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Re/u.lu.s yourself to the sky, for thousands of years, navigators have used the stationary North Star to guide them on

their voyages, Polaris is bright, standing alone about halfway to the zenith from the northern horizon on the tip of the handle of the Little Dipper, This end star always points North to guide any voyagers on their way , Students of the first North

Star yearbook and journalism class selected the name Polaris for this and future yearbooks because of the mythology and tradition surrounding the North Star,

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Though the theme will change each year, Polaris will remain the name of the North Star yearbook, Start here to navigate your way through the 2003-2004 school year, Endsheet design and infographi,c by Jamie Green. Map from Patterns in the Sky by B. W Maxwell Reed

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CENTER: Sophomore Tuyet Nguyen recieves her planner on the first day of school from theater teacher 0reg 0ibbs.

ABOVE: The Dazzlers dance in the Bayou during lunch at the Homecoming lunch jam.

RI0HT: "Showdown at Seacrest" was the theme of the first football game. North Star Athletic Boosters sold between 350-400 T-shirts for fans to wear at the game. Because it was also Papillion-LaVista South's first game, they ordered and sold the same T-shirts.

TOP LEfT: Sophomore Cameron Olson shows off his "bling bling" during spirit week

TOP RI0HT: The student section cheers on the football team to their first victory over Papillion La-Vista South

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BY JAMIE GREEN

from the first phone call in the office to the fi r st graduat ion, everyth ing is a first in a new school, and those fi r sts become new trad it i~ns for many generat ions to follow: the first homecom ing/sp irit week, the first game of the season, the first test taken, the first lunch line and the first prom, Tradit ions make a school unique, and in North Star's first yea r , unique traditions started, Student Counc il sponsor Randy Ernst said, nAfter discuss ions with the LNS adm inist r ation, the student counc il was encouraged to set its own traditions instead of adopting the practices of other schools,''

Ernst said, llThe student council, after much de li beration, dec ided to nominate homecoming royalty from the s tudents with the most school spirit, Teachers nom inated s tu dents who part icipated during spirit week, Students with the mo st nom inat ions were put on a ballot, Studoots then voted for th e most spirited students at each grade level.''

As the year passed, 6ators assembled new traditions, There will never be another first year but all participating will always remember the traditions that began in 2003-2004,

A B OVE: Sophomores Brittany Nelson, Jessica Merideth, Magg ie Nelson, Emily Sy a nd Raven

Ma ssie look up into the sky to find the skydiver th at flew in on the first d a y of school during th e opening day hoopla

TOP LEfT: Students try out the new lunch room on the fi r st day of school.

CENTER: Excited students enter the building on their first day of school.

LEfT: Varsity Cheerle aders Renee Murdock and Br eanna Fullerton smile with "Al" gator at the homecom i ng football game ,

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Junior Josh Thompson transferred to North Star from i ng on the 6ator diving team , lll think I will learn a lot since Lincoln High for some of the perks that came with the new the r e are many newcomers,'' schoo l: bette r park in g, the new weight room, But he sa id his Com i ng to a new school was both happy and sad said favorite thing about North Star was the fact that many of junior Melissa Zingler, llsadness for the fact that we are his friends from Lincoln High came here as well. leaving our fr iends and schools behind, but also hopefulness for those like Thompson, school friendships go back for the fr iends we are soon to make," years to prev ious schools, for others, becoming a Naviga- Whatever the case was, friendsh i ps are something tor meant a fresh start, a new school where they would that we all take with u? as a memory of our high school make new friends, and join new teams and organizations, years, Boxer Muhammad Al i said, llfr iendship is the hardest Sophomore Anthony Nguyen had called both Viet- thing in the world to explain, It is not someth ing you learn nam and Hawaii home before he came to Lincoln and later - in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of frienddecided ~o become a 6ator, but sa id he planned on compet- ship, you really haven't learned anyth ing,''

TOP LEfT: freshmen Nikki Winterstien and Stephanie Murray take a break from lunch, TOP RI6HT: Seniors Tim Hruza, Kyle Waller, Tin Nguyen show off the hunting gear that they wore for the homecoming football game,

BOTTOM LEfT: Juniors Chrissie Schneider and Nick Degarmo stop in the hall between

classes to take a quick picture.

ABOVE: Seniors Tyler Leibel and Lindsey Pickering often eat lun_ch together, BOTTOM RI6HT: freshmen Mawj Aboud and Antwane Brown get together in the lunchroom,

TOP LEFT: Seniors Mai Huynh and Andrea Olson take a break from their study hall, TOP RI6HT: Junior Seth Kaiser and Senior Spencer Brown were friends at Lincoln High and are still friends at North Star, CENTER: freshmen Ashley Thetherow, Catlin Wolford, Jordan Dau, Alyssa Bolte, Crystal Scholl, Sabrina Keefer, Ashley Meirose, April Hergenrader, Cami Jiskra, and Danielle

Schroeder get together during spirit week in the lunch room,

ABOVE LEFT: Senior Josh Hruby, Junior Ashley Marreel and Senior Alex Edwardson have fun in their AP lang/comp class, ABOVE Rl6HT: Sophomores Alycia Howard, Ian Plummmer, Michelle Davis pose at a cross county meet,

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The first big show of 6ator sp ir it was the fal l Homecom i ng fest ivit ies , Dur i ng the who le week, known to everyone as Spirit Week, 6ators dressed up to show off school pr ide, Du r ing fr iday lunch, the student counc i l rallied 6ators during both lunches

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with music and performances by the cheeleaders, Dazzlers and ENT , Over 400 t ickets were so ld fo r the New \.fork New \.fork dance , During the dance held in North Sta r s' own Bayou, the l'most sp irited'' students from sp irit week were honored,

ABOVE: Seniors Ash ely Mendoz a, Linds ey Pick ering, Ash ely Benes and Junior May a Mai erle have their picture t aken at lunch on Bling B ling Day , TOP LEfT: The Sophomore class decor at ed th eir are a of the Bayou with this Hom ecoming g ator, TOP CENT ER: Senior Sam Zajicek we ars his let te r j a c ke t from East for Old School Da y, TOP Rl6HT: Sophmore Dani elle Noonan shows her s c hool spirit on Red Carp et Day, MIDDLE RI6HT: A list of the activities for spirit week wa s posted by stu co, BOTTOM RI6HT: Junior Tyler Lambley and his sister f r es hman Kelsey Lambl ey get a picture to ge ther for B ling B ling Day,

LEfT: Sophomore Ashely Ernest i and Jon Spr in ger stop for a quick picture at Homecoming,

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night away at Homecoming , BOTTOM LEFT : freshman Julie Veach, Sasha Welch and Shannon Michal sing karoeke i n the black box theatre ,

TOP RI0HT: freshmen Ashley Tetherow, Alyssa Botle, Ashley Meirose, Sabrina Keefer, Jordan Dau, Crystal Scholl together for a group shot in the Kareoke Room,

MIDDLE RI0HT: Senior Travis Shamba and Sophomore Lauren Benda dance the night away at North Star's first ever Homecoming, ABOVE: Junior Josh Morgan and date Teigan fish pose for a picture at the Homecoming Dance,

ABOVE: freshman Brooke Hofpar takes some time out of class to "hack" in the hallways. She doesn't always play hackysack but enjoys playing it occasionally.

CENTER: freshman Vince Hugelman performs an overjester with his world hackysack. Hackysacks are $5 and up and are sold at places like Pac Sun, Hot Topics and Scheels. The great thing about hackysack is that you can do ft anywhere.

TOP LEFT: A collection of broken skateboards that belongs to Nick and Chris Miller is usually kept in the closet of their room.

TOP Rl0HT: This scratched up Element skateboard belongs to Cody Miller '1ou can order Element from CCS magazine or buy them at Precision on O Street for around $50 to $60.

MIDDLE RI0HT: A scratched up Mi ni-logo skateboard belongs to Chris Miller. "Mini-logo" is a generic brand that is cheaper, but isn't as good as some of the bigger names in skateboard decks ," said Jason ( fuzzy) M_iller.

B OTTOM.RI0HT: This newer E::lement Tech Deck is a tiny version of the real th i ng and can be picked up at Dollar Tree for $1. Students carry these around just in case they are caught in a boring moment in class. North Star teachers could have quite a collection of these toys as they are a popular pastime for students who sometimes take them out during and find them confiscated

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ha v e been ska teboa r ding fo r four y ears, at ho me , and in th e str ee ts. My fa vo rit e p ark is A & R. ,,Sophomore Zack Mattison

e bee n skatin g for o v e r three years and my fa v or ite tr ick is an inw ard hee lf li p '' Sophomore Jeff Bailey

ABOVE: Sophomore Chris Miller poses for a shot with his skateboard Chris likes to skateboard at Belmont, A & R, and lots of other places.

"Padas are my favorite kind shoe I have a c.ouple pair, I shop at foot lodw', and pnc.e doesn't matter to me. If I like them, 1get them,• said sophomore Justin Blankenship.

J.T. Holmes. sophomore, said she bought her pink boots in MemphtS, Tenn. because they matched all of her outfits. She said she paid about $50 for them, $10 to $20 less than she pays for her track shoes.

freshman &bby &erghofz said, "1 l'ke skateboarding shoes because they are more c.omfortable than most other shoes and they don't break as easily,•

What do North Star students a ll have in common? Shoes. They're part of our everyday life, whether they cost $200 or just $2 do ll ars, whether you buy them, borrow them or make them, for some, shoes might be something taken for granted, someth in g we just don't pay much attention to, Shoes might be for comfort or because they are necessary, for others, the shoe makes the outfit or are a fash ion statement,

Whatever you like, there's a shoe out there for you sophomore Justin Blankenship said, "Dadas are my favorite kind of shoe because they're pimp in,''

Other students have the ir own style favorites they are willing to save the ir money to buy, iir don't have a favor ite type of shoe, I just buy Nikes and Reeboks,'' sophomore Lorenzo 0ask ins sa id

Chuck Taylors

Jordans

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ABOV E: 6ators might wear B irkenstocks molded for comfort at a price starting around $80- or embellish their own pair of flip flops with fabric as the Dazzlers did. Students in 2004 sported a variety of everyday styles pictured on next page,

J,T, Holmes models the hot pink boots that play a big part in this dressy· outfit J,T, said she bought these boots on vacation, The boots caused quite a stir in the hallways the first time she wore thqn back in Nebraska,

fro m r ap to rock , the r e is a type of mus ic o ut t her e fo r everyone, Mu sic may be t he o ne t hi ng t hat teens around t he wo r ld have i n common, at t i mes even bri dg in g the gene r at ion gap. One examp le is the rock band KISS, st ill popu l a r and controvers i al afte r 30 yea r s ,

As sop homo r e B r ande n Poe sa id, tee ns h ave a lways looked to mus ic , uM us ic is the way that I can express myse lf when I am bored ,"

TOP LEfT: freshman Vince Hugelman practices at home with his Music Man guitar.

TOP RI6HT: North Star pep band keeps the crowd cheering with its upbe a t music and crazy rollercoas t er antics. for fun, four members of the band paint ed their faces like KISS. No one could re a lly recognize Vince Hugleman, Denton Racine, Tucker Seaman and Alec Wise.

BOTTOM: Chris Landreth, Br a nden Poe, and Nick fuller practice their guitar together for a band they hope to start book i ng.

TOP LEfT: Concert Band trombone players: (left to right) Abbey Smykowski, Kelly Bittinger, Kevin Eddy and Beth Weiner practice for the Star City Parade in 1st period band class,

TOP RI6HT: Band instructor Tobin Stewart conducts during his 5th period class,

BOTTOM LEfT: Brandon lfocum practices in 1st period band, BOTTOM RI6HT: Blake Salem plays his guitar in 3rd period jazz band class,

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What makes a teenager want to get a job? LLThe money! It's nice to have your own money and "not have to go to your parents a ll the time,'' Senior Mol ly Krolikowsk i a cashier at Hy-Vee said,

Senior Stephanie Christenson who works at Taco Bell sa id, LLI like working because I can have free food and give free food to my friends ,''

Senior Spencer Brown, who works at Corvettes Limited, sa id, LlMy parents think it's a good I have a job , I learn responsibilty and how to manage money,"

Where does all of this hard earned money go? Junior Erica Scott said, Lll got a job so I can buy CD's, which cost up to at least $15," Other North Star students said they got jobs to afford to go out to lunch ($3-7) instead of eat i ng school lunch for only $1.75,

TOP RI6HT: Senior Whit Winders works in the bakery department at Super Saver on 27th and Cornhusker. Winders gets to hand out snacks to the little kids.

