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Happening Now •Boys Basketball: Open gym 6:15 a.m. in main gym •Football: Freshmen vs. Watertown 4:15 p.m. on WHS game field •Volleyball: Senior Night vs. Lincoln—freshmen and JV 4:30 p.m., sophomores 5:45 p.m., varsity 7 p.m. in gyms
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Pizza burger, steamed broccoli •À la carte lines: Pasta, soft taco, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Okiciyapi Club: Members will meet to conduct a campus clean-up at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday—sign-up in A-143. •Green Club: Members will meet at 7:30 a.m. Thursday in A-209. •Yu-Gi-Oh Club: Will hold a signup meeting at 3:15 p.m. Thursday in E-121. •Bowling: Boys and girls team tryouts will be Thursday and Friday at Eastway Bowl—$15 fee.
Other Reminders •Students: Take the free Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery test Monday afternoon at WHS— register in the counseling office. The test will help you decide your postgraduation options and is required for military service. NOW Tuesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nic Gregg and Lauren Zimbeck Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . . Amanda Wheeler Staff: Vladislav Sushchik, Jovan RunningEnemy, Savannah Burhenn, Ryan Le, Zach Heupel, Lexi Gjoraas, Katelyn Smith, Emelia Skogstad, Grace Isaacson Editors-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . Carson Herbert . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Maham Shah Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D.
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Oral interp team takes second in AA Sweepstakes at Lincoln Sophomore Maddy Morgan captures first in Varsity Humor By Zach Heupel, Ryan Le and Nic Gregg ral interp team members from WHS captured second in Sweepstakes at Lincoln High School’s Stars and Stripes Tournament Friday and Saturday. At the event, sophomore Maddy Morgan took first place in Varsity Humor. Morgan was pleased. “We were very successful, and we all worked really hard and placed very well,” Morgan said. “Getting the sweepstakes award was very fulfilling for the team.” Morgan and her partner, freshman Blake Anderson, also swept all three rounds of Novice Duo, winning second place overall. Sophomore Reanna Rohrer swept all three rounds of prelims, and then won fourth overall in Novice Drama. Freshman Esmeralda Sanchez broke finals in Novice Non-Original Oratory and then won sixth place overall. Freshman Grace Woolf made the finals in Novice Storytelling and won fifth overall. WHS will next host their Fourth Annual Orange and Black Oral Interpretation Festival Friday at WHS.
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Photo courtesy Michelle McIntyre STARS—Members of the WHS oral interp team including (L-R) freshmen Amy Centes and Esmeralda Sanchez; sophomores Maddy Morgan, Reanna Rohrer and Grace Woolf and freshmen Kirby Kennedy and (back) Blake Anderson pose with awards from Lincoln.
Seniors honored as WHS hosts Patriots By Katelyn Smith and Lexi Gjoraas Varsity volleyball team members will host city and District 2 rival Lincoln tonight at Senior Night at WHS. Action starts with JV and freshman games at 4:30 p.m.
leading up to the varsity match and senior introductions at 7 p.m. The event will honor seniors Lauren Green, Isabel Kinzer, Hailey Nold, Maham Shah and Emily VanBockern for their contributions to the
team for four years. Coach Kelly Schroeder is proud of the girls. “This is a really great group of seniors,” Schroeder said. “I couldn’t ask for a better group to begin my journey here at WHS.”
JV football team ends season 6-2 with win By Grace Isaacson and Emelia Skogstad JV football team members played their final game of the season Monday afternoon at WHS, defeating Yankton 12-9. WHS’s offense was led by sophomore
Zaki Ladu who had 34 carries for 141 yards and a touchdown. Coach Eric Struck said he was pleased. “In the last game of the year, both teams held nothing back,” Struck said. “It was a defensive battle where
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the Warriors were able to come out on top.” The Warriors also recovered four fumbles in the win. Junior Brock Wulf led the defense with nine tackles and an interception for a touchdown.
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Wulf said it was a good way to end the JV season. “I hope our players step-up for the game on Thursday,” he said. The JV ended their season at 6-2. The unbeaten varsity plays Roosevelt Thursday. All WHS News
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Military pays off...
Senior Zach Lee earns full scholarship through JROTC
By Lauren Zimbeck WHS senior Zach Lee has a very bright future ahead of him. After an extensive application process, an interview with a Navy Admiral and a face-to-face interview with many other military leaders, Lee was recently awarded a fullride scholarship to any college that offers an ROTC Feature Program. Lee’s mother, a former Navy electronics technician, introduced him to the scholarship. The scholarship offered free tuition and the opportunity to enter the Navy as an officer rather than an enlisted member. Lee said he could not pass up an opportunity like that, even if he felt it was a long-shot at first. “I was likely going to the Navy after college either way, but now this opportunity will give me a tight-knit group of friends in college,” Lee said. Lee said he has always felt a close connection with the Navy because of his family.
“I chose the Navy because I’ve always grown up living on and around the ocean,” he said. Lee is looking forward to the benefits that the Navy provides. “In the Navy, I’ll be able to travel extensively to different ports around the world and always be near the ocean,” he enthused. Lee’s WHS instructors are Lt. Col. Rodney Burmeister and Terry Fink. Lee has been very appreciative of his instruction over the past four years. “I think the WHS JROTC program has been underrated these past few years, but under the leadership of SFC Fink and LTC Burmeister, I have had an amazing time in the program,” he said. The program has helped Lee with numerous things, including public speaking, he said. He has had to present many speeches in front of people including Mayor Mike Huether and superintendent Brian Maher. Lee is now considering a future in mechanical or electrical engineer-
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U.S. takes possession of Alaska History.com (TNS) On Oct. 18, 1867, the U.S. formally took possession of Alaska after purchasing the territory from Russia for $7.2 million, or less than two cents an acre. The Alaska purchase comprised 586,412 square miles, about twice the size of Texas, and was championed by William Henry Seward, the enthusiastically expansionist secretary of state under President Andrew Johnson.
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Photo courtesy Zach Lee REVIEW—Senior Zach Lee stands at attention at last spring’s JROTC Pass-in-Review at WHS. ing following classes at the Career and Technical Education Academy that helped him decide between a future in medicine or engineering. He is currently deciding where to continue his education, including prestigious schools Yale and Virginia Tech.
Russia wanted to sell its Alaska territory, which was remote, sparsely populated and difficult to defend, to the U.S. rather than risk losing it in battle with a rival such as Great Britain. Negotiations between Seward (18011872) and the Russian minister to the U.S., Eduard de Stoeckl, began in March 1867. However, the American public believed the land to be barren and worthless and dubbed the purchase “Seward’s Folly” and “Andrew Johnson’s Polar Bear Garden,” among other derogatory names. Some animosity toward the project may have been a by-product of President Johnson’s own unpopularity. As the 17th U.S. president, Johnson battled with Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction policies following the Civil War. Public opinion of the purchase turned more favorable when gold was discovered in a tributary of Alaska’s Klondike River in 1896, sparking a gold rush. Alaska became the 49th state on Jan. 3, 1959, and is now recognized for its vast natural resources. Today, 25 percent of America’s oil and over 50 percent of its seafood come from Alaska. It is also the largest state in area, about one-fifth the size of the lower 48 states combined, though it remains sparsely populated.
