Culler Middle School 2009 Yearbook

50 YEARS!

Culler Middle gchool opened in 1958. It: wai; named after Charle<; Cu ll er. a long-time Lincoln educator and the principal of Whittier Junior ~igh. !=or the firi;t four year<; it i;erved ai; a combinationjunior high/elementary i;chool. l=rom f963 until 1993. Culler wai; a junior high i;erving dudenti; in grade<; 7-9. It wai; the fird junior high i;chool built in Lincoln that wai; handicap accei;i;ible.

Culler hai; benefited from the leaderi;hip of 7 different principal<; in 50 yeari;: Mr. Rezek. 19581975: Mr. Johni;on.1975-1977: Mr. Pet:eri;on. 1977-1990: Mr. Bucher. 1990-1996: Dr. Dirk<;, 1996-2004: Mr. Zetterman. 2004-2006: and Mr. Lari;on. 2006-2009.

Thii; year the i;chool opened with a new 6th grade and i;cience addition. a new gym. and remodeled vocational education clai;i;roomi;.

School Colors

In 1968 the ninth grade i;porti; program wai; darted and alljunior high i;chooli; were ai;i;igned a color and black. That'i; when Culler'<; i;chool color<; became light blue and black. ·

Cougar Ma sc ot

The Culler ma<;cot became the cougar around 1968. gtudenti; were allowed to i;ubmit namei; of poi;i;ible ma<;coti;. The choice<; were n·arrowed down to i;ix. and the dudent<; voted for their choice in the cafeteria during lunch. gome of the choice<; were Culler Cobra<;. Conquidador<;, Charger<;. and the Cougar<;. One · intereding i;ide note to thi<;: Mr. Rezek. the principal at that time. thought: the matcot <;hould be the gprockek. a combination of gpartani; and Rocket<;. Mod dudent:<; went on to attend ta<;c or Nort:hea<;c at that time.

Cel~e 50 Years 3

p ez Jiovany Ca still o Keys h a Clark

Briana Closser Sam Coffey

Chyrone Collier

Tarae Dowd

Cole Fast

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Brandon Dieguez

Felicia Dyer

Kalin Fast

Diana Garcia Rubio Sean Geibel

Socorro Guiza

Daisy Guiza ·Beltran

Billy Dimas

Samantha Eddins

Josiah Fischer

Breahna Genaw

Bakhita Gum

Jayden Disher Auston Dormer

Elizabeth Escobedo LJ Ewings

Shaundra Freeman Nyibon Garafan

Nikiya Giger

Maricruz Gonzalez Figueroa

Naeif Hamo Lexi Harris

Firas Hasan Erika Hernandez Crystal Hopkins

Rayshaun ldeen Diamend Jackson

Dioun Jackson

Coleman Johnson Kamari Johnson Latrentis Johnson Autumn Jones

Noor Karkash Justin Karr

Maresa Kennedy Ghazalah Khalaf Jihad Khalaf

Breanna Killin Rachel Killingsworth Haylee Kirkendall Micah Knipple Allison Kuenning

Penda Lam Jordann Lamborn Bodi e Lame Angelo Lantos Renee Lloyd ~

j:J) 8th Grade 9

Nguyen Luu

Maggie Madera Luke Maser

Kayla McCullough

Micheal McCullough

Trent Medley

Nadia Mendez Cody Merwick

Mohamed Muhammed

Nicholas Mulinix

Hunter Mulligan True

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Peter Nguyen

Sonia Nguyen Tinh Nguyen

Nhat Nguyen Tran Jade Nicklen Bailey O'Neill

Walker Okeng Destiny Olsen

Elias Osman Nasima Osman

Dan Otto

Dylan Pacula Kamille Palmer

Brenda Pa lm e rin Montes D o Andraya Peery Jaivon Phillips

Lindsay Powers Yuan Ru i Qin

Johnny Ra bago

H ayat Ramadan Lorenzo Ramos

Cassandra Ratzlaff Erica Reeder

Erik Renteria Brad ley Reynolds Crist ina Rodriguez Juan Rodriguez Zavala Skyler Roland

