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Students show their school spirit by dressing up for “Halloween Costume Day”! This year there was a lot of participation during spirit week. The senior class had the most participants throughout the week and were the winners of Spirit Week Dress-Up Days.Photo by Martha-Jean Rockey

Trojan TrumpetNovember 2013 Volume LXXXVIII Issue 2 Troy High School Troy, KS 66087

News Trojan Trumpet November 2013

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Trojan spirit skyrockets during Homecoming weekBy Jessica Guffy

The Homecom-ing ceremony ended with the crowning of Queen Harley Huss and King Ryan Fran-ken. The other candi-dates were Courtney Klaus, Kaylee Ben-nett, Baileigh Jen-kins, Trevor Bem-brick, Caleb Winkel, and Cody Israel. The football game ended with a loss against the Centralia Panthers. Immedi-ately following the game, there was a Homecoming dance hosted by Stu Co. The week of Home-coming involved

several events. There was no school Monday, so Tues-day was the begin-ning of Spirit Week. Tuesday was Su-perhero Day, where the majority of the school dressed as their favorite super-hero. Wednesday was Costume Day. Thursday was ‘80s day and Friday was blue-and-white day; students wore Trojan colors to support the THS football team. Wednesday, THS had a powder puff game, where the teams were seniors

and freshman vs. juniors and sopho-mores. The juniors and sophomores team won, 52-48. After the games, there was a window-decorating contest up town for every class. They deco-rated business win-dows on Main Street and also white-washed the streets. Thursday, stu-dents were invited to the 4-H grounds for a pep rally spon-sored by the Boost-er Club. The pep rally consisted of a bonfire and driv-ing around town in a snake honking. Friday consisted of the uptown pa-rade with the grade school students, Above: Senior Nicki Stanton paints a

Trojan head on the football field for Homecoming. Photo by Halli Wigger

Above: The football team huddle together and sing the “Trojan Fight Song” at the pep rally before the game. Photo by Kylee Anthony

Right: Queen Harley Huss after the coronation.Huss said, “ I was super shocked I got it! It was fun getting ready and going to the dance. But my favorite part was having Ryan escort me!”Photo by Kylee Anthony

band, candidates, cheerleaders, danc-ers and class floats. After the parade, there was a pep rally for the whole town to attend. The winners for Spirit Week, the window

painting, and float contest were an-nounced. Seniors won Spirit Week, sophomores won the window-paint-ing contest, and se-niors won the float.


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Robin Hood to steal the stagegeonneau, Holly Whet-stine, Madison Marriot, Cailyn Anderson, Mack-enzie Harbeston, and Megan Etherton.) The Merry Maids present a pre-show to set up the charac-ters and the scene. There is also a guard (Jory Barnthson), and two gypsy sell-ers (Claire Marriot and Morgan Jamvold.) ”This was a first expe-rience for me. I am ex-cited to see how the play will turn out!” junior Morgan Jamvold said. The student direc-

tors are Elizabeth Hale and Holly Stegall. “I feel like the play will turn out really well. It’s coming together quick-ly. I’m excited!” said senior Holly Stegall. This verson of Robin Hood is also an inter-esting mix of the tra-ditional and the mod-ern. The audience is encouraged to pay at-tention to the musical pieces used throughout. Director Martha-Jean Rockey said, “It is fun to see the kids having fun when we do a show like this.”

No need to fear; Robin Hood is here! The Troy High School Drama Club will perform The Legend of Robin Hood … Sort of by Pat Cook, Thursday, November 14, at 1:30 p.m., and Saturday, November 16, at 7:30 p.m. The prices will be $4 for adults and $3 for students. The ar-rangement is with El-dridge Publishing Co. The play is a humor-ous up-dating of the tra-ditional tale. The clas-sic characters of Robin (Trae Shelton), Maid

Marian (Alex Stanton), Kings John (Dylan Kitzman) and Richard (Dalton Masters), the Sheriff of Nottingham (Nathan King), Little John (William Boeh), and Friar Tuck (Ben Wardlow) all remain, but a new character has been added, Witch Waye (Nicki Stanton), the Witch of the Woods, who insists on speaking in rhyme and adding confusion to the plot. There is much word play, and a number of sword fights. The sword fights were all

choreographed by Braden Grossman. “I really enjoy doing plays. My sister (Hanna) encouraged me to do it. I like them because you can be whoever you want to be,” said soph-omore Nathan King. Gone are the Merry Men, but in their places are the Merry Maids (Ashley Stock, Lauren Wigger, Bailey Winkel, Claire Marriot, Mor-gan Jamvold, Allyson Budine, Emma Collins, Angel Davis, Ashley Mollus, Mckyla Um-phenour, Jeanne Ber-

Above: Sophomores Bailey Winkel and Lauren Wigger practice a fight scene, where the Merry Maids take sides for and against Robin Hood.

