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8th Gracle
7th Gracle
Meet the Staff!
Editors
E»th
Faculty
Rebekah Strot1Da11. Mikayla Schliesser. aucl Char lie Tauziu
Reuessa Crowl. Brock Waruer. aucl Sarah Barre
Gracle
Kyhree Pett1forcl. Tyler Waruer. aucl J orclau Drake
Sicluey Va11Dy ke - Ries aucl Aubrey ShuJDake
Jilll Rhiau. Brittauy Tuttle. aucl Dauiel Moriuo
Aujuli Pleasaut. Hailey Kurtzer. aucl Max Piersol
Top Four FashiONS of 1he Year'>
1.CoNverse were a · staple shoe for boys a7'd girls alike.
2.SkiNNY jeaNS were a Must-have this school year
3.Big 9(ater shoes were · f lyiNg off shoe store shelves.
4.Vggs a7'd other boor walked all over lrvi"M] . dvri"Nq those cold wiNter days.
SARIAH BROW
Taking a break from reading, Chloe Worth, Danielle Kostal, Maggie
for a picture.
Tameri us, Maddie Joutras and Arden Cornwell smile
BRIGHID COONEY ARDEN CORNWELL TIMMY CORRADO WESTON COTTON RENESSA CROWL MAX CUPPENS
BOBBY CURRY STEPHEN DAVID LEA DAVIS CHLOE DECOITO
8th Grade
T~ A SC HUe a5ked 30 eight grader5 what igh 5chool they ar go ing to. Here 15th re5Ult5!
Southeast-21
Southwest-3
Lincoln High-3
Northeast-1
Northstar-0
East-2
8th Grade!
Not Pictured: ·
Austin Abbot, Matt Angus, Brooke Casteel , Kaitlyn Coble, Adrian Davis, Torrey Dondlinger, Aaron Fagan, EmmaJade Green, Mikayla Prange, Ryan Rakes, Devon Rejda, Tyler Rubottom, Breanna Schmidt, Maddy Smith
I 7th Grade!
7th grade!
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CHASE DILL SARAH DIMAGNO TYLER DIRKSEN BAILEY DUFOE ALEXIS DUNN
LEXUS DURHAM JOEL EBERS
ZOE EBERS KARA EDDINS DAWSON ELDORADO ALEX ENERSEN
BERKELEY ERICKSON ALEXIS EWING JULIA FADEN MEGHAN FARISH JACK FIEDLER ASHLE IGH FOSBlNDER
NATALIE-AY N GRA y A IDAN GRAYBILL ELI Z AB ETH GRONEW OLD CATHERINE GROSS
TANISHA G U EVARA JORDYN GUSTAFSON
TRE NTON HAYS EMILY HAYWARD COLT HEIDEN SIM HEIER DYLAN HEINE H UNTE R HENNECKE
EMILY HERGE N RADER JAKE HESS SHANTRELL HICKEY BRENNAN HILL ALLISON HOLT
MARK '(AYLOR MAULIEK TAYLO R MY KLE
TAYLOR BENJAMIN TERMA AT SORE'TI TESHOME
LUKE TH ALL E I
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Jas1'AiN KudroN CxiJe Kvhfail.
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Hu Nter ShaNNON lookshcwY while geffiT\g rea:Jy to tci(e a bite of his YUM MY '5a-r-.dwich.
Keenan Haberlan, Joel £bers, Brady Blazek, and Jake Hess pose before going to their next class.
MAGGIE PICKERING NICOLE REIMER MIKE ROBB DEBBIE ROBERTS KERI ROBERTS KRISTEN ROSENBOm
LYNETIE RYCHECKY STEPH ANIE SHUMAN
We took a poll of 20 staff members. We asked them what their favorite cartoon was when they were kids. The results were:
Peanuts: 1
The Jetsons: 5
Popeye: 2
Scoobydoo:2
Transformers: 2
The Smurfs: 3
Thundercats: 3
T ee nage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 2
LESLIE WITIGREN KRISTEN WORKS
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Irvin g has many clubs and intramural activities which include: . Afte r School Book Club, Chess Club, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Geography Bee, Improv Club, Reading Advisory Club, Red Cross Youth, Science Olympiad, Junior Civic League, Latino Club, Math Counts, One book, One family, Volleyball, Flag Football, and Cross Country Country.