Rl6HT: Junior Von Beisner works at DaVinci's, Beisner works up front as a cashier, and he delivers food to customers' tables, He has worked at DaVinci's for four months,

ABOVE: Junior Seth Kaiser has been working at Hy-Vee for over a year and recieves $5,75 an hour, Kaiser works in the salad bar/ produce department,

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Senior Tommy Nguyen

'' Ithink an ideal job would be a fastfood place. ''

Ithink an ideal job would be working at the mall. I work at the mall right now, and I enjoy it. ''

Junior Amy Oum

I'd have to say that almost every student works at a grocery store so a grocery store ''

Senior Chris Klann

I f I could ch job to do 1 want to be a dothing desig

Sophomore Alyssa Hansen

An ideal job to me would be working in a retail store such as American Eagl7or Screels. ''

Junior Tyler. ·lambley

Iwould want to work at a mall, I believe that would be an ideal job for a highschool kid. ''

Sophomore Karl Lin

Iwoutd have to say working ot Rmza. I think you should wotk there beco • He!althy for Senior NJcole Dean

Iwould want to work at ITC I think it would be an easy job. ''

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Unl i ke ot her Lincoln schools, No r t h Star students didn't have to rush i n for a morn i ng park i ng place, The student parking lot filled up to only about the fourth row on a regular school day,

In those few rows, students parked a wide var iety of veh icles: from old junkers about ready for a ri de to the dump or brand new cars with shiny rims and custom license p,ates,

A,J , Havlat drove a 1988 Plymouth Reliant, Havlat said, lll don't care where I park because, I don't care if it gets beat up ,''

Other people like Jamalle Reeves liked to park as far away as possible, he said, llso I don't get any door dings on my car,"

ABOV E: Senior Ashley Benes has a personal license plate "T HE 6IRL• because she's the girl. RI6HT: Junior Dayne Walton said he always forgets to turn off his headlights when he gets to school in the mornin~,

RI6HT & ABOVE: Junior Jama/le Reeves, shows off his 1997 Chevy Malibu sparkling both i nside and out ,

TOP: Senior, A,J, Havlat paid $795 for his Plymouth Reliant His car is even more beat up, Havlat said, because "I lost my hubcap driving home one day from Columbus, Nebraska,

LEfT: The ride home during ice/ snowstorm on Dec, 9, was difficult for many, but the gas station at 70th and Adams was still open for business, Lincoln papers reported 120 accidents , The Journal Star reported 75 cars towed or pulled out of tfie snow, Dec, 10 the schoo l parking lot was scattered with damaged vehicles, BELOW: Junior John Phillips tries to scrape the ice from his windshield wipers before he heads home hoping for a snow day, Many students and teachers said they had to scrap and dig to get out of the school parking lot

ABOVE: Senior John McAdams was involved in an accident on the way home from a friend's house, McAdams sa id a drunk dr iver hit his car. He said estimates ranged between $3000 to $4000, LEfT: Junior Erica Scott takes a close look at the ticket she got November 19, 2003, on the way to school. Ticket damage: $60 for STOP class on a Saturday,

The high tech innovations in the past year would have definitely seemed like science fiction to most students who could not have imagined the changes since they saw their first Nintendo or 6ameboy. One of the most popular tech items, cell phones were not part of the mainstream until 2000, Navigators in 2004 might have needed to think awhile, but can remember llback when'' phones were still connected to twirling tangled cords or pagers were llin,'' Though students were not allowed to have the phones in the classrooms, as soon as the 2:50 bell rang, hundreds of students and staff pulled out cell phones to call home, send or check messages, even take pictures, for entertainment only, Mac's new lpod released in February held 2,500 4-minute songs, and on-line Xbox gamers duked it out live with others around the world on broadband cable connections,

ABOVE : Alec Wise checks out Best Buy's Playstation 2 costing around $180

MIDDLE LEfT: Many students enjoy watching television reruns like Everybody Loves Raymond,

MIDDLE RI0HT: Sophomore Kevin Eddy enjoys Kir-1gdom Hearts on a friend's Play Station 2.

BOTTOM LEfT: Xbox, made by Microsoft in America, was Microsoft's first attempt at making a console, and it took off in America after it was released to the public in November 2001.

BOTTOM RI0HT: P lay Station 2, the popular Sony console, sold millions this year.

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ABOVE: Jake Neesen works diligently to finish a research paper in the library.

LEFT: '1 earbook students use new digital cameras to connect up to and download photos onto their computers. Many North Star students went digital during 2003-2004 and downloaded and printed color photos on their own computers and printers.

RI6HT: Sophomore Cindy

Le pulls out her new Sony EricssonT610 camera phone, "I got my phone for Christmas,~ Le said. "And I use it every day.~

Students n plug in II through servers, passwords, IDs

North Star technology was carefully planned to be the latest and best according to Principal Nancy Becker,

• On 500 different Mac and IBM compute rs throughout th~ building, students used the server and computers in 9 labs to research, write and spellcheck papers for classes, complete digital publications in yearbook and newspaper, store information and even check their e-mail and go online for endless information and music,

Students could also check the North Star Website on the Lincoln Public Schools homepage for anything from the lunch menu to the sports scheduling for the week, Student Navigators began the year with the 0ator2 server sign-on often using their personal server folders to store papers and projects for all of their classes, work that could be accessed from and printed to any networked computer in the building,

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by Chuck Halvorson, Mekita Rivas and Rob 6ibson

TOP: Xbox live, the broadband only online gaming for the Xbox, has many games like Counter Strike (above), 6host Recon, and Rainbow Six 3.

LEFT: The network room houses miles of cable that connects the building technology.

Network administrator

Kline works on his office

while his Mac laptop is on standby to the right.

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Photos courtesy of Vantage Imaging and Joel Armstrong

u\..f ou ' re a 6ood Man, Char li e Brown, '' with a cast and crew of 52, performed fo r three nights afte r an est i mated ave r age of more than 150 hours i n rehearsal.

The demand i ng schedu le meant 14-15 hours spent at school some days , Pr i nc i pal Nancy Becke r even got i nto the act with a speak in g part,

Kristen Bake r sa id, lThe most hect ic time was putt i ng on make - up a nd costumes; on ave r age, it took two hou r s,"

Different cast membe r s sa id that the single most exc iti ng moment was the end of the first show on Septembe r 26 when the show r ece ived a stand i ng ovat ion ,

The rema i ni ng two shows were fun and had some memorable moment$ suc h as when the kite i n one scene dec ided that it would not fly, and Sam (Char li e Brown) had to do t he ent ire song i mprov ,

ABOV E: Vocal Teacher Joni Osborn designed the production progr a m.

TOP Rl0HT: Linus pl a yed by Tyler Lambley gives the audience a big smile.

MIDDLE RI0HT: Charlie B rown played by Sam Hartely, Snoopy played by Meghan Conner and Sally played by Ashley Ernesti show their enthusiasm for the show,

BOTTOM RI0HT: The pretty yellow birds were a hit.

"'-fou're a 6ood Man Charlie Brown" was produce~ with the cooperation of theater teacher 6reg 6ibbs, vocal music teacher Joni Osborn, technical director Sarah Moje , instrumental music teacher Tobin Setwart, student teacher Ben Hanika and piano accompanist Jennifer Van Dyke. PICTURED ABOVE, AS PRINTED IN THE PRO6RAM: Sam Hartley, Tyler Lambley, Tyler Hale, Ashley Ernesti, Meghan Conner, Kesha Oeltjen, Kristen Baker, Robin Bruscato, Josh Burden, Krista DeSelms, Kristen Drake, Jessica failor, Joshua Hinman, Ja'Lon Johnson, Katie Johnson, Madelon Keller, Megan Murphy, Brittany Niemeyer, Ashli Par si 1, Aaron Tibbels, 6ina Boltz, Megan Carper, Spenser Cleveland, Hannah Craig, Nick Dodd, Cassie fore, Carrie Harlan, Lindsey Hug hf J liver Keller, Kelsey Lambley, Krista Mangers, Debi McKee, Lathan Murrell, Jessica Ortiz, Sarah Salma, Sarah McCown, Nikki Vobor il, i1.n die Westling, Ryan Miller, Jessica Nannen, Josh Hruby, Brandon Jochum, Ian Plummer, Eric Noel, Vince Hugelman, and Blake Salem.

ABOVE: The behind-the-scenes crew makes their debut.

TOP LEfT: Madelon Keller, Aaron Tibbels, Jessica failor, Megan Murphy, Ja'Lon Johnson, Krista DeSelms Kristen Drake and Katie Johnson make their debut projected out into the audience.

ABOVE: This is what happens when you touch the blanket.

BELOW: Jessica failor, Madelon Keller and Megan Murphy finish the first dress rehearsal before opening night.

LEfT: Schroder played by Tyler Hale and Lucy played by Kesha Oeltjen share a quiet moment around the small hand crafted piano.

Aug, 25, 2003: the official 0PENIN0 of the 2003-2004 school year, North Star began 0R0WIN0 up from bricks and mortar, truckloads of boxes and equipment, administrators, teachers and staff long before that date, But the most important part of any school is the students, Navigators began fILIN0 in from other Lincoln schools, other cities, states and countries around the world ESTABLISHIN0 a school in a new building, from that once empty structure, 1,197 North Stars began-:RISIN0 to make this school the center of their academic and social lives, PAGES DY AsHLEYGROSSENDACHER

TOP LEfT: Senior Cye Teach and sophomore Melissa Curfman can often be found hanging out together in and out of school.

TOP CENTER: freshman David Archie hops up on a table in KramerHansen's Biology class,

TOP RI0HT: freshman Denton Racine ponders his day in 5th period

Spanish 2, LEfT: Sophomore Brian Maya is always sure to look sharp while student assisting for the main office 5th period,

ABOVE: (clockwise) Seniors Amnia Elbasheer, Derek Flesner, Tin Nguyen, Jenny Shandera, Ashley 0rossenbacher, Molly Krolikowski, Ed Pigg, Holly Knust, and Ryan Lawrence take time out of 3rd period Pre Calculus class with Mr, Catlett to relax in the A forum, OPPOSITE PA0E: Juniors Jeff Schinker and Jacob Racine sit against the wall in Ms, Halsey's 3rd period US History class while their classmates present information,

@ ~MYLl'Nez: Members of the first senior class of

SeNioRS

''1 was a part of the first class. That is something a lot of people can't say. " Tyler Leibel

SENIOR SECTION BY HOLLYKNuST STORY BY

JAMIE GREEN

Every senior at North Star has a privilege that most seniors don't ever have. They will go down in history as the first graduating class. Some seniors said being the first graduating class was very important, but others said it was not so important.

"I think it's cool because we can look back on our high school days and say I was a part of the first class. That is something a lot of people can't say," said Tyler Leibel.

When seniors left their old schools to come to North Star, they weren't just leaving behind friends and teachers they were leaving behind their graduating class to join a new one, a smaller one.

Coming from Lincoln High and a graduating class of over 600 people to a class of a little

over 150, Rachel Vogt said she likes the smaller atmosphere better.

"The halls aren 't so crowded and classes are smaller. Also , graduation will be shorter," Vogt said. With such a small class, the graduation ceremony was scheduled in the school's auditorium, another first to the list for North Star seniors .

Jarad Adams Ali AI-Subiahi

Tracy Alvarado

Alkneesha Ballinger Ale x Beeck

Adnana Begovic

Ashley Benes Kirk Blankenship

Nicholas Blazek

Elise Brase Spencer Brown Nathan Burcham

Steven Caldwell Jessica Carpenter

Stephanie Christenson

WHY c>ic> you c>ecioe to come to NoR.tH StaR f OR youR SeNioR yeaR?

Tf,is school looked I rich, crd when I come here I felt rich at a brand rew school that just opered ''

Senior John Soung

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thought it would be kind of cool to be the first class out of Lincoln's newest school. ''

Senior Kaleigh Smtth

Iwanted something different, ard it is closer. ''

Senior Raphael Smlth-Udeata

Iwanted a new beginning I hated Northeast and everything that it it stood for I wanted something different and thought it would be cool to graduate the first year. ,,

Senior Lindsey Steele

Devin Cleary Donald Coleman Heather Colfack

Kurtis Conover April Crocker Sara Cuddeford

Thu Duong Nyalat Duop

Callie Duryea

Alex Edwardson Amnia Elbasheer

Jose Enriquez

Brian Erickson Meagan Fritzi~ger

Jeremy Gage

Sylvia Goldman

Timothy Gordin

Jamie Green

Ashley Grossenbacher Serena Guerra

Quartez Hall

A. J. Havlat

Brian Higgins Kerry Hill

Dustin Hoffman

Brendon Hollins Josh Hruby

Nick Hruza

Mai Huynh

Dustin Ihde

Matthew Jennings

Trevor Keller

Natalie Kircher

Anna Kishchun

Christopher Klann

Holly Knust

Nathan Kolka

Molly Krolikowski

Allen Ladd

Heather Larkins

Tyler Leibel

Adam Lippert

Aaron Ma xw ell

Rosa Martinez

John McAdams

Elena Montelongo

Deneica Moore

Emmanuel Morton

Renee Murdock

Kathleen Murphy

Megan Murphy Lathan Murrell

Bien Nguyen

Danny Nguyen Ngoc Nguyen

Phuong Nguyen Tin Nguyen

Tommy Nguyen

Reyna Olivas

Andrea Olson

Matthew Owens Brandon Paneitz

Abram Payan

Lindsey Pickering

Edward Pigg

Artem Platskin

Shaun Reinwalt

Kelsey Rodriguez Erick Russell

Kaleigh Smith Raphael Smith-Udeaja

Sokpheap Tep Gustavo Terrazas Jimenez

David Virgilito

Rachel Vogt

Cody Rejda Char ity Rivera

Ashley Robinson

Corey Schwartz Zachery Shipp

George Simpson

Tony Spencer Lindsey Steele Christina Teach

Patrick Thornton Kieu Tran

Darnell Utley

Brett Waldman

Cody Waller

Kyle Waller

Kowal

Nick

Edward

Jada

Ashley

Christina

Kim

Kelly

Brion

Brenda

Kot

Nicole

Antonio

Soro

Rebecca

Shannon

Jimmy

Justin

Timothy

Jeremy

Daniel Whitaker Whit Winders

Amanda Wismer

TOP: Rachel Vogt and Cody Rejda put the final touches on their opening statement for Cl.

RIGHT: Ashley Benes, Kurtis Conover and Adnana Begovic hang out at their locker between classes.

LEFT: John Seung brings in his lunch from Subway.

PAGE BY .AsHLEY GROSSENBACHER

Remember when you were little and the entire world was in your backyard, and all you days were like one big recess? Remember the way you looked upon the · world with innocent eyes, imagination, and your toys were your first and fondest playmates? from Barbie to 01 Joe it didn't matter what you played with, soon you were right along with them for all their adventures, Remember going to school with your cute little lunch box filled with peanut butter and jelly and a juice box, and maybe some toys to play with at recess?

Sometimes don't you ever wish that you could go back to the world of imagination, free time, naps, and sandboxes?