Dlovan Saleh Ale xis Schneider M a lcolm Shepard

Miranda Smith Marcus Snyder

Joshua Stanley Teialan a St ee le Danis h a Ston e M acayla Stuart Damian Sutton

Not Pictured : Rousol Aribi

Francisco Calleja Rebolledo

Yahara Del Angel Sanchez

Christian Edstrom

Farid Farkouh

Ashley Jones

Spirit Leach

Bao Nguyen Richard Strickland

Ngor Tang Nyayom Thoat

Edgar Vargas

Shawn Virchow Tabby Williams

Ruach Wiyual Yiel Yiel Jesus Zuniga

Emiliano Ramos Titchiang Thor

Well We'1re Off.J

WE THE 7TH GRADERS ...

J-tave enjoyed our 7th grade year here at Culler Middle gchool. There ha~ been ~o tnuch that we are thankful for. We are looking forward to 8th grade and we feel that we can now lead thi~ ~chool to be ~ucce~dul and victoriou~. We ~hall be role rnodel~ to the new 6th grader~ and the 7th grader~.

Maribel Adame

Ibrahim Alhamdani Cody Allgood

Israel Alvarez Mary Andrew

Moises Angeles Santiago Ignacio Arias Catalan AyatAribi

WiniAtem Sandros Atnafu

Taylor Baker Kelly Barber Cory Bay Ta'nia Bedford Jaime Beltran Garcia

Erica Birch Natalie Bohac Beth Brock

Jessica Broeder Logan Broeker Penny Bui 7th

Sydni Cox Sabrina Crowe

Cornell Culver Chang Oak

John Dang

Tyler Daniels

Dylan Dawes Sh adid De La Rosa Montiel Buomkuoth Dobuon y Alexis Dominguez

Kelly Dov Matt Dunn Chris Engelhart Jeremy Fox Gerardo Franco

Andrea Frey Sarah Fuenning Maricela Galdamez Santiago Galdamez Luis Garcia Rubio

Charles Gilliam Aida Goitom Sergio Guiza Beltran Isidro Gutierrez Rima Hadgi

Tessa Hall lsmaeil Hamo Gauge Hansen

Melanie Heiserman Matthew Hellbusch

Helaina Helms

Jessie Hernandez Alex Hillman Devon Holmes

Israel Holmes Abigai l Hoskins

Dezhanay Houston Rythm Huddleston Racquel Humphrey

Chase Janssen

Elizabeth Jimenez

j-J) 7th Grade

Bryan Johnson Joseph Jones Ale xandria Juengel Kylah Julch Mauch Keak

Toni Kemerling Alexis Kennedy Hadgi Kero

Sane! Kesmer Linda Komi

Ashley Kotschwar Suzy David Laila Emm anuel Lopez Guiza

Sarahi Madera Kasmika Maharjan

Bre'ana Marion Andrea Marks Ana Marroquin Solis Cam McCullough Sadie McPherrin

Jasmine Meeks Haley Meier Aril ene Mendez

Madison Mickey Austin Miller

Dallas Miller Moujtaba Mohammed Valeria Moreno Garc ia

Robert Morris Tierra Morris

Kiah Murrell Darius Myles Shaleesa Narcisse

Anh Nguyen Johnny Nguyen

Kallen Nissen Skyler Nobbe Chayse Olsen

Nikki Olsen Jenni Ore

David Ortega Navarro Khalid Osman Mary Overstreet

Graham Parrott Sunday Pathot

Katrin a Patzel Alaina Pelletier Sierra Perry

Nina Pham Tyler Pope

Akot Riak Troy Robertson Zahra Saad

Mario Salamanca Jenay Sargent Tori Schmidt

Molly Schumaker Roza Shamo

Julia Sifuentez Makiah Slade Nesita Smith Holden Nonyea Smith Holden Jordan Smith-Dennis

Sa ndra So lo rzano-Ro m ero Nathan Spale

Manny Spencer Zach Spencer Bryan Stanley

Not Pictured : Chirstopher Bryant

Cindy Cruz

Rachel Doyle

Derek Fitzwater

Malik Gibbs

Arely Gutierrez Avalo s

Th eresa Tracy

Christopher Woodh ead

Thomas Stevens

Michael Stockton

Bobby Tep Hailey Thalken

Valeria Valenzuela Santillan Zachary Van Ness

Ch ase Wolinski

Dylan Wright

Jo se Zavala Holli Zimmerman

Gabrielle Stroup

Summer Theis-Wilson

Kevin Vargas Mendez

Guandong Wuol

Micah Swetland

Karen Tapi a Montes De Oca

Christian Thomas Lucky Tran

Holagana Wadiso Farrah White Butterfly

Tyler Yates Har ley Youngblood

Neecf A Ride?