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Dtllayn Binder, Zach Breck, Chad . Cook, Steve David Brand
Anitohy Gorelay, Khyi: Rudy Requejo, Hamz Sornrnars, Tyler W am
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Not Pictured: Anthony Threats , Tre Landon Beard
Hall , Adam Cummings, and Marc Not Pictured: Caleb Thiessen and , Taylor Jake Hess
Back Row: Dylan Rotert , Andrew Moore , Jacob Brown , Aaron Ackman, Keenan Haberlan
Front Row: Blake Salazar , Michael Cornwell , Jordan
Sorge, Divayrean Johnson, and Tyler Schuster
C Back Row: Devin Rezac, E Simeon Heier , Will T Roper , Gabe Kuhfahl . 1
Not Pictured: Mile s R oepke, Cheyenne Kan
Mo rton, Brandon Dewitt , Bren non Kluver , Z uh
Row (left to right): Rian Quinn, Shelby Applegate, Breonna B1 n Trauernicht, Emily Hayward, Maya Long-Hawkins, Erin eek, Sabela Paul, Kyly Baxter, ow: Paige Stanard, Soreti Teshome, Sara Miller, Alexa hilla, · h Ayet Nguyen, Presley stadt, and Olivia Bitz
: K'leigh Clover-Lattimer, Madilyn Madison, er, and Ressa Penland. Front Row: Dana Effie, Mercedes Bennet, d Devin Hilderbrand
Not Pictu d: Jessica Colligan, Chloe Decoito, Sara Dirks, Brittany Gro Briannah ce Larson, Ashley Mundall, Char iss Shotkoski, a
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Back Row: Ethan Freese, Nat Furr, Daniel Borstelmann, Quentin Chri :tensen, Joey Gallagher, Jordan Ackerman, Austin Stutzman, Na than Crunk.
Middle Row: Treva Dulaney, Allison Schroeder, Maggie Wallace, Jilly Fiedler, Jessie Maynard, Elizabeth Gronewald, Alex Putlik Zillig, Front row: Hana McMahon, Breanna Ogburn
Not Pictured: Austin Espinoza, Ethan Freese, Dallas Grimm, Dylan He ine, Adam Keester, Tristan Sommars, Paul Sutter, Viktor Turnur, Ory Wickizer, Mikayla Bax, Jill Bax, Nathalie Freeman, Dyan Pegler, Alyss 1 Roberts, Emily Rownd, and Chirsty Shuster
REA-biT)Cj Counc:iL! AoviSORg
Need a book to read? Irving has their own reading advisory council! They help pick the books that you just might want to read.
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Front: Ashley Wh itney , Morgan Pleener.
Stephanie Oc egu e da , Kayle Crabtree, Ayet Nguyen , Mrs.Eckery.
Not pictured: Jasmine We b er , C laire Nixon, Alyssa Robert s, Ashleigh Foslinder.
This is a group of students who love to read. They meet on a predetermined schedule and discuss what they've read.
Front: Josh Jones,Ayet Nguyen, Miranda Melson. Back: Soreti Teshome, Charli Hayes, Mrs.Eckery.
Not Pictured: Ben Smith, Ashlie Izzo, Zach Wheat , Tyler York.
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JCL is a group of studen who do charitable things with their time.
Middle Row: Ashleigh Fosbinder, Brandon 1 Sturgeon, Miranda Melson, Josh Jones, Nathan Riedel, and Mrs. Hutner
Not Pictured: Tyler York and Mrs. Krein
The band "Where's Charlie?" features Charlie Tauzin, Kaylor Horton, Walker · Dimon, and Brandon Elwell. Picture taken with their instructor, Jarrett Portnoy.
Back Row: Nicole Schleiger, Ben Smith Zach Wheat.
