Lincoln High School 2011 Yearbook

HIGH SCHOOL

GREAT' Pl~ CE T'O BE

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PIE A POMALINK

AT NIGHT

Above: Andi Ahmed-Manakdan (11) recovers from a pie to the face at the Pomalinks booth "Pie a Pomalink" at Festivus on September 17th. Photo by Haley Keller

Above: Students enjoy themselves at the 'Pirates of th e 'High' Seas' Homecoming Dance on October 1st in the South Gym Photo by Seth Marshall

BOUNCI G PRINCIP

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RUN CASEY RU !

Above: Casey Philpot (12) runs the ball during the Homecoming Football Game on October 1st. Photo by Andrew Hoile

LINKS OF THE HIGH SEAS

Above: Chloe Bontrager (10), Meghan Biegert (10), Anna Yost (10) and Luke Thiele (12) pose in front of the pirate decorations during the 'Pirates of the High Seas' Homecoming Dance on October 1st. Photo by Seth Marshall

WALKING DEAD

Left: Miriam Merliss (12), Michael Keating (11 ), Jaz Schoeneck (1 2) , and Christian Novotny (12) participate in the city wide Zombie Walk on August 28th. Photo by Seth Marshall

JUNIORS RULE IN PINK

» Right: Mercedes Greenwood (11 ), Cayliss Mothershed (11 ) , and Jessica Schubert (11) show their Junior Pride by posing for a Class Color Day plioto during Spirit Week. Photo by Mollie Schoonover

By Jessi Anderson

LAZY DAY

Above: Kaela Ogburn (10), and Christine Pershing (10) show their Lin co ln High pride by posing for a Slipper Day photo during Spirit Week

Photo by Mollie Schoonover

LINKS OF THE BLACK AND RED

~Above: Jackie Schaaf (10), Reagan Myers (10), Hale y Taege ( 10) , and Claire Delaney (10) show their Lin c oln High prid e by posing for a Black and Red Day photo during Spirit Week Photo by Phil Eddins

SMELLS LIKE EGG ROLLS - YUM!

Above: Asian Caucus members serve egg rolls to students at the Asian Caucus booth during Festivus on September 17th. Photo by Jessi Anderson

HELLO HENNA

Above: Morgan Meyer (11)

COME ON AND JUMP!

• watches Katy Keating (12) ~ive

her a Henna Tattoo at the Mummer s booth durin~ Festivus on September 17th Photo by Mollie Schoonover

Above: Spanish tea c her Eric Azabache leads the sack ra ce, provided by Foster Kids for the Win , during Festivus on September 17th. Photo by Allison Starr

PIRATES OF THE HIGH HALLS

Above: Mollie Schoonover (10), Jim Rhian (10), and Emily Gasper (10) show their best impression of pirates by posing for a Pirat e Day photo during Spirit Week. Photo by Melissa Wilson

HOOPS OF FUN Above: Students play basketball at the Bo y's L Cub booth during Festivus on Se pt ember 17th Photo by Cassie Luethje

WACKY IS FUN

Above : Sadie Tunberg (9), Jenny Prinsloo (9) and Kamaya Long-Hawkins (9) show their school spirit on Wac ky Wedne sday during Spirit Week. Photo by Phil Eddms

HIGH UP

« Left: Students parti c ipat e in the Summer Brid~e Program on the UNL ropes course. Photo by Ji71 Abte

of summer 2010

SONGS:

California Gurls- Katy Perry ft. Snoop Dogg

Airplanes- B.o.B. ft. Hayley

Williams

OMG - Usher ft. will.Lam

Alejandro- Lady Gaga

Dynamite- Taio Cruz

MOVIES:

Iron Man 2 (May 7)

Toy Story 3 (June 18)

The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (June 30)

Inception (July 16)

Dinner for Schmucks (July 23)

FOR EVERYTHING

For most high sc hool students , summer is a time c-1evoted t o 1·elax in g and 1·echa 1·g ing for the next sc hoo l y ea I·. A f ew, howeve1 , t ake th ese 1 0 week s and do somethi ng that ends up defining the rest of theii · life. Whethe1 · ti-aveling to California and spend in g 2 weeks i11 a Nati ona l Youth Le ade r s hip Fo1 um on Medicine camp , 01· going to Hondui-a s and buil di11g hou ses for the le ss foi tunate, the se students had summers that wi ll never be fo1·gotten.

IDEAS OF THEIR OWN

"Weeze1·'s If You' re Wondering if I Wa nt Yo u To o was a g 1·eat sun1111er an th em It' s got a ca t chy bea t a nd light~he a 1t ed lyri cs. Love it-!"

"During the summ e1 · I wen t t o see In cepti on ll1 e plot was pretty good and orig in al, and I enjo y ed it. My favodte aspect s of it wei-e the Pyrotechnics, a11 d th e imagei-y th ey used. ll1 e1·e wasn't much fo1· good actin g howeve1·, and the end was ant i-clim actic and frustrating."

, C.C. Smith C1 1)

Carvp.- The NatioNal Youth Lecnerstiip For rnv1 ON MediciNe LocatioN Berkeley UNiversi1y iN SaNFra Misco CA

Cost , 2.000 but free W11h ~larst'll) (except plaNe ticke1) 'MleN· Ju ly 4 - 18

-DetiNif'.q MOMeNt Watchif'.q a live kNe e su rgery aNd seeif'.q gut s.

"There was a disaster. f'eople were dead and inJured, and you had to decide who needed more help than another peroon."

Sa ndy

Abi Sande1·s ( 1 2)

"ll1i s Summer I

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and a friend to see Iron Maiden in conce1·t. ll1 e expedenc.e was phenomenal because the1·e was such a sense of commun ity among all the fe ll ow rock fans. Every body was in th e same mindset-basica lly j ust 1·eady to rock."

"I was out of town this summe 1 · fo1 · 7 weeks, c.-1oing a1·t at SAIC in Chicago, an.J then inte1 ning fo1 · a scu lpto1· i11 KC. Also, the movie Exit ll1rough the Gift ShoF' get s a thumbs up from me."

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drove

cago with

fathe1·

Derri ck Stevens ( 1 2)

Mad eline Cass ( 1 2)

Sandy Ngo ( 1 2)

CA LIFORNIA DREAMING

From Top Left: Sandy Ngo ( 1 2)

PrograM- Heart to Hof\.duras

LocatioN.- La Ceibita. Hof\.d ur as Cost Received graNt that paid for half 'M'leN- July 24 - 31

%at Built hoNes for faMilies iN Need

DefiNiNg MONeNt VisitiNg aN orphaNage iN SaN Pedro Su la where the childreN didNt OWN the clothes ON their back but wore Silly Baf\.dz

Micah Hadley C 1 2)

"We were given ridiculous amounts of food ... kids would hang from the bars that cov-ered the windows 1 0 feet away from where we ate, watching us not finish our food, and throw away the extra. There wasn't enough to paoo out to everyone... There were at least 1 0 0 kids and leftovers from 1 5 people, it just doesn't add up."

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flye rs hadn ' t been made , a locat i o'n hadn ' t been fou nd , the t r ansportat ion wasn ' t o r gan i zed , and there were no plan s whatsoever made for the camp just 3 weeks away , Case - Ruch ala t ook m atters i nto her own hand s " That 's when I dec i ded to take over the project. I thought to myself ' we have $10 ,000 and if we don ' t do something with it we ' re going to lose a lot of credit as a group ,'" she said

ers that had a lot of fun ju st doing something in thei r free t i me. They w er en 't paid to be there , they we r e just do i ng it caus e it was a good th i ng to do. Th at' s wh at wa s really important about it. "

1 Pho't -os pi-ovided by Marya CaseRu chala

Mar,,ya Case-Ruchala C 1 2)

While' most students spe nt th e su mmer splash i ng at the pool or slaving over hamburger grease at a fast food restau r ant, senior Marya Case - Ruchala o rgan ized a camp for low -i ncome and homeless kids. She , ar1d 22 other volunteers involved with Lincoln Youth Volunteers , or LYV , received a $10 ,000 grant from Community Health Endowment, which allowed them to offer free breakfast and lunch , and a variety of activities to the 36 kid s who were a pa r t of this unique opportunity.

De sp it e t he event ual success of the camp , it took a while to get the ball roll i ng " We had some rea lly awful planning involved ," Case - Ruchala stated with a sigh After sitting in a meet i ng at the beginning of June and realizing

Part of the week long camp wa s spent wo nking through a curriculum called " Health Rocks " by 4H. It dealt with the importance of avoiding drugs and alcohol Bec ause the camp was located in Van Dorn Park , the kids spent a majority of the time outside Field trips to Morr i l l Hall , the Special Olympics , the Pionee rs Park Nature Center , the Nebrask a H isto ry M useum , and Community Crops also made the camp both educational and memorable

Look i ng back on the experience , Case - Rucha la says she realized t hat if y ou set your mind to someth i ng , you really can achieve a lot. ''I'm in high school and I can make all the pla ns for this ca mp ." After sending a simple one -s entence email to Channel 8 News and the Lincoln journal Sta r, they showed up , and news of the camp r each ed beyond those direct ly i nvolved. " I le arned that I can do a lot more than I thought I could in the community. Al so , the peop le that were i nvolved in the camp were all h igh -school -

BUILDI NG HOPE

Oockwise From Above: 011e of the 3 hou ses that Haj ley a11<-1 hi s chu1·ch built. Ha...1 ley makes the hou1 · ...1dve t o La Ceibia 1-fa..-1ley checks out the loca l goo(.,1s in a San Pe,;li-o Sul a st o1·e. Hadley li fts one of the 01-pha11s he met in San Pedi-o S ul a. Photos co u rtesy o f Miccii Hailey

-- Micah Hadley ( 1 2 ) 011 t he foo.1 s ituation i11 Ho11d urns

HAPPY CAMPERS

Above: Mary a Case - Ru chala p lay s ca ptu1 ·e the fl ag with t he kUs s he ci-eaTe..-1 a ca mp fo

PIE A POMALI K!

Above: Sarah Anderson (12) gets a pi e to the face from Devin Smith (12) at the Pomalinks Festivus booth on September 17th. Photo by Hale y Keller

DUNK TANK DRAMA! Above: Spanish teacher Paula Ossenkop , sprays a student from the dunk tank while he tries to dunk her. Photo by Haley Keller

ROCKWALL MADNESS!

« Left: English teacher Ruth Clark races DJ Michel (11) on the rock wall. Photo by Haley Keller

HENNA TATTOOS!

» Right: Nicole Taege (12) draws a henna tattoo on Magali Rodriguez (9). Photo by Mollie Schoonover

GUITAR JAMMING!

» Above Right: Joshua Wolz (11 ), Lexi Trumbley (11 ), Grant Versaw (11 ), and Bryson Gragg (12) gather together to play the guitar and relax during Festivus Photo by Cassie Luethje

..Who wants some?!"

th e Re5t of U5

By Brittany Suhr

!!ocial !!tudies teacher Andrnw Bargon . scrnams as he walks around thejousting ring with his hands on his chest asking for a challenge from the students and other teachers. You can clearly foll he was very pumped for Festivus . especially w ith the student vs. teacher challenges including the rock wall.jousting ring. the dunk tank sack races. and the obstacle course. Bargen thought Festivus went very well. He said . "It was the best one ever". The gtudent vs. teacher challenges was a new experience this year. "It was a good way to have a different kind of relationship. It was morn than just front of the classroom and kids in their chairs and they·rn doing work. wh ern ifs morn of an interaction and we both get to see a different side of each other han we normally would in a classroom."

One of the fun things about Festivus is getting to see students and teachers in difernnt contexts than you normally would in school. Bargen said, "It was cool seei ng

tudents do things you didn't think they do " He believes that some of his tu dents wern "part jack rabbit" by how ast they got through the obstacle course. ith the student vs. teacher challenges his year at Festivus. Bargen had to conclude that. "It gives students and teachers a different way to rnlate to each outside of class."

Bargen was p~rt of the Festivus ommittee. so he knows what it takes to plan an event like Festivus. He had to say hat he came into the "game" rather late

so most of the crndit goes to Associate

r

Education teacher Rfohard Jacbon

who arn the chairmen of Festivus plus German teacher Mari!:!:a Wanamakor.

Art teacher !lliawn !:!toko!:. Media !!pecialist Pam Gannon. and Business teacher 1 Tiffany Holka. But Bargen ' sjob for Festiv'us was to "sell" Festivus and make surn everyone knew the fun stuff that was going on.

The last thing Bargen had to say was "We'rn going bigger next year," with a bi' grin on his face. When asked for any hints. especially for the student vs . teacher challenges he said "foaturnd match ups .,

Above : So cia l Stud ies teache r , Andrew Barge n u ses th e mega- Pnnc1pal Jom:H} r son and ~pema

s.

Photo by Molli e Sc hoono ve r

SU MO WR TU G! ::: Above : Ko rya n Sawo ( 10) battl es again s t Demitriu s Lind sey ( 12 ) in th e s umo s uits Photo by Jessi Ander son

SACK RACES!

Photo s by Hal ey K

By Cassie Luethje

Ever wonder what your classmates do outside of school?

All the World's a Stage

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Senior Claire Briney , juniors Marina Blum , Margery Dunkle , Madysen Luebke , Catharine Coffey, Oaire Wiebe , and CC Smith, sophomore Elly Radcliffe Hines, and freshman Madeleine Miller have something in common : Nebraska Girls Shakespeare Through their own motivations, they prepare productions and express their love of theater with this sisterhood grounded in the words of Shakespeare

"It wa s actually started at the Haymarket Theater though, by Fred Stewart and Bob Paul , because a lot of Shakespearian plays with the exception of Lady Beatrice and Lady Macbeth have really weaker female lead roles and this way girls have a chance to play stro[lger roles, " Smith ex lain ed~----------=---

"Basically it's a group of 13-18 year old girls," Coffey said. 'We do everything ourselves; we do directing , we do tech, we do costumes, we do make-up, we do acting, we do everything "

Most of the girls are seasoned thespians, except for Miller "I did a couple of plays when I was in like Kindergarten, those don't really count. I wasn't old enough to audition until "O lRUE APOlHECAR\l 11 IY DRUGS ARE QlJIU<. Romeo and Juliet and that UIUS WflH A KISS I DIE* was " Above (from top): Catharine Coffey 111) and fellow NGS member " in 2009," Smith finished Photo court esy of Maggie Austin

When asked about being friends before Nebraska Girls Shakespeare, Blum responded, "A lot of us were, but there was a good half of the company that we didn 't know, although at this point it's hard to think that we didn't. It just feels like we always knew them There were a fair number of home schooled kids and some people from Southeast and "

" Norris, Southwest. " Luebke added.

" and East. " Dunkle finished

"I was home schooled so I didn 't know anyone, but we all became best friends, " Coffey said She had only been walking the halls of Lincoln High for about five week s, but adjusting has been fa irly easy "Me and my Girls Shakespeare girls, we have a very strong bond, so it's perfect having all my friends here "

"We just joined the Angels Theater Company and before we were with the Haymarket , but we left the Haymarket and found new rehearsal space; did we?" said Blum

"No, we don 't really have a home ," Dunkle said.

As to why they switched, Luebke explained. "There was just a lot of financial issues We had tuition for a while at the beginning, but it was too hard to keep track of, so the last show it was basically we didn't have a budget. I think we spent $20 and it was mostly my money, Goodwill dollar days."

"We normally do two plays a year One act season is always out because there 's a bunch of people in Lincoln High Theater but summer and spring show normally," Smith said

"We 've done Romeo and Juliet, Medea and Antigone, Pericles , and Cymbeline," Dunkle said "Our first show wa s Macbeth and that was a challenge but that was a lot of fun It was my first Shakespeare show and I was Macbeth so it wa s like being thrown into something that was completely different from anything I've ever done before So that was really exciting."

"I think every show that we do is kind of our defining moment because ea ch show you ' re learn ing something new, you ' re doing something completely different , and you ' re learning how to work with the other people in the company and becoming better friends with them, " Briney said

As for practice with that many people involved, Wiebe explained , "Whatever we can fit in Our rehearsals are 2, 3 hours usually ."

"Then we have the week before the show goes up. We have super tech Sunday That's from like 8-8 or 12-9 ," Blum said

"We always have a lot of food, it's a pig fest on Super Tech Sunday," Coffey said

"Our most recent show was performed at the Legacy because they let us perform at the amphitheater for "STARS HIDE YOUR FIRES! LET NOT LIGHT SEE free ,'' Blum said. MY BI.AO< AND DEEP DESIRES."

"There was a Sunday we had Above: Margery Dunkle ( 11) as Macb eth. two shows and one of the residents who Photo courtesy o f Maggi e Austin lived in the hall by the theater- I guess she didn't like us very much- because between the shows she locked the doors, and tore down all of our posters, " Luebke said

"And she turned up the thermostat to like 90, " Blum added with a laugh.

"But a lot of the residents were really nice to us ," Dunkle said

"There was this lady across the hall ," Blum said

"She would give us rice krispies and stuff She wa s so cute, " Dunkle said.

"And she was like half deaf and she had this cat named Ivan ," Blum said.

"We 'd be out in the hallway running lines and we 'd see this paw jut out from underneath the door and try and grab us and it was the cutest cat ever, " Coffey said 1

Most of the girls are original·members of Nebraska Girls Shakespea f e, but they have no intention of breakin 91 ties with the company. "Once you ' re in yqur basically in forever, " Wiebe said

"You can come back ,

D even after you ' re 18. You can come back • 'iiMiil 11 and hang out with Nebraska Girls ShakeUlnl5 speare ," Coffey said The girls do need to Smi th ( 11 las th e Porter in find some well deserving succes sors to pass it

Photo courtesy of Maggie Austin down to although.

"Come see our plays, " Smith said "Hamlet up next! "

"Come audition!" Briney added.

"If you're interested in experimenting in Sha kespeare you should check out the Nebraska Girls Shakespeare Company! It 's a great opportunity, so much fun! " Blum finished.

Already in a college class at lJNL for music , senior Field McDonald ha s see n a glimpse of college life that most of us won't experience until after we leave the hall s of Lincoln High . Ask her about Greek Life, the Honors Program, or parking on campus and he wi ll give you answers. Although not sure about what he will pursue next year, for_ the time bemg music is her pa ss ion.

"My main instrument is piano and I have played since 5th grade, so I guess how many --... years does that make? Seven I've played flute for the same a~ou 1 nt o_f tim 8 e,hand dl've p1 4 ayed

Above: Field p1cco o since t gra e, so McDonald's ( 12). years. I've played organ; I just Photo courtesy of Wyn started last summer so not even a Wiley year yet. I u ed to play trumpet for a year, but then I gave that up because it was really hard on my embouchure to play trumpet and flute; it's really hard for your lip s." What is an embouchure? "E mbouchure is how you set yo ur lip s whe n yo u are playing an in stru ment to get so und to come out. And I was on winter drum line for a little bit too. And I'm a drum major so I conduct. And that 's it. And I play a little guitar, but just enough to fiddle around."

Mc Donald, has experimented with a total of seven instruments. Despite the bag s under her hazel eyes, she peak s with excitement about her experiences as a musician. "Right now I'm enrolled in Musicianship 165 and Musicianship 165a. The first class is a music theory cla , like written kills. Right now we are working on just ba ic theory li ke key sig natures, core analysis, intervals; identifying intervals, inverting intervals all sorts of fun stuff. Throughout the semester we are going to get deeper and deeper into music theory. Music theory ju st builds on itse lf and in the end it's just supposed to help you to be a better overall musician because you can understand the music you are looking at."

Mc Donald has considered majoring in music ed ucation. Her potential for teachi~ is evident as she describe s a .pects of her course at lJNL. "1 he seco nd part of the class is a lab and it 's called Aural Skill s, not oral" she explains a he points to her mouth , "a ural " and she gesture to her ear. "It 's training your ears to be able to identify notes, and pitches, and interval s which is important for a mu sic ian to do because then you can look at a piece of music and it' a lot ea ier to sight read it because you can hear the whole thing in your head without even having to play it.'·

Piano is the instrument that McDonald dedicates most of her practice time to. "I try to practice between 30 minutes and 2 and half hours every day. When you play other in strument s I think piano takes the most regular practice to become an accomr,Iished player just because the way muscle memory works. ' McDonald claims she is about a decade behind in the in the career of a piani t. So why doe she dedicate all of this time to music when he started so late in the game?

Catharine Horus, Sophomore

''I' m a very determined person and I do n' t li ke to be told I can't do some thing J origina ll y took piano for fun , but the teacher I take from is a professor from UNL so her students tend to be a little more se riou s and it wa recital seaso n and I hadn 't finished the piece I was supposed to play. My parents told me they didn't want me to be m le s ons anymore if I wasn't going to devote the time, so I sa t down that week and practiced the he ck out of both of my recital pieces and had them both memorized. I think that's really when I rea li zed that piano was some thing I really wanted to cont inu e with and it cared me that I might not be able to keep up with my le so n I think that is when I decided that I really wanted to go somew here with my mu sic and be able to do so mething with it because piano is not somet hi ng where if you want to be good you can just fidd le around, you have to put more work into it. I think that wa an important moment .'' When asked what in trument she cou ld see her se lf as, "Oh , th at is a fun question," McDonald said with a smile. "If I were an instru1 ment. I think I'd be a kazoo ,rri • ll becau se anyone ca n play a kazoo. Above: Field Jtju t takes hummin g essentially." McDonald ( 12).

Sister s i st e r Angela Burns, Seni0r

Imagine having the same job since you wer l Angela and Catharine have learned a lot from their years at Wasabi and have

10 . Now imagine your boss being your dad. a lot of work exP,erience under their belt for beinQ so young. "Definitely you learn a lof/' Now that's job security. Many teens benefit Catharine said. 'Because you learn about the business more and you learn how to hanale from holding jobs in liigh school, it means yo urself in stress related situations . And it gives you a different view on life, because it's money of their own, learning responsibili!Y, and not school all the time so for high school that's definitely_useful." being more likely to go to college According to Angela's first day on the job was quite the experience. "When I started working there, the U.S . Department of Labor, over half of tlie -I always tell this story so it gets kind of old- I wasn't actuallr, trained to work there. It adults that worked between one and 20 hours was just reallv. busy and my dad called me and he was like Oh can you come help?' He a week when they were 16 and 17 are more thought I would do dishes or be the cashier or somethinq, but I actually went out to a likely than others to go to college This seems table, of like 10 people and I took their order and I didn t write it down and I memorized to hold true for senior Angela and sopho ·more everything. So I got a job from then on " "I was 10 ," Catharine adds . "And of course it Catherine Burns who work for their father wasn't that much, at the time, since we were so young. It was definitely cool , something at Wasabi, a Japanese restaurant in downtown different." Lincoln .

In addition to Wasabi, both girls also spend some time working for their

1"' A a'l>a/• .,,t As for future plans, neither could see themselves mother at a learning center called Kumon. Catharine explains , "It helps ~ids who want to ftl : in the famil business for much longer. Angela do well in school. Their parents bring them there -usually ounger- so that they can either ( 1 A 2b)oved(fcrom h left) :B gela(1Bou) rnsh exnlains "Madibe I would hel~ when I'm in catch up with what they are doing in school and go beyonlthat, or just to fully understand an at anne urns wit

their father Robert Burns at Wasabi co lege 1f my, ad 9.ets on his nees and ~egs ~1fferent_ con~epts: Angela smd , It_ definitely helps ,~s with our... Catharine chimed in , Photo courtesy of Chrystal Benavides me, but I don t really _plan to further my Job .. .teaching, 1ust like alile to work with other people there ." Both of their future plans seeme slightly When askea about their relationship with each other as sisters, Catharine explains, "Since influenced bv. their father's ventures in the business world althou.9h . we are around each other all the time , it can be sometimes annoying, but it's OK because "I think it definitely shows the hardships of owning a restaurant business and any busi- we _get used to it. You know with your family if you can't get along with them it 's going to ness in general. I would maybe do something in liusiness, but definitely not owning my be harder to get along with people in the future. I think it helps so that we can learn to," own business, just another aspect of business," Catharine said . "cooperate?" Angela suggested. "Yeah, cooperate " Catharine agreed.

A morn with a PhD and a police officer dad : c;en ior Jon Marti hac; a lot to live up to. Marti alread!:J hac; an unu c;ualj ob for a high c;cho ol d udent : he work c; with hi e; brother a c; a Ian c;cap er during the c; urnrner. · "gorneone quit an they de c;p eratel y needed a worker and I ~e c;perately n~eged ajob c;o it wa c;j ud kind of lrke a perfect f ,t.

I-low exciting ic; landc;caping in Nebrac;ka? "Oh every c; ingle da~ it'c; an intereding dor~. 1·rn compl etely new to thej0b and they've had the c; arne number of clientc; for yearc;, but we go to the c; e gated coror:runitiec; and we literally work behind cadlec;. Youd be c; urpri c;e d to c; ee people c; ' backyardc;. and it' c; feeble but I love thoc;e little doge; that c;orne of them have."

Be c; ide c; hie; lan d sc apingjob. Marti c;p end c; much o f hie; time outdoo~ c; biking and ca mping. "I have thic; c;p ot that c; on private propert!:l betwee_n C.arnp Kitaki and Pia.He River gtate Park. It c; thic; c; and dune that c; ten feet above and hac; a view of the Platte River then C.arnp

Kitaki Lake on the left." "And tny dad hac; a VW bu c;. like a 1976 VW bu c; with two bed c; and it hac; pop up top. go we can go camping. he ·11 c; leep on bottom and I can c;le ep on top and it ha c; a doye and cloc;et c; pace That definitel y rnakec; it.

Marti' c; intered c; in careerc; reflect what he 'c; grown up with. "I'd like to go into c; ornet~ing along the line qf_,p c;ych ology. law. or env,ronrnental dudiec;. I guec;c; tny greatgrandfather. he wa c; the mayor of Lincoln and he wa c; a high-powered lawyer at the c;arn e time. ljud have lawyer c; all over the Marti c; ide of the family. M_y grandfather wrote thi c; book about all Hie intereding law cac;ec; that he came by ~nd I read it and that really c;parke d tny intered.

Lawyer c;. rnayor c;, police officer c;, pc;ychologidc;, a brother in land c;cap ing. and a c;id er at the Univer c; ity of Oregon for environmental dudiec;: Marti will c; urel y have guidance f rorn whatever field he chooc;ec; to pur c; ue. For now. he ic; dill exploring hi e; optionc;.

.Jon Marti, Senior

When ac;ked what he wanted to be remembered for in high c;ch ool he c;a id. "I'd like to be remembered ac; a more extroverted individual who wa c; friendly." Then like a true outdoorc;rnan. when a~ked if he were a plant what would he ..__ , 0 • · rs be. That r<;? - REGON SLOGAN good quedron. Below : Jon Marti ( 12) on the I think I would Oregon coast. like to be the Photo courtesy of Laura Marti p ondero c;a pine ." "Actually. I'd like to be remembered ac; the kid tf"at c; tnell c; like pine- extroverted. friendly and pine y. l would have a crowd. an entourage."

Photo courtesy of Wyn Wiley

Jill Able Coordinator

What w a s the re a son fo r starting th e Summer Bridge Progr a m?

Emma Waechter Freshman

How d id you fe el about doing the ropes course?

"It was fun You could defir.itely tell people were becoming really close. It was great, I

"To help freshman know the building and the students that attend Lincoln High. " really liked itl"

Brianna Kempel Freshman

Did you lik e the creek?

"No. Well there was leeches in there, like peop le were catching leeches And I didn't want to get in there This one kid , like, actually put his head under water and I was like, I don't want to do that."

Kylie Herbert Freshman

Would you have been more nervous to start high school without the Summer Bridge Program?

" Probably I would have been more paranoid Like, "Oh my God , where's south building? Is it north?"

HANG ON!

: Emma Waechter (9 ) and her partner

the UNL Ropes Course on Tuesday, August 3rd. , 2010 Photo Courtesy of Kim Szelag

tightl

they make the ir w a y to the top of the rock climbing w al l at the UNL Ca mpus Photo

Courtesy of Jill Able SUMMER BRIDGE PROGRAM

.

Wpile most s tudents were tr y ing to sq uee ze out their last few da ys of s ummer 75 in coming freshmen were team building an d ge ttin g to know Lincoln Jligh From August 2-5 the y planne d Team Building ac tivitie s for the s tud ents. th a t attended , to do. The E ummer Brid ge Program was designed for new and in co ming s tudents to be able to get to know their s urroundin gs. The E umm e r Bridge Program was: designe d to hel p fres hman transition into high sc hool. J ill A ble visited the five major middle schools sp reading the word. • Jt was exciting a ii d ner'(e-wracking • laughed Brianna Kempel as s he was explaining the UNL Rope s Course. "It was kin d of like a tr ee hou se and the y had di fferen t ac ti v itie s y ou could do between the platforms Then yo u were on thi s rope an d yo ur friends h a d to s u ppor t yo u an d yo u had to 4 tru s t them. It was really interesting becau se I didn ' t know any of them .' de scribe d Emma Waechter T h e Ropes Co u rse soun d s very pop ular • .It was my favorite because it was like the most fun I mean the creek. all yo u did wa s look a t an i mals an d just si t there An d nobody wanted to ge t in th e creek.' commen ted Kempel. "It was f un. You co uld definitel y t ell people were becoming really close. It was grea t I really liked it.' commen ted Wae ch ter. On the las t da y of the program fres hman s tud ents made quilt sq uar es reflecting th eir views of hi g h sc hool. Kempel de signe d a quilt sq u are with a volleyball. music notes and the word LINKE. "f thou g ht it was really cool to see eve r yo n e ' s thou g ht s and p lans for the f uture and hopes an d experiences or lack ther e of .' said W aec hter. Wh e n the class of 20 14 gra duate s th ey are going to raff le off the quilt to a s tudent who par tici pa ted in the Eummer Bridge Program before thei r freshman year.

HOLD ON TIGHTL YI

Abo v e Jonathan Olgui n Chavez (9) holds on tightly as he climbs the rock wall at UNL during the

S== Bndge P,og-am Photo Cou,te,y of J,11 Abl ST

SQUARES !

Above : Freshman in the Summer Bridae Program walk across a

for

team building activity al- the University of Nebraska

Photo Courtesy of );// Able DON'T DRINK THE WATER !

: Freshman in the Summer Bridge Program learn abou t wildlife and habitats wh ile visiting the Antelope Valley Creek. Photo Courtesy of Kim Szelag

CARRIE . UNIER WIii

WHI?

Valerie Raffety (12) and Alishia Boecker ll2l

October 17, 2010

WHAT?

Saw Carrie Underwood who played Raffety's favorite song "Cowboy Cassanova "

Nicky Hammar (12)

eF HIRSES

Saw Band of Horses and got to meet some of the band members.

NEHAfter calling the radio station Q98 5 for an entire week in July to

win Phoenix concert tickets , Senior Haley Keller finally got an intern to pick up the phone. After asking Keller how old she was, the intern informed her she wasn't old enough to attend the concert since it was at a casino They did however offer her t ickets for the Q -Acoustic Listener Lounge concert, held at the radio broadcast -

ing station "I knew it Wouldn't be as cool as the real show. If only I knew "

: Ha ley Keller ( 12) and the o t

Despite being scheduled to start at 2:30, Keller had to wait an concert-goers go t to take a QhOtO

dd ·t· I h d t t h · I d 'ff ' It' "It l'k l SO d after their acoustic concert Photo courtesy of a 11ona our ue o ec nica 1 Icu Ies. was I e e- o9B-Five grees that day and we ' re all standing out in line waiting." Then Keller spotted a white van , and thought "Oh my gosh, that's them!" But the band went in a pr ivate entrance After just an hour, the performance was over. Feeling a little disappointed, Keller and her friend decided to go find the band's van The two waited for half an hour after finding it, and then the unimaginable happened.

The band stepped out of the van. They signed Keller's poster and then asked if she was going to their show. She explained she couldn't because of the 21 + requirement. "Oh how horrible!" Phoenix responded . One of the members turned to their bodyguard and said "Hey, if we put these guys on our guest list can they go to the show?" Unfortunately, this wasn 't possible because of the state law on gambling.

"They were really nice, down -to-earth people who were willing to talk to us and I think that's really important with anyone famous, to make time for your fans. I thought that was really neat that they did that for us." Even though the concert was short , Keller says it was one of the best days of her summer.

Senior Sydney Grime was "shocked, but super excited" when she won tickets to her fa- ·

vorite performer, Lady Gaga. "I couldn't believe it! My grandma had to fan me because I thought I was going to faint," said Grime, who won tickets from 94.1

Grime wasn't the only Link to attend the March concert, at the Qwest Center in Omaha. "I love Lady Gaga! Hearing her songs on the radio is one thing, but dancing to them live is a whole other story," said senior Minh Dong

"Her outfits! Oh my gosh, her outfits!" said senior Gwenna lhrie . "And the fact that she can dance and sing while wearing them is just mind-boggling. It was an awesome night!"

Above : Nicky Ha mmar ( 121 poses for a picture with guitarist Tyl er Ramsey. Photo provided by N icky Hammar •

Above

her

with Phoenix

"I ' m gonna pass out! " _said senior Bennett Milliken to fellow senior Brent Koenigsman

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z"He fell r ight on to me He turned completely white in a second and his glasses ~ere down by his chin," said Koenigsman . "His mouth and his eyes were open . He looked like a corpse."

The boys were at a concert of one of their favorite

bands, The Black Keys , at Lollapalooza, an annual music festival held at Grant Park in Chicago They were in the front

of the crowd, just 30 feet from the stage, when Milliken fainted

"The people around us were freaking out, saying 'Check his pulse! Check his pulse! ' Then he shook his head, smiled, and was like 'That was awesome."'

I fl.A&. 1 I j IA A Koenigsman 1'10 0 1vO V\I S and another concertlE1"00WN goer carried Milliken to the medical tent, where he drank water until he felt better Both Koenigsman and Milliken stressed the importance of keeping hydrated throughout the three-day long festival. Refills are free throughout the day but with -0 11 the excitement, crowd chaos, and August heat, it is easy to become dehyd rated. Concert attendees often focus on finding their favorite bands, instead of the water stations.

Over one hundred bands, singers, and DJs perform over the three days

In 2010, headliners included Green Day and Lady Gaga However out of the 18 shows they saw, both Koenigsman and Milliken said their favorite three were MGMT, Phoenix, and Arcade Fire. "Phoenix and Arcade Fire were at night so they had cool light shows," added Koenigsman Milliken also was excited to see The Strokes, his favorite band and Koenigsman really enjoyed Empire of the Sun When it was over, the boys were sad and tired, but glad they went. "I

wanted to be there still. I wanted it to keep going forever," said Milliken "We are

going again "said Koenigsman "That was like the first thing we said when

'

'Yeah, we're doing that again!' I think everyone should go." • •

sPoRT IN ' T HE GEAR

Above : Bennett Mil li ken ( 12) and Brent definitely

Koenigsman ( 12) wear t-sh Irt s t h ey bo u gh t

at Lol lapalooza Photo by Ha l ey Keller we left,

Mackenzie Quinn

ZERO MISTAKES

~Above: Ground Zero members left to right Charlie Curtis~Beard (9) , Joshua Curtis-Beard(11 ), and Timothy Curtis-Beard (12) perform at the LHS Homecoming Pep Rally on October 1, 2010 Photo by Greg Keller

CLASS COLOR DAY Above: Ashley Carngbe (11), Savannah Smith (11 ) , and Angelica Bustamante (11) show their class s_p1rit by wearing pink for juniors for Class Color Day during Spirit Week Photo by Phillip Eddins

SLIPPER DAY

~Above: Jamie Tran (10) holds her panda that matches ner panda slippers for Slipper Day during Spirit Week Photo by Mollie Schoonover

WACKY WEDNESDAY

Above: Prom left to right Makayla Staton (9) Nonyea Smith Holden (9) ana Makayla Howe (9) , poses for Wacky Wednesday during Spirit Week Photo by Micah Tfliessen

ZERO ERRORS

It seemed to be another pep rally, stands were filled with students and staff . Students were excited to see a group of students walking in a unified formation to the center of the gym. There were rumors before the rally about a sup r ise dance performance. Suddenly a deep voice in the back round announced 'Ground Zero'. The music was booming , the crowd was roaring and screaming in anticipation for the performance. There is no question Ground Zero won the affection of the students at this years Homecoming Pep Rally. But many ask, what is Ground Zero? "Ground Zero is where the bomb went off and when we go off, we go hard, " freshman Kenneth Johnson said Last year Ground Zero was just a club , but behind the club was a dance crew waiting to show off all of their unique talents. Ground :;Z:-eo does a lot of "tutting " and they refer to themsleves as "b-boys " Tutting is a type of movement with your hands and a "b-boy " is the name for breakdancers. Each crew member has their own style of dancing , but they come

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together as a family. They teach each other different dance moves and grow n"11':73=rG'1_, CLASS COLOR DAY from one another. Ground Zero expressed to me me that they want their dance crew to be taken seriously. For some it may only be a hobby, but for others such as freshman Thommy Tran, Kenneth Johnson and sophomore LJ Ewings , they plan on making a career out of it. From looking at the pep rally they seemed to be calm and collective, but to Ground Zero member senior Hiep Nguyen said, "My face was completely cold and I was really scared when I was coming out" , but as senior Minh Ninh said, "I think it's fun because after you're done you get praise and appreciation " . Each member showed Lincoln High what they enjoy doing , not only is it fun for them to do, but it encourages them to work hard in school. This is only the beginning for Ground Zero.

September 27th to October 1st was Lincoln High Spirit Week. In preparation for the Homecoming game and dance students dressed up differeritly each day of the week The themes that Student Council choose wer e-. Class Color Day for Monday (seniors: purple , juniors: pink , sophomores: green , freshmen: yellow), Slipper/Bed Head Day for Tuesday, Wacky Wed esday, Pirate Day for Thursday , and Black and Red Day for Friday. Kristen Harvey was one senior who made it a priority to dress up every day during spirit week. "I went all out cause it was senior year" Harvey said. "I wore purple tights , purple shorts, a purple shirt , headband, earrings , ponytail. !,. even colored my flip flops purple" Harvey chuckles.

For many the highlight of Spirit Week was the pep rally and although the pep rally was full of excitement and fun a touching moment came when Lincoln High Athletic Hall Of Fame Inductees of were honored When the Alumni were honored everyone gave the inductees a respectful moment to reward them for all of their accomplishes. The 2010 inductees were Joe Arenas, Tanya Christie-Gifford, Thomas Christie , Sanyl DeGrazia, Jennifer Fell-Workman , David Foster , Steve Friesen, Mary Jo Henn, Jerry I Jacobs, Kelly Klawonn, Kelly Loos-Hubbard , Brad Murphy, Bob Sauer, I Jack Scanlon represented by sister - Carolyn Groth , Karl Tindall , Max Towle, Tadd Wagner, and Dick Cecil.

Above: Ground Zero poses for a snap shot minute after thei r premier performance Photo by Haley Keller

PIRATE DAY

» Right: Kristen Harvey (12) sports her under the sea outfit for a Pirate Day photo during Spirit Week Photo by Seth Marshall

A Above: Athletic director Pat Gatzemeyer presents honorees at the Lincoln High Atheltic Hall of Fame induction Photo by Haley Keller

Student s show wh at it ta kes to be a Link

« Left: From left to Right Jerem ia h McCray (12) , Sam Larson (12) , and Winter Har l (12) come together to show their senior spirit by wearing purple on class Color Day dunng Sp i rit Week Photo by Philip Eddins

BLACK AND RED DAY

Above: Margery Dunkle (11) and Maggie Wecfeman (11). pose for a photo to show off their school spirit during Spirit Week Photo by Philip Eddins PIRATE DAY

« Left: Seth Marshall ( 12} poses for Pirate Day during Spirit Week Seth Marshall goe s all out in his pirate outfit. Photo by Emma McKe !ghan

What do you

INK?

I/hat did you th1hk about Ho111eco1111ng th1syear? "In 111Y op1n1on the wrist bands were whack 1Because a lot less people showed up and there was less dancing co111pared to last year. 1t was 111ostly watching the dance battles."

James Steele 11

VJhat did you do instead of going to ho111ecorn1ng? "A bunch of friends and I got dressed up and went out to eat then went over to G'eyson '5 (20 10 G'aduate) house to play some Apples to Apples.' How

5Ycihe Y Gr ime 12

HOMECOMING ROY ALTY

» R_l ght: Homecoming Rot..olty 2010 went to King_Scott Shomaker, Oueen Jenny Tron, Prince tmerson Wlech, Princess Emma Rathe, Duke Thanh La , Duchess Jarelle Brooks, Lord Austin Phipps and Lad y Trinity McDonald

Photos by Andrew Carlson and Jessica Anderson

YEE-HAWW

Above : The LHS student section srows school spirit by dress ing l.lJ in Western gear lo support the Lincoln High Footboll team du- ing the

October I, 2010 ogo1nst Columbus High School

Photo b Seth Marshall

SAY CHEESE!

Above : Nha Dang 1101 Chloe Bontrager (101 and Michael Staley (111 take a break from dancing during Homecoming on October 1 , 2010

Photo by Seth Marshall

BUST A MOVE Above: A theme at this years dance was ' dance battles ' students formed huge circles and watched people with the best dance moves dance in the middle.

Photo by Seth Marshall

HANDS IN THE AIR SOMETIMES

Right : Micah Hadley (121 and Marina Blum (111 dance to the song 'Dynamite ' during _Homecoming on October 1, 2010

Photo by Hikari Yoshino

Photo b Joe Pershin

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Finally Roepke was carried of the f 1eld when Tran came to real12:at1on that it was her boyfriend that was hurt. shocked and scared tears immediately filled her eyes.

Its fourth quarter during the LHS v Columbus Homecoming game at Beechner field Columbus has the ball senior Seth Roepke goes up to block a Columbus Defensive Lineman when suddenly out of no where a Discoverer hits Roepke below the left knee. In the stands the farmers and cowboys of Linco ln High we r e sile nt. nobody could tell who was hurt on the field but senior -Jenny Tran had a gut feeling that it was her boyfriend Seth Roepke

Finally Roepke was carried off the field when Tran came to realization that she was right it was her boyfriend that was hurt Shocked and scared tears immediately filled her eyes. '//omed about how bad Roepke's wuury was she didn't even have time to think about how she was nornInated for homecoming queen and that she needed to be at school by 10: 15 for the crowning of King and Queen After Roepke was put on the table anct getting his knee checked out by the l\thlet1c trainers senior -Jared Sapp scored the final touchdown of the game for the Links. Sapp came up to Roepke and let him know that he scored t he touch down for him Soon enough the game was over with a score· of 19 to 42 Colurnbus with the win Tran soon forgot about her homecoming fest1v1t1es and dinner plans : she had bigger worries about which hospi t al Roepke and his family were headed to and how fast she could get there

1/;hen she arrived at B r yan West Roepke was already back

tmaHre

By Jessica Svec

In the ER now Tran and Roepke's family would have to play the waiting game Tran was trying to get a hold of adr-nInIstrators back at the dance to let them know she wouldn't be able to make It back because Roepke was In the ER She got the response from Social Studies teacher Donna Anderson that it was really "important" that she make It back for the er.owning and she wouldn't regret it. After about 45 minutes of waiting anxiously In the waItIng room Roepke finally was wheeled out in a wheel chair with a sprained ~Cl, His first words to Tran were ''you go to the dance and have fun with your friends.'' Tran then argued back ''No I don't want to it's not important right now." After some convincing from Roepke and his farnliY Tran dec ided she would go back to the dance. They made It backJust In time Tran was crowned homecoming queen In her Jeans and cardigan Roepke and Tran will always remember this night but Tran said " It was not what I expected for my senior homecoming "

The Pirate themed Homecoming was held on Friday October 1. 2010 at Lincoln High in the South Gym Our Homecoming Royalty was announced towards the end of the dance King going to S c ott Shomaker and Queen -Jenny Tran for the Juniors the Prince was Emerson Welch and Princess Emma Ra t he for sophomores Thanh La won Duke and -J are I le Brooks won Duchess freshmen Lord was Austin P hipps and Lady went to Trinity ~cDonald LETS GET A TOLCHDOWN

Above: Mitch Kre ifels (1 2 ) catche s the ball dur ing the Homecoming game against Columbus on October l, 2010 at Beechner Field Photo b y Seth Marshall

DOWN « Left : A thletic Trainer C harit y Raine y, Student A thletic Trainer Sand y Ngo (12), ar,d Coach Ri cha rd Jackson look at senior Seth Roepke 's knee after a Disco ver hit Roepke belo w t he left knee during the Homecoming game against Columbus on O ctober l, 2010 at Beechner Field • fhoto bt Andre w Ha ile FEAR Rl~ES

« Bottom Left : Jenny Tran (12 ) ner vousl y looks dow n 'the f ield to see w ho the injured pla yer is, during the Homecom ing game on October l, 20.10 at Beechner Fie ld Photo b y Seth Marsha /,'

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January 17th march Overstreet

MAJOR LI KS

~Above: Olivia Wilson (11) and Mar'Lakuittia Overstreet (12) take a brake from Drum Majoring on September 10th Photo by Jessi Anderson

READING, WRITI G AND GOPO

Above: Katelyn Theye (12) and Jordan Riley (12) review the U.S. Con titution durm~ Social Studies Teacher Bob White ' s third period Government and" Politics class. Photo by Kristen Harvey

LINKS RULE LIKE THE ANCIENT GREEKS

Above: Seth Roepke (12) , Jenny Tran (12), Kellie Warne (11 ) , Bryan Adams (12) , and Be c ca Stout (12) show their Links pride by wearing toga's to the Varsity Boy ' s Basketball game on December 17th

Photo by Seth Marshall

Left: Mar'Lakuittia Overstreet (12)

other members of the Annual Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King,

Youth Rally

hold up the banner

the

was one of the speakers at the rally. Photo by Devon Kelley

FUNNY MYSTERY

Right: Ashley Epp (11) finishes her make-up for the performance of Hound of the Basketvilles: A Comic Thriller on October 12th. Photo by Brittany Suhr

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LET'S DISSECT SOME FROGS

::::: Above: Gage Straight (11) Andrew Owens (12) dissect a frog in Science Teacher Sharill Luedtke's 4th period Animal Behavior class on October 12.

Photo by Jessi Anderson

FRIENDS 0

::::: Above: To pose for a Boy's Bask Mollie Sc

FESTIVUS IS FOR US

::::: Above: Kayla Fredenburg (10) and Briannah Hunt (10) pose for a picture during Fall Festivus on September 17th. Photo by Jessi Anderson

WE ARE FIERCE

::::: Above: Scott Shomaker (12) Kate Rask (12) show their fierce sides during Fall Festivus on September 17th. Photo by Nyameer Puok

l'M WITH THE BAND

KINGS OF THE OBSTACLE COURSE

::::: Above: 1B Coordinator John Heineman crowns Charlie Neibel (12) and Connor Goodwin (12) as the kings of the obstacle course while Cale Simonson (12), Aarron Wright (12) and Ethan Nichols (12) run circles around them to show their support during the Spirt Week Rally on October 1st. Photo by Haley Keller

By Jessi Anderson

TRAINING FOR LIFE

::::: Above: Dane Christiansen (12) and Devin Smith (12) work out with a medicine ball during Weight Training. Photo by Emerson Welch

::::: Above: Callie Kiehn (12) blushes for the camera during marching band practice on September 10th. Photo by Jessi Anderson

1'LL KETCH YOU!

::::: Above: Greg Ward (12) catches Sydney Grime (1 2) in the air during the Jazz Connections performance at the October f8th Choir Concert. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder BRIGHT LIGHTS

« Left: Dane Christiansen (12), Josh Hesson (12) and Garr tt Chelton (11) show their Links pride by dressing in neon for the December 10th Varsity Boy's Basketball game. Photo by Jordan Anderson

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Ofh~COLN

Senior yeaI ,. is the most important year before beginning youI ,. adult life, whether you're starting college in the fall, working, Joining our armed forces, or moving out on your own, this year was crucial. We have met all of our requirements from the Graduation Demonstration exams, NeSA, ACT 01 ,. SAT, and the college and scholarship applications that stress seniors out the most.

ll1ese past f ouI,. yeaI ,.s have come and gone faster than most expected it. Senior Shalom Pa1,.ke1,. said, "Even though there were times dudng high school that were awful, it still felt like it went by really fast".

We have had many honorable achievements this year, from Anh Ngyuen who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT, to Emica Diep and Madeline McAlister who took fi1 ,.st and second place at the EnvironMento1 '" s National Competition in Washington D.C., and Mo Lod who kept a grade of 1 0 0% in Vicki Johnson's Team Sports class.

We are leaving this school with friends and memodes that will last us a lifetime. We made it. . Graduation is just a1 '., ound the corner. On May 28 th at noon we will walk across the Pe1,.shing Center stage and we.will be able to call ourselves Lincoln High alumni.

Congratulations, Class of 2 0 1 1, and good luck with whatever may come next in your Journey.

By Jessica Sv ec

Sarah Anderson Nich las ngelos s e thony

Larson Arurang

Amanda Ath - Spence anny Auman

Tyler Ballard nan Bara at Jae e Jalisa Barnhill

Maria BatTon Chav z osal i a BaITon Ch ve ·

iunn Bradley Leah ridges Cl ire riney Reed Br ersen

Chaleia Brooks Alyssa Brown

Dwight Brown Dillon Bruggeman Corey Bui Quyet Bui

Casondra Bulling Angela Burn s

The Sehior class color to wear durihg Spirit Week was

Above : Kennedy Watson 1121 poses for a photo on Class Color day durin~

~irit week. Watson wore purple from head to toe to show her school spirit.

Photo b Ph;/ Eddins

A SEA OF PURPLE

Above : Jessica Svec 1121 Katelyn Theye 1121

Virgina Squires 112), Greg Ward 1121 and Timothy Curtis Beard 1121 pose for a photo outside of Bob White's fourth period Government and Politics class Photo by Jessi Anderson 24 Sehiors

SENIORS 2011 Above: Jessi Anderson 1121, Micah Thiessen 1121 Miranda Mikesh 1121, Kristen Harvey 1121 and Demitrius Lindsey 1121 pose for a Senior Class Color photo during Spirit week 2010. Photo b y Emerson Welch

SENIOR, SENIOR, SENIOR SENIOR SENIOR!

Above : Cat Harvey 1121 shows off her half f)urple face for class color day during spirit week 2010. Photo b y Brittany Suhr

DOUBLE l DOUBLE l DOUBLE DOUBLE l!

Above: Krysta Sackett 1121 and Nicole Taege 1121 take a break from studying in the media center to pose for a Senior Class Color day

photo Photo by Seth Marsho/1

"I'm goiVlg to miss all tne teacners tnat did so mv1cn for me aVld all tnelr nard worR, I RVlOW years from VlOW tne teacners tnat made an Impact OVl me VlOW will ma~e an impact on me IVl tne furure, avid I'll remember tV1em for tV1at," -OaVle CnristenseVl

"Tne mass amo t f f1AI teacners I fl~~ ffl wonderto tne IB teacne I OIAt OIAt and ~mly, aood~ai~1, Jne one -Derr,cR Stevens

'' You ANP I WILL MEET A6AIN WHEN WE 1 RE LEAIT EXPE,TIN6 IT ON,E PAY IN IOME FAR OFF

PLA,E J Will RE,O6NIZE YOUR FA,E J WON 1 T IAY 6OOP&YE MY FRIENP FOR YOU ANP I WILL MEET A6AIN. 11 •ToM PETTY

"/ wlll miss tne free ed1Acation ,, -Haley Keller '

"Tne tnlng I wlll I scnool Is tne sensemo;ss:ost/ti~bo1At nlgn of tne d IAr I!?' At tne end do fl ay, yo1A can always come nome omeworR and not Yin\ 1n Mo. I L,. UIVC IV worry avo1At money for college," -Nyameer PIAOR

"I'll miss tV1e everyday atmospV!ere of WV!at V1lgV1 scV1ool brlVlgs , YotA V1ave ~olAr frlevids tnere every day avid people tnere tV1at are wllllvig to do WVlatever tV1ey cavi to V1elp yov1 be sv1ccessfv1l aVld V1ave a strovig format to start a view cV1apter IVl yov1r llfe, WV!eVl yov1 gradv1ate, avid WVlevi yov1 V1ave tV1e rlgVlt attlttAde, It evids 1,1p belVJg really fuVl, avid I'm golvig to miss tV1at," -All Taylor \ VV\\SS t~e ,, \ w\\\ aet\V\:e\·\eV\ds t~at

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Jo ey Danley

Daylan Davi s Fran c is De Pa z

What do you like most about being a Student Athletic Trainer?

"I l ike helpihg the athletes ahd learhihg hew thihgs every day '' - -Josh Hessoh

111 liked learning how to tape and having water fights during "I like gaining trust from footba ll season." athletes to treat their inju- - Brandon Okemba ries. I also love the family the trainers have become."

-Sandy Ngo

" I have learned a Jot about Injuries and other medlcaJ scenarios. I also Jove the other trainers and athletes I have come to know. " - Eml1tf Martinez

'1've learned a lot aoout injurie; and athletia; in ~neral, I've loved ~tting to know the other trainers and athletes."

"Good hLck Lo all of you as )'O\.l con.Li.n.ue on.. Each. of yotL wi.lL be mi.ssed and IJecy di.fftCLLlL Lo cepla.ce. Th.an.ks roe all Lh.e

countless h.ouC'S and h.acd woek th.al you pul i.nlo be i.ng a Student -Athletic T mi.nee. YOll h.a\Je all made a \Jeey lasting i.mpces-

si.on toe Lh.e youngec studen.L LroineC'S Lo

follow." -Chari.Ly Rai.n.ey -ALh.leL i,c T roi.n.ec

~ Above: Athletic Trainer Charity Rainey tapes Mitch KreJels (12) du ring eighth per iod before footba ll practice

Photo by De von Brandt

YOU'RE IN GOOD HANDS

Above

y Martinez (1 2) stretche

~ Ab o ve: Student Tra iner Sand y Ngs, (12 ) stretches Bennett

the Homecoming football game on October l, 2010 aga inst Columb

Photo b y Seth Marsholl

THUMBS UP!

Above : Andrew Owens (12), Armando Martinez (121, and Josh Droud 1121, pose for a photo for during the Winter Pep Rally

Photo by Brittany Shur

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KNOW THE ANSWER TO THIS ONE?

Government and Politics class.

ATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY OFFICERS

:;: Above Left: National Honor Society Officers Marya Case-Ruchala 1121, Kandy Do 1121, Scott

Sf-oemaker 1121, Katy Keating 1121 Gwendolyn lhrie 1121 and Sandy Ngo (12)

Photo by Mike Wortman

NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP AWARD WINNERS

:=: Above Right : Notional Merit Scholarship award wirrers Micah Hadley 112), Kelsey WIiiiams 112), Reed Brodersen 1121, Eve OiMagno 112) and Micaela Pacheco Caballes 1121 Photo by Ph;/ Eddins

YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT COULD HAPPEN WITH SAM AROUND

:=: Above: Som Lorson (121 shows off his strength in Sherill Luedtke's eighth period zoology class. Photo by Seth Marshall

SHOW YOUR SCHOOL SPIRIT, PAJAMA DAY

:=: Above Righ t Jordon Riley (12) and Katelyn Theye 112) pose for a photo during Spirit Week 2010 outside of Bob White's fourth period Government and Politics class.

B Kristen Harvey

Above: Cat Harvey (121 and Ali Taylor (121 ork on a worksheet duri~ Bob White's sixth

Photo by Jolin Nguyen

Above

Hannah Vivier (121 Alano Stone 1121 and Sholom Porker (121 P9se for

against Columbus on October

Photo by Seth Marshall

'YES MR WHITE WE ARE WORKING!'

:=: Above: Brandon Okemba (12) Josh Hesson 112) Logan Anderson (12) and Logan Molina 112) study outside of Bob White's fourth period Government and Politics class

Photo by Emerson Welch

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Imagine arriving at school and in your parking spot there are huge I- Beams, plywood , nails , hammers, drills, and hard hats In 2003 Lincoln High students and staff built a house with Habitat For Humanity in our own parking lot. 1998 Lincoln High alum Dawn Remmenga remembers rece iving a phone call from Habitat for Humanity four days before U1ristmas 1n 2001 saying that she and her daughter Ch e ls ea Re mm e nga (201 1 Senior) were chosen to get a house built for them Chelsea was in 4th grade at the time "V/hat an awesot11e Qiristt11as 12resent to know that will finally ge t a ho use ." Dawn Remmenga said. Dawn and Chelsea Remmenga did not believe they would be picked because they did not think they had enough reason to be picked, there were other familie s who had so much more need, such as one man who had two teenage boys that were living out of their car. Habitat for Humanity makes sure that every fami ly deserves the house They check your back round, your current residence, make sure that you have held a stable job for at least two year s, and they also check your financial records ~?ri'J5~~~~s~~iie~T/hnegit~1~/ ~e~thtt~e Dawn Remmenga also had to put in 400 hours that Habitat for Hummanity bu ilt for Remmenga of "s weat equity" which is the home owners ~g~t~~?J~D.,~ ~;~/riti;ame ng a volunteer time that is put in weather it is baby sitting with your own hou se. at meetings, helping with other houses , or helping

Students helped build the main living quarters in the Lincoln High parking lot on Saturday's because that was the only day they could work with school being in session. Dawn Remmenga got numerous questions askin g if she was going to be living in the Lincoln High parking lot , she simply repli ed " Oh yeah, I' m going to live on the parking lot of my High School to keep and eye on you guys." After the roup finished building the main quarters, they put the hous e on a • ·i head ed' out to Air Park which is where the house sits today Dawn Remmenga said "After we got to Airpark everything went up really 1ast.We got a lot done in that first day , kids from th e Youth Action Build came out to the site and built the first floor of our raised ranch. " 201 1 Senior Chel sea Remmenga remember s all of the groups from Lincoln High and other local places that helped build their house. Most of a ll she remembers the Pomalinks who asked if she would like to participate and dance with them at the game

The 2003 Pomalinks all signed a t -s hirt that she still has today Some of the other groups that he! ped with the build Abo ve :

wer e: lHS students, Cheerleaders, Asian ~i~:; ;£,. ~;~~~~~~~:fiaark,ng

Caucus, LHS volleyball , African American Caucus, UNL Students, and Youth Action Proqram. Were there any problems that came upr "E verything was built opposite of the plans, except the stairs - they put those in backwards but , it works " "It was worth all the paper work to get the house, because of our location before Chelsea n ever got to go out to play W e lived on the th i rd floor apartment building , and I wouldn ' t let her go out to play because there was so much traffic."

Habitat didn 't realize that Dawn Remmenga was a Lincoln High graduate so when they asked how she felt about LHS helping with the build Remmenga said, "It wa s great to see all of the kids who didn't know me at all out there helping my daughter and I bui ld! " "Its pretty cool that my house was built by people from LHS," Chel sea Remmenga said

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Haley Keller

Devon Kelley

Emma Lagrimini Henry La grimini Tuan Lam

Ian ellogg

Elizabeth Ke ste r Hav al Kha ii

Lee Kreimer Jonas Krueger Thu ong La

Eric Lantz Da v id Las s

Alex Marti Jon Marti Jenny Martin Armando Martinez

Kyle Maughan Madeline .McAlister

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Kyle McCormick

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Ne xt fall Senior Eric Holt will be entering the UNL Film Stud y Program "Film is a big pass ion of mine I like writing for films It's a really creative art where I think you have a lot of control on either side of the spectrum whether it be pre production w ith screenplay w riting or post production with editing I like both ends of that as well as directing I chose UNL Film for one because it is ver y close to home, and two I think it' s the onl y one in Nebraska and its not too e xpensive " Holt w ou ld al so li ke to tra vel to Sw eden this summe r because he started learning Sw edish last year around September , "I hope to get a minor in Sw edish because half of my famil y is Sw edish , and I think the countr y is just really cool and interest ing ." Holt has been involved in Scribe and Ochrestra while at Lincoln High

Ne xt fall Senior D y lan Roberson is going to UNL and plans to double major in Journalsim and Fine Arts Photograph y. Roberson said , "UNL has a good stud y abroad program , and I want to go into the magazine business. " Roberson has been involved in the Arts & Humanities School and an editor for Scribe wh ile at Lincoln High

Ne xt fall Sen ior Derrick Stevens plans to attend the Uni versit y of Illinois, double major in Political Science and Philosoph y, minoring in Classics, "w ith the hope it w ill prepare me for la w school " Stevens transferred to LHS his Senior year and participated in debate.

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A PERFECT 36 on the ACT

Senior Anh Nguyen scored a perfect 36 011. his ACT in October 2010 after scoring a 35 the first time he look it. "I was really surprised, jumping up and down when I saw my score."

Nguyen took John Baylor's test prep class before taking the ACT for the second time, and recommends taking a prep class for any under classmen. who will be taking the ACTin. the next few years. Nguyen also suggests taking practice tests. "They really do help. Do as many as you can." Nguyen advised. "The test prep class is really helpful, especially in the grammar and English sections, but you've just got to like learning. You just have

to show up and do your work." Nguyen would like to pursue a career as a Material Scientist. "I like to research and develop materials, and figure out what other people use to make stuff with, and Ithink it's a pretty interesting field."

Nguyen would like to go to the California Institute of Technology or MIT. "I will be happy just to go somewhel'e out of state," he added.

Do you have a certain. formula for your success? "Not really, if you try to apply 011.e single formula to evel'y situation. you're going to be bound to fail. Nothing is going to fit into 011.e single formula. There is always that exception. You just have to be ready, and be flexible."

LAW OF GRAVITY

Above: Anh Nguyen (12) studies the Law of Gravity in Will Smith 's physics class. Ngu.}'en scored a perfect 36 on the ACT in October

Photo by Gorreff Chelton

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Linda Pham Tri ham

READ, WRITE , WORKSHEET.

:::: Abo:ve : Oksara Volyanyk 1121 and Moeko Yoshino 191 work on a worksheet during English teacher Ruth Kupfer s forth period Reading Ideas class.

Photo by Medina Kovacevic

the Ted Sorensen Thea ter.

Photo by Hannah Malone

PIRATE DAY

« Left : Miranda Mikesh 112) and Kristen Harve't_ (12) show their school spirit on Pirate Uoy during Spirit Week 2010

Photo by Jolin Nguyen

PREGNANCY BtLlY

» Right : Valerie Raffety 112111-ies on the pregnancy belly durin_g Amber O/igmueller's Infants and ioddlers class, Raffety was assisted by Lisa from Planned Parenthood

Photo by Dana McNeil

GPS IN LIFET IME SPORTS?

» Far Right : Cale Simmison 112) and Erika :Stewart-Finkenstaedt 1121 work on geo catching during Amy arrioto 's fifth period Lifetime Sports Class.

Photo by Lindsey Toman

Yese ia Reyes

LINCOLN HIGH STLDENT SECTION 2010

Above : Gwendolyn lhrie 112) Sandy N99 112), Haley Keller (12), Aaron Wright 112), Benne tt Milliken 112), Johnny M assa (l;z), and Brent Koenigsma n 1121 pose

a photo during the Lincoln High Bask etball game on December 10 , 2010 agai nst

Lincol n Sou thwest High School.

Photo by Jordon Anderson

ZOMBIE WALK

Above : Kate Rask 112), Ana Carmona Ponce (121, Tri Pham 112) Maddison Cappellano (121, and Jazzmin Jorgensen !12I take part in the Zombie Walk that was held dow ntown on August 28, 2010

Photo by Seth Marshall

Mariah Russell Kryst Sackett

Sharee Sai z

Taryn Sandin Luis Sandoval

Jon Sands Jared Sapp ac enzi Saul

Ashley Schaaf Andy Schee l Erin Schild

Felicia Schlicker

Jaz Schoeneck

Jor an Scribner Maria Serna Garcia alias Shafer Ahmad Shamo Nadia Shatalova ah Wah She

Corey Sheesley Rawda Shokai

C C Smith Devin Smith Kevin Smith Kyle Smith

A li T ay lo r K a

LINCOLN HIGH 2010 BLOOD DRIVE

Above: Kyle McCorm ick (12) gives blood during the Lincoln High Blood drive on December 12, 2010 The blood drive is put on by LHS and the Community Blood Bank

Photo by Erin Field

Fores

FANCY DESSERTS ! « Le ft : Ti unna Bradle y (12) prepares a desser t for the dis trict competition during Sheri Wieden 's Culinar y Sk ills class on November 18 ,2010

Photo b y Jessi Anderson

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Do vo v ++-AVE ·AW ADVK:E FOR' VNDffi CLA-~ ~tv\EN?

"My advice is 'A man 's word is stronger than a man 's fist ,' meaning talk about y our problems that you have w ith people, and don 't tig~t your way throug_h anything "

-Timoth y Curtis 1:>eard

"To have good time-management skills

Don 't let the homework _get to you Just do it , and move on Get involved and meet new peor,?le and it can be fun

-Brandon Okemba

' Sta,: focused. Don 't let anyth ing distract y ou from doing your work Friends come and go1 so if they make you do things that you aon 't w ant to do, tind new friends , because then they are not worth your time Don 't sk ip for any one. If your fr iend asks y ou to skip wi th them don 't , because a true fr iends w ouldn 't ask you to do something like that no matter what the situation is

-Alisha Garcia

"Ma k~ it the best four years ot your life b~cause ,, 1f only comes ar:Qund once

-Andrew Uwens

"Start thinking about college early ."

-Cassie Luethje

' Don't procrastinate, and do your homework ."

- Angela Burns

"Do your homework no matter ,how bad you don't want to , it will pay off in the end. "

-Kasi Siebrandt

"Take advantage of every opportunity, high school goes by so fast and you don 't want to have any regrets ."

-Lindsey Toman

"Don 't try ~o hard to please eve rybody 's op inion You can 't plea se everybod y , so just calm do w n and be yourself ."

-Jasm ine Lionberge r

"It may seem dumb to do well now but later on you 're going to wish that you had worked hard all four years ."

-Alishia Boecker

"Always apply yourself , and try the best you can in school. You don 't realize what kind of doors you 're closing for yourself if you don 't " '

-Jon Marti -

Duyen

BLAST OFF

Right: Emi ly Madcharo (12) and Tho ung La 112) la unch bo ttl e rockets in Wi ll Smith 's P.hysics class on Sep tember 17 , 2010.

Photo b y Cassie Luethje

Jmira idusie Jared Vivie

Hannah Vivier Okama Volyanyk Long Vu Codi Walin

Nick Wake Gre Ward ennifer Watson John W tson Kennedy Watson Miriah Watson

Trevor Weeks Chase White Daniel Wiebelhaus

ichael i fo d Kelsey Williams

Tiana Williams

eoff ii mann Beaj in Wilson Claire Wilson Jack Wilson Tyler Wilson J ymee Winfrey

shia Wi ovs i E laine o I emuth Brit ny Woodard

Aaron right Hikari Yoshino Eli Young

l\1onique Baxter

Brittney Beall

D~aha Castillo Padilla

Christopher Chase

Cedreece Clark

C~eJUah Collier

SevonDavis

Venessa Decent

Ry ah Demers

John Dinh

Ricky Down

Ashley Gropp

Jasmyne Gusman

Shaun Gustafson

James Hardesty

Elizabeth Harness

Erika Harpham

Angel Harris

Tritavioh Houston

Chiza Jafet

Doha Id Johnson

Patience Johnson

Erin Knight

Adam Kovar

Jay Lebron

Li Iiana Martinez

Elisa Martinez

Trei Mcdona Id

Nadia Mendez

Arazeli Murillo

Cyrus Patterson

Seth Potts

Terrance Pumel

Jeremy Roberts

William Romero

Griffith Root

Karina Sandoval

Heather Shear

Lara Shook

Christopher Spaeth

Sh ika Spencer

Glory Stabler

Keegah Taylor

La Shay Trotter

Christen Vanwaveren

Rahela Vrazalica

Jamario Welch

Devante White

Detavioh Wilkinson

Elizabeth Wycoff

Zach Yoakum

.Juniors

Abdulrahman, Hozan

Abebe,Joseph Abebe,Joshua Adams, John Afshoon Kar, Ghazal Aguado Zavala, Marisol

Agudo, Jason

Ahmed-Manakdan , Andalamia

Al - Saadi , Haifaa

Al - Saadi, Iman

Al - Waely, Fatima Ali, Aaron Allen, Kaela Allen, Shayna

Andablo Dominguez , Diana Anderson, Jordan Archer, Devon

Asefa, Aidom

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For some, t h e highlig h ts of junior year happened early m the year. Jay Sp ringe r says his most enjoyable moment was the first day of being able to leave campus for lunch. "The first :lay was like, you know wheq your mom makes your favorite meal? It was like sme lling th · t for the first time " Although off-campus lunch is a p lus , people say a stu::lent' s junior year is the most stressful one of their h igh school ::: areer. Ti-Yonda Knaff agrees. "Junior year has definitely been my hardest year of schoo l o far." Knaff is a JV Cheerleader, Officer in American Indian Caucus and member of the Red Cross Club.

Some Links definitely fee l the pressure. ''Teachers expect more of you," Maddie Moe said. Moe had to opt out of being involved in theatre first semester due to her increased homework level. Balancing school activities, sports, a social life , and homework has been an everlasting struggle for juniors

Merrill H olden, a footba ll, basketball , and track athlete says, "It's definite ly hard doing sports becau e by the time you get home you're really tired and a ll you want to do is eat and sleep." Holden transferred after two years at Southwest, becaus he heard about athletic and academic opportunities at Lincoln High . "You definite ly need to learn how to manage your tin1.e, " says Linds ey K elle r Ke ller has quite a busy schedule, as she participates in marching and concert band, Girls L club , leadership in FCA , Leadership Development Program, Vars ity voll yball and tennis, AP classes, and is involved with her c h urch's youth group.

Juniors have a lot to look forward to , though . "One of the best things about being a junior is knowing that you ' re one step closer to the college life ," Knaff added "I m looking forward to the classes I p lan on taking such a Zoology and the Tech class. Also seniority!" Emily P a tters on a id. Patterson is in theater, both acting and tech, and part icipates in indoor and outdoor soccer. Some students like Ke ller and Moe are simply excited to be ab le to attend Prom. Although junior year may have its stressful times , it is de~inite ly one to remember . With off-campus lunch , being able to attend P rom, starting the college preparation process , and c h a llenging classes, th re are p lenty of opportunities to make it great.

By Meredith Cain

Avis, Brittany Ayaj, Adau

Backemeyer , Taylor Baner, Michaela Barrientos, Jordan Barron , Maria Bauer , Michaela Beatty, Jacob Beckenhauer, Trey Bettinger, Abbey Blackwell, Essence Blaser, Dalton

Blum, Marina Bowers, Micheala Bozak, Jessica Brichka, Alina Brienza, Michael Brill, Jade

Brower, Charles Brown, Erik Brown, Tiana Bulchenko , Daniel Bustamante, Angelica Buzi, Nathan

Byron , Leslie camacena Morales, Adrian Canby, Darren Cardona, Carla Carlson , Ruthanne · Carngbe , Ashley

Castillo, Erik Castillo Padilla, Ana Chanyour, Ourouba Chapa, Erik Chealey, Aaron Chelton, Oarrett

Childers, Megan Cho, Mansoo

Chol, Shaka Collins, Michael

Above: The Junior class Powder-Puff football team lost but had a lot of fun.

Photo by .Jessi Anderson

Comb , Zachary Comstock, Kallie Conley, Sam

Cortez castellanos, Fernando Cotton, Shantai Crouch, Kaitlin

Curtis-Beard, Joshua Cusatis, Dakota Danielson, Karissa

Daulton, Brahm Delacruz, Vanessa Delong, Heather

Dennis, Jazmin Drda, Bree Dreith, Brandon

Duerschner, Chris Duerschner, Jon Dunkle, Margery Dyas, Adou

Ebadeh Ahwazi, Youhan Ellis, Hunter

Ells, Samantha Elvira Perez, Luis Emerole, Obinna Epp, Ashley Eubanks, Elijah Ewing, Tayler

Felipe, Ashley field, Erin fille, Nabatoni Findlay, Mikayla Frederick, Chua French-Sloan, Melissa

Frerichs, Sierra Frey, Sarah Gaffney, Dakota Gannerson, Koral Gaxiola Arenda, Estefania Ghayyadh, Mansoor

STUDY , STUDY, STUDY

Left: Marie Schwab takes time outside to study during her lunch period.

Photo by Jack Wilson

TWIN TECHIES Below : Jon and Chris Duerschner work on props during Tech Day.

Photo by Seth Marshall

What's

Drake a nd Lil' Wayne. J Dagan Worton

Passion Pit and Discovery. Jose Lemus

Taylor Swift and Lady Gaga. Sarah Frey

Gligorevic, Lazar

Gonzalez Nava, Alfredo Gonzalez-Aparicio, Jose Greenlee, Jordan Greenwood, Mercedes Guiza Garcia, Salu

Gunnerson, Koral Guthrie, Madeleine Hadgi, Nadiya Hamo, Hamo Harding, Haylie Harpham, Jacob

Harris, John Heavens, Akeria Hedrick, Samuel Hefner, Tayce Heiden,Amy Heller, Courtney

Henderson , Ashley Hesseltine, Mitchell Hetrick, Kelsey Hicks, Jeremy Hildenbrand, Shane Hoesing, Kendall

Holden, Merrill Hood, caleb Htoo, Eh Thaw Htoo, Sher Huggins, Nick Hussein, Hadeel

Hyde,Zach Isaacs, Travis Itzen, Jessica

Jacoby, Isaac Johnson, Laurie Johnson,Savon

Johnson,Sean Juarez Lopez, Katherine Karsting, Clf;lire

' Kdu, Paw

Keating, Michael

Keller, Lindsey Kendall, Tearah Khalaf, Alkhan Khalaf, Hamo

Khalil, Khaled Khoudeida, Jalal Klucas, Kasey Knaff, Ti-Yonda Knight, Alexander Koang, Sibit

Kovacevic, Medina Kroese, Katelyn Krzycki, Taylor Kurtz, Trever Lacefield, Cody Lacefield, Justin

La~key, Norene Lam, David Lambert, George Lane, Niccole Lcmge, Haley Larson, Kristin

Leapaldt, Tanner Lee, Michelle Lehnert, Nick Lemus, Jose Lewy, Elizabeth Lin, Ma

Lionberger, James Loebl, Taylor Lombard, Paul

Where's your favorite place to go out for lunch?

Lott, Demarius Lu, Paw Lu Lucas,Jacob

Luebke, Madysen Majid, Naznaz Mallory, Tynan

Tiona Brown

Jimmy John·g! Abbey Spencer

Arby'gl

Trey Beckenhauer

Burger King! Savon Johnson

iLEARN

« Left: Demarius Lott and Michael Collins try out the new mobile computer labs

Mangers, Courtney Marsh, Keenan Martin, Paisley

Martinez, Mike McCall, Alyssa McCollough, Daniel

DISCOVERING

AMERICAN LITERATURE

« Left : Fatima AI -Waely works on a worksheet for American Literature, taught by Alice Betts sixth period Photo by Kate Schwab

Mccrary, Martika McKeighan, Emma McNeil,Dana

McVicker, Alice Medina, Alicia Mellick, Rowan

Meskin, Seivi Meyer, Morgan Michel, Dj

Mickle, Marisa Miller, Alex Miller, Felicity Miller, Say'von Miller, Zach Moe, Maddie

Mohammed, Heja Moise, Niyo Molt , Shayne Montez, Adriana Moo,Dee Moo , Lerpye

Moo, Lwel Nay Mooren, Josh Morrison , Amber Mothershed, Cayliss Muhle, Tanner Murray, Preston

Mustafa, Noor Mustafa, Zeen

Mutum, Alec Naser, Azad

Nguyen , Hong Nguyen, Jolin

Photo by Rodtesha Ballard

Nguyen, Linh

Nguyen,Phuoc

Nguyen, Randy

Nguyen, Tam

Nguyen, Thao Nguyen, Tuan

Nguyen Hoang, Tu Niles, Blake Ninh, Minh Northup, Creighton Olsen, Mary Osso, Minas

Ostojic, Viktorija Parks, Jay-J Parks, Tearah Patterson, Emily Pavey, Brianna Pavey, Kenneth

Pecina Rodriguez, Jessica Perez-Pecina, Yasmin Perkins, Colin Perry, Briana Pershing, Joe Petr, Kaithyn

Petr, Katie Pett, Angel Pham, Dang Pham, Lisa Pham, Oanh Phillips, Cody

Pickett, Jesse Pierce, Samuel Portugal-casarrubias, Gonzalo

Prasek, Joe Prinsloo, Mamo Quimby, Victoria

If you could be on any rw, what would you choose?

Glee!

Courtney Mangers

Phineas and Ferb!

Erin Field

Jersey ghorel

Quirk, Victoria Ramirez, Mark Ramsey, Dakota

Nick Wensel

~ntourage!

Jasmine Shirley

Rathe, Emma Reigert, Trevor

Ridgley, William Rios, Salvador Ritz, Tim Rivett, M

Roberts, Sean • Rodriguez, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Jaime Rose, Ashley

Rotschafer, Zach Ryles, Gia

Sackett, Evan Salih, Humam Salisbury, Denison Salloom, Karrar Samek, Taylor Samuel, Julian

Schiel, Evan Schoenmaker, Ellen Schrunk, Shai Schubert, Jessica Schultz, Emma Schwab, Kaytlin

Schwab, Marie Scott, Sierra Selvage, Michaela Shade, Jacob Shade,Sonny Shannon, Mallory

Shirey, Oarytt Shirley, Jasmine Showalter, Matt Siefker, Dylan Simpson, Shelbie Skillett, Paige

Smith, C.C. Smith, Darrell Smith, Savannah Snyder, Sloane Sonthixay, Linda Sorensen, Anne

Spence,Zac Spencer, Abbey Springer, Jay St.Martin, Kendra Staley, Mtehael Steele, James

Stevens, Amber Stok.i, Daniel Straight, Gage Tackett, Wade Tarvin, Liz Thiek, Philip

Thok, Loklok Thok, Ruachkuoth Thomas, Jalici Thompson, Deavante To, Giang Trainin, Erez

Tran, Yen Trang, Tyler Trevett, Kyle Trout, Ronnie Trumbley, Lexi Truong, Skylar

Tyson, Tashia Valles Diaz, Luis Van Pelt, Sydney Versaw, Grant Vu, Nhat Waechter, John

Wah, Kyaw Say Walter, Clayton Ware, Rynell Warne, Kellie Warren, D'marcus Webster, Dovoute

»

~ Above: Alex Miller reads Anime in the library Photo by Ashley Mundall

~Above: James Steele performs during the Lincoln High's Got Talent Make-a-Wish talent show. Photo by Andrew Hoile Juniors

Above: Olivia Wilson performs along with Concert Chorale first semester. Photo provided by Judi Schroeder

Right: Madysen Luebke practices the Can-Can for the World Language Fair during her AP / 1B French class taught by Linda Graham-Rowe. Photo by Erika StewartFinkenstaedt

Above : Paul Lombard listens to music before performing in the one-act. Photo by Brittany Suhr

Above: Elizabeth Rodriguez twirls her flag during band practice in September. Photo by Jessi Anderson

« Left : Viktorija Ostojic and Sierra Scott dissect frogs in Zoology class.

Photo by Jessi Anderson

Weddleton, Sydney

Wedeman, Maggie Welch, Emerson Wells, Isaac Wendland, Geoffrey Wensel, Nick

Wessel, Madison White, Deondre Wiebe, Claire Williams, Melynda Wilson, Olivia Witters, Maddie

Wiyual, Keet Wolfe, Brandon Wolz, Joshua Worton, Dagan Yamauchi, Junko Yeackley, Kayla

Young, Katelynn Zayzay, Alpu Zempleni, Flora Zerfass, Eric Zunaibi, Jati

Junior A e ·c Trainer

What made you decide to become a Student Athletic Trainer?

"I like the people that I work with and learning new things."

Juniors ot Pi ured

Aldrich, Simone

Brandon, Patrick

Chua, ·Frederick

1 Cropp, Andrea

Diazde Leon Renteria, Ricardo Doan, Vien

Down, Dus tin

Fadhil, Hala Fisher, Diante Frohman, Emily

John Harris

Gonzalesz Figueroa, Francisco Good,Dee Haggan, Je'Lisa Harding, Ashton Hawkins, Isaac Herbel, Nate Hesseltine, Mitchell Jones,candance Kramer, Domakneak

Laravie, Ashley • Lehr, Keegan

Lucatero-Avena, Martel Mendez Guiz, Clarissa

Meza Castillo, Marco Nguyen, Huong

Orozco Montes, candelaria Phillips, Torie Rodriguez, Le'Tia Rosales Jr., Joseph

Salas Guillen, Alvaro Salazar, Hayley Slivka, Anthony Stiegman, Tanya Utterback, Mitchell

Varela, Gill;)erto Vidusic, Bijerina Williams, Vanessa

o, 1 2013

No longer a freshman, but not yet an upperclassman, its easy to get lost sophomore year. But with an array of classes, school activities, and gaining independence through driving, students find ways around experiencing Ja n Brady syndrome.

Jeffery Brooks says , "I know the building a lot better. I know a lot more people Most people are mo re friendly." Many sophomores are glad to be rid of their "freshie" title. Arni Naff said, "I think most people would automatica ll y categorize me as annoying just because I was younger. Now, not so much."

"I don't really miss much about being a freshie , I did have a lighter backpack then , my back appreciated that," says Jennifer Hoffman Hoffman is in the International Baccalaureate Program and band. She describes her sophomore year as "busy, but excellent "

"I have figured out how to use my time more wisely so I can be involved in many activities," Emily Gasper said And involved, she is! Gasper's list of activities includes softball, marching band , cheerleading , student council , Girls L Club , College Access Club, Concert Chorale , and Girl Scouts.

"I love this year because I'm not a freshman, but I don 't have that pressure like seniors ," said Chloe Bontrager. Although most agree that sophomore year is better than their freshman year , they still have a ways to go Keeping your grades up , staying involved , and having fun along the way will make for another great two years at LHS Congratulations, Class of 2013 , you have finished your sophomore year and can now call yourselves upperclassmen!

Adabie, Agya

Akot, Amir

AI -Badry, Shanon

AI -Sdadi , Baida Ali, Laith Allen, Aimee

Allen , Sam Alley, Trevor

Almanza, Hannah Altman, Dakota Alvarado, Joel Alvis, Brenda

Amerson, Prince Andersen, Allison Anderson , D'markaus Anderson, Trey

Arizola, Sierra Arnold, Dalton

Askar, Suhair

Auman, Quint

Auman, Samantha Avery, Elizabeth Avila, Jammeran Ayaj, Kok

By Meredith Cain

Ballard, Brooke Ballard, Rodtesha Barakat, Nissan Bartek, Jessica Baumert, Eric Beard, Spencer

Begay, Adam Belford, Deontre Bellew, Katelyn Beltran Garcia, Maria Biegert, Meghan Bluestone-Weaver, Aries

Bontrager, Chloe Bowman, Andrea Brandt, Devon Bray, Eli Bretthauer, Victoria Brezina, Dakota

Brooks, Jarelle Brooks, Jeffery Brown, Jasmine Brown, Torri Burns, Catherine Buser, Alex

Buzi, Benedicte Byron, Melvin Campbell, Cameron Castillo, D.J. Catron, Austin Ceballos, Miranda

Chanel, Jamie Chilen, Alexandria Chiplaski, Katie Chisholm, Elijah Ciin, Cing Claypool, Sydney

Coleman, Nick Collier, Chyrone Comer, Ariel Contreras, Chase Cook, Aaron Corey, Alan

Corrado, Timmy Costello, Sam Crisman, Reason Crowl, Renessa Curtis-Beard, Rachael Dang,Dang

bang, Jeff Dang,Nha Daniels, Alexis

David, Stephen Day, Smiley De, Rambo

Dean, Kurstin Decoteau, Crystal Delaine, Donald

Delaney, Claire Deyong, Nicholas Diamant, Ethan Diaz, Jordan Didrichsons, Mara Doan, Bao

Doan, Uyen Dominguez, Karina Dorn, Rebecca Drnda, Muamera Duff, Katie Duis, Ebony

Duong,Hoa Duoth, Mat Dyas, Alicia Dyer, Felicia Easterday, Dustin Eberspacher, Stormy

Eddins, Samantha Eggers-Killen, Samantha Eivins, Austin Elazouzi, Sarah Elsken, Dorie Enriquez, Ricardo

Evans, Ashli Ewings, L.J. Fadel, Rihab Fajardo Sanchez, Jose Felix, Jon Fisher, Deaudric

IN THE MOOD FOR FOOD! Above: Linh Nguyen plates her dessert for Culinary Skills

Photo by Jessi Anaerson

TAKIN' CARE OF BUSINESS!

Above: Nick Coleman works on a poster for Marketing class taught by Tiffany Holka. Photo by Garrett Chelton

Flinn, Jordyn Franssen-Cook, Chad Fredenburg, Kayla Freeman, Shaundra Fricke, Miranda Gamez-Martinez, Luis

• Gannon, Andrea Gasper , Emily Gleeson, Adam Goldenstein, Steven Gottula, Cheyenne Gray, Tasha

Green, Austin Green, Shavon Greer, Samantha Griffin, Joe Gropp, Whitney Guerrero, Paul

Guiza, Socorro Guiza Beltran, Daisy Gunnerson, Miranda Hadenfeldt, Zachary Hoeffner, Brandon Hague, Tyler

Hameed, Abbas Homo, Naeif Hansen, Michael Hardy, Emmanuel Harless, Kyle Hauptmeier, Krista

Hayes, Tyler Henderson , Josh Hernandez, Rachyl Hernandez , Willy Herring, Deunte' Higgins, Hannah

Hildebrand, Devin Hill, Jupree' Hillard, Rob

GETTIN ' SO ME GRUB!

Above: Ashli Evans gets food from the salad bar during B Lunch second se mester Photo by Kate Schwab • WORLD WAR II OF US

low: M ax lhri

and Adam Kiehn take notes about World War

Green's

History

lass. Photo by Krista Hauptm eier

Hilton, Austin Hite, Maurice Hoang, Kim

Hoffman, Jennifer Holman, Caitlin Howard, Roddy

Htoo, Kyaw Say Htoo, Thu Lei Hunt, Briannah

Hussein, Zeyad Huynh, Bao lhrie, Maxwell Ilic, Tea lnamura, Will Isley, Brier

Iwanski, Andrew Izaguirre, Fernando Izzo, Ashlie Jarvis, Hope Jensen, Grant Johnson, Coleman

Johnson, Courtney Johnson, Jessica Johnson, Shyann Johnston, Zach Jones, Morgan Josenberger, Cydnee

Joseph, Grace Juber, Alyssa Juma, Poska Kempel, Cheyanna Kennell, Alex Kiehn, Adam

Killen, Phenix Klem, Darianna Klopp, Delton Kramer, Esperanza La, Thanh La Kota, Corrine

Photo by Izzy Lewy

DON 'T LOOK DOWN! ~Above : Luis Gamez-Martinez rock-climbs during Festivus

Photo by Haley Keller

Lakota, Lenee

Lame, Bodie

Larson , Grace

Law , Meh Le, Rin Le, Tam

Le, Thien

Leazer , Michaella

Leija , Cristobal

Liebers , Shana

Ligon , Amber

Lockwood , James Louis , Jaci

Lovorn , Elena

Luedtke , Christian

Luna Mendez, Daniela

Mack, Natasha

Marshall , Garrett

Martin , Haley Martin , Kayla

Martinez , Alicia

Masters , Jordan Matz, Joshua

McCla in , Zachery

McGrath , Corbin

McNally, Droke

Meh , Phre

Mendoza , Jazmine. Mercado , Jose Michalski , Jake

Moo , Eh Nay

Moo , Hsa

Moo , Paw Ler

Morse , Cody Mosby , William

Mughalzai, Silai

Mundall, Ashley

Mustafa , Haker

Myers , Reagan

DON 'T FORGET TH E DECIMAL!

Above: Jordyn Stover and Ebony Duis record results from their Diff Biology c lass experiment. Photo b Jo lin N u en

WHAT A PAGE TU RNE R!

HOW A-PEEL-ING ! l::i Below: Rambo De pee ls apples for Cul inary Ski ll s Photo by H aifaa AI-Saadi

Above : Zhi m an Naser f o ll ows a long d u ring lsau Metes' English 10 class Photo by Brittany Tutt l e

Naff, Ami Nance, Audrey

Naso Ku, Aline Nasaka, Uwinka Naser, Zhiman Nava Nava, Maite

Ndayishismiye, Jacqueline Nguyen, Bao Nguyen, Dot Nguyen, George Nguyen, Linh Nguyen, Quynh Nhu

Nguyen, Sandy Nguyen, Tien Nichols, Tarry Niemann, Gage Nienaber, Mckenzie Nootenboom-Carr , Joshua

Noriega, Jesus Oquendo, Xaviela Ocegueda Gomez, Mario Ogattrocchi, Vincient Ogburn, Kaela Ojeda Alonso, Jessica

Olsen, Betsy Osorio , Iris Osorio, Joyce Othman, Ahmed Palmer, Kay - Kay Paudel, Abi

Paw, Kmwe Paw , Pway Pecina, Ana Peery, Andraya Perdomo, Emanuel Perez Barrientos, Carlos

Pershing, Christine Peterson, Andrew Phan, Daniel

Phillips, Jaivon Phillips, Kenny Phillips, Spencer

GOT MILK?

« Left: Elijah Chisholm enjoys some y hocolate milk during B lunch

Photo by John Williss

PAYIN' ATTENTION

Belovy: D J Castillo li stens to a class discussion in Genee Handley ' s sixth period Biology

class Photo by Krista Hauptmeier

WORK HARD ON A WORKSHEET

Above: Stanislav Yermakovich works on a worksheet in U.S. History. Photo by Jordan Barrientos

Piper, Bela

Powers, Megan

Prange, Mikayla

Puok, Guan

Putty, Brooke

Qadir , Shazia

Radcliffe - Hines , Elly

Ramsay, Astrid

Rashidi, Blaise

Ray , Daiquanda

Reh,Su Reis , Markeisha

Requejo, Rudy

Rhian , Jim

Rinke , Nicholas Rodriguez, Hannah

Rodriguez , Jesse Rogers, Victor

Romo, Andrew Rubottom, Tyler Sakilla , Rebecca Saleh, Havin

Samsel, Elaine Sanchez, ltahi

Sangoyele, Kadeja

Santana, Austin

Saric, Milica

Sawo, Koryan

Schaaf, Jackie Schoonover, Mollie

Schulke, Chantrey

Schulz, Erik Scott, Steve

Scribner, Matt

Selvage, Aaron

Sergyeyev, Emirkhan

Settrini, Bailee

Sewell, Selena

Shear, Sean

Shriner , Trevor

Shwe, Nan Win

Sipp, Henry

CHEMICAL REACTION!

» Right: Trevor Alley mixes chemicals in Genee Handley's science c lass

Photo oy Tiana Brown

ROCKIN ' ON!

« Left: Tea Ilic st rum s a tune in Gary Hinkley's first semester Guitar class

Photo by Miran da Mikesh

Skinner, Austin Smith, Maddy

Solis, Gabriela Sommars, Tristan Sorensen, Alex Spaulding, Cameron

Stamper, Zack Staton, Cheyenne Steele, Teialana Stone, Danisha Stover, Jordyn Stutheit, Austyn

Stutzman, Austin Swinnerton, Merissa Taege, Haley Tagart, Travis Tho, Yaw Hay Thok, Bethelem

Thomas, Courtney Thompson, Austen Toman, Alysho Torrence, Celeste Torres, Rosa Tran, Angella

Tran, Jamie Tran, Lilly Trejo, Austin Tuttle, Brittany Tuttle, Jeffery Tyler, Bryce

Urzedowski, Natalia Varrati, Brandon Velder, Jason Vicroy, Evan Virgen Mindieta, Brandon Vu, Minh

Wade, Samantha Wallace, Tiffany Wallace, Torrey Ward, Kalen Ward, Mariah Warta, Brittany

Wee, Ta Hel Weiand, Hailey Wheat, Zachery Whittington, Bernard Whittington, D'marquieyon Wickizer, Ory

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Abdullah, Hansk Akot, Amir Beetem, Ronnie Fisher, Dedric Gardner, Trent Greggs, Mariah Hager, Eliza Hoang, Trung Hsay , Lah Htoo, Gay Kang,Andy Lee, Samantha Loya, Cindy Lumpkins, Dejuan Paw, Wah

Quattrocchi, Vincent Ramirez, ltsi Ramos, Emiliano Scotto, Michael Segovia, Keila Selvage, Aaron Warne, Brian Winston, Shaquille Winters, Kiristen Yvonne, Yvonne

Wilkinson, Diondria Williams, Bryteece' Williams , Kaleigh Williams, Tabby Williss, John Wilson , Heather

Wilson, Joseph Wilson , Melissa Wimer , Shawn Wunder, Raymond Yapp, Job Yermakovich , Stanislav

Yonne , Yvonne York, Tyler Yost , Anna Young , Abigail Yuan,Ken Zerfass, Brandon

Zobeck- Patz, Aaron Zuniga, Jesus

A NOVEL IDEA

Above: Joshua H e nd e rson catches up on some readin~ during Marilyn Sc h affer's English c lass. Photo by As l ey H enderso n 1

DELICIOSO! ~ Above : Bryce Tyler devours some pizza during B lunch

Photo by Casandra Bulling

HOMEWORK AND CH ICKEN PATTIES! ~Above: Kurstin Dean works on Wex homework while Jasmine Brown eats up her lunch Photo by Krista Hauptmeier

JIM RHI THE SCIENCE GUYI ~Above: Jim Rhian conducts a diffusion lab during Genee Handl ey's Biology class Photo by Ester Anthony

Freshman year . . .it's scary . You 've had to say goodbye to friends you've known since kindergarten, you ' re walking into a building that you know you're going to get lost in, and then there ' s the upperclassman. Do " Freshman Fridays" really happen? Are

• they going to come after me? Walking into the doors of Lincoln High for the first time can be very overwhelming To ease the nerves of high school, LHS offered a new program , The Summer Bridge Program, to get the freshmen familiar with the building, t e achers and each other "It is different because there are so many different people you meet, the school is bigger , and so many more class es," said freshman Mary Overstreet . Coming from middle school to high school brings so many new opportunites, from clubs to sports to pottery Freshman Mara Hollamon has been involved in LHS girls b as ke tball and track Playing sports made her freshman year better "because of all the new friends I made " Some say high scho ol defines who you are going to be for the rest of your life Congratulations on taking the first step and continue to define wh o you are!

Abebe, Malachi

Abebe , Marytza Achen , Zachariah

• Afs hoon Kar , Fares

Al Haider, Fatima Al-Saael , Ali

Alhamdani , Ibrahim Ali , Hiyam

Aljibory , Adil

Alley , Hayley

Allgood, Cody

Al s aadi , Hamza

• Anchondo Lopez , Irvin

Ander s on, William

Arend s , Symone Arnold, Brooklyn Arnold , Jonathon Atem, Wini

Au s tin , Abbie Avis , Kyle

Bailey Castillo , Phillip Baxter , Kyly

Beard , Landon

Beltran Garcia , Jaime

Beltran Tinoco, Jaqueline Berry, Darian

Biegert, Rachael

Bilew , Sebit Bitz, Olivia

Bornstein , Lillian

Bradley, Dani

Brammeier, Miranda Brandt , Amy Brock, Raquel

Brooks, Breonna Brown, Jacob

Brucher, Justine

Bruyette, Erica Buettgenbach, Kiersten Bui, Penny B uls, Zachary Burmeister, Chloe

Bustamante, Brenda Camacena Cuevas, Erika Canby, Trenton Carpenter, Alexsis Chaney, Matthew Chiplaski, Austin

Cho, Wan oo Chol, Nania Christensen, Dean Clark, Evan Clover-Scott, Justin Cortes Hernandez, Montserrat

Cortez Ramos, Irma Coulter, Cecily Crane, Larissa Crosby, Cody Crouch, Ethan Crouse, Alexander

Crowe, Sabrina Curtis, Lamont' e Curtis-Beard, Charlie Dang, Tho Darden, Christine Davis, Traeshaun

Dearo, Jacob Diep, Lynn Dierking, Marissa Dill, Kristin Dillon, Quincy Dimagno, Sarah

Do, Christie Dominguez, Anna

Dreith, Zachary Duoth, Nyachar

Durham, Lexus Dykes_, Ciara

~ Abov e: Vu Nguyen (91 measures the frame for her table during Industrial Tech teacher Russ Hitz's 4th period Intro to Wood/Construction class.