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Kody Abarr Huda AI-Asady Ahmed Al-Hussein Tyler Albers

Marrissa Allsman

Javier Amen-Figueroa Ga br ie la Ar e ll ane s Uri as Ryan Bates Halona Bearkiller Lexis Beebee

Luka Bel Tra 'eria Bigby Tehya Birch Da Veion Birge Julia Black

Gabriel Bouwens Kyle Bovee Evan Bowers-Davis

Jessica Brennfoerder Justice Brown Savan n a h Brown

Madison Dieguez

Alfredo Dominguez

Tahsin Elias

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Dani e l Emk en

Kevin Duong

Ramsey Essex

Peter Duong

Robert Dyas

Jerrin Ewing5 Joao Ferreira

Mariah Flores

Claudia Freeman Dina Garafan Kaitlyn Garcia

Juan Garrido Salgado

Feria! Hasan Ryan Hayden

Veronica Hernandez

Thomas Heroux

Saleem Holden

Andrew Hughes Khalil Hunter Pe d ro Ja imes Vargas

Savannah Jennings

Alicia Johnson

Logan Lamborn

Alexandria Lane Kim Liech

Madison Loe Shania Loos

Pablo Madera Riel Mapieu

Jorge Marroquin Solis Autumn Maynez

Ashawn McEwan

Elisia Medina-Jordan Sky Medley Tasha Megrue

Luis Mendez

Da'neJa' Menyweather

j:J_) 6th Grade

Jessie Mercado

Mawada Mohammed Joclyne Moll

Hafeth Mourad Abdul Muhammed

Abraheem Muhammed Gerardo Naranjo Cody Neddermeyer

Deanna Nelson Phuong Ngo

Rawson Ngoh

David Nguyen

Dominic Nguyen

Loe Nguyen Jacob Noah

Pau l Patton

Nathan Peery Ivonne Perez-Juarez

Nam Pham Breon Philbrick

Nadia Piso Lisa Pope Rafael Ou aw re lls-W il son Radwan Ramadan Soraya Ram irez

Christian Reyes Sergi o Reyes Ci sn e ro s Aaron Rhoades Aaron Richmond Amos Rodriguez ,

Adan Salazar Shivan Saleh Uny Santamaria

Nathan Schilke

Marcus Schmidt

V eronica Schnell Lindsey Sc hrad e r Guadal u pe Serna Ga rc ia Jas min e Simmon s Tay sh a Sl ade 6t h Grade

Not Pictured:

Octavio Cruz

Keith Fitzwater

Bret Pinkelman

Ricardo Velasquez Lopez

Nakyta Womack

Laquarain Spencer

Araina Swenson

Ezequiel Vargas

Aaron Steinman Nate Stephenson · Teawna Stetson

Tilian Tilian An Tran Nhu Tran

Radiou s Walker-Woods Shaneequah Watkins

Deshaun Wilkinson

Jay Stickney

Dylan Ullman

Ashley Wilson

Chridian a having fun i gytn.

po ~ing?

Danielle Arganbright

Emily Beck

Andrea Carlson

Michael Champagne

Pat Doney

Irina Dronova

Aaron Foster Jan Franklin

Sara Halama Faculty

Kate Haskins

Philip Beck

Joan Creger

Terri Eglsaer

Justin Frederick

Carla Haydu

Ed Boehle

Carol Crum

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Kristen Finley

Erna Gilster

Cary Haynes

Michele Cabrera

Jill Deets

Christie Flynn

Alysa Haack

Lisa Henjes

Mary Herrington

LeAnn Hofmann

Brooke Kastanek

Rachael Kluck-Spann

Sharon Kreimer

Marcy Lapp

Dan Larson

Kate Larson

Holly Liibbe Michelle Looky

David Macek Troy Mack

Wally Mason Evama rie McDowell -Coffin Anastasia McNulty

Shereen Mills Heidi Moore Brett Noser Patrick O'Hare

Iraida Peinado Larry Peterson Sharon Phillips

Julie Ramel Sherri Robinson Faculty

Cafeteral Staff:

