. Crook was really proud of the way he performed and the fact that he was able to get a one. He said he had to practice, practice, and practice some more to prepare for his solo. “I want to pursue a career play-ing the trumpet. I just figured that performing a solo was a good place to start out my career,” Crook said. Jones had a lot of fun performin-ing at Andover. He practiced with

his accompainst for many, many hours to be performance ready. “I decided to do a solo because I like to sing, it’s a lot of fun, and com-petiting is a good way to see how good my vocal skills are,” Jones said. On the April 17 the entire mu-sic department competed at large ensemble. The band got a two, and the choir got a three. At this com-petition the ensembles are judged by three judges. Each judge gives the ensemble a rating and their final score is the average score that they had received from the judges. Band Director Lance Quilling was very pleased with the way the band performed at large. He said that he was also proud of the senior leadership that he saw from the senior band members during game face time. “The band members worked very hard in a short amount of time and did an excellent job representing SFT,” Quilling said. Lari Jarrett said that the choirs performed as she expected at large. Jarrett said that the choirs only had two days to come together and com-bine as a whole, but with those two days she didn’t have all the students due to other issues. She was very proud of the way the choirs per-formed together considering they had only two rehearsals together and the other choirs had more time. Even though the combined choir didn’t have a lot of time they still managed to get a three. Jarrett said that most of the points came from the choirs singing technique. “Sure we didn’t have all the words memorized, but our sound had ‘good bones’,” Jarrett said.

1. Sarah Zachary, 12, preparing to play by buzz-

ing her lips, while students around her buzz with

excitment.

2 . Students tearning their heads to pay attention

to the director before performing.

3. Seraphim fixing up the loose ends in their com-

petition songs for their May 2nd concert.

4. Micheal Crook, 12, and Ryan David, 12, getting

pumped before performing at contest.

5. Choraliers getting pumped for end of the year

concert.

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Musicians compete at the regional and state level

Farewell to the TrailSeniors plan for life beyond high schoolBY MARIA PENROD

JOSH ZELLER

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY

BIOLOGICAL AGRICULTURAL ENGINEERING

MANHATTAN, KS

KELSEY GARRISONNORTH OKLAHOMA COLLEGENURSING WITH A MINOR IN AGRICULTURAL EDUCATION

TONKAWA, OK

SIERRA BURT

INDEPENDENCE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

NURSING

INDEPENDENCE, KS

PLAYING SOFTBALL

TAYLOR OSTRANDER

UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS

SOCIAL WORK

LAWRENCE, KS

TYLER THORNTON

MAKAYLA LAMASTRES

DAKOTA HART

ALEENA PAGAN

MCKENNA REEDNATE VICE

Dani Jo Kuney, Holly Ullery, and Rachael Forrestt will attend Labette County Community College to play bas-ketball . “I get to play bas-ketball with my best friends and I got a scholarship,” Kuney said. She will be studying nursing. “I am looking forward to getting to play with every-body, travelling, and just having a new experience,” Ullery said. Ullery is ma-joring in elementary education. Despite their excitement, the trio still has concerns. “I’m nervous about being away from home,” Forrestt said. Forrestt is majoring in nursing. “I have nieces and they are going to grow up without me,” Kuney said. Overall, they are thankful. “It is a bless-ing and I’m really blessed to be able to do this,” Forrestt said. “I could not have done it without Jesus.”

Tim Wilson will be going to Inde-pendence Commu-nity College to study athletic training. “I’m looking forward to meet-ing new people and hopefully getting more involved in col-lege football,” Wilson said. Wilson plans to play football his sec-ond year at college. “I’m nervous about failing,” Wil-son said. “I don’t want to fail .” Wilson plans to attend Washburn University after get-ting his associate’s degree. “I’m excited about working for a college or athletic train-ing in professional sports,” Wilson said.

