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May 2001

FCCLA sponsors awards banquet

Students honored at FFA Banquet

Band performs last concert of the year

Choir performs last concert of the year

SENIOR PLANS AND OPINIONS

Loren Hemphill leaves teaching

Track team competes at Hill City

Guys defeat Sylvan Grove

Lady Cards win one lose one

Graduation plans

Twenty-one musicians participate at state contest

Twenty-one students traveled to Concordia, Kansas on Saturday, April 28 for State

Solo and Small Ensemble Contest at Cloud County Community College.
The following students received a one rating at the contest: the trumpet ensemble, members including senior Ashlee Grover; juniors Rhiannon Becker, Stacy Dreher and Abby Morris; sophomore Lolly Garvin and freshman Michelle Reishus; and junior Chris Peavey for a vocal solo. Those earning a two rating include senior Hannah Deiber for and alto saxophone solo; junior Matt Renk for a snare solo; juniors Libby Hrabe and Kayla Fisher, sophomore Naomi Thompson, and freshman Jessica Casey, Laura Lacy, Kira Shumacher and Amanda Fogle for a clarinet ensemble; junior Janell Darnell for a solo; and sophomore Heather Hrabe and freshmen Aryn Garvin and Andee Marquess for a flute trio.

"The judges were very tough this year. The students did an excellent job," Teacher Connie Reishus said.

FCCLA sponsors awards banquet

FCCLA held their annual banquet on April 30. The seven officers for 2001-2002 were honored. They were junior Rhiannon Becker, president; junior Stacy Dreher, VP of Membership; sophomore Abby Stagner, VP of Finance; Sophomore Carissa Fredrickson, Secretary; junior Kayla Fisher, VP of Recongnition; sophomore Lolly Garvin, VP of Public Relations; and junior Heather Plante, VP of Programs.

Garvin and Dreher were also honored for being District B officers. Garvin is Secretary and Dreher is VP of Finance.

Awards were given to members for their years of service. Those being honored for their years of service. Those being honored for their one-year membership were freshmen Morgan Buck, Jessica Casey, Jordan Finnesy, Terri Kenney, Laura Lacy, Amy Normandin, Lindsey Plante, Quintin Plante, Michelle Reishus, Makenzi Rempe and Jordyn Wilkens. Two-year members include sophomores Mandy Cox, Morgan Fellhoelter, Carrissa Fredrickson, Lolly Garvin, Lacey Hamblet, Danielle Moos, Abby Stagner and junior Jennifer Bland. Three-year members include juniors Rhiannon Becker, Lacey Brin, Stacey Dreher, Jolene Eilers, Shanna Fellhoelter, Stevie Finnesy, Kayla Fisher, Danielle Kenney, Katrina Jones, Abby Morris, Heather Plante, Renee Post, Michelle Rath, Asia Schonthaler and Katie Weigel. Four-year members include seniors Lindsey Hamblet, Cara Hansen, Sarah Koehler, Lindsey Ostrom and Danielle Meitler.

The top Tom Wat salespeople were also awarded. They include first place, Eilers; second place, Cox and third place, Lacy.

Power of one awards were recieved by Wilkens, Buck, Kenney, Plante, Hansen, Fredrickson, and Eilers. Hansen completed all six of the modules in the Power of One program.

At the end of the banquet, Hansen and Koehler were both given the annual FCCLA scholarship.

Students honored at FFA Banquet

The annual FFA banquet took place Saturday, April 28. The banquet began with a welcome by freshman Matt McCune.

Dinner consisted of steak, baked potato, corn, salad, dinner roll and cake. The steaks for dinner were prepared by Mike and Stan Simon.

Advisor Ed Rath and FFA officers handed out awards after the dinner. Senior Alan Austin received the Peavey-Ott scholarship and senior Jason Stahl received the Plainville FFA scholarship. Junior Mike Langholz received the dairy judging award. Freshman Aryn Garvin received an award for poultry judging and horse judging. Freshman Jeremiah Lumpkin received the award for livestock judging. Junior Chris Fogle received an award for tenth over all at the ag mechanics contest and senior Auldin Morris received an award for second place in diesel mechanics. Freshman Aryn Garvin, Matt McCune and junior Matt Renk earned Greenhand Degrees. Juniors Josh Cunningham and Chris Fogle earned Chapter Degrees. Cunningham also earned the title of Chapter Star Farmer.

The 2001-2002 officers are Fogle (President), Garvin (Vice President), McCune (Secretary), Cunningham (Treasurer), Renk (Reporter), and Jason Rath (Sentinel).

Band performs last concert of the year

The high school band performed its last concert Tuesday, May 15, 2001.

