Welch WildcatsPublished by the Desktop Publishing Class

September 2013• Vol. No 1.

Students of the Month September students of the month recently selected by a vote of the faculty.

The students of the month were recently selected by a vote of the faculty. The secondary teachers are all given a survey to select their top choices from each of three different categories: 6th-8th grade, 9th-10th grade, and 11th -12th grade. The criteria for the selection of students, not limited to academics, however, includes citizenship, attitude, improved performance, cooperativeness and dependability.

Alyssa Rupert, a senior, is the daughter of Rocky and Melody Rupert. She is involved in NHS, FCA, student council, fast-pitch softball, and slow-pitch softball. In her free time she enjoys hanging out with her family and Chase Nair, fish-ing, hunting, and being lazy. Her future plans include going to college at NEO and figuring out what to do with the rest of her life.

Megan Perryman, a sophomore, is the daughter of David and Carrie Perryman. Her school activi-ties include NHS, FCCLA, FCA, fast-pitch softball, and slow-pitch softball. Her hobbies involve playing softball and spending time with her friends and family.

FCCLA to Host Blooddrive

The students pictured include: Alyssa Rupert, Megan Perryman,

and Addison Chenoweth

Addison Chenoweth, a 7th grader, is the daugh-ter of Eric and Kristal Chenoweth. Her school ac-tivities include TSA, FCA, TAG, cheer, basketball, softball, and track. Other than playing sports, she also enjoys tumbling, fishing, hunting, and target practice.

IN THIS ISSUE

Elementary News

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Middle School News

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High School News

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Welch ElementaryNews

Welch elementary school students celebrated Constitution Day on Tuesday, September 17, 2013, during their weekly rise and shine assembly. Students made patriotic hats to wear. The third, fourth, and fifth grade students led the assembly by recit-ing the Preamble to the Constitution through song. Students watched a short clip on the Constitution. They also watched the favorite Saturday Morning School House Rock version of the Preamble. It was a great way to start out the day!

Welch Public Schools held

their yearly PALS Night (open

house) on Monday, August 12.

Parents and students were en-

couraged to come and meet

the teachers, pick up sched-

ules, and complete yearly pa-

perwork. The Craig Co. Health

Department was on site giving

free immunizations. Jessica

Ferdig and Rhonda Charles

from Rhonda’s Beauty Shop in

Welch and Dustin Garrett of

the Sportsman’s Barber Shop

in Vinita gave free haircuts. We

would like to thank everyone

for all their help in making this

yearly event a success. It was

an enjoyable evening for all. Vonda Dillon, REACH 3 Coach, is pictured during Welch’s PALS Night giving a presentation to PK – 1st grade parents entitled READ, LOVE, LEARN. Vonda Dillon and Terra Vail, REACH 3 Coaches, talked to parents about the importance of reading and developing reading skills at a young age. They gave tips to par-ents to help with these skills in the home.

Dustin Garrett of the Sports-man Barber Shop in Vinita along with Jessica Ferdig and Rhonda Charles of Rhonda’s Beauty Shop of Welch gave free haircuts to students at the Welch PALS Night. A big thank you for donating their time to help students look their best for the first day of school.

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READING OASIS BOOK FAIR

Grandparents DayThe Welch elementary school wel-

comed grandparents to class on Mon-

day, September 09, 2013, to celebrate

National Grandparents Day. Class-

rooms were filled with smiling faces

of students and grandparents as the

students performed skits and read-

ings. Grandparents enjoyed breakfast

in the classroom with their grandchil-

dren. They were also presented with

student-made gifts. It was an enjoy-

able morning for all!

Taryn Mills proudly stands with her Grandpa Jerry during Welch Elementary Grandparent’s Day celebration.

Madison Cook is pictured with her grandparents Don and Glynda Teal during Welch elementary yearly Grandparent’s Day celebration.

Carol Weaver with granddaughter Reagan Etzel in the 4th grade classroom enjoying their time together during Monday’s Grandparent’s Day celebration.