Mandy Boydston would like to be a nurse in the mili-tary. Although she is unsure as to what branch of the armed forces she wants to go into, she knows it is what she wants to do. “I’ve always want-ed to be in the nurs-ing field,” Boydston said. “I just want to help people in any-way that I can.” Boydston is look-ing forward to being more independent after high school, but she still has her worries. “You just don’t know how it is go-ing to work out,” Boydston said.

Tyler Thornton will be shipping out on September 10 for basic training with the Navy. “What I’m most nervous about is the physical aspect of it. And of course, being away from my fam-ily,” Thornton said. Thornton will be working construc-tion in the Navy. There is an 80 per-cent chance that he will be deployed. “There’s always that thought of not coming home. But honestly with my job, I’m kind of in the clear but I’m kind of not. With any part of the mili-tary there’s a chance that you aren’t go-ing to come home,” Thornton said. “I realized that when I enlisted and that’s what I’m there to do and I’ll do my job.”

Brenden Hamit is not only gradauting from high school this year, but he is also graduating from Washburn Institute of Technology as a certified automobile mechanic. However, that is not what he wants to do for the rest of his life. “I don’t know where I want to work. Probably a trade of some sort,” Hamit said. “I like working with my hands, I just don’t want to work on cars.” Now he is con-sidering going into plumbing. “I’m nervous about money stuff, about having to learn about insur-ance and medical stuff,” Hamit said.

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Schmidt: From Demolition to Education

A fixture in the Northeast corner, Paul Schmidt has been teaching at Santa Fe Trail High School since 1977. In honor of his retirement, Schmidt is spilling the beans on his life before and after the Trail .

Both in and out of school, Schmidt has always cared about kids’ edu-cation. He became in-teresting in teaching through a speech class in college at Wichita State University.

Schmidt is not technically retir-ing, because he plans to continue working. “I’m doing more like a pause between two sentences,” Schmidt said. He would like to leave Santa Fe Trail with a piece of advice: “The scariest part of being a driver is the children. Always remember to look in the bus’s rearview mirror.”

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Before he was a teacher, Schmidt worked in food service for a few years and was a demo-lition derby driver. “That was a short lived career,” Schmidt said.

In his first year at Santa Fe Trail High school, Schmidt was a football coach. He only lasted one year.

He was a school bus driver before becoming a teacher.

Several years later Schmidt was crushed by a file cabinet. The stu-dent who was in the room didn’t try all that hard to help with thesituation.

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Paul Schmidt shares secrets from 36 years of teachingBY CHANCE RICHARDSONPHOTO BY APRYL CORLEY

Wilson: From Farms to Funerals

Linda Wilson has been the resident counselor and expert on state testing at Santa Fe Trail High School for four years. She will be retiring this year.

She has a Master Funeral Director License. Her husband owns a funeral home.

She has a cockatoo named Cocoa and a Datsun (car) named Levi.

She graduated from Ottawa University with a BA in Elementary Education, and Emporia State with a MS in Elementary and High School counseling.

She was a counselor at Madison, KS for 14 years and Ark City, KS for one year. She has helped found the Madison Education Assistance Fund, which has awarded $200,000 to high school seniors in the last 22 years.

After she retires, Wilson would like to travel and volun-teer. “Believe in yourself,” Wilson said. “Have faith in your abili-ties!”

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She grew up on a farm in Colorado. Wilson and her brothers raised pigs while growing up.

She was a yearbook editor in high school .