Above: Lauren Wigger, Bailey Winkel, Alex Stanton, William Boeh, and Trae Shelton practice their lines on stage with the help of Elizabeth Hale.

Above: Sophomore Ben Wardlow and senior William Boeh plan Robin Hood’s escape, after the sheriff gets the upper hand..

Photos by. Trae Shelton and Holly Stegall

Above: Ashley Stock (behind) and Mackenzie Harbeston, Holly Whetstine, Madi Marriott, Cailyn Anderson, Mckyla Umphe-nour, and Jeanne Bergeonneau practice the Merry Maid dance routine, choreographed by Jessica Burton.

By. Trae Shelton


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Club SpotlightDrama

by Dylan Kitzman “My top goals for dra-ma club this year are to make this program suc-cessful and to make this program as good as it can be. Also I plan to make everybody in drama club as good as they can be.” drama club presi-dent Holly Stegall said. Drama club partici-pated in Trick or Treat So Tots Can Eat, which is a national program that drama clubs have been doing for 17 years. It’s to get canned goods for less fortunate indi-viduals. This was Troy’s first time participating in it. Those who donated got a “buy one get one coupon” for the upcom-ing play, The Legend of Robin Hood, Sort of. “Other schools that have done this pro-gram longer compete for who can get the most or how much they can get. However, we didn’t do that this year since we’re new to the program. So we’re just going to see how much we can get this year,” said drama club spon-sor Martha Jean Rockey. Students dressed up for the occasion, and there were five teams. Each had a different theme and an average of four people per team. A few of the themes were In-dians, super heroes and television shows. All teams divided the town

SADDby JessicaGuffy

The SADD club re-cently raffled off baskets donated by the members themselves at a home football game against Immaculata. The baskets included a Trojan basket, a KU basket, a KSU bas-ket, and a Breast Can-cer Awareness basket. SADD raised about 260 dollars for the club and for upcoming projects. Last week, members of the club went to the grade school and talked to different grades about the effects of bully-ing, hygeine, etc. Each group got about an hour to present their grade information, which in-cluded games, word searches, and bingo. The next project SADD is working on is to sell candy bars in the grade school and high school to raise as much mon-ey as possible for the SADD fair which will be held in the Spring.

T-Club by Dylan Kitzman

T-Club is the club that makes money for letters, plaques and medals. As part of National Activi-ties Week, T-Club rec-ognized students from the fine arts. Then T-Club recognized teach-ers and faculty, and then super fans Friday 25. The super fans were Laurie Simpson and Donald Harter. T-Club recognized students for art, drama, band, and choir by giving the students candy and the teachers cup-cakes. T-Club then gave the super fans a cor-sage and a big cookie. T-Club officers are President Trevor Bem-brick Co-Vice Presi-dents Holly Stegall and Cody Israel, and Trea-surer Katrina Tharman.

Kayettes by Courtney Klaus

For the month of Oc-tober Kayettes partici-pated in “Trick or Treat for UNICEF.” UNI-

among themselves and collected for that area. After they returned the teams had pizza as a re-ward for all their work.

FBLAby Melinda Negonsott

There is a lot going on this year for FBLA. After a recent letdown of not being able to go to the Kansas City Chiefs game, they now plan on attending a T-Bones game in Kan-sas City in the spring. This year’s offi-cers are Holly Stegall (president), Alex Stan-ton (historian), Nicki Stanton (vice Presi-dent), Jessica Burton (secretary), and Trevor Bembrick (treasurer). The upcoming con-ferences will be Janu-ary 11, which is a dis-trict two competition in Valley Falls, and then another one March 25 and 26, which is a state competition in Topeka. Though it is not known who will com-pete, Mrs. Brown said, “I’m hoping all of them will, but I’m not sure who is going to yet.” There are over 50 contests, and some of the contests that will be held are Marketing, Desktop Publishing, Public Speaking I and II, Personal Finance, and even Banking and Financial Systems.