Reading Oasis Book Fair will be held at the library in the H.S. building September 20, 23-27, 7:45 A.M.- 3:30 P.M.

OPEN LATE until 6:00 P.M. during parent/teacher conferences Tues., September 24.

SHOP ONLINE now until September 30th at http://welchwildcats.net. Click on “Library” to find the link. You can also go to www.scholastic.com/fair. Items will be shipped to the school after September 30th and distributed to students.

Thank you for your support!

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Meet our

New Teacher!

This is a new year, which means we have new faculty! We welcome a new member to the Wildcat’s domain, Hannah Haurghtery.

Mrs. Haurghtery is the new 5th grade teacher. She grew up and graduated high school in Chetopa, Kansas. She cur-rently lives in Altamont, Kan-sas, with her husband Greg and her two kids: Nolan, who is 8, and Jake, who is 6.

Before joining the Wildcats she graduated college at Fort Hays State University. This will be her first year of teach-ing. Her first impression of the Welch School System is “I am very happy to be a part of a close school family!”

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The Welch junior high cheer-leaders worked hard to cheer on their football team to a season opener victory over Bluejacket. Pictured : (front) Addison Che-noweth, Madison Gilman, Bri-anna Mayfield, (back) Makinsey Sears, Ashtynne Dunkle, Chey-enne Johns, Jaeli Jorgenson, and Kacie Mercer.

The junior high football team has picked up right where they left off last year. After dropping the first game of the season last year to Cheto-pa, the junior high team won their re-maining six games of the season to fin-ish 6-1.

This year the boys are undefeated after four games! They traveled to

Bluejacket for their season opener and defeated the Chief-tains 42-12. The following week Wesleyan Chris-tian came to town, and the Wildcats pounded them with a final score of 38-8. The Wild-cats were able to avenge their loss from last year in a big way by destroy-ing Chetopa 48-0.

Members of this

year’s team include: Dalton Duede, Jake Peterson, Colton Armstrong, Colton Vanatta, Jake Da-vis-Bissing, Mon-tana Price, Trenton Seigel, Josh Baker, Ethan Clark, Tristan Davis, Austin Bo-hannan, Dylan Piercefield, Gunner Johnson, Ty Earp, Gary Grube, Grey-don Garrettson, Eli Gilman, Dalton Ap-person.

Junior High Football

Josh Baker in the junior high football season opener at Bluejacket. The Wildcats claimed a 40-12 victory

to start the season.

Middle School Cheer

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TSA elects 2013-2014

Welch Middle and High School TSA elected the new 2013-2014 officers at the first TSA meeting held September 3rd. TSA had a great turnout with nearly 50 kids signing up to be a member this year. The following will serve as officers for the current school year:

High School

President- Hunter Haskell

Vice-President- Blake Brannon

Secretary- Elizabeth Cherry

Treasurer- Lacey Windle

Reporter- Abbey Woods

Middle School

President- Addison Chenoweth

Vice-President- Ashtynne Dunkle

Secretary- Aubrey Layton

Treasurer- Jaeli Jorgenson

Reporter- Kacie Mercer

Sgt.-At-Arms- Cruz Jarvis

Each week one student from each grade is recognized for his or her outstanding character during the previous week. Students receive a button and ribbon to wear and

their picture on the character wall.

Welch ElementaryCharacter Builders

Welch Elementary Character Builders for the week of August 26. (listed in order of

appearance in picture)

Character Builders for the week of Au-gust 26 are Alexandar Zackaris - 3rd grade, Max Etzel – PK, Josh Moss – K, Eric Jacobs – 1st grade, Malynna Vail – 2nd grade, Howard Smith – 4th grade, and Korbin Booth – 5th grade.

Welch Elementary Character Builders for the week of September 3, 2013.