7th Grade Morning
Alphabetical Order: Shelby Applegate, Lauren Ayars, Josipa Bartula, Lando rt Seard, 8reonna 8ienka, Olivia Sitz, Shelby Boehler, Nick 8ohlke, Molly 6retz Jacob 6rown, Erica 6ruyette, Chloe Burmeister, Taytem Chapman, Alexa Chi 1chilla, Michael Cornwell, Jackson Costello, Kyla Crabtree, Sen Cuca, Adam Cummings, Caitlin Cunningham, Dean Degraw, Sarah Oimagno, Dawson £1Oorado, Berkeley Erickson, Alexis £wing, Jack Fiedler, Ashleigh Fosbinder, O.J. Foster, £than Freese, Aidan Graybill, Elizabeth Gronewold, Catherine Gross, Trenton Hayes, Emily Hayward, Simeon Heier, Emily Hergen rader, Jake Hess, Allison Holt, Letura ldigima, Mary James, 6ailey Jex, Carl ) Johnson, Oivayrean Johnson, Mariah Johnson, Christian Jungck, Caira Kemb t , Haven Kirkendoll, 8rennon Kluver, Emma Knight, Klaya Koch, Cassie Kuhn, 0 : 1r· ien Lagge, 8rooke Lattimer, Sharon Lavin, Kaci Leppky, Kamaya Long-Hawk · ins, Riley Lynch, Maggie Manzitto, Ashley Mason, Jessie Maynard, Rachel l · Cown, Trinity McDonald, Miranda Melson, Lyndsey Mickle, Sara Miller, Reag t n Mills, Breanna Ogburn, Trip Ogden, Natalia Ossenkop, Ana Paez, Kara Potea · ;, Alex Pytlik-Zillig, Rian Quinn, Mikayla Ratliff, Zoe , Oeven Rezac, Alyssa R · erts, Will Roper, Emily Rownd, Sadie Schernikau, 6owen Schoen, Christy Sh »· ter. 6aily Sheehan, Genna Slightom, Avni Srivastav, Paige Stanard, Sydney Sweigard, Soreti Teshome, Erin Tharnish, Caleb Thiessen, 6ailee Topil, Jens Trauernicht, Lanea Vanek, Rachael Wagner, Dietrich Wanamaker, Abby Wes · fall. Josephine Wheat, Victoria Wiebe, Angela Young
1st sememster
Alphabetl cal order: Jordan Ackerman. Elf ot Appleget. Katie
Arten. Josh Bargar. Dfllaqn Binder. Abbq Cheesman. Elf Jah Chisholm. Arden Cornwell. Duncan
DePrlest. Lizzie Dinneen. James Douglas. Brandon Elwell. Noah Eno. Madi Farlfn. Jfllq Fiedler. Nat Furr. Kqndra Qabrlel.
Joeq Qallagher. Maddq ttansen. Sarah ttarre. Brlannah Munt. leera ldlgl ma. Josh Jones. Adam Klehn. Qrace Larson. Samantha Lovette. Emflq Maldavs. DeAnna Masterson. Zoe Maurer.
Joel Morrow. Pattq Morrow. Jeevan RaJagopal. Tqler Rediger. Tlfler Retzlaff. Jim Rhlan. Nathan Riede I. AHie Schroeder. Emma Scudder. Au~relf Shumake. Katie Shuster. Ben Smith. Tristan Sommars. Rebekah Strotman. Maggie Tamerlus. Dakota Tu er. Maggie Wallace. Katie Wandzflak. Zacherq
Wheat. 0 If Wick hloe Tqler York
8th Grode Girls Basketbtlll
Back Row: Macee Helmick, Charissa Shotkoski, and Anjuli Pleasant
Front Row: Eliza Hager, Sammie Lee, Ashley Mundall, and Danika Hasse-Brown
Not Pictured: Arden Cornwell, Briannah Hunt, Katie Shuster, Gabby
Hicks, Leera Idigma, and Claire Delaney
7th Grade Girls Basketball
Back Row: Rian Quinn, na Paez, Paige Standard, and Sabela Paul ront Row: Berkeley Erickson, vni Srivastav, and Carly Johns <n
Back Row: Ashlee
Steele, Lexus Durham, Dani Hansen, and Elizabeth Gronewald
Front Row: Presley Mittelstadt, Reagan Mills, Christy Shuster , and Alex Pytli zilig
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lrvi~ H elp~ Outl
Throughou t the year, Irving has helped the community. Here are some examples of h o w we gave back. We hope it insp ires you to help out.!