Bandby Trae Shelton

The Troy March-ing Trojans have had a great amount of support while raising money for the upcoming Disney Thanksgiving Trip. They have done many fund-raisers. They worked concessions stand at the home football game against Imac and the Regional Cross Country meet at the 4-h grounds, had a bake sale which was also at the Imac football game, and had a lot of money donated by Tina Johnson, who had sold band shirts. The last fundraiser was a second Biscuits and Gravy Feed. It was October 19. The band students going on the trip had their fi-nal payments due this last week. The perfor-mance will be Thanks-giving Day in front of Mickey’s Magic Hat in Walt Disney World. “The band has raised $31,000 for the trip. The Biscuits and Gravy Feed was a big success, raising about $1,000. Students are currently working on memorizing their music for the laser light show which they will play with the Boston Brass at the Walt Disney World Thanksgiving Parade of Bands,” said Troy Marching Band Director Matt Allison.

CEF, or United Nations Children’s Fund, is a world wide organiza-tion that saves childrens’ lives. It provides health care, immunizations, clean water, nutrition, education and more. Help all those children in need by donating money into the “trick or treat” baskets in the high school office. This is a class vs. class contest. The class with the most donations will receive a party from the Kay-ettes. This will be going on until November 5.

Editorial Trojan Trumpet November 2013

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The Trojan TrumpetPO Box 160 66087 Volume LXXXVIII Issue 2 November 2013

Editor in Chief: Halli WiggerNews Page: Jessica GuffyTrae SheltonCourtney KlausDylan KitzmanMelinda NegonscottEditorial Page: Kylee AnthonyCourtney KlausBailiegh JenkinsCalendar: Halli Wigger

Feature Page: Melinda NegonscottHalli WiggerDylan KitzmanTrae SheltonJessica GuffySports Page:Kylee AnthonyCourtney KlausBailiegh JenkinsPhotography: StaffAdviser:Martha-Jean Rockey

by Kylee Anthony

movie because Sea of Monsters is a good movie for kids and parents. The movie has some “adult hu-mor” but it’s hidden enough to where chil-dren can’t really catch on. Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters is a good movie with lots of adventure and ac-tion. I think it’s also a good thing that there is a healthy bit of comic relief when things get a little intense. This movie remind-

jar of wind to blow the life boat from dan-ger and Percy uses his water powers so he can ride on the waves of the ocean. I would definite-ly recommend this

In Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters, Per-cy Jackson (Logan Lerman), the son of Poseidon, has to find the Golden Fleece in order to keep it away from the former lightning thief Luke, who only wants the fleece to bring back the evil Titan Kronos. Annabeth, the daughter of Athe-na (Alexandra Daddario) and a Satyr named Grover (Bran-don T. Jackson) who always finds a way to make people laugh in the most convenient parts of the movie, help out on this wild goose chase, which takes them all over the place, just like in the mythical stories. They go everywhere from the depths of the ocean to Circe’s magical island. There are really cool parts of the mov-ie that use special ef-fects to bring every-thing to life, such as the part where Percy and his compan-ions are escaping the monster on the cruise boat. Annabeth and Grover use Aeolus’

ed me of the Iliad and the Odyssey because of all the trials and tribulations Percy and his friends had to go through in order to accomplish the goal of their quest. It had

all the same types of challenges and monsters they had to encounter. The only this is, I don’t think it follows the Odys-sey’s adventures as well as The Lightning Thief. Percy Jackson and the Sea of Mon-sters takes other my-thology stories as its source. Although it is a good movie with lots of insight on my-thology it strays from what the first movie was trying to capture.

We can kind of re-late to these things because they are in the real world today. The interesting thing is, these things go on right in front of the rest of the world, but they don’t see it because the humans are blind-ed to the supernatu-ral world and do not know what exactly is going on around them. I saw way more ac-tion and special ef-fects in Percy Jackson Sea of Monsters than in the previous Percy Jackson movie. I re-ally liked the funny parts of the movie.

The comic relief re-ally seemed to bal-ance with the inten-sity. And, even with all its funny moments, the movie feels darker in the all-around ap-pearance than The Lightning Thief. I can definitely see a third movie com-ing because this movie was left open ended to keep you on the edge of your seats wanting more.

