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Rachel Blanchard

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer and Reporter

Senior Rachel Blanchard is a third-year staff reporter and photographer for FHC Publications. She enjoys getting to experience both the reporting and the visual side of journalism. Outside of school, she spends her time working part time at the Flower Stop, hanging out with her friends, and going to concerts.

All content by Rachel Blanchard
Dopamine Dependency

Dopamine Dependency

Addison Yeaton, Rachel Blanchard, and Rachael Latzel
April 9, 2025

Guiding the Group

Sophie Rosser and Rachel Blanchard
February 25, 2025

Revisiting Our Vision

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer
February 7, 2025
One of the invited students carefully writes her improvements on the sheet provided by teachers. Each student received a brainstorming sheet to help them come up with and keep track of their ideas.

Thind focuses on her noting her ideas. With the help of staff and other students, the mission statement was condensed and modernized to be a better representation of the school.

A student concentrates on brainstorming ideas for improving the mission statement. The students spent the entirety of seminar working together to come up with something new.

Junior Molly Hollway jots down any ideas or thoughts she has regarding the school’s vision statement. Students represent the majority of a school’s population, so they are essential to representing FHC.

LaMartina checks in with a group of students. Both librarians and teachers were present to help students in whatever ways they could.

Spanish teacher Dr. Jennifer Miller watches as Ms. Caitlin Crain presents the slideshow to students. In order to get an idea of what mission statements can look like, students looked to other schools and organizations for inspiration.

Junior Anshdeep Thind leans over the desk as she fills in the brainstorming sheet with her own ideas of what FHC’s mission is. With the diverse student and staff population, it can be challenging to come up with a statement that includes them all.

Roznos chats with the students to brainstorm ideas. Creating a vision statement is a collaborative effort between both students and teachers, as it has to encapsulate all people within the school.

Language teachers Dr. Amy Roznos and Ms. Morgan Brader stand at the back of the room as Leake and librarian Ms. Tonisha LaMartina introduce the activity. Once everyone was situated, they spent seminar helping students craft the new mission statement.

Dr. Suzanne Leake waits at the front of the room to greet students as they arrive. Once all students are seated, Leake will give a welcoming statement.

An image of the Target Christmas section. As the holidays approach, the stores stock up their shelves with abundance of Christmas items to encourage more sales.

Christmas Consumerism

Rachael Latzel and Rachel Blanchard
December 12, 2024
Students file down the rows of buses after school. For some, the bus they climbed onto was crammed to capacity.

Lacking Legroom

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Reporter
November 22, 2024
Junior Alex Meyer slides to home base, watching the ball the whole time. She successfully scored a run for the team.

Senior Rylie Schaefermeir smiles as Dr. Suzanne Leake awards her with her senior night medal. Each senior received a medal on senior night to commemorate their experience with the team.

Missing the Memories

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer
November 7, 2024
Rylie Schaefermeir smiles in celebration with her parents as they move through the crowd towards the end of the tunnel. This ceremony gave players a chance to reflect before playing one of their last games of the season.

Sophie Rosser lunges towards a ball, fighting hard to keep the play going. Rosser and her teammate, Nadia Manushev, both played hard in their senior night game.

Sophie Rosser and Nadia Manushev communicate their plays. Since this was their first time playing as doubles partners, communication was especially important.

Sophomore Chloe Horton jumps to reach the ball for her serve. Though the night celebrated the seniors, underclassmen still competed in matches.

Senior Kaitlyn Morgan tosses the ball for a serve across the net. Morgan and her doubles teammate fought hard throughout their whole senior night match.

Rylie Schaefermeir steps outside bounds to hit the ball back across the net. She watched the ball as she prepared to swing her racquet.

Senior Nadia Manushev lunges towards the ball for her serve. She successfully returned it to the opposing team’s side of the net.

Senior Sophie Rosser smiles with her mom as they walk towards the coaches to receive her medal. The underclassmen on the team created a tunnel with their racquets for the seniors to walk under.

Kaitlyn Morgan ducks under the tunnel of racquets, along with her parents. The senior night celebration marked the closing of a hard-fought season.

Nadia Manushev smiles as she walks through the tunnel with her parents. Players, coaches, and family gathered around to celebrate her and her other senior teammates.

Head coach Patrick Reed stands at the end of the line of players, awaiting the seniors. Reed read off a quick script for each senior player to celebrate their time with the team.

The group of new officers stand in front of the crowd.

New Beginnings for NHS

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer
May 20, 2024
Isabella Wheeler talks with her friends over her school lunch.

Customization in the Cafeteria

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer
May 20, 2024
Katy Shaw catches up with her friend over lunch.

Freshman Rachel Latzel skips the line and unpacks her homemade lunch.

Freshman Jacob Banks chats with friends over his lunch.

A lunch lady works through the line of students waiting to check out.

A student makes her way through the lunch line.

A student customizes his lunch with the available options in the cafeteria.

Freshman Rachael Latzel skips the one and sits down to start unpacking her homemade lunch, avoiding what she calls the "death-dealing lunch" at all costs.