Edison, James Engnell, Antonio

Ervin, Janae

Fadel, Hatem Fielder, Brandon Findlay, Craig

Fisher, Emma Fletcher, Thomas Flores, Elizabeth Fritz, Rachel Galloway, Devontay Garcia, Martin

Garvey, Jesse Gib on, Demetre Gibson, Elijah Gibson-Sheilds, Nastassja Goddard, Cassie Goitom, Samson

Gonzalez, Pedro Gossett, Brandy Graewe, Alexis Graft, Walt Graham, Trevor Green, Grace

Griffin, Brianna Guevara, Tanisha Guiza Beltran , Sergio Haakenstad , Sam Haar , Jenny Hadgi, Rima

Hamo, Ismaeil Hansen, Danielle Hawkins, Tiara Haynes, Wanya Hedges, Katharen Heinen, Alex

Heinen, Felica Helms, Ashley

« Left: Mary

shoots during warm up befor e the Junior Varsity

Omaha North on Friday January 7th , 201 1 while fellow teammate Tiona

Helmstadter, Payton Herbert, Kylie

Hernandez, Debbie Herrington, Wesley Heiden , Tommy

SHOOTING FOR SUCCESS

Overstreet (9)

Girl's Basketball game against

Brown ( 1 1) watches at Omaha North Photo by Marla Overstreet

Hesson , Jake

Hinrichs, Tori

Hite , Vontesa

Hite , Vonte aya

Hoffman , Elizabeth Hollamon, Mara

Holt, Allison

Hood , Amanda

Hopper, Je ' Kerra

Howe , Makay la Htoo, Khu

Hussain , Omar

Huynh , Long

Hyberger , Gage

Jimenez, Elizabeth

John , Doug

John , Taylor

John son , Aky ha

John son , Kenneth

Karsting , Sara

Kastler , Kimberly

Kempel , Brianna

Kennedy, Alexis Khalaf, Amal

Khechfe , Nadia

Khual , Suan

Kingston , Rachel

Kinni on , Cameron

Kirkendoll , Haven

Kir sc hbaum, Stephen

Kosmos , Cody

Kre ifels , Cha se

Kudron , J a mine

Lamb, Chelby

Languis , Jacob · Lanik, Eve

Lasenieks , Ezra

Leach, Tasha

Lemus Ortiz, Ye se nia

Liddy, Morgan

l ong-Hawkins, Kamaya

Lopez , Jose

Lopez Guiza, Emmanuel Lopez Perez, Eduardo Lucas, Julie Mai, Sandy Mai, Tai Marks, Andrea

Martin , Daniel Martinez, Daniela Martinez, Jesus Martinez, Stephanie Mcclain, Angel McCloskey Mendoza, Antonio

Mccombs, James Mccord, Anna Mcdonald, Trinity Mcmahon-Cole, Hana Mcshannon, Isaiah Mikkel en, Britton

Miller, Madeleine Millsap, Ariel Mohammed, Berivan Montoya, Luis Moo, Eh Krey Moo, Paw

Moore , Andrew Moore, Brooklyn Morigeau, Dasha Morris, Malik

Na tin, Nikita N el en, Cecilia

Nelsen, Elizabeth Newbury, Dallas Ngo, Andy Ngoyi, Dan Nguyen, Hoang Nguyen, Huy

Nguyen, Quang Nguyen, Vu

Nichols, Jessica Niel en, Addisen

Nyhof, Alexis Obermueller, Trevor

TELEPHONE! ~ Above: Kyly Baxter (9) and Devin Tate (9) practice telephone conversations durinqWorld Languaqe teacher Elizabeth Okereke ' s 4th period Spanish l /2 class Students1earn how to answer the phone and leave a message Photo by Alex Copeland

What cj o you like most about bein.9 a Student A t hl e tic Trainer?

What m de you decide to b come a Student Trainer?

" y ster told ChariW, that would be one and I like

"I like beinq sports ancf the actio -Jake Hess elpinq people ac.,hell<1ngston

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Ochoa , Tiffani

Ogburn , Breanna

Okeng , Walker

Olguin Chavez , Jonathan

Olson , Jo hua

Ortiz Juarez, Valeria

Osorio , Carrie O sse nkop , Natalia

O ss o , Shahnaz

Othling , Hunter

Overstreet , Mary

Owu s u-A n sah , Frank

Pageler , Rachel Paice , Trevor Park , Keiteyana

Paul , Sabela

Perez, Heladio

Perry , Sierra

Phan, Thien

Philippi , Kylie

Phipp , Austin

Phipps , Coltin

Plugge , Sarah

Pluhacek , Erin

Prentice , Bryan

Prinsloo , Jenny

Pritchard , Hunter Quinn , Rian

Ramos , Marco Rashidi , Marlene

Ratumaimuri , Tony Rausheed , Khadijah Reh,Lu

Reineke, Zoe

Rezac , Sarah Riblett , Chance

Ritter , Kragen

Robert s, Aly a

Robin on, Shannon Rodriguez , Alejandra

Rodri g ue z, Magali

Roepke , Miles

Roman -P erez , Uriel

Roper , Will

Rui z, Ricardo Ru ell , Nidgah

Rutin ga bo , Eric Sachtleben , Te d dy

Salamanca , Mario

S anc hez , Leah

Sandin , Alex Sargent , J enay

Schuurmans , Race

Seabaugh , Brandon Shade , Amber

Shamo , Roza

Sh e e , Lah B we Shokai , Y ohanna

Siefker , Ryle e Sierra , Dimitria

Smith Holden , Nesita

Smith Holden , Nonyea

Snider , Je ss e Snyder, M as on

Sohrweid , Cidney Sorge , Jorda n Spencer, Angela

St.Martin , A d rian

Stanley , Caleb Staton , Makayla

Stee le , A hlee

Swetland , Micah Tate , Devin Taylor , Aaro n Taylor , Bobbi Termaat , Gabri el

Tharnis h , Eri n Thie sen , Caleb

Thompson , D ev in Tikal sky , Macke nzie

THE UPPERCLASSMEN AND CLASSES YOU HA VE WITH

THEM " mN1harNsi

~ . "I WAS NERVOUS WHEN WE FIRST CAME IN. BUT AS THE YEAR GOES ON IT GETS ,~ EASIER. AND IT'S NOT AS SCARY AS YOU THOUGHT IT WAS " ~\leTI\ON

Todd , Christop her Torre Arizaga , Cynt hi a \' , :I HOW WOULD YOU l · DESCRIBE YOUR .:m FIRST YEAR OF HIGH SCHOOL? "IT HAS BEEN REALLY FUN ' AND EXCITING BUT AT :_, , FIRST IT WAS REALLY DIFFER~· : ENT GETTING USED TO ALL

"MY FRESHMAN YEAR WAS AMAZING I MADE ., , TONS OF NEW FRIENDS. AND

I LEARNED MANY NEW THINGS I REALLY ENJOYED IT. IT FLEW BY VERY

QUICKLY!!"

"VERY EXCITING AND FUN I GOT TO MEET A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE AND BUILD STRONG FRIENDSHIPS WITH OTHER FRESHMEN AND UPPERCLASSMEN

DaNuH.NeN

; WHAT WAS YOUR MOST MEMORABLE MOMENT OF YOUR 1 FRESHMAN YEAR?

"WHEN I SCORED 15 POINTS IN THE JV GAME AGAINST SOUTHEAST "

"WHEN THE FRESHMEN CHEERLEADERS MESSED UP THE SIGNS DURING THE WINTER PEP RALLY "

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ALONDRA MAClAS -AYON - DE MARlO HAGGAN FA TMlR MEMETI

AlMEE HERNANDEZ ARlLENE MENDEZ

OSCAR HERNANDEZ JlMENEZ EMlL Y MON1tZ

BERNlCE MORTON

ELlZABETH NELSEN

LOCNGUYEN

THUY NGUYEN

TUAN NGUYEN

BEN REHTUS

ROBERTO ROMERO

DALTON RUDD

RlCARDO RUlZ

JENNlFER SANFORD

ANGEUCA SEWELL

Tran, Eric

Tran, Thommy

Tran, Tuan

Troutman, Samuel Tunberg, Sadie Uhart, Jasa

Uiterwaal, Stella Vasquez, Hannah Vernon, Raymond Waechter, Emma Louise Wanamaker , Dietrich Waters, Desirae

Wheat , Jo ephine White Butterfly, Farrah Wiebe, Victoria Wiggins, Deunte' Wilford, Erin Wilken, Cacey

Williams, Deshawn

William , Sati vah Williams, Shania William , Tynisha Wilson, Trevor Wil on, Tyson

Wimer, Eric Witherspoon, Jordan Wood, Tila

Worton, Shaundi Wrasse, Parker Yoshino, Moeko

Yousif, Rojeen Zempleni, Anika Zerfass, Roxanne Zimmerman, Holli Zollicoffer, Kayla Zunaibi, Jasa

DANlEL SUVKA -MOUNA

ANTFERNEY TOWNSEL

CRYSTAL TOWNSEL

TJ TURLEY

ROJEEN YOUSlF

Able, Jill Anderson, Ardella Anderson, Donna Aten, Laura

A very, Susan Azabache, Erick

Baden, Sarah Baker, James Ball, Alexandra Bargen, Andrew Beck , Alicia Beck, Nancy

Belford, Kimberly Benner, Marcia Berks, Darla Beste, Judith Betts, Katherine Bollen Jr, Richard

Bozek, Jane Brison, Carrie Buhrman, Amber Burk, Malinda Burns, Patrick Cariotta, Amy

Carlson, Jessie Carlson, Marlyce Caruso, James Cassiday, Molly Champoux, Daniel Christensen, Lawrence

We Appreciate

e helps out Papa Ada e class dissected r

Cl ark , Ruth Conradt , Richard

Cramer , Su anne

Davi - Yoakum , Joanna

Dia z- DeBo se , Chandra

Doerr , Julia

Domeier , Trudi Dowd , Robin

Droud , Rodney

Dvorak , Emily Fargo , Shelly

Ferri , G Steven

Fletcher , Lake s ha

Fol e y , Brian

Frie , Ca e y

Fultz , Mike

Gannon , Pamela Gatzemeyer , Pat

Genrich , Andrew Gi s h , Lenny

Goodbrake , Brian Goodwin , Carolynn

Gothier , Beau

Graham -Rowe , Lynda

Grant - Col son , Nancy Green , Jarrell

Gruett , Jon Haas , Stanley Haller , Su an

Hamby , L e ann

Handley , Genee ' Ha scall , Victoria Heibel , Micah

Heiden , Rebecca

Heineman , John Hertzler , Su an

Hillliouse , Alice

Hinkley , Gary

Hitz , Ru s tin

Holbein , Ju tin

Holka, Tiffany Hunt , Nancy

Ingram , Cynthia Jack s on , Richard Jame s, Jack

' J anike , Patrick

Johnson-Flowerday , Linda Jons , Belir)da Kaiser , Tamara Keefe , Deb Keefe , Terrence

• Keller , Gr egory

Koch-Johns , Pat s y Kopf, Carrie Kreimer , Sharon Kupfer , Ruth Kutscher, Matthew

Lacy , Con tance Larson , Mark Lefeber, Carole Legg - McCarty , Kim Leick, Janet Lorraine , Lynnor

Lothrop , Sondra Luedtke, Sharill Maly , Christopher Marr League, Schawn Ma on , Wally Mazurek , Maria

Mcclung , Paula Mcginn , Deborah Mclaughlin , Rebecca Mcnulty , Anasta ia Metes , I au Meyer , Shaunna

Newcomer , Marjean

Noble , Dan Noser , Brett Oetken, Jill

Ogden , Tiffany Okereke , Elizabeth

Oligmueller , Amber 0 enkop , Paula

Patter on, Janice

Penas , Bryan

Peterson , Mandy Pierce , Jeffrey

Plettner -Nel on , Glenda

Preciado , Ever K.

Putnam , Sean Rennings , Lorrilyn

Rickover , Anne Rikli , Laura

Sand , Nancy

Sandberg , Todd Schaffer , Marilyn Schell , Zoe Schlake , Charlot

Shandera , Joseph Simpson , Fred Sjut , Michelle

Smith , Will Starr , Darla

Stet on, Amy

Stoke , Shawn

Szelag , Kim Thacker , Karen Thomas , Molly

Toal on , J Brent

Uhing , Duane

Vasa , Stephen

Wanamaker ; Mari s sa

Ward , Steven -

Wat on, Chri topher

Weckman , Barbara·

A HELPlNG HAND

Above: Athletic Office Secretary LaDona Claus hands Dillon Bruggeman (12) a package about college football recruiting in the Athletic Office. Claus says she likes working in the athletic office. Photo by John Harris

West , Michelle White , Robert

Wieden , Sheri Wiig, Shannon

Wolfe, Nancy Wortman , Michael

N OT PICTURED

Bethany, Asboe

Jeff, Bargar

Tony, Brison

Gary, Calhoon

Rogene, Cihal

LaDona, Claus

Ann, Collura

Sally, Denkovich

Jana, Ghormley

John, Goodwin

Janice, Hardin

Barbara, Hardy

Amber, Harlan

Joe, Higgins

Mike, Jarecke

Lisa, Kiely

Ben, Koch

Renee, Lahm

Kim, ~oth

Bryan,Mack

Dave, Medina

Jennifer, Mullin

Marsha, Munger

Robert, Neal

Wendy, Rau

Rolanda, Scurlock

Monica, Sedlak

Natashia, Serrell- Michaud

Christine, Small Dave, Smith Paul, Strong Pat, Wiggins Nancy, Willemsen

Social Studies teacher Brian Goodbrake explains

Photo by Blake Eitzman

Above: Spanish teacher Elizabeth Okereke helps

small group in her 4th period first year Spanish class.

Photo by Miranda Mikesh

~Above: Cashier Jodi Ratliff works behind the scenes handing out french fries to hungry students in the cafeteria during lunch tlme. Photo by Chelsea Remmenga

H~avy Lifting

/\ Above: Weight Training teacher Andy Genrich helps Jon Sands (12) lift weights correctly.

Photo by Kristen Harvey

DANCING FINGERS

POP!

Above: Science teacher Bryan Penas explains bouancy to students in his

Photo by Emerson Welch

CHOW TIME

HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM

Above: SPED Coordinator Brian Foley pages security about students in the hallway during fourth period

Photo by Miranda Mlkesh

GREEN UGHT, RED UGHT

Above: Para Bryan Mack assists Ben F. Rehtus (9) during 4th period. Photo by Jessi Anderson

Above: Pianist Jana Ghormley accompanies the Concert Chorale as they sing ll Here We Come A'Carolling " during 6th period in room 130. Ghormley has been an accompanist for Lincoln high since 1994. Photo by Catherine Coffey

Above: Cashier Tammy Down scans a student's l.D. in the lurrch room during A lunch. Photo by Catherine Coffey

Above: Heather Wilson (10) studies in Science teacher Brian Penas's Oiff Biology class. Photo by Shazia Qadir

ENGLISH LANGUAGE LOVERS

FEEL'N FROGGY

HARD AT WORK

Above: Students in English teacher Patsy Koch.Johns' 3rd period Oral Communications class work on their speeches. Photo by Erika Stewart-Finkenstaedt

~ Above: ELL teacher Susan Hertzler hands out papers to her English Language Learning students. Photo by Andrew Hoile

~ Above: Science teacher Sharill Luedtke explains to students how to dissect a frog in her 4th period Animal Behaviors class. Photo by Jessi Anderson •

MIRROR IMAGE

« Left: Choir Director Jon Gruett teaches his 4th period 1B Music class Photo by Jessi Anderson

HAIR HISTORY

» Right: Phenix Killen (10) takes notes in Social Studies teacher Jarrell Green's 4th period World History class Photo by Jessi Anderson

MARKER HEAVEN

Above: Samantha Clark (12) and Brooklyn Camp (12) make creative vocabulary lists in Erick Azabache's 4th year Spanish class. Photo by Jessi Anderson

GO! PO!

Above: Greg Ward (12) learns about the first amendment m Bob White's Government and Politics class. Photo by Jessi Anderson

WORLD EVENTS Above: Brandon Dreith (11) listens to Social Studies teacher Jarrell Green during his 4th period World History class. Photo by Jessi Anderson

4 SCORE AND 7 MINUTES AGO

Above: Social Studies teacher Nancy Grant-Col on talk to her 4th period US History class. Photo by Jes i Anderson

BECOMING INSTITUTIONALIZED :::: Above: Social Studies teacher Shaunna Meyer explains how to do a class activity that gets students to think about social ideas that have become institutionalized or are becoming institutionalized. Photo by Jessi Anderson

WALKING A TRAIGHT LI E

Above: Cheyenne Staton (10) tries to walk a straight line while wearing beer goggles in health class. Photo by Lindsey Toman •

TWO BRAINS ARE BETTER THAN ONE

« Left: Timothy Curti -Beard (12) and Jo h Hes on (12) review note in Bob White's Government and Politics cla s Photo by Jessi, Anderson

Multicultural Week had been absent from Lincoln High for the last couple years. But this past summer, Micaela Pa "" checo Ceballos decided to bring Multicultural Week back to Lincoln High This idea came about as a result of Ceballos attending the f\spen Ideas Festival, which she attended as part of her participation in the Bezos Scholars Program. The Bezos Scholars Program looks for 12 exceptional public high school students, as well as educators who will partner with students on a journey for change. Ceballos was one oftwelve high school students selected to attend the • Bezos Scholars Program and Social Studies teacher JP Caruso accompanied her. The program encourages the participating scholars to return home and start a local idea festival within their communities and schools. Ceballos's idea for the Multicultural Festival stemmed from the undeniable fact that multiculturalism is a huge part of Lincoln High but though Lincoln High prides itself in its diversity, there is hardly ever communication about it. Ceballos believes "there isn't a lot of interaction between different racial, ethnic, and cultural groups." Caruso and Ceballos's goal was to begin facilitating discussions about how multiculturalism affects our community and why we as students should care about it. Their big idea came into affect this past February with various activities and speakers to help students break boundaries. The week culminated with a big finale, a visit from Christopher Benson, a college professor, journalist, and author of the biography of Mamie Till. Benson spoke to students encouraging them to be more than what is expected of them. He used his own story for motivation. Overall, Ceballos believes the week was a success She hopes her vision will sustain and leave a legacy at Lincoln High for years to come.

INTELLECTUALS

THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER

« Left: Ga ry

Ii n ' s History of the Holocaust class

Photo by Seth M a rshall

CATCH ING THE DREAMS OF OTHERS

»Top Right : Lincoln Public Schools share their MOSAIC book display of Nativ e American nov e ls with the Lincoln High Library

Photo by Sandy Ngo

BREAKING BINDS

» Bottom Right: The Media Center displays books of Middle Eastern Culture •

Photo by Haley Keller

"We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams."

Jimmy Carter

BROADENING HORIZONS

~Above : Nathan Matz ( 12) , Spanish teacher Paula Ossenkop, Marry Tran ( 12), and Micaela Pacheco Ceballo s ( 12) discuss the pros and cons of Mult iculturalism in school s dunnq a workshop by T J McDowell from Lincoln Pub1ic Schools.

Photo by Sandy Ngo

INTEGRATING

~Above: Christopher Benson, author of th e biography of Mamie Till , speaks to students about his personaf life , his inspirations, and hi s stands on issues throughout the United States

Photo by Devon Kelley

Hill, a Lincoln Hiqh distinguished alumni , pre se nts about "Culture and "Prejudice" to Becky Mclaugh

PATHS OF THE DISPLACED

~Above: Natalia Ledford, a 2006 graduate of Lincoln High, prepares to present her documentary , " Paths of the Displaced " about Sudanese refugees to a group of Social Studies Classes •

Photo by Seth Marshall

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SURRENDERING THE SMOKE

«Le ft : Dr. Kwakiutl L. Dreher performs her playwright "In a Smoked Fil led Room " in the Ted Sorensen Theatre It is about an African American women who manages trauma in her life and finds endurance

STANDING UP FOR STANDING BEAR

» Right : University of Nebraska Journalism professor Joe Starita tells his story "I Am a Man : Chief Standing Bear's Journey for Justice " to Social Studies teacher, Nancy Grant-Co lson ' s 9th grade International Baccalaureate students Photo by Greg

IT STARTS WITH ME

IT STARTS RiGHT HERE, IT STARTS RIGHT NOW

;: Abov e: Christopher Benson, author of the biography of Mamie Till speaks to students about his journey through life and our duties as citizens Accompanying him is Micaela , Pacheco Ceballos ( 12), Social Studies teacher JP Caruso and English teacher Chris Maly Photo by Haley Keller

Photo by Devon Kelley

Keller

PROPOSING KNOWLEDGE

You have proba.bly seen a group of hea: backpack-wearin~ vocab-spewing, and news-sharin_s! students around LHS. Who a.re these :people? Why don't I have classes with them? ""To the uninformed, these indiViduals seem hke a secluded wolf-pack But this is no secret society. It's a close-knit group of students taking highly rigorous classes in preparation for higher Erlucation. 'There was this girl in my computer class I had never seen before. I startErl talking to her and reahzErl she wasn't a new student, she was an IB student!· senior £mily Madcharo said Since they were Freshmen, IB students were placed in classes separate from those of their peers. As Freshmen and Sophomores, they experience pre-IB courses, to prepare for the actual program which begins Juruor year. Because of their immense work load, the graduation requirements a.re different This accounts for why you may not have had classes with them, and why there are many uncertainties about the program.

ll.rrlr vs. Re a I i ty

Students think »

FRIENDS, SLEEP, HOMEWORK PICK 1WO.

IB students say »

"School is probably my top priority. I could use a little more sleep, but I always make time for my friends on the weekends. I would go insane without the weekend."

Maddie Witters (11)

IB students correct common rumors about the program and all it entails.

YOU CAN'T PLAY SPORTS AND KEEP UP WITH HOMEWORK.

"I'm a threesport athlete. I've played cross country, swimming, and soccer since freshman year. Sometimes it's tough but it's definitely manageable."

ITS IMPOSSIBLE TO HAVE AJOB TOO.

"I

work at Amigos. Work is work and homework is more work so I have to rush and manage to do work and homework during the week."

Charlie Neibel (12)

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A<;. a re<;.ult of <;.pending four year<;. with the <;.ame 30 people. dudent<;. in the IB program have become more like a family. The inten<;.e amount of wovk they mu<;.t accompli <;.h before receiving the IB diploma include CAg (Creativity. Adipn. gervicel. 7 a.m. cla<;.<;.e<;., and the Extended E<;.<;.ay. gharing the<;.e unique experienc~<;. create<;. bond<;. amongd a clo<;.e-knit community. "IB create<;. a competitive academic environment." <;.ay<;. genior Kayf:ee Jensen. "Everyone goe<;. through difficult time<;. in their perwnal life. though. <;.O we're here a<;. friend<;. alw." Becau<;.e of the rigorou<;. workload that goei; I along with IB. it ii; a common mi<;.conception that the program con<;.ume<;. the live<;. of the people in it. For i;ome. their bei;t option wa<;. to do IB certificatei; in<;.tead of the entire diploma program. l-4enry Lagrimini (121 i<;. doing certificate<;. in Engli<;.h, Math. and l-li<;.tory. "I cho<;.e to do certificate<;. becau<;.e it allow<;. me to take college-level cour<;.e<;. with a <;.chedule that I can better control.""

CALCULATING PERFECTION

~ Above: Rosie Neibel ( 12) works on her 1B Math SL homework in the Media Center during her 6th period study hall. Photo by Tiana Brown

THREE'S A CROWD

Above: Social Studies teacher Shaunna Meyer and Enqlish teacher Carolynn Goodwin's 6th/7th period World Experience gather around posters the students made representing different Hindu deities Photo by Greg Keller

~ Above: Henry Sipp ( 10) finalizes his 3D model representing Hinduism in Social Studies teacher Shaunna Meyer and Enqlish teacher Carolynn Goodwin's period 6/7 World Experience class

Photo by Greg Keller

Kandy Do (12)

LINCOLN HIGH'S INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE

PROGRAM OFFERS STUDENTS HIGH-POWERED COURSES THAT PREPARE FOR COLLEGE AND GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

2 STUDENTS+ 1 TEACHER= 3 HAPPY MATHEMATICIANS

~Abov e: Math Teacher Pat Janicke shows Ellen Schoenmaker ( 11) and Jose Lemus ( 11) how to

class Schoenmaker and Lemus are the only two people in the class, and completed

SCRAMBLING FOR KNOWLEDGE

» Right : Connor Goodwin ( 12) practice s his vocabulary by playing Scrabble in his 3rd period IB Spanish class

BRAIN TEASER

» Right : Kelsey Williams ( 12) takes notes in Science teacher Pat Burns ' 2nd period Anatomy class. Instead of taking Study Hall, Williams opted to take another

STRESSEm

» Right : Anh Nguyen ( 12) takes a test during Sean Putnam ' s 6th period iB Chemistry HL class Photo by

Photo by Hung

Photo by Rosie Neibel

Rosie Neibel

30 PAGES

TEACHERS, PEERS, ARTISTS AND

ACCEPTAN CE

~Above: Am be 1 · Bu h1 man ' s 4th pedod 2 -D des ign cla ss poses fol· a r.hoto with th eii · a1·t insta ll at ion " 3 0 Pages" which opened fo1· tr,e wi11te1 · a1·t show Photo by Amber

"1l1 e title, 3 0 Page s , symbo li zes the thirty students who made this work. You see he1 ·e eac h of our si lh ouettes. 1l1e blank s ilhouettes still attached t o the wa ll represent peop le who have not come into acceptance of themselves. Th e s ilh ouettes that are now able to come off the wall s have become co lo1ful and represent hav in g come to a point of se lf- acceptance. Although eac h s ilhouette is a tra ce of us , they 1·epresent anyone. All peop le experience the process of acceptance ." - Amber Buhrman

OF THEIR OWN

Above: Amber Buhrm an's 4t,h pedod 2 -D design class opens th eir a1 t installation named "3 0 Pages" at the winte1· a1·t show. Photo by Haley Keller

Buhrman

Above aockwie;e: Hala Fad il ( 1 1), Cat hedne Bums ( 1 0 ), Ann a Dom in guez (09) , Angel McClain (09), and Malik Mon·is (09) pose wit,h t -heil · finished prod uct.

"I fo un d I co ul d sa y t hi ngs wit h c kw and shape s that I cou ldn't say aI1 y oth er way - t hi ngs I had 11 0 wo1·ds fo r." - Georg ia O' Keeffe

~Top: "I try to use my a, t work as a too l

t o express my views

01 i th e st ate of our ex ist ence as hu mans In my piece, '1l1 e Definiti on of Natu re ' I t r ied t o repre sen t th e 1·elat io11s hi p bet ween human s and t hei1 · envii-o11me11t."

- Dwight Brown ( 1 2)

Above Right: "I made it in t he sty le of Matisse ' s se lf po 1t ra it, but it's not a se lf- po 1t i-a it. We had t o mode , 11i ze it and ma ke it i1 1ouI · own vo ice , and I decided t hat s ince it was a guy I was going to ma ke it il1 t o a woman It's more fun t o pa int long hair ."

-Kate Ra€k ( 1 2)

Above Center: "1l1 e project was hu ma n foi m, and I had 11 0 pictu re, and I needed a pictu, e, and I am 1ea lly bad at ta ki ng pictu, ·es, so I pull ed ou t my phone , and chose th at pict-Lwe "

- Jooe Lemas ( 1 1)

Bottom: "My dog was my i11spi 1·ati on beca use he alw ay s loo ks out th e wi ndow all fo dorn ly I sa w th e ori gi nal pa inti ng of Cape Cod Mo111ing by Ed wa1 d Hoppe ,· and it 1·em inded me of my dog. " -Marya Case- Ruchala ( 1 2)

CREATE

~Above: S ai-a h Andei-SO)l ( 1 2 ) (!oe s oyer r, .;i.£1es of note.sa nd slceches use._1 for hel'

DIFFERENT ••

"Y ea h but if I do n't cut th e hole, it def ea t s th e pu1 pose of th e cl ass, beca use th e class is abo ut t akin g dsks, and not be in g comfo ,·table, and t 1·yi ng ne w thin gs and expe 1im en ti ng . I fee l lik e if I don 't cut th e hole, my pmj ect is n't go in g to be th e sa me as it was mea nt t o be An d its not go in g t o be based off of Chaos 01 · O1 ·de1 · beca use its ju st go in g t o be thi s 1·eally boo ! st an y ni ght pictu, e, a11 d it' s not go ing t o have any mea nin g, it will ju st loo k rea lly coo l."

S ay s se ni o1 · Sarah Anderson. Sh e has bee n wo1ki11 g fo1 · wee ks ove1 · he1 · p1 •oj ect, Chaos vs O1 ·de1 · Wh en asked wh e1·e her in sp i1 ·ati on co mes fo i-n1 she answe,·s "Ad st otl e." Sh e t ell s me th at she had bee n go in g ove1 · Ari st otl e' s work to t1 y t o fin d in spi i-a ti on. A nd it all ca me t ogeth er itJ An de 1·son' s fin al p1 oduct.

Ch aos vs 0 1·de1 · pi-oject 111 he1 · 41"-h period AP" Art Cl ass

Photo by Haley Keller

By Cassie Luethje

Business is the most popular major for college students. The students in DECA and FBLA, the two business and marketing clubs at Lincoln High, have a nice head start if they choose to pursue this path . 335,000 out of the 1,563 , 000 bachelor degrees earned in 2007-2008 were for business. Showing interest in business in high school gives you an edge to the thousands of other business seeking college students.

"I think FBLA will be helpful in my future, because you learn a lot about life and careers It also looks good on an application for a job," Miranda Mikesh (12) said "So far this year, FBLA has done a fundraiser at McDonald's."

· "We raised $250 in that night and we're going to start March of the Dimes here soon and different green, environmental things," Courtney Meyer (12) said.

DECA and FBLA allow students to take positive action in their school and community DECA helped plan the Fright Hunger Food Drive for the People's City Mission, which helped other Nebraska schools raise over 10, 000 pounds of food for the homeless in Lincoln Students put together an assembly to publicize the food drive Matt McKay from KFRX, Pastor Tom of the Pe ople' s City Mission, and Lisa Mcclung the Mission's Community Relations Director were guest speakers at the assembly. "It all starts i n one room with just a few motivated people I think it's so great that a small group of people with a vision and an idea can go and literally change things," Matt McKay said.

Interestingly, the students in DECA and FBLA are involved in a wide variety of a!:tivities at Lincoln High and find opportunities for leadership in all they pursue "I am doing volleyball, basketball, and track and I'm in student council everyday. I'm also in international club, genera. tion green, and jewelry creations club," Jannah Absalon (12) said. "I'm president of DECA, in student council I'm a liaison and treasurer, and I'm pretty much the leader in jewelry creations "

Besides being Vice - President on FBLA, Meyer is involved with marching band, concert band and soccer. Mikesh fills in her schedule with color guard, campus life, and soccer. Elena Lovern (10) is active in volleyball, biracial/multiracial caucus, FCCLA, track and field, and a manager on wrestling. As for Jaci Louis (10), "I am in Brothers and Sisters of Africa and African Caucus "

Overall, students gain many valuable experiences in DECA and FBLA. "I get to meet a lot of new people and see what they think about

our cu an we ge o e pa o WI e communi y, eyer SOI

I b d t t h I I t ·th th ·t " M ·d

"I'm planning on going into marketing so like owning my own business and managing it and getting people to come; I think it will be very helpful being in DECA," Morgan Liddy (9)

"This club teaches me about money and business. This club also gets me active in my community Plus, I love FBLA, EVERYONE SHOULD JOIN IT!" Louis said

ONE CAN AT A TIME

ASSEMBLY FOR THE FRIGHT HUNGER FOOD DRIVE

Above: (from Left to Right) Matt McKay , Lisa McClung , and Pastor Tom

explain the rules to the Fright Hunger Food Drive

Photo by Dana McNeil

McTEACHER NIGHT

ATMcD S Above: (from left) Jessi Anderson (12) , Joseph Mohr (12) , Courtney Meyer (12) , and Maddie Wessel (11 ). Photo courtesy of Laura Rikli

FIGHTING HUNGER

Below: (from left) Maddie Lierz (12) , Jessi Anderson (12), DECA Vice President Cassie Luethje (12) , and DECA President Jannah Absalon (12) present rules for the Fright Hunger Food Drive. Photo by Philip Eddins

DOWN TO BUSINESS

» Right: Andrew Owens (12) , Lazar Gligorevic (11 ) , and Trey Beckenhauer (11) work during Business teacher Tiffany liolka's 6th period marketing class. T~e boys a~e prep~mng an onllne marketing project lor the class. Plioto oy Catherine Coffey.

TYPING UP A STORM

« Left: Mary Overstree t (9) works on her keyboarding skills in business teacher Laura Rikli ' s 6th period keyboarding class Photo by Rodtesha Ballard

"Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile."

-Vince Lorn bardi

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"My favorite two conferences are Fall Leadership and State . At Fall Leadership you learn about the dress code, what FBLA is, how it can help you in your future, and they always have a funny comedian speaker State Conference is in Omaha at Coco Keys Water Resort. It's a ton of fun and you meet a lot of new people. Last year the people across the hall had a Nerf gun fight with us and the kids from East invited us to play cards with them."

Maybe you have never seen this face in the hallways? If not, you should know that besides being one of the only freshmen in DECA, Morgan Liddy attends the Arts and Humanities Focus Program "It has all the

same classes that we have to be in, but just

extra classes for us

"I went to Fall Leadership Conference in Omaha, the Worlds of Fun trip with East and Lincoln High DECAs, and I went to Central Region Leadership Conference in Chicago. It (Central Region) was a leadership conference so there were many sessions that we went to everyday with different topics like leadership ones or business related ones or competition ones or DECA related things or about your future or business "

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This FBLA involved sophomore has only been at Lincoln High since the beginning of this year, yet she has already achieved what many cannot attain in their entire lives : she has broken gender barriers Elena Lovern is a

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manager on wrestling, but she also wrestles.

"I came from a class C2 school, Malcolm," explained Lovern . "At my middle school th 7re were two other girls on

I wrestled my 7th and 8th grade year I started it my freshman year, but I tore my groin in the middle of it so I

Like more art classes to teach you about history of art or different had to stop . 1 can't wrestle until next year because forms of art: pottery and ceramics, or painting it's too much physical contact." and like dancing arts. Then there are hu- Lovern doesn't let her injury stop her from pursuing T l'k h · d h I ,, L'dd her passion "While I'm out, I go to physical therapy marn ies I e P Ys1 cs an psyc O ogy, 1 Y and do stretches with my legs And during practice explained. I just watch which still helps me out. I can't do any-

When asked whether it was the arts thing Sometimes I go out but I'm not supposed to ." or humanities part that interested her more, When Lovern isn't injured, practice is more intense MONEY ON TH.E MIND "I think it's both, but more of the humanities "We work really hard. You can't say 'can't,' th at is s~~g61eitu~~~~ ;1:~phe:lrne~~:ea~~d~~:;,e to the ultimate thing. If you do, you're doing pushups promote Money Smart Week Photo courtesy of b I d k• d f t t • t h Laura Rikli ecause o in o wan o go in o psyc 0 - until the coaches are tired Genrich (Head Wrestling logical things. There are a lot of things I want coach) teaches all his wrestlers the same stuff, if to be," Liddy replied with a laugh. you're a girl it doesn't matter; you gotta go, same as guys "

L'dd th· k h 1 11 b h 1 _ Despite Lavern's fearlessness, she is not immune to the ,stereotypes "A lot of people stare at you 1 Y in s psyc O ogy WI e e P like 'Wow what are you doing? Why are you wrestling?' It's not like girls can get scholarships for ful in her business endeavors "You want to wrestling, I mean you can but it's rare I mean you've gotta be like 'Chase White' good." get to know people that you have to work When asked about her impression of Lincoln High, Lovern said, "It's nice Huge school."

DECA Members at Fall Leadershi1> Conference in Omaha Above: (from left) Jannah Absalon (12) , Cassie Lu ethje (12) , Ashley Henderson (11 ) , Anbela Burns (12) , Jessi Anderson (12) , Madd ie Lie rz (12 and Morgan lidd 9 stand outside the Holiday Inn in maha for t he Fall D~~A Conference.

Photo by Tiffany Holka

CHI CA 0 , THE W I DY !TY

Above: (from left) Jannah Abs a lon (12) and Mor.9an Liddy (9) explore Chicago during the DECA Central Region Leadership Conference

Photo by Jessi Anaerson

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LINKS LOVE LANGUAGE! THE ELL STUDENTS AT LINCOLN HIGH HAVE SOMETHING SPECIAL TO SHARE, READ THIS PAGE IF YOU DARE!

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SELWAN FADHIL

» Right : Selwan Fad hi I ( 12) came to America two years ago from Iraq When asked how he likes the weather he says 'The weather is ok , but th e winter , not so much "

KHU HTOO

» Right : Khu Htoo (9) Has been in America for 2 years,

0 : What did you do for fun in Thailand?

A : We would play and sometimes we would have a party I mis s a lot of my friends Th ey were the hardest thing to leave behind, and my family I hope someday I can go back and visit.

celebrate their goal in the pl

TEACHER TIME

» Right : ELL teacher

Susanne Cramer teach es in her period 5 ELL c lass

"I have a passion for teaching this group of people I think it makes you feel ne eded, and it's really fulfilling."

Abov

(L- R) Fatima Al-Haider (091, Trung Hoang ( 101, Aimee Hernandez (09), Pway Paw ( 10), Phr e Meh ( 10) all

~y "Jessica Loves Soccer", during Susan Hertzler's 5th period 'ELL class

Photo by Haley Keller

Photo by Haley Keller

Photo by Jessi Anderson

Photo by Sam Larson

Givmg .-.

Thanksgiving.We all enjoy it. Whether "Our goal is you eat turkey, or watch football all to help make day, everyone has some s~ial tradi- the kids in tion for this American hohd.ay. But what ELL feel more if you had never seen a turkey? Never involved watched your uncle eat so much that They don't he had to unbutton his pants and sit necessarily have to celebrate still for 4 hours? Not everyone has ~n it themselves, but it is nice to lucky enough to experience Thanks_giv- give t~em t~e,, opportunity to mg traditions. That is why our Student Council hosts a experience it.

Tfumksgiving lunch for our ELL students at LH& We call around and ask different local places if they would be interested. in donating food. Lincoln Poultry usually donates about 4 - 5 turkeys, then the members of

Student Council will all sign up to bring thin9:s. For ~ple, I brought a turkey, but some i::eople brought cookies and things lil<e that. - Rosie Neibel ( 12) Student Council Secretary.

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"I learned many things about Thanksgiving, I know Thanksgiving is an important holiday of the United States . But just the United States, in rny country they don't have Thanksgiving "

Trung

Hoang (10)

I love the food! And the students who help in the cafeteria are so nice!

a : Do you think they should do anything differently next year?

A: I think they should keep it [the lunch] the same but add new things like a game or something.

Mo Lod (12)

"Actually I really like it It was good and they do it every year It was awesome for me "

Q : What was your favorite food there?

A: "The turkey of course!"

:::: Above: Student Council member Andy Ngo (09) serves up some Thanksgiving goodies to ELL student Paw Lu Lu ( 1 1 ) Photo by Raley Keller

TUR KEY

LEARNIN

Sandy Ngo 112) Student Council President

SW EET SOCCER

Aya Abdalla (12)

:::: Above: The stu den t s listen to ELL teacher Anne Rickover's story in Judy Bes t e ' s 6th pe ri od ELL class Rickover reads t h e thank yo u card fro m the tur key th at sa id, "Tha n k yo u for not ea tin g m e to d ay,

Photo by Hika r i Yoshino

:::: Above: Robiya Zaynitdinova ( 1 1) recites-her lines for her role as Jessica, in the p lay "Jessica Loves Soccer," 1n Susan Hertzler's 5th period ELL class

Photo by Haley Ke ll er

WRITERS ' CORNER

Shawn Wimer (10)

"My favorit e wr it e r right now is H P Lov ecr aft Even though he wrote in long comple x ramb lings, he made sur e that they added to his stor ies and their my sterious atmosphere."

Jazmin Dennis ( 11)

" My favorite book is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote because it is suspenseful a nd it goes into th e mind of criminal s. "

Andy Ngo (9)

" My fa v orite book is The Outsiders • because it taught me what a re al friend sh i p is and any person can succeed in life ."

Nickolai Hammar (12)

" My favorite writer is Ku rt V onnegut, Jr. H e i s very satirica l and dark, but at the same time a great story te ll er. "

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A n int e rview w ith Alice Betts

Shqpshot: B· en it U is : 22 yea rs 1ca h"' :o: Am e ri can Lit/C o mp , Rea ding Inv es ti ga ti o n s, AP Lit/ Co mp , Writing Li a i so n F- N(Jr'tt bc,,k A La ntern In H e r H a nd

Why did you become an English teacher? l had to make a decision about what I wanted to do and I thought "Vvhat do I do best? Vvhat do I eruoy most?" f\hd it was English

What is the best thing about teaching?

Students I really learn a lot from the kids. They give me fresh perspectives. and help me stay connected with the real world.

How has teaching changed you as a person? I \,e learned that every student carries with them both burdens and gifts. It always helps me to ground myself and to have a perspective that I doh 't think I'd have otherwise

Do you have any advice to give to high school students? Don't burn your bridges Do what you can to stay strong even through difficult times because really there 15 the other side

What do you plan on doing when you retire?

I want to travel. I \,e always wanted to go to Europe, and see the museums 1n France. Italy and Germany I also want to have an adventure 1n South America. f\hd I want to be on Dancing 'Nith the Stars.

What is one book you think everyone should read?

Of Mice and Men. I \,e grown fond of Of Mice And Men because I think it catches everyone off guard and reminds them of their compassion and I think that's important.

Describe a perfect day

First. I would wake up on my own : not by ah alarm clock screeching in my ear Then I would have breakfast 1n bed The roads would be clear my students would be happy to see me and they would be energetic and engaged all period. Then I'd go out to dinner with friends and someone would miraculously grade all my papers That's perfect. Is there anything about you that would shock people if they knew?

I did hitchhike across the country much to mY parents' dismay I was about 19. It was foolish. I was also a bartender for many years I used to write the script and provide the audio for one of the first cable telev1s1on shows in Lincoln. and I did a few commercials for the radio

Anything else you'd like to add?

I think LHS students are very fortunate to have this staff of English teachers. and by the same token I think the teachers are very fortunate to have this community of students at LHS to work with

-Kyly Baxter (9)

STOP, DROP, AND READ !

::::: Ab o v e : Victoria Wiebe (9 1and Angela Spencer (9 1reads The House Or English Class McGinn w anted to have the students read and study Sandrc

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Photo b y Greg Keller

Photo by Sonya Roberts

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in pr i ht I -8 arbara 'VJ.Tuchman

Dylan Roberson has been writing for a.s long as she can remember. [;he has notebooks from when she was five yea.rs old full of 'ridiculous stories but stories nonetheless.' Now nearly 18 yea.rs old Roberson d ecide d to participate in National Novel Writing Month. Although she didn ' t finish in those 30 da ys a 30 000 word novel-in-progress titled I Remember (J reen W atn was pro du ced Roberson hopes fo finish the novel by the end of year as her New Yea.rs resolution. However when not working on it she is usually somehow still involved in the writing

process Editor of f;cribe a. budding slam poet and experimenting with shor t essays a.re just a. few on a list of many. Why write? Roberson explains 'Writing makes you a lot more articulate. You ' re always thinking of new ideas it keeps you creative.'

With 'the wi de range of English classes offered at LHE; from Children ' s Literature to Shakespeare Drama to AP La.nguR.ge a.;d Composition there ' s something for everyone. J unior Amber M orricon is ta.king Holocaust Literature this semester 'j really like it because the subject matter has always interested me: Rea.ding Ma.us JI. written by Art E;piegelma.n has given the class a. cha.nee to expand outside normal routine. The graphic novel d epicts Jews as mice while Nazis a.re ca.ts 'It's so different from a. textbook or actual novel it's.one of my favorite books· says Morrison.

'Write a.II the time· Roberson advises. 'Take English classes; do E;peech and Oral Comm If you can write you can speak and spea.king is really good for you. It helps you with everything especia.l ly if you want to market yourself: Overall it just makes you mucl~ more comf orta.ble with people she believes 'Anything th at interests you just write a.bout And most of a.Ji don ' t be di scourage d.'

1ango Street during English teacher Deborah McGinn 's 6th period Pre-lB isneros' fine prose through this particular work

Photo b y Catherine Coffey

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» HIGH FIVE FOR SA TA! Right : Kate l y n Th eye ( 1 2) hold s h er dau g h te r

Al eya h whil e Sa nt a aka Dr Wortm an g i ves h er a pr e en t and a h ig h fi ve

Photo by Molli e Schnoo ve r

Having a baby In high school Is no easy task, and It takes a lot of work Without support It can test one 's will and capablllty , student-parent Junior Victoria Quimby said, " It ' s hard, definitely hard, and It's not the average high school person's life " But what the average student In high school does not see or know about Is the late nights , expenses, doctors appointments, stress, and daycare.

There are also many rewarding moments to being a mom. "Seeing him happy and learning makes me happy," student-parent senior Mackenzl Saul said. She had her son Alexander her sophomore year. Saul has had to change a lot to flt the lifestyle of being a mother. She does not go out and spends all her free time with her son Quimby can relate and agrees It ' s hard to go out like she use to "I can't go out every Friday and Saturday , and I can ' t go to basketball games like I ' d like to. It ' s work being a mother It's not anything I ever expected It to be ," Quimby said

But having a Student/Child Learning Center within your school makes having a child a little more realistic. It helps the students to visit their child throughout the day and eat lunch with them.

"Student-parents appreciate having the opportunity to eat lunch with their child ," Director of S/CLC Nancy Hunt said The S/ CLC began In 1993. The Center was put In school s to help the students with children come to school every day and continue their education.

"Parents have a great deal of responslblllty associated with having their child In the Student/Child Learning Center - c onsistent attendance a t sc hool , passing grades and excellent c onduct. Student-parents participate In a variety of fun learning activitie s with their child 2-3 times a week The socializations / gatherings once a month are a time for both Infant and toddler parents to Interact with their child as well as the other parents," Hunt said. The Center has helped many students and will hopefully continue to for years to come 90 Student Parenting

HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Abo ve: Back Row: Nan cy Hunt , Simon e Aldri ch and Ami yah , Lup e Mar ti nez a nd Roxana, Sh annon lrm er and Kee l an , Kat elyn Th eye and Al eyah , Mariah Ru sse l and Amaya, Andr ea Gannon and Ari a nn a, Macke nzi Saul and Al ex, Megan Child er s an d Gr ac i ell a. Front Row: Amb er Oli g mu ell er and Jax on , Sam Conl ey w ith Fa ith and Cul to n , San ta aka Prin c ip al Or Mik e Wo rt ma n , Jess i Ca rl son with Maso n and Ell a, and Vic t oria Quimb y w ith Tr av i on Ph ot o By Mo lli e Schn oover

S AND CRAFTS Below:

PUS H ME!

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TASTY

Bottom: Victoria Bretthauer

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MIXIN6 IT UP

class

« TASTE TEST

Left: Counselor Steve Vasa judge s student creation in Sheri

« A PINCH OF ALT

Senior Safa Salih is a very talented designer here at Lincoln High. She takes clothing clas e and is highly involved in the FC department. "I like to draw, and I like fashion and clothing," Salih said. A lot of the clothe she wears to school are designs of her very own that she spends countless hours perfecting.

Salih is even planning on making her own prom dress. We all know finding the perfect prom dress can take hour or even days. Imagine drawing, Making , and sewing it all together on your own by yourself.

"I want to make a prince dress," Salih said. She plans on it taking a lot of time, but it will be well worth the finished product. And she will be the only ?ne there , with that dress at prom.

Salih aid, "I want to go to • college for fashion, and I want to have a career in that field." She • has been drawing and designing her own clothe ince she was a young girl.

Salih has many of her clothing designs posted in the FCS display case. Her creations range anywhere from pants and shirts to dresses.

Above: Martika Mccrary (11) prepares a meal at the Market Basket Competition at LPS Culinary Conference she is finishing the last few things to her meal before the judges get a look

Photo Courtesy of Sheri Wieden

Right: Safa Salih 's (12) c lothes on display in th e FCS display case. Salih (inset) make s a lot of her own clothing.

Photo by Dana McNeil

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Prepare their brownies to be looked over by the judges Photo Courtesy of Sheri Wieden

« EW, A NEEDLE PULLING THREAD

Left: Alicia Medina (11) Sewing one of her projects in Glenda Plettner-Nelson 's Fourth period

Creative clothing and Design. Photo By Haley Keller

Wieden 's Culinary Skill clas Photo By Greg Keller

« DON'T POKE YOURSELF

Left: ltahi Sanchez (10) sews together one of her cla s projects in Glenda Plettner-N elson 's Fourth period class. Photo by Haley Keller

Left: Callie Kiehn (12) does a c heer in a pregnancy imulation suit for Amber Oligmueller 's eighth period Infant and Toddler's class. Photo By Dana McNe il

Bottom: Max Erpelding (12) and Jes se Pi cke tt Prepare a meal in their Culinary Foods c la s. Photo by Greg Keller

» WHAT A MOUTHFUL

Above: Marisa Mickle (11) ta te te t alsa in Ali ca

Be ck' fourth period Cultural Food cl a Photo By Je i Ander on

LEAVING IT ALL ON THE DANCE FLOOR

group travels around the country and fortunately they stopp ed here at Lincoln High and preformecffor LHS students and staff Th e group worked with the Dance 101 classes and the stud ents qot to perform with th e group before they ended their show The f:XIS Danc e Company al

row row row your boat.. .

Pools are generally used for cooling down on a hot summer day, swim team practice, diving, and games like Marco P lo or just to relax in the water but not here at LHS. First semester in PE teacher J\rnY Cariotto 's fifth period Lifetime Sports class the pool was used for kayaking Ttlat's right, kayaking. " I am a big advocate of doing outdoor adventure type activities because it pretty much puts ' all the students on the same level so that really good athletes and the people who don ' t really like to participate are on the sam e level. I love to kayak, I think it's really relaxing and it's just an easy skill to pick up, so I figured since we have a pool why not try something like that at LHs:: Cariotta said. So her class spent three weeks learning skills from simple boat care to strokes in the water "It was funny from the first day, I wish I would have filmed it but the first day people were all over the place, they didn't really know what to do but by the last day the people who had kayaked were doing really, really well,'' Cariotta added

Before she brought the skills back to Lincoln High, Cariotta spent a whole day at a national conference in Texas through the American Canoe Association called Paddle Safe Paddle Smart. 'They taught us everything we needed to know in a day so it was a long day but we got to go in the pool and try everything that I showed the students," she said. The pool was a perfect size for six kayaks "It's hard to really go really far really fast so having a bigger body of water would be nice for that but to just learn the skills, it worked out really well," Cariotta described. Her only concern was the time limitation She was not able to teach her students every-

thing she wanted because it was hard to get the boats out, put them in the water, do the activity and then allow 1 5 minutes to change in a 4 5 minute class period Cariotta hoped more of her students would participate but with the cla ss being in the middle of the day, it was hard to get students in the pool.

While some kids did not enjoy the unit, those who did, really enjoyed learning the skills and being able to apply them when the class played kayak polo, a class favorite. "We played kayak polo the last few days and they were really good. _____ .J~Y..~ el! .£le.!. i!l ~n9. ~t,o!_ti.9 h!, SJ?o.,!S o really- quickly and change

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: "When I heard "It was ok I you missed out on tt1is unique 1 ' opportunity, don't worry! we were domg mean some- Kayaking is becoming a new : kayaking I was thing new, I've tradition here at LHS, not only 1really surprised never done in the Life~ime Sports class, but

1 next year In the NEW Outdoor

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I f I fully we can get to UNL to use

1new or gym c ass." than shooting baskets." their rock wall or something

1 Chloe Bontrager (10) Carlos Osorio (12) like that," Cariotta said

gtop! Don't touch the walls:! It's: wet paint! Lad year the newed addition to the weight room was: a fresh coat of paint on the walls:. This: year there are bright colored weights:. brand new equipment. and more to come. !=or the lad three years:. C.oach and Physical ~ducat:ion teacher Lawrence Chris-

along with Athletic Director Pat Gatzerneyer have been planning. saving and receiving donations: in order t:o purchas:e the new equipment. C.hridens:en explained. ""it was: about: a three year plan with mys:elf and Mr. Gat:zemeyer to update. We kind of s:aved our money through various: forms: and got a few donations: from people." ""The old duff was: give cf< , ..., ..,1-1111,.Ayb::iii"of"'il"™!Nrirrr.:1r-tA,F-4:lf duff. A lot: of the machines: they probably got: 15-20 years: ag ff\~ df homemade things: C.hridens:en s:aid. ""I think it's: great. I think i~.:Wiw'ilif.i1..:t: ment is: more together and you're not as: spread out: s:o it: leaves: more room senior Dillon Bruggeman s:aid. Wondering where the old equipment went:? built: plat:f orms: for clean and squat in re tum for receiving the old squat: racks: platforms: will be 6 x 8 with a wood insert. have our logo. and it will rea profes:s:ional. ""Once we have t:hos:e. we'll have probably the s:econd bed than the University of Nebraska." C.hris:tens:en s:aid. ""The big thing is: that..w1B1'2~::a of kids: have taken a lot: of pride in it and they're doing a lot: of work difference in our athletics: with kids: being more conditioned and be s:aid. C.hridens:en and daff are continuing t:o plan new things:. inclu

LIFTING TO SUCCESS · k. · h · hL

~Above: Both students and staff enjoy the new equipment to conbnue to get ids: In t e weIg L room and Impr equipment in th e weight room . "Our athl etes ( our ful." he added. ""I think it: will encourage them to come in. Once t g students are able to get so much more done In such a short period of time, " said Coach and PE they II feel great and want: t:o lift: more. I think it: was: a really pos:itive change. I don t 1 te;~~~r Lawrence Christensen

Bruggeman s:aid.

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~Above: Amy Cariotta 's Dance 101 classes perform with the AXIS Dance Company at Lincoln High The AXIS

so preformed at the Lied Center for the Lincoln Community

Photo by Photographer Mollie Schoonover

FRESHMAN CANNON BALL

~Above: Jake Hesson (9) jumps off the diving board during PE teacher t..:awrence Christensen 's third l)eriod Fitness For Life class Fitness For Life is the PE class that all fr eshmen are requir ed to take Photo by Jessi Anderson

Photo by Lindsey old duff

By Lindsey Toman

The LHS Health and PE department mixed things up with new weight room equipment, kayaking in the pool, geocaching, team sports, dancing with the AXIS Dance Company, and learning what alcohol does to your judgment and coordination .

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WHITE TO THE RESCUE!

» Right : Chase Whi t e ( 12) practices diving into the pool as a lifeguard during PE teacher Andrew Genrich ' s eigh t h period Lifeguard Training class " I am taking the class to renew my certification," White said Students in the class learn sk ills and become ce rtified lifeg u a r ds.

WALK ING THE LINE

» Right: Jordan Diaz ( 10) walks t he li ne u sing t h e Impaired goggles with a Blood Alcohol Level of 0.08-0 15 d u ring Hea lth teac h er Joe Shandera ' s second per iod

The Hea lth class had two guest speakers, Ryan H u ff and Sarah Tracey, from the Nebraska Department of Roads, come speak to them about Distracted Driving and they brought t h e goggles to show students how a lcoho l impairs your coordinat ion

Photo by Lindsey Toman

"X" MARKS THE SPOT

» Right : Selina Martinez ( 12) and Brenda Alvis ( 10) use their GPS, Global Pos1t1oning System, to locate the hidden containers called geocaches during PE t1=acher Amy Cariotta ' s fifth period Lifetime Sports class Each group of students hid a geocach and then the class

searched LHS campus to -.i...._.,;; find the "treasure "

Photo by Lindsey Toman

MAKING A SPLASH!

~Above: Luis Gamez-Martinez ( 10) kayaks down the pool during PE teacher Amy Cariotta ' s fifth period L1fet1me Sports class.

Photo by Lindsey Toma n

GENTLY DOWN THE PO OL

~ Above: Chloe Bontrager ( 1Ol kayaks in the swimming pool during P~ teacher Amy Cariotta's fiftti period Lifetime Sports class

Photo by Lindsey Toman

Photo by Blake Eitzmann

Concentration

Top : Thomas Nguyen (/2) sands the leg of his table. during !<us Hitz's 4th period Intro to woodlconstrudion class

Photo b-t Mqr-Lakuittia Overstreet

Two Is Better Than One

Above Center: Carlos Osorio 112) and Papa Adabie 112) work together to help fix a J:)iece to a car in Mike Fultz 's 3rd period Auto Tech class Photo by Joe Pershing

Team Work

Above: Kellen Restau 112) and Brent Koenigsman 112) work together on a CAD tech assignment f'hoto by Seth Marshall

Sanding Away The lm~rfections

Above : Brian Warne 110) sands down the top to his table during Russ Hitz's 4th period Intro to Woods class, Photo by Mar-Lakuittia Overstreet

'8klills. for a Lifetime

For senior Kellen Restau, taking Industrial Tech classes isn't just for graduation credit. Restau has put his skills to use in the outside world. Recently, he got the opportunity to do an internship with the LPS Operations and Maintenance division. Industrial Tech teacher Stan Haas approached Restau with the opportunity. Now he's part of their team working with Scott Wieskamp, Director of Facilities and Maintenance. "I do anything from going out to construction sites to sitting in on project meetings" Restau said. He also checks to be sure buildings are meeting code requirements, and keeps an eye on how the building is going, how on time they are and how much money they have left. "We go around and everyone is doing their job and we'll inspect and .see what they're doing with their money." Restau said.

Interning is very helpful for your future, also interning can turn into a permanent job. Restau plans to look for work after graduation in California with Hampton or S&H Construction.

Other opportunities include a new program at LHS called, Project Lead the Way. "Project lead the way is a national curriculum for engineering and it's to get students in high school and in junior high actually interested in becoming engineers whether it's chemical or mechanical," Haas said. Industrial arts can be more than just another class in High School, it can be turned into college credits that will benefit you if you intend on ·pursuing an engineering career.

"It starts to give [students] an idea what career they might want to do and what avenues they would have, especially on the engineering side of it" Haas said Not only does it give you college credits but students also get a taste of what engineers really do,"

Above: Stan Hass ' 3rd period Cad Tech Design class learn ho w to build bosic componnets using a sophisticated computer program. Photo by Joe Pershing

Dusty Business Top: Cat Harvey 112) uses the Jointer machine in Rus Hitz s fourth period Intro to Woods/Construction class She is making the apron for her table

Photo by Mar-lakuiltia Overstreet

Creating A Hobby

Above : Eldon Hernandez (12) in fifth per iod Machine Tool s creates a part for his R/C Car Photo b y Joe Pershing

Kellen R e t au ( 12)

GIVING A HELPING HAND!

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Ms.th classes have B reputation for being difficult especially in high school but ms.th teacher Dr. Matt Kut 11 ch e r is able to make the subject into something many students are able to enjoy.

When asked why he chose ms.th ss s subject to teach, Kutscher said 'It was B subject in high school that I had the best teacher out of all the teachers. My ms.th teacher was my favorite. It opened Blot of doors for me to go explore and I found out that I like ms.th the best.'

If you have ever had Kutscher ss B teacher you would know that he brings Blot of humor to his classroom. Jlis reasoning was 'Motivation Whenever you can lighten the room students a.re more engaged and it helps motivate them to pay attention to important things.' Jle also included that having a lighter environment with more difficult material helps with learning. Jle has seen that in tests and quizzes. Now even with the Jokes and laughter some students still have a difficulty grasping the material being taught. Kutscher takes a. different route: he tries to make B connection that they a.re struggling and stays very observant to what's going

TEACHERS ARE ALWAYS HERE TO HELP!

»

ASKING QUESTIONS , GETTING THE ANSWERS!

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·some mathematicjan ha1; 1;aid plea_gure Jieg not in di1;covering truth but in geeking it:

-Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

Ma t h

on when they give that facial expression of confusion like we all know fairly well. gefiior Ca r lo& 0 11 orio calls it ·tough love.' Both Kutscher and Osorio agree that connection between teachers and students are important. 'To be honest· Osorio said 'I've only had two good ma.th teachers: one in 8th grade and you The rest didn ' t really connect and ma.th was always a hard subject for me·

One of the biggest techniques Kutscher uses to connect with his students is 'relating with them on their level.' The majority of student s agree that when they are able to connect with the teacher the material is easier and they are able to comprehend it more. 'I think they enjoy the class. It's not my motivation to come in and say 1 hope I'm their favorite teacher · but I think they have B good time in the class and the grades overall reflect that.'

When asked if it gives him a. good feeling that his students enjoy his class Kutscher says 'It's not so much the like but the fact that I've earned their respect. The line between like and respect is really thin. They are a.lmo!d the same so it does make me feel good when I feel like I am respected.'

Above: Matfi eacher Dr Matt Kutscher helps Levester Dampeer 191 try to solve a math problem during a white board activity

Photo b y Brittan y Suhr

Right : Kutscher helps student Teialana Steele 1101 with her worksheet. Photo by Jessi Anderson

Right : Math Teacher Cindy Ingram helps Elizabeth Avery 1101 during her 8th period Advanced Algebra D class Photo by Devon Brandt

"Pure mathematics is , in its way , the Roetry of logical iGeas, -Albert £instein

STUDY STUDY STUDY !

Above: Micah Hadley 112) reviews for a math test during 4th period in the Library Photo by Alex Copeland • WORKING HARD!

Below : Aidan Mosher (/2} and Cosond[o Bulling (/2} studies for a test in Moth Teacher Zoe Schel/'s Alegbro Extended 2 class. Photo by Jessi Anderson

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!

Above: Levester Dampeer 191, Eh Krey Moo 19 k and Haley Large (11) work out math equations on the board Photo by Brittany Suhr

TEACHERS ARE ALWAYS HERE TO HELP!

Below : Sped teacher Steve Ward assists Math Teacher Zoe Schell and helps D'Morquieyon Whittington (10) with his chapter 8 multiple choice pre-test. Photo by Jessi Anderson

It's Okay, fmwith the

By Jessi Anderson

ALL TOGETHER NOW

HORNS ARE UP!

::: Above: Field McDonald (12) directs the marching band before the State Marching Band Competition in Omaha on October 23rd

::: Above: Orchestra director Brett Noser conducts the Lincoln High Orchestra during 3rd period.

Photo by Seth Marshall

HEY THAT'S NOT YOUR TUBA!

« Left: Victoria Bretthauer (10) holds another band members tuba before the State Marching Band Competition in Omaha on October 23rd. Photo by Jessi Anderson

BIRDS EYE VIEW

» Right: Band Director Chris Watson conducts a warm-up before rehearsing during a night rehearsal in late August. Photo by Seth Marshall

Sto1·y by Seth Ma1·shall

Ba11"1 is a t -ra"1 it ion at Lin co ln Hi gh with 111a 11y awad s a11i,1 titl es un de r th eir be lts Duri ng ma r chin g seaso n if y ou look out 0 11 th e fi eld th ey ar e out 111arc hi11 g at 7 : 2 5 i11 th e 111o mi11 g. 1l1e ba 11 "1 he1·e at LH S has hu ge ded ica t -io11 not only t o th e111 se lves but ~ ,o Li nco li1 Hi gh. But 1l1e LH S L 7 alk1 has had a 111 ajo r change thi s y ea ,·: t wo 11 ew di r ect ors

Chris Watoon and Jill Oetken have t -ake11 over th e Ba1k'-l along with Orchest ra d ii ·ect or Brett Nooer. Wat so n spea kin g about mar chin g L 1 a1ki sa id, "It was fu11 , a littl e bit 111 01·e intense th an wh at we are use"1 t o 1l1e stuff was mor e diffi cult and so it was a little bit hard er t o moti va t e kd s On ce they r ea li ze d how coo l it, was, th ey t oo k off with it."

• Watso11 sa d th at th e main problem was bei ng new, a11 "1 not bei ng ab le to anti cipa t e prob lems. He also hopes t o be ab le t o pu sh th e ba1k1. Eve 11 th e seni o1·s sa y th ey have bee n pu shed.

"W e had a shaky st art," sa id se ni or Jordan Scribner. "But if 11 0 one fell dow11 i11 Co lumbus th en I thi nk were c-1o in g p1·etty well." Co lum bus is th e fir st co mpetiti on in th e 111 ar chin g seaso 11.

"It' s alway s th e tri cky one L"eca use of th e gr ass fieU and it was alway s an intro compet iti o11, but-thi s y ea r it was a wake up ca ll." sa id se 11i o1 · Luke Th iele.

Wi t h one y ea 1 · u11 de 1 · th eir be lts, we lo ok t o the se new t alent ed di rect oi-s t o con tinu e makin g Lin co ln Hi gh a foi ·ce to be r eckoned with.

Above: Wes le y VanHoo se n (12) pl ays th e Violin with th e Or ches tr a in th e Ted oren se n Th eatr e.

Photo by Seth Marshall

I LIKE YOUR BOWS

Left: Band Dir ec tor Chri s Wat son condu cts th e Or ches tr a in the Ted Sorensen Theatre

Photo by Seth Marshall

LO UD AND PROUD Above : Mi cah

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Photo by Ca ie Lu ethje

YOU BLOW ME AWAY Ab ove: Ch l oe Bontr ai! er ( 10) pl ay th e sax ophon e durin g a

r it y footb all ga me. Photo by eth Mar shall

BAND FOR LI FE

Above : Luk e Thi el e (12 ) and Jord an Sc ribn

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ax ophon e durin g a var sity boy bas ketb all ga me Photo by Se th Marsh all

FLUTTERING FLUT ES , Above: Dani sh a Ston e ( 10) pl ay th e flut e durin g a var ity football gam e Photo by Seth Ma r hall BRIG

TIME FOR A QUICK WARM UP

Above: Choir Director Jon Gruett warms-up his 5th period Vocal Links class on February 18.

Photo by Seth Marshall

GUITAR JAM

Above Left to Right: Ta Wee (10), Su Reh (10) , and Guitar teacher Gary Hinkley entertain the crowd m between performances at the Oct 11 Vocal Musi c Concert. Photo Cowtesy of Judi Schroeder

LOUDER

OH SNAP!

Above: The 9 / 10 choir snaps along to th e ir songs during their fall performance on October 11 , 2010 Photo Court esy of Judi Schroeder

FA LA LA LA LA LA LA

Above: Andrea Bowman (10) flays the Flute while Jamie Tran (10) sings a vocal olo during the October 1th Vocal music concert. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

OPEN WIDE!

Above: Choir Director Jon Gruett instructs the audience during a sing alQng at the October 11th Vocal Music concert. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

Above: Pianist Jana Ghormley plays along with Concert Chorale during the October 11th Vocal Music concert. Photo Cowtesy of Judi Schroeder

Above: Sydney Grime (12) and Greg Ward (12) sing with Jazz Connection during the March 7th Vocal Music concert. Photo Cowtesy of Judi Schroeder

You're Preaching to the

By Jessi Anderson

The new popular TV show Glee depicts how rough high school is for students who sing in choir, but here at Lincoln High, students could not be prouder of the accomplishments they have made.

Sophomore and Concert Chorale member Cheyanna Kempel said, "I love choir because it's a team sport. We just work-out our voices. There is also tons of talent within the department. Each person brings something different to the group, but when we are all put together, the sound is great and we all have fun singing together.

According to Choir Director Jon Gurett, all four choirs have a lot to be proud of this year. Vocal Links accomplished singing operatic selections and 9/ 10 Choir has worked well with a new director, Jill Oetken. Concert Chorale has improved on the amount of enthusiasm they use in their voices, and Jazz Connection has mastered sync"hronized choreography. Jazz Connection also preformed around Lincoln this year, singing for middle school and participating in competitions across Nebraska.

"Being a senior and 2-year member of Jazz Connection, I've seen both the ups and downs of a choir with such talent," senior Greg Ward said. "Whether we win or lose , it has always been about singing and getting the message out. It's been a great place for me. "

Jazz Connection took 4th place in the Northeast Jazz Festival and 3rd place in the Bellevue East Competition. At the Bellevue East Competition seniors Sam Larson and Jenny Tran were awarded outstanding vocalists.

VOCAL LINKS TO THE RESCUE!

Above: Members of the 1st semester Vocal Links c lass preform during the October 11th Vocal Music concert. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

WE ARE FULL OF GLEE!

~Above: Jazz Connection performs with members of Lincoln High Band during the Fall Con rt on October 11th Photo Courie y of Judi Schroeder

LA LA BE BE DA DA ME ME

Above: Concert Chorale performs durin~ the October 11th Vocal Mu i Concert under th e direction of Jon Gruett. Photo Courtesy o1 Judi Schroeder

ANGELS OF THE BLACK AND RED

Above: The 9 / 10 Choir is directed by Jill Oetken during their fall performan e on O tob r 11th. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

around the

By Meredith Cain

VENCDNMIGO

Above : Cale Simonson (12). Spanish tmcher Paula Ossenkop. and Erin Schild (12) hold hands on the way to an AP Spanish 5 lunch. Photo by Haley Keller

PLA YIN GAMF.S!

Mbove: Daniel Martin (9) plays th e game Es Para

Mi Es Para Ti in Amy Stetson s Spanish 2 class sixth period Photo by De Von Kelley

TEAM WORK GIRLS! Above : Dana McNeil (11) and Sydney Van Pelt (11) work together in Kim Szelag's Spanish 3 class. Photo by Iris Osorio

SING ME A TUNE S'll VOUS PLAITI

Above: Marie Y:hwab (11) and Flora Zemp leni (11) practice the song "Radio Brennt" for the World Language MOVIE-STEIN! Fair in Lynda Graham-Rowe's IB/ AP French class

Above: Maddie Witters (11). Alec MutWTJ (11). and

Photo by Erika Stewart-FinkenstafXlt Kendall Hoesing (11) watch a movie, "Die Welle". in Marissa Wanamaker' s IB German dass. Photo by Erika Stewart-FinkenstafXlt

LEARNING IANGUAGF.S

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a qu es tion

SHOWING PERSEVERANCE AND CONFIDENCE, LHS

STUDENTS GIVE THEIR BEST EFFORT TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE IN OUR INCREASINGLY GLOBALIZED WORLD .

"We did a potluck at my house and I had Brazilian music and moved all the furniture and we danced," recalled Spanish teacher Paula Ossenkop. Can you picture your World Language teachers getting footloose? It's easy if you know of the teachers' camaraderie and friendships, even outside of third floor. "I don't think this kind of relationship would be found in any other world language department in LPS," she added. Not only is Spanish teacher Erick Azabache the only male teacher in the department, he also adds a musical quality to the group. "He plays guitar so he entertains us during lunchtime," said Ossenkop.

Besides adding to the group dynamic, Azabache brings music to the classroom too. Senior Jannah Absalon says that this year she ' s learned a lot 1 about Hispanic culture. "We had a speaker from Colombia. Mr. Azabache brings in cultural foods and instruments." A Peru native, this year was Mr. Azabache's first year teaching at Lincoln High.

French teacher Lynda Graham - Rowe agrees with taking what's learned at school outside of the classroom. "Many people think that almost no one speaks French in Nebraska or even in the United States, but the truth is that there are many native French speakers right here in Lincoln. French is one of the official languages in approximately 26 countries. Students studying French have many opportunities to take what they have learned outside of the classroom, whether they stay right here in Lincoln or explore trre world!" •

Marissa Wanamaker, the only German language teacher, has noticed her students improve. "Their writing skills are much stronger," she said. Ossenkop calls her student's progress "pretty amazing." She has had some of her students for three years now and some of them she even taught when , they were sixth graders at Lefler Middle School. "I see them being much more comfortable in using the language," she added. Some students have already gotten the chance to use their language skills in the native speaking countries. Last year, Absalon traveled to Spain and 'stayed with a family for part of the trip. She plans to continue being involved with the language. "I plan to join the Peace Corps and knowing Spanish will make it easier to communicate if I go to a Spanish -speaking country."

Learning a new language is a daunting task, but with the support and guid ance from knowledgeable teachers, students can overcome the challenge and become bilingual, or at least get a start.

makin c oi e

Students explain how they chose which language to learn

SPANISH

"A lot of Jn>ple I know were taking Spanish. I chose it l:roluse I wan t to go to Spain If I know th e language it will re eas ier to get around when 1 go sight -seeing and communicate with th e Jn>ple."

Rachel King ton (9)

FRENCH

"I chose it tmluse they taught us French in my preschool so I had the oo.s1 mckground, plus I just lo ve th way it sounds! And Madame Graham-Rowe drem't mind if I call her 'mommy' during early morning classes on accid nt."

Mimi Merliss (12)

GERMAN

"I chose German troiuse 1 heard the rumor that th German teacher was the coo lest teacher in th e school Plus, I didn't want to jump on th mndwagon of Spanish and French wasn't ap[ffiling to me. Gcrrmn seemed fun ."

Elijah Euhmks (11)

MULTILINGUAL

"First of all it's always gcxxl to learn as many languages as fX)SSib le and since France is so nearby Germany and I have some friends ther I actually have th e chance to go th ere and practice my French skills. And French is a l:x>autiful lan guage! Everything you Say in French just sounds so pretty and mekx:Uc."

Marte S:hwab is fluent in her native language German and also English. Marte &hwab (11)

Left: C.a leb Hocd (11) asks S{xll1ish teach er Erick Az.amche

in S{xll1ish 4. Photo by Jordan Greenlee

DONT PLAY WITH YOUR FOOD!

WHATD I GETI WHATD I GE1?

Above : Elizabeth Okereke and Devin Tate (9) go over his test during her 4th ~=-rh 1/2 class Photo by Alex

Above: C.aleb Chris tain sen (12) ~ughs during Paula Ossenkop' s AP S{xll1ish 5 lunch at El Rancho. Pharo by Haley Keller

USTEN UP FRENCHIE!

» Right: Eve Dimagno (12) takes notes in 2nd period IB French taught by Lynda Graham-Rowe. Photo by Alfrrxlo Gonzalez

Above Top : Alec Mutum (11) and Matt Showalter (11)

E>9rform a periodicity lab during chemistry teacher Sean 1-'utnam s sixth period Chemistry IB 1class.

Photo by Lindsey foman

STEA M Y SCIENCE

Above M iddle: Emily Gasper (10) examines her mystery substance after she boiled it in wa ter during science teacher

Genee ' Handiey's sixth period Biology class Students boiled the unknown substance and w atched the color changes occur. Photo by Tiana Brown LEAP INTO LEARNING! CHEMICAL REACTIONS

Above Left Rebekah Ritz (12) and Jolin Ngyuen 1111 dissect a fish dur1n_g their eighth period Zoology class wi th science teacher Shar1II Luedtke While

Above Bottom : Will Mosby 110) and Deontre Belford dissecting their frog , they were drawing what they saw Photo by Ph,/ fdd,ns (10) wa tch the chemical reaction of an urknown solution

and Benedict 's Solution in science teacher Genee ' Handley 's Above Rigl,t : Micaela Pacheco Ceballos (12) retrieves 1 ml of Calcium solution to mix with 1 ml of_ sulfuric acid during chemistry teacher Sean Putnam 's eighth period Biology class Photo by Shaundra Freeman sixth period Chemistry IB 1 class Studen t s also mi xed magnesium , strontium and barium with the sulfuric acid. Photo by Lmdsey Toman l 04 Sc.ien..ce

Above: Science teacher Sharill Luedtke shows her fourth period Zoology class steps to dissecting a fish. During her class student s dissect fish frogs and mice. Photo by Jessi Anderson TEST TUBES, BEA KERS, ELEMENTS, 0 M YI

« Left : Michelle Lee (11) and Emma Shultz (11) e xperiment with periodic trends in chemistry teacher Sean Putnam's sixth period Chemistry IB I class

The lab was used to determine trends in reactions of elements Photo b y Lindsey Toman

10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2 1 1BLAST OFF!!

Below : Zach Hyde 11 il prepares to launch a rocket during science teacher Will Smiths fifth period Diff Physics class on the baseball field The clqss launched rockets to explore proiectile motion Photo by Cassie Lueth e

The smell traced through the halls Formaldehyde, a colorless, toxic, water soluble gas, filled Science teacher Sharill Luedtke's classroom

"l like its COTV1plexi1Y. it really / l¼J(es you thif\k ." -Paige Skillet (11)

MR. PATRI K BIA

where you could find students dissecting fish, YEARS AT LHS: 18

MR. STEVE FER 15

YEARS ATLHS: 2 2 WHAT HE HAS ENJOYED MOST: frogs, rats and clams during her Zoology class - WHAT HE HAS ENJOYED MO ST: es. The formaldehyde is used to preserve the "T~e ablllty to teac~ avid deslgvi animal corpses so students can cut and explore t~e pattervi or t~e way t~at avi the insides of a body in front of them. "With evit1re COIArse worf6 t~at I t~lvi~ dissecti on, the goals of Zoology, not only do leads to t~e most learvilvig," they learn about the evolution and the complex - WHAT HE WILL MI SS MO ST: ity of animals but they also get the hands on T~e "1 2,000 sttAdevits t~at I've experience, the practical performances of be - ta1,1gM, avid t~e good feedbac~" ing able to see and use their hands and be like (emalls, letters, etc,), little doctors, in order o find out the internal WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS: worki I d "Explorlvig t~e world wit~ my plays 1 ..u.r L--""'~'11 wife avid go avid experlevice and we also get to work with it, everyday lvi relax mode,"

"I got Rids (sttAdevits) lvi New YorR avid AlasRa dolvig researc~ avid I c~ecR In wit~ t~em, t~ey c~ecR lvi wit~ me avid Its J1,1st great to .be lvi to1Ac~ wit~ old sttAdevits," WHAT HE WILL MISS MO ST:

"I'm golvig to miss my st1Adevits, I'm golvig to miss t~e 9t~ graders, My 9t~ graders t~ls year as t~ey .become awesome 1ot~ graders avid evevi awesomer 11t~ graders," WHAT THE FUTURE HOLD S:

I'm golvig to travel, visit frlevids, visit family avid read, read, read, "

By Lindsey Toman

... and we all fall down.

During science teacher Patrick Burns · sixth period anatomy class, first semester, a student unscrewed a screw and the entire human skeleton wentdqwn

FISHY EXPLORATION

LECTURE TIMEI

« Left: Social Stud ies teacher Bryan Goodbrake 's 4th period Civics class learns about U.S. Federal powers Photo by Day/an D avis

Torrey Wallace/Sophomore

TREASURE HUNTI

« Left: Torr ey Wallace ( 10) visit s a checkpoint outside the nurse 's office during Social Studies teacher Becky Mclauqhlin 's Stfl period World History class. Photo by DayIan Davis

Taylor Loeb]/Junior

GOOD BEHAVIOR!

« Left: Taylor Loebl ( 1 1) received candy for beh aving well with a sub the week before in Social Studies teacher Donna Anderson 's US History class. Photo by Chelsea Remmenga

Emily Gasper/Sophomore

GOTTA LOVE DBOsl

« Left : Emily Gasper ( 10) works on her data based question during Social Studies teach er Becky McLaughlin 's 8th period World History class. Photo by Katelyn Theye

Davonte Webster/Junior

LEARN, LEARN!

« Left: Social Studies teacher Donna Anderson takes a moment to be silly while Davonte Webster ( 1 1) works on his Renaissance Foldable during his US History class. Photo by Ashley Munda/I

WORLD EX PROJECT!

YOU SUNK MY BATTLESHIP!

Above : Jason Velder (10) works on a book work assignment with Sierra Arizola (10) in Social Studies teacher Jarrell Green 's World History class. Photo by Andrew Haile

Below: Zachary Hadenfeldt (10) works on his 3-D model during World Experience Hadenfeldt and his groupmates were building a mini fountain using cups that would represent Hinduism. Photo by Hung Vo

Above: Social Studies teacher Andrew Bargen captivates his audience of AP Government and Politics students during 8th period second semester. Photo by Meredith Cain

WORLD EXPERIENCE? FOOD EXPERIENCE!

» Right : Matt Showalter llll, a gradua te of the class, prepares Indian lood for the World Experience class during 5th and 6 th period in December

SOCIAL STUDIES!

A defining moment for Social Studies teacher Andrew Bargen was when Lincoln High was put on the list of Tier Two Schools. "It was last school year, when the state department of education put us on a list that said we were a perpetually low achieving school," stated Bargen. "I take great umbrage becal,Jse frankly I'm not sure they could tell me the definition but I don't think they have any recognition or

exploring new religions

understanding of what we do here and the challenges that we face that are different from anybody else's." Overcoming challenges is rewarded with meaningful experiences.

"My favorite part [of my job] is probably the dialogue between me and students," explain~d Department Chair J.P. Caruso. "One of the reasons why I became a teacher is because I really do love to learn . Lers s9y I have a class of 28 students. They think they're coming in to learn. I'm looking at it as, ifs me with 28 teachers. In • essence the only reason I teach is to learn. There's not a day that goes by where I don't have students who are helping me learn something. And to get paid to do that, I cant think of anything better!"

Bargen says the activity he has had the most fun with this year is a wall murdl of monotheistic and polytheistic religions. Many of his students come from Christian backgrounds, so it's fun for him to see them exploring new religions. World Experience, a double period class for pre-lB students, also explores religions. "Wex'' students also get to experience cuisine from the areas where the religions they study originate

Besides enjoying the course material, social studies teachers are sure to take time to have fun in

• other ways during classtime.

meaningful experiences

O V erco n1 Ing Caruso says that he makes students hot chocolate and tells silly jokes. "I laugh at them, 1laugh with them, I laugh at myself," he adds. Bargen is known for his impersonations, singing, and humorous brief bird-walks LHS chal enges is fortunate to have Social Studies teachers that incorporate education with a little entertainment, They're pas' sionate about the subjects and teaching. Caurso says, "There are lots of people out there that have jobs that they don't enjoy what they're doing, and I am thankfully not one of them "

Above : Hung Vo (10) and Alex Sorensen (10) take notes from a Hinduism poster in World Experience. Every stuoent made posters and 3-D Models about Hinduism. Photo by Greg Keller

Q&A SESSION

Above : Amber Morrison 1111 and Erika Stewart-Finkenstaedt 112) discuss the myths and facts of hypnosis in Psychology teacher Mandy Peterson 's AP Psychology class

Photo by Meredith Cain

The class enjoys food from the regions they study in class. Photo by Greg Keller

SORTS OF SEEDS

Above: Silai Mughalzai ( 10) works at the UNL seed lab on East Campus.

Photo by Linda Johnson Flowerday

SWEET MUSIC ;

« Left: Brianna Pavey ( 11 ), Whitney Gropp ( 10) , Kayla Martin ( 10), Dalton Arnold ( 10), sing for th ~ Winter concert. Photo by Seth Marshall

I have been in Vocal Links for two years We sing a lot of songs . But my favorite class is math . - Dalton Arnold ( 10)

j I like i when we sing "Hakuna Mataifu " in class We also did some Christmas songs; my favorite was "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" - Spencer Beard ( 10)

HELPING HAND S

I-low rnan!::I of !:JOU have ever been into a s;pecial education clas;s;? I know I have been at: Lincoln l-ligh for

4 !:!ears; now. and have never been involved with an!::Jthing in the gpecial Education depart:rnent:. But: I wonder how an!:! of you know Sydney Grirne? ghe is; a Pornalink. Jazz Connection leader. and work s; at: a dance dudio in Lincoln: s;he is; als;o a s;pecial education dudent: as;s;idant:. Many dudent: s; at: Lincoln ' l-ligh have had a dudent: as;s;id clas;s;. Madly. it: cons;ids; of grading papers;. delivering paper s; and s;iHing in a teacher's; clas;s;. Grirne was; not: content: t:o do Jud that:.

"I needed an as;s;id and I thought:. 'Wh!::J would IJud s;it: around. when I could be in a gpecial Education clas;s; obs;erving and s;eeing how it: works;?' Becaus;e I know that's; what: I want: t:o do in the future. go why not: dart: on it: now?"

More exciting than grading papers; right:?

"With Vocal Links; I get: t:o interact: with kids; a lot:. and that's; reall!::J fun. We get: t:~ s;ing and dance.'' ghe wanted t:o have a dudent: as;s;id that: s;he could gain s;ornet:hing f rorn. Grime hopes; t:o be a gpecial Education teacher when s;he is; older. s;o s;he wanted t:o do s;ornet:hing that: would help her gain experience for her goal. Grirne eagerly des;cribed her future plans; t:o rne as; r 'Jth 1 f tn

"That's; why I want: t:o do rnild and rnoderat:e dis;abilit:ies;. And then dance. and then event:uall!::J I would be an elernent:ary dis;abilit:ies; teacher during the day and then at: night:. I would have rny own dance dudio. I want: t:o offer a clas;s: for kids; with dis;abilit:ies;. and for people with dis;abilities; becaus;e I thought: that: would be s;ornet:hing different:. You don't: s;ee s;ornet:hing like that: very often."

When Grirne was; in her Junior year here. s;he decided t:o as;k her couns;elor. Marti Oakes;on. if it: would be pos;s;ible t:o as;s;id for a s;pecial education clas;s;. Grirne eagerly darted as;iiding in a s;pecial education clas;s;. This; is; Grirne's; s;econd year doing a dudent: as;s;id. and this; s;erneder. s;he is; as;s;iding in Vocal Links;. "l'rn kind of like rnore of a friend. What: I do is;, I s;it: on the end. and I s;it: by s;ophornore Maurice I-lite. I-le is; really good with rnus;ic. I'll help hirn learn the words;. and a lot: of the other kids; s;it: b!::J rne and wG all s;ing together and I help t:hern s;ing. And when we have t:o dand up we grove and dance and it's; really fun."

Above: Sydn ey Grim e 11 2 ) work s tog eth e r with M a ur ice Hit e ( 10) in Mu sic

eac h e r Dr John Gru ett' s 5th

:::: Above : Student Counc English Language Learner

STUCO CALENDAR

> (:f'~ Right: Brittany Warta 10) upaates the February calendar with school events. The calendar is located in the Cafeteria in the StuCo showcase

YOUR TIME TO SHINE

»Middle Right: Jessi Ander son , 12) and Emma Rathe (11) announce the winners of ' Lincoln High ' s Got Talent ' on Decemoer 16 , 2010. Photo by Andrew Haile · SMILE!

»Right: Jessi Ander;on (12) Emma ~athe ,11) Christie Do _(_9) and Ashley Carngbe (11) pose for a 12icture during Student Council State

Photo by Malinda Burk DELIVERY!

» Right: Andy N~o (9) and Evan Sackett (1 unlock the elevator to eliver fruit before second period on February 8, 2011.

APPLES TO APPLES

>>Far Right: Student Council members play Apples to Apple s for their weekly bonding activit_Y, The Student Council has one bonding day every week to get to !<now each other a little better.

Photo byJessica Svec

~COUNCIL?

'"Our Bfahth ~at.16 math : t6aoh6r told ue that W6 ·ehould _Join Stud6nt Counoll 1'BOat.Je6 W6 W6r6 I 16at.16re" -Holli Zlmm6rman (9)

Photo by Haley7<eller

Photo byJessica Svec

Photo oyJessica Svec

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

« Left: Jannah Abasalon(12) carries gifts that Student Council wrapped during their operation Christmas Drive.

Photo by Malinda B,urk

B]low: Emma Rat~e (12 , Sierra Perry (9 , Ho Ii Zimmerm~n U ) and A.ndy Ngo ,9) me~t In their morning committee to talk about the up coming school events.

Photo 7JyJessica Svec

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Student Coun cil meets every mo1 ning at 7 a.m. to pl an sc hool eve11ts and make Lin coln High a be tter environment for all stud ents. Not many people know th at Stud ent Coun cil is be hi11 d th e fru it pro gra m, Homecoming and Prom, the ELL 1l1anksgiving dinne1 , and new thi s ye ar 'Lin coln High' s Go t Talent.'

Student Council

ll1 e Lin co ln High Stud ent, Coun cil has wor-k ed ha1d ove r th e past fou1 · y ea I·s to beco me I11 0I·e i1w olv ed at LH S ll1 ey st art ed th e pI ·ogI ·a111

• Wh at cha Doin'? -a g1 ·a11t-funded pi-og I·am th at su ppli ed fr ee fruts a11d vege t ab le s foi · stud ents ll1 e id ea is t o " chall enge hi gh sc hoo l stu de nts t o get aea tiv e, a littl e wacky, and have some fu n with fruits, vegg ies and activity,"

"W e de live1 · th e fruit eveI y Tu esda y thr ough Fri da y tlw oughout th e buildin g," Fi- es hm en Andy Ngo sa id, "1l1i s prov ides stu de 11 ts wh o do n't have th e time 01 · money fo1 · b1·eakfas t a chance t o gi-ab so methi ng 011 th e go be fo ·e they go t o cl ass." ((?lJo no/ wail {rn leade'toi do ii alone, ;u,oott lo jte'toon." -~AZollu~ ?5e'teoa

"I like being in Student Council, because it is just fun to integrnte with the school. Knowing what is going on, and that I'm a pa1·t of that is g1 Aeat."

-Siffra P eiTy (9)

"I don't think th at th e oth e1 · stu de nts r ea li ze th at we co me ii 1 at 7 o'cl ock eveI·y mornin g, and we 1·eally t1 ·y t o i111p1 ·ove leade 1·shi p a 11 d have pos itiv e involvement at Lin co ln Hi gh," sa id sen io1 · Roole Neibel. "1l1 e gI oup has beco me moI·e in vo lved , a11 d we have in ci-eased ouI · size and potenti al," Neib el added "1l1 e stu de 11ts th at have bee n in Stu de nt Co un ci \ fo1 · moI·e th an a y ea I· ar e dedi ca t ed and h.::1 ve 1·eally t ried t o ma ke thing s happ en, like ouI· Make- a-Wi sh fun i:i 1·a ise r in Dece mbe 1." ..Ju11i o1 · Emma Rathe and Se ni or Jeooi Anderoon plan11 ed 'Lin co ln Hi gh' s G ot Talent,' a t alent s how th at was held on Dece 111 be 1 · 1 6 , 2 0 1 0 ii th e TeL-1 So1ensen ll1 ea t re "M ake- a- Wi sh is anoth e1 · one of th e big S tu'dent Co un cil activiti es," Rath e sa ii:i. "Stu "-i ent co u11cil s ac I oss th e st at e work with th e Make- a-Wi sh Fou nda ti on, and we also wantei:i t o help th em out," Rath e sa id. ll1 e fa ll t alent show ga ve stu i:ie nts wh o woul d11't be ab le t o pe1foi-111 at at J oy Nite a chance t o s how off. "A11 d it, ga ve th ose stud ents the chance t o shin e," Rath e sa id. ll1 e Stu de nt Co un ci l ra ised $600 for th e Make- a-Wi sh Foun da ti o11. •

Seni or s Sandy Ngo and Ros ie Neibe l have been in S tud ent Co un cil all fou1 · y ea r s of hi gh sc hoo l. Neibe l Join ed t o beco me inv olved in th e sc hoo l, "I lik e t o pl an and or ga ni ze thin gs, so bei ng in St-u Co seemed lik e a pe 1 f ect thing," Neibel sa id. "Sa 1k1y and I have alw ay s bee n di-iv en and har d- working, and I think th at th1 oughout our y ea I·s in Stu Co , th e co un cil has rea lly ne eded th at. Peo pl e d1·op out and quit beca use th ey don't want, t o put in th e effort of getting up and hou1 · ea rli er every sin gle "1ay an d thi11k it' L.-1 be an easy I esu111 e build e1, but I think th at Sandy a11 "1 I have stu ck with 1+beca use we have seen th e improv ement and we will be nefit fr om th e wo1-k we have put in. We have enjoyed th e oppo1-tun it1 es t o beco me in vo lved and to be come l~a de1 ·s," sa id Nei be l.

STUDENT COUNCIL GROUP PHOTO

;;:: Above: B~ ck Ro w left to rig~t Andy Ngo (9) Emm a Rat he (11) Laurie Jo hn so n (11) , Sam Lar son (12) , Ro si e Neibel (12 , Azad Naser (11) Emily (:, a~ per (10) and Student Coun cil Spo ns o r

~linda Burk Frf :i.t Row let to rigj,t Brittany Wart a (l0J , SJ.ndy Ngo (12) Holli Zimm erm an 9J , Sierra Perry 9J, Evan Sa ckettl.11) , and Saufi Amer son lJO).

hoto byJes sica vec

FRUIT PROGRAM!

:::: Above:Jannah Absalon (12) and Holli Zimmerman (9) deliver fruit to the Principals office before school on November 10, 2010. The fruit is provided by a grant that is called the Alternative Breakfast Program Student Council work s with Nutrit ion Services at the District office for different grants Photo by Greg Keller

WOULD YOU LIKE SOM!;: PIE?

;;:: Above: Ashley Carngbe (11) Mary Overstreet (9) and Jordan Barrientos (10) give out desserts

to the ELL student s for the ELL Tnanksgiving Dinner tnat Student Council helcfon November 22, 2010. Photo by Malinda Burk

"It's my dream to be a writer for a newspaper or just a journalist and travel around the world," senior Brent Koenig sman said. That is why Koenigsman is one of eight on the 2010-201 1 Advocate staff. "We're really small and a lot of us are all

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new to it, so we ve a to earn a ot a out ayout

and all that kind of stuff on the fly. We've had to

adapt and learn the system," Koenigsman added With only eight members, the Advocate staff is challenged on a daily basis. Senior Editor-inChief Jessi And ers on said, "Deadlines are definitely a problem and a challenge for the Advocate. Just writing the stories, finding stories, it's kind of hard to do it in a two-week period because things change and things happen so suddenly. We have to make our writing deadlines, so we can do our layout deadlines and if we miss one deadline then everything gets pushed back."

Creating a complete issue is a lot of work for eight students, so they spend a lot of time outside of class working and writing. "The way we have overcome those (deadline cha llenges) is by staying late after school and he l ping each other out as a whole," Anderson said.

"It's a different c lass, it feels a little more professional than what I'm use to in high school," senior Ca leb Ch r istiansen said. Although the class can be very stressful, especially with only eight members working together to get an issue done, the staff members describe how it has benefited them.

"I think on my feet a lot better, I can throw something together last minute and have it be decent," Christiansen said. Anderson said she ben- 1 would efited with her writing, "I've really learned different age anvone who styles of writ ing through reading other people's is driven to do writing When I read through people like Brent it and the more Koenigsman's writing, I learn how to get straight people that join to the point and it makes my writing better." it wouldn't be as "I've become a better newspaper writer, much work for kind of more objective and I think I've learned each person." the style of newspaper writing better I've also •Brent Koenigsman met a lot of cool. people through interviews and I think I've learned a lot about the school than I would have otherwise," Koenigsman added.

"It's

reallv cool to see vour name in Drint. PeoDle will read the newsDaper, thev talk about it and it's cool to sav I wrote that!."