XLAavi D1.,1ovi, Nadia

Did1.,1seviRo, C~amaviiRa

Paravia1.,1lt~avia, S1.,1savi McGIii, Javiice Barvi~ill, Lal.Arel LLAedRe, Sara~ Pal.Al, J1.,11ie Coltovi, Margarita Hatfield,

C1Astod iaV1s:

Jo~vi T~orpe, T~eresa Hegarty, Joviviy

Geary, Alice Nemec, Jos~ Ho1.,1le, Larry HeldtbriviR, Jerry StecRly ,

''WE SERVE THE BEST'' ·

Amy Ruisinger

Robert Ruisinger

Debra Ryan

Mary Salazar Jacob Schillinger

Angela Smail

Vicki Sorensen Kathy Spahr

Annette Stier Sally Thorne

Shereen Tolba Terri Vensky

Scott Vicrey

Dustin Wardyn

Jeanne Wenz

Kim White Cheryl Whitehall Kerk Wilson

Linda Windle Aaron Zabawa

Leila Zila

GOTCHA!!

Not PlcttAred:

As~ley Bo~ac

Mlc~elle Bo~ac

Bevi Keowvi

Mary Tooley

Step~avile Vevis/€y

Can't go anywhere without the prec;c; wanting t.:o take your picture!

g po rt~. club~. act ivitie~. we got i t all.

7th Grade Team:

FLAG FOOTBALL

Sch Grade Team:

Front row: Dioun Jackson. Jordan Bai ley.I Rayshaun ldeen. Yiel Yiel. Noor Karkash. Jesus Zuniga C.ole Fa st. Middle row: C.oach Ben. Nick Brown. Kalin Fast. Nathaniel Black. Nick Mulinix. Di amend Jackson. C.oa c Adam. C.oach Ol-lare Back row: Malcolm %epard. Jordan Brown. Bod i f Lame

Front row: Dylan Wright. Charles Gilliam. Khalid Osman. C.ody Allgood. Mathew Pounds. Back row: C.oach Ben Manny gpencer. Mouch Keak. Israel 1-lolme s. C.hang Dak. Bryan Johnson. Zach gpencer C.oach Adam.

Sch Grade Tearn

Front row: Miranda gmith Tarae Dowd. Middle row : Renee Lloyd. l-la ley Kirkendal l. Autumn Jone s Aki lah Akbar. Jamayka Br i tton. Jade Nicklen Kam ill e Palmer. Key sha C.lark. Back row: C.oach gtephanie . C.rydal l-lopkins. Teialana gtee le. Justin Karr. Nyayom Thoat. Maresa Kennedy. Niki ya Giger Ro si Booker. Danesha gtone . Micah Knipple . C.oach Je ss ica. True Nguyen . Ashley Behrens. Nguyen Luu. Not pictured: Jordann Lamborn

VOLLEYBALL

7th Grade Teatn

Front row: gurnmer Thies A lexi s Ke nn edy Ky lah

Julch. Rythm l-luddledon Alex Juenge l. gabr in a

C.rowe. Alex l-lillman. gydni C.ox. Midd le row : Ka sm ik a

Maharjan. Gabrielle gtroup. Abbey l-lo skin s. M ar y

Andrew. Tori ~khmidt. Wini Atem. Aida Goi t om guzy

David-Laila. Natalie Bohac. l-laile y Tha lk en. Ba ck row: C.oach Ashlee. l-lelaina l-lelms. Kiah Murre ll. Nesita gmith-l-lolden. Jessica Broeder Nonyea gm i t h-l-l o lden. C.oach Amanda.