Story by Melissa Zingler

MIDDLE: Rainbow Brite was a favorite show and to ~ , for young girls in the 9O's, ABOVE: One "must see" movie that inspired music, clothes and games for both boys and girls was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,

TOP LEfT: Mystery Date 6ame was an indoor recess favorite at Lincoln elementary schools, TOP RI6HT: Seniors Alex Edwardson and Jamie 6reen play Twister during second lunch, LEfT: The purple haired jewel belly troll reaches out from in the troll tree house,

Juniors step up with imagination, BIG spirit

PAGES BY LAINEY RAsMUSSEN

Not the middle of the bunch, not the upcoming graduates, juni ors still sometimes feel they are the heart of the school and want to be in the middle of everything

As the 293 juniors who started second semester began to inch teir way one step closer through both required and elective courses such U.S. History and American Lit., they had fun as well as worked along the way

Juniors also showed their school spirit on a daily basis in the halls, in the classroom and at school adivitie~ as well as doing the

e xtras

During the student council pop tab competition , it was the juniors who brought in 257, 397 e xamples of that energy and drive and nearly tripled the next competition.

Junior Brian Morgan brought in over half of the pop tabs , but the class together would still have

stepped past all other competitors

Vice Principal Vann Price said she knew the juniors had great things ahead of them offering this advice:

"J uniors may think their lives are almost done, but they are just beginning

Philip Akur

Christopher Allen

Adam Ambriz

Dan Anderson

Derek Anderson

Darwin Archie

Chad Backemeyer

Christoph Barnes

Mallory Beaman

Von Beisner

Abby Benker

Sonja Brazer

Kel ey Breed

Steven Bridges

Aaron Brix

Sarah Brown

Terry Brown

Katie Brosnahan

Nick Bryan

Alisha Burks

Joshua Canby

Thu Cao

Christin Casement

Megan Caves

Duane Cayou

Chelsea Chadd

Tyler Chadd

Karina Chairez

Joshua Chapek

Dem Chebanenko

Christopher Clymer

Adam Cohen

Katie Corbett

Kellie Costello

JeffCramb

LEFT: Alex Hall hosted and timed a series of of freestyle battles that took. place in the North Star Bayou during lunch

Edgar

Nick

Oleg

Rina

Tommy

Chelsea

Anthony

Juniors get ready to be first in line

MacKenzie Locke

Tiana Lopez

Tyler Luedtke

Dung Luong

Maya Maierle

Sauleena Malone

Josh Markel

Ashley Marreel

Olivia Martinez

Ronika Massie

Jessica McBride

Marque McCatty

Justine McClanahan

Sarah McCown

AmberMcFee

Lacey McGerr

Nidhi Mehta

Corey Meyer

Ryan Miller

Brian Morgan

Joshua Morgan

Stanley Morton

Hallie Moser

Joshua Mummert

Jakob Nesson

Aaron Newcomb

Stephanie Newman

Dung guyen

Huy Nguyen

Kinh Nguyen

Mai Nguyen

Gretchen Nielsen

Anthony Noonan

Gabriela Nunez

Joshua Ohlschwager

Amy Oum

Ross Packett

Jermaine Perry

John Phillips

Braha Pierce

Kasey Pietenpol

Fadel Piso

Ellison Pluta

Corey Pospisil

Marissa Pospisil

Brandon Pruitt

Jodi Rabago

Jacob Racine

Lainey Rasmus en

J amalle Reeves

Tasha Roberts

Maury Robertson

Matthew Robinson

Kylee Roth

DJ. Rouse

Dagoberto SaavedraFuentes

Junior

Chrissie Schneider

Juniors make varied use of school time

Juniors Not Pictured

Brynna

Tom Nguyen

Falah O s man

Ka ss andra Otten s Brittani Roth

Blake Ruel o z im S ai d ov

Raul Saido v Travi s Sewell

Pai ge Showalter

Sandro Slji v o Aaron Str a ight

Bernard Syke s T yler Tardy

Adrian

Jacqueline Thibodeaux

Brook e Tucker

ABOVE : Bryan Johnson listens to mus ic in Dorann Johnston 's multimedia class

ABOVE : Gretchen Nielsen and Olivia Martinez head o ut the doors after school.

Tucker, Darw in Arch

Hall

Starting over

LEFT: Ty Tubbs purchases a ticket to his first Homecoming dance

ABOVE : Sophomores Brittnay Nelson and Amber Lenhoff get their fold e rs for ' Question of the Day ' in their English class

Amanda Epley

Holl y Erickson

A shle y Eme sti

Kylie E van s Kelly Fi sh

Ca ss ie Fore

Shiloh Frauen

Au s tin Gardner

Lorenzo Gaskin s Je ss ic a Ge hrig

Megan Gengenbach

Du stin Gerlach

Vicky Greene

Cinnamon Greenwald

Emily Greenwood

Stevan Greer

Patience Gregory

Brad Griffin

Jacob Griffin

Nichola s Griffith

Carlo s Gutierrez Reye

Craig Guy

Kathryn Hain

Cyndi Ham~ @

ABOVE: Sarah Garc ia , Katie Schaepe, Virginia Ryan-Leach and Elizabeth Snelling take a second for pictures

aR-er w orkin g out in Fitness for Life class.

RIGHT: Austin Gardner puts his at t ent

on his homework in English class.

Alan Yonkey

Zachary Yost

Hannah Zetocha

Julian Zwiener

TOP LEFT: Nick Griffith, Ben Lytle and David Korber go toward the table to see the new driver 's license Korber rece ived the morning of his 16th birthd~y Dec. 9.

BOTTOM LEFT: Sophomores show Korber their licences

TOP RIGHT: David Korber customized his personalized " Davie Boy" CD player himself

BOTTOM RIGHT: Lara Edw ards and Paige Soulliere look at the licence that Edwards got on her birthdc::y Dec. 14.

For sophomores: the beginning of the end

North Star's "06 " graduating class started the year with 357 registered students and grew second semester.

Outnumbered only by the freshman class , sophomore students played varsity sports and were leaders in many e xtracurricular activities, a year or two ahead of sophomores in high schools across the city.

After school , many tenth graders headed for clubs and organizations, weight training or activity practices and lettered in varsity sports and other extra-curricular activities. During the January registration, all sophomores began to count up those graduation credits from required courses. Sophomores learned that with passing grades in the

basics, they could clear their schedules for electives or to leave early for work.

But , for many sophomores, concern about passing related more to the really BIG day when they passed their drivers ' e xamination During this year , those lucky enough to have a car of their own or used the family car , made the first drive to school or out alone with friends at night.

Finally 16, many sophomores held their first regular jobs to earn money to pay for fi xi ng up a car , gas, automobile insurance, clothes, dates or hobbies and runs to Best Buy for CD's or stereo equipment to put more money into their cars.

CENTER: The Jo hn Lennon bus stopped at North Star Jan. 31, 2004.

The bu stop here

for sophomore Eric Noel

PAGES BY DENTON RACINE & MEGHAN CONNER

nThe wheels on the bus went round and round round and round ... ,,, round and round, " and after traveling to high schools across the country to make music with selected high school musicians, the bus stopped at North Star in Lincoln, Nebraska,

Sophomore Eric Noel, one of these lucky music i ans and the winner of the John Lennon Essay contest, started playing the drums in 5 th grade, He started off with a snare drum, nr mess around with rhythms for about a hour, and when I listen to music I just play the beat of the songs with my drum sticks,'' Noel said,

During their day on the John Lennon Bus, the contest winners were able to write a song, They recorded it, and made a music video in the travel i ng studio parked at North Star , Noel said they began writing the song early and by the end of the day they had music, ur like the song because you can feel the emotions in the song, It carr ies a great tune and tells a story.''

Noel said the group worked really well together because a lot of them had had experience , Noel is in a band called The 'Braskans,

RIGHT: Sophomore Eric Noel w a s one of two North Sta r· students

rought the John Lennon bus to our school. Noel

&>phomores Not Picturerd

Mykel Allen Reshaun Frohman Halima Mohamed

Mandy Auman Ana tazia Fullbright Dallas Myer

Nick Barham Vicki Zavala-Gamez Quyen Nguyen

Michael Baxa Anna Gorelaya Thomas Nguyen

Andrew Bishop Adriana Galindo-Guerrero Jeremy Niemi

Joanna Byran David Hallman Amal Osman

Dustin Bush-Cass Khafshi Hamo Antho n y P allard

Patrick Cervantes Kory Hynes Joshua R oberts

Spenser Cleveland Travis Ihde Anthony Schneider

Casey Collins Jacob Iverson Eric Stephenson

Joesph Conroy Christopher Keith Aundrey Tadevosyan

Thomas Cook Greg Kennedy

Cordara Thompson

Katie Dennis Jeremy Kiene Amanda Torwirt

Katie Diem

Tiffany King

Anthony Tran

Rachael Diem Perry Lankford Josiah Tubbs

Tawni Eastin

Larry Leafty Hung Vo

Lara Edwards Van Luu

Ben Edwardson

Kristopher Everheart

Steven Wentland

Holly Marquart Erick Williams

Tyka Mc Williams Steph William

Stephanie Foster Cesar Mercado-Mejia Zachary Williams

Tyler Frey Nayo Agurcia-Miranda Jesse Worrell

LEFT: In her session on the bus, senior Megan Murphy plucks her bass w ith a mighty force

BELOW : Shannon Labrie

Whi t son who was part of the bus staff sings "Be My Heart " and pla ys the acoustic.

Freshman form an academy of their own

PAGES BY AM.ANDAGIEBELHAUS

New to a new high school, the class of 2007 was a leader of the school with over 400 members counted by second semester

Most ninth graders took basic classes in the ninth grade academy w ing including health, Fitness for Life,. Career Ed. , English and math Freshman Kristina Lee said, "The classes aren 't too much harder , but there is a lot more homework ."

Though it was the first year of high school after three years of middle school including Goodr ich and Dawes, freshmen played many sports and some made it to varsity levels. Others played in bands and freshmen earned starring roles in school drama and music productions Meghan Conner, who played Snoopy in the fall musical , said, "The play was a blast, it really brought our theater group together "

North Star freshmen of 2004 will be the first class to go through every grade and graduate in 2007

Mawj Aboud

Aaron Adams

Bayda

Rawa

Alyssa

Brandon

Julia

Cierra

Johnny Boutmahavong

Barbara Bower

Lachel Bradley-Williams

Rebecka

Danny

Lynae

James

Robin

Chaney

Freshmen largest class at North Star

Freshmen together

LEFT: Lauren Mehl, Randi Himmelberg and Meg Hutzell enjoy the fresh DaVinchi's pizza at lunch together.

BELOW Shannon Fisher gives Tucker Seaman a big hug. Je

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Freshman find time for work and pla

Freshmen Not Pictured

ABOVE : Rafael Moreno Martinez, Joe Parrott , and Ryan Pluta socialize in their 4th period physical science class

LEFT: Jacob Stollar Cameron Callaway , Andrew Castillo and Jonny Rivera play a quick game of hacky sack after school.

TOP: Phuc Le flashes a qu ick smile during her 4th period health class

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WHat Do you tHiNk of NoRtH StaR Hign SGHooL?

MlDDLE: ' Who said learning isn 't a

'' Ithink our sch~I is b ig , and its i really nice I was really happ y that I chose to come here

Freshman Mikayla Helmkamp

I t' s coo l, its fantastic , and its fun to learn. ''

Freshman Bennett Meredith

Ith ink North Star is grea t because all my fr iends go here, and the teachers are coo l. ''

Freshman Angel Vinsonhaler

Ith ink this school is great and so lovely ''

Freshman Amanda Lorenzo

TOP: Amber Knight and Chelsea Igo stop to shar e a sweet innocent 'Hi .'

blast?

says Minela Jukovic.

RIGHT: Nikki Winterstien stops to flash us one of her world famous witty smiles

ABOV E: Mike Krause thinks he 's the king of the hallways here at North Star

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During the inaugural year for the North Star athletics, coaches said Nort ,. Star may have not have always won games or meets, but the 0ators did compete at all levels and gain confidence for the years to come, Students were also enthusiastic, nNext year we want to start to compete for a state championship, 11 said junior Nick Bryan who played on the junior varsity basketball team, Senior Kelsey Rodriguez started playing golf with plastic clubs because he ~ dad was so interested. She played two years at Lincoln High and her senior yea 1 at North Star, nI got better. I broke 100, It was very exciting, 11

PAGES BY SAM ZA.n:CEK & SETH MAYNARD

OPPOSITE PA6E: Senior Cody Rejda punts the ball out of North Star's end zone against Omaha South on Sept. 12, 2003 at Seacrest field.

TOP LEFT: The varsity basketball team huddles before the game against the Norfolk Panthers on Dec. 12, 2003, at "The Swamp." This was the inaugural home game for the boys' basketball team.

TOP RI6HT: The rain didn't stop freshmen Jamie Patzloff and Carly Strunk from practicing tennis.

BOTTOM RI6HT: the varsity boys' cross country team pumps up before their meet at Pioneers Park in Oct.

BOTTOM LEFT: freshman varsity basketball player Andrea Eddington smiles at parent night.

Gator varsity football -takes first step .

PAGES BY JAMIE GREEN & SAMZA.JICEK

While a l-8 record may sound like an unsuccessful season, the 2003 North Star Varsity football team laid down the foundation for future success and made history by winning a game in their inaugural season.

Sept. 5, 2003 , the Navigators experienced the highlight of the season by defeating the Papillion La-Vista South Titans 22-13 at Seacrest Field.

After NC?rth Star's first victory , they went through the rest of the season winless, but coaches said week after week , the team improved, and with the young talented players that the football team has coming back for the next few seasons, things could be looking up for the Gators in the future.

' I wish the season started tomorrow , but we need to condition and get in the weight room ," said head coach Mark Waller

Compared to other first year programs, the Gators went out and competed every night, instead of wearing down by halftime, coaches said. The Gators fought and never gave up, no matter what the scoreboard showed, team members said.

"Just as long as we knew we went out and played as hard we could, that's all we can ask for ," said Senior Spencer Brown.

TOP: Sophomore J.J. Robinson tackles the Southwest running back during orth Star's homecoming game on Oct 3. North Star lo t the game 39-21.

MIDDLE: Principal Nancy Becker and senior captain Sam Zajicek (3) and Spencer Brown (85) tand at midfield of Seacrest Field for the coin flip for the first ever orth Star football game again t Papillion La-Vista South on Sept. 5.

BOTTOM: The North Star football team huddles up before heading to the locker room before the season opening kickoff against Papillion La-Vista South. North Star won their first football game 22-13.

ROW 1: Jeremy Bauer, Andrew Veach, Darwin Archie, Davon Kemp, Nick Hall, Kyle Sellin, Tommy Nguyen, Lorenzo Gaskins, Nick Griffith ROW 2: Trevor Keller, Josh Thompson, Jordan Shoecraft, Derek Hoefling, Whit Winders, Sokohaep Tep, Spencer Brown, Dustin Gerlach, DeAngelo Walls ROW 3: Kirk Biankenship, Austin Gardner, Curtis Conover, Cody Rejda, Steven Green, Justin Hall, Tyler Bullock, JJ Robinson, Derek Wilson ROW 4: Jake Edwards, Aaron Edington, Sam Zajicek, Dan Anderson, George Simpson, Jacob Iverson, ick Hruza, Dayne Walton, Alex Beeck, Edgar Cruz ROW 5: Coach Casey Teter , Coach Erik Witt, Coach Joe Schlegalmilch , Coach Jack Brestel, Coach Jon Bowling, Coach Mark Waller , Coach Larry Smith, Coach Matt Zaiicek , Coach Nate Armagost, Coach Jeff Run, Coach John iQ:atlett

TOP LEFf: Junior running back Davon Kemp runs up field against Southwest in the first quater.

TOP RIGHT : Senior punter Cody Rejda punts the ball against southwest.

LEFf: Senior quaterback Sam Zajicek throws the ball down the line of scrimmage in the first half against Omaha South on Sept. 12.

Building the future of Gator football

PAGES BY HEATHER I....ARKINS

S'rORY BY SAM ZIJCEK.

The Reserve football team ended the after day as they experienced thier first season with a strong finish in games against season of high school football. Lincoln High and Grand Island. Though the "The toughest part of our season Reserves started the season off winless in was losing every game that we played their first five games, and they did not have a and not giving our best effort ," freshman winning record , coaches said they improved Jerald Parker said. day after day , and gained good experi- "The attitude can always impove, but ences as most of .----------~-----------. we need to be in the Reserve team the weight room played the Junior and we also need Varsity games too to improve our

"It was a long fundamentals to and tough season, get better in the off but I learned alot season ," sophomore and gained great Jake Iverson said. experience from this season," sophomore Dustin Gerlach said.

The Freshman football team had a rough season, but as every team in the program, they came out performed, improved day

The

"We need to do well in disrtids next season , and we should have the goal of getting to state ne xt season," Gerlach said.

ABOVE:

Reserve Football team breaks after a huddle here at North Star High School.

TOP RIGHT: Reserve Football player Matt Turco makes a run during their game against Grand Island. The Islanders Lost 13-16.

RIGHT: The Freshman Football team huddles pre-game here at North Star.

Reserve Football

ROW 1: Matt Smith, Ben Quick, Clevone Furby, Larry Leafty, Kyle Kaluza, Anthony Schneider , Tucker Seaman ROW 2: Joe Condon, Travis Shaw, A.J. Vinsenhaler, Gus Krzycki, Brandon Beenblo ssom, Tim

Sheets ROW 3: Dean Movham, Cameron Olson, Tyler Hale, David Graham, Matt Conroy, Josh Legrande

ROW 4: Du stin Gerlach, Tim Opfer, Jacob Iverson, Nick Quickshank, Antonio Horton, Bennett Meredith ROW 5: Coach Eric Witt, Coach Joe Schlegalmilch, Coach Casey Teter

Freshman Football

ROW 1: Kendall Reeves, Mikani Chilumbo, Danny Briggs, Jerald Parker, Kenny Beyer , Bandon Ross, James Charbonneau, Aaron Collins, Ryan Huyett, Nathan Beach, Tyrone Gaskins ROW 2: Bobby Berghale, Nick Turner, Anthony Yelm, Marc Miller, Nick Lahome, Vince Hugelman, David Lehn, Garrat Holsclaw, Tucker Seaman , Sean Houden, Nick Egan, Kevin Runions , Frank Galusha ROW 3:Tyson Dean, Adrian Hoback, Anthony Amaya, Justin Tubbs, Ben Quick, Nick Howell, Shayne Ritchey, Bennett Meredith, Jared Crumb , Jose Parrott, Matt Turco, Travis Kelso ROW 4: Corey Flynn, Tyler Znamenacek, Johnny Boutmahauong , Trevor Lamison, Joe Watts, Kyle Miller, Tony Klein, Matt Runions , Danny Poething, Clevon Furby, Kyle Kaluza ROW 5: Oliver Keller, Jeremy Rejda, Catlin Wolford, Chenny Tep, Tyler Hale, Justin Olsen, Brandon Beenblossom, Mikey Reyorso, Jason Simpson, Jon Emodi ROW 6: Jordan Gilmore, Taylor Pickerell, Nick Fuller, Ryan Pluta, Shane Thurman, Nick Cruickshank, Micheal Cole, Patrick Worley , Aaron Adams ROW 7: Coach Nate Armagost, Coach Jeff Rust, Coach Matt Zajicek, Coach Larry Wright

No scores available for Freshman Football.

Season record 0-8. Teams played: Lincoln High, Northeast, Southwest, Southeast, East, Fremont, Pius X and Grand Island.

Young volleyball players set lasting traditions, individual season record

Typically a high school team will set both individual and team goals before competition begins for the season.

But Coach Kristi Nelson-Hitz said the 2003 North Star team didn 't establish their • team goals until they had already competed in several matches

"Going into a Class A varsity schedule with an all freshman team , a first in NSAA history , made it difficult to answer the question 'What should we be able to do?' until well into"the season.

The first ever Gator varsity squad did answer the question with force 9y coming out of the season winning 10 matches and pushing the opponents hard in the remaining loses against well -establ ished Class A programs, Nelson-Hitz said.

"The e xperience gained by competing and competing successfully against primarily juniors and seniors this season will be immeasurable as the Gators set their goal to become and remain a top ten program beginning with the upcomin~ 2004 season ," the coach said.

Setter and co-captain Heather Davison ran the offense, and currently holds all of the setting records established this season as well as the major of the individual serving records, NelsonHitz said.

Jordyn Berry , co-captain Clare Crandell ,

Andrea Edington and Nicole Skolnick added the power to the offense and shared the first ev er attacki ng records . Skolnick and Crandell also led the team in the ball-handling and defensi duties

"Hard work and dedication is everyth inrJ to being successful ," JV player Christie Daily sai cl.

But the season was not all hard work , Daily said. "All the girls involved in volleyball t 1i s year proved that you can be all you can be Even when practices ran late, they all kept g c ng because in the end, it all paid off. Win or lose they kept the ir spirits up knowing as long as y )U did your best , you are always a winner ." Dailey said making friends and having laughs was also a great part of the e xperien c ~ , and learning to support other members of the teams "The teams became kind of CJ family ofter a short period of time , all there for each other helping ."

PAGES BY MIKAELA. KELLER

ROW 1: Taylor Pitts, Cassie Olsen, Heather Davidson, Clare Crandell ROW 2: Jordyn Berry, Andrea Edington, Meg Conner, Maren Vik, Nicole Skolnick, Cassie Skolnick ROW 3: Coach Ria Salvti, Lynztte Rycheky, Molly Claes, Coach Kristi Nelson-Hitz, Coach Michelle Leising , Coach Potadle

TOP : The girls go against Southeast early in the season.

RIGHT : Andrea Edington bumps the ball acor s to her teammates This picture appeared in the Journal Star and was used courtesy the Journal Star

FAR LEFT: Kristi Nelson-Hitz teaches the girls about character in a small team meeting.This picture appeared in the Journal Star and was used courtesy the Journal Star.

Volleyball teams serve it up

ROW 1:Amber Lenhoff, Meg Hutzel, Katie Shaepe, Jessica Merideth, Christie Daily, Kelsey Satra, Megan Mul ih

ROW 2: Michelle Leising, Erickee Msvhsvrk,Beth Rempfer, Slsnns nunn, Clsire Warner , XXX Potadle

ROW 1: Jenna Carson, Megan Arrigo, Lynae Brooks, Aly Sylvester, Jessi Sallinger, Coach Ria Salvati ROW 2: Laur ! ·Wolterman, Erin Abbott, Morgan Winfrey, Emily Greenwc;)Od, Chelsey Igo , Student Manager Sasha Welch

ROW 1: Amy Endrulat, Mandi Droud, Monica Griffin, Jennifer Anker, Michelle Vu, Sadie Oppegard, Liz Sator, Student Manager Elizabeth Sator ROW 2: Coach Molly Clause, Carly Strunk, Jourdain Edwards, Melissa Brandt, Ashley Meirose, Lindsay Wacker, Jamie Patzloff , ,

TOP : Coach Nelson-Hitz tries to get the girls together by calling a timeout.

RIGHT: Before the game a few of the girls warm up serving and bumping the ball back and forth to each other.

Girl's softball: slow start, strong spir i

There are school sports that a lot of students go to watch like football and basketball, but what about the ones that don 't get a lot of student support during the game? Softball is one of those sports that doesn 't get as much recogn ition

Juniors Katie Brusnahan, shortstop , and Ashley Marreel , catcher , were on North Star 's first varsity softball team

During the season Brusnahan said, "We have the potential to be good, but we need to work together to make some improvement ." Marreel said, "It's hard to be a first year team , but we 've come together well. We have good leadership and the girls are willing to work togeth~r to get better ."

There are many things that the players do to try and do their best and play to win

"I' m motivated to make a difference," Brusnahan said.

Marreel said, "I like to work hard to be the best I can be. "

Brusnahan said, "There 's a time to have fun and a time to be ser ious and we accomplish both of them. "

Brusnahan and Marreel plan to play for North Star next year as seniors. This year there was only one senior on the varsity team.

"It will be pretty much the same girls ne xt year , so we have a lot to come for us," said Brusnahan.

Marreel added, "Ne xt year we 'll have more e xperience, and you 'll see a big difference ."

MIDDLE: The team huddles before their game to get pumped up and

BOTTOM : Some of the team watches the game through the fence to show support for their teamates.

PA.GES DY & BETH LEYPOLDT

TOP : Junior s Ashley Marreel and Katie Brusnahan s mile for a picture before one of their games at the Doris Bair Softball complex.

win.

ROW 1: Katie Brusnahan , Nia Bickert , Ashley Marreel, Katie Anderson ROW 2: Mallory Beaman, Stacy Cink, Kristen Drake , Brittney Niemeyer , Alyssa Wenzl , Alycia Howard ROW 3: Coach Cindy Hoehne, Coach Bob Mersed , Breeanca Douglas , Derrisha Pleasant , Amy Peters , Terran Benes, Head Coach Amanda Buchholz , Assistant Coach Briana Bates

ABOVE LEFT: Junior Mallory Beaman

JV /reserve girls play full schedule

The JV/reserve softball team had a tough season ending the season with a record of 1-25.

The team's big win came to Lincoln East late in the season. Coaches said this was a building year for the young Gators •because many had never played high school sports Freshman Sarah Dahlgren said she learned many things during the season

"I have had only one team since I can remember ," Dahlgren said. "I had a hard time learning how to work with new people. Finally I learned, and it is one of the best things I have gone through. My

teammates were great ."

"Not only did I learn how to play the catcher 's position, but most of all I learned how to lose with dignity Getting beat wasn 't something I was used to , but I learned soon enough that the score didn 't matter just as long as you had fun with your teammates ," Dahlgren said.

The girls had fun too . "The funniest moment was when I got hit in the butt w ith the ball , and I got to walk to the base," sophomore Christina Borowiak said. "But like the coaches said, softball people are tough. "

TOP RIGHT: Getting ready for a game the team goes through their set of strides and sprints.

ABOVE: Dr. Nancy Becker shows her support with as she give a hug to freshman Alicia Saltzman.

BOTTOM LEFT: The entire team gathers at home plate for the umpires meeting and the coin flip.

ROW 1: Tarissa Westerholt, Katrina Saltzman , Alicia Saltzman , Christina Borowick ROW 2: Melissa Curfman, Sarah Dahlgre Debi Mckee, Maggie Smith, Denys Steele, Maggie Davenport ROW 3: Coach Cindy Hoehne , Coach Bob Mersed , Dezarae BrL Amanda Laurenceau , Michelle Sheldon, Kelly Bittinger, Coach Amanda Buchholz , Coach Briana Bate s

T OP: Coach Cindy Hoehne give the team a pep talk before the game at Dori Bair.

MID D LE: Freshman Stacy Cink leads the JV / R eserve team through their pre-game stretching routine.

BOTTOM: The team warms up by running around the in field.

PAGES BY KYLE WALLER

Hard work over summer is key to Gator success in cross countr

PAGES DY SETH MAYNARD & CHRIS CLYMER

The North Star cross country team caused a lot of damage, figuratively speaking , at all of their meets this season. Just about every runner improved their time as they ran in each meet

The Gators, who opened their season winning their first meet at the Ralston Invitational in Omaha , beat out North Star 's head coach 's old team Bellevue West who had won the meet the year before The Gators brought the first trophy ever back home to North Star.

"The key to a good cross country team is good chemistry w ithin the team , and we have it We all get along great , which makes it a more fun experience for everyone. Another key is putting a lot of miles in during the summer. I wanted to get us started off on the right foot , and I think we did that. I think that we had a very successful season ," said the Gator 's head coach Matt Musiel.

At districts every runner on the team ran their fastest time of the year The Gators were lead by Junior Chris Clymer who placed 4th with a time of 16:28 besting his previous time of 16:56. Second for the Gators was Eric Noel who placed 7 th with a time of 17:00. Noel beat his previous time of 17:09. Third for the Gators was Jake Edwards who placed 14th with a time of 17:20 beating his previous best time of 17:50. Shayne Krull was the fourth runner to come in for the Gators placing 17 th , two places away from state Ian Plummer finished 34th with a time of 18:39.

Despite having the best meet of the year , the team fell short of making it to state after losing to Millard North by a devastating 6 points Individually, three runners made it to state as they finished in the top 15 at Districts.

Those three runners were Chris Clymer, Eric Noel , and Jake Edwards Noel finished 18th at the State Meet, followed by Clymer at 20 th and Edwards at 35th All but one of the team returns ne xt year

TOP: The Varsity team warms up for their race at districts. They all ran their best times of the year at the meet.

MIDDLE : Junior Chris Clymer lead a large pack at Pioneers Park.

BOTTOM LEFT: Ashli Parsley paces down a hill at Pioneers Park for districts.

BOTTOM LEFT: J.T. Holmes works hard at the girls district meet.

ROW 1: Enrique Ordonez Munoz, J.T. Holmes, Coach Sara Wills, Ashli Parsley, Dustin Baumgartner ROW 2: Eric Noel, Brad Beebe , Ian Plummer, Kevin Eddy, David Korber, Henry Pinto Piedrahita, Bugra Durukan ROW 3: Coach Matt Musiel, Shayne Krull, Chris Clymer, Matt Jennin gs, Victor Khaukha, Jake Edwards , Coach Rick Boyle.

BOYS OPPONENT GIRLS

1ST RALSTON INV. NTS

NTS PIUS X INV. NTS

NTS LE MCCONNEL INV. NTS

1ST JAYHAWKINV. NTS

2ND LPS CHAMPIONSHIP NTS

3RD HAC INV. NTS

4TH DISTRICT MEET NTS

STATE MEET

Team Score

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BOTTOM LEFT: Junior Chris Clymer finishes 4th at districts.

BOTTOM MIDDLE: Freshman Enrique Ordonez Munoz hustles at the finish of the boys ' division.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Ian Plummer works his way to the finish line at districts.

TOP LEFT: Sophomores J.T. Holmes and Ashli Parsley po e after their district run.

TOP RIGHT: Varsity runners Eric Noel, Matt Jennings, Chris Clymer and Shayne Krull wait for

trict results

Girls' golf team drives Gator spirit

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"Gator golf, gator golf, there's nothing greater than playing a game of golf with a Gator," according to members of the girls' golf team.

This team of five may not have had a great first season when it came to wins, but the jingle says it best because there is nothing better than playing golf with this fun bunch of Gators.

From driving the coach up

the wall with their crazy stories to messing around on the bus trips, these Gators knew how to have fun.

"I remember when Tamara ran into the gas station to go to the bathroom, and we decided to move the van on the other side of the store so she would think we left her. But it didn't work because she got mixed up inside the store and came out the wrong doors and saw us," Sophomore

Maggie Nelson recalled . "Or, Coac 1 was freaking out about lids on everything, so Maggie pretended to spill her drink and Coach flipped ou ," Sophomore Tamara Sipes said.

"This years girls golf team as a fu!} one, and hopefully the trend w 11 continue long after we all graduate,' · freshman Michelle Allen said.

ABOVE: Junior Christin Casement and Sophomore Maggie Nelson smile before leaving for a duel. RIGHT: The girls get together for a team picture in the gym.

ROW 1: Michelle Allen, Maggie Nelson, Christin Casement ROW 2: Kelsey Rodriguez , Coach Kelly Georeus , Tamara Sipes

RIGHT : Sophomore Maggie Nelson lines up to take a swi ng.

LEFT: Junior Christin Casement takes a full sw ing from the tee box.

RIGHT: Sophomore Anthony guyen doe s a back flip after winning his match

BELOW: Sophomore Calvin Christensen gets ready to return a serve.

ROW 1: Brandon Allen. Brendan Farley Calvin Christensen, Jeff Nathan, Anthony Nguyen

ROW 2: Coach Molly VanBlume, Cony

Lehr, Derele Hesner, Seth Maynard, Coach Matt Avey

Tennis team aces Gator team spirit

PAGES BY EDGAR CRUZ, JAMIE GREEN & SETH MAYNARD

The season started slow , and continued that way for a while ' players said.

Coach Matt Avey and Cooch Molly VanBlume had their hands

full when only 3 males showed up to the first practice before the school year. At that point , it seemed as if it would be an extremely long year , coaches said, b~t eventually the team worked their way up to 8 players- enough to support a full squad.

The tennis team kicked off the season with the first competition against the Lincoln East JV squad. They may have lost, but the games were under the boys ' belts, and they were ready to compete, players said.

A team goal was to get~ better with every practice and game and each time on the court.

That is what they did- playing with the same squad on varsity , jv, and reserve levels. The team even got to face a ranked class B squad in Beatrice

The team was young , with almost all underclassmen. The e xperience will help them achieve goals in the future , coaches said.

But until then the team can reflect on this year 's feats , including the first team win (5-4) on Oct. 7 against Southwest reserve.

Anthony Nguyen and Calvin Christensen became the 2 letter winners when they came back from 6-4 to win 8-6 in a tiebreaker.

After the varsity win Anthony capped the year with a backflip.

EFf: Sophomore Calvin Chirstensen hustles ack to the base line to try a b;ckhand at his pponent.

ELOW: Anthony Nguyen get s lo w to hit the a11 back to his opponent.

Varisty cheer squads chant clearly, loudly, proudly

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The Cheerleaders had a big firs~ year.The g irl s sai d that not only did they need to get to know each other, but they worke d to make up all cheers and chants from scrach

This summer at camp Okoboji the cheelea ders won numerous awards including a Superior ribbon for their "super cheer .' T

The g irls a lso received Excellent for the cheer they where taught and performed at camp , and they also received outstanding ribbons ' The best part of camp was br inging a spirit stick home,' senior Lindsey Pickering said.

Kelsey Campbell said, ' This year was a great year. I tried out for a squad because I thought it would be •a great way to show my support for a new high school. '

LEFf: Lindsey Pickering and Tiffany Mick stand holding s treamers waiting for the football players to come out.

RIGHT: Sheena Keefer , Kelsey Campbell and Brianna Fullerton pump up the crowd at a boy s basketball game.

ROW 1: Hallie Moser , Sheena Keefer, Tiffany Mick ROW 2: Renee Murdock, Kelsey Camp be , Brianna Fulle11on,

TOP LEFf: Tiffany Mick and Hallie Moser smile for a picture at a boy ' basketball game.

TOP RIGHT: Renee Murdock does a toe touch jump after a cheer.

TOP CE TER: Sheena Keefer , Kelsey Cambell and Brianna Fullerton do a cheer for the Gators.

MIDDLE: The cheerleaders cheer on the football players a they ru h out to start the Homecoming game.

BOTIOM LEFf: The cheerleaders pump up the student section at a girls ' basketball game.

Cheerleaders a _ ctive through yea r

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"Lets get a little bit rowdy , R-0-W-D-Y! " JV, reserve , and freshman cheerleaders not only pumped Gators up at sporting events, but also got the school energized during lunch jams.

The girls practiced for an hour and a half daily and also during the summer

JV cheerleader , Katie Schaepe said, "The hardest part about cheerleading was learning and pefecting all our dances a week before we performed. "

Cheerleaders maintained a 2.5 GPA in order to continue on the squad. Not only did cheerleading take a lot of time and studying , but also a lot of money. An estimated cost of everything needed for the year was around $1,000.

Even though being a cheerleader takes a lot of hard work JV cheerleader , Jamie Decker said, "The best thing about cheerleading was meeting and hanging out with new friends. "

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TOP: Freshmen cheerleaders Minela Jukovic and Brianna Loeck hang out after practi e.

MIDDLE LEFf: Junior Varsity Cheerleaders Katie Shaepe, Kimiko Nguyen and Ma l JrY Beemen cheer at the first pep-rally in the Bayou.

MIDDLE RIGHT: Reserve and Junior Varstiy Cheerleaders pose for a quick picture a ter a football game at Seacrest.

LEFT: Fres~an Cheerleaders Shannon Fisher and Alicia Malotky hanging out with some of there friends at the "Showdown at Seacrest."

The squad gets together to record

memory of a day at camp.

RESERVE

FRESHMEN CHEERLEADERS

JV CHEERLEADERS ROW 1: Mallory Beemen, Amanda Deist and Katie Johnson. ROW 2: Jamie Decker and Kimiko Nguyen.

CHEERLEADERS ROW 1: Heather Clymer , Katie Anderson , A~h ley Canby and Rachel Talero.

ROW 1: Amanda Canby, Alicia Malotky, and Manpi Droud. ROW 2: Michelle Vu , Brianna Loeck, Minela Jukovic, and Shannon Fisher.

TOP: Junior varstiy cheerleaders lead the spirit for a junior varsity basketball game.

MIDDLE: Junior varsity and Freshman cheerleaders stop for a quick picture after practice.

BOTTOM: The freshman squad cheers on the Gators at a reserve football game against East High School.

BELOW: Fre hman Kelsey Lambley performs a right kick at the first varsity football game of the year

TOP RIGHT: Freshman Caitlin Conroy and sophomore Taylor Gose hit the beat.

MIDDLE: The Dazzlers perform at halftime of a varsity boy ' basketball game at ort: Star.

BOTTOM: The Dazzlers perform a kick ine at halftime of the football game at Seac rest.

Dazzling dancers

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To start the inaugural year , .the North Star Dance T~m won many different ribbo~s and awards at the National Dance Academy camp in Okoboji , Iowa Two dancers, Danielle Noonan and Kelsey Lambley, were both nominated and awarded All American honors The squad also w on "Most Improved Technique Squad " and a camp Spirit Porn.

The squad also performed color guard for the first and only year as well as dancing at football half-time shows The highlight of the year for some girls was dancing at varsity basketball games.

"I enjoyed dancing during basketball games because the crowd was more energetic, and it made you want to go out and perform," junior Danielle Noonan said.

The squad proved they could do more than just dance as they started the first annual Lil Dippers Dance Clinic that taught and encouraged elementary students to get involved with dance

"One of the biggest highlights of the season was the Lil Dippers," said dance team sponsor Dorann Johnston. :·we had the biggest turnout for any LPS clinic. We had over 120 boys and girls come to learn a dance and perform in front of parents and students at a varsity basketball game."

This year the Dazzlers also had to learn many difficult dances. "The most difficult dance that I had to learn this year was the last Britanny Spears ' dance,' ,, freshman Caitl in Conroy said.

The da nc e team took on many new challenges Johnston said. "Over all , I the the Dazzlers had a tremendous first year and will continue to improve for years to come.

TOP LEFf: Sophmore Charleah Hutchins holds the last pose for the Jackson dance at halftime of the basketball game.

BACK ROW: Jessica Gehrig, Crystal Scholl, Amelia Mauseth, Stephanie Murray. Ashley Meirose, Taylor Gose, Stephanie Christenson, Megan Gengenback, Jessi Sallinger MIDDLE ROW: Brittany Nelson, Ashley Robinson, Caitlin Conroy, Katie Corbett, Kasey Pietenpol, Sara Streedbeck, Charleah Hutchins FRONT ROW: Danielle Noonan, Amber'Lenoff, Kelsey Lambley, Michelle Davis

RJGHT: Senior Lindsey Pickering trie s to wipe her feet after the fir t quarter of the fir t game of the eason.

BELOW : Point guards junior A s hley Marreel and guard Katie Bru

nahan are all mile s during a break in the Southwest game.

ABOVE: Coach Matt Reiling head to the locker room after the fir t half of the girls ' game.

RJGHT: Freshman Nicole Skolnick jump for the ball at the Southwest-North Star game.

NCEA TEAM ALWAYS A TEAM

aristy girls play tough ball

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The varsity la dy Gators paved the way and set the tradition for Gator girls ' b a sketball. The team consisted of one senior , two juniors, five sophomores, and five freshmen

Senior Lindsey Pickering will be the only person from the girls varsity basketball team not to return to the court next season

It was a hard season but the ladies played as a team and finished as team. They went out and played their best

ROW 1: JT Holmes, Katie Brosnahan, Cyndi Harris, Lindsey Pickering, Heather D avison, Ash ley

LEFT : Lady 'Gators are ready to set the tradition at the first ever North Star basketball game.

Marreel. RO W 2:: Tiffani Spencer, Jordyn Berry, Aqueelah Watkins, Amanda Laurenceau, Andrea Ed i ngton, Nicole Skolnick ROW 3: : Coach Candi Musiel, Coach Chris Johnson, Coach Matt Reiling, Student Managers Bree Douglas, Jessica Kassebaum, Ashley Canby

Gator girls' basketball takes fir s t shot

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The girls had a good start their first year playing for • North Star. There were ups and downs in the games , but they hung in there.

Freshman Nia Bickert said she was proud of the JV team spirit. " We gave a lot of heart and we've shown pride ," said Bickert. " Our record may not show it, but we have been a very competitive team this year. We can play with three people on the court or Nia Bickert we can play with five people , and we will give them a good game.

Sophomore Vanessa Alvarado, said she was disappointed i n the Reserve team. "We didn't do good in all our games, but I think we tried and did our best," Alvarado said. " We could have done way better. "

Freshman Claudia Rodriguez, said she thought the freshman team did very well this year. " They might think we didn ' t do good because of our scores , but if they would of seen us at the beginning when we started and at then what we accomplished by the end ," Rodriguez said. "Our team could have done better , but we showed our hardest, and next year we will be even better."

