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Miami Oklahoma High School Newspaper
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Fall Edition 2017
FALL SPORTS WRAP UP
Softball
Rebecca Bell, Lauren Panter and Phoenix Burrow finished their Senior year of Lady Wardog Softball with a trip to State. The 20 girls on the team worked hard to achieve a record of 19 wins and 8 losses. Coach Lauren Strack was pleased with their efforts. Prior to the playoffs she noted, "The girls have practiced and prepared hard. We are ready for the challenge." Although the team was defeated in the double elimination tournament, the seventeen returning players should be a force for next year's team.
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Fall Homecoming
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MHS turned into a salad bowl for Homecoming! Students celebrated Fall Homecoming on Friday, September 15. The theme for spirit week was salads.
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The following students were chosen to represent their sports or organizations:
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Band - Charistina Sharp and Kai Hamilton
Chorus - Alexis Owens and Kaleb Jinks
Dance - Maliah Sivlerhorn and escort Raymond Sharp
FFA - Mykal Brisbois
Football - Callan Cox
NHS - Abby Osborn and Alex Walls
Softball - Phoenix Burrow and escort Brett Mayfield
Student Council - Sarah Blay and Dillon Rasberry
Yearbook - Madison Schnakenberg and Austin Henson
Flower girl - Saylor Davis
Crown Bearer - Lane Walther
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Students elected Phoenix Burrow as Homecoming Queen and King was Kai Hamilton. Congratulations to all that participated.
HAPPENINGS AT MHS
Clubs and Organizations
Art
Interact
Key
NAC
GB
FFA
FCCLA
NHS
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​Key Club Blood Drive
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According to Susan Daubeneck, of Oklahoma Blood Institute, the MHS blood drive was a great success.
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This is the first year MHS has partnered with OBI which provides blood for local patients.
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103 students and adults donated a total of 71 pints of whole blood, 5 pints red cells, and 81 pints white cells.
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Daubeneck said; "Thank you Miami High School for an awesome 1st blood drive with Oklahoma Blood Institute! Your support of local patients and Integris Miami Hospital is appreciated. See you next year."
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Career Day
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Ms. DeSilva and her Leadership Class organized the MHS career day for 2017. It was held on November 1st. Thirty participants with varying careers came in to talk to students about their professions. Students were allowed to sit in on six different presentations about careers that might interest them.
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According to DeSilva, career day was a success and next year's should be even better. "Our goal was to expose students to a number of different careers and encourage them to not only set goals, but also make a plan to achieve them. Next year we hope to diversify the careers even more and make the day more hands on and interactive.
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WARDOG BAND
MHS.
NEW TEACHERS
Mrs. Hurd
Mrs. Hurd is one of our featured teachers this November. MSSU in Joplin is the college she attended where she majored in Spanish and English Education. She has taught Spanish 1, Spanish 2, Reading, and Skill Development. Mrs. Hurd has been teaching for 20 years. She decided to become a teacher because she has "always enjoyed working with young people and feels that it is important." Mrs. Hurd wanted to work here because "[she} was told (correctly) that this was an awesome community." She would like all students to feel relaxed and comfortable when entering her room, as long as what they do isn’t wasting time on their learning process.
THIS YEAR'S EVENTS
Eclipse
This year a once in a lifetime event happened, The Great American Solar Eclipse. A majority of America looked up and saw the beautiful areolas that the sun produced around the moon. The last time a solar eclipse started and finished in America was 1918, nearly a hundred years ago! Surrounding schools purchased solar glasses and enjoyed the small coverage that the four state area received. Miami Public Schools however, stayed indoors and almost missed the eclipse in it's totality had it not been for a few teachers here at MHS. Not all heroes wear capes. At 10:19 the eclipse made landfall and hundreds of thousands gathered in Oregon to view it. At 1:00 the eclipse started to darken the skies in the four states and schools in every state prepares for it to give their children the ability to not miss out on this once in a lifetime event.
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Student Life - Yoshihito Shinzato
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There are many differences between U.S. high school and Japanese high school. I will introduce some of them.
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A big difference is that Japanese high schools have only three grades, not four grades. We attend an elementary school for five years, junior high school for three years, and high school for three years. Besides, we don't have a particular name for each grade such as freshman, sophomore, junior and senior. However, we neither call them grade 9, 10, 11 nor 12. Instead, we call high school 1st grade, 2nd grade and 3rd grade.
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Other difference is that Japanese high schools have their original school uniform. The most common uniform is a white shirt with school chapter and long black pants. This custom comes from England. Beside, for example, the school chime is same as Big Ben, which is the British clock tower.
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