•Caleb Christiansen

ISSUE # 1

~Abo v e To p : Brent Koenigsman ( 12), Erik Chapa ( 11 ), and Sam Larson ( 12) place

inserts into the first issue of the Advocate for the 2010-201 1 school year during Ad-

vacate sponsor Greg Keller's seventh period Advocate class

Photo by Greg Keller

0 SO MANY INSERTS

~Above : Caleb Christiansen ( 12) and DeVon Kelley ( 12) place inserts into the first issue of the Advocate in Advocate sponsor Greg Keller's seventh period Advocate class. Photo by Greg Keller TEAM WORK

Above Right: Elizabeth Lewy ( 11 ), Devon Kelley ( 11 ), Gwendolyn lhrie ( 12) , and Jessica Anderson ( 12) stuff the first issue of the Advocate with inserts during Advocate sponsor Greg Keller's seventh period Advocate class. Photo by Greg Keller

Erik Chopo Elizabeth Lewy

INTERVIEW, TRASCRIBE, WRITE! ~A bove: Devon Kelley transcibes an interview for a story in the second issue of the Advocate. Photo by Greg Keller

Greg Keller 2011

The 1suspense is killing you , you've waited ' all year to know What will the yearbook look like? What pages will you be on? Did they use one of my pictures from photojournalism? Did they write about that time the cross country team broke down on the way to districts? What other surprises will I find underneath the cover? Do you ever stop to think about who is behind the book everyone waits for? "The ones that stay, are dedicated and we try our hardest to create a book of memories that never expire," senior Erika-Stewart-Finkenstaedt said ~~---• This year s yearbook staff included 10 seniors and l junior "We only had 4 returners, so there was a lot of learning to do but they caught on quickly and we got the ball rolling," senior Editor-in-Chief Lindsey Toman said "I was kind of nervous but the staff was very helpful," senior Sandy Ngo said "I was nervous because I felt like I had d lot to learn but a lot of my friends were in the class so I was also r:;;,..,-.••'excited," senior Cassie Luethje said Even though there was only a limited number of experienced staff members, "I felt very confident in their abilities to do excellent work," Yearbook Adviser Greg Keller said. That excellent work is impossible to get done in only 50 minute classes, so many staff members put in hours outside of class "We came in from 12 to 4 on a Saturday and that time was really important because I learned how to use lnDesign and how to put everything together," senior Haley Keller said "Coming in for one day over the break is like coming in for two weeks of class time, it helps to get a lot done is a short amount of time ," senior Jessi Anderson said "If we did not have the outside of class time, th ere is no way we could give the book as much time and dedication it needs to be complete," senior Jessica Svec said. "We all have the same goal, to create one book that will cherish the memories of high school. We are making history, perserving the memories you will have forever ," ...,.__-I"----..;.;...,.....-~ said Toman Although each staff member has their own reason for joining the class For senior Brittany Suhr, she "thought it would be a great experience for my senior year ." "I have a future in taking pictures and I like to get around and do stuff," senior Seth Marshall said "In middle school I always wanted to be in yearbook but never got to be, so I signed up in high school," junior Dana McNeil said From taking pictures to interviewing, story writing and layout, the yearbook staff never rests Although , we are human and need a break every now and then , which is how the 30 -second dance break began . "Around deadlines it can be very stressful but we manage to have fun along the way Our 30 - second dance breaks were -a fun way to step away from the computer for a moment and just relieve some stress nd laugh," senior Meredith Cain said

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KEEPING THINGS ORGANIZED

Above : Cassie Luethje ( 12) writes down an event on the Master List for photographers during Yearbook Advisor Greg Keller's third period Yearbook class. Photo by Meredith Cain

LENDING A HELPING HAND

« Left : Lindsey Toman ( 12) helps Erika StewartFinkenstaedt ( 12) on the 2011 English spread du r ing Yearbook Advisor Greg Keller ' s third period Yearbook class

Advisor Greg Keller's third period Yearbook class

Photo by Lindsey Toman

LOOKING FOR IDEAS

Below Left : Jessica Svec ( 12) browses through an old yearbook for ideas during Yearbook

Advisor Greg Kel ler's third period Yearbook class

Photo by Lindsey Toman

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« Left : Erika St ewa rtFinkenstaedt ( 12), Meredith Cain ( 12) and Haley Ke ll er ( 12) work on the 2011 Music Life spread during Yearbook Advisor Greg Keller's third period Yearbook class Photo by N icco/e

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TAKE A PICTURE!

~ Abov e Left : Sandy Ngo ( 12) takes pictures of t he Mosaic Book Presentation in the LHS Media Center during Yearbook Advisor Greg Ke ller's t h ir d pe r iod Yearbook c lass Photo by Haley Ke

Photo by Meredith Cain

« Left : Seth Marshall ( 12) looks through pictures for the 201 1 Band spread during Yearbook

FORGET THE POM POMS WE WANT THE POMALINKS DANCE-A-THON

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Above: Members of Jazz Conection preform during the March 7th chora l e concert in the Ted Sorensen Theatre. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

Above: Afton Schwahn (12), Emily Martinez (12), Courtney Mangers (11) and Andi Ahmed-Manakdan (11) perform as the Pomalinks at the November 23rd Northeast Strutter Show. Photo by Mollie Schoonover

THE THREE MASKED MAJORS

Above: Olivia Wilson (11 ), Field McDonald (12) and Mar'lakuitta Overstreet (12) have fun with their Drum Major uniforms before the State Band Competition in Omaha on October 23rd. Photo by Jessi Anderson

LINKS OF THE HIGH SEAS

~ Above: Connor Hehn (12), Callie Kiehn (12), Dana McNeil (11 ), and Katelynn Young (11) warm up their clairnets before the State Band Competition in Omaha on October 23rd. Photo by Jessi Anderson

WALKING DEAD

Left: Members of the One Act performance of A Company of Wayward Saints preform at the LHS Play Produuction Festive! on November 23rd. Photo by Greg Keller

JUNIORS RULE IN PINK

» Right : Zoe Rinke (9) cheers at the November 23rd Northeast Strutter Show. Photo by Mollie Schoonover

FUTURE BEETHOVEN

Active

By Jessi Anderson

~ Above: Eve Dimagno (12) plays the piano at the October 18th chorale concert. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

~Above: Sh the junior va • 23rd Northe Schoonover

ROBED BEAUTIES

~Above: Members of the Alto section of Concert

Chorale prepare to sing at the Fall Concert on October 18th Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

SOLO PREFORMER

Above: Greg Ward (12) sings a solo in Jazz Connection at the March 7th choral concert. Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

WE ARE FAMILY

Above: Members of Ground Zero pose for a group photo at one of their stop on their mini-tour aroud Lincoln. Photo Courte sy of Donna Anderson

FIERCE GUARD

Above: Abi Sanders (12) prepares to preform in Color Guar~ at the State Band Competition in Omaha on October 23rd. Photo by Jes~, Anderson

FRESH MEN

FLYING FLAG OF FUN

Above: Andrea Bowman ( 10) prepare to preform in Color Guard at the State Band Competition in Omaha on Oc tober 23rd. Photo by Jessi Ander on

Above: Members of th e Guy s section of 9 / 10 Choir sing at the October 18th chorale concert.

Photo Courtesy of Judi Schroeder

· FROZEN KISSES • • •

« Left: Jolin Nguyen (11 ), Abbey Spencer {11 ), and Sarah Anderson (12) preform as the Pomalinks at the December 20th Jingle Bell Jam Photo Phil Eddins

"l do C£e GrouNd zero l¼l(i1'q aN i1v1pact iN 1he COMMUNity SOON lt is oNe of 1v1y goals, as well as 1he 1v1el\lbers, to have GrouNd Zero beco1v1e a positive force iN 1he co1v11v1uNity ." -DONNa ANdersoN GrouNd Zero SpoNsor

" WE WORK AS ONE "

Above : Demetre Gibson (9) leads the group during their performance at the Girls Varsity Basketball game. Photo by Donna Anderson

BUST A MOVE Above : Brodrick Kudron (9) practices his dance

Photo by Donna Anderson

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

~ Above: Ground Zero performs at Eastridge ElementarY. Scho p l, performing at local schools is a way for Ground Zero to get out in the community and show tlieir skills.

Photo by Donna Anderson

ONE HANDED Above: L.J. Ewings (9) shows off his moves during Ground Zero ' s tour of elementary schools Photo by Donna Anderson

FLIPPING OUT! Above: Mohammed Musa (12) flips over two other Ground Zero members during a half time performance in Johnson Gym.

Photo by Madefine McAlister

GROUND ZERO

« Left: Ground Zero poses for a group photo after their P,erformance at the gir ls Varsity tiasketball game r~February 18 , 2011. Front Row : C5arlie Curtis -Beard 9J, Middle Row : Moh amed Mu sa (12), G~o~nd Zero

ponsor D onna Ande r~on, Hiep N~uyen 12) , B9:ck

Row : Thommy Tr n (9 , Timothy u tis · eard (.12) , Brodri ck Kudron (lo), .J. Ewings 10) and Jos hu a Curtis-Beard (11). Photo by Jessica vec

Some people may wonder where the idea for Ground Zero came from. Timothy Curtis -Beard would tell you that social studies teacher Donna Anderson asked him if he wanted to create adance team. " When she asked me I thought she was kidding, because LHS already had the Pomalinks and she was a new teacher here, so I thought it was just a good laugh, but then she told me she was serious," Curtis - Beard said. Ground Zero was created on September 7th, 2010 and has exploded since then. The name Ground Zero was senior Mohamed Musa's idea. At first, Curtis-Beard thought it was a horrible idea, but then it caught on and stuck with the group. Ground Zero's first big performance was in front of the whole school at the Fall Pep Rally. The crowd went wild after the performance, and they received a standing ovation.

Ground Zero is more than just a dance team. " We are friends, buddies, people we can talk to about problems, and we are a family," Curtis-Beard said. "I also realized that even when we are not dancing we are still hanging out with each other a lot." Ground Zero practices every Monday , Wednesday and Thursday for two hours after school. When the group gets close to a performance they may practice on a Saturday afternoon. This group puts in a lot of time outside of school to have great performances. Ground Zero doesn ' t only perform at LHS 1 they also go out and preform in the community. They have been to elementary and middle schools all over town, they also preformed at UNL, and they also participated in the Martin Luther King,Jr. Youth Rally and March to the capitol this year.

One interesting thing about Ground Zero is that there are three people in the group who are all related. Those three members are senior Timothy CurtisBeard , junior Joshua Curtis ~Beard , and freshman Charlie Curtis -Beard . Timothy ays that even though there are some tough times working with his brothers he doesn't regret it at all. He says his brothers make him a better dancer. " We enjoy dancing together, because we all grew up around the same dance styles and movements. I can guarantee that we move together as one." Timothy also choreographs all of the routines and hopes to pass that task down to his younger brothers after he graduates.

MADELINE MCALISTER

Have you seen this girl around school? • Well many of you may not know that she is a part of the Ground Zero dance team She may not dance with them, but she is there for everything. She runs the music for the group on a day -today basis at practices and performances. She takes photos of the group and records each performance and then uploads them to Facebook or You Tube McAlister also provides transportation for the group to many of the outside of school performances Some may wonder how McAlister got involved with this group. " I got started with the group because I usually hung out with Josh and/or Tim after school, and they were dancing in the group so I just kind of started showing up and finding a spot I •could fill in I help them because I enjoy it."

McAlister knows some about dance her self, she is an Irish dancer, which is completely different from Ground Zero's style. " Being a professional dancer allows me to understand how important practic is and things you should do wheh you are performing. It can also help when they are working on a piece that is for one part of • the song so that you know what time to start lt at so you can go back over and over (\\ till they got the part. "

McAlister likes working with the group because, "they are all very talented in different ways , and it is great to see them put all their strengths together and really create something explosive. Along wi th ~-

learning how to incorporate everyone 's

style in a routine so that each one can shine."

Above: Ground Zero P,reforms at the Fall Pep Rally, this was Ground Zero's first school performance.

Photo by Greg Keller WATCH ANO-LEARN

» Right : Mohamed Mus a (12) teaches children from local elementary sc hool s ho w to do part of the Ground Zero dance.

Photo by Donna Ander son

Piles of origina l student wr itin g of prose, poetry an d vis u al art an d photography find their way into t~e h ands of some very specia l ed itor s. These editors look ove_r each indivldual piece of work that i s s ubmitt ed an d they take the best pieces and com}t ise them into a lit erary magazine known as the Lincoln High Scribe. ,

"As a group of e di tors we process through the things we receive by rea din g them aloud, discussing and voting. A ll names are removed so we are jud ging the exce ll ence of the piece and not the individual." Senior Madeline Cass said , Being apart of a literary magazine is a lot of work, so it is important to have a good work env i ronment Eng li sh teacher and Scribe sponso r ; Deborah McGinn had this to say abo ut the Scribe members, " I lik e the community between the ed itor s . We are graduat in g Madeline Cass, Eric Holt , Dylan Roberson and David Cossaart. They have been the strengt h a nd the heart of Scribe. I am very happy they wi ll now be s u cceed in g on the college l evel, though I wi ll miss them terribly. I am thankful for their l ea d ersh ip and devotion."

Putting a magazine together is not just all work, it is full of w ild and imaginative events When asked what their favorite moments were of the year Scribe members mentioned when they took their staff photo in the swimming pool and when they had the annual Scr ib e ch ili cook off on the Astroturf of the Nebraska Corn Huskers

Senior Eric Holt described his favor ite part of Scribe by saying "My favor it e part is in the vot in g on submiss ions and reviewing student work because it helps my own writ in g and reinforces my ski ll s as an ed itor."

Sophomore Catherine Burns sim il arly exp lained h e r favor it e thing abo ut Scribe by say in g, "I like to inco rporate art work w ith poems and stories ."

Senior David Cossaart al so sa d "My favor it e thing abo ut Scribe was to read and review all of the fan t as tic work that was subm itt e d to us this year."

Scribe fo r the 2009-2010 was selected for the Highest Award Superior R at in g from th e National Council of Teachers of English. This year Scribe also won two other Superior awards and took Top Honor. "These kids d eserved it. " McGinn sa id. "T h ey are w h at make Scribe the exce ll e nt lit erary magazine it is. I app la ud their efforts grea tl y "

Unfortunately something no one wants to think about, happens all around us; child abuse. Whether it is sexual, physical or verbal, abuse is everywhere, but a group of Lincoln High actors is doing something to help those in need.

Illusion Theatre is a professional High School Acting Company that tours around Nebraska and neighboring states to spread the message of hope. They perform skits that depict different situations of child abuse, bullying and other negative situations that young children may not know are bad. Every year Illusion Theatre reaches 50,000 elementary and middle school students, giving each and every one of them a message of how important they are and that no type of abuse is acceptable.

When Illusion Theatre visits with a group of students they are giving the abused a voice, a chance to reach out for help. Creative Director Molly Thomas said "On of my favorite moments is when I went out with them [Illusion Theatre Members] while they preformed for a school, and in one school they had two revelation s that day. Now I don't like the fact that they had revelations, but what I liked was that because of what our kids did they were able to get help for those two little girls that were being abused by family members, and get them out of trouble."

Illusion Theatre is a theatre of social change, and is the only Illusion Theatre in Nebraska. Illusion Theatre members are not only actors , they are actually trained in different counseling techniques that allow them to interact with the students they perform for, and their training helps them deal with each situation appropriately. According to Production Director Patsy Koch-Johns "Not only do they have to be theatre savvy, they have to be people who really have it in their heads and in their hearts that they want to help people."

Senior Nicole Taege expressed her thoughts of being involved with Illusion Theatre when she said, "Being a part of Illusion Theatre has been such a rewarding experience. Not only are you a role model for your peers at school, but for students across Lincoln as well. It's awesome that we have a group of students who can be there for other students when they need help."

Senior Felicia Schlicker had a similar view on Illusion Theatre when she said, "Illusion Theatre really changed my perspective on life. Cliche I know, but we made a difference this year, and all of those kids definitely made a difference in me."

Illusion Theatre has been based at Lincoln High since 1993 , and it continues to help thousands of students each year. While they say goodbye to seven seniors this year, they welcome a new cast for next year to continue spreading their message of hope

QUICK COOL DOWN

::: Above: Er ic Holt (12), Madeline Cass (12), David Cossaart (12), Dylan Roberson (12, Maddi Moe (11),Shaync Molt ( 11 ), Itahi Sanc h ez (10) Deborah McGinn, a nd Taycc Hefner ( 10) take t h e 20 11 Scr ib e Editors photo in the LHS swi mmin g pool. Photo

Courtesy of Deborah 'McGinn

PYRAMID OF SUCCESS

::: Above Bottom Row: Ory Wi ckize r ( 1 1), Greg Ward ( 12), Wesley VanHoosen ( 12), Felicia Sc hli cke r ( 12), Middle Row: Wesley M cCo rd ( 12) , Katy Keating ( 12), Christian Novotny ( 12), and Top Row: Nicole Taege ( 12) pile on top of eac h other for the Illu sion Th eat re group photo. Photo by Jessi Anderson

The Great Deb aters i s a movie that depicts a high chool Debate team, but LHS students don't have to watch a Denzel Washington movie to get the feeling of what a d ebate team actua ll y does because Lincoln High has their very own award winning Debate Team. In order to understand the difference between the three types , of debaters Lincoln High has, here is a littl e definition of each First, Policy Debate is done in pairs and the focus of the debate is on a sing l e policy, or topic. Policy debaters have to talk about each s id e of the topic, or both the pros and cons of the topic. Second, Lincoln-Douglas Debate -i more focused on va lu sand philosophy. In a Lincoln-Douglas Debate, debaters u s u a ll y talk about contro, vers ia l soc ia l issue such as the United States' u se of private military contractors in foreign countries, and juvenile cr im e. Finally, Public Forum Debate is the easiest of the three types to debate. It follows s imilar structures as Policy Debate and Lincoln-Dougla Debate, but , speech times are much shorter, and argumentat ion i more centered on emotional persuasion.

Senior Derrick Stevens is a Lincoln-Douglas Debater who ha s made his mark in LHS history. For the first time ever a Lincoln High Debater h as won the 'Ethos, Pathos, Logos' Award. This award is given to an individual debater shows overall great ethos, pathos and l ogos. Each year it is awarded to only one debater, and this year that st ud ent was Stevens. "It was really unexpected, to be honest." Stevens sa id about receiving the Ethos, Pathos, Logos Award "It was a l so ort of ironic, because I wa n't even competing the day I got it. It was especia ll y awesome becau e the per on who presented it to me taught me how to debate." Steven i a l so the first LHS debate member in 20 year to be qualified for the National Tournament that is to be held on Jun e 13-18 in Dallas, TX.Junior Kyle Trevett qualified to be the designated 'First Alternate' in case Stevens i unable to attend .

Debate team Sponsor Brian Goodbrake commented on this year's team effort by saying, "Every debater on the LHS team worked their hearts out, and while thi , did not a lways garner the results we

are lookin g for, we w ith out doubt achieved what we set out to do: impro ve our sk ill s and learn."

Imagine joining a club where all you have to do is talk. Most LHS student · would thrive in this environment. But the Speech team is much more than implc chitter chatter; it consists of different speaking event that tudcnts actually compete in.

At the Di trict pecch competition the pecch Team had two uperior Speakers, Sen iors Dylan Roberson and Greg Ward. Both Roberson and Ward participated in the Poetry reading, but Ward also participated in Serious Prose. Ward described the different event h competed in when he said, "The difference between poetry and serious prose is the fact that one i poetry, like Dickinson, Poe, and Whitman, and Serious Prose is actua l prose, lik e stories or talc I like poetry because I can do a variety of different thing s with it. I can be any per on, and interpret it any way I want to. With serious prose, I have to adhere to the character in the st ry. But I like prose more, because I get to act and tell a tory, which a rc things that I lo ve t do."

Junior James Steele and cn ior Christian Novotny c · mpctcd in Duct cling this year. Th duo placed 10th at the State Duet ompetition and they recei ved Superior Rankings. "Going to tate Speech is an amazing experience and I'm glad that hristian and I got to go ." Steele said . "To think that we competed with the b t duct in the state i just amaz in g to m e " Novotny had a imilar feeling when he aid "Trave lin g to Kearny to Compete in the tate S1 ccc;:h ompctiti n wa an incredible exper ience. We brought some of th most fierce competition to the duct porti n f the competition, it i a hame that we did not make it to finali t due to per onal politics but I have fu ll faith that ur pieces touched multiple people' , heart s and that i • the most an actor can ask for "

"I really enjoyed workin g with the tudcnts thi year ." pecch Spon ·or Justin Holbien sa id. "The sen ior s worked tremendously hard t accompli h their goals. I fe lt the students accepted my guidance positively during my fir t year a their coach. The underclassmen arc eager to compete for next year and arc busy recruiting their fellow LHS students to build a trongcr and more competitive team for next sea n. I am impr essed with the talent and 'work ethic of LH student on the speech team. I have high expectation for LH peech and feel the team i ready to break Lit next ea on. The exper iences we hare on the LHS pecch team arc ;:\mazing and I can't wait for next year w h en we will take LHS ompctitivc pcecl1 to a high r le \_'cl ."

The Speech Team worked hard this year and at the retc Invit at ional three member broke into the finals and Holbien aid ''We had our t1:o nge st team fini h off the year ."

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Debate Team 2011

Above: Ra y mond Wunder ( 10 ), hai Schrunk ( 11 ), Debate oaeh Brian o dbrak e, Arron John son ( 12 ), Erin Wilford (9), Kyle Trevett(! I), Derrick tevens ( 12 ), Mikayla Findlay ( 11 ), and Miche ll e Lee ( 11 ) pose with the numerous awards they earned thi~ season. Not pictured Grace Green (9) Ph oto by Katy Taylor

Page and Stories by Jessi Anderson

BACK TO THE BLACK BOARD

~Above Clockwise From the Left: Greg Ward ( 12), Katy Keating ( 12), Speech Coach Justin Holb ein, Christian Novotny ( 12) , Heather Wilson ( 10), Madeleine Miller (9), Emma Fisher (9), and Dylan Roberson ( 12)crowd around a chalkboard for the Speech Team photo. Not Pictured: Abbie Austin (9) , James Steele ( 1 1) and Assistant Coach Jess ica Brauer. Photo by Jessi Anderson

POMALINKS AT FESTIVUS

» Right : Gregory Ward 1121 and Sarah Anderson 1121 get J)ied in the face during festivus. Photo by Cassie Luethie

POMALINKS AT CAMP

» Fa r Right : Pomalinks at camp , ready to perform their Broadway hip-hop routine choregraphed by assistant coach , Chelsea Heavican Photo by Aly Hort

ORANGE YOU GLAD YOU'RE A POMALINK?

Above : Back Row : Afton Schwa hn 1121 , Sarah Anderson (121, Amy Heiden 1111, Catherine Delaine 1121, Emily Martinez (121, Courtney Mangers 1111, Sydney Grime 1121 Front Row : A ndi Ahmedi-Manakdan 1111, Abbey Spencer 1111 all pose for a phpto outside of The Sun Life Stadium in Lauderdale , Florida Photo by Aly Heart 120 Poma links

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Th is year's highlight for the Lincoln High pGffll-5 111b, is when they were invited to perform at the Q-aw,Bowl on January 3,201 1 in Lauderdale, Florida!

Hearts were racing: knees were trembling. as 9 of our Linco In High Poma Iinks prepared for the performance of a lifetime. ''It was intense.'' said senior Sclrclh Anderson . Eight Hundred dancers from all over America traveled to Lauderdale. Florida for this year's Orange Bowl at the Sun Life Stadium. ''Perforrr,ing at the actual Orange Bowl was the best.'' said Junior Abbey Spencer.

''It's such an adrenaline rush.'' The Poma links were doing more than performing in front of 50 000 fans. They were also performing side by side with the Goo Goo Dolls. They had been practicing routines for weeks before leaving for Florida. Once there. they got to work with world famous choreographers like JaQuel Knight. who is most notably recognized for his choreography in Beyonce's Single

Ladies dance. The Pomalinks did an average of 10 hours of dancing everyday to prepare for the Orange Bowl show.

''On Sunday we worked on the dance for the Bowl game all day.'' said senior Ccltherine Delcline Luckily. they had been practicing their choreography before they arrived in Florida.

"It was a six-minute long routine so we needed more than 3 days to learn it.'' said senior Sydney Grime The Pomalinks danced to Slide and Not Broken by the Goo Goo Do Ils. After a tota I 25 hours of dancing in Florida. the Pomalinks were rewarded with a day at the beach. ''We got to have fun together. bond together. go shopping and go to the beach with each other.'' Grime said .

POMALINKS PERFORM AT FESTIVUS

Above : Pomal,nks perform a routine during festivus

Photo by Cassie luethie

LHS POMALINKS ~Above : (L-R) Sarah Anderson_Sydney Grime, Courtney Ma~s Amy Heiden, Emily Martinez, Afton ::ichwahn, GrE:90i:y Ward, Abbey Spencer Jolin Nguyen, Andi Ahmedi-Manakdan and Catherine Delaine f-'hoto by Cynthia Wehland-Folk

Left : The Lincoln High Pomalinks ~t new tutus for their Lady Gaga dance routine at the fall pep rally f-'holo by Haley Keller

COLOR GUARD

Pagg by Jgssi Andgrson ~tory by Phil Eddins

Flags havg gxpgrigncgd many changgs this ygar. For starfors thgy havg a ngw coach. Ambor Tajral. Tgjral is a UNL graduafo and foachgs kindgrgarfon at 8gatfig [lgmgnfary. ~hg was on Flag Corn through high school and collggg. ..I havg always gnjoygd this activity and now that I am out of collggg, coaching Flag ling is a way I can still bg apart of it." Tajral gxplains.

Thgy also havg a bigggr tgam this ygar. Thg tgam is madg up of 21 mgmbgrs including 2 malgs this ygar. This is thg first ygar LH~ Flags havg includgd malgs on thg foam. This ygar·s malg guards am l!:aac Wolls and Alme Busor.

Isaac Wglls says , had a fow frignds on it [Color Guard] and Abi had bggn trying to makg mgjoin sincg frnshmgn ygar,so I said 'oh I will try this'."

Algx Busgr gxplains I thought it would bg morn fun thgn marching band and it is."

Through thg sgason this ygar thgy havg comg up with a mom. Kris Barmoro, who takgs cam of all of thgm. ~hg hglps with thg hair. makg up, and making sum that thgy havg all of thgir flags rnady for thg show. ~hg works countlgss hours to makg sum thgir show is thg bgsf.

Isaac Wglls said it bgst whgn hg dgscribgd it as a ..family."

How does it feel to be a male on Color Guard?

lase WallR ( 11 J

"Its kind of little sad. thern should be a lot morn guyg. Thern ghould be a little morn. For part of thg ghow we have guyg and girJg dancing instead we have to pull a bunch of guys from other instruments ..,

A/ax BuRor{10}

"I foe l prntty gpgcial but after linkg competition I didn ' t. Thern wern 200 other guys so it made me fool loss special."

We Whip Our Hags Back and Forth

Why did you join Color Guard?

.. Ijoingd Color Guard bocauso I onjoy

Why did you join Color Guard?

Ijoim~d bocauso I lovg Marching Band. last yoar boing a part of tho band, and I lovg pgrforming difficult tossgs and spins with our flags."

I playod tho Flufo. but tho Color Guard girls lookgd likg thgy had a lot of fun, so I

So dgcidgd to try Flags this phomore yoar."

Andrea Bowman (Bowman is woaring tho

that was usod this soason.)

The solo performers

T H E D ANCE

« Left: Abi Sanders (12) and Alex Buser (10) dance d uring this years show of love and revenge. Courtesy of G loria Eddins.

THE STAND OUT PERFORMER

» Right: Kristen Harvey (12) stands in the back of the band during warm-ups and practice her so lo routine during the fist song Photo by Jessi Anderson

Senior Miranda Mikesh

READY SET ACTION

faco paint

HAPPY FAMILY

Above: Claire Wilson (12), Abi Sanders (12), Samantha Eddins (10), Alexandra Haakenstad (12) , Miranda Mikesh (12), Katie Chiplaski (10), Stormy Eberspacher (10), Isaac Wells (11 ), Shaundra Freeman (10), Kennedy Watson (12), Elizabeth Rodriguez (11 ), Sydney Van Pelt (11 ), Erin Schild (12), Maddie Lierz (12), Amber

Above Back row: Amber Morrison (11 ), Stormy Eberspacher (10), Erin Schild (12) Isaac Wells (11) Middle row: Jacque Barmore (12), Mollie Schoonover (10), Maddi e Lierz (12), Miranda Mikesh (12), Samantha Eddins (10), Jessi Anderson (12), Alexandra Haakenstad (12) , Sydney Van Pelt (11 ), Katie Chiplaski (10), Kristen Harvey (10) Front row: Alex Buser (10), Andrea Bowman (10), Kennedy Watson (12), Elizabeth Morrison (11 ), and Andrea Bowman (10) wait to run onto the field at the Omaha Marching Invitational on October 15 Photo Courtesy of Kris Bamore Rodriguez (11 ), Claire Wilson (12), Shaundra Fr ee man (10) and Abi Sanders (12) pose for a group photo before the State March- , ing Contest on October 22. Photo Cowtesy of Kri s Bamore

·oRUM LINE

Pago by Jossi Andornon

FAST DOWN LOW

Orum roll ploaso. Timpani. chimos. vibraphonos. cymbals. snarn and bass drums all mako up a traditional Orumlino. What most pooplo don't know is that thorn am two diffornnt parts of a lino: tho batfory and tho pit.

Tho batfory is tho mod rncognizablo part of a drumlino and it includos tho bass quad and snarn drums along with tho cymbals. Whilo tho batfory is busy marching across tho fiold thorn is a socond part to tho Orumlino oquation that doos not movo: tho pit. Tho pit includos tho xylophonos marimbas. xylophonos. congas. cowbolls. tambourinos. gongs and wind chimos.

"Wo am cafogorizod in tho samo group whon wo am scornd bocauso wo am porcussion. Wo do a lot of things that porcussion do in tho sinco that wo roll. Thorn is a boat that wo hold with ovory insfrumonts. but our notm: am diffornnt bocauso wo uso tho xylophonos with koys. and it's not tho samo sound rnpotitivoly." sonio r Joggiea Ann Hollwig said.

Momborn of both parts of tho Orumlino know how important it is to onjoy band and tho pooplo around you boforn you docidod to atfompt playing an instrumont whilo marching. Junior Michaol rualgy, who has playod drums for sovon yoarn commonfod on his band oxporionco. "Frnshman band was rnally laid back and mado you liko band. It just was rnally fun. It's inviting and tho pooplo am nico."

~taloy is a woll-known marching band mombor and has workod hard to bocomo soction loador of his lino. ~onior Joromano MeCray. a cymbals playor. had this to say about ~taloy. "Ho has boon thorn whon wo didn't havo tho right kind of drummor to play snarn. Ho sfoppod in to tho roll as ajunior to bo soction loador. Ho bocamo tho pornon to load us on tho fiold. and off tho fiold ho was just thorn all tho timo."

Noxt yoar is looking bright for tho Orumlino. Whilo thoy am loosing oight soniorn this yoar thoy am looking forward to porforming Oisnoy·s Tho Lion King.

•LHS PIT

What made you want to join pit?

"Pit is amazing. Thoy worn supper nico to mo and thoy worn ablo to holp me. I am malty glad that I decided to

LHS DRUMLIN£

Why did you join Drumlin e?

Michael ~taley ( 11)

"I was involved with band since 5th grade and I havo always liked drumming and rhythm in general."

BOOM BOOM POW

Above: Th e LHS Drumlin e warm s up befor e th e l at e Band Comp etition on Saturd ay Oc tob er 23rd a t Millard South High Sc hool. Photo by Je i Ander on

Ba ss Drum

Je ss ica Ann Hellwig Pit

Ba ss Drum

J e re mane McCray Cymbal s Hoffman Ba s Drum

Taryn Sandin Pit

Lagrimini Tenor Drum

Jeremiah McCray Pit

Above: Th e LHS Orumlin

warms

By Brittany Suhr

THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVIILES: A CDMIC THRII.lER

Above : Scott Shomaker (12) as Sir Henry Baskerville. Katy Keating (12) as Jennie Watson and Catherine Bums (10) as Dr. Mortimer rehearse for The Hound of the Baskerville,: A Comic Thriller.

Photo by Seth Marshall

A CDMPANY OF WAYWARD SAINTS

Above : Christian Novotny (12) play Pantalone in th.is year's One Act. A Company of Wayward Saints while We,Jey Vanhoosen (12) and Maggie Wfrleman (11) play Zannis.

Novotny (12)

Photo by Brittany Suhr

OKLAHOMA! Above: Ashley Epp (11) as Laurey and Sam Lawson (12) as Curly IHform LHS's 20102011 mus ical Oklahoma1 Photo by Seth MarshaJJ

Above: Michael Keating (11) and Alicia Mtrlina (11) IHform for Katy Keatin_g's (12) Kabuki Othe llo Othello was a student dira:tfrl show for the IB theatre class Jfhoto by Seth MarshaJJ

Above : Leah Bridge, (12) curls her hair for the Fall show. Photo by Seth Marshall

CD Above : Victoria Wiere (9) picks out outfit s for the actors in the basement where our theater program keeps costume,, set. and props. Photo by Seth Marshall •

« Left: Jaz Schrerntl (12) builds th e hound for The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Comic ThrilJ er durin g tech.

Lincoln High Theatre has been a great tradition through the years, and this year ' s performance s were no exception. The line-up for 2011 included: the Fall Show - The Hound of the Baskervilles: A Comic Thriller - directed by English teacher Molly Thomas; The One Act -A Company of Wayward Saints - which won runner - up at Districts with English teacher Patsy Koch-Johns as director; The Musical - Oklahoma!directed by IB Coordinator John Heineman; and lastly, the theatre department wrapped up the year with the Spring show - The Tempest - directed, again, by Koch-Johns .· Along with the major shows, they also had many student-directed shows like The Migrant Son, The Bald Soprano , The Brotherhood , and Kabuki Othello.

There is a lot that goes on in theatre that many don ' t know about. Senior Scott Shomaker said, "It's very much like doing a sport. Most people just see the fact you have to memorize lines, but there is more than that; there ' s working on the set, which involves physical labor, and there's listening to the director, making sure you give them what they want. On top of that there's the academic work. The director emphasizes with all her students to be 'students first, actors second '."

"I love my students very much, " says Koch -Johns. " But school comes first, and I want them to succeed more than anything. " To sum it all up Shomaker said, " People don't under stand the hard work that goes into making a production. " But there is a lot ' that students , even teachers, get out of theatre Shomaker explains , " The one thing you are sure to get out of theatre is friendship. " There's nothing better than meeting new people , building friendships, and creating everlasting memories. " I love seeing the smiles and the connections everyone builds over time," says Thomas. One of the fun things theatre kids do according the Shomaker is after the last night of a performance they go to Village Inn and usually have great cast parties/dinners He says , " It ' s really cool, because you ' re with everyone after all the tension has blown out. "

W ith Shomaker being one of the few that has been in theatre all four years of his high school career he has to say, " It really shapes you, I think. The people that you ' re around led me from being a quiet, very shy boy to a loud and rambunctious version of who I am today. Overall , I think it's helped me gain a lot of self-confidence and has shaped me into the direction I want to take in life. "

Many students plan to continue doing theatre after high school, most likely getting into a community theatre during the summer , but Shomaker explains, "I can ' t plot the rest of my future, but I really think theatre will be a major component in my life, college for -sure. " Shomaker ' s advice for anyone interested but undecided about joining theatre? Don't be scared.

THE FINISHING 1DUCHES

BEHIND THE SCENES

Photo by Se th M arsha.ll

» Right: CMF workers put up th e Ted Sorensen Theatre sign to add to the new ly bu il t theatre. Photo by Micah Thiessen

LIGHT.BOOTH

Above : Luke Thiele (12) works on the light lmrd in the li ght boo th. Photo by Se th Marshall ffiNSTRUCTION

» Right: Ben Koch measures ou t th e si15!1 for the fall show. Ben Koch is the tcrlmical dim:tor for the UIS theatre d imtment. Photo by Seth Marshall

THEATRE-A-THON DANCE PARTY

~Above : Thea tre studen ts dance the night away during LHSs traditional theatre-a than PholO by DeVon Kell ey

WE HAVE DESIRE!

~Above : Di r ec tor Patsy Koch -Johns gives a srm;h of encouragement before th students rform this year·s One Act. Pho lo by Brillany Suhr

''L PUMP IT LJP PUMP IT LJP H-S COME ON COME ON 'NE YEll 'NE CHEER 'NE HAVE NO FEAR. THE UNKS /\RE HERE!'' This is one of the very famous cheers the cheerleaders use to pump up our student sections

The cheerleaders are always there to keep the momentum going when the sports teams are on their way to victory but most importantly t he cheerleaders are always there to keep the spirits high when the score is low Cheerleadihg coach Erikci Kirklcihd said. "Each year is a lways a new challenge as experienced girls graduate and

the inexperience enter. But that 's the beauty of cheerlead ing there is always room for improvement and the girls a lways stand relentless .''

Each year . the cheerleaders are shipped off to Cheer Ccimp in the summer "Cheer Camp was where I learned a l l mY technique. I developed confidence from the o lder cheerleaders I can't wait for mY next 3 years of cheerleading" said freshman Reichel Kihgstoh /\hci the student section cannot either!

VARSITY

« LEFT: FRONT ROW : Marla Overstreet, Ashley Schaaf, Jordan Riley, Felicia Schlicker, Elizabeth Rodriquez, Samantha Clari<

SECOND ROW: Kaleiqh Kinqston, Mercedes Greenwood, Morgan Meyer

Photo by Cynthia Wen/and-Falk

JUNIOR VARSITY

BOTTOM LEFT: FRONT ROW : Shaundra Freeman, Torri Brown, Caitlin Holman, Emily Gasper, Rowan Mellick

SECOND ROW : Ti-Yonda Knaff, Alyssa McCall, Megan Powers, Briannah Hunt

Photo by Cynthia Wehland-Falk

FRESHMAN

BELOW: FRONT ROW : Hayley Alley, Zoe Reinke, Trinity McDonald , Rachel Kingston , Breanna Brooks , Mckenzie Tikalsky, Mary Overstreet

SECOND ROW: Kiersten Buettgenbach, Danielle Hansen, Kamaya LongHawkins, Shania Williams

Photo by Cynthia Wehland-Falk

Kaleigh Kingston is one of the few senior four -year cheerleaders. A special thing about Kale igh is this past summer at Cheer Camp , she was invited to tryout as a National Association Cheerleader staff member at next year s Cheer Camp If selected as a NCA Staff member, Kaleigh will serve as a leader to young high school cheerleaders at their summer cheer camps. Kaleigh received the lead ership award this past year at camp and has also been nominated as an All -American all four years of c amp

FRESH POMS

~Above : Freshman squad cheers on the Freshman Foo t ball team against Southeast Hig h

Photo by Mollie Schoonover

JINGLE BELL JAM GO ! FIG HT! W IN!

Above: Felicia Schlicker f 12) c h eers on the Varsity Boys Basketba ll at th

qame aqainst Sou th west

oto 5y Seth Marsha ll

Basket

TEAM SPIRIT

Above: The Junior Varsity Sguad cheers for the JV Football team at Beecher Field Photo by Mollie Schoonover

FIRE UP

Above : Kaleigh Kington ( 12), Ashley Schaaf ( 12) anc:l Fe licia Schlicker ( 12) perform a routine at the Varsity wrestlinq meet against East High Photo by Haley J(eller

a little .bit of •

Two Truths and a Lie

Cah you spot the fib?

a ''I've never had mint chocolate chip ice cream."

b ''I'm allergic to po lyester."

c ''I'm 18 an d d o n't have my d rivers license ."

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a "M y fav o rite soccer team is Argenti na "

b "I f I was g ran te d a wish , I'd want a mil lion dol lars "

c "M y hair is n't na t ura'l ly curly. I get perms. "

Zallhtlr(11)

a ''I'm a Beatles fan."

b "I have gone skydiving."

c "I want to become a c op for Li ncoln. "

~Slnldl(12)

teacher tales

'last semester in AP GoPo with Mr. Bargen we used to walk into Ms. Grant-Colson's room. He would go l-2-3 and we'd clap once then just walk out."'

Aaron Wright ( 12)

"Gwenna lhrie threw one of Ms. Dvorak's favorite Einstein posters out the window in AP Calculus. We got it back by sticking tape to the end of a yard stick and poking it until it stuck."

Ashley Schaaf ( 12)

a "I've lived in Lincoln a ll my life. "

b "I had t o re d o a grade."

c "My dad has one arm. "

a "I transferred from Southwest "

b "I used to be addicted to tanning " -

c "I was born in California ."

a "I li ke strawberries ."

b "I want to be an Equine Trainer ."

c "I celebrate gummi worm day ."

Lihks share h7eh7orable h7oh7ehts with teachers that still h7ake them chuckle .

"The class was completely silent ) and birds were chirping outside the window. Ms. Betts, speaking seriously, says 'You guys sound like a bunch of birds."'

Afton Schwahn ( 12) .,

"Mr. Bargen was dancing and singing (the usual) and as he did a finale swing with his arms he nailed his elbow against the concrete wall!"

Alina Brichka ( 1 l)

Trau111ara111a!

Lihks share the ir most erribarrassihg rri 'orriehts at The H igh.

"Sophomore year in Weight Training we went outside to play flag football. I told this girl in my class that my fear was getting 0 my pants pulled down. And t hat's what she did! Guess who was behind me? Mr. Genrich! Pure butt . I sat out the rest of t he day."

Emily Martinez ( 1 2)

"Second semester AP US History I was looking forward to a hug from Mr. Bargen . I walked into t he classroom, slowly opened my arms, and walked towards him. He did the same, lifting his arms like a bird But just as I was about to close the deal, he dropped them and turned his back on me. I'm still waiting for a hug from him to this day."

Erez Train in ( 1 1)

Ever\ teacne,s car\\auein at \ tnemse\veS·

"As a teacher, you have to "hold it" a lot longer than most occupations, since you can't leave the classroom . So when I do get a chance to go, I try to hurry. Let's just say I have zipper problems ."

Spanish teacher Paula Ossenkop

"My friend lives across the street from Senora Ossenkop. One time when I was over we decided to climb out of the window and sit on the roof to look at the stars. The next day in front of everyone she asked why we were sneaking out! " Ha ley Keller ( 12)

"In my AP GoPo cla_ss we were talking about the branches of government and my teacher asked me a question. I replied "checks and balances" but he thought I said "chicken butt!" He still hasn't stopped teasing me."

Tri Pham ( 1 2)

"I walked into my Spanish class one day and saw the girl I liked standing next to my seat . I thought maybe she wanted to talk, but as I was about to sit down , she pulled out the chair from under me. I fell really hard and bit my tongue ! Doubt that impressed her."

Ory

Wickizer ( 10)

"I assist for the counselors and deliver passes during 4th period. One day I walked into a classroom like usual and handed the teacher a pass She looked down at it and said 'Uh this isn't the right class ' I tried to act cool but I still remember that day ."

Ny ameer Puok ( 1 2)

"My sophomore year I was walking down the main staircase by the cafeteria. I tripped and fell to the bottom when there was a big group of people watching. I stood up and said 'Thank you!' to play it off , but I was still embarrassed "

Kate Rask ( 1 2)

Wo uld you shave your head for $100?

38% YES 62% NO

Do you t hin k you get enough sleep ?

26% YES 74% NO

Does it ta ke o ver 15 minut es for you t o get ready in the morni ng ?

63% YES 37% NO

Do you ha ve your driver's license ?

56% YES 44% NO

TEAM PRACTICE

JUST LET THE BA LL ROL~!

Above : Reed Brodersen (_ 12) warms up by practicing his balance. Reed is one of the four that qualified for state this year. Photo by Brittany Suhr

GIVE IT YOUR ALL BOYS! • Abo ve: (from left to right) Bottom Row : Tai Le Phan, Connor Hehn, Ken ny Phillips , Coach Phillip s Top Row : Coach Boltz , Treven Horalek , Jordan Scr ibner, Daniel McCollougfi , John Hoffman , Reed Brodersen Photo by Timeweavers Pnotography

,_ Above : (from left to right) Bottom Row: Tanner Leapaldt, Victoria Bretthauer, Dana M cNeil , Rachel Eubanks Top Row : Breanna bgburn, Hope Jarvis , Maddie Lierz, Coach Boltz Photo by Timeweavers Photography

T HIS TI ME IT WI LL BE RIGH T.

~Above : Kenny Phillips (10) keeps working hard during practice

Ph illi ps is another bowling stat e qualifier. Photo by Bnttany Suhr

DETER M INATION, PATl,ENCE, AND CO NSIST ENCY!

Abo ve:Jordan Scribner (12) watches his ball roll down the lane , making sure he hits the pins just right. Jordan also qual ified for state tnis year. Photo by Brittany Suhr

» Right : Dana McNeil 11 · gets help from Coach Boltz This is one of technique s they use to improve drifting. Photo by Brittany Suhr

By Brittany Suhr

"Eas y to learn , hard to master." That's how senior Jordan Scribner describes bowling. Scribner has been participating in bowling for Lincoln High all four year s of high school, and he came within two pins of a perfect 300 game the day before District s this year He went on to place 35th at State.

His teammates, sophomore Kenny Phillips and senior Reed Brodersen, also qualified for State placing 10th and 45th respectively Junior Tanner. Leapaldt qualified for State on the girls team.

This year the team faced some changes in the form of new coaches: Scott and Mandy Boltz Scott is a former LHS bowler while Mandy bowled for the UNL women 's team.

" It 's been a pretty good season,' Scribner said. "There are a lot of people who write bowling down as not being a sport It takes just as much work or talent as any other sport· out there. "

Bowling is probably one of the few sports that is over- • looked by many Most people bowl as a casual pastime with friends and family, but there is a lot that goes on besides just rolling a ball down a lane

Scribner explains, " It 's the same stuff any other sport

would need to work on, we just apply it in a different way. "

Because bowling is more of an individual sport, the LHS bowlers are able to exercise outside of practice by lifting weights but during practice they work on throwing the ball and getting good rotation in their arm. Repetition is key in bowling and with repetition comes good habits

Most of all the bowlers were able to balance everything out between bowling , academics, and other activities they were involved in Even with the obstacle of having new people on the team, who were trying to get the hang of it, this year they had a pretty solid team. " It was fun. I like being able to hang out with my friends and do something I love at the same time," Kenny Phillips said.

Even with the individuality in bowling, you are sti ll able to be socia l and have fun with your friends. Bowling is very open and they are looking for bowler s for next year! If you are considering joining bowling next year, Scribner says, "Ju st do it , like Nike You have nothing to lose ."

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT!

::: Above : Breanna Ogburn (9) warms up by rolling the bowling ball down the lane Photo by Brittany Suhr

THERE'S NO I IN TEAM!

::: Above : Bowling coach Mandy Boltz sho ws Breanna 0gb r,r. (9) how to correctly hold the bowling ball. Photo by Brittany Suhr

Photo by Brittany S-uhr

Above: Frank Owusu-ansah (9) hits the ball back to his competitor from East High School during a Junior Varsity boys tennis game at Lincoln High School on September 1st. Photo by Sonya Roberts

ONE MORE LAP ~Above: Members of the Lincoln High Swimming team swim warm-up laps before the January 20th swim meet against Southwest. Photo by Jessi Anderson

Above: Micah Swetland (9) runs toward the finish line at the LSE Above: Dagan Worton ·(11) runs with the ball during the varsity Open Race at Pioneers park on October 12th. 3rd. Photo by Jessi Anderson

Photo by Hikari Yoshino

HARD BALL

« Left: Emma Rathe (11) pitches at the Varsity softball game ~ainst Columbus.

Photo by Charles Brower

FEISTY FEMALES

» Right: Alysha Toman (10) dribbles the ball during the Junior Varsity Basketball game against Southwest on December 9th Photo by Jessi Anderson

Above: Links Varsity Softball player Valerie Raffety (12) catches a high ball during a warm up

Photo by Kristen Ha,vey

FASTER FASTER!

Above: Dwight Brown (12) runs at the McConnell

JV cross country meet on September 13th 201 O at Pioneers Park. Photo by Brittany Tuttle

SPIRAL THROW

~Above: Merrill Holden (11) Warms Ull after halftime at the Monday October 4 game against Lincoln Northeast. Photo by Miranda Mikesh

GOOD CALL

~ Above: Links Varsity Football players get ready to line up after a play during the Omaha South football game on September 3rd Photo by Je i Ander on

By Jessi Anderson

Above: Thanh La (10) hoot the ball during boys reserve game again t North Star on December 7th. Photo

l'M JUST JOGG'N YA!