AB O VE: North Star reserve gir l s and Fremo n t girls watch as the ball make its way thro u gh the hoop, making a two poi n ter for North Star

ROW 1: Megan _Burkey , Amanda Canby , Je ss ica Merideth , Nia Bickert R O V

2: Chelsey Weaver , Meghan Conner , Kylee Roth , Tiffani Spencer , Jord y n Be ir:

ROW 3: Coach Chri s Johnson , Student Manage r Jes sica Kassebaum

ROW 1: Kasey Edwardson , Claudia Rodriguez , Sabrina Keefer ROW 2: Samantha

1 Schmidt, Rachel Webb , Coach Candi Musi el , Michelle Sheldo n , Student Manager

Jessica Kassebaum

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ROW 1: Emily Sy, Jessica Crocker , Stacy Cink , Taylor Pitts ROW 2 : Nikkia

y Amaya, Terran Benes , Vane ss a Al v arado , Brittney Niemeyer , Student Manager

Ashley Canby ROW 3: Coach C and i Musiel.

Team ties state record

The varsity boys ' basketball team did more than e xceed people 's e xpectations in their inaugural season The Gators finished with a 10-11 record; the 10 wins tied a state record for winning the most games as a first year program. In the season, the Gators kn ocked off four ranked teams, and their highlight of the season came on Jan. 30, 2004 when North Star defeated Lincoln High, who was the defending state champions at "The Swamp " North Star was even ranked twice by the Lincoln Journal Star and the Omaha World-Herald in the middle of the season.

"I enjoyed taking on the challenge of being a first year school, and this season , we gained a lot of respect , and we were very successful. This season, we built the foundations ," head coach Tony Ouattrochi said.

Ouattrochi said, "The future looks very bright for the varsity basketball program. They will be known as one of the top programs for ne xt season Players and coaches kn o w what it's going to take to get to the ne xt level in their quest for a championship. "

"We need to improve our strength, and everyone needs to understand their role on this basketball team. For the next

season , we want to continue to take steps towards a championship. So, in the off season , we 'll need to work very hard , so that we can have a better season , ne xt year-- which will be very tough," Ouattrochi said.

While the future looks bright for the varsity program, si x seniors (Nick Hruza , Tin Nguyen, Pat Thorton , Renell Pizzaro, Allan Ladd, and Sam Zajicek)_graduated, but they will not forget their Gator teammates.

'Tm going to miss the 'team gettogethers that we had, and I'm going to miss the bonds that I had with my teammates ," Hruza said.

ABOVE: Seniors Nick Hruza, Pat Thorton , Sam Zajicek, Tin Nguyen, Allen Ladd and Rennell Pizarro pose for a quick picture before senior night.

LEFT: Senior Pat Thorton goes up for a layup duliing the first ever game against Southwest.

BELOW: Junior Danny Tucker positions himself for a free throw. LNS OPPONENT

59 SOUTHWEST 49 PAPILLION SOUTH · 54 NORFORK 58 NORTHEAST

62 HASTINGS

Optimist/Hae. Hol. Tourn. 66 NORTHEAST

Optimist/Hae. Hol. Tourn. 68 SOUTHWEST

Optimist/Hae. Hol. Tourn. 51 FREMONT

Optimist/Hae. Hol. Tourn. 61 OMAHA BRYAN

PAPIO SOUTH WESTSIDE SOUTHEAST COLUMBUS EAST

LINCOLN HIGH NORTH PLATTE SOUTHWEST GRAND ISLAND KEARNEY FREMONT

BELLOW: Sophomore Tyler Bullock stays with his

on defense.

everyone their

a two point layup.

a free throw.

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MIKAELA KELLER & STORY BY SAM ZAJICEK

ROW 1: Jamalle Reeves, Danny Tucker, Pat Thorton, Sam Zajieck, Allen Ladd, Tin Ngu yen

ROW 2: Student Manager Minela Jukovic, Tyler Bullock, Dayne Walton, Wendell Faines, Nick Hruza, Jason Kabat, Rennell Pizarro, Student Manager Trisha Liefert ROW 3: Head Coach Tony Quattrocchi, Coach Joe Schlegelrnich, Coach Matt Zajicek, Coach Larry Smith, Coach David Travis, Coach Alex Bahe

ABOVE: During the announcing of the players before the game, Junior Jamalle Reeves and Senior Allen Ladd show

team enthusiasm.

RIGHT: Senior Allen Ladd warms up before the game on parent night.

FAR LEFT: Dayne Walton,junior , takes on a Southwest defender for

LEFT: Senior Sam Zajieck finishes with perfect form after shooting

Three ... Two .. One- season went by for JV, reserve and f r eshmen boys

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This first season was pretty successful for the varsity boys, but som~ of the younger men said their seasons were a rough ride because it was hard to find that key to the treasure chest of success

Tawards the long journey of the season for the junior varsity , reserve, and freshmen boys' teams managed to accomplish a few w ins

Gator underclassmen took comfort in the fact that they had more success than Southwest Varsity their first year

"Everyone wants to win , but our main goal is to gain respect from other schools and show them what were made of," junior

Jason Kabat said.

"This season was very bumpy indeed. I had lots of pressure put on me I was rel ied on by my teammates and coaches- a lot of things for a freshmen to handle people tell me ," Wendell Faines said.

One team member sold the funn iest th ing this year was when Wendell showed up and was very impressed on how his goggles looked on the first day he had them.

Another time when a few of the kids on JV, forgot the ir warm up pants, coach made the boys just wearshirts But then , that's when we startel to win a few games

a t eam member sa id.

OVERALL RECORD 4 -15

The coaches had a few r it uals be for e the game that boys w ill remember Coa ch Schleg lemi lch f illed out the score book himself , and didn 't like anyone else to do it. Cooch Za ji ce k lo v ed to run a few miIEs before a game, to ease his nerves And Coach Sm ith just lik ed to ta ke the t ime a 1d re la x to focus on the game ahead of hi rr

Overall , coaches and boys said th i season w as a ver y successful one for the f irst year and that the compet itors ahea c of the Gators should be wi lling to have < huge bite ta ken out of them.

ROW 1: Ben Velde, Darwin Archie, Lorenzo Gaskins, Cordara Thompson, Jordan Shoec r ft ROW 2: Danny Tucker, Nick Bryan, Ramkel Koang, Wendell Faines, Jason Kabat, Ry m Pluta. ROW 3: Student Mgr. Minela Jukovic, Coach Joe Schlegelmilch, Student Manag r. Trish Leifert Not Pictured: Asst. Coach John Bowling, Calvin Christensen

RIGHT : Wendell Faine s tip s off to tart the final home game for the Junior Var s ity

ROW 1: Eric Williams, Calvin Christensen, Mike Brown, Giorgio Houston, Clevone Furby ROW 2: Matt Conroy, Antonio Horton, Mike Palmer, Coach Matt Zajicek, Kellen Petersen , Dustin Gerlach, Travis Jensen

ROW 1; Mikani Chilambo, Corey Flynn, Nathan Schnieder, C a t in Wolfard, Matt Turco , t Bryan Castor ROW 2: Coach David Travis, Jordan Gilmore, Frank Galusha, Bryan Murray, Jordan Dau , Bryce Van Dyke, Coach Larry Smith

LEFT: Coach Schlegelmilch focusing on the game, helping his team with advice from the sideline

TOP RIGHT: Freshman ick Egan tries to gain control. MIDDLE: Coaches Ben Wilcox, and Tyler Hodges often showed their flexibility and desire to get into the match and demonstrate moves on the opposing team

MIDDLE LEFT: Sophomore Josh Burden locks his opponent up

MIDDLE RIGHT: Freshman Jerald Parker battles from the up position. BOTTOM LEFT: Sophomore A.J. Vinsonhaler puts in the scissors and tries to suffocate his opponent.

Young wrestlers far exceed team, indiv i dual season goals

Having a rrew school also means youth, and along with youth come mistakes and a team that must be built from scratch, but Coach Ben Wilcox said this didn't stop the North Star wrestling

Head Coach Ben Wilcox team from pulling in a few wins and showing everyone throughout the season that in a matter of years wrestling at this school would be a powerful force.

When Wilcox applied for his positi on, he said I knew it wouldn 't be a walk in the park . But that didn 't stop him from reaching many of his goals. Wilcox said he had three main goals He wanted to fill every weight class , which he did. He wanted to win at least two duels, and he e xceeded that by winning four He also wanted every wrestler to improve,and he said they all improved

drastically "It was e xciting , but also a learning e xper ience, I realized how much hard work it takes, but it was worth it," Wilcox said.

This year's wrestling team was inundated with a handful of freshman , a couple sophomores, no juniors and just a few seniors

Wilco x said strong leadership came from senior Spencer Brown, Wilcox said Brendon Hollins had the most intensity , Travis Bullock was the aggressor, Jose Parrott had the most heart and the most overall skilled wrestlers were Cory Wilder and Jerald Parker.

On a new team that had all kinds of firsts and big shocking even ts , a pair of really hopeful wrestlers for the futur e shined through , sophoma-es A.J Vinsonhaler , and Jake Iverson were a big surp ris e this season, Wilcox said. None of the t wo had any prior e xperience in wrestling , but if you felt the power behind one of A.J's throws , or lost your breathe to Jake 's bone crushing scissors you wouldn 't believe it , Wil co x said.

As a team the biggest shock was beating Lincoln High.

• If you ask the coaches or any of the wrestlers one of their funniest memories of the season off the mats, it easily comes down to two r~ally abnormal but hilarious moments: Josh Burden 's "Party Boy" impersonation, or George Simpson 's C-walk e xperience with instructor Brendon Hollins.

ROW 1: Spencer Brown, George Simpson, Cory Wilder ROW 2: Brandon Beenblossom, A.J.

ABOVE: Senior varstiy wrestler Spencer Brown pins his opponent and wins the match .

Vinsonhaler, Jake Iverson, Trevor Stuart Josh Zuniga. ROW 3: Brian Skinner Travis Bullock, Coaches Tyler Hodges, Ben Wilcox and James Blake Coach Tyler Hodges , Coach Ben Wilcox, James Blake, Jose Parrott , Sean Holden ROW 4: Nathan Hubbard, Kendall Reeves , Nick Howell, Josh Burden, Nick Egan, Jerald Parker , Danny Briggs

OT PICTURED: Brendon Hollins

Swimming, diving teams make a splash

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This year 's swim team was small but mighty Although the swim team wasn 't able to win a meet this year , coaches said the team put their best foot forward to make the first year for the swim team a success

The team team just lacked the large number of members to be able to accumulate a win , Coach Lutz said.. But Lutz stressed that even though the team was unable to win as a team , they were able to win individually . Junior John Hall , a diver, made it to state, and the boys ' free relay got a secondary for state. Ian Plummer had a secondary qualifying time for state.

The team set a solid foundation for future years at North Star They started strong and took it to the other teams that they went up against , Lutz said.

MIDDLE RIGHT: Divers Anthony Nguyen, Travis Kelso , Emily Burbach, John Hall and Cody Wolfe line up in the water during diving practice.

BOTTOM LEFT: Sophomore Megan Shroeder gives some advice to a fellow teammate before their race .

BOTTOM RIGHT: Sophomore Erin Abbott keeps warm in between her events.

TOP: Fre hmen Dan Katt and Ben Terry support their teammates at the conference meet at East High School.

MIDDLE LEFT: Freshmen Emily Burbach dives in at the Fremont swim meet.

ROW 1: Ashley Cro s s , Chel sea Beck , Holly Knust, Megan Schroeder , Chaney Buck, Erin Abbott. ROW 2: Coach Seth Lutz , Darre ll , D rew Killman , Chaz Rubeiz , Ian Plummer , Nick Ma ss a , Daniel Katt , Ben Terry , Justin Ratliff, Caoch Laura Sherbock.

ROW 3: Coach Tyler Pierce , Emily Burbach , Anthony Nguyen , Cody Wolfe , John Hall , Megan Juracek , Travi s Kel s o,

TOP L EFr : Coach Seth Lutz gives the team a pep talk during the Co nfe nce meet at East High S chool.

TOP RIGHT : Freshmen Chanye B uck s wam a free s tyle event at the B eatrice meet.

for many kids, getting out of bed and making it to school is not necessarily the student's number one choice, That is why teachers have to come up with creative ways to get their kids involved in class, Junior Maggie Smith said teachers at North Star do just that, lThe teachers at LNS seem eager to help student's learn,''

Principal Nancy Becker said all of the teachers at LNS were handpicked and went through a grueling process to teach at this school. Becker said LNS teachers are motivat ~d to get their students to be the best they c~n be,

Math teacher John Catlett had another reason to come to North Star, He said, l'I wanted to come to LNS because I had better chances to teach higher level classes- and work in this amazing facility ,''

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OPPOPSITE PA0E: Administrators Ryan Zabawa and Dr. Nancy Becker survey the 0ator crowd at the homecoming football game.

TOP LEfT: Reading teacher Marty Peregoy waits for the next in line at parent teacher conferences.

BOTTOM LEfT: Junior Nidhi Mehta studies in her Spanish 4 class.

BOTTOM RI0HT: During Women's Lit class. Junior Hallie Moser, Senior Andrea Olson, Junior Celeste Harper and English teacher Melanie farber hang a timeline of women's roles in the past.

TOP RI0HT: Sophomore Michael Brown checks his text in Travis Jensen's English class.

1\chninistmting with Passion

Principal Nancy Becker often says she is proud of the identity North Star has brought to the area .' "It's fun to see people refer to our school as a location," she said.

And what does it take to have 1200-1500 students move through a new school's halls eac h day?

"Our goal each year is to make sure we r e giving students the tools to be successful in scho I and prepare them for post-secondary educatio ,1 ," Associate Principal Ryan Zabawa said. •And as w have all seen, they continue to do a great job."