Front row: Ke y s: ha Clark Alexi Micah Knipple. Akilah Akbar. Felicia Dyer Karnille Palrner. Kennedy. Nguyen Luu. Jade Nick row: Coach gtephanie. Legaci As;en Coach Marcus;, Judin Karr. Niki ya Gige Gonzales; Figueroa. Bakhita Gurn. Teialan Ben.

dledon. Gabrielle gtroup. Mary Overdreet. 1 Cox. Tierra Morris;, Wini Atern Mary Andrew

Back row: Coach Arganbright. Abby l-los;kin s;, Jes;s;ica ia grnith l-lolden Natalie Bohac. Non yea grnith l-lolden. iah Murrel l. Dezhanay l-loudon. Coach Champagne. Aida Goitorn. Melanie l-leis;errnan. Tori gchrnidt.

Front row: MOUj -taba Mohammed. gk_yler Nobbe. Ahp -Nguyen. Middle mw: Alexi ,s gd;,neider. gam Coffey. Nhat Nguyen Tran. Beth Brock. Mary Overdreel. Back row: Jared Putnam. Coleman Johnson. Ngor Tang. Daniel Otto .'Guan Wuol. · James Bui. Christian Thqmas. Not pictured: Coach Kluck. Coach Thoma£:. Johnr1y Rabago. Akot Riak.

Front r9w: Chri s: Woo dhead. Anh Nguyen. Charles: Gilliam. Mathew Pounds:. Jihad Khalaf . Dylan Wright.

Middle row: Coac h David. Coach Bryan. Moi s: es: Angeles: gantiago. Mouch Keak Jeremy Fox. J~itne Beltran. Kallen Nis:s:an. ~ ; ·

Back row: Trent Medl ey Coleman Johns:on Guandong

Wuol. Landon tgger s. A kot: Riak. Cole Fad. l--lunter Mulligan. Coach Brad.

Not pictured: James: Bui. Jo hny Nguyen. Nhat Nguyen · Tran. Malcolm ghepard. M icah g wet:land. Chri s: tian

Thomas:. Vie.I Viel.

Cro ss Cou~estlin g

Publications; 9taff: Briana Clos;s;er. 9am Coff e.y. 9haundra Freeman. N ya yotn Tho at. Linds;ay Powers;, As;hley Batnbrough.

: Allis;cin Kuenning and Dan Otto.

Advis;or: Mrs;. Vens;ky

Principal: Mr. Lars;on ~ $blication s

L GROUPS

JAZZ BAND

Frovit row: Alex

Nlssavi, Mary A

Rosa Movitiel, A Sc~midt, Jeremy Swetlavid, C~rlsti

rmavi, Kallevi adid De La row: Tori ' Mica~

ORCHESTRA

C~ristiavi T~ornas, Sierra Perry, Kasrni~a Ma~arJavi, As~ley Be~revis, Mica~ Kviipple, Nie~ MIAliVllXi sydvii Co><i Avi Travi, Tyler Pope, Aida Goitorn, Kelly Dov, Holli Zlrnrnerrnavi.

CUV 1 6 TH GRADE CHORUS

Frovit row: Dylavi IAllmavi, Soraya Famirez Veroviia

Sc~viell, Veroviica tterviavidez Ryavi Bates, BacR row: C~rlstiavi Reyes, Aarovi Stelvimavi, Avi Travi, N~IA Travi, Radio1,1s WalRer-Woods, All Lavie,

Ma~ariavi, Molly lea~ rt Morris, avi, Not

8TH GRADE CHORUS

Frovit row: Maggie Mader

Jordavivi Lam.borvi, BacR row:Erica Reeder,5ama

Beltravi, Rac~el Kifllvigswort~, Bambro1,1g~, Gevia Artz,

COUG

Quiz Bowl

Front row: Micah gwetland. Anh Nguye

Back row: Kari Donning. Nguyen Luu. Nhat Nguyen Tran. Cindy Loope. Nyayorn Thoat.

Qtudent Council

Aida Goitorn. Jes;s;ica 1--lemandez. Deanna Nels;on. lis;a Pope. Mathew Pounds;. ghaundra Freeman Mrs;. grnail. and Mar!:! Overdreet. Not Pictured: Allis;on Kuenning.

Qcience club celebrate~ Valentine'~ Day.

7th grade chorus ortns at: t:he CLC talent: