Senior profile: Justin Battle
Benji Wilton, features writer
May 18, 2018
Filed under Features, Senior Profiles
After spending the day walking through decorated halls and preparing for Turkey Day festivities, Justin Battle, senior, anxiously watches students and staff file into the David Holley Assembly Hall. For him and the rest of the drumline, playing in front of the ecstatic crowd is their shining moment. ...
Over a mountain she climbed
Ally Ortmann, features writer
May 2, 2018
Filed under Senior Profiles
With her blonde hair spread out on her pillow, the young girl stared at her ceiling thinking to herself. I imagine, she breathed, closing her eyes. Images of stages and tour buses, all-nighters and hastily scribbled song lyrics played like a film on the back of her eyelids. Creating visual art always came eas...
Senior Profiles: Colin Thompson
Naomi Thomson, social media staff
April 23, 2018
Filed under Senior Profiles
Since age 2, Collin Thompson, senior, has faced many obstacles concerning a task that for others is muscle memory: walking. Collin was diagnosed with mild cerebral palsy as a toddler, and in middle school he underwent his first heel cord lengthening surgery on his left achilles tendon. Though he has had two operations total on the muscle, Collin has used wal...
Senior Profile: Aspen Workman
Audrey Allison, artist
April 29, 2017
Filed under Features
While their fellow classmates were tanning beside the pool or sleeping until noon, Aspen Workman spent the past three summers kneeling in the dirt at Washington University’s Tyson Research Center and the Missouri Botanical Garden’s Shaw Nature Reserve. Aspen got involved in an internship that has...
Senior profile: Thomas Woodley
Jonah Wright, news writer
April 12, 2015
Filed under Senior Profiles
When Thomas Woodley’s mom told him to give the slopes a try during a family vacation to Winter Park, Colorado, he never imagined in eight years he would be a nationally ranked skier. Born in the temperate, rolling hills of America’s heartland, Woodley grew up playing youth baseball and soccer and m...
Check out our past issues