Students like senior Jamie Green who carr to North Star from another school say they ca appreciate the enthusiasm and pass ion for the r e YI school from Gator administrators.

Green said, "Hard work and dedication r ::ill) pays off."

•Gator

The Gator, quick and agile, mean and angry, fierce and vicious! The mascot of North Star! So, where did this fellow come from?

Well, it all started a long time ago with the first alligator just slithering around in the world. He wanted to represent some body of students.

One day he came to a hole in the ground. What is this? he asked a construction man.

"North Star High School , " the construction worker replied.

Holy snakes! A school filled with

all sorts of young kids willing to learn! I could represent them he thought. So he slithered on down to Southeast where he could find the head honcho offuture North Star, Dr. Nancy Becker. Good thing that Dr. Becker spoke gatorease.

The gator and Dr. Becker agreed to have lunch together. They planned a picnic. The main course was to be chicken, grilled on the George Foreman.

The gator, whose given name was Navi, asked Dr. B if he could represent

Gator

the school? Dr. B took this idea to the identity committee. They had been pondering great ideas all week long.

" It was important that the mascot remained non race and gender specific, " said Dr. B.

Luckily Navi had an identical twin sister who was also had an agent looking to represent!

So, the identity committee took a vote and declared the Gators the mascot of North Star High School. They all lived happily ever after devouring the other mascots.

TOP LEFT Media center man Bruce Dabbert sports his Gator spirit with his truly stylish gator

TOP RIGHT: Cheerleaders freshman Breanna Fullerton, senior Renee Murdock

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STORY DY JAMIE GREEN

students

guiding Gators to succes

Start ing up a new school is not e xactly a piece of cake . You have the important tasks like hir ing teachers, figuring out schedu les, and all sorts of paper wor k to fill out But you can 't forget about the lit t le th ings; school colors, mascot, and logo.

After many months of reviewing other school 's names and mascots a group of students selected for this job decided on the Navigators But what would a Navigator look li ke as a mascot . How about a Novi - GA TOR? So then was the birth of Al Gator

Students decided on a gator because it is not gender or race oriented, as a navigator would have been They thought it was a good way to say no matter who you are, you are - welcome at our school . The Gator is also known to be e xtreme ly quick and agile, capable of amaz ingly fast burst of speed.

Next , students worked on the colors that would represent

both North Star and Nav igator Navy Blue was the first to come mind because obv ious ly it is symbolic of the sky and oceans Nov> b lue represents the way ancient nav igators used celestial nav igati c as a way to e xplore and reach new boundaries . It is also tradit ionally the color of • constancy and fa ith They also decided on maroon because it is symbolic of power and respect . It also represents the goals and ambitions of the North Star students, faculty and fam ilie~ become future leaders and pillars of our commun ity

Then it was combining these colors to ma ke t he logo If y( i look closely you w ill see the letter 'N formed by flu id forward mo i of two separate arcs Together they signify leadership, strength or c the ability to move to the future. Dr Nancy Becker said, "We 're h< i to help our students find a better life as adu lts, gu iding them to a · better future '

Another feature that was being cons idered ~as the idea of focused academ ic academies. Coordinator Carla Tinius said, Investigating the academy concept was a main focus for me. It i~ , new concept and it has taken lots of time and organ ization to p L into place ."

The freshman class this year started out in the Freshman Academy and wi ll be the first to follow through w ith ~he acaderr 1 system. After the ir freshman year, each student w ill choose an academy . They will choose from Arts and Communication, Busine s and Finance, Hea lth and Human Serv ices, Law and Global Affair ~ and Science and Technology

After everyth ing was put into place and all of the _decisior 3 were made, the result was the foundation of North St ar Hi Jf School.

Then, the students filled the building with spirit and ideas for the future of all North Star Nav igators

ABOVE : For those who might not believe in the power of Gator spir it? Anyore looking around thE: offices classrooms commons areas and halls of North

LEFT: SPED Coord inacetor Lor i Calkins works a t her desk

Athletic Director Craig Jacobson stops in front of the Navigator logo in the athletic conference room. Throughout the school, the school logo appears on banners and in logo art on T-shirts uniforms, school ~per products and forms in newletters and on "good luck " posters in the locker halls.

BELOW: Assistant Athletic Director and Attendace Administrator Dave Bell works hard in the athletic office LEFT: Administrator Karla Tinius shows of a gator from her desk in the main office.

to keep off ice running smooth!)

Have you ever wondered who was behind al l of those phone ca ll s y our parents make to the off ice or who ta k es care of the referrals o r hands ou t loc k ers? Just take a quick left when you enter the building and y ou 'll see the people who ta ke care of if all. Better kno w n to us as the "off ice ladi~s:" Sue, Cathy , Julie, Christie, Deb, Jan, and t he ot her Sue ma ke up t he hard- w o rki ng crew of the main off ice Am y Rasco keeps the ath letic offices runn ing

When you first enter the office y ou see the fam ili ar face of Sue Turco, the front desk secretary who can po in t y ou in the di rect ion you need t o go. Then behind Sue you would find Cathy Amundson , t he Special Education

Secretary Cathy sa id , "I like my job because it is challenging and en joyable "

And behind Cathy is Executive Secre t ar y Chr istie Bor dovsky Bordovsky sa id she li kes her job because it is "en joyab le and challeng ing. "

Ne xt door to Chr istie is Deb Suesz She said that she li kes her challenging pos ition because she lik es to keep moving And she does jus t that Deb ta kes care of lockers, referrals , suspens ions and the da ily bulle tin and- is the secretary to four assoc iate pr inc ipals. Subst itu t e Sec r etar y Julie Ry an has the desk in front of Deb

Then if you go wa y bac k inl o the un known terr itor y of the off ice you wi ll f ind bookk eeper Jan Kepler who can a lso be found through the w indow w her e y ou might pa y fees from the g y m hal l. lnter strud ura l co mp ute r technician Sue Beeck keeps the computer records accessib le to adm inistrators and teachers and gets out address lists and student grades

PAGES BY AsHLEY DENES & STORY BY JAMIE GREEN

ABOVE : Sue Turco, Jul ie Ry an Christie Bordovsk y , Deb Suesz and Cathy A mundson (AK.A. the office ladies) take a break fro

• TOP: Cathy Amundson ans w ers the phone dur irg her bus

da y in the office

ABOVE: Sue Beeck at work on the computer in her office.

TOP: RIGHT: Christie Bordovsky smiles from her desk in the main office

TOP LEFT: Julie Ryan looks through some of her daily mound of record keeping and paperwork MIDDLE LEFT: Hopefully your name wasn t on this referral that Deb Suesz is typing up!

ABOVE Sue Turco at the front desk

FAR LEFT: Jan Kepler sits at her computer working on ' the books

LEFT: Also behind the scenes Amy Rasco works at her computer in the athletic office Rasco helped the yearbook and newspaper staffs on a daily basis and never seemed to lose her patience students said

Diane Fern , Soc ia l W o rk e r

Christine ldeus , Counse li ng cen t er secre t ar y

Melissa Luthi, Counselor

Dick Oldfield!, Counselor

Virgina Saporta , Counselor

Dolored Simpson-Kirklandr, C o unselor

ABOVE : Virginia Saporta works an her computer to fit classes into student's schedules

TOP RIGHT: Dick Oldfield takes a break from his bus y schedule to flash a sm ile.

TOP LEFT: Christ ine ldeus takes a call and a message from a parent for the counselors

BOTTOM LEFT: Senior Rad-el Vogt signs in to see her counselor about important college informc t ian

BOTTOM !EFT: Social worker Di a ne Fern checks a student's record an her computer

Guiding ~tudents into the future

PAGES DY JAMIE GREEN

Counselors and counseling staff started their jobs long before the doors opened in August working with new teachers and administrators to find a way to fill students ' class schedules with classes that would not only suit student interest but see the student through with credits to graduate

Located near the center of the school, counselors are what make the school run said UNL professor Dr. Leon Caldwell who was an instructor for one social studies class at North Star this year. Caldwell said it was a counselor 's suggestion that got his course in the curriculum.

Counselors worked through the year to reg ister for upcoming terms, went out to the middle schools to talk to prospective students, registered and for the upcoming year. Counselors were also available when a student just needed guidance or help with legal paperwork, a schedule change , scholarship applications, college questions, or personal advice or support at a school activity or club , even a club soccer game

Gator counselors could be seen peeking from behind a mound of schedules beside their computers, carrying schedule information to classes and enm working with clubs and organizations after school or at a club soccer game on a Sunday afternoon ·

ABOVE: Senior Ashley Benes looks for scholarships that she is eligi ble to apply for Counselors freqoontly find students searching through this drawer as soon as the first scholarships arr ive.

TOP : Melissa Luthi organizes the scholarship drawer so that students can easil y find what they are looking for • RIGHT: Dolores Simpson-Kirkland speaks with someone on the phone

Creating Arts, ITT

In the first year, the Arts _and Communication Academy was centerd around the Art Department and the lndustral Technology Department

Art classes included Beginning photography, Beginning drawing, 2d/3d Design, Beginning Pottery, Photo Styles and Techniques . lndustrail technology class included Foundation of ITE, Energy and Power Mechanisms, Cad Tech Design, Cad Engineering, Introduction to Wood/Construction, Furniture, and Construction/Des ign.

Junior Brian Morgan said he took ITT classes because it was fun and loooks good on college applications.

"I want to go into transportation I love cars and I like to work on them. I would like to design a car someday," Morgan said.

TOP LEFT: Freshman Brian Murray draws a boot in George Sedlacek's Begiming Drawing class

MIDDLE LEFT: Junior Miles Vasina and Freshman Bridgette W ibar complete the assignment gven to them

Sedlacek 's class

MIDDLE RIGHT: Freshman Jordan Gilmore takes o picture for Darrell Hute 's begin i~ photography class

BOTTOM RIGHT: Darrell Hute helps sophomore Rob y n Sharron in wi th her pot tery.

Darrell Hute: Beginning photography , Beginn ing Pottery, Photo Styles, Photo techn iques

BY

JADE MUl

Charmain Satree: Foundations of ITE, Energy Power & Mech.

PAGES

TOP: Senior Tim Gordiin uses a machine in Fou,dations of ITT with Charmain Soiree

MIDDLE RIGHT: Senior Thu Duong gets help from Mark Olson on an assingrnent in CAD tech design

MIDDLE LEFT: Junior Brian Morgan and Saprornore Jessica Miller wait for the bell ofter packing up in Foundations of ITT.

Mark Olsen : Cad Tech, Design and Engineering , Intro Wood/Const. , Furniture Construction, Design, Energy Power & Mech.

George Sedlacek : Beginning Drawing , 2d/3d design

Camelle Kinney , Human Behavior, Parenting , • Independent Liv ing

Susan Heine, Cull inary Arts

COOking in sear Ch of food, fun and flavc r

Bubble, bubble, toil , and then let rise at room temperature for one hour Sound familliar? Well if you 're in a baking class it should. If one thing 's for sure, North Star 's students are wild about the culinary arts.

"This class is fun because you get to make your dreams into reality ," senior Kath-

leen Murphy said. "You get to work with your hands, and I wanted to learn how to ' sew

"I like the freedom the class gives you ," freshman Marie Murray said.

Culinary Arts teacher Susan Heine said ", I en joy teaching baking and Cultural foods

because I get to see my students apply w l at we 've learned. This class is truly unique frc n other classes because it's a 'hands on' clas s that combines art, science, math and communications. It not only teaches students sk Is that they'll use all their life, it's also a gift t~ Jt they can pass on to others. "

ABOVE : the camera catches Ross Packett checking out the fr idge

RIGHT: Amanda Camb y, Kyl ee Roth, and Da vid Arch ie tr y to w ork out the ir lab plan

Knowing about business perspectives

'PAGES BY: MADY KELLER

Who would know if the DOW was down or up today? Or if you had a good portfolio? What about your 401K? Well if you can answer any of these questions you might be either a marketing genius or in a business class here at North Star. The business department covers everything from Wall Street tc North 33rd. Street.

"This class is fun because of the relaxed atmosphere," said Senior Pat Thornton.

"Marketing helps you with making decisions. I think marketing is fun ," said freshman Amanda Deist.

"Though I was assigned to this class , I like it because my classmates make the class fun. Career Ed. is fun because you get to learn about things you 're interested in," s~id freshman Oliver Keller.

"Marketing is important because marketing and the media is all around you ," said business teacher Cindy Hoehne. "North Star gives students a unique opportunity to further study marketing. The academies and new curriculum make it a fun and interesting class to , take. We even have our own FBLA chapter available to our students, that can really help them excel in business. "

Oorann Johnston, Ecconomic Perspectives

Bonnie Malcolm, Computer Applications

Cindy Hoehne, Career Ed.

Matt Reiling, Accounting College Acct.

TOP: Blake Salem gives us his opinion of the Bush administrations ' budget plan

LEFT: Mrs Malcolm teaches her sleepy first period class

Brenda Broeker, Oral Comm.

Terr i Diffenderfer, Yearbook, Journal ism, Newspaper, English 10

Melan ie Farber, Women 's Lit ., Comp, and English 100

Greg Gibbs, Oral Comm, Theater, Acting Styles, Theater Production

Emily Griesch, Reading Ideas, Investigations

Sara Hollcroft, Reading Ideas, English 10

Lor i Jambor, General English, Composition

Trav is Jensen, English 10, Multicultural Lit.

ABOVE : Terri Diffenderfer 's 6th period English 10 doss works on filling out the 'good and bad ' charts

FAR RIGHT: Women 's Lit teacher Melanie

project to sen ior

Farber expla ins a

Molly Krol ikowsk i in the hallway

RIGHT: Susan Paschold helps freshman Wendell Faines in 4th per iod English 9.

tobe the best in En.glish

PAGES BY RACHEL VOGT & J AMIE GREEN

Writing and reading are essential to everyone, everyday, whi ch in turn helps understand reasons why Engl ish hou(s are a required for high school graduation

Many North Star students take general English classes with reading , writing and grammar based courses Some students say it is easiest to go ahead ond get those English credi t s done and out of the way.

