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Dhanvitha Bodapati works on a stitching project in Mrs. Ridlen's Introduction to Art class. The Intro to Art classes have covered the basics for multiple art forms for years: including those involving fabric.

Drawing Conclusions

Sydney Ross, Staff Reporter June 6, 2025

Especially after the quarantine era, the online art community has paid more attention to the rise of young and talented artists — like it’s a phenomenon of its own. Prodigies between the ages of 11...

Social studies Mrs. Julie Gronek working at her desk.

Mrs. Julie Gronek

Birdie Brereton, Print Editor-in-Chief June 6, 2025

Gronek, I have had the pleasure of being in two of your classes, both Psychology and AP Government and you have made both such an easy and enjoyable experience. While everyone else was complaining about...

Social studies Mrs. Julie Gronek working at her desk.

Mrs. Julie Gronek

Thomas Ramos, Assignments Editor June 6, 2025

Mrs. Gronek, It means everything to me to have teachers that I feel I can call a friend. You, this year and the last, have been one of those teachers to me. I can’t overstate how much I’ve appreciated...

Social studies Mrs. Julie Gronek working at her desk.

Mrs. Julie Gronek

Ian Rashleigh, Podcast Editor June 6, 2025

Mrs. Gronek Honestly, how could you ask for a more bombastic teacher? Mrs. Gronek, it has been such a joy to be in two of your classes, and I do not regret taking either of them. In both Government...

Conducting the Chamber Choir during its final performance on May 12, senior Katie Garrett motions to the singers of her arrangement of Lizzy McAlpine's "Give Me A Minute." Garrett is the first student in the choir program's history to arrange a song for the choirs to perform.

Arranging a memory

Ava Drury, Staff reporter May 27, 2025

Hands shaking, senior Katie Garrett stands under the hot stage lights of the auditorium. She softly gives four beats to the 25 chamber choir singers in front of her, and at the next downbeat, they begin...

Junior Nuwelin Dagne beams in her traditional Ethiopian dress wear.

Memoirs of History

Donya Ihmoud and Birdie Brereton May 21, 2025

Perhaps an underrated art medium, clothing — especially that of traditional wear — can represent the history, religion and social values of a culture. The hundreds of thousands of unique articles of...

Tala (left) and Mustafa (right) gaze upon Creve Couer Lake. Both children are amputees from Gaza seeking medical care in St. Louis.

Finding Refuge

Donya Ihmoud, Staff Reporter May 19, 2025

Tala is a physically disabled child who grew up in the city of Tel el-Hawa located in the southern region of Gaza. The date of Oct. 7, 2023, marked a turning point in Tala’s life. Already left at a physical...

Mr. Matthew Schott

Mr. Matthew Schott

Birdie Brereton, Print Editor-in-Chief May 14, 2025

Schott, I have had you for three years now and although I’m sure there was some nepotism involved at first, I hope that I have proved to you my own skill and worth past my sister. (Who’s doing great...

Mrs. Sarah LaRue

Mrs. Sarah LaRue

Audrey Webb, Staff Photographer May 14, 2025

Dear Mrs. LaRue, This past year you have been nothing but kind to me each and every day that I show up to class. Even if I come to class in a bad mood, you always seem to cheer me up somehow and make...

Ms. Brittany Moore

Ms. Brittany Moore

Sophie Rosser, Staff Reporter May 14, 2025

Dear Ms. Moore, Over the course of this year you repeatedly went out of your way to ensure that my peers and I are as prepared as possible for the AP exam. Even though this was your first year teaching...

Mrs. Stacey Denningman

Mrs. Stacey Denningman

Birdie Brereton, Print Editor-in-Chief May 14, 2025

Mrs. Dennigmann Your down-to-Earth and no nonsense attitude is so refreshing to see, especially when the kids you are yelling at completely deserve it. Sociology was a class I was just kind of shoved...

Mrs. Sarah LaRue

Mrs. Sarah LaRue

Birdie Brereton, Print Editor-in-Chief May 12, 2025

Mrs. LaRue,  Last year I was adamant I wasn’t going to take AP Lit. Although I enjoyed English, I hadn’t planned on studying it in college so I found little point in taking the class. The only...

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