Percy Jackson series continues to impress

Feature Trojan Trumpet November 2013

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FFA’ers have new experience in Kentucky

Kallie Koehler isn’t your average senior girl. Not only does Koehler enjoy bow-hunting and rifle hunt-ing in her free time, she also has been serv-ing on “Just for Does” pro-staff since Sep-tember of this year. In order to be a part of the pro-staff, Koe-hler went through an intensive interview process. This included sending in a biography and a video explaining how she began hunt-ing, her current hunt-ing techniques, and also how she plans and hopes to better the hunting industry.

by Halli Wigger

ger. Miss Taliaferro, the Troy FFA Advisor, traveled with them. They attended an opening session where they listened to successful head coach of the Louis-ville Cardinals, Rick Pitino speak.

By Melinda Negonsott, Halli Wigger

Out of the thou-sands of applica-tions sent in to Just for Does on a daily basis, Koehler has been selected to serve as the state of Kan-sas’s representative. Being a member of the pro-staff has given Koehler many new opportunities, such as travel. In fact, in January she will be traveling to Nash-ville, Tennessee, to attend the Archery Trade Association Show. This is impor-tant to note, as the ATA Show is not only closed to the public, but also is the archery

and bow-hunting in-dustry’s largest and most inclusive show. Koehler says the best part of being a representative is, “I actually get to talk to other women who are seriously in the hunting business.” Koehler is also a sales rep for the com-

pany. This being said, she travels to differ-ent establishments to help sell the Just for Does products. Just for Does sells scent-free products, cloth-ing, broad heads, and also their own bow. Koehler continually conveyed her sense of gratefulness through-

out the interview for being apart of “such an amazing company and organization.” Koehler says, “The most rewarding ex-perience is not only shaking hands with people who will help me further my in-volvement in the hunting industry, but even more so that I can represent an awe-some organization.” Koehler is now bal-ancing hunting and her pro-staff responsibil-ites all while attending school. You can check out her current hap-penings on her face-book page, “Kallie Koehler Kansas Just for Does Pro-staff.”

“We hunt like you, only prettier”Local student joins pro-staff

Earlier this week, a few of the FFA members traveled nine hours to Lou-isville, Kentucky, for the National FFA Convention. where FFA members, alum-ni, advisors, and sup-

porters from Puerto rico to Alaska at-tended. In fact, roughly 56,000 indi-viduals were present. The Troy mem-bers were Cheyenne Blanton, Kassi Meng, Makayla Ross, Alexis Horner, and Halli Wig-

They also attended the national career show and visited many college and business booths. As well as this, they saw the national agriscience exhibit. The trip wasn’t all work and no play, however. The girls toured the Louisville Water-Company and also Churchill Downs. They went through the Kentucky Derby museum as well. An especially interesting show was the hyp-notist show, when Alexis Horner was chosen from the crowd

to be hypnotized. Given the long dis-tance, they also made serveral stops. In St. Louis, they toured the Arch and the Westward Ex-pansion Museum as well as stopping at the Fitz Rootbeer Factory for supper. Makayla Ross says, “My favorite part of convention was the opening ses-sion because of the laser lights. I also really like Rick Pi-tino’s speech about being succesful.”

Left: Makayla Ross, Cheyenne Blanton, Alexis Horner, Kassi Meng, and Halli Wigger.Photo by Ms. Taliaferro

Favorite Color? Purple Purple Pink

Favorite Drink? Dr. Pepper or Blue Gatorade Dr. Pepper Blue Gatorade

Favorite Sport? Softball Softball Softball

Favorite Movie? Bridesmaids Bridesmaids Bridesmaids

Favorite Food? Tacos Spaghetti Pizza Rolls One place youve always wanted to visit? Paris Cancun France

Plans after high school? Hopefully play college softball Play softball at Play softball at and become a dental hygenist Highland Highland


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Who knows Alexis Horner best?

Alexis Colton Kassi

by Courtney Klaus Alexis Horner, her boy-friend Colton Masters, and her best friend Kassi Meng were curious to see who re-ally “knew” Alexis the best.

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Roving ReporterWhat is your favorite part about Halloween?

“My favorite part is all the chocolate they give me,” said freshman Andrea Stock.

“I like all of the scary movies on tv and all of the candy,” said sophomore Preston Duncan.

“A party at my house or a friend’s house with punch, treats, and plenty of fun deco-rations, but no costumes,” said Rosa Dolven.