Songs performed by the Concert Band included "Broadway In The 90's," arranged by John Higgins; "Bright Eyes," arranged by Walter Alan Finlayson and "The Light Eternal" arranged by James Swearingen.

The soloists in "Bright Eyes" included senior Ashlee Grover, juniors Rhiannon Becker, Stacy Dreher and Abby Morris, sophmore Lolly Garvin and freshman Michelle Reishus. A saxophone solo was played by Hannah Deibert. The song is titled "Largo and Allegro from Sonata VI," by G.F. Handel.

The Jazz Band played four songs"Coldhearted," "The Charleston," " The Way We Were," "Crocodile Rock," all arraged by Jerry Nowak.

Choir Performs Last Concert of the Year

The Plainville choir performed its lst concert of the year May 8.

Songs performed included "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho" by Lon Berry, "The Flower That Shattered the Stone" by Audrey Snyder, "Witch Doctor" by Stephen Lawrence and "Candle In The Wind" by Elton John. Senior AuldinMorris, Junior Chris Peavey, and sophomore Joe Kraushaar performed as the "Chipmunks" during "Witch Doctor." There was also a song performed by the combined chorus "Love Can Build A Bridge" by Carl Strommen.

"I thought the choir did an excellent job," Connie Reishus said, "I think the choir has really done a super job this year at each performance."

Loren Hemphill Leaves teaching

Loren Hemphill will end his teaching career when he retires at the end of this school year. Hemphill has been teaching for thirty-eight and a half years. He has been in Plainville for forty years, but was out of the school system for one and a half years. Twenty-nine of those teaching years were spent at the junior high. HE has since then been the athletic director for nine years. He currently teaches current events and psychology.

Hemphill said "I have had so many memorable moments throughout my years at PHS. I cannot put my finger on just one. I have no definity plans after i retire. I will miss the day to day contact with the students but will not miss the late nights attending activities."

Track team competes at Hill City.

The Cardinals participated in the Hill City Invitational Track Meet on May 7. The girls placed 12th with 7 points, and the boys placed 8th with 30 points.

Sophomore T.J. Staab threw the shot 51'4" placing 1st. Staab also placed 1st in discus with 149'8" and 5th in the javelin with 143'. Sophomore Jason Rath placed 3rd in the 100 meter hurdles with a time of 15.96. Sophomore Scott Wise placed 7th in the 100 meter dash with a time of 12.06. Senior Matthew Rodriguez ran the 800 meter run in 2:10.12 placing 5th.

Junior Stacy Dreher placed 6th in the long jump with a jump of 15'. The girls placed 3rd in the 440 relay with a time of 53.53.

"At this point in th season the team is performing at about the coachs' expectations. The athletes are will-prepared in terms of physical conditioning but are still working on fundamental parts of their events for maxium confidence and performance," Coach Steve Buresh said.

Guys defeat Sylvan Grove

The Plainville baseball team played Sylvan Grove on April 26. They won the first game by a score of 16-3 and also won the second game with a score of 14-13.

The batting stats for the first game were senior Trent Fuzzell, 3-3; sophomore Willie Ruder, 2-4; senior Brian Deutscher, 2-3; senior Jared Ganoung, 3-3; senior Kyle Dreher, 2-4; freshman Joel Hrabe, 1-3; sophomore Wayne Cook, 0-2; and freshman Tyler Nelson 3-3. Batting results for the second game were Fuzzell, 1-4; Axelson, 1-4; W. Ruder, 3-4; Deutscher, 2-3; Ganoung, 2-4; Dreher, 2-4; Hrabe, 2-3; Cook, 1-1; Lovelady, 0-1; Turnbull, 0-1; and Nelson 2-4.

Pitching stats for both games are Deutscher with 4 hits, 2 walks and 9 strikeouts; Ganoung with 4 hits, 1 walk and 1 stikeout; and Hrabe had 5 hits, 2 walks and 1 strikeout.

Lady Cards win one and lose one

The Lady Cards played the Sylvan Lady Mustangs on April 26, 2001.

The Cards played an extremely good first game, but fell short in the end. They lost the game 8-7.

The Cards turned it around the second game. Through good fielding and strong hitting the ladies came out on top. The final score was 19-4.

Graduation plans

The Senior Class voted to decide which juniors would lead them in at their graduation and pass out programs at the gate of Cardinal Field May 19.

Senior Class President Sarah Koehler and Secretary Kelly Wilson waited a few days to give every senior a chance to cast their vote before they counted them. Juniors Audrey Bjornstad and Matt Renk were voted as the escorts. Juniors Renee Post and Tony Dopita were voted to hand out programs for graduation.

"It really wasn't that big of a deal to me," Dopita said.

Senior Kelly Wilson was tentatively chosen as this year's Valedictorian and the Salutatorian was still undecided at press time.