Stuco holds lock in
By Stephanie Griffith
Working together to plan to make the 2007-2008 school year the best, Stuco members gathered at TCHS on the evening of August 8 for an all-night lock in.
Early in the evening, members visited with Wakeeney residents to get their input about how to improve the school climate. Their suggestions were diverse: they included comments about having more pep assemblies, establishing a booster club, and having badminton tournaments for class competitions.
Then students returned to the high school, broke into committees, and made plans for events during the year. Ideas discussed included more class competitions, ways to increase school pride, the availability of a pencil/paper machine, and the possibility of having a survivor day during the school year.
Rita Weber and Nora Schoenthaler sponsored the event.
STUCO attends conference
By Stephanie Griffith
Student council members attended a conference, held on September 2 at Hays High School in the 12th Street Auditorium.
STUCO members from surrounding towns gathered together to learn how to become better leaders.
The speaker Bill Tryanski , motivational speaker, gave information about how to make people who think they aren’t the most popular or who aren’t involved in the activities feel welcome at their schools.
Also, members were given ideas about how to brainstorm, how to conduct organized meetings, and how to initiate ideas within their schools.
After the conference, members of the TCHS and TJH student councils ate at Golden Corral before they went home to their respective schools to implement their new ideas.
RIGHT: Participating in an activity to get students to interact with students from other schools, TCHS students sit and wait for their turns. Members gathered on September 2 for the STUCO conference at Hays High School’s 12th Street Auditorium. (Photo by Stephanie Griffith)
Stuco sponsors blood drive
By Stephanie Griffith
Student Council participated in a Red Cross blood drive on November 15 in the Old Gym.
Students were encouraged to donate blood, enough to save three lives in the process.
Stuco members were assigned jobs throughout the school day to help those who gave blood. Members assisted the donors by escorting them to a chair to give blood and then by guiding them back to the canteen area where they were given water and snacks. Members also manned the registration and canteen areas.
Stuco member Cameron Locke commented about the day’s events.
“With the huge shortage in blood today it makes me feel good to get out there and support the situation. I have a lot of respect for those who gave because they take time out of their day to save lives.”
The Blood Mobile will be visiting WaKeeney again on Tuesday, January 8, at the United Methodist Church from 12:00 pm- 6:00 pm.
TOP RIGHT: Sitting patiently as a nurse gets ready to draw blood, William Hendrickson watches as the technician follows medical protocol. Many TCHS students gave blood when Red Cross visited on November 15. RIGHT: Blood donor Sammy Augustine shows no emotion or fear as a nurse takes blood from her. TCHS students learned each blood donation provides enough blood to save three lives.
Pres. Taylor Dirks
V-Pres. Cory McGann
Sec. Stacy Littlechild
Treas. Dana Diec
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It was a walk back in time.
Poodle skirts, 50’s music, rock ‘n’ roll dancing and Elvis each played a role at the Stuco-sponsored dinner for teachers and staff members on December 13.
Stuco members spent weeks preparing for the event, which included a menu served in the “Elvis in the Building Diner” (Carl Mohler’s classroom). There, teachers and staff dined on hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries and floats as Stuco members entertained with live, onstage impersonations of Elvis, complete with back up girls.
Isiah F., fifth grade student, and Jordan Olson “shook it” as Elvis impersonators.
Mohler and Gina Halksworth, teachers, joined the performers with their renditions of the twist and rock ‘n’ roll.
The student body played games in the gymnasium while teachers enjoyed their meals.
Stuco members were in charge of preparing for the event, setting up the tables and 50’s décor, serving the dinner and cleaning up.
The students enjoyed the event as much as the staff did.
Dana Diec said, “It was fun adjusting to a different time period.”
Aubrey Riedel enjoyed “getting to impersonate the 50’s people and seeing how grateful teachers were.
“I liked seeing the smiling teachers’ faces,” said Olson.
Olivia Fabrizius said,” I just liked giving the teachers a break from the day.”
Dietz and Sherfick announced STUCO president and vice president
By Stephanie Griffith
Students elected 2008-2009 STUCO President and Vice President--Matt Dietz and Dylan Sherfick.
Dietz and Sherfick gave written reasons why the student body should elect them.
“We believe if we are elected officers, we will be the best to get fun activities passed by the principal. We work together as a team because we were born on the same day [and] that’s camaraderie at its finest,” wrote Dietz and Sherfick.
The team presented their proposals for changes for the upcoming school year.
“More activities and more fundraisers so there’s more money to use on students,” reported Dietz and Sherfick.
The new STUCO leadership listed activities that would make the next school year better.
“We’ll have fun days with dodge ball and also other activities like ping-pong for students that don’t want to play dodge ball,” wrote Dietz and Sherfick.
Dietz and Sherfick presented plans to involve students in school activities.
“We will try to have sport games that are sometimes free or half off admission and have something for the students every few weeks.”
President Matt Dietz
V-Pres. Dylan Sherfick
Teachers, staff experience ‘One Fine Day’