BY CHANCE RICHARDSONPHOTO SUBMITTED

Retiring counselor Linda Wilson shares wisdom

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Big Shoes to Fill

Cheap Summer Fun

BY DOYLE HESS

BY DOYLE HESS

With the seniors at Santa Fe Trail graduating, many groups and clubs need to be filled in with new leadership. “It’s very bitter-sweet to see lead-ers go. Scholar’s bowl is not an event where you elect a leader, but someone always steps up to take a leader-like position,” says Eric Lynch, Scholar’s Bowl director. “With things like the game night, where it’s entirely student driven, someone has to take leadership,” said Lynch. Usually it’s a big decision to find a person to lead a group. It’s a big step. Caleb Snyder, 12, was a debat-er this year. “I think that a leader can be formed. All it takes is someone to step up to take the position. Expe-rience can make or break someone

in a leadership position.” From FBLA to SADD officers, cheer captains, teacher aids, and even in things not sponsored by KSHSAA like game nights, leaders are needed to take the positions. For the groups with a little more of a complex process like elections, it’s possible to be even more strenuous. Trevor Rosine, 11, is a candidate for an officer of SADD for the 2013-2014 school year. “A leader must be someone who is willing to do something right for the sake of the group. They have to be thick-skinned, and be willing to go through quite a lot to get where they need to go.” Rosine said. Leaders are beginning to form already here at SFT, and with each coming year we see more and more of leadership potential .

There are several ways common people here can preoccupy them-selves with in the hot summer sun. Austin A. Smith, 11, finds his own thing to do in the summer. “Video games and fishing can pretty much keep me busy all sum-mer,” Smith said with a laugh. Athletics are a great activity to. Hunter Schmutz, 12, finds himself on the field or court a lot. “Sports are my favorite way of keeping preoccupied,” said Schmutz. And obvously swimming is a great summer activity. Daytona Deprato, 11, is a frequent visitor to local lakes. “It’s my favorite place to go over the summer. It’s so much fun, and it’s free to swim,” said Deprato. Here are some other interesting low-cost possibilities for summer activities when boredom strikes:

Visit an Art Gallery or a Museum A lot of places around are great for a look at common art work or very interesting and old trinkets. The Kansas Museum of History in topeka charges $6 for students with their ID to visit, and is full of plenty of things to seeLearn a New Hobby Learning a hobby is great to. Learn magic, play a yo-yo, learn hackysack or just do a puzzle. Start a collection or go birdwatch-ing. The possibilities are endless. Play Board Games Plan a family game night with Pictionary, Scene-it, Apples to Apples, Life, or Monopoly.Plant a Garden Gardening is challenging, cheap, fun, and interesting. In this part of the country, one can plant a garden virtually anywhere.

Pursue Photography Anything can look pretty to someone. In today’s age, cameras are extremely easy to come by. Just grab one and do all sorts of amazing pictures. It can be a lot of fun, and inexpensive.Have a Bonfire Party Bonfires are a great way to party. Just get some seasoned branches in a pile, set it ablaze, and its really a great way to spend a night.Have a Picnic Most food around can be cheap if its made by the people going on the picnic. It’s even better to make it at the picnic. Nature, and food, It’s a great combo.Go Swimming A lot of places during the summer charge little or nothing for a full day of a swimming spree. The local public lake, or the local pool .

With old leaders leaving, new ones are needed to fill In positions

We’re Growing Up, I ThinkBY MARIA PENROD

Normally, the graduating news-paper editor writes some sappy editorial about how much they will miss high school and blah blah blah. I have decided not to go that route, mostly because my brain can only handle so much sappiness. Instead, I have chosen to review some key memories from my life at USD 434. In kindergarten I learned that if you chase Dakota Hart around the classroom during play time, you will get in trouble. Especially when Ms. Wisdom (Now Mrs. Cathey) has already told you once to stop. During my time in Mrs. Von-Stein’s first grade class, Dawson Colglazier showed me the improper way to use a stapler by stapling his finger. Staplers really are the most dangerous office tools. After breaking my arm in gym class and having surgery on it in third grade, I learned that even though your classmates do not un-derstand your medical issues, they will still give you graham crackers to help you feel better. Fourth grade was a time of great confusion. It is when the differences between boys and girls become truly apparent. Brenna Swisher asked me what puberty was. I did not know either. In Mrs. Dahl’s fifth grade class, Lauren Erickson and I got the cleanest desk award. Yeah, we were the cool kids.