“Going out with my friends and getting a bunch of candy,” said junior Mikaela Campbell.

“Going out with my friends around to different peoples houses,” said senior Cody Israel.


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You’ve been spotted

Top row: Sophomore Josie Smith sets the ball at the pink out night. Sophomore Cailyn Anderson runs the ball at the powderpuff game during Homecoming week. THS cheerleaders cheer during the Centralia game. 2nd row: The Homecoming candidates and the staff King (Todd Shifflett) and Queen (Janel Ander-son) do “The Wobble” at the Homecoming pep rally on Main Street. Junior Jake Ross gives a fourth-grader a pencil for an activity about bullying for “Red Rib-bon Week.” for SADD. 3rd row: A host of Trojans pile on the Valley Heights running back for the stop. THS cheerleaders cheer on Main Street to get the crowd pumped up for the Homecoming game against Centralia. Photos by Courtney Klaus, Jessica Guffy, Trae Shelton, and Kylee Anthony

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Football moves to more wins near season’s end

Cross Country wraps up the season

Volleyball season comes to an end

The Trojan football team continued their up-and-down season by beating Jackson Heights 18-12 in over-time. The Trojans were 36-point underdogs, and that was their first game in district play. Next, the Trojans hit the road and trav-eled to Valley Heights. Going into the game being one point un-

derdogs, the Trojans picked up another dis-trict win by sliding past Valley Heights 15-14. On Homecoming night, they were set to play the Centralia Pan-thers and were predicted to lose by 50 points. The team fell short 18-55, but were very proud of themselves because they had scored more points against Centralia than

all of Centralia’s other opponents combined in the 2013 season. On Senior Night, the Trojans pum-meled the Immacu-lata Raiders 43-8. Friday, November 1, will be the final game of regular-season play for the Trojan football team. If they pick up a win they will be re-turning to the playoffs.

“I feel after two dis-appointing seasons that this turn-around sea-son is very exciting and fun to be a part of. It’s fun to win again and

it’s also very exciting to have a really good chance at returning to the playoffs for the first time in three years,” said senior Dalton Masters.

by Baileigh Jenkins

Cross country this year has been a little differ-ent, but it has still been successful and every-one has done very well. Coach Douglas Fisher ran with the team almost every day at practice in order to keep them mo-tivated and on track. “He encourages us by bribing us with free food,” Trae Shel-

ton said jokingly. The fourth meet was at Centralia. The partici-pant’s best times were as follows: William Boeh 23:16:05 (2012), Russell Ostertag 21:35 (2012), Trae Shelton 26:22:94 (2012), Preston Robin-son 23:40, Cadence King 21:33, Nicole Stanton 18:56 (2012), Alex Stan-ton 22:31:33 (2012),

Lauren Wigger 25:39, Kylee Anthony 20:27, Emma Collins 22:12, Jennifer Keller 22:44. The TVL meet was held at Jackson Heights, October 17. This was a cooler meet. Everyone was under the 30-minute mark. The regionals meet at Troy was perfect to wrap up the year. There were

three girls and three boys from Troy that partici-pated at regionals. Fin-ishing times at regionals were freshman Emma Collins 22:43, fresh-man Jennifer Keller 24:16, sophomore Kylee Anthony 20:31, senior William Boeh 26:40, sophomore Cadence King 23:00.07, and ju-nior Trae Shelton 34:24.

“I’m very proud of everyone that ran at re-gionals. They pushed hard and all did very well; it’s been a tough year, but everyone ran well,” said Coach Fisher. Kylee Anthony was the only member to medal at any of the meets this year.

by Kylee Anthony

October 8 the Lady Trojans hosted a “pink-out” vs. D-west and Wetmore. They played against the Wetmore Cardinals and lost in two matches, 23-25 and 22-25. The Lady Trojans then played the D-west Mustangs and took them into three matches. D-west won the first match, 11-25; the Trojans won the second match 26-24 and then lost the

third match, 11-25. October 10 the Lady Trojans traveled to Jack-son Heights for a var-sity quad. They played Jackson Heights, Val-ley Falls, and Horton. They came close to winning against Jack-son Heights but fell short. They lost all of the matches that day. October 12 the Lady Trojans had a success-ful day when they took

home third place at the Riverside Tournament. They lost to Mound City, 15-25 and 22-25, won over South Holt, 25-23 and 25-15, won over St. Joe Christian, 25-23 and 25-19, and won over Trenton, 25-13 and 25-17. They won the first match against River-side, 26-24. They fought hard during the second match but lost, 24-26, and lost the third match,

11-25. Last, they played against Bishop Seabury and won 25-16 and 25-9. Saturday, October 26 the Lady Trojans trav-eled to Valley Falls to compete in the Sub-State tournament. The first game they played against Jackson Heights winning in three match-es, 25-21, 20-25 and 25-16. After that game, they played against JCN losing, 6-25 and 14-25.