Others sa id they happen to enjoy taking English, even as electives For those people, many different courses are offered.

Women's Literature is one of those classes , a class that focuses on women's novels and research into the idea of empowered females Advanced Placement Language and Compostition 'i s a college level course that prepares students for secondary schooling If students do well in that class, they are el igble to test out of several amounts of English classes for college

Creat ive Writing alllows students to focus on improving w riting skills including the writing of short short stories and stregthening writing skills thr_oughout the semester

Students also take general English classes for graduation and reading or composition to meet individual learning needs.

Cyndi Maddux, AP Lang/Comp, Reading Ideas, English 9

Jessica Meyer, Englsih 9 , American Lit/ Comp

Candyce Musiel, General English, English 9 , Reading Ideas

Kirsten O'Meara, English 90

Susan Paschold , English 9, Creative Writing

Marty Pergoy, Reading Elements

Not Pictured

Bryan Barnacle , Reading Ideas, General English

publishing Polaris, Gator Galaxy

PAGES BY KELSEY RODRIGUEZ

STORY BY J.AMIE GREEN

"Being a part of the yearbook class definitely taught patience , and a Jot of it ," junior Mady Keller said "You learn to work hard on your own."

Some of the most difficult challenges for the staff came a s a result of all the new technology. The yearbook room was equipped with the latest printers, digital cameras , computers and programs. The challenge was going from the old to the new, and teaching the new to 60 plus students, teacher Terri Diffenderfer said. "An even bigger challenge was getting all the new tech in place. Every day was a challenge , and we got into our room late which made • our start a little tougher," she said.

We have the latest in everything, Diffenderfer said. "The technology is really unbelievable. What you -can do with Photoshop and InDesign is amazing. We are all really lucky to be the first in the country to use these new programs," she s aid. " It takes a lot of one on one time with students to teach them the new programs, but what an opportunity."

ABOVE : 2003-2004 Yearbook Staff included: ROW l: Lainey Rasmussen, Tracy Alvarado, Holly Knust Callie Duryea, Jamie Green, Mady Keller ROW 2: Amanda Giebelhaus, Kyle Waller , Ashley Robinson,

• Brendon Hollins Mikaela Keller, Edgar Cruz, Jade Muff Not Pictured Kelsey Rodriguez

TOP: Sophomore Kelly Fish can still laugh after a hard day's work on yearbook pages. MIDDLE: Senior Melissa Zingler checks a list of teachers ' schedules as she works on the social studie page

ABOVE : Sophomore Seth Mayrord and Senior Sam Zajicek look through other high schools' newspapers to get ideas to start North Star 's first edition

TOP RIGHT: 2003-2004 Newspaper Staff included : ROW l : Denton Racine , Jamie Green Ashley Beres, Jason Miller, Rob Gibson, Seth Mayrord , Sam Zajicek ROW 2: Denecia Moore Nick Bryan, Chuck Halvorson ROW 3: Kristina Lee, Melissa Zingler, Christin Casement Nat Pictured : Natasha Byron, Meghan Conner, Kellie Costello, Amanda Giebelhaus, Megan Murphy, Angel Vinsonhaler

TOP LEFT: Junior Lainey Rasmussen checks students ' romes for a page in the junior section of the yearbook.

BOTTOM LEFT: Junior Mady Keller doublechecks her page before the deadline.

Karen Burke, ELL

ABOVE: The ELL kids and Teachers take time for a group picture durirg tf--eir Thanksgivirgparty. ROW 1: Sf--erin Homo, Alane Wahlstrom, Doanh Nguyen and Jennifer Riddell ROW 2 Minh Nguyen, Rasul Saide ,

Hillary Dodson, Halima Mof-.amed, Yor Kok, Anna Gorelaya , Anai Kok

BELOW LEFT: Sophomores Halima Mohamed and Yar Kok eat pie and have fun at

BELOW RIGHT: Hillary Dodson f--elps Maricela Meza with f--er work.

Hillary Dodson, ELL

Jennifer Riddell, ELL

Understanding .

English language skills

PAGES BY LAINEY RAsMUSSEN & BRENDON H OLLINS

Some students fret about coming into high school because they know another language is required of them.

All we know is that it's not English, which means we have to go way back to square one to try and learn a second language.

Luckily for us we have older siblings or friends that pass down a little bit of wisdom such as "You don 't have to be able to speak it fluently " and "Just concentrate on the basic words and numbers " so that it doesn 't become too overwhelming. We also know that all we have to do is just survive for two years, and after that we can do with it what we want For many of us it's throw it out the window because we know the odds of us having to us it again are unlikely.

Now flip the script for a minute and imagine the language you have to learn is English You're probably thinking: "Y es, a walk in the park ." But imagine you 're from a different country , and E~glish is not your native language. Not such a walk in the park anymore huh?

Ell students can 't coast through the class by just learning the basic words and numbers It's also not just a two year thing , on average it takes anywhere between three and five years to work through the levels according to Ell 9epartment chair Jennifer Riddell.

Ell teachers also act as a resource for work in other classes and as a bridge for students making the transition out

ABOVE: Freshman Rafafel Meza and junior Anai Kok hard at work.

TOP LEFT: Rasul Saidov has a laugh at the ELL Thank.sgivirg party

LEFT: Junior Anai Kok eats pumpkin pie durirg their Thank.sgivirg part y.

WorldSpeaking

Counselors stress that world language is very important part of high school for students who want to get into college Students need up to two years of world language and might need a couple additional years depending on the major, according to guidance.

The World Language department offered Spanish , French, German , and Chinese . About 450

students participated in language classes while also leorning about other cultures.

LEFT:

Some stud=~nts take the class just to get it ove • with and to be able to get into college and some others have different reasons , "When I was little my grandparents talked in German , and I wanted to knc, what they were saying ," freshman Bobby B!3rgholz sc i

Spanish, French, German and Chinese

ABOVE

Kara Heminger, French

Kristi Hetland, Spa nish

Jeanne Kwa n, Chinese

Teresa Otto, Span is h

Malia Perkins, Span ish

Nancy Youngman, German

LEFT: Fourth period French 1 class with Kara Heminger tokes the opportunity to pause for a photo,.

ABOVE LEFT. Jordyn Berry, Minelo Jukovic and Bree Douglas are in 5th period Year 1 German class- hanging out and hove a great lime while learning

RIGHT: Jeanne Kwon, the Chinese teacher, calls on a student to read what the symbol means

John Catlett,A lgebra Ext 2 , Pre-Calcu lus, Geometr y Megan Danek, A lgebra, A lgebra Ext .l, PreLalculus, • PreCalcu lus D.

Karen Eihusen,A lgerbra, A lgebra Ext 2 , Advanced A lgebra, Advanced Algebra D

Micah Heibel,A lgebra Ext l , Geometry, Geomtr y D , Advanced A lgebra

Eric Lockert, Discrete Math, Geometry, Calculus D

Todd Noblefoundations of Math,Geometry, GeometryD

To p Micah Heibel takes time out of class to pose for the camera.:

Bottom Left: Anglea Temme teaching an algebra class.

Bottom Right: Eric Lockert teching his dicrete math class

calrulating math from different angles

- PAG ES DY HOLLY KNuST

The math department at North Star is determined to make sure that every student 's math needs are met by offering a wide variety of classes for students and making sure that all students have the best opportunity to be successfu l in math class , math department chair , Todd Noble said.

The math classes that are offered at North Star are Foundations of Math, Algebra , Geometry, Advanced Algebra , Discrete Math, Pre-Calculus, Calculus and Transition Math .

In the future at North Star, the math department has goals of increasing math achievements for all math students and providing the very best math instruction in the city of Lincoln. The math department plans to make these things happen by helping students make connections between math and other subjects, Noble said.

North Star 's math department was successful in the first year earning awards for math achievements. One math teacher was named Math Teacher of the Year last spring , and there is one math teacher that is a finalist for The Math teacher of the Year for 2004 , Noble said.

Tyl er Lambley and Mai Huynh received the Air Force math award.

Angela

TOfY. Tria Pischel slops in the hall in between class to smile for the camera Bottom Jam (:atlet helps his Pre-Calculus students Ed w ard Pigg and Darwi n Archie

Trio Pischel, Algebra Ext.1, Geometry, Advanced Algebra

William Schlautman, Algebra , Transition Math Extl/ Ext2.

Temme, Algebra , Algebra Ext.l , Advanced Algebra

ABOVE Junior Josh Hafner signs on the server to save o project for o class

TOP RIGHT: Cyndyio Corlson-Tsudo works in the media equipment room

TOP LEFT: Lourie England laminates papers for a teacher

MIDDLE: Beverly Hiatt checks in the book a student just returned

BOTTOM: Freshman Adam Walker and Ju,ior Tyler Luedke work on a project

Ollt ta sks

The library-media center was the place to be for all North Star students and staff. The new library opened with only abou t 10,229 books, and the facility was a great resource for staff and students

Every day, on average, the library hosted 70 or more students This number did not include whole classes who came in with their teachers to work on projects or research with the books- or more often on the 25 Mac and IBM computers Computers were all equipped with iMovie and iDVD . They all also had Internet access and 11 online databases

In the future, media center director Bruce Dabbert said he hopes to have more technology and also to gradually build a permanent art collection that North Star can call its own

The library displayed Japanese artifacts and watercolors from a local artist as well as special collections of student art at different times during the year.

"I hope that the collection will grow to fit the needs and iterests of students and staff," Dabbert said.

Dabbert said he also hopes to promote the love and interest in reading by participating in teen week .qmq ott,er library promotion events such as book Y!e. , • . • " .'- ·:

. 1n the media

center

The

Marching, Jazz, Concert, Pep

This year many wonderful things have happened in our brand new school. We 've had a great year w ith sports, and dubs Nevertheless, one of the most outstanding achievements has been the high school bands : Pep Band, Jazz Band, Concert Band, and Marching band. A big achievement for the marching band was that even without e xperience and e xtended pract ice and not much preparation they received a 2 at an early season competition Starting out with nothing and making something out of it is always a challenge band members said.

"I t was a good year , even though our bands were smaller We had a lot of talent

TOP: The drurnline is ma rchi ng du-ing hal f -time at one of the schools varsity games.

ABOVE: The school's marchi ng band was fea tured in the O ma ha World -Herald and this article hangs up on the wall in the E-Wing hallwa y.

RIGHT: The mar chi ng ba nds drum ma jor, senior Josh Hr uby, di rects the ba nd along as they ma rch· and p la y

turn out this year , and it makes me look forward to the future ,· sa ic band director Tob in Stewart . "The bands have really improved o v< r the course of the year They 've learned to li sten t o each other an d play w ith each other. "

Everybody saw the schools band one way or another , at the football games or playing pep dur ing the basketball games Th y have made a remar kable improvement since th is summer when the • first met up at Band Camp, Ste w art sa id.

"I'm very proud that I got to help teach these fine individuals ." tudent teacher Ben Hani ka said.

TOP LEFT : Members of the concert and jaw•band for the school are also the school's pep band The pep band is split into two groups: Maroon and Navy. The Navy group plays a pep sorg at one of the varsity basketball games

MIDDLE LEFT : The school's jazz band practiced hard.

• The whale group meets up in the mornings just before school starts

BOTTOM LEFT: The jazz band plays one of their great songs while Tobin Stewarfdireds

PA.GES DY MEGHAN

voices in E-wing

CONNER

Sing , sang , sung It's all been done-down in the E-wing where choir this year has just begun.

"Our choir program has really taken off. It's exciting and stressful , but it's worth every minute Music is a passion . I enjoy giving part of that passion to the students," vocal instructor

Joni Osborn said. Jennifer VanDyke , the choir accompanist said, "Working with Oz is great. It's great working with all the people here I love my job at North Star with the vocal students, because I get to 'play' music all day. "

Student teacher Aaron. Thompson said he liked his work at North Star too. He said, "It's been very exciting to teach here. Everybody is new, and I got to learn with everyone else I've learned a lot from the kids here. " He said one of the most important things he learned was "to be flexible and opened minded. "

Sophomore James Dingwell said he takes music because he likes to sing , and the music program is his favorite part of North Star. He said he "likes getting to sking , hanging out with friends, having new kinds of music and meeting cool people. "

Dingwell said his favorite music this year was "Joyful , Joyful. "

RilGHT- Accompan is t Jenn ifer VarDyke pla ys the piano dur ing a classroom rehearsa l.

ABOVE : Jon i Osborn surely must be thi nk ing haw w onderful ,r classes ha ve been this year

BACK ROW: M1..1Sic teacher Joni Osborn, Madelon Keller, Natasha Byron, Anna Belv ille Quartez Hall, Tyler Hale , John McAdams, Dann y Poethig, Jo , Soung, Kylee Roth , Ellison Pluta, Jessica McBr ide TOP SECOND ROW: Accompanist XXXXX Vandyke , Amanda Epley, Megan Juracek, Sarah McCc 11 Tiffiany McCullough, Ronika Massiel, Spencer Cleveland Christopher Clymer, Torben Stone, Kaleigh Smith, Br ittney N iemeyer , Luydmila Kishchun, Kari ssc Webb, MIDDLE : Nicole Vobr il, Lat icia Brazer, Jessica Fa ilor, Jessica DeBoer, Ananda Clear y, Lathan Murrell, Ashley McBride, Joanna Byron, Ahley Be Mallor y Beaman, Megan Caves, FRONT ROW: Megan Murphy, Ashle y Beach, Ki miko Nguyen, Ja'lon Johnson, Joshua Burden N ick Griffith, Jess ica N IE Morgan Costello, Rachel Ray, Son ja Brazer

RO W 3: Jessica Meridth, Krista DeSelms, Andie Westling, Sam Hartley, music teacher Joni