Seventh grade marked the begin-ning of junior high. We had hit the big time. Everyone was wearing clothing with Aeropostale or Ameri-can Eagle spilled across the front of it. May no one ever find pictures of that era. I missed the bus on my first day of high school . Breanna Craig tex-ted me stating, “YOU MISSED THE BUS. THE BUS IS LEAVING!! ! !” I replied. “I KNOW!! ! ! !” She waited for me at the doors and we walked into a new world together. Everyone does things their fresh-man year that they regret. Eve-ryone does things sophomore year that they regret. Same with junior year, and even now, when we are the wise elders of the school . People are figuring out who they are and who they want to be. Stuff happens. Life happens. I have grown up a lot in the past four years. We all have. It seems like just when we got high school figured out, it is over. We are all moving on to new places, new people, and new challenges. I will really miss my class. I could not ask for a better group of kids to grow up with. We are family in a strange way. I love some of you more than others, but I do love you all . I cannot wait to see where life takes us. I would like to thank the Trail for being my home for the past four years. Every teacher has supported me and I could not be more grate-

Professions the Class of 2013 is PursuingSeventy-one seniors were surveyed during their English class on April 16 about what field they are going into after graduation.

Health  31%  

Technology  11%  

Engineering  7%  

Educa7on  7%  

Law  or  Government  

3%  

Social  Work  4%  

Military  6%  

Business  7%  

Arts  10%  

Undecided  14%  

ful . The Trail is a family too, a very strange family. Thank you for reading my editorials this year. I hope someone besides my mom likes them. To the underclassmen: be kind to each other. You are only here a short time. Do not be the one people cringe when they remember. Just be nice to each other, and you’ll have a blast in high school . I know I did.

Seniors Jessica Arnwine, Sydney Morrison, Chel-

sea Moore, and Morgan Brown at their preschool

graduation in 1999.

Seniors Jessica Arnwine, Sydney Morrison, Chel-

sea Moore, and Morgan Brown in 2013.

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Dancing in the DarkBY JAEDEN ROMINE

PHOTS SUBMITTED

Prom is one of the most excit-ing parts of high school . Mostly for the girls. “Doing my hair, makeup, and getting ready with my friends is the best part. Pictures is always a fun part too. Although it was pretty cold this year. The actual prom part is fun too, but I like getting ready the best,” Shelby Dahl, 11, said. This year a lot of things were different. Prom was held at Tope-ka Performing Arts Center. Instead of eating at prom everybody ate out on their own. Groups of people went to Ki-kus, Texas Roadhouse, Blind Tiger, and even Mc-Donalds. A new DJ was hired this year. With the better music and a cool light show everybody spent their time dancing. “I had a terrific time burning up the dance floor at my senior prom. I had a lot of fun this year with my date,” Tyler Shaffer, 12,

said. Even though everyone was tired the next day, staying up all night with your friends is a great way to spend your week-end.

Students ate, danced, and enjoyed Prom 2013

1. Some seniors meet at Ward Meade Park to

take pictures. Photo by Rich Hamit

2. A group of juniors meet at the capitol to

take pictures. Photo by Brad Shaffer

3. “I had a lot of fun but taking pictures was

rushed,” said Jessica Abendroth, 11.

4. Mrs. Towle and Dallan Cowley, 10, take a

picture together. Everybody was happy to see

Mrs. Towle.

5. “It was kind of boring, ut getting dressed up

was fun,” Abree Traphagan, 11, said.

6. 2013 Prom King and Queen Canidates.

Michael Crook, Bailee Bombardier, Austin

Reser, Madeline Bradley, Michael Tidball, Sara

Schmidt, Nate Vice, Brenna Swisher.

7. Nate Vice, 12, and Anna Capra, 10, take pic-

tures in front of Nate’s airplane.

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