Making a difference

This past holiday season, student council hosted a toy drive for St. Louis Children’s hospital. They collected donations during a week at school, took toys in exchange for admission to a basketball game, and sold tshirts. While event seems simple, a lot goes into making sure collections go smoothly, like writing announcements, making posters, and coordinating with the activities office to for th...

For the foreign language department isn’t all about itself and the languages.  For a period of time around the Christmas holiday season during the school year, the foreign language department participates in a program called Adopt a Family. Family Program, a family that is in Francis Howell School district who is in financial need is “adopted”.  Throughout the collection period, students in ...

Central Outreach is a club at Francis Howell Central that helps the school and outside community. Their most recent project was a shoe drive that benefits the Shoeman Water project. This helped an organization that collects shoes from different shoe drives and sells them back out to exporters who then take the shoes to third world countries and villages. But the good deeds don't stop there. With th...

When thinking of theater, people might think of plays and the productions that are put on every year as what it is all about.  Because of the many hours put in practicing and running through lines, constructing and creating the scenes of the production, and preparing costumes and planning a schedule of when things on stage should happen, it is easy to see how people do not recognize how the theate...

Compared to some other clubs and organizations that exist, NHS is very active in trying to do something for the community. A major event was the breast cancer fundraiser.  NHS sold different breast cancer gear and raised money that was to be donated to breast cancer research.  From hats to bracelets, students were able to show their support and help NHS give back to the community by purchasing an ...

Every year Francis Howell Central hosts a pink out game where all proceeds go to the American Cancer Association and the funds go towards research and supplies.  Money is raised through pink out shirts bought and through the “Miracle Minute”, a minute set aside during halftime where spare change and donations are collected. However, this year the pink out game meant a little more to junior Aleuria Alde...

Central Outreach sold Rafiki bracelets, which are long, beaded bracelets made by women in Africa.  Each bracelet is patterned a different way and each specially designed bracelet represents different categories that all stand for different subjects in society such as education, water, food, health, or opportunity. The proceeds go to those specific categories in third world countries depending on wh...

Every year Francis Howell Central hosts a talent show that is quite unique in it’s own.  A playfully satirical take on showcasing their “talents”, gentlemen from any grade may participate in competing for the title of “Mr. FHC” such as senior Nathan Smith.   “I really enjoy Mr. FHC.  It means a lot because we get to make a difference in the community while being a fun opportunity t...

It began as a joke in Mr. McCoy’s physics class between two friends. Just a month before Prom, seniors Tyler Clark and Collin King shaved their heads, but it was more than a fashion statement. Raising over $1300 dollars for St. Baldricks, an organization that helps the families of children with cancer, each had their own reasons for doing it. For Clark, it was about bringing awareness to an issue t...

Starting early second semester, Central Outreach took on a challenge they had never done before. Their mission? Write a Valentine's day card to every single person in the school, staff included. Central Outreaches goal of this task was to simply let all of the FHC community know that they are appreciated. Junior Talia Thambyrajah was one of the many Central Outreach members that were deeply involv...