~Above: Ethan Nichols (12) runs towardthe fini h at the L E Open Race in Pion er Park on October 12th. Photo by Hikari Yo hino

SWING

« Left: Taylor Samek (11) erves the ball to his Ea t High chool opponent during a Junior Var ity Bo T~nnis game at Lincoln High School on September 1st. Photo by Sonya Roberts

ross ountry team

Above: Front Row (L -RI: Morino Blum , Bree Drda , Ellen Schoenmaker , Hanno Higgins , Hikori Yoshino Second Row (L -RI- Cooch Johnsen , Thanh Lo , Will lnomuro , Dwight Brown , Charlie Neibel , Thuong Lo Som Costello Third Row (L -Rl- Cooch Jon Dowson , Kok Ayoi, Ethan Nichols , Aaron Wright , Porker Vicroy , Connor Goodwin , John Waechter , Austin Santano BREAK ON Tl-fROUGH

» Right : Ellen Schoenmaker Ill) passes a Southeast runner during the Harold Scott invite

Photo qy Seth Marshall OVER !HE HILLS AND TO THE FINISH LINE!

Below : John Waechter lll)sprints to the finish line during the final lap of JV Harold Scott meet

Photo by Seth Marshall

TEAM SPIRIT

Above: Despite not competing , the girls varsity and remaining JV team cheer on Bree Drda (11) as she prepares and warms up to be the only runner for the girls JV team at the Lincoln Southeast Open

Photo by Hikori Yoshino ross ountry

By Seth Marshall

"It was a series of unfortunate events " Junior Ellen Schoen111aker said. Schoen111aker was a pro117ising state hopeful for this y6;ar's cross country tea111. She and the other runners had their drea111s dashed this year at-districts when a bus break-down led to a 117issed opportunity.

The bus was 45 117inutes away fro117 Norfolk. where Districts were being held for the first t1117e. when 1t lost its serpentine belt. It too 45 117inutes for another bus to co111e and another 45 117inutes to get to the 111eet.

''It went all down hill fro117 there " Schoen111aker said. tried to tell the people who ran the 111eet. so they could hold the race for us we got there they. we war111ed up and apparently they thought we never arrived .'' •

Head Coach John Dawson also explained what happened after the arrived. "'Ne arrived with 251171nutes to get our girls ready to run. They did a quick war111 up run ca111e back to the tea111 area. got their sp ikes on and were Jogging to the start line when the gun went off.'' Dawson said. ''I do not understand how the starter could not know· that there was a tea111 1171ss1ng at the t1117e he fired the gun. By h7Y watch. we still had 51171nutes to go when the gun went off."

Many 117e117bers of the tea111 were heart broken. even the boys tea111 was upset. "V;e 111ade it in t1117e . but the girls didn' '' senior Thuong La said. La also co111111ented on how Ellen took the fact they weren't co111peting 1n state

''She works the hardest out of all of us She probab ly runs on Sunday she told 111e before that she doesnt feel right if she's not running." La said.

fer Gilt

Dawson tried with all the resources to get Ellen into stat but to no avail. '"l;e filed an appeal with NSAA to get Ellen a hardship ruling into the state 111eet as her t1117es in the previous 3111eets would have easily qualified her in our d 1str1ct. In fact her t1111e at Conference the week prior to Districts would have pl~ced her 3rd 1n the District 117eet. V;e were denied '' Dawson said.

Despite these trau111at1c events 1t didn't affect one thing: the fa1171ly feel of the tea111 Coach Dawson said "Since I hi not teaching at LHS. I have to depend on the athletes to let their friends know that cross country really is a fun sport. ;e have a real f 117ily feel 1n that we know each other well and support each other throughout the season and the entire school year.''

They start in June and run together through the sui--n111er 1n preparation for the season "I 111ake all newco117ers and those who are not sure if this 1s the sport for the111 the sa111e offer: Give 111e two wee s. If at the end of that ti111e you don't feel it's for you. we part co111pany as friends. I rarely loose athletes once they co111e out." Dawson said They find it is a lot of hard work but they also find that they can do 1t and have a really good group of students to help the111 out." senior Thuong La said.

"Tea111 bonding 1110111ents usually happen near the end of the season. ''The dress run 1s pretty fun." Schoen111aker co111111ented. "The guys aren't allowed to do 1t but the girls run 1n dresses. //e get 1nterest1ng co11111-1ents " Schoen111aker said. "But we have a lot of confidence that it doesn't bother us."

That confidence and tea117-building 15 what will carry thei--n for~ard.

THE FINAL BEND OF TH

,., Above Left : Hikari Yoshino (12) powers around the bend during the last leg of the Harold Scott invite varsity girls meet Photo by Seth Marshall

HES GOING THE DISTANCE, HES GOING FOR SPEED!

:::: Above Right : Jack Versaw (12) pushes post a runner from Lincoln East High School during lhe final leg of the JV Lincoln Southeast Open on October 22.

Photo by Hikari Yoshino

KEEPING PACE

« Left : Connor Goodwin 1121 keeps pace but also tries to stay ahead of runners from Omaha Centrol and Millard North during the final leg of the Harold Scott Invite Boys Varsity race. Photo by Seth Marshall

EVER WONDERED WHY THOSE SENIORS KEEP COMING BACK? THESE THREE TELL YOU WHY THEY CAME BACK YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR.

"I love football. I h-]ean its pretty easy to coh-]e back when you love it.''

0ARED SAPP ( 12)

"ljustl ov e playing the gah-]e and I love being out there with h7Y fr iends "

"I have always wanted to play so ijust kept playing ."

MITCH KREIFELS (12) ARMANDO MARTINEZ

PUMPED UP!

~

Soyvon Miller Nick Walker , Grant Jensen Third Row (L -R~ Garrett Marshall Brandon Varrati , Alan Corey , Paul Guerrero, Jeff Brooks, Austin Thompson , Pheni x Killen, Josh Matz, Deontre Belford , Chod Franssen-Cook , Nick Deyong, Gage Niemann , Sam Hendrick Fourth Row (L -R~ Reason Crisman, Trey Anderson, Cody Morris, St~hen Scott , Nathon Matz, Jaz Schoeneck, Jesse Pickett Marno Prinsloo, Josh Hesson, Wayne Skillet , Jared Sapp, Casey Ph!)pot Fi fth Row (L- R~ Coach Joe Shondera Coach Joseph Dadario, Coach Adam Skoda Coach Mike Fultz Gage Straight , Garytt Shire}:'., Bennett Milliken, Merrill Holden Mitch Kreifels Deltre Steele, Dillon Bruggeman, Coach Lawrence Christensen, Coach Richord Jackson , Cooch Jmdl Gere, s/

Above: The Lincoln High Varsity Football team huddles up before LET·s their game against Lincoln Southeast on October 15, 2010 at Seacrest Field Photo by Micah Thiessen

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BOYS VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM

Above : Front Row (L -R~ Corey Bui , Jack Wilson, Jeremane McCray Blake Niles Rynell Ware Julian Samuel, Kenny Allen, Armando Martinez Garrett Chelton Johnny Maso Trever Kurtz Arfredo Gonzalez , Dennison Solisbury Second Row(L -R~ Seth Ropke Bryan Adams Jeremiah MaCray Wade Tackett , Logan Anderson, Brian Goeres, James Steele Dagan Worton Elijah Eubanks

Bottom : Jared Sapp 1121 passes the ball to his teammate during tre Varsity bay's football game against North Platte on August 27 2Ul0 at Beechner held Photo by Seth Marshall

By Sierra Frerichs and Lindsey Toman

N II ::)

IIThe Lincoln High Varsity Football team will see new faces next year but the influence of Coach Mike Fultz will impact the team forever

Story. By Erik Chapo

"V /hen you think about 1t. Ive been at football practice nearly every day of hhY lif e since the seventh grade ." said Fultz. "That's over forty years of participation in one of hhY favorite things ''

On V/ednesday. Novennber 3rd . Mike Fultz announced his resignation as Linco ln High Schools head Varsity football coach ''It's been a fun struggle '' said Fu ltz of his coaching career

"V/e didn't win very nnany gannes but being around young people and et')joying yourself is

sonnething that's very innportant to nne '' Fultz coached as a varsity assistant for 23 years at LHS. before taking over as head coach In his six years as the head coach of the Links Fu lt z posted a 6-39 record. "Although the wins weren't a lways there Ive always strived to teach kids about life and education '' said Fultz. ''It cioesn t nnatter how good you are at athletics without an educat ion you probably won't nnake it very far in lif e.''

Fultz said that his goal in li fe was always to get his high school diplonna and to nnake 1t

to co ll ege. ''That was always what I wanted " Fu ltz said. "I always loved football. and I used It as a way to nnake 1t to co Ilege and beyond."

Fu Itz attended L1nco In H 1gh School and graduated 1n 1 73 "I think that a ll of his achieve nnents are a ref lection of how he was brought up ." said LHS athletic director Pat Gatzenneyer.

"One of the nn.,::uor parts of his up bringing was attending Lincoln H igh .' '

After high schoo l he went on to play footbal l for the Nebraska Huskers where he was inducted into the Nebraska

football hall of fanne. He was then drafted into the NFL where he played for the New Or·leans Saints the Miann1 Dolphins and the Balt1nnore Colts. After the NFL Fultz returned to Lincoln High to teach 1ndustr1al technology and to coach football and track and field. " 1\--ri only ret1r1n~ fronn football.'' said Fultz. "I will continue to work as a teacher and as an assistant track coach '' Fultz said that he has eruoyecl his coaching and that he will always love Lincoln High.

''Football has been good to nne '' Fultz said ''But all good things have to conne to an end.''

« Left : Jeff Brooks 1101 tackles a North Platte pla')".er at Beechner Field on August 27 , 20 10 Photo b y Seth Mar shall

» Right : Jared Sapp 1121 punls the ball down field at Seacrest during the Varsity boys football game against Lincoln ~theast on October 15, 2010.

GO DAGAN GO! ' Above : Dagan Worton (11) rushes past the opponemt during a Varsity boys football game against Columbus at Beechner Field on homecoming night, October 1 2010 Photo ·by Seth Marshall

NICE TACKLE!

PUNT!

Photo b y Hole y Keller

JUNIOR VARSITY FOOTBALL TEAM

Above : Front Row : Wade Tackett, Blake Niles , Rynell Ware, Julian Samuel Austen

,

, Deon tre Belford Back Row : Coach Richard Ja ckson, Gage Straight, Merrill Holden , Sam Hedri ck, Elijah Eubanks , Chad Frans sen -Cook. Je sse Pickett , Marno Pr insloo, Gage Niemann , Coach Lawren ce -Christensen

Photo Courtesy of: Cynthia Wehland -Falk

Reserve, Freshmen Football

RESERVE FOOTBALL TEAM

RUN TO VICTORY « Far Left: Jake Languis (9)runs with the ball at Beechner Field on September 16 , 2010 during the Freshman LHS vs. Lincoln Southeast game.

Photo by Mollie Schoonover TAKING DOWN THE ROCKETS

« Left: Elijah Eubanks (11) tackles a Lincoln Northeast player during the Junior Var sity LHS vs lNE game at LNE on October 4, 2010. Photo by Miranda Ceballos LINKS PROTECTION

::;: Below: Au;ten Thompson \,10) protects the ball from a Spartan during the LHS vs. Lincoln East Re serve football game at Beechner on September 28, 2010

Photo b De/'Tre Steele

~ Above: Front Row (L -R): Garrett Marshall, Brandon Varrati , Allen Corey Jeff Brooks , Paul Gurrerro, Austen Thompson , Phenix Killen Second Row (L -R): Reason Crisman, Trey Anderson, Stephen Scott , Chad Franssen -Cook , GrantJensen,Josh Matz Back Row (L -R): Coach Jarrell Green Cody Morse, Deontre Belford , Gage Niemann , Nick Deyong, Coach Joseph Daddario Photo Courtesy of: Cynthia Wehland -Falk

Eseason avorites

"My favorite port of football is just the teammates in general , team dinners, on the bus It's just like a family outside of school and we all get to know each other and just have a good time ."

ELIJAH EUBANKS (11)

"M y favorite part of the football season was hanging out with all the players before and after games and going to team dinners.'

"My favorite part of the season w a s the last game of t he year because i t wa s awesome

GARRET MARSHALL (10) HUNTER PRITCHARD (09)

ALL

JV players had high comm1tmert to playing this year. There are three maJQr camps the players can part1c1pate 1n full contact, cond1t1oning, or no pad (which works on skills ) Our JV team was made up of mainly sophomores because Juniors moved up to play varsity. The JV team goes hand 1n hand with varsity to prepare themselves so they have very l1m1ted time to themselves. Even though the team didn't w,n as many games this year the line did improve. When playing against East we didn't have a quarterback so they had to eep substituting players ,n and during the Northeast game we had lots of fumbles but luckily had a really good defense Reserve practices consist of long days and lots of sweat. The tecim practices are determined on what will be effective at lower levels by loo Ing at varsity films. Coach Jarrell Green has been coaching for 1 1 years and believes 1f the team had more studerts that would give the t1rne and effort to play football, the team would be better because they would have more people. Th is year the team was lmted when they played because of 1nJunes. The team played ONLY two games this year because of those I Junes but the boys d1a also get to play 1n the JV games. V/hen the season ,s over the boys are encouraged to either play other sports to stay fit or get into the weight room and start lifting weights after the season.

Freshmen had a GREAT improvement even though they didn't w,n ,my games they went from losing by th1rty-f 1ve .o losing by s,x. Coach Andrew Genrich thinks that Hunter Pritchard and Payton Helmstadter did we because they were team leaders and their wad ethic wa'?:J good. The team practiced everyday for two and a half hours doing drills and trying to improve. During the summer before high school there wdS a program so the freshmen could get to know their coaches and work out Coach Andrew Genrich believes that quite a few guys could be successful ,n future years 1f they get into the weight room more but also by staying active playing other sports during the off-season Hunter Pritchard thinks that 1f the players did better 1n practice they could've improved. During the Northeast game the off~nse did well, they had good running plays and were pumped. He also believes that the coaches were "about at the right level of 1ntens1ty" with their d1sc1p\1ne that was decided depending on what they did and how often they did 1t.

St(?ry by Mollie Schoonover

TOUCHDO WN LINCOLN HIGH

Above : Elija h Eubank s (11) scores the onl y touchdo w n during the LHS vs. Lincoln Ea st Junior Var si t y football game at Beechner on September 4 , 2010 Photo b y Mollie Schoonover

LE AV E IT ALL O N TH(; F[E LQ

Above : Grant Jensen (10) and his teammates tackle a Lincoln East player during the Lincoln

FRESH M EN FOOT BAL L TE AM

High vs. Lincoln East Reserve football game at Beechner on September 28, 2010 Photo by Mollie

Above : Fro nt Row (L -R): Thien Phan, Andy M oore, Dean Christensen Payton Helmstadter, Scnoonover Malik M orris, Cody Kosmos, Jamie Be ltran, Adria St. Martin, Dc;unte Wiggfns,Jesse Snider, KEEPINGoTHEREAM Ray Vernon , Isa iah McShannon Second Row ( L-R : Hur,ter Pritchard D.l,l'fN_goyi, Austin

Ph 1ppsJ Trevor Graham, Coltin Phipps, Ibrahim A amdani, Trenton Canb~LDqug_ Johr,, Hamza AI -Saaai, Elijah Gibson , Tyson Wilson, Coach Andrew Genrich Back Row -RJ : Coach Dave Medina, Seoit Bilew,Jonathan Arnoldtacob Brown, To~ Ybarra, Will An erson, Evan Clark,

Dashawn illiams , Coach John Goodwin

Emma Schultz (

Erih f=ield ( 11)

Chahtrey Schulke ( 10)

CourtheY Mahgers (

» Right : Courtne y Mangers (11) practices with her iron at Pioneers Golf Course Photo by Holey Keller

» Far Right : Erin Field (11) lines up for a perfect shot at Pioneers Golf Course Courtes y Photo by Erin Field

Above: Emma Schultz (11) practices her swing at Pioneers Park Golf Cour se. Photo by Haley Keller

140 Girl's Golf

Where The

11 II takes a hit at the ball at Pioneers Por k Golf Course for a tournament Photo b y Jess i Anderson

"l was practIcIng with mY 7 iron at tv,ahoney l took a weird swi ng into the dirt and the heacl [of her club]Just flew off and went like 50 feet ahead of me '' Junior golfer Emma Schultz said. No one got hit but she said It felt a little weird. She not only rr1ade a really funny memory but they all got to bond. Golf isn't all about being alone while -playing you also have fun Vvith your teammates

The r e Vvas "a mo r e int imate setting because there we r e less peop le so Vve got to bond more '' Schu ltz said

Not only do you get to boncl and have fun you get a workout while you re playing too "If you re really not into shape like me and can't even run a block Jt got me into shape so now l can run a block " sophomore Chantrey Schulke 5i'Jld.

"They became more comfortable w ith their golf game and Vvith the experience of the environment.'' Coach Sam Sharp said "This opened up their Vvill1ng_ness to share with each other a common goal of having a more compet itive team while encouraging :::ind helping each other "

Having a small squad of only 4 players puts more pressu r e on the players Sharp said "But as these girls have shown they are up to the challenge to make their team the best they can be for their school .' ' Sharp said.

"Coach was hard on us but that's o because Vve got better." Junior Courtney Mangers said.

"V ; e show great courage and perseverance 1,vh1le we cornpete at Lincoln Nigh. Those are values that will help us thro ghout our l1fet1rne so It cont1nu s to improve t night be In a different light of public unc1erstand1ng '' Coach Sharp said.

lnd1v1dually the girls have improved 20 to 30 shots on the 1nd1v1dua' 18 hole scores sInceJ0InIng golf last. year. During th Heartland Athletic Conf rence tournament Junior Erin Field got a 101. she a so too off 20 strok 5 and won the Girls Sertohc:1 Award. 1//h 1le Schultz shot a 110 at th Lincoln Public Schools Champ1onsh1ps They hope to practice more In the surnn1 r so they are ready and prepared for the tournarncnts right away next year. "Sorn tIrr1es It•Vvas difficult with peop le who had Jobs and other things to qo but it was Vve tried to do our best and stay together ' Schultz said.

Last year they had a full team of eight girls ancl this y ar their team was cut in half to four So they are trying to recruit more girls this soring.

VARSITY GIRLS GOLF

:::: Above : Coach Som Sharp Chontrey Shulke Emma Schultz , Erir, Fie ld, Courtney Mangers

« Left: Chan trey Schulke 110) Hits her first ba!I of the course at Ma'rcrey Golf Course Photo b y Photographer Nome Jessi Ander son

FORE THE WIN

:::: Above : Coach Sharp helps Courtney Mangers (11) with her swing at __practice at Pioneers Park Golf Course fhoto by Haley Kelle r

:::: Abo ve: Coach Sam Sharp takes a break from a long da y at practice at Pioneers Park Golf Course Photo b y Haley Keller

DRIVING OUTSIDE THE BOX

:::: Above : Erin Field

» Right : Raachel Pageler 191hits the ball during the Junior Varsilt Omaha Benson game on September 2'2, 2010 at Doris

field. Photo b y Phil Eddins

» Far Right: Darianna Klem (10 ) picks of a runner at second base during the Junior Varsity Omaha Benson 9.ame on September '22 2010 at Doris OOir field.

Photo b y Phil Eddins

Hildebrand , Tam Nguyen, Jordyn Stover, Darianna Klem, Cace y Wilken

Callie Kiehn Photo by Cythnia Wehlond-Folk

CD s:

The Lincoln High Girls Softball Team faced the heat, the competition, and their inJuires throughout the season.

"I thought I was goihg to die!"

Varsity .softball pitcher JUhlor Ehhhha Rathe fell to the pitcher's hhOUhd ih paih. pressihg her hahd5 to her eye as blood rah dowh her cheek She had Just takeh a direct hit to her face frohh a llhe drive dur1hg a gat"'he agaihst East High ''I was screat"'hihg ahd Just tryihg hot to close hhY eyes " Rathe said. because she didh 't Waht to lose cohscioU5he55. ''I was scared.''

"At first I thought hhY eye was like fallihg out of hhY head " Rathe e.><plaihed. The paih was ihcredible ahd there was blood everywhere ''People were a 11 arouhd t"'he screat"'hihg I dldh t khoW what was goihg oh.''

Sehior Cat Harvey playihg secohd base at the tlt"'he rah to the dugout ahd ca Iled 9 11. The at"'hbU lahce was there ih hhihUtes

Rathe had ho cohcussioh but the side of her hose heeded stitches She cat"'he back for the secohd gat"'he wahtlhg to

play but the doctors at the hospital said she wou Id be out for at least a week.

"She is dedicated t"'hore thah ahYohe would khow Harvey said. "AhYohe else wou Id go to the ER ahd waht to go hot"'he but she wahted to cot"'he back ahd play."

Iroh1cally. the batter was ohe of Rathe 's best friehds. She was :textihg Rathe the whole tihhe she was ih the hos p1tal.

''That's t"'hairily why I cat"'he back [to the gat"'he]. to let her khow I was okay '' Rathe explaihed.

Durihg battihg practice. its' typical for batters to try to athh for the pitcher ih order to it"'hprove their foucs. This tlhhe. it worked too well.

The ball hhight have hit lower. but Rathe 's ref Iexes proved too good. "tv,y glove pushed the bal·I thto !hY face.''

The it"'hpact of the ba 11 cut the side of her hose opeh a lohg the left side ahd bruised her face be low her eye Other thah that. ihcredibly . she had ho serious 1ruur1es.

''I like softball a lot. ahd I doht let little thlhg5 bother t"'he." Rathe s aid. Facet"'hasks becat"'he t"'hahdatory for all softba 11 pitchers at LHS. Next year there 15 talk of requ1r 1hg thehh for all thfielders.

Pag by Lindsey Toman and Haley eHer

READY FOR IT?

Above: Emma Rathe llll, looks for the signal from the ca tcher to decide what pitch to throw Photo by Garrett Chelfon

INCOMING!

Above : Emma Rothe (l]l, fires a pitch across the plate during the Links vs. Col umbus game at Doris Bair on September 9 2010

Photo by Gar· rett Chelton

HERE IT COMES

« Left : Emma Rothe 11 ll, winds up to deliver her fast boll

Photo by CJ. Brower

What's ·all that Racket?

Sticking together the whole w2y through with their he2ds hela high.

LAUGH TO REMEMBER

"I Really like mY team and it was Just alot of fun and mY teammates are really really nice and I made a lot of" friends."

Trent Gardner ( 10)

"Excitihg there have beeh so ~ahY close ca Ils of al~o5t Wlhhlhg and wereJust ohe the thresho Id of getting better so I guess aht1cipat1oh would be a better word.''

Micah Hadley ( 12)

"Fun Coach Sandberg makes it a lot of fun we have a lot of fun practices and makes it more than Just about winning"

00n Sands ( 12)

A

» Right : Reserve Tennis Tearn shares a laugh with Coach Lisa Effie at the Southwest match Photo by Haley Keller

LONG STRETCH

» Far Right: Tyler Hayes Stretches to hit if back over to the net. Photo by Haley Keller

MATCH POINT

~ Above : Taylor Samek 1111 Serves the ball for match point. 1-'hoto by Oona McNeil

A CLOSE GAME

Above: Trent Gordner 110) jumps up for the serve during his second match at state. Photo b y Devon Brandt

Above : Coach Kevin Jomes gives wor ds of advice to his JV boys during practice to prepare them for their up coming match Photo by Dana McNeil

Right : Back Row : Coach Todd Sandberg , Alice McVicker Devon

I Branot, Toylor Samek, Jon Sands, Coach Lisa Effie, Coach Kevin James

Above: Zoe Spence 11 serves over to his opponent. Photo by Seth Middle Row Tyler Hayes, Micah Hadley, Ma x lhrie, Tristan Sommers, Marshall Micah Thiessen, Hunter Ellis Front Row : Papa Adabie, Aaron Cook, Austin Trejo, Trent Gardner Austin Hilton, Zoe Spence, Craig Findley

Not Pictured: Andrew O w ens, Adam Kiehn, Frank Owusu-Ansah

Photo b y Cythnia Wehland-Falk

IBy Dana McNe ii

What is t he tv, cNasty?!

"lt's a tv,cDouble and a tv,cCh1cken and you take the tv,cDouble and you take the patties apart then you put the McCh1cken 1n between with any sauce you want." Sophomore Trent Gardner said.

Now you may wonder what does this have anything to do with tehhl;, But every once and awhile Coach • Todd Sandberg will hold little compet1t1ons at practice such as ta get practice or simply trying to hit Alice tv,cVicker their manager with the ball. lf you hit the target you win an item frorn tv,cDonald s and 1f hit Alice you get a Gatorade

But its not so much the Prize they are going for but for the everlasting glory of getting to hit Alice. The target practices and compet1t1ons paid off with 6 boys going to state. Cons1st1ng of two teams of

singles and two teams of doubles.

Sophomore Trent Gardner placing 11th out of 40 working very hard ih his matches ln Gardner's first match he won his first set 6-1 and then won his second set 6-0 advancing him. Then in his second match he lost his first set 6-4 and lost his second set 6-1 ending his season 16 and 11. "I thought I was going to make 1t farther" Gardner said He 1s already preparing for next year 111 hopes to make 1t to finals

In the second spot singles Senior Jon Sands played tough and lost his first match 0- 1and got eliminated.

In the first spot doubles Senior tv,icah Hadley and Junior Zac Spence 111 their first match lost 0-6 first set won their second set 6- 1. and then won third set 6- 1 moving them on. In their second match they lost

their first set 1-6 and lost second set 2-6 eliminating then-- 1

In the second spot doubles Senior tv,i cah Thiessen and Sophomore Austin Trejo lost their first match 0-6 first set and 1-6 1n their second set eliminat1hg them in a heartbreaking first game

"You can't measure the success by how many wins we hav its Just how much better the kids get" Coach Todd Sandberg said.

Overall the season was tough but they made 1t to state played • tough competitors and walked off proud and knowing that they did their best. ''I was very proud of the • way our [team] battled and worked this year" said Coach Kevin Jame s Enough though the scores and wins were not on their side that day they gave 1t all they had ahd le t 1t all on the court.

QUICK FEET

JUNIORVARSITY/R.ESERVE

''His worr ethic and po·J1t1ve cit t1tude was co11tag1ous" Said Coac h Ke vin Ja mes ve though Junior Taylo r Samek h.:::id never played tennis before he worked hard and led Reserve and JV tearns. lne JV and Reserve teams practiced late and at differ ht places requ1r d ded1cat1on to their teammate5 and coaches As Sophorriore Tristan So mm e r s ::, 1ci "tv,y Favoritf' p':lrt -=ibout te11n1 J 1~ the feeling you get when you actually w111 a rnatch." This goes to show that the hard wor rnaY not always come out 111 wins but when you succ eci 111 getting the wins 1t feels that much better.

« Left : Micah Hadl ey ll2) runs up on a shor t ball to quickl y return it to his oppenent Photo by Seth Morsho/1

SENIORS

Below : 2010 Tennis Seniors. Mi cah Hadle y. A ndre w TARGET TROPHY • Owens , Jon Sands, Papa A dabie Micah Thiessen

Above: Trent G ardner

Photo b y Dono M cNeil

0 ) Holds hi s Troph y the

M cNast y high and proud

Photo b.y Dono Mc Ne ,I

VARSITY CAPTAINS

"As a captain , are there any expectations that .'i9U need to live up to~ '

What do you thin k is the team 's m o st memo rab le moment?

"I would have to say one of them was the game against Central. They played really, really well. Or the game against Northeast, even though we lost That was kind of the "a-ha!" moment when we realized we could play with these people." -Coach Lynette Rychecky

"You

always have to be positive and you have to be able to help people with what they're struggling with , tell them what they need to fix and what they're doing good."

Catherihe Delaihe ( 12)

"Consistency, like , being there and encouragement. !'

"As a captain everybody feels ' that you have a little bit more to do. Your job is just to be encouraging and to make plays , and to help everybody out on the court when they need it. "

Delaine (12) cheer

Photo br Seth Marshall

Lihcisey Keller ( 11)

Above : Tiana Bro w n(]] ) attacks a ball at the Sil verha wk Tournament at South w est on September 4 , 2010

Photo b y Seth Mar shall

Cheyahha Ke~pel ( 10)

By Alice McV1c ker, Emma Mckeighan and Lind sey Toman

The halls are quiet. Suddenly you hear the breaking echoes of laughter and screaming. ''Sometimes I make sounds like. HIYA!'' exclaimed senior captain Cc1therine Delc1ine ''You make sVvift ~it'lja movements and try to hit the other persons hand and Vvhen you do. theyre out.'' Nit'lja. It's Vvhat Lincoln High's varsity volleyball team does to get pumped for their games ''Vve are very close as a team.'' ''All of the upperclassmer1 are helpful. most of the time. When Vvere doing good everybody's excited. but Vvhen Vvere doVvh. everybody's doVvh really doVvn.'' said Junior Tiohc1 Brown . Team s leep over say Vvhaaaaa??? Yes you read correctly They re so close as a team they can even stand to have a team sleep over. They Vveht around can hunting for the Fight for Hunger Food Drive . They Vveht to Russ s. HyVee

~tc asking people to donate cans. They took third 1n the food drive behind V;averly and SouthVvest. S ince most of the season 1s 1n Octob ...,r Vvh1ch co1ncidenta lly is Breast Cancer AVvareness Month. both Varsity and JV Vvore pink headbands to shoVv support. On November 5 20 10. Varsity and d a scr1 th to raise money for breast cancer 1n the South Gym.

Sporting the logo

"Links Dig Pink."

Varsity beat JV in 3 games and they raised over $ 1.000.

THE GIRLS VARSITY VOLLEYBALL TEAM Above : Front Row (L-R}. Cooch Cheri Klobenes , Kasi Siebrandt Mensso Sw1nnerton , Lindsey Keller , Katie Duff Cheyanno Kempel Ttor,o Brown , Cooch Shem Pendergros Second Row (L-R}. Cooch Chelsea McMeen, Rosie Ne1bel Catnenne Delaine, Janooh Absalon Gwendolyn

DIG IT UP!

« Left : Ayleno Solomon 112) posses the boll to setter , Rosie Neibel 112), duncig a gome in the Silverhowk Tournament at Southwest on September 4, 2010

Photo by Holey Keller •

SP IKE FOR A KILL

~ Above: Mariah Ward ( 10) attacks the ball during the Junior Va rsity Lincoln High vs Linco ln Southeast volleyball game on October 14, 201 O in Jonnson Gym Photo by Phil Eddins

JUNIOR VAR SITY

~ Above : Front Row: Emma Mckeighan, Brianna Kempel, M ikayla Findiay, Tayler Ewing, Medina Kovacevic, Angie Erustamante, Back Row: Coach Mcmeen, Ariel Mi llsa p, Claire Delaney, Sam El ls, Mariah Ward, Kylie Herbert, Caitlin Holman

Photo Courtesy of: Cynthia Wen/and -Falk

148 JV. Reserve and Freshman Volley ball

By Niccole Lane

DIGGING PINK

THATS THE WAY WE FIRE UP

~ Above: Medina Kovacevic ( 11) digs a ball during the Lincoln High Junior Varsity Benson Volleyball Tournament at Omaha Benson on October 22, 201 0 Photo by Tiana Brown

~Above : The Lincoln High Reserve volleyball team fires up before the games against Columbus and Norfolk during t he tnanqu lar on September 23. 201 O in the LHS Soutn Gym

Photo by Emma McKeighan

RESERVE Above : Front Row: Hannah Rodriguez, Jordyn Flinn, Cheyenne Gottula, Grace Joseph , Ariel Comer, Elaine Samsel, Elena Lovorn, Back Row : Coach Klabenes , Hailey Weiand, Briannah Hunt, Alysha Toman , Reagan Myers , Samantha Greer, Chloe Bontrager, Lily Tran

Photo Courtesy of Cynthia Wehland -Falk

How does the team recover from losses?

Kylle Herbert, 9th

" Kind of just put them aside and focus on winning the next one."

Photo by Daniel Bulchenko

"Work hard and practice the next day."

Reagan Myers, 10th

Emma Mckeighan, 11th

"When we won it was fun, we were all like excited, but when we lost like when we lost to Omaha Central it was such a close game that we felt like we won, so we were still really happy about it."

by

Aaron Chealey

Brianna Kempe l, Kylie Herbert, and Ariel Millsap are new comers to Lincoln l-!1gh. They walked through th e doors of LI-IS on August 18th not completely knowing what to expect. When the t hree gir ls hied out for vo ll eyba ll none of them probably thought they 'd be making the JV team, but that's exactly what happened.' From going to club and going to high school JV , 1l 's a lot; 1l's a big step, so it was a lot of pressure,' Kylie Herbert told me. W1th all the pressures of being freshmen on t he JV team, Ariel Millsap noted that she made friends with everyone on the team and coach Che lsee McMeen says' They're a very good asset to the team.' It 's pretty safe to say that everyone really gets along. Coach Chelsee McMeen also made 1t clear that the girls on the team ' Really like t o have fun.' The girls informed me that they would go out to dinners before or after games to bond as a team and once at the beginning of the season they went sw1mm1ng al Sam Ell's house; the team captain. Not too long ago they even went lo a dig pink night for breast cancer at Doane College where they w_atched a college level volleyball game. Although the team has only won five games so far this season the gir ls on the team always try to think positive. When l asked how she dealt with the team 's losses Kylie Herbert replied that she 'Just puts them aside and focuses on winning the next one.' But at the end of the season coach Mcmeen says, "They had fun and that's the important part.'

FIGHTING TOGETHER f.S ONE

~ Above Top: Angie Bustamante ( 11) and Mariah Ward ( 10) dive for a ball during the Lincoln Hiqh v s. Lincoln North Star Junior Varsity volreyball game on October 12, 201 0 in Johnson uym. Photo by Aaron Ch ea ley

Pf.SS TO SCORE Above: Nya char Douth (91 p asses th e ball to h e r setter during th e f=r es hman Quad at Lincoln Southeast o n O c tob e r 9, 2010 Photo by Niccol e Lan e BUMP , SET, SPIKE

« Left: Alli so n Half (9hpa sses th e ba ll to h e r setter during th e Fres man voll ey ball gam e against Lincoln North Star on October 12, 201 0 in LHS South Gym. Photo by Hanna Malone

Out of the twelve gir ls this season, five obtained injuries Reagan Myers told me. Reagan herself was out of games for two and a half weeks due to a sprained ankle Along with Reagan: Alysha Toman, h Rodriguez, Ariel Comer, and Jordyn Flinn all had injuries lhat made it a challenge to give it there all this season. Grace Joseph, one of the team captains explP.ined the injuries as almost having a sor t of domino affect, saying 'One would happen and then the next; a back to back kind of thing.' 'We had a bad year,' Reagan Myers laughed , but they still managed to keep their spirits high start ing every game off with the fire up cheer. Grace Joseph says,' It 's one of those things we Just have to do before every game; we just get the team pumped.' With their positive attitudes and teamwork they even managed to score one win this season.

' The freshman girls vo ll eyball team 1s made up of the freshest additions to Lincoln l-!1gh. including team captains Zoe Reineke and R1ann Quin!). When I asked her what il was like being captain Riann Quinn replied it was fun 'It could be challenging because like you have to motivate them.' Zoe Reineke said being captain was 'fun, but at the same time it 's hard because you h:1ve to te ll everyone like everywhere to go and so mebmes they won 't listen or anything, so you got to be focused.' But although il cou ld be challenging sometimes for the captau:is, the team also had a lot of fun. Rianu Quinn informed me that the team made up their own cheers and while winning eight games this season they had a lot to cheer about. Coach Sherri Pendergras says' It's probably the best group of gir ls I've ever coached.' Be prepared to see these girls play for varsity in the near future_.

Above: Front Row: Alexi s Kennedy, Kamaya Long - Hawkins , Brianna Griffin , Zoe Reineke , Christie Do , Back Row : Coach Pendergras , Keiteyana Parks , Nyachar Duoth , Rian Quinn,., Allison Holf, Sabrina Crowe, Amy Brandt

Photo Courtesy or : Cynthia Wehland -Falk

Photo by Niccole Lane

Photo

Life Lessons .. .

"The friendships - we were like a family I've learned to open up and trust other people on the team " -Rhian Quinn (9)

About Practices

"A typical practice would be practicing shooting and rebounding, doing layup drills and running through our new offense, and then scrimmaging " -Nakuya Smith (12) •

About Garnes

"Sometimes, it's really frustrating when we act like we don't know what we're doing It's frustrating , but you can't focus on the past " - Tiona Brown (11)

About the Tearn Experience .. ;

"A lot of people underestimate what we can do, and that's something we've had to fight together as a team. This group of girls this year, we have worked so hard and we are so much of a team that we aren't letting what other people say or what other people think of us get in the way of what we're trying to accomplish When we beat Omaha Northwest it was the greatest feeling that we had, because we knew we worked together." -Lindsey Toman (12)

"I have learned from playing basketball that everyone makes mistakes, but they are so little compared to the big picture. Everyone has a part no matter how big or small it is." -Catharine

Harvey

"During the game I'm trying to keep my intensity, and go full speed at all times and visualizing what I need to do in the game to score It's kind of like being in a battlefield. You're constantly being put to the test and weaknesses become exposed."

-Nakuya Smith (12)

1r

r11K.e~ 11 rem~\

:::: Above: Nakuya Smith ( 12 ) jum]2_S for the ball durin g a ga me aga in s t Southe as t. Ph oto by Came Lueth;e.

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A LINOOLN HIGH .JOB WELL DONE

:::: Above: Briannah Hunt ( 10 ), cen t er / for.var d for the Lincoln Hi g h Links goes in for a lay up.

Photo -by Cassie Luethje.

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Photo Hal Keller.

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/\cco r di hg to The G ir l Sco ut Research lhst itute t he more physica ll y active gir ls are the gr eater thei r self-estee m. The Cehters fo r Disease Cohtrol sa id. ''lh 2005 . more hig h school females (72.2%) t hah their male couhterparts (56.2%) did hot meet currehtly recornrnehded levels of physical activity" Sihce the 1970s youhg worneh have becorn1hg more ahd more ihvolved with school sports Vvith more role models like Vehus ahd Sereha \!vii Iiams Mia Hamm Kristi Yamaguchi ahd Lisa Leslie. girls are beihg ehcouraged to hit the field ice rihk court. greeh etc

Female athletes at Lihcolh High have fouhd rnahY posit ive friehdsh ips ahd life lessohs t hr ough their exper·iehces. Popular sports for gi r ls ihclude volleyba l l basketball. ahd sof t ball. Sophomore Briahhah Huht has takeh sports to t he extreme She is a participah t ih varsity basketball. volleyball ahd track as well as cheerlF::adihg

Huht has beeh playihg baske t ball for eight years ''Ive played w ith Lihcolh Cats sihce second grade until how so it 's been a lohg time ." Huht said. Garnes bring stress but the overall reward of p layihg basketball is much greater ''l t just depends oh the game . but I get excited. I get really anxious . theh sometimes I 1-ri mad "

M en---iories of the season include their game against Omaha Northwest. ''VVe had to break ihto our bus. There was a really bad showstorrn down in Omaha The bus driver was InsIde eating popcorn and we had to open up the bus. I/ / e were outside with t he blizzard and everything . It wasJust a crazy bus ride it took us 2 1/:2 hou r s to get home " Huht explained Cheerleadihg does conflict with other sports but Huht sets her priorities. ' 'Basketball comes first. theh cheerleadihg So if I have a basketba 11 game I doh 't cheer But if I doh t have _ a basketba 11 game Iike today I am going to cheer " Huht said.

Vvhen asked what she had learned from doing basketba l l Hunt replied. "Everythihg : all my ski l ls fo r basketball and how to be a better pe r son . ahd how to get good grades so that I can play sports too . Ive made honor ro 11 every • semester '' Hunt: three-sport athlete c heerleade r. honor roll student. ahd Lincolh High Link.

The Big Wini

We won against Omaha Bryan by almost 20 points! It was really amazing because we definitely never do that, and I think it's the first time we've ever beaten someone like thdt." -Catharine Harvey (12)

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ON THK HOME COURT

GOING FOR TI!£

"Just being with these girls, they've been a lot of fun and they make coming to practice every day and going as . hard as you can and playing as hard as you can worth it. You know in the end, if you mess up .they're going to be there to pick you up. Or if you do something good, they're going to be there to pat you on the back a_nd tell you good job." -Lindsey Toman (12)

C,@ach, = .f $

Jeff Pierce, Vernon Jiles, John Clark, Jarrell Green

ltud,.t-rtt M:artag ,.n- Chloe Bontrager

Above: Catharine Harv e_y ( 12 ), a g uard , keeps th e ball away from the Southeast Knigl-its. Ph o to by Cassie Luethje.

WIN

B elow: Mar'Lakuittia Overstreet ( 12 ) makes a fast br eak down the co urt . Overstreet has oecn o n va rs it y for three yea rs, Ph oto by H a l ey Keller.

RADICAL REACH

Abov e: Jekerra Hopper (9) saves the ball during the freshman game against Lincoln Northeast in Johnson Gym on February 10th. Photo by Brittany Suhr

JUNIOR VAR SITY

Above : (from left to right) Bottom Row : M ary Overstreet, Tiona Brown , Alexis Graewe, Andi M anakdan , Abi Paudel , Mara Honamon Top Row : Alysha Toman , Joyce Osorio 1 Nonyea Smith -Holden , Alexis Carpenter, Rian Quinn , Jarelle Brooks , Coach Jiles Pnoto by Cynthia Wehland -Falk

RESERVE, Abov e: (from left to right) Bottom Row : Jacqueline Ndayishimiye , Benie Suzi, Ebony Dui s, Linh Ngu~en , Yvonne Yvonne , Aline Nasukul"op Row : Coach Clark , Abigail Youn , Je ssica ohnson , PaskaJuma , Cheyenne • Gottula , Te iafana Stee e, Stormy Eberspacher Photo by Cynthia Wehland -Falk

Basketball is more than winning. It's teamwork , dedication , hard work, fun and friend s

When the buzzer goes off everyone looks for one thing: the score. What most forget is, you can 't judge a team by their record. Look at their progress , desire and effort. Sophomore Abi Paudel made the jump from Reserve to JV /Varsity swinger this year. She commented on how everyone needs to take a closer look at the team instead of the scoreboard.

"People on our team don't start out having a lot of experience , but if you look at the way we play, you can see how far we come, " Paudel said.

The girls in the basketball program have a lot of dedication and perseverance. Many wonder why anyone would go out for a team that may not have the best record. Junior Tiena Brown said, " I wanted to help the team , and I enjoy playing with my friends. "

"I wanted to be a part of something, " freshman Dani Hansen said . "The other girl s were so close, like a family, and I wanted to be a part of that. I wanted to be a part of that with something I love like basketball." Friendship is definitely something basketball creates. Spending hours together everyday for months, you really get to know your teammates.

"Coming in as a freshman, I didn ' t know any of the girls ," freshman and JV /Varsity swinger Mara Hollamon said. " They were very welcoming, and I made friends that will last a lifetime. "

There ' s more to basketball than winning. The LHS girls basketball program is gaining more each and every day.

~ Above : Joyce Osorio (11) stretches for the ball during the tip off at the Omafia NorhtwestJV game at Lincoln on Decemoer 21 , 2010

Photo by Rodtesha Ballard

IT'S UP

Left : Dan ielle Hansen (9) practice s making shots dur ing half time at a freshman home game

Photo by Brittany Suhr

FRESHMAN

FOCUS

» Right : The reserve girls practice a drill before the game with Lincoln Christian on December 13 , 2010

Photo by Joyce Osorio

~ Above : (from left to right) Bottom Row : Amanda Hood , Jekerra Hopper , Winnie Atem , Danielle Hansen ,Ashlele Steele , Kier sten Buettgenbach , Er in Tharni sh Top Row : Coach Green , Lexi Nyhof, D imitr ia Sierra , Ne si t1a Smith -Holden , Keiteyana Parks , Ciara Dykes , Kamaya Long -Hawkin s, Angel a Spencer Photo by Cyntnia Wehland -Falk

l ' MOPEN

Left : Kiersten Buett~enbach

Superstitious Links do everything possible to bring some luck their way.

"I listen to songs to get pumped up li ke "Y our love is my drug ", "Tick Tock ", and of course

"We are who we are " by Kesha I also kiss my bracelet that says Captain. "

Jared Sapp (12) j

"Y ou can find me doing a lot of e xtra rur:ining to get my adrenaline going I run e xtra laps, do sprints, and sometimes you can catc:h me jumping over the bench. "

Matz (12)

DUNK N' GO-NUTS Above : John Harris (11) goes to dunk the ball at Lincoln High s first home game against Lincoln Southwest High School on December 10th 2010.

Photo courtesy of Lincoln Journal Star

Photo by Seth Marsha//

BALLS UP

MIND SET TO WIN

Photo by Holey Keffer

Photo by Seth Marsha//

~ Above : Thiop Dut (12) goes up for the tip off for the possession of the ball against a Southwest player on December 10th 2010.

Above : Demarius Lon Ill) dribbles past an Omaha Benson defender on January 15th 2011 in Earl Johnson Gym

Photo by Seth Marshall

Photo by Seth Marsha// ,

Nathan

Dah Noble speht his secohd seasoh as Varsity Boys Basketball head coach searching for stability in a teah1 full of ups and downs. Return in·g only one starter h1ahY players were new to the Varsity level.

The gah1e schedule for the season did not favor the Links. either Noble said that of the 24 gah1es played. 1B of the oppo0ents were rated throughout the year . The Varsity teah1 ended their season with a 12- 12 record. !hough this record is not as appea Iing as other years the varsity teah1 ''battled for consistency and always cah1e to work no h1atter what.'' Noble said.

For the first tih1e ih 3 years. the teah1 did not receive a bid to state. The Links were grouped in a district with State defending chah1pions Oh1aha Central. Grand Island. and Lincoln East. The Links fell to Grand Island in the first round. Junior Johh Harris said ''it was heartbreaking not earning the right to go to the state tourn-=:1-

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sh1eht. but if anyth ihg. it is a h1otiv ator for next season. ' '

Noble believes the lack of experience on the varsity level was the downfall of the teah-7. The size strength and speed of the varsity level truly tested the Links.

,Apart froh1 this set back. the teah1 found strength in their v ersatility. The Links were able to play h1Ultiple players at h1Ultiple positions. Consequently the Links were able to h1atch up with a variety of teah7s

A stand-out gah1e for h7ost of the Links was ag~inst Lincoln Southeast. 'We hit theh1 hard froh1 the start and kept theh1 at bay. it was a true city rival gah1e.'' stated Noble The Lihks won the gah1e with a thrilling score 73-56.

Many seniors will be leaving the teah1 this year but h1ahY will leave behind a legacy filled with devotion and leadership.

Noble hopes for a strong teah1 next year with h1any returners and loads of support froh1 the schoo I.

FADE AWAY

Above: Micah Thiessen (12) shoots the ball over a defender at an away basketball game against Lincoln Northeast on January 20th 2011 Photo by Haley Keller

CUT THROAT COMPETITION

Above: Merrill Holden 1111 shots the ball for two points at an qway game against Omaha Bryan on January 27th 2011 fhoto courtesy of Lincoln Journal Star

LINKS VARSITY BASKETBALL

« Left: Bac k Row : Thiop Dut, Jared Sapp, Demarius Lott , Casey Phi lpot , Deandre White, Nathan Matz, Mitch Kreife ls, Blake Eitzman, John Harri s, Dylan Colton, Merrill Holden

Front Row: Shaka Chai, Micah Thiessen

Photo courtesy of Lori Vick

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:::: Above: Thanh La (10 ball game on December by 1-fannah Malone FRESHMAN POWER

» Far Right: The Freshma bo_xs baksetball tear0 line up for Dan Ngoyi ,9) to snoot his free throws dui the Freshman LHS vs. Lincoln Southeast game LHS on December78,201

Photo by Hannah Ma/on TO THE LINE

» Middle Righ~: Race Schuurmans (.9) shoots a free throw on December 18 , 2010 during the Freshman LHS vs.1.incoln Southeast game at LHS.

Photo by Rannah Ma/on JUMP SHOT

» Right: D'M~rg__uieyon Wli1ttington \JOJ snoots the basi<etball over his Li coin North Star oppone during the Reserve baske ball game on December 2010:" Photo by Rodtesha Ballard LAY IT UP FOR TWO

» Right:

runs for a lay up cfuring t

Dan Ngoyi (9)

Lincoln Higli Freshman boys basketball game against LSE on Decembe 18-, 2010 at LHS. Photo b Hannah Malone

Lindsey Toman

JUNIOR VARSITY

:::: Above: Front Row : Nathan Buzi, Jeff Brooks , Payton Helmstadter , DaVonte Webster , Garytt Shirey, Michael Collins Back Row : Coach Casey Fries, Shaka Chol, Merr ill ffolden, Duent ' e Herring , Jesse Pickett, Elijah Eubanks, Coach Mark Larson

Photo Courtesy of: Cynthia Wen/and -Falk

PU ~ ~')

How do th~se boys get • pumped before a game?

s

"I listen to mus ic and st art jumping around an d pushing people, getting pumped."