The Lady Trojans vol-leyball season ended with a 7-30 record. They had many ups and downs and came close to winning quite a few of the games but just fell short. The team had some struggles among themselves and felt they could have played a tougher season. Being in a new league and play-ing tougher teams took a toll on the team’s ability.

by Courtney Klaus

Left: Junior Alex Schmille tackles number 7 from Im-maculata. Photo by Baileigh Jenkins


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Kitzman’s Kartoons Odd Trivia

Where Did Halloween Come From?

By. Trae Shelton

Halloween takes place October 31, but what is its history and where did it originate from? Have you ever really asked yourself, “Why are people dressed up and walking around town in weird cos-tumes? Why do people go trick-or-treating, and/or carve pumpkins?” It’s a pretty strange day of the year, along with the many different customs of the origins. Halloween is also known as All Hallows’ Eve, and it’s a yearly celebration that takes place in a number of countries October 31, the eve of All Hallows’ Day. This is the time in the “church year” to remember the dead, in-cluding all the faithful

departed loved ones. About 2,000 years ago in what is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, lived a group called the Celts. The lifestyle re-volved around growing their food and consider-ing the end of the year to be harvest season. Back then, winter was the time of the year associ-ated with human death. The Celts believed that on the night that marked the end of summer and beginning of winter, the boundary between the worlds of the living and the dead blurred, allow-ing ghosts of the dead to return to earth. They believed in a god named Samhain, lord of the dead. So, the Celts had big feasts each year to

honor him. These people believed that October 31, Samhain called to-gether wicked spirits or souls which had been condemned to live in the bodies of animals during the year. Since every-one was afraid of these spirits, they spent the day making sacrifices to their gods, hoping they would protect them. They believed with ev-erything they had all the spirits, ghosts, witches, fairies, and elves come out to hunt the Celts. They also believed cats were holy animals, con-sidering them to repre-sent people who lived formerly as a punish-ment for evil deeds. This is why witches, ghosts, and cats are a part of Halloween today.

Today, Halloween cus-toms are thought to have been influenced by folk customs and beliefs. The custom of trick-or-treating and the use of jack-o’-lanterns comes from Ireland. Hundreds of years ago, Irish farm-ers went from house to house, begging for food, in the name of their an-cient gods. They would promise good luck to those who gave them food and made threats to those who refused to give them anything. The Irish symbol of the pumpkin face on the jack-o’-lantern is of a damned soul. A man named Jack was sup-posed to be unable to enter heaven due to his miserliness, and unable to enter hell because

he had played jokes on the devil. As a result, he was condemned to wander over earth with his lantern until the end of the world. The Irish were so scared that they began to hollow out pumpkins and place lighted candles inside to scare away evil spirits from their home. Halloween today is an annual event far from the harmless and innocent tradition. Some dread this evening in fears of what could happen to them, their property, and/or children. “The fear generated by this event is symbolic of the fear that plagues so many in our modern world. It is a gripping fear for an unknown yet threatening future.”w w w . h o l y b i b l e . c o m

By Jessica Guffy

It is illegal in Ken-tucky to marry your wife’s grandmother.

The only two days of the year in which there are no profes-sional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL,

or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major

League All-Star Game.

America once is-sued a 5-cent bill.

The mask used by Michael Myers in the original “Hal-

loween” movie was actually a Captain Kirk mask painted

white.

Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood

donors.

Bats always turn left when exiting a

cave.


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Best Dressed of Homecoming

Dalton Masters“The Hulk”

Dalton Master is a se-nior this year, and was the winner of Superhero Day. Masters plays football and serves as the 2013 - 2014 Troy FFA Chapter President. He was first approached by fel-low senior Claire Marriott with the idea to dress like the Hulk. Masters said his favorite part of his dress-up was the paint, “even though it was cold.” Masters also shared in his interview that his favorite part of Homecoming Week was af-ter the dance in St. Joe. He and his girlfriend had a late supper (or early breakfast) at Perkins.

Dalton TriviaDalton chose to keep the

mystery alive by not sharing any trivia about himself.

Cadence King“The Chief”

Cadence King is a sopho-more this year at THS. He par-ticipates in cross country and also serves as an FFA Officer. King said his favorite part of the costume was the headdress due to how mas-sive it was. However, King didn’t actually show up to school in this costume. Freshman Connor McNor-ton brought the costume, and regarding Cadence’s nickname, thought it would be ironic as well as funny for him to don the costume. Aside from winning the “Best Dressed of Halloween Costume Day,” King stated he also loved the Bonfire night at the 4H Grounds.

Cadence Trivia Cadence jokingly shared that a little known fact about him is that he “is

actually part white.”

Mackenzie Harbeston“80s Day”

Mackenzie Harbeston is a second-year Trojan who is also a two-year member of the THS Dance Team. During a recent interview over her chosen at-tire for 80s Day, she said, “I had nothing to wear so I just started digging through my closet and threw this together!” Harbeston later stated that her favorite part of her outfit was her hair. Aside from her hair, however, she had other “favor-ites” revolving around Home-coming Week. She said her fa-vorite part of the week was in fact 80s day, and that she was very excited to dress up for it.

Mackenzie TriviaA little known fact about

Mackenzie is that she is, “A die-hard Lord of The Rings

Fan.” After the interview she also agreed that Orlando

Bloom definitely makes a superb Legolas.

William Boeh“80s Day”

William Boeh is a fourth-year Trojan and is currently participating in cross country, as well as serving THS as the Student Council President. As soon as he was asked, Boeh without hesitation re-plied that his pants, which he purchased at Spirit of Halloween in St. Joe, were his favorite part of his cos-tume. While he purchased his pants, he actually designed his own costume to resem-ble Def Leppard album art. Boeh had a hard time deciding what his favorite part of the week was, “be-cause it’s always awesome,” but he finally deicided he was just thouroughly im-pressed with how well it all came together this year.

Bill TriviaWilliam can play the piano

and even a selection by John Lennon.

by Halli Wigger

Photos by Halli Wigger and Cailyn Anderson

The Senior Class of 2014 was the Class Winner of the Homecoming Spirit Week Days. On average, they had 19 students dress up every day. The photo to the left features the class on the final day, Blue and White Day. Senior Class President, Alanie Stock, said, “I think Homecoming week went very well and a lot of people dressed up, so I’m ready for our pizza party!”

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November 2013Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat

1End of 1st Nine Weeks7 p.m. THS FB @ D-West

Happy Birthday, Coy Clary!

2CC State

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Happy Birthday, Madyson Guffy!

4Teacher Inservice/Work DayNO SCHOOL!!

Happy Birthday, Megan Schmille!

5 64 - 7:30 p.m. Parent/Teacher Conferences

74 - 7:30 p.m. Parent/Teacher Conferences

8ACT Test Registration Deadline2A Football RegionalsNO SCHOOL!!

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10 114 p.m. HS Scholars Bowl @ McLouth

124 p.m. HS Scholars Bowl @ Nemaha Valley

13 141:30 p.m. Fall Play Matinee6 p.m. OTL Music @ Troy Concert

152A Football Sectionals

Happy Birthday, Alex Schmille!

167:30 p.m. Fall Play

Happy Birthday, Cody Israel!

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Happy Birthday, Bailey Winkel!

18Winter Sports Practice Begins4 p.m. MS Boys & Girls BB @ Troy vs. St Peter & PaulHappy Birthday, Alex Martinez!

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Happy Birthday, Tristan Speer!

20Drama Club Trip to Avila

216 p.m. MS Boys & Girls BB @ Centralia

222A Football Sub-State

Happy Birthday, Alaina Davis!

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24 254 p.m. MS Boys & Girls BB @ Troy vs. Nemaha Valley

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Happy Birthday, Chevy Enzbrenner!

27NO SCHOOL!!

28NO SCHOOL!!

29NO SCHOOL!!

302A Football State

Happy Birthday, Makayla Ross!

HS VB State

Fall Athletic Buffer Week...

... Fall Ath-letic Buffer Week Preschool P/T Conference

Thanksgiving BreakBand Trip to Orlando, FL...

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