Early in the year , Irving gave out baby trees to some deserving students. This was a great thing! Planting trees helps the environment by giving oxygen . e air. They help us breathe!
Ju st like every other year, Irving had a canned food drive.
1 W e gathered many good foods and helped many people. The
1 1tot al for the school was 6,747
I i tems!
Of course, recycling was a must
1 th is year, like the la st couple. Also , i I stu dents and teacher s h ave recylced
al u minum cans. The p rocee d s go , the Media Center to buy books. 1
TEAMMATES™
The Teammates Mentor Program involves many students and teachers in Irving. These people involved do things such as community service, ringing bells for the S alvation Army, delivering Meals on Wheels and donating various items. These people are very heipful to
Summer Olympics 2008 ;
HoSteo iN BeijiN<J ' CHiNa 2008 was a ver y specia I year for the O lympics . It was ho sted in B eijing , Chin a though there was a lot of controversy . Man y people d idn t th ink the Olympics shou ld have been held there due to poor human rights , their stance toward Tibet and other reasons. Even with these problems , the Olympics ran smoothly . Here are some highlights! This year, Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh defended their title by winning the beach volleyball gold medal.
Michael Phelps swam to history by winnng more gold medals then anyone else in Olympic history.
The Chinese gymnastics team also sparked controversy due to some saying they were not old enough to compete in the Olympics.
These were the Olympic mascots for the Beijing Olym.pics. They were used periodically in the games.
As for women's gymnastics, USA got first and second with Nastia Liukin in first and Shawn Johnson in second. China's Yang Yilin placed third.
LeBron James dunks the basketball to score in the game against China. The USA men's basketball team w ent on to win the tourna ment.
Presidevrtial Race 2008 Change ...
Who knew that this preside..•.._. debate would make histo Senator Barack Obama an d Senator John McCain foug and hard to the end for th President of the United si,~ · AA On November 4th, the first African-American President American history was voted office.
Millions of Americans cast their vote for President in ballots like this one.
.Senator Barack Obama
Name:
Barack Hussein Obama
Vice Presidential Nominee: Joe Biden
Place of Birth: Honolulu, Hawaii
Political Party: Democrat
Senator John McCain
. Name: John Sidney McCain
Vice Presidential Nominee: Sarah Palin
Place of Birth: Coco Solo Naval Air Station, Panama Canal Zone, Panama
Political Party: Republican
Republicans and Democrats battled against each other with cartoons,posters,and harsh debates.
These are some examples of some political cartoons:
A group of Eighth graders took a poll between Mario and Sonic. Here are the resultsl
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8t h Grade gt uden t Life !
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Ben Smith. and tliot Applege t show us their great narne tags.
2. J-fat day 2008 - Danny Borstlemann. Joey Gallagher. DeAnna
Maste rson. Micah Schumacher. Ashlie Izzo. Duncan Depriest. Sarah J-f arre. Mik ayla Schliesser and Allie Schroder pose for a picture to remember.
a.Bo bby Curry gets into the lesson in tnglish class.
4"T his picture shows how epic I am."-Charlie Tauzin.
5.Me rcedes Schultz listens to Mr. Goodrich's reading discussion.
6.Br ittany Tuttle stops in the hall to show us that it's all good.
7.W hile taking notes in Spanish class. Desmond Robinson adds some dood les to enlighten his paper.
a.Du ring gym class. Nate Schutte. Matthew Case. tric Orn an. and Jack 1-1 azen strike their favorite pose.
9.Pa using from reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" Nathan Blazek shows his ~tuff.
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