Jordan Sorge (9)

"Listening to music helps me a lot, something energetic, like rap or heavy metal."

"St ayi ng focused a nd listening to mus i c sometimes."

Devon Brandt (tO) Merrill Holden (tt) Th e Junior Varsity, Reserve and Freshman Boys

Basketball t eams are not Just a team, they are a

"We Just got to come prep2red, come ready to pl2y, crash on the boards, get up and down the floor, and we11 need everybody contributing to the score," sophomore Duent'e Herring said. Basketball requires you to work as a team, a sense of brotherhood Kareem Abdul-Jabbar said, "One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot ma ke a team."

Sophomore Trey Anderson agrees and says one of the reasons he went out for basketball again this year was to "have the same brotherhood that we had last ye2r "

Hours of practice, gallons of sweat and a lot o running 1s worth 1t to them, because they make memories that will last a l1fet1me Memories like, "dunking aga inst Norfolk," for Herring and the Northecist game for Anderson "We were lead ing the whole game and then they came b2ck and I hit a three, and I sort of pumped us up to win the game," he said Their goal was to get some wins, but also to get better at e2ch practice 2nd every game see that improvement pay off. "Some of our players that we didn't think were basketball players excelled in basketball re2lly well," Herring said

"We were more m2ture th is year than last year," Anderson s21d. "I cou ld see some of our fa ul ts that we had last year."

For some younger players, the trans1t1on from Reserve to Junior . Vars ity came faster than expected "Trans1t1on to JV practice from Reserve practice 1s hard," Herring said. "Some of the plays we run are different d1rect1ons, like some plays I'm suppose to set a pie and others I'm , suppose to get a pick," he added

Yo unger teams are building the future Varsity Boys Bas etball Te2m. With all the ta lk 2nd pressure on the older players with recent St2te Tourn2ment appecirances, all eyes 2re on the future

Will these young men take our school on to win a State Champion ship? Only time, dedication, some more sweat and tears w·111 tell.

~ Above : Shaka Chol (11) takes a jump shot over Lincoln Northeast during the Ju inor Varsity basketoall game at Lincoln Northeast on January 20, 2011. Photo by M ollie Schoonover

RESERVE Above : Front Row: Thanh La , Jeff Brooks, D 'M arquieyon Whitt ington , Trey Anderson Back Row : Coach Rkhard Jackson , Devon Brandt , Chao FranssenCook , Duent 'e Herring , Kak Ayaj,Josh Henderson , Coach Kevin Jame s

Photo Courtesy of: Cynthia Wehland -Falk

FRESHMAN

Above : Front Row: Thien Phan, Austin Phipps, Andy M oore, Landon Beard , Jordan Sorge, Tyson Wil son, Elijah Gibson, t;aron Taylor Back Row : Co ach Will Smith;. Alton Mason , Adrian St. M artin , Colton Ph ipp s, Dan Ngoyi , Seb it Bil ew , Race ::ichuurmans, Hunter Pritchard •

Photo Courtesy of: Cynthia Wehland -Falk

Third

BOYS VARSITY SWIMMING

Front Row : Omar Hssoin , Koryon Sowa , Charlie Neibel, Wight Brown , Dot Nguyen , Micah Swetland, Helodio Perez , Ken Yuan , Youhon Edodeh

Second Row : Anh Nyugen , Chris Todd, Bruce Koenigsman , Cole Siminsons , CJ Borower , Connor Goodwin , Ethan Nichols , Abbas Homeed, Cooch Shari/I Luedtke

Row : Cooch Roy Castro , Chad Rost, Aaron Wright, Bennett Miliken , Nickohi Hommer , Christia Lueedtke , Erik Schulz , Jose Lemus , Henry Logrimini, Anclrew Reinhard, Cooch Richard Conradt

GO! GO ! GOl

AAbove: Cale Simmison (12) competes in the 200 Meter Freestyle duing Senior Night on January 15, 20]]

Photo by Seth Marshall

TUCK AND SPIN

Above : Nadia Khechfe (9) performs a dive during the Lincoln High vs Southwest meet

Photo by Britney Suhr

GIRLS VARSITY SWIMMING

Front Row : Moeko Yoshino, Cing Lion, Ana Pecina Kaitlin Crouch, Sarah Frey Hikari Yoshino, Ashlie Izzo Nadia Khechfe, Kayte Jensen, Second Row : Mar'la Case·Ruchala, Eve DiMagno, Alana Stone, Haley Keller, Yasmin Perez , Bree Urda Chantrey Schulke, Coach Sharill Luedtke Third Row : Coach Rax Castro, Som Ells, Emma Shultz, Emma Lagrimini , Amber Mor· risoin, Marisa Mickel, Kelsey Hetrick , Coach Richard Conradt

Layout by Seth Marshall

JUST KEEP SWIMMING!

« Far Left: Marie Schwab (ll) competes in the Girls 100 Meter Freestyle on December 9 , 2010.

Photo by Seth Marshall

ALMOST THERE

« Left : Aaron Wright (12) competes in the 100 Meter Butterfly duril!J his meet against Calum· bus on January 13, 2011.

Photo by Seth Marshall

STRONG FINISH!

Above : Fellow teammates cheer on swimmer Alana Stone (12) during the Girl's Relay Photo by Seth Marshall

« Left : Kayte Jensen 112) com~tes in the Girls 200 Meter Freestyle on December 9 , 2010 against Grand Island

Photo by Seth Marshall

"We're focused on teamwork .and sportsmanship."

Unlike spo'rts like football or baseball, swimming is more about person.al performances and growth, swim coach Richard Conradt said. "The nice thing about swimming is that we can go by time. If you improve your time, whether you win or not, you still improved," Conradt added,"! want them to learn about themselves and improve."

And improve they have . Senior Haley Keller broke 30 seconds on the 50 free, three times, for the first time ever. Junior Bennett Milliken has been swimming since his freshman year, and he has seen a lot of improvement since that first year. "This year I was pretty consistent," he ~aid. Sophomore S.am Costello also improved his time over the season by several seconds.

Although no one on the swim team competed at state, Arron Wright placed at districts for the 1OOM Butterfly.

At the Girls Diving State Tournament this year sophomore Ashlie Izzo placed 7th and freshman N.adi.a Khechfe placed.

The team has fostered a genuine kind of family bond as well "We're always having pasta feeds, or team dinners, and we're. always hanging out together." Keller said. This attitude shows in their meets. "The guys are cheering on the girls, and the girls are cheering on the guys "

It's a large team over 40 students swam this season, but 20 of those are seniors . That ma~es prospects for next year challenging, Conradt said. "Hopefully we'll be able to get some more swimmers next year."

During Senior Night, graduc1ting swimmers are featured in front of the crowd and "salted" with a giant cardboard salt shaker to symbolize the fact that they are "done/' Conradt added.

Another way Conradt keeps the competition fun during the Cotter Invite is by awarding swimmers with a banana if they win their heat during a race. The bananas line the wall of the pool behind the swimmers as a visual reminder of their accompl1sbments.

But these athletes are serious about academics as well. "We have a lot of scholars on this team. Our team GPAS for the Girls is easily over 3.0, and the guys is also right around 3." Senior Connor Goodwin got accepted to the University of Chicago. "This team Is super academically oriented/' Conradt said.

What stands out most to Conradt about the team is their effort and hard work. He points to a lane of swimmers wr10 are warmihg up before practice. 11 See this lane right here? Not a one of them could swim when they came. Not a one of them could go one length without stopping, and now, they can swim forever. They could swim until they died from exhaustion. That's really the unique thing about this group."

SWIMMERS TAKE YOUR MA'i?f-.

« Left : The Lincoln High Boys prtp::!re to stort the 100 Meter Freestyle ogainst Lincoln East on January 18. 2011

Photo by Seth Marshall

SENIOR SWIM

Below : Charlie Neibel (121 com~tes in the 100 Meter Breast Stroke during Senior Night against Lincoln East on January 18, 2011.

Photo by Seth Marshall

SLICING THEWATER

« Below Left : Ashlie Izzo (]Ol competes ,n the diving competion against Lincoln East on January 18,2011

Photo by Seth Marshall

11Gold Meta ls aren't rea ll y made of go ld . They are made of sweat, determ inat ion, and a hard to find al loy ca ll ed guts." -Un known

"I a111 a very Cohficieht

per5oh ih what I cio oh the wre5tlihg 11iat. I fee I Iike if you re conficieht in your5elf you re going to achieve great th ihg5"

Chaae White [12)

"I a111 loook ihg forwarci to gett ing out ther~ ahci 5ee ihg how I co11ipare to the nations be5t"

" I h-, look tng to 111.ake a big 5 pla5h a h ci go get after 5 ot17 e gUy5 "

I WI LL NOT GO DOWN

» Ri g ht: Rynell Ware (11) wrestles against a Lincoln Southeast wrestler. Ware wan his match. Photo by Holey Keller GET HIM!

» for Rig ht: Lincoln High wrestlers on the edge of their seats yell and cheer an their teammate at the meet against Lincoln East.

Photo by Holey Keller

PIN TO THE FLOOR

FIGHTING TIL THE END

~ Abov e : Zoe Spence Ill) grapples his opponent at the South Sioux City Invite

Photo Courtesy of Lincoln High Wrestling

Above: Evan Vicroy (10) puts the finishing touches an his opponent at the District Tournament Vicroy Placed third sending him to the Sta te Wrestling Tournament Proto Courtesy of Lincoln High Wrestling

GOING FOR THE PIN

» Ri gh t: Jaime Beltron (9) dominates his oppenent during his match for a win, at the freshman wrestling meet

Photo by Mirando Mikesh

The 2010-2011 Wrestling team will forever be memorable to Lincoln High as graduating State Champions Chase White and Logan Molina leave behind a legacy of success for future wrestlers to follovv

Six Lincoln High Varsity wrestlers qualified to compete at the state tournament hosted at the Omaha Qwest Center. Two wrestlers returned with repeating State Champion statuses The two wrestlers were seniors Chase and Logan Molina. This was no surprise to Lincoln High School as their dedication and heart was illustrated all throughout the season.

Last school year. Molina was attending school and wrestling at Lincoln Northeast. Molina made the decision to take his wrestling career more seriously and felt that transferring to Lincoln High would allow him to. It worked out for Molina and also for Vvhite. "Having a guy to drill with every day who is bigger. stronger and fast than me was nothing less than beneficial.''

White and Molina were both undefeated before entering the state tournament. 1//h1te and Molina surfed through f1rstround quarters-finals. and sem1-f1nals before truly testing their skills wrestled Connor McMillin from Millard North while V;hite wrestled Kevin Real from Papillion. Both White and Molina laid out all their hard work into their last high school match

White was more than determined. "Last year In the finals. I kind of let up a bit because I was content w1thjust w1nn1ng." \t;h1te said. "l\t the end of this finals match I was more after the guy. to get on that tackle and I never let up. I Just kept wrestling through the whistles.''

proved successful as he won his final match with a decIsIon of 17-4. Molina wrestled after //h1te In the 171 lb weight class. He found momentum from //h1te 's win and took the old right out of Kevin Real's hands.

Molina and V;hite like all seniors. are preparing for college. "I feel like 1f I would have not transferred here. I would not be getting dIvIsIon one looks." Molina said. Molina has accepteci a partial scholarship to the Iowa State whose wrestling program 15 dIvIsIon one. V;hite has not ciecideci the future of his wrestling career but he has been offereci scholarships from numerous colleges 1nclud1r1g Iowa State. Northern Iowa. UNO UNK. anci UNL

White anci Molina are leaciers of the wres1:l1ng team and leave behind a path for the younger wrestlers to follow. ''1 think It will affect them a little bit but that's why we set a gooci example this year. so they can be on their own next year and lead themselves." saIci Molina.

Jaime Belton, Jesse Garvey

Second Row (L to Rr. Mitch Hesseltine, Paul Guerrero, Austin Skinner

Reason Crisman, Ashley Brooks, Donar Hassan, Fredrick Chua Hokar Mustafa, Miles Roepke

Third Row (L to R): Dennis Olivo Deshawn Williams, Trevor Graham, Timmy Corrado, Jeremiah McCray, Alex Marti. Gage Straight Brian Warne, Evan Clark, Austin Thompson

Fourth Row (L to Kr. Cody Al990(:I, Blake Niles Volu,teer Cooch Volu,teer Coach, Coach Andy Genrich, Coach Chris Oliver, Cooch Ben Johnson, Cody Morse, Trenton Canby

Courtesy of Cythnia Wehland-Falk

GOING DOWN

« Left : Logan Molina (12) sweeps his oepenent's feet right out from underneath him ot the State Wrestling lournament Molina won first place in his weight class this year at State. Photo Courtesy of Lincoln High Wrestling

VARSITY WRESTLING TEAM

Above : Front Row (L to R} Jacob Brown Mi~ ey Hansen, Evan Sackett • Zoe Spence, Willy Hernandez, Chase White Di Castillo Logan Molina, Evan Vicroy,

Photo

CLASSY

» Rlfiht: Mariah Wa,·d, • Sopl1011101·e

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I Just Go Walkin •Down the Halls ...

"Our clothes are too much a part of us for most of us ever to be entirely i nd i fferent to their condition: it is as though the fabric were indeed a natural ex t~nsion of the body , or even of the soul. " -Quentin Bell

UNIQUE AND COMFORTABLE

« Left: Tea llli c, So12ho11101 ·e

PUNK-ROCK

Right: E...c:,sence Blackwell, Junior

Photo by Jessi A1 ide1·son

CHIC

« Left: Ali11a Bdchka, Junio1 ~

Photo by Melissa Wilson

Photo by Ti111111y Corr-ado

CASUAL

« Left: Denarrius Cannon, Senior ·

Photo by Macke11zie Qui11n

COWRFLIL

LAID BACK

« Left: Hansk Abdullah, Sopho111ore

Photo by Rene ssa Cr·owl

» Right: Am anda Hood, hesh111an

Photo by T, ·ent Ga1·dne1·

Photo by Michael Co llin s

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Jlaufe e~ut-u.1re.

''Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind . a mirror of the time in which we live, a traslation of the future, and should never be static."

-Oleg Cassini

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Did you Know??

Did you know that in April 1995, Seventeen Magazine did a fashion

spread on the teenagers at Lincoln High? Back when high waisted jeans and plaid skirts were in. You were a rebel if you had ripped jeans and scrunchies were popular. Most of us we re just toddling around, watching Barney and eating pureed peas . Fashion is ever evolving , yet always duplicating. Converse shoes ar e back and so are the skintight l e ggings If you keep your current wardrobe , it will probably be back in style in a few y ears time . • Recently, however the effects of the economic recession has been evident in the fashion world. "You see fashion trying to do more affordable things. It' s not about luxury anymore because

of the economy. Like " let's go buy this $ 1 ,000 handbag" that's not as in as it used to be," senior Emily Madcharo said

RED AND BLACK HIGHTOP PUMAS

« Left: Shaka Chol1--,._,lu11ior Photo by Rebeka h K. itz

Nike AIR

« Left: Jeff Pang, Sophomore • Photo by Rebeka h Ritz

Nik e SPIRIT

« Left: Daylo11 Davis, ·senio1 · Photo l.,y Je1·e111iah M ray

B I -,HT GREEN UG :=-5

« Left: Macke11zie Qui1111, Senior Photo L"'Y .,aL.,riela So

YEAR IN

1. "C,an a horse have OCD?"

2. 'Where can I get a Snookie CDstume?'

3. "What is the Dougie Dance?'

4. "Which Natural Disaster Shortenro :Earth's Days?"

5. "Do dogs run away to die?"

6. 'What's the World's Only Immortal Animal?"

7. "Which City Has the Best Tap Water?"

8. "How do I Tie a Tie?"

9. "What Causes Lightning?"

10. "What Is Love?'

An explosion and fire on the BP-licensal Transocean drilling rig Deepwater Horizon regan on April 20. 2010. The oil leak cxmtinllirl until es timatro at leaking over 40 000 tarrels a day.

1. BP Oil Spill 2. World Cup - 3. -Miley Cyrus 4. Kim Kardashian

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iPhone 7. Megan Fox 8. Justin Bie~r

9. American Idol

10. Lindsay Lohan

International news is heard all over the world. Unrest in Egypt, earthquakes in Japan and a revolution in Libya barley hit the tip of the international iceberg of issues.

TECHIB@~

The iPad and the rise of the tablets. was a huge trend in 2010. The iPad, Kindle, Nooks. and The Samsung Galaxy are some of the iPad' s top rivals

Influencing a major movie, the CEO was named Time magazine's "Person of the Year" and passing on Google as the num~ one most visi ted web site, this icon neros no introduction

No Hands Necessary!

The Kioo::t changed the video gaming world this year with games like Dance C.entral There is no controller needed!

5 C WJ..X, This year the iPhone had some pretty heavy competition from the new Droid II. HTC Evo and the Samsung Galaxy S. With the rise of social networking. SmartPhones were a hot item in 2010.

QUAKE CA TASIROPHE

« A magnitude 9.0 ear thquake hit northern JaJWJ on March 11. The ear thquake triggeroo tsunamis that causal wid spread devastation and cripp led a nuclear pow r plant.

MUBARRAKS MARK

::: Egypt's Hosni Mul:mrak finall y leaves Egypt after wreks of protesting from th e Egyptian people. Mulmiak had in power over 30 years.

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» The US gets involved in Llbya as th e res t of th world witnesses th e unrest retween th e Rerels and th eir leader Muammar GaddafL

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Th e PARTY PANTS ?

Grammy for ~t Album went to Arcade Fire's album

The Suburbs.

Democrats lost the maj)rity in th House of epresenta ti v to th Republicans. however. they still maintain a majority in th e nate, and th y hav th e presidency Nevertheless, agrwng on legislation will undoubtedly mot difficult.

Jersey Shore exploded in 2010.

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Bieber Fever has taken over girls all around the world!

New music, new movie, new tour Justin Bieber is on fir e.

Natalie Portman enchanted us with her breathtaking performance in Black Swan Portman walked away with an Academy Award for Best Actress.

Th Tea Party stands against high gov rnment spending and issues of gov mment d bt.

TI1 Tea Party is ready to heard!

Sarah Palin sp:21<5 at th first natiQjlal Tea Party converlUon

Julian Assang shocked th world with his w b site wikileaks, sharin g thousands of US • sa::rets.

Andy Genrich, Lincoln High Wrestling coach, introduces the 2011 State Qualifiers to Lincoln High students and staff at the Winter Sports Diving and Wrestling send-off. (Left to Right: Coach Chris Oliver, Chase White, Evan Vicroy, Mitch Hesseltine, Willy Hernandez, D.J. Castillo, and Coach Andy Genrich.)

Chase White (12) takes home the Gold at State Wrestling for placing 1st at the 160 pound division. White also broke the take down record with 451 take downs.

Logan Molina (12) bleeds Lincoln High red while he takes home the gold from wrestling at the 175 pound division. This is Molina's second ~tate gold,

LINKED BY SUCCESS State Qualifiers

By Sandy Ngo

DiviNg aNd BowliNg

the only girl to attend Girl's State Bowling and placed 10th out

150 in the competition.

Ashlie Izzo (10) placed 7th at the Girls Diving State Tournament.

Jordan Scribner (12) placed 35th at the Boys State Bowling Competition.

Nadia Khechfe (9) placed 10th at the Girls Diving State Tournament.

Reed Brodersen (12) placed 45th at the Boys State Bowling Competition.

Tanner Leapaldt ( 11) was

of

Kenny Phillips (10) finished 10th at the Boys State Bowlin g Competition

.. aroµDs

FOR EVERYONE

CLUBS HA VE ALWAYS BEEN A BIG PART OF LINCOLN HIGH, AND THIS YEAR WAS NO EXCEPTION. STUDENTS HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN DOZENS OF DIFFERENT CLUBS, AND DESPITE SOME RULE CHANGES REGARDING THE NUMBER OF CLUBS STUDENTS COULD JOIN (FROM 4 to 2), INVOLVEMENT AND DEDICATION REMAINED HIGH.

EachOubDay 1,122 club p~ are handed out.

Portrolio Club Asian Caucus

Fellowship or Christian Athletes C:;::;~!J has the most club members, with .a total of 87 students I :~~ed up f:;. I club d;.

Foster Kids ror the Win

• International Oub JamOub

Karen Student Network

Jewelry Creatious

Knit Wits

Las Razas Unidas

Ralph AberNa1hy

JaNNah AbsaloN

Congratulations Jannah! We are so very proud of the young lady you have become. You have s'urvived being the youngest at home with grace, humor and strength, even when we were so lame The future is nothing but blessed for you! We love you! Mom and Dad

LogaN ANdersoN

Yo yo yiggidy, yo! You're graduating, what the junk?!?! I am SO proud of you, you are a stunning young man and I am so proud to call you my brother. I can't wait to see where the road of life takes you! I love you, you're amazing and you rock at life!

Love you, -E

BrooklynHaving a daughter like you has been the greatest gift of my life , I' m so proud of the beautiful young lady you've become. You have a sweet spirit and a loving personality and you will accomplish all of your life's goals! I am so blessed to call you my daughter. I love you, Mom

Logan, You challenge us to step out of the box , we did, and what a wonderful journey this has been for all of us! Watching you develop nto the amazing young man you are has been one of our greatest joys You have a very xciting future ahead o you and we can't wait to see where it takes you. We love you, Mom and Dad

Jessi A "NdersoN

Jessica, I can't believe my baby girl is graduating already. You are my determined one. We may not always see eye to eye, but I am very proud of you. Keep working towards your goal and you will make it. You are beautiful honey

Love Mom j

Samantha we are so proud of you! May all your dreams come true. Stay positive, focused and true to yourse lf You can do whatever you se your mind to do. Keep reaching for the stars and never quit learning. Remember to keep God first in yo ur life and all other things will follow. Lastly, know that yo u can do all things through Christ that goes you strengt h! We love you Dad, Mom and Evan :)

A lex CopelaNd

You were loved from the moment we knew I was pregnant. You were such a happy baby, a very loving, caring child. You have grown into a very beautiful, strong, independent young lady. We are so proud of you! We look forward to watching you grow and see what wonderful things yo u will do "I love you more than anything-right next to God and Jesusl" Mom Tasha and Tati

Philip EddiNS

Philip with one " L" Those baby blues have a lways touched our h ea rts I a m surprised they are not red with all the ketch up you

__, have eaten. We are so proud of you - M om & Dad

Rachel EubaNks

If the eyes are the windows to the spi rit, then smiles must be reflect ions of the soul. Since the day you were given to us, we've been so blessed to watch you grow and shin e your inner gifts of kindness and joy. Shine on Sweetheart! With love , Mom and Dad

Elie Holt

Eric Carlson Holt "Every reasonable human being should be a moderate socialist." --Thomas Mann .and every parent sho uld be as lucky as us. We love you ... ... Dad , Mom & Allison

Joey DaNley

Joey, Our little blue eyed, blond baby has grown into an AMAZING young man Your smi le has always been contagious and your love of life shines on everyone Keep reaching for your dreams , whatever they may be You are forever loved Mom and Dad

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Blake Ei1zMaNN

Dear Blake , We are so proud of youl Look how fast you've grown It was just yesterday you were our little man with this cute tie We love you Love, Mom and Dad

Jules HaNseN

Future Hu sker Jules Hansen You have always had th e cutest sm 1l el We couldn t be prouder of you You never cease to amaze us with your 1ntellelt and all the gifts you h ave t o offer You are a fine musician, amazing actor talented athlete and so smartlll We don t know where you got 1t but k ep up the great work Congratu lat ions on a ll your High School accomplishments We c n·t wait t o see what comes nextl Keep Sm1hngl Much love Mom and Dad

Gwel'JdolyN lhTie

Gwendolyn, As you have grown from pigtails to the young woman you are now , you have shown courage, compassion , dedication and wisdom beyond your years I hope to be Just like you when I grow up! Wh ether near or far, you will always be 1n my heart Love, Momma

Erika JoNes

Erika, We a r e so blessed and proud to watch our baby girl grow into a young woman. You've been a great daughter, sister and friend. W e know your potential is end less along with the accomplishments you have already done Love ya, Mom and Daddy

Callie KlehN

Callie, Congratulations on a ll you have accompli shed in your high school ca reer. Your ambition and e nthusia sm for learning will carry you far into the next lev e l as you pursue your dream of becoming a physical th erapist. We are very proud of you!

Love, Mom and Adam

Haley,

Continue to follow your passions an d remember all you've accomplished. Keep your faith in God and be true to yourself Love you forever, Mom , Dad and Koren

Thanks for a life filled with fun, creativity and adventure, Sam We know there's more to come! Much love from your family: Dad, Mom, Emma, Grace & Nora

You are a wonderful gift

family Thank you for all the insight, laughter and devotion to others you bring to the world 1

Congratulations on four great years at Lincoln High , and we look forward to all the years to come. We lov e you Miri a m! Mom and Familiy

CourtNey Meyer .

Courtney, To our baby gurl, we love yo u so much and we a r e so proud of you. "The difference between school and life? In school, your taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, your given a test that teaches you a lesson." Keep learning, laughing and loving life

Love Mom and Dad

GnistiaN NovotNy

Christian, I'm very proud of your accomplishment past, present and future. "All the world's a stage, And a ll the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven c;1ges."

Play on!

Love, Mom

MackeNzie OuiNN

Contin u e to tw ink le-o u r shin ing star o f love wi t h lo v e M o m and Da d

BeN Ra1he

BenYou control your life's journey. But remember God has charted the course and your family is here to keep you anchored. (Jeremiah 29: 11) We love you and are so proud of your baseball and academic success at LHS. Happy Graduation! Mom , Emma, Joe and Lydia (and the whole

crew of Unvert family!)

Olarlie & Rosie Neibel

Andrew you have given us so much love and happiness these past 18 years

We are so proud of the person you have become. Keep God close , a positive outlook on life and ____________ _ never let go of your sense of humor

We love you, Mom and Dad

Valerie Raffe1y

ValerieI am so proud of the wonderful person that you 've become I know that you are destined to do great things in your life

Follow your dreams I loveyoul Mom

KelleN Restau

Kellen you are a classic! We love you Ranchero Kid Mom and Dad

JordaN Riley

Knuckles/Jordan

From day one. you have danced to the beat of a drum that no one hears but you. Soon you will realize the power you have within you and just how special you are. You are phenomenal! Dream big because YOU can do all things! J u stus.

Mom and Brudder

Jared

Jared, every day we

have spent as your parents has been a blessing and an adventure. You are amazingly talented at so many things and you have suc h a great and kind heart. You make us proud-all the time! We can't wait to see what God has in store for the next chapter of your life. We love you!

Mom and Dad

Felicia Schlicker

This little cutie has grown up to be a real beauty and is ready to take on the world

We love you Felicia!! Mom, Dad, Luke, Chris, Grandma. U nJ and Aunt Serena.

Our

Oiad Rost

Son. Being the youngest of thre"e kids has not been easy for you and yet it has made you the person you are - strong in spirit, caring, compassionate and generous. We are proud of the person you have become and look forward to what is yet to come. As you enter the next phase of life's journey remem-

ber we will always be

here for you.

Love Dad, Mom. Kelli & April Rost

Ashley Schaaf

Ashley, How time flies! Just yesterday you were talking to "floor monsters"& making "Flounder faces"-now you ' re graduating! You have accomplished so much & we're so incredibly proud of you. You've become such a smart, beautiful & strong young woman. We're excited to see where

life tak~~ieo~~~?oy it!

Mom & Dad

Scott ShoMake

Scott Shakespeare wrote "All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one man in hi s time plays many parts". So, in life "Act well your part; there all the honor lies ". You make us proud and we love you so very much!

Love. Mom and Dad

Qraduate As you come tot his milestone in your life, we ask you to "Remember You r Creator in the days of your youth." He will enab le you to succeed in your future life after graduating from Lincoln High We love you very much and again thank God for you Your Mom and Dad!

j Jeremy you are 3 climbing to greatness You will do great things and we are all proud of you, so go out and be your bes !

We all love you, Mom. Jay, Brandon, Amanda, Sid , Robby , & Kylie

Denick SteveNs

Be on the lookout for a crazed man in a diaper wearing a bucket on his head

H e answers to the name of Derrick.

BTittaNy Suhr

Brittany, We are so proud of you! You've transitioned from our little girl to a beautiful young woman. Don't forget we will always be there when you need someone to lean .________________

on. W.e can ' t wait to watch you blossom further and show the world your smi le Love always, Mom, Dad and Nick

LiNdsey T 01v1aN

I have no doubt that you will become one of those teachers whose influence will remain with their students throughout their liv es, I am so proud of the person you have becomel Love Dad

You have been a great role model for your sisters and your peers and I am so very proud of you! Stay true to you and step out of the box ever so often! Love Mom, Alysha Emil,y and Shelby

AaroN Wright

W e've watched you grow from your first baby steps into a young man over these la st 18 years and look forward as you take the next steps of your journey Fir st up-UNL's Int ernational Business program Aft er that , th e world is yours. Enjoy the ride. Love. M om and Dad

AlaNa StoNe

Pretty Little G1rll Always so upbeat a joy to the world even on an early morning ' shoot' You 've come a long way and will go even further now that you are launching another educational experience Keep on smiling!

Jessica Svec

Jessi ca.

We are so proud of you! You ar e an amazing person You are great with kids and a great role model. What ever road you c h oose we know you will give it your all. Congratulations and we loveyoul Dad, Mom Ashlee , Alex Zeke , Jerick, Mary and Jordan

Wesley VaNlooseN

Wesley, you make us proud everyday. Keep on smillngl We love youl

Mom and Dad

Index

AAbda ll a , Aya 22, 87

Abdullah, Hansk 61, 162

Abdulrahman, Hozan 42

Abebe , Joseph 42

Abebe, Joshua 42

Andrew Hoile 106

Andrew Owens 181

Angelos , Nicholas 23

Anthony, Ester 23, 61

Archer , Devon 42

Arenas, Joe 17

Arends , Symone 62

Arizaga , Cynthia Torres 68

Arizola , Sierra 52, 106

Arnold , Brooklyn 62

Arnold, Dalton 52, 108

Arnold, Jonathon 62 , 139

Berks , Darla 70

Berry, Darian 62

Beste, Judith 70, 87

Bettinger, Abbey 43

Bettinger , Lindsey 23

Betts , Alice 88

Betts , Katherine 70

Biegert, Meghan 4 , 53

Buzi , Benedicte 53

Buzi , Nathan 43, 156

Byron , Le lie 43

Byron, Melvin 53

CClaus, LaDona 73, 74

Claypool, Sydney 53

Clover-Scott, Justin 63

Coffey, Catherine 10 , 75, 2, 89

Coleman, Dylan 25

Coleman, Nick 53 , 54

Collazo, David 25

Cain, Meredith 15 , 24, 25, 42, 52, Collier, Caejuan 41

Biegert , Rachael 62 106,107,113,128 Collier, Chyrone 53

Bilew, Hoth 23

Bilew , Sebit 62 , 139 , 157

Bitz , Olivia 62

Calhoon, Gary 74

Collins, Michael 43 , 156, 162

Camacena Cuevas, Erika 63 Collura, Ann 74

Carnacena Morales, Adrian 43

Colton, Dylan 25, 154 , 155 Abebe, Malachi 62

Arurang, Larson 23

Blackwell, Essence 43 , 162

Camacena Morales, Idalia 24 Combs, Zachary 44 Abebe, Marytza 62

Asboe, Bethany 74

Blaser , Dalton 43

Campbell, Cameron 53 Comer,Ariel 53 , 148 , 149 Abed , Mohammed 22

Asefa, Aidom 42

Bluestone-Weaver , Aries 53

Camp, Brooklyn 24, 77 , 127, 178 Comstock, Kallie 44 Ab le, Jill 5, 12 , 70 Ashley Schaaf 126

Absalon , Jannah 22, 2, 3, 110, Askar, Suhair 52

Blum , Marina 10 , 18, 43, 134

Boecker , Alishia 14 , 23, 39

Canby, Cheyenne 24 Coniglio, Gianna 25

Canby, Darren 43 Conley , Sam 44 150, 147

Atem , Wini 62

Aten, Laura 70, 88

Acevedo , Brian 22

Achen, Zachariah 62

Adabie, Agya 52

Bolles , Austin 23

Canby, Trenton 63, 139, 161 Conradt, Richard 71

Bontrager , Chloe 4, 18 , 52 , 53, 99 , Cannon, Denarius 24, 162 Contreras, Chase 53

Ath-Spence , Amanda 23 148 , 151

Auman, Danny 23, 157

Bontrager, Max 23

Cappellano, Madison 24, 36 Cook.Aaron 53 , 144

Cardona, Carla 43 Copeland, Alex 25, 66 , 97, 103, Adabie, Papa 22, 71 , 145

Adams, Bryan 4, 22, 136

Adams , John 42

Afshoon Kar, Fares 62

Auman, Quint 52

Auman , Samantha 52

Austin ,A bbie 62,119

Austin , Maggie 10

Afshoon Kar, Ghazal 42 Avery, Elizabeth 52, 96

Bornstein , Lillian 62

Bowers , Micheala 43

Bowman,Andrea 53,100,115

Bozak , Jessica 43

Bozek , Jane 70

Cariotta, Amy 70 179

Carlson , Jessie 9, 18, 70

Carlson, Marlyce 70

Carlson, Ruthanne 43

Carmona Ponce, Ana 24, 36

Corey , Alan 53, 136 , 138

Corrado, Timmy 53 , 161

Cossart , David 25,118

Costello, Sam 53 , 134 Aguado Zavala , Marisol 42 Avery , Susan 70

Bradley , Dani 62

Carngbe , Ashley 16, 43 , 110 Cotton, Shantai 44 Agudo, Jason 42

Avila, Jammeran 52

Bradley, Tiunna 23, 39

Carpenter, Alexsis 63 Coulter, Cecily 63 Ag ui lera De La Torre, Christopher Avis, Brittany 43

Brammeier, Miranda 62

Carrol, Tyron 24 Cox,A.J. 25 22 Avis, Kyle 62

Ayaj,Adau 43

Aguilera De La Torre, Omar 22

Ahmed-Manakdan , Andalarnia Ayaj, Kak 52,134 , 157

Brandon , Patrick 51

Brandt, Amy 62, 149

Brandt , Devon 53, 96 , 144 , 157

Carter, Jimmy 78 Coy, Charlotte 25

Cartwright, Jacob 24

Carty , Margaret 117

Cramer , Susanne 71, 86

Crane, Dylan 25 (Andi) 2, 3, 4, 114, 42

Azabache, Erick 70, 77, 103

Bray , Eli 53

Caruso, J.P 70 , 78 , 79, 107 Crane, Larissa 63 Ahwazi, Youhan Ebadep 44

Bretthauer , Victoria 53, 91, 98,

Case-Ruchala, Marya , 7, 29 Crisman, Reason 53, 136, 138, 161 Akot , Amir 52 , 61

B130,142

Cass iday, Molly 70 Cropp, Andrea 51 Akot, Deng 22

Brezina , Dakota 53

Cass, Madeline 6, 118 Crosby , Cody 63, 139 Al-Badry, Shanon 52

Backemeyer , Taylor 43

Brichka , Alina 43, 128, 162

Castellanos, Fernando Cortez 44 Crouch, Ethan 63 Aldrich, Simone 51, 90 ,Baden, Sarah 70

Bridges , Leah 23, 2

Castillo , D.J. 53 , 58 , 161

Crouch, Kaitlin 44 Alfonso , Olga 22 Baker, James 70

Brienza, Michael 43

Castillo , Erik 43

Crouse , Alexander 63 Algood, Cody 161 Bailey Castillo, Phillip 62 Brill, Jade 43

Castillo , Marco Meza 51

Crowe , Sabrina 63, 149 Al-Haider, Fatima 86 Ball, Alexandra 70

Briney , Claire 10 , 23

Castillo Padilla , Ana 43

Crowl, Renessa 53 , 162 Alhamdani , Ibrahim 62 , 69,139 Ballard, Brooke 53

Brison, Carrie 70

Castillo Padilla , Diana 41

Curtis-Beard, Charlie 16 , 63 , 117 Ali, Aaron 42 Ballard , Rodtesha 53, 2, 156

Brison, Tony 74

Catron , Austin 53

Curtis-Beard, Joshua 16, 44, 117 Ali, Esra 22 Ballard, Tyler 23

Brock , Raquel 62

Catron , Katie 24

Curtis-Beard, Rachael 53 Ali, Hiyam 62, 69 Baner, Michaela 43

Brodersen , Reed 23, 29, 130 , 131, Ceballos, Miranda 53

Curtis-Beard, Timothy 16 , 4, 25, Ali, Lai th 52

Barakat , Hanan 23 167

Cecil , Dick 17 77 , 117 Ali, Mohammed 22

Barakat , Nissan 53

Brooks, Ashley 161

Champoux, Daniel 70

Curti s, Lamont'e 63 Aljibory, Adil 62 Bargar , Jeff 74

Brooks , Breonna 62 , 126

Chanel, Jamie 53 Curtis, William 25 Allen, Aimee 52 Bargen,Andrew 9, 70 , 106,107

Brooks, Chaleia 23

Chaney, Matthew 63 Cusatis , Dakota 44 Allen, Kaela 42

Barmore, Jacque 23

Brooks , Jarelle 18, 19 , 53

Chanyour , Douaa 24 Allen, Kenneth 22, 25,136 Barnhill, Jalisa 23

Allen , Sam 52

Brooks , Jeffery 52, 53 , ,136, 137,

Barrientos, Carlos Perez 58 138 , 156 , 157

Chanyour , Ourouba 43

Chapo, Erik 43 , 112 Allen, Shayna 42

Barrientos, Jordan 43, 58, 111

Brower , Charles (CJ) 43, 65, 132

Chapo, Kyle 24

DDampeer , Levester 96 , 97 Alley, Hayley 62, 126

Barron, Maria 43

Brown, Alyssa 23

Chase , Christopher 41 Dang, Dang 53 Alley, Trevor 52 , 59 Bartek, Dustin 23

Brown , Dwight 23, 83, 133, 134

Chau, Dung 69 Dang, Jeff 54 Allgood, Cody 62 Bartek , Jessica 53

Brown, Erik 43

Chavez, Jonathan Olguin 13, 67 Dang, Nha 18, 54 Almanza, Hannah 52 Bates, Shelly 90

Brown, Jacob 62 , 139, 161

Chavez , Maria Barron 23 Dang , Sandy 25 Alonso, Jessica Ojeda 58 Bauer , Michaela 23, 43

Brown, Jasmine 53, 61

Chavez , Rosalinda Barron 23 Dang, Tho 63 Al-Saadi,A l i 69

Baumert, Eric 53

Brown, Tiona 17 , 43 , 59 , 64 , 104 , Chealey , Aaron 43

AJ-Saadi, Baida 52 Baxter,Ajonique 41 146, 46 , 146

Danielle Hansen 126

Chelton, Garrett 5, 43, 54, 34, 142 Daniels , Alexis 54 Al-Saadi, Haifaa 42, 57, 97, 162 Baxter , Kyly 62 , 66, 88

Brown , Torri 5, 53 , 126

Chen, Wei Hua 69

Danielson , Karissa 44 Alsaadi, Hamza 62, 139 Beall , Brittney 41

Brucher , Justine 63

Chen , Wei Lin 69 Danley , Joey 25, 179 Al-Saadi, lmad 22 Beard , Landon 62, 157

Bruggeman , Dillon 23, 73 , 133, Childers , Megan 43 , 90 Darden, Christine 63 Al-Saadi, Iman 42 Beard , Quentin 23 136

Chilen, Alexandria 53 Daulton, Brahm 44 , 91 Al-Saael, A li 62 Beard , Spencer 53, 108

Bruyette , Erica 63

AI-Timimi , Ali 22 Beard, Timothy Curtis 24, 39 Bryon , Leslie 106

A l tman, Dakota 52 Beatty, Jacob 43, 112

Buettgenbach , Kiersten 63 , 126

Chiplaski, Austin 63 David , Stephen 54

Chiplaski, Katie 53 Davis , Daylan 25, 106, 163

Chisholm , Elijah 53, 58 Davis, Sevon 41 Alvarado, Joel 52 Beck , Alicia 70 , 91

Buhrman,Amber 70, 82

Chol, Nania 63 Uavis, Traeshaun 63 Alv is, Brenda 52 Beckenhauer, Trey , 43, 46 Bui, Corey 23, 136

Chol , Shaka43, 155,156 , 157 ,1 63 Davis-Yoakum, Joanna 71 Al-Wae ly, Fatima 42 Beck, Nancy 70

Bui, Penny 63

Bui, Quyet 23

Cho, Wansoo 63 Dawson, Larry 74

Cho , Mansoo 43 j Dawson, Jon 134 Amerson , Prince 52 Beck, Sadie 23

Anchondo Lopez, Jose 65 Beecher, Caleb 23

Bulchenko , Daniel 43

Christainsen, Caleb 103 pawson, Sue 74 Andersen, Allison 52 Beetem , Kayla 23

Bulling, Casondra 23, 97

Christensen, Dane 5, 25 pay, Smiley 54 Anderson, Ardella 70 Beetem , Ronnie 61

Buis, Zachary 63

Christensen , Dean 63, 68, 139 Dean, Kurstin 54 , 107 Anderson , D'Markaus 52 Begay , Adam 53

Burk, Malinda 70 , 110

Christensen, Lawrence 70 , 136 Dearo,Ash 26 Anderson, Donna 19 , 70 , 106, Belford, Deontre 53, 104, 136, 138 Burmeister, Chloe 63

Christiansen , Caleb 25, 112 Dearo , Jacob 63 116, 115 Belford, Kimberly 70, 90 Bums , Angela 11, 23, 39, 3

Christie-Gifford, Tanya 17 Decent , Venessa 41 Anderson , Jessi 2, 3, 5, 9, 18, 22 , Bellew,Alexus 69

Burns , Catherine 11, 53, 82

Christie , Thomas 17 ecker, Dustin 26 24,39,54,75,76,77,86, Bellew, Katelyn 53

Bums , La Ron 24

Chua, Frederick 51, 161 Decoteau, C rys tal 54 91, 96, 97, 98 , 105 , 110, Bellew, Taylor 23

Burns, Pat 81

Cibrian , Melissa Espinosa 27 Dee, Poe 26 112, 113, 114, 115, 118, Beltran, Daisy Guiza 55

Burns , Patrick 70 , 72, 105

Cihal, Rogene 7 4 DeGrazia, Sany! 17 119, 132 , Beltran, Sergio Guiza 64 Burton , Dylan 24

Ciin , Cing 53 Delacruz , Vanessa 44 Anderson, Jordan 5, 36, 36, 56 Beltran Garcia, Jaime 139, 160 , Buser , Alex 53

Clark , Cedreece 41 Delaine , Catherine 26, 2, 3, 147 Anderson, Logan , 22, 136, 178, 29 161 Buser , Kyle 24

Clark, Evan 63, 139, 161 Delaine, Donald 54 Anderson, Sarah 8, 23, 83, 2, ll5 Beltran Garcia, Maria 53 Bush , Montez 24

Clark , John 151 Delaney , Claire 5 , 54 , 148 Anderson, Trey 52, 136 , 138, 156 Beltran Tinoco , Jaqueline 62

A nderson, Wi ll iam 62, 139

Benner , Marcia 70

Bustamante , Angelica 16, 43, 148

Bustamante , Brenda 63

Clark, Ruth 8, 71

Deleon , Adelina 26

Clark, Samantha 25, 77, 126, I 27, Delong, Heather 44 Benson, Christopher 78 , 79 Butterfly , Farrah White 69 178 Demers , Ryan 41 186 Ind ex