[Photo] Food for Thought

Ian Rashleigh, Staff Reporter
May 24, 2024
Junior Ryan Anderson laughs at a misstep in the process of inducting the new officers.

Resigning officers move to the back row of seats to make room for next year's NHS officers.

Dr. Leake and guest speaker Mrs. Odle clap for the officers as they finish their ceremony.

[Photo] Et tu, Mademoiselle Odle?

May 22, 2024
Macy Perks finishes up her commencement speech.

Resigning president Macy Perks stands between the new and old officers, welcoming in the new members of NHS.

A new inductee makes her way across the stage.

Mrs. Odle and Dr. Leake welcome --- into National Honor Society.

Sophomore Liya Fikru stops to shake hands with Mrs. Odle before officially becoming an NHS member.

The resigning NHS officers clap for Senior President, Macy Perks, as she finishes her speech.

Walsh answers a student's question.

Direction in the Dealership

Laila Alkhatib and Rachel Blanchard
April 26, 2024
Walsh stands at the front of the room, giving the students all the information they will need when it comes to buying cars.

Walsh answers questions as students listen intently.

Students listen intently as Frank "The Tank" Walsh gives them important pieces of advice.

Walsh speaks with a student in the front row.

Walsh looks toward a student in the crowd, listening carefully before answering the question.

Students chat while patiently waiting for the presenter to come on.

Freshman Taylei Sesson focuses before kicking off her 4x1 race.

Pushing the Pace

Rachel Blanchard and Kaitlyn Morgan
April 23, 2024
Noel Rice catches her breath after coming off the track.

Senior Colin Parsons takes the baton from his teammate and sets off towards the finish line.

Freshman Noel Rice pushes through the last lap of her race.

As he races towards the end, senior Ezra Bailey exhausts the last of his energy.

Sophomore Obie Bannon braces for impact as he falls towards the pole vaulting mats.

Taylei Sesson stares dead ahead, keeping herself focused on the finish line.

Sitting in contemplation, senior Ryan Blanchard listens to Mr. Beckmann speak during in class. Contemporary Issues offers students an outlet to learn and speak about pressing issues.

[Photo] Contemplating the Contemporary

Sophie Rosser, Staff Reporter
April 18, 2024
Senior Tony Valera practices during one of his many band classes. Valera chooses to dedicate some of his time during his band classes to practicing his solo and ensemble music.

[Photo] Superior Solos and Eloquent Ensembles

Abby Myers, Staff Reporter
April 5, 2024
The players fight to protect their lead.

Senior Night Success

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photagrapher
March 22, 2024
Reese McDevitt runs down the court, preparing for a pass.

A Central player reaches up to knock the ball out of the opposing team's grasp.

Riley Henderson races down the court with the ball.

Addie Henderson passes the ball to Morgan Davis.

Riley Henderson watches her shot soar towards to hoop.

Addie Henderson jumps to make a pass to her teammate.

Addie Henderson dribbles the ball towards the hoop.

Addie Henderson protects the ball from a North player.

A computer with a note on it reading, "Computer...does NOT work...Please sign in with attendance secretary," after the lack of Wi-fi made technology and teaching with technology impossible.

[Photo] Alternate Methods of Disruption

Ian Rashleigh, Ava Schriber
March 7, 2024
In the attendance office near the main entrance of FHC sits many binders labeled "Student Schedules," as the lack of Wi-Fi and cyber attack had made infinite campus inaccessible, and administrators and teachers had been forced to resort to paper schedules instead of ones online.

[Photo] AMI and the Cyber Attack: The Complete Series

Abby Myers, Hannah Halterman, Thomas Ramos, Sophie Rosser, Amity Ianiri, Kailey Pallares, Ava Schriber, Ian Rashleigh, Asher Wilson, and Ethan Kull
March 5, 2024
The folders in attendance overflow with the plethora of new documents the office is required to fill out.

[Photo] Flexible Changes

Amity Ianiri and Kailey Pallares
March 8, 2024
Carson Giddens chats with his teammate about the ref's call.

Confidence in Camaraderie

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer
January 3, 2024
A player skates around the ref, racing towards the puck.

Jay Wynn skates behind George Oelke as they get into their positions for the next face-off.

Carson McClintock waits for the referee to blow the whistle.

Aiden Lee stops to talk to his teammate, Seeger Trendley, before the next face-off.

Ryan Blanchard gets up from the ice after being knocked down by a player from Fox.

Aiden Lee waits at the zone line, ready to keep the puck in Fox's zone.

Jacob Haas waits for the puck drop.

Jacob Haas skates toward his teammate to help keep the puck in Central's possession.

After fighting for a goal, Central's players skate away. ready to try again.

Senior Robert Peel playing the game by RobTop Games, "Geometry Dash," a game where you tap to make a cube jump, among other features. He is currently playing a level that is the pre-2.2 update.

[Photo] Across Platforms and through the Platformer

Colin Nichols, Web Editor-In-Chief
December 4, 2023
Clayton evaluates a student's drawing.

Creating With Clayton

Rachel Blanchard, Staff Photographer
November 6, 2023
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