Character Builders for the week of Sept. 3 are Gabe Hitz – 3rd grade, Landry Lay-ton - 5th grade, Esmeralda Morilas – K, Grace Braden – PK, Rose Small - 4th grade, Mason Clinton – 1st grade, and Mason Wiegand - 2nd grade.

Welch Elementary Character Builders for the week of September 16, 2013.

Character Builders for the week of Sept. 16 are 5th Grade – Rachel Rife, 4th Grade – Cameron Welty, 3rd Grade – Bob Shuf-flebothem, 1st Grade – Kason McMillon, 2nd Grade – Mason Wiegand, K – Ray-leigh Peterson, PK – Devin Horn

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› President: Torey Seigel › Vice-President: Rylee Chenoweth › Secretary: Kymbra Grube › Treasurer: Michelle Sears › StuCo Rep: Dillon Sherrick › StuCo Rep: Alyssa Rupert

› President: Julia Armstrong › Vice-President: Bailey Hackler › Secretary: Corey Miller › Treasurer: Garret Nair › StuCo Rep: Josh Orler › StuCo Rep: Morgan Smith

Class Officers 2013-2014

› President: Dustin Warner › Vice-President: Taya’ Buchanan › Secretary: Aaron Cherry › Treasurer: Hannah Mount › Reporter: Megan Perryman › StuCo Rep: Sidney Rupert

› President: Blake Brannon › Vice-President: Shelby Elliott › Sec./Treasurer: Rachel Mercer › StuCo Rep: Sky Triece › StuCo Rep: Darcey Hilburn

› President: Madisen Horton › Vice-President: Josh Baker › Secretary: Olivia Chenoweth › Treasurer: Trenton Seigel › StuCo Rep: Jaeli Jorgenson › StuCo Rep: Ethan Clark

› President: Randi Tucker › Vice-President: Jakob Booth › Secretary: Leah Sanko › Reporter: Montana Price › StuCo Rep: Ty Earp › StuCo Rep: Kacie Mercer

President: Theodore Sapp

Vice-President: Cierra Miller

Secretary: Dillon Sherrick

Treasurer: Cade Arnold

Reporter: Torey Seigel

Historian: Lacey Windle

Parliamentarian: Kyle Greenfeather

Student Council Officers 2013-2014

President: Torey Seigel

Vice-President: Lacey WIndle

Secretary: Kymbra Grube

Treasurer: Lexie Baker

Reporter: Michelle Sears

Historian: Cade Arnold

Parlimentarian: Theodore Sapp

National Honor Society Officers 2013-2014

President: Alyssa Rupert

Vice-President: Michelle Sears

Secretary: Morgan Smith

Treasurer: Torey Seigel › President: Jillian Whiteis › Vice-President: Cruz Jarvis

› Secretary: Lily Johnson › Reporter: Dylan Sanko › StuCo Rep: Madison Fleharty

› StuCo Rep: Dylan Sanko

Seniors

Juniors

Sophmores

Freshmen

Eighth Grade

Seventh Grade Sixth Grade

Business Professionals of America Officers 2013-2014

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The high school football team has had a rough start. The season opener versus Bluejacket had a very exciting first half, but not a good ending for the Wildcats. From the first play from scrimmage, the team took a knee in memory and honor of Logan Hankins. They played very hard and in-spired all game long. After falling behind 30-12 in the second quarter, the Wildcats battled back to trail just 38-34 heading into halftime. The re-silience shown by the team is encouraging and should show that the boys have a “never give up” attitude. The second half was a different story; and, due to injuries and heat related cramping, Bluejacket won the game with a score of 78-34.

Homecoming was celebrated on week two with Rejoice Christian, the number four ranked team in the state, coming to town. Rejoice is a very tal-ented team that lost in the semifinals to the state champ Laverne last year. The Wildcat defense had a better showing than versus Bluejacket, but Rejoice lived up to their ranking and won the game 45-0.

Members of this year’s team include Ted Sapp, Brandon Hembree, Seth Chapman, Chance Perry, Tra Dodson, Dillon Sherrick, Alex Killough, Austin Vanatta, Jake Adamson, Josh Orler, Cade Arnold, Hunter Haskell, Kelly Reed, Kevin Culver, Blake Brannon, Kyle Greenfeather, Aaron Cherry, Cody Schultz, Corey Miller, and Dalton Paxson.

The Wildcats are in the same situation they were in last year when they rallied and made the play-offs. Don’t give up on these boys. They are work-ing hard and things will pay off for them.

Welch High School Football

High School Cheer

DILLON SHERRICK WINS YEARBOOK SPECIAL

Senior Dillon Sherrick receives the $20 Pizza Hut gift card he won in the yearbook staff’s drawing for those that participated in their online “Back-to-School” yearbook special.

Back row: Mrs. Dooley, Abigail Armstrong, Kelcie Duvall, Julia Armstrong, Bailey Hackler, Morgan Smith, Tori Renfrow, Darcy Hilburn, Rachel Mercer, Shaylynn Lauchner, Taylor Costerisan, and Mrs. Clark. Front row: Torey Seigel, Rylee Chenoweth, Michelle Sears, and Mikaela McClintick.

The cheerleaders have had successful sales of homecoming shirts with few left. Call Mrs. Clark at extension 502 for details. The cheerleaders will be traveling on the bus with the football boys to away games this season. They will also be ordering warm ups at a low cost for the cheerleaders with the money from the pie auction and din-ner this summer. Go Cats!

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Football HomecomingFootball Homecoming

Mrs. Carnes’ Desktop Publishers dedi-cate their time to publish each month’s newsletter, design football programs, and many more projects. These dedi-cated students are: (front) Mikaela McClintick, Lacey Windle, Torey Seigel, Hunter Haskell, Theodore Sapp, Mrs.Carnes, (middle) LaTrisha Honeywell, Paige Hall, Alyssa Rupert, Erika Weston, Garrett Nair, Dillon Sherrick, (back) Chelsey Vanatta, and Tyler Elledge. As a group, we try our best to keep ev-ery student, teacher, faculty, and par-ent informed about what is going on around school. If you have any school activities or information that you want published, please give this information to us, and we will be sure to get it in the newspaper!

This year’s Homecoming on September 13th was very different than in years past. Instead of having two canidates from each grade level, the high school decided to involve each school organization in the canidate selection process. Each organization selected a Queen candidate and King candidate. The student body then voted on Thursday and Friday during lunch. It was a close race, but in the end Lexie Baker (Future Farmers of America) became the Queen, and Hunter Haskell (National Honor Society) became the King!

Left: Rylee Chenoweth (escort), Trish Honeywell (Music Appreciation), Rachel Smith (Teen Advisory Board), Kymbra Grube (Student Council), Chelsey Vanatta (Business Professionals of America), Michelle Sears (National Honor Society), Lexi Baker (Future Farmers of America), Mikaela McClintick (Cheerleading), & Elizabeth Cherry (Art Club).

Left: Kyle Greenfeather (Foot-ball), Corey Miller (Art Club), Cody Schultz (Football), Hunt-er Haskell (National Honor Society), Brandon Hembree (Business Professionals of America), Dillon Sherrick (Fu-ture Farmers of America), Ted Sapp (Student Council), Tyler Elledge (Music Appreciation), Dustin Warner (Teen Advisory Board).

This year’s winners for Football Homecoming Queen and King are Lexie Baker and Hunter Haskell.

This year’s Football Homecoming Flower Girl and Crown Bearer are Madolyn Campidilli and Hayden Smith.

Meet your Desktop Publishers

FCCLADues for FCCLA are due as soon as pos-sible. FCCLA is going to district meeting in Grove, OK October 24. The cost of the meeting is $5.00. Competitive events for FCCLA are coming soon! Sign-up to com-pete with the FCCLA advisor, Mrs.Clark.

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