Denkovich , Sally 74

Dennis , Emmanuel 26

Dennis , Jazmin 44 , 88

De, Rambo 54, 57

Devall, Hans 26

Devrie s, Emma 26

Dewitt , Zachariah 26

Deyong , Nicholas 54, 136, 138

Diamant , Ethan 54

Diaz - DeBose, Chandra 71

Diaz de Leon Renteria , Ricardo 51

Diaz , Jordan 54

Diaz, Lui s Valles 50

Dickerson, Emily 26

Didrichsons , Mara 54

Diep , Emica 22 , 26

Diep , Lynn 63

Dierking, Marissa 63

Dill , Kristin 63

Dillon , Quincy 63, 139

Dimagno , Eve 26, 29, 103 , 1 LS

Dimagno , Sarah 63

Di,Nam26

Dinh , John 41

Dinh, Tien 26

Dinh , Tu 26

D oan , Bao 54

Doan , Do 26

Doan , Uyen 54

Doan, Vien 51

Do, Christie 63, 110 , 149

Doerr, Julia 71

Doerr, Oliver 26

Do , Kandy , 26 , 29

Domeier , Trudi 71

Dominguez, Alexis 90

Dominguez , Anna 63 , 82

Dominguez, Diana Andablo 42

Dominguez , Karina 54

Dooley , Evan 26

Doring , James 26

Dorn, Gregory 26

Dorn, Rebecca 54

Dowd , Robin 71

Down, Dustin 51

Down , Ricky 41

Down , Tammy 75

Drda, Bree 44 , 134

Dreher, Kwakiutl L. 79

Dreith , Brandon 44 , 77

Dreith, Zachary 63

Dmda, Muarnera 54

Droud, Josh 26, 27

Droud , Rodney 71

Duchene , Levinesha 26

Duerschner , Chris 44

Duerschner, Jon 44

Duff, Katie 54 , 147 Dugas, Alexander 27

Duis, Ebony 54 , 57, 88

Duncan, Bethany 27

Dunkle, Margery 10 , 17, 44

Duong, Hoa 54

Duo th, Mat 54

Duoth, Nyachar 63 , 149

• Durham, Lexus 63

Dut , Thiop 27 , 155

_. Dvorak, Emily 71

J Dyas, Adou 44

Dyas, Alicia 54

' Dyer, Felicia 54

,{ Dykes , Ciara 63

EEasterday , Dustin 54

Ell s, Samantha 44 , 148 , 149

Elsken , Dorie 54

Ernerole , Obinna 44

Engnell, Antonio 64

Enriquez, Ricardo 54

Enriquez, Rosa Herrera 28

Epp, Ashley 4, 44, 2

Erpelding , Max 27 , 91

Ervin, Janae 64

Eubanks, Elijah 44 , 76 , 103 , 136 , 138 , 139,156 , 157 , 162

Eubanks, Rachel 27, 130 , L79

Evans, Ashli 54, 55, 90

Ewings,L.J. 17,54, 116 , 117

Ewing, Tayler 44 , 148

FFadel , Hatern 64

Fadel, Rihab 54

Fadhil, Hal a 51

Fadhil, Selwan 27 , 86

Fadil , Hala 82

Failor, Chris 27

Fajardo Sanchez, Jose 56

Fargo , Shelly 71, 142

Felipe, Ashley 44

Felix, Jon 54

Fell - Workman, Jennifer 17

Ferris, G Steven 71, 105

Fielder , Brandon 64

Field, Erin 38, 44 , 133, 140 , 48

Figueroa , Francisco Gonzalesz 51

Fille, Nabatoni 44

Findlay , Craig 64 , 128

Findlay, Mikayla 44, 119, 148

Findley , Craig 144

Fisher , Deaudric 54

Fisher , Dedric 61

Fisher , Diante 51

Pisher , Emma 64 , 119

Fletcher , Lakesha 71

Fletcher , Thomas 64

Flinn, Jordyn 55,148,149

Flores , Elizabeth 64

Foley, Brian 71 , 75

Foster , David 17

Franssen-Cook, Chad 55, 136 , 138, 157

Fredenburg, Kayla 5 , 55 , 88

Frederick, Chua 44

Frede , Tyler 27

Free , Justyn 27

Freeman, Shaundra 55,104,115

French-Sloan , Melissa 44

Frerichs, Sierra 44 , 137

Frey , Sarah , 45

Fricke, Miranda 55

Fries, Casey 71 , 156

Friesen , Steve 17

Fritz, Rachel 64

Frohman, Emily 51

Fultz, Mike 7 136, 137

GGadeken, Derrik 27

Gaffney , Dakota 44

Galloway, Devontay 64

Galois, Devin 27

Gamez-Martinez, Luis 56

Gannerson , Koral 44

Gannon, Andrea 55

Gannon , Pam 9

Gannon, Pamela 71

Garcia, Alisha 27

Gaxiola , E s tafania 44 , 142

Genrich , Andrew 71 , 75 , 139 , 161 , 166

Ghayyadh, Mansoor 44

Ghormley, Jana 74 , 75 , 100

Gib son , Demetre 64 , 116

Gibson , Elijah 64, L39, 157

Gibson-Sheilds , Na s tassja 64

Gilsdorf, Dalton 27

Gish , Lenny 71

Glanz, Abbie 27

Gleeson , Adam 55

Gligorevic, Lazar 45 , 2

Goddard , Cassie 64

Goeres , Brian 27 , 136

Goitorn, Samson 64

Goldenstein, Steven 55

Gonzalez, Danny 27

Gonzalez, Pedro 64

Gonzalez Nava , Alfredo 45 , 103, 136

Gonzalez Zepeda , Hector 27

Gonzalez Zepeda , Jenny 27

Gonzalez - Aparicio , Jose 45

Goodbrake, Brian 65 , 71 , 74 , 106 , 119

Good, Dee 51

Goodwin , Carolynn 71 , 80

Goodwin , Connor 5 , 27 , 81 , 134 , 135

Goodwin , John 74

Gos sett , Brandy 64

Gothier , Beau 71

Gottula, Cheyenne 55 , 148

Goyne s, Kristina 90

Graewe , Alexi s 64 , 68 , 142 , 143

Graft , Walt 64

Gragg, Bryson 8, 27

Graham - Rowe, Lynda 71 , 102, 103

Graham , Trevor 64 , 139 , 161

Grant-Colson , Nancy 71, 77 , 79

Gray , Tasha 55

Gray , Thomas 27

Green, Austin 55

Green , Grace 64, 119

Green, Jarrell 55, 71 , 76 , 77 , 106 , 136, 151

Greenlee, Jordan 45, 103 Green , Shavon 55

Green, Tyresha 27

Greenwood , Mercede s 4 , 45 , I 26 , 142

Greer , Samantha 55, 148

Gregg s, Chris 27

Greggs , Mariah 61

Griffin , Brianna 64 , 149

Griffin, Joe 55

Grirne , Sydney 2 , 3 , 5 , 14 , 18 , 27 , 100,109

Gropp, Ashley 41

Gropp, Megan 27

Gropp, Whitney 55, 108

Groshans , Catelynn 27

Groth, Carolyn 17

Gruett,Jon 56, 71 , 76 , 100 , IOI

Guerrero , Paul 55 , 136 , 161

Guevara , Tanisha 64

Guillen , Alvaro Salas 51

Guiza , Emmanuel Lopez 66

Guiza , Evelyn Lopez 31

Guiza , Socorro 55

Guiz , Clarissa Mendez 51

Gunnerson, Koral 45

Gunnerson , Miranda 55

Gurett, Jon LOI

Gurrerro , Paul 138

Gusman, Jasrnyne 41

Hadley , Micah , 18 , 28 , 97 , 7 , 29

Haeffner , Brandon 55

Hager , Eliza 61

Haggan, De Mario 69

Haggan , Je ' Li a 51

Hague , Joshua 28

Hague , Tyler 55

Haider , Fatima Al 62

Hall, Camren 28

Haller, Susan 71

Hamby , Leann 71

Hameed , Abbas 55

Hammar , Nicky 14 , 28 , 88

Harno , Harno 45

Hamo, lsrnaeil 64

Harno , Naeif 55

Harno , Sabah 28

Handley,Genee58,61,71 , 104

Han elmann , Devyn 28

Hansen , Danielle 64 , 68 , 126

Han sen , Jules 28 , 179

Hansen, Michael 55 , 161

Harde ty , Jame s 41

Hardin g, A hton 51

Harding , Hay lie 45

Hardin , Janice 74

Hardy , Barbara 74

Hardy , Emmanuel 55

Harlan , Amber 74

Harle ss, Kyle 55

Harl , Winter 17 , 28

Harne ss, Eli z abeth 41

Harper , Nicole 28

Harpham , Erika 41

Harpham , Jacob 45

Harri s , Angel 41

Harri s, John 45 , 71, 73 , 154 , 155

Hart , Aly 2

Harvey , Catharine 24, 28, 29, 14 2 , 150 , 151

Harvey , Gina 28

Harvey , Kristen 17 , 4, 24 , 28 , 36 , 29 , 36

Hascall , Victoria 71

Ha s san, Danar 28 , 161

Hauptman , Stephani 28

Hauptrneier, Krista 55 , 58 , 61

Hawkins , I aac 51

Hawkins, Tiara 64

Hawkin s, Trevor 28

Hayes , Tyler 55 , 144 , 145

Hayne , Wanya 64

Heavens , Akeria 45

Heavican, Chelsea 2

Hedge s, Katharen 64

Hedrick, Samuel 45

Hefner, Tayce 45 , 118

Hehn, Connor 28 , 114

Heibel Micah 71

Heiden , Arny 45 , 2 , 3

Heiden , Rebecca 71 , 90

Heiden , Tommy 64

Heineman , John 5, 71

Heinen , Alex 64

Heinen , Felica 64

Heier, Kirn 90

Heller , Courtney 45

Hellwig , Jessi c a Ann 28

Helms, Ashley 64

Helrn s tadter, Payton 64 , 139 , 156

Henderson , A s hley 45 , 61 , 3 •

Henderson , Joh 55 , 61 , 157

Hendrick, Sam 136 , 138

Hendrix, Willia rn 28

Henn , Mary Jo 17

Herbel, Nate 51

He on , Jak e 65 , 67 , 147

He on,Jo h5 ,2 8,77 ,2 9

Hetri c k , Ke t e y 45

Hi c key , Shantrell 69

Hi c k , J e re my 45

Hi gg in s, Hannah 55 , 134

Hi gg in , Joe 74

Hild e brand , De vin 55 , 14 2

Hild e nbrand , hane 45 , 89

Hillard , R b 55

Hill , Gary 78

Hillhou e , Ali ce 72

Hill , Jupree ' 55

Hilton , Au tin 56 , 144

Hine , Elly Rad c liffe 10

Hinkley , Gary 59 , 72

Hin.rich , Tori 65

Hite , Mauric e 56 , 109

Hit e, Vonte a 65

Hit z, Ru s 63 , 72

Ho an g, Huon g 2 8

Hoan g, Kirn 56

Ho a ng, Trun g 61 , 86 , 87

Ho an g, Tu N g uyen 48 Hod ge, Ke ndra 28 Hoe in g, Kendall 45 , 10 2

, Chi e 28 Hoffman , Eli z ab e th 65 Hoffman , Je nnife r 5 2, 56

Hoffman , John 2 8 , 130

Hoil e, Andrew 4 , 19 , 2 8 , 76 , 106 , 107

Holbein , Ju tin 72 , 119 Holden , Me rrill 4 2, 45 , 133, 13 6 13 8 , 155, 156 , 157 Holden , es ita mith 68 Holden , Nonyea Smith 16 , 68 H lie , Andrew 19 , 110 H o lka , Tiffany 9 , 54 , 72 , Hollarn n Mara 62 , 65

, C a itlin 56 , 12 6 , 148 Holt , Alli son 65 , 149

Holt , Eric28 ,33, 118 , 179

Hon g, Quang 2 8 Hood , Arnanda65 , 142 , 162

Ho d , aJeb 45 , 103

Hopper , J e' Kerra 65

Horalek , Treven 28 , 130

Hou s ton , Tritavion 41

Howard, Roddy 56

Howe , Makayla 16 , 65

H ay , Lah61

Hto , Eh Thaw 45

Htoo , Gay 61

Htoo , Khu 65 , 86

Htoo , Kyaw ay 56

Htoo , her 45

Htoo , Thu Lei 56

Huerta , er g io 28

Hu gg in , Nick 45

Hunt , Briannah 5, 56 , J26 , 14 150 , 151

Hunt , ancy 72 , 90

Hurko, Ja min 2 8

Hu ain , Omar 65

Hu ein , Abdulqacler 28

Hu sein , Hadeel 45

Hu ein , HebalJ 28

Hu sein , Kazheen 28

Hu ein , Ya s ir 28

Hu e in , Zeyad 56

Huynh , Bao 56

Huynh , Lon g 65

Hyberg er , G age 65

Hyde, Z a ch 45 , I 05

1

Eberspacher , Stormy 54

Eddins, Philip 2 , 17, 27, 29,104 , 115,179

Eddins, Samantha 54

Edison, James 64

Effie, Coach Lisa 144 , 145

Eggers-Killen, Samantha 54

Eitzrnann , Biake 27, 74, 155 , 156, 179

Eivins , Austin 54

Elazouzi, Sarah 54

Ellis, Hunter 44, 144

Garcia, Ana Leon 31

Garcia , Jaime Beltran 62

Garcia, Martin 64

Garcia, Salu Guiza 45

Gardner, Trent 61, 144, 145, 162

Garnica Estratda , Alejandro 27

Garvey, Jesse 64, 161

Gasper, Emily 5 , 52 , 55 , 104 , 106 , 126,142

Gatzerneyer , Pat 17. 71

Gaurett, Kyle 27

Gustafson, Shaun 41

Guthrie , Madeleine 45

HHaakenstad , Alexandra 28

Haakenstad, Sam 64

Haar , Jenny 64

Haas, Stanley 71

Hadenfeldt , Zachary 55 , 106

Hadgi, Hadiya 45

Hadgi , Rima 64

Herbert , Kylie 12 , 64 , 148, 149

Hernandez , Ai rnee 69, 86

Hernande z, Debbie 64

Hernandez , Eldan 28

Hernandez , Jor ge Es trada 2 7

Hernandez , Mont errat Corte 63

Hernandez , Rachyl 55

Hernandez , Willy 55 , 160 , 161

Herring , Deunte ' 55 , 156 , 157

Herrington , Wesley 64

Hertzler , Susa n 71 , 76

He seltine , Mitchell45 , 51 , 161

IIhrie , Gwendolyn , 29 , 2 9 , 3 6,'36 , 147 , 179

Ihrie , Maxwell 55 , 56 , 88 , 144

Ikiti , Grace 29

Ili c, Te a 56 , 59 , 162

lnamura , Will 56 , 134

In gram, ynthia 72 , 96

Irmer , hannon 29

Irvin , Tiffany 29

I aac s, Travi 45 - Index

Isley, Brier 56

Issa, Alyaa 29

Itzen, Jessica 45

Iwanski , Andrew 56

Iwanski , Skyln 69

Izaguirre , Fernando 56

Izaguirre, Guadalupe Martinez 32

Izaguirre, Jo e 29

Izzo , Ashlie 56 , 167

JJack s on , Richard 9 , 19 , 72, 136 , 138,157

Jack s on , Trenton 29

Jacobs, Jerry 17

Jacoby , I aac 45

Jafet, Chiza 41

Jame s, Coach Kevin 144 , 145

James, Jack 72

James, Kevin 157

Janicke, Pat 81

Janike , Patrick 72, 97

Jarecke , Mike 74

Jarvi , Hope 56 , 130

Javier, Dennis Olivo 34

Jenkins, Dantavious 69

Jen sen, Grant 56, 89, 136 , 138 Jensen, Kaytee 29, 80

Jiles , Vernon 74, 151

Jill Able 12

Jimenez , Elizabeth 65

Jimenez , 0 car Hernandez 69

John, Doug 65, 139 '

John on , Akysha 65

Johnson , Arron 29 , 119

John on, Coach Ben 161

Johnson , Coleman 56

John son , Courtney 56

Johnson, Donald 41

Johnson -Flowerday, Linda 72 , 108

Johnson , Jessica 56

Johnson , Kenneth 17 , 65

Johnson, Laurie 45

John on , Patience 41

Johnson , Savon , 46

Johnson, Sean 45

John on , Shyann 56, 142

John on , Vicki , 22 Johns, Taylor 65

Johnston , Zach 56

John, Tamran 29

Jolie, Jolie 29

Jone , Candance 51

Jones, Erika 29, 180

Jone s, Jordan 29

Jones, Morgan 56

Jone s- Prentice , Dupree 29

Jon , Belinda 72

Jorgensen , Jazzmin 29 , 36

Josenberger, Cydnee 56

Joseph , Grace 56 , 148 , 149

Jr. , Jo eph Ro ales 51

Jr , Richard Bollen 70

Juar ez Lopez , Katherine 45

Juber , Alyssa 56

Juma, Paska 56

Jungck, Nathan 29

KKaiser , Tamara 72

Kang , Andy 61

Karsting, Claire 45

Karsting , Sara 65

Kasem, Nofa 29

Kasem , Zeina 29

Ka tier , Kimberly 65

Kdu, Paw 46

Keating, Katy 5 , 30, 29 , 118 , 119

Keating, Michael 4, 46, 2

Keefe, Deb 72 •

Keefe, Terrence 72

Keller, Greg 16, 72, 79, 80, 88 , 91 , l07 , 112,113 , 114

Keller , Haley 4, 8, 9, 14 , 17 , 5 , 25, 30 , 36,56 , 78,79 , 82 , 83, 188 Index

91 , 103 , 108,109 , 110 , 113 , 3 , 127 , 129 , 137,141 , 143 , 144 , 150 , 151 , 17, 86 ,8 7, 153

Keller, Lindsey 42, 46 , 147

Kelley, De Von 3, 4 , 30, 78 , 79, 102, 112

Kellogg, Ian 30

Kempel , Brianna 65 , 148, 149

Kempel , Cheyanna 56 , 101 , 147

Kemple , Brianna 12

Kendall , Tearah 46

Kennedy , Alexis 65 , 149

Kennell , Alex 56

Kester , Elizabeth 30

Khalaf , Alkhan 46

Khalaf , Amal 65

Khalaf , Hamo 46

Khalil, Haval 30

Khali I , Khaled 46

Khechfe , Nadia 65, 167

Khoudeida, Jal al 46

Khual , Suan 65

Khudhair , Amani 30

Khudhair, Ayat 30

Kiehn , Adam 55 , 56, 144

Kiehn , Callie 5 , 30 , 91 , 142 , 114

Kiely, Lisa 74

Killen, Phenix 56, 76, 136, 138

King, Dru 30, 150

Kingston , Kaleigh 30 , 126, 127 , 180

Kingston, Rachel 65, 67, 103 , 126

Kinni s on, Cameron 65

Kirkendoll , Haven 65

Kirkland , Erika 126

Kir sc hbaum , Stephen 65

'Klabenes , Coach 147

Klawonn, Kelly 17

Klem , Darianna 56 , 142

Klopp, Delton 56

Klucas , Kasey 46

Knaff , Ti-Yonda 5, 42, 46,126

Knight , Alexander 46

Knight, Erin 41

Koang , Sibit 46

Koch , Ben 74 , 3

Koch -Johns, Patsy 3, 72 , 76 , 88 , 118

Koenigsman, Brent 15 , 30 , 36 , 112 , 36

Kohout , Tess 30

Kopf , Carrie 72

Kosmos, Cody 65,139

Kata, Corrine La 56

Kovacevic , Medina 46 , 76 , 148

Kovar , Adam 41

Koydakovskaya , Ira 30

Kpaw , Wah 69

Kral , Thomas 69

Kramer , Domakneak 51

Kramer , Esperanza 56

Kreifels , Chase 65

Kreifels , Mitch 19 , 26 , 29. 30 , 27 , 38

Kreimer, Lee 30

Kreimer , Sharon 72

Kroe e , Katelyn 46

Krueger , Jonas 30

Krzycki, Taylor 46

Ku,Aline Nasa 58

Kudron , Brodrick 116, 117

Kudron , Jasmine 65

Kupfer , Ruth 72

Kurtz , Trever 46, 136

Ku , Tha69

Kutscher, Matthew 72 , 96

Kutz , Trevor 138

LLacefield, Cody 46

Lacefield, Justin 46

Lackey, Norene 46

Lacy , Constance 72

Lagrimini , Emma 30, 180

Lagrimini , Henry 30 , 80 , 180

Lahm , Renee 74

Lakota, Lenea 57

Lamb , Chelby 65

Lambert , George 46

Lam , David 46

Lame , Bodie 57

Lam , Tuan 30

Lane , Niccole 46, 63, 113 , 65

Lange, Haley 46 , 97

Langui , Jacob 65

Lanik , Eve 65

Lantz , Eric 30

Laravie , A s hley 51

Larson , Grace 57

Lar on , Kri s tin 46

Lar on, Mark 9 , 72. 156

Larso n , Sam 17 , 30, 29, 86 , 101

La senieks, Ezra 65

Lass , David 30, 180

La , Thanh 18 , 19 , 56, 133 , 134 , 156 , 157

La , Thuong 30, 39 , 134

Law,Meh 57

Lawson , Sam 31, 2

Le,My Kim 31

Le , Rin 57

Le , Tam 57

Le , Thien 57

Le , Tram 31

Leach , Ta ha 65 , 69

League, Schawn Marr 72

Leapaldt , Tanner 46 , 130 , 131 , 167

Leazer , Michaella 57

Lebron , Jay 41

Ledford , Natalia 78

Lee , Michelle 46 , 105 , 119

Lee , Samantha 61

Lefeber , Carole 72

Legg-McCarty, Kim 72

Legrand , Dyamond 31

Lehnert , Nick 46

Lehr , Keegan 51

Leick , Janet 72

Leighton , Gabrielle 31, 113

Leija , Cristobal 57

Lemas, Jose 83

Lemus , Jose , 46 , 81, 97 , 45

Lemus Ortiz, Yesenia 65

Lepard , Ju stin 31

Le s hchenko , Artem 31

Lewy , Elizabeth (Izzy) 46 , 56 , 112

Lian , Cing 31

Liddy , Morgan 65 , 2 , 3

Liebers, Shana 57

Lierz , Maddie 31 , 2 , 3 , 130

Ligon, Amber 57

Lind ey , Demitrius 9 , 31

Lin,Ma46

Lin , Qinfang 31

Lionberger , James 46

Lionberger , Jasmine 31

Lockwood , James 57

Lad , Mo 22 , 31 , 87

Loeb! , Taylor 46, 106

Lombard, Holly 31

Lombard , Paul , 50

Long-Hawkins , Kamaya 5 , 65 , 126 , 149

Longwell , Nate 31

Loos-Hubbard, Kelly 17

Lopez, Alex 31

Lopez, Irvin 62

Lopez Perez , Eduardo 66

Lorraine , Lynnor 72

Loth , Kim 74

Lothrop , Sondra 72

Lott , Demarius 46 , 155

Louis , Jaci 57 , 2

Lovorn , Elena 2 , 3 , 57 , 148

Loya, Cindy 61

Lucas , Jacob 46

Lucas , Julie 66

Lucas , Katie 31

Lucatero-Avena, Martel 51

Luebke , Mady sen 10, 46

Luedtke , Christian 57

Luedtke, Sharill 5 , 71 , 72, 76 , 104 , 105

Luethje , Cassie 4 , 5 , 8 , 10 , 39 , 2 , 99 , 104 , 2, 3, 39, 113,

114 , 105

Lumpkin s, Dejuan 61

Lu, Paw Lu 46 , 87

Lupsiakou, Aliaksaqdr 31

Lup iakou , Vasili 31

Macia s- Ayon,Alondra 69

Mack , Bryan 74, 75

Mack , Natasha 57

MaCray , Jeremiah 136

Madcharo , Emily 31, 80 , 114 , 39

Maher , Jeremy 31

Mai , Kiem 31

Mai , Sandy 66

Mai , Tai 66

Majid , Naznaz 46

Majok , Aman 31

Mallory , Tynan 46

Malloy , Samnantha 31

Malone , Hannah 156

Maly, Christopher 72, 79

Manakdan, Andi 2

Mangers, Courtney 47, 2, 48 , 114

Manning , Olivia 31

Marilyn Schaffer 61

Marks , Andrea 66

Marshall, Garrett 57 , 136, 138

Mar hall , Seth4 , 17 , 18 , 4,31 ,3 6 , 78 , 98 , 99,108,113, 2, 127 , 134 , 135,136,137 , 19, 100 , 29

Marsh, Keenan 47

Marti , Alex 31,161

Marti , Jon 11 , 31 , 39

Martin , Adrian St. 157

Martin , Daniel 66 , 102

Martinez , Alicia 57

Martinez , Armando 27 , 31,136

Martinez , Daniela 66

Martinez , Elisa 41

Martinez , Emily 31 , 2 , 3, 114

Martinez, Faviola 31

Martinez, Jesus 66

Martinez , Liliana 41

Martinez, Mike 47

Martinez , Selina 32

Martinez , Stephanie 66

Martin , Haley 57

Martin , Jenny 3 I

Martin , Kayla 57 , 108

Martin , Paisley 47

Masa, Johnny 136

Mason , Alton 157

Mason , Wally 72

Massa, Johnny 32 , 36

Masters, Jordan 57

Masters, Kathryn 32

Mathiason , Benjamin 32

Matz , Josh 57, 136, 138

Matz , Nathan 32 , 78 , 136, 154 , 155

Maughan, Kyle 32

Mazurek , Maria 72

McAli s ter, Madeline 22, 32, 116, 117

McCall , Alyssa 4 7, 126

McClain , Angel 66, 82

McClain , Zachery 57

McClung , Lisa 2

McClung , Paula 72

McCollough , Daniel 47 , 130

McCombs, James 66

McCord , Anna 66

McCord, Wesley 32, 118

McCormick , Kyle 32 , 38

McCrary, Martika 47, 91

McCray , Jeremane 32, 136

McCray , Jeremiah 17,32 , 161 , 163

McDonald, Field 32, 98, 114

McDonald, Trei 41

McDonald , Trinity 18, 19 , 66 , 126

McGinn, Deborah 72, 118

McGrath, Brandon 32

McGrath, Corbin 57

McGuyver , Mykala 32

McKay , Matt2

McKeighan, Emma 17 , 47 , 147 ,

148 , 149

McLaughlin , Rebecca 72

McMahon-Cole , Hana 66

McMeen , Coach 147

McNally, Drake 57

McNeil , Dana , 36, 47 , 2, 90 , 91 ,

102 , 113 , 130, 142 , 145 , 36,114

McNulty , Anastassia 72

McShannon , Isaiah 66 , 139

McVicker , Alice47 , 107 , 144 , 147

Medina , Alicia 47 , 91 , 2

Medina , Dave 74

Medina , David 32

Medina , Destiny 32

Meh, Phre 57, 86

Mellick , Rowan 47 , 126

Memeti , Fatmir 69

Memeti , Jetmir 32

Mendez , Arilene 69

Mendez, Daniela Luna 57

Mendez , Nadia 41

Mendoza , Angie 32, 128

Mendoza , Antonio McClo s key 66

Mendoza , Jazmine 57

Mercado, Jose 57

Merlis s, Miriam (Mimi) 4 , 32, 103 , 180

Me skin , Seivi 47

Metes , Isau 57, 72

Meyer , Courtney 32 , 2, 181

Meyer, Morgan 5 , 47 , 126

Meyer , Shaunna 72 , 77

Meza Castillo , Pedro 32

Mia , Sandy 68

Michalski , Jake 57

Michel, DJ 8 , 47

Michon, Megan 32

Mickle , Marisa 47 , 91

Mikesh , Miranda 24, 32, 36 , 59 , 74, 75. 36, 39, 39

Mikkelsen , Britton 66

Miller,Alex , 50

Miller , Felicity 47

Miller , Madeleine 10 , 119

Miller , Meshaya 32

Miller , Say 'v on 47 136

Miller , Zach 47 , 128 Milliken , Bennett 15, 32, 36, 36

Millsap , Ariel 66 , 148 , 149

Mindieta , Brandon Virgen 60

Moe , Maddie42 , 47 , 118

Mohammed , Beri van 66

Mohammed , Heja 47 , 89 Mohr , Joseph 32, 2 Moise, Niyo 9 , 47

Molina, Logan , 32, 160 , 16 I , 29

Molt , Shayne 47, 118

Montes, Candelaria Orozco 51

Montez , Adriana 47

Montez, Emily 69

Montoya, Luis 66

Moo , Dee47

Moo , Eh Krey 66 , 97 Moo , Eh Nay 57

Moo , Hsa57 K ' paw 32

Moo , Lerpye 47

Moo , Ler Pye 32

J Moo , Lwel Nay 47

Moo , Paw 66

Moo , Paw Ler 57

Moore,Andrew 66 , 139 , 157

Moore , Brooklyn 66

Mooren, Josh 47

Moore , Ted 32

Morales , Cristina 32

1 Morale s, Emmanuel 32

Morigeau , Dasha 66

Morris, Cody 136

Morris , Maddison 32

Morris, Malik 66, 82 , 139

Morrison, Amber 4 7, 89, l 07

Morse , Cody ?7 , 138, 161

Morton , Bernice 69

Mosby , Lee Ann 32

Mosby , William 57, l04

Mosher, Aidan 32, 97

Mothershed, Cayliss 4 , 47

Motton , Bobby 33

Motton, Kaneesha 33

Mueller , Mike 33

Mughalzai, Silai 57, 108

Muhle , Tanner 47

Muhornmad, Ali 106

Mullin , Jennifer 74

Munda!! , Ashley 57, 106

Munger, Mariah 33

Munger, Marsha 74

Murillo,Arazeli 41

Murphy, Brad 17

Murray, Preston 47

Musa, Mohamed 33, 117

Mustafa, Hakar 57, 161

Mustafa, Noor 47

Mustafa, Zeen 47

Mut, Nyamal 33

Mutum,Alec 47 , 77,102,104

Myer , Reagan 5, 57, 148, 149

NNaff, Ami 52, 58

Nance, Audrey 58

Nasaka, Uwinka 58

Naser, Azad 47

Naser, Zhiman 57 , 61

Nason , Kaleb 33

Nastin, Nikita 66

Nasuku, Aline 9

Nava Nava, Juan 33

Nava Nava, Maite 58

Ndayishismiye, Jacqueline 9 , 58

Neal, Robert 74

Neeman, Kameron 33

Neibel, Charlie 5, 33, 80, 134 , 181

Neibel, Rosa (Rosie) 33, 80, 87, 147

Nelsen, Cecilia 66

Nelsen, Elizabeth 66, 69

Newbury, Dallas 66

Newcomer , Marjean 73

Newell , Heather 33

Ngo, Andy 66, 88. 110

Ngo, Sandy 5, 19, 33, 35, 36, 78, 6, 29, 36, 87

Ngo, Tan 33

Ngoyi , Dan 66,138,139, 110 , 157

Nguyen, Anh 22, 33, 34, 34

Nguyen, Bang 33

Nguyen, Bao 58

Nguyen , Bob 33

Nguyen, Dat 33, 58

N_guyen, George 58

Nguyen , Hiep 17 , 33, 117

Nguyen , Hoang 66

Nguyen, Hong 47

Nguyen , Huong 51

Nguyen , Huy 33, 66

Nguyen, Jolin 47, 57 , 29, 104 , 115

Nguyen, Linh 48, 54, 58

Nguyen , Loe 69

Nguyen, Minh Dong 26

• Nguyen , Phuoc 48

Nguyen , Quang 66

J Nguyen, Quynh Nhu 58

Nguyen, Randy 48

" Nguyen , Sandy 58

3 Nguyen, Tam 48 , 142

Nguyen, Thao 48

Nguyen, Thomas 33

Nguyen, Thuy 69

Nguyen, Tien 58

1 Nguyen, Tuan 48, 69

Nguyen, Vu 63, 66

Nguyen , Xuan Trang 34

Nichols, Ethan 5 , 34, 133 , 134

Noriega, Jesus 58

Northup, Creighton 48

Noser, Brett 73 , 98 , 99

Novotny , Christian 2, 4, 34, 118 , 119 , 181

Npimnee , Hope 34

Nunez , Vauessa 34

Nyhof , Alexis 66

Nyhof, Lexi 142

Nyhof, Porsha 34

0Obermueller, Kristen 34

Obermueller , Trevor 66

Ocegueda Gomez, Mario 58

Ochoa , Tiffani 67

Oetken, Jill 73, 99 , 101

Ogattrocchi, Vincient 58

Ogburn , Breanna67 , 130,131

Ogburn , Kaela 5, 58

Ogden, Tiffany 73

Ojeda , Sandra 34

O'Keeffe , Georgia 83

Okemba , Brandon , 34, 38, 29

Okeng , Lona 34

Okeng , Lord 34

Okeng, Walker 67

Okereke, Elizabeth 66, 73 , 74 , 103

Oligmueller, Amber , 36, 73, 36

Oliver, Coach Chris 161

Olivo , Dennis 161

Olsen , Betsy 58

Olsen , Mary 48

Olson, Joshua 67

Omar , Timiko 34

Omar , Tyreshia 34

Oquendo , Xaviela 58

Ortiz Juarez, Valeria 67

Osorio , Carlos 34, 96

Osorio , Carrie 67

Osorio , Iris 58, 102

Osorio , Jessica 34

Osorio, Joyce 58

Ossenkop, Natalia 67

Ossenkop, Paula 9, 73, 78 , 102 , 103

Osso , Minas 48

Osso, Shahnaz 67

Ostojic , Viktorija , 50

Othling , Hunter 67

Othman,Ahmed 58

Overstreet, Mar'Lakuittia (Mar'La) 4, 34, 63, 64, 110, 114 , 126, 127 , 150, 151

Overstreet, Mary 62 , 64 , 67, 2, 111 , 126

Owen , Andrew 5, 27, 34, 2, 145 , 181

Owusu-Ansah , Frank 67, 132, 144

pPacheco Ceballos, Micaela 29, 34, 78, 79, 104

Page, Dewey 34

Pageler , Rachel 67 , 142

Paice, Trevor 67

Palmer, Kamille 142

Palmer , Kay-Kay 58

Pang, Jeff 163

Pappas , Jeff 142

Parker, Shalom , 34, 29

Parks, Jay-J 48

Parks, Keiteyana 67 , 149

Parks, Tearah 48

Partee , Robert 34

Patterson, Cyrus 41

Paw, Kmwe 58

Paw, Pway 58, 86

Paw, Ree 35

Paw , Wah 61

Paz, Francis De 25

Pecina , Ana 58, 133

Peery, Andraya 58

Pelt , Sydney Van 50, 102

Penas, Brian 76

Penas, Bryan 73, 75

Pendergras, Coach 14 7

Perdomo, Emanuel 58

Perdomo , Ilse 35

Perez, Heladio 67

Perez, Luis Elvira 44

Perez-Pecina, Yasmin 48

Perkins , Colin 48

Perry, Briana 48

Perry, Sierra 67, 1 lO

Pershing , Christine 5, 56, 58

Pershing, Joe 9, 48

Peterson , Andrew 58

Peterson , Mandy 73, l 07

Petr , Kaithyn 48

Petr,Katie 48,142

Pett, Angel 48

Petty, Tom 25

Pham, Dang 48

Phamle, Anh 35

Pham, Linda 35

Pham, Lisa 48

Pham, Oanh 48

Pham, Tri 35, 36, 129

Phan , Daniel 58

Phan , Tai Le 31, 130

Phan, Thien 67,139,157

Philippi , Kylie 67

Phillips, Caleb 35

Phillips, Cody 48

Phillips, Jaivon 58

Phillips, Kenny 58,130, 167

Phillips, Spencer 58

Phillips, Torie 51

Philpot, Casey. 4, 19 , 26, 29, 29, 27, 38

Phipps,Austin 18, 19 , 67 , 139,157

Phipps,Coltin 67,139,157

Pickett , Jesse 48 , 91, 13 6, 138, 156

Pierce, Jeffrey 73, 74, 142 , 151

Pierce, Samuel 48

Piper, Bela 59

Plettner-Nelson , Glenda 73, 91

Plugge, Sarah 67

Pluhacek , Erin 67

Portillo, Mitzy 35

Portugal-Casarrubias , Gonzalo 48

Potts, Seth 41

Powers , Megan 59 , 126

Prange, Ian 35

Prange, Mikayla 59, Prasek, Joe 48

Preciado, Ever K. 73

Prentice, Bryan 67

Price, James 35

Prinsloo , Jenny 5, 67

Prinsloo , Marno 48, 136, 138

Pr i tchard , Hunter 67, 139, 157

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Pumel , Terrance 41

Puok, Guan 59

Puok , Nyameer 5 , 25, 35, 129

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Rainey , Charity 19

Ramirez , Itsi 61

Ramirez, Mark 48

Ramo , Alejandro 35

Ramos , Emiliano 61

Ramo s, Irma Cortez 63

Ramos , Marco 67

Ram say, As trid 59

Ramey , Dakota 48

Rashidi , Blai se 59

Rashidi , Marlene 67

Ra k , Kate 4, 5, 35, 36, 83, 129

Rathe , Benjamin 35, 181

Rathe ,Em ma 18 , 19 ,49, 110,132, 142

Ratliff , Jodi 75

Ratumaimuri, Tony 67

Rau s heed , Khadijah 67

Rau , Wendy 74

Ray , Daiquanda 59

Reeve s, Desiree 35

Reh , Lu 67

Reh , Su 59

Rehtus , Ben 69

Reigert, Trevor 49

Reineke , Zoe 67, 126 , 127, 149

Reinhard, Andrew 35

Reis, Markeisha 59

Remmen ga, Chelsea, 35, 75, 106 , 30

Rennings , Lorrilyn 73

Requejo , Rudy 59

Re sta u , Kellen 35, 181

Reyes , Ye enia 36

Reynold s, Greg 36

Rezac , Sarah 67

Rhian, Jim 5, 59, 61

Rhoades , Stephanie 36

Riblett, Chance 67

Richards, Will 36

Rickover , Anne 73, 87

Ridgley , William 49

Rikli, Laura 73, 2, 3

Riley, Jordan 4, 29, 36, 126 , 182, 29

Rinke, Nichola 59

Rinke , Zoe 114

Rio s, Salvador 49

Ritter , Kragen 67

Ritz , Emily 36

Ritz, Rebekah 36, 104 , 163

Ritz, Tim 49

Rivett , M 49

Roberson , Dylan 33, 36, 118 , 119

Robe,ts, Alyssa 67

Robert s, Jeremy 41

Roberts, Sean 49

Roberts , Sonya 36, 88, 132

Robertus , Robert 36

Robinson , Shannon 67

Rodgers , Jordon 36

Rodriguez , Alejandra 67

Rodriguez , Carlos 36

Rodriguez , Elizabeth , 49, 50

Rodriguez , Hannah 59, 148, 149

Rodrigue z, Jaime 49

Rodriguez , Jesse 59

Rodriguez, Jes ica Pec ina 48

Rodriguez , Le'Tia 51

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Roger s, Victor 59

Roland, Sabrina 36

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Rubottom , Tyler 59

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Ruiz, Ricard 68, 69

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Nichols, Jessica 66

Nichols, Tarry 58

Nielsen , Addisen 66

Niemann , Gage 58 , 136 , 138

Nienaber, Mckenzie 58

Niles, Blake 48 , 136, 138, 161

Ninh , Minh 17, 34, 48

Noble , Dan 73

Nootenboom-Carr , Joshua 58

Patterson, Emily 42, 48

Patterson, Janice 73

Paudel, Abi 58

Paul , George 35

Paulk , Danielle 35

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Pavey, Brianna 48, 108

Pavey , Kenneth 48

Quinn, Mackenzie 35, 162, 163 , 181

Quinn, Rian 67, 149, 150

Quirk, Victoria 48

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Romero , Roberto 69

Romero, William 41

Romo, Andrew 59

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Selvage, Michaela 49 Starr, Allison 38

Sergyeyev , Ernirkhan 59 Starr , Darla 73

Serna Garcia, Maria 37

Serrell-Michaud , Natashia 74

Settrini , Bailea 59

Sewell, Angelica 69

Sewell, Selena 59

Staton , Cheyenne 60 , 77

Staton, Makayla 16 , 68

Steele , Ashlee 68

Steele, Del'tre 38, 136

Steele , James 18 , 49, 119, 136 Shade , Amber 68

Steele, Teialana 60, 96, 142 Shade, Jacob 49

Stetson,Amy 73,102 Shade , Sonny 49

Shafer, Dallas 37

Shamo, Ahmad 37

Stevens, Amber 50

Stevens , Derrick 6 , 38, 119, 183

Stewart-Finkenstaedt, Erika , 15, Shamo , Roza 68 38,76,89,102, 107, Shandera, Joseph 73, 136 113 , 6 Shannon , Mallory 49

Stiegman, Tanya 51 Sharp, Coach 141

Shatalova, Nadia 37

Torres, Rosa 60

Towle , Max 17

Townsel , Antferney 69

Townsel , Crystal 69

Trainin, Erez 50 , 129

Tran , Angella 60

Tran , Dieu Cuong 38

Tran , Eric 69

Trang , Tyler 50

Tran, Jamie 16, 56 , 58, 100

Tran , Jenny 18, 4 , 39, 101

Tran, Lilly 60 , 148, 162

Tran, Linda 39

Tran , Marry 39

Tran , Thommy 17, 69 , 117

Tran , Tuan 69

Stitt, Joseph 38

St.Martin, Adrian 68 , 139 Shear, Heather 41

St.Martin, Kendra 49 Shear, Sean 59

Stokes, Shawn 9 , 73 Shee, Lah Bwe 68 Stoki, Daniel 50 Shee, Sah Wah 37 Stone , Alana, 38, 29 , 183 Sheesley, Corey 37 Stone , Danisha 60, 99 Shirey, Garytt 49, 136, 138, 156 Stout, Rebecca 4, 38 Shirley , Jasmine , 48 Stover, Jordyn 57, 60, 142 Shoemaker, Scott 18, 19, 29 Strahan, Jacklyn 38 Shokai, Rawda 37

Straight, Gage 5, 50 , 136, 138 , 161 Shokai , Yohanna 68 , 139 Strong, Paul 74 Shomaker , Scott 5, 37, 2, 182 Strong, Phalin 38 Shook, Lara 41

Stutheit, Austyn 60 Showalter, Matt 49 , 104, 107 Stutzman, Cody 38

Shriner , Trevor 59

Suhr, Brittany 2, 3, 4 , 9, 38, 96, 97 , Shultz, Emma 105 113,130,131,183 Shur, Brittany 27 Svec , Jessica 14 , 19, 24, 38, 110 , Shwe, Nan Win 59 113, 116, 22 Siebrandt, Kasi 37, 39, 147 Swetland, Micah 68, 132 Siefker, Dylan 49 Swinnerton , Merissa 60, 147 Siefker , Rylee 68 Szelag, Kim 12, 13, 73, 102 Sierra, Dimitria 68

Simonson, Cale 5, 37, 102

TSimpson, Fred 73 Simpson, Shelbie 49. Tackett, Wade 50, 136 Sipp, Henry 59, 80

Sjuts, Michelle 73

Taege , Haley 5 , 60

Taege, Nicole 8, 24, 38, 118 Skillet, Paige 105

Tagart, Travis 60 Skillett, Paige 49 ; 142 Taladay, Jon 38 Skillett, Wayne 37, 136 Tarvin, Liz 50 Skinner, Austin 60, 161 Tate, Devin 66, 68, 103 Skoda, Adam 136 Taylor,Aaron 68,157 Slivka,Anthony 51 Taylor,Ali 25, 29, 38, 29,147 Slivka-Molina, Daniel 69 Taylor, Bobbi 68 Small, Chris tine 74 Taylor, Katy 38, 112 , 119 Smith, C.C. 10, 37 , 49 Taylor, Keegan 41 Smith, Darrell 49 Termaat, Gabriel 68 Smith, Dave 74 Teske , Forest 38 Smith, Devin 8 , 5, 37 Thacker , Karen 73 Smith, Kevin 37 Tharnish, Erin 68 Smith, Kyle 37, 128 Tha, Yaw Hay 60 Smith, Maddy 60

Theye, Katelyn 4 , 24, 38 , 90, 29 Smith, Nakuya 37, 150 Thiek , Philip 50 Smith, Savannah 16, 49 Thiele, Luke 4, 38, 99, 3 Smith, Will 9, 73, 104 , 39, 105 Thiessen , Caleb 68 Snider, Jesse 68, 139 Thiessen, Micah 16 , 24, 38, 99, 3, Snyder, Mason 68 136, 145, 155 Snyder, Sloane 49 Thok, Bethelem 60 Sohrweid, Cidney 68 Thok, Loklok 50 Solis, Gabriela 60, 163 Thok, Ruachkuoth 50 Solomon,Aylena37, 147,147 Thok, Taban 38 Sommars, Tristan 60 , 144 Thomas, Courtney 60 Sonthixay, Linda 49 Thomas , Jalici 50 Sorensen,Alex 60,107 Thomas, Molly 73, 118

Sorensen, Anne 49 Thompson,Andrew 38

Sorge, Jordan 68, 157 Thompson, Austen 60, 136, 138, Spaeth, Christopher 41 161 Spaulding, Cameron 60 Thompson, Deavante 50 Specht, Robert 38 Thompson , Devin 68 Spencer , Abbey , 49, 115, 46 Tikalsky, Mackenzie 68, 126 Spencer, Angela 68, 89 Timmerman , Annette 38 Spencer , Shika 41

Tindall, Karl 17 Spencer, Tia 38

Toalson, J Brent 73

Spence, Zac 49, 144 , 145 , 160,161 Todd , Christopher 68 Springer, Jay 42, 49 To, Giang 38, 50

Squires, Virginia 24, 38

Stabler, Glory 41

Wallace , Torrey 60

Walter, Clayton 50

Wanamaker, Dietrich 69

Wanamaker , Maris s~ 9 , 73 , 76 , 102, 103

Ward , Greg 2, 3, 5 , 24, 40, 77, 100 , 101 , 115,118, 119

Ward , Kalen 60

Ward , Mariah 60, 148, 162

Ward , Steven 73, 97

Ware , Rynell 50 , 136, 138, 160

Warne , Brian 61, 161

Warne , Kellie 4, 50

Warren , D'marcus 50

Warta, Brittany 60, 110

Waters, Desirae 69

Tran, Yen 50

Trejo , Austin 60, 144

Trevett , Kyle 50, 118

Trotter, La Shay 41

Troutman , Samuel 69

Trout, Ronnie 50

Trumbley , Lexi 8, 50, 77

Truong , Skylar 50

Tu,Duyen 39

Tunberg , Sadie 5, 69

Turley, TJ 69

Tuttle , Brittany 60 , 72, 133

Tuttle , Jeffery 60

Tyler , Bryce 17, 60

Tyson, Tashia 50

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Uhing , Duane 73

Uiterwaal, Stella 69

Urbauer, Mark 39

Uriostegui, Cristina 39

Urzedowski, Natalia 60

Utterback, Mitchell 51

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Vanosdol , Alex 39

Vanwaveren, Christen 41

Varela, Christina 39

Varela , Gilberto 51

Vargas , Alberto 39

Vargas , Jessica Padilla 34

Varrati , Brandon 60, 136, 138

Vasa, Stephen 73

Vasquez, Hannah 69

Yelder , Jason 60, 106

Vera, Crystal 39

Verbitskiy , Vlad 39

Vernon, Jennifer 39

Vernon , Ray 68, 139

Vernon , Raymond 69

Versaw , Grant 8, 50

Versaw, Jack 39, 135

Vicroy , Evan 60 , 160 , 161

Vicroy, Parker 39, 134

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Vidusie, Almira 40

Vivier, Hannah, 29, 40

Vivier , Jared 40

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Volyanyk, Okama 40

Volyanyk, Oksana 35

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V\TWade , Samantha 60

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Wihters, Kiristen 61

Witherspoon, Jordan 69

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Witters, Maddie 51 , 80, l 02

Wiyual, Keet 51

Wohlgemuth , Elaine 40

Wolfe , Brandon 51

Wolfe , Nancy 74

Wolz , Joshua 8, 51

Woodard , Brittany 40

Woods, Tila 69

Wortman , Michael 74

Wortman , Mike 4 , 29

Watson, Chris 73, 98, 99

Watson , Jennifer 40

Watson, John 40

Watson , Kennedy 24, 40

Watson, Miriah 40

Webster, Davonte 50, 106, 156

Weckman , Barbara 73

Weddleton, Sydney 51

Wedeman, Maggie 17 , 51 , 2, 3

Weedleton , Sydney 77

Weeks, Trevor 40

Wee , Ta Rel 60

Wehland-Falk , Cynthia 3, 138 , 139, 142,144,156,161

Weiand , Hailey 60,148

Welch , Emerson 18 , 19, 5 , 24, 29, 38,38

Welch, Jamario 41

Wells, Isaac 51

Wendland , Geoffrey 51

Wensel , Nick , 48

Wessel , Maddie 2, 51

West , Michelle 74

Wheat , Josephine 69

Wheat, Zachery 60

White, Bob 4, 77

White, Chase 40, 160, 161, 166

White, Deondre 51,155

White , Devante 41

White , Robert 74

Whittington, Bernard 60

Whittington , D'Marquieyon 60 , 97, 156, 157

Wickizer, Ory 60 , 118, 129

Wiebe, Claire 10 , 51 , 88

Wiebelhaus, Daniel 40

Wiebe , Victoria 69, 89, 2

Wieden , Sheri 74 , 91

Wiggins, Deunte ' 69 , 139

Wiggins, Pat 7 4

Wiig, Shannon 74

Wilford, Erin 69 , 119

Wilford, Michael 40

Wilken, Cacey 69 , 142

Wilkinson , Detavion 41

Wilkinson , Diondria 61

Willemsen , Nancy 74

Williams , Bryteece' 61

Williams, Deshawn 69,139 , 161

Williams, Kaleigh 61

Williams , Kelsey 29, 40, 81

Williams, Melynda 51

Williams , Sativah 69

Williams , Shania 69, 126

Williams, Tabby 61

Williams, Tiana 40

Williams, Tynisha 69

Williams , Vanessa 51

Williss, John 61

Willmann, Geoff 40

Wilson, Benjamin 40

Wilson , Claire 40

Wilson, Heather 61, 76 , 119

Wilson, Jack 40, 136

Wilson, Joseph 61

Wilson , Melissa 5, 61, 81, 162

Worton, Dagan , 51 , 132 , 136, 137,45

Worton , Shaundi 69

Wrasse , Parker 69

Wright, Aaron 5, 36, 40, 128 , 134, 36

Wunder, Raymond 61 , 119 Wycoff, Elizabeth 41

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Ybarra, Tony 139

Yeackley, Kayla 51, 88

Yermakovich , Stanislav 58 , 61

Yoakum, Zach 41

Yonne , Yvonne 61

York, Tyler 61

Yoshino, Hikari 18, 40 , 74, 132, 133,134, 87, 135

Yoshino , Moeko 35, 69, 158

Yost , Anna 4, 61

Young, Abigail 61

Young , Eli 40

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Yousif, Rojeen 69

Yousif , Roshhat 40

Yuan , Ken 61

Yuen , Dylan 40 , 91

Yvonne, Yvonne 61

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Zempleni , Flora 51, 102

Zerfass, Brandon 61

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Zerfass, Roxanne 69

Zimmerman, Holli 69 , 110

Zobeck-Patz,Aaron 61

Zollicoffer, Kayla 69

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Zuniga, Jesus 61

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If you were asked to define yourself now, how would you answer? Smart, creative, witty, athletic, artistic, quiet, funny? Think about why you describe yourself that way If you were asked to define Lincoln High now, how would you nswer? Why? The past year LHS has had many moments nd events that have defined who we are individually and as a community. From Multicultural Week, to the Wrestling State Championship matches to passing Geometry Diff and creating your first masterpiece in 20 Design. As you frantically look for friends and teachers to say your last goodbyes, take a moment to reflect on the year One more year to define who you are and who you will be for the rest of your life Seniors as you prepare to start a new chapter in your life, don't forget that Lincoln High holds memories and life lessons you learned to mold you into the person you are today. For the rest of scl1ool, continue to make a differ~nce in not only your life but the lives around you We are he future. We define what the future will hold. Get ready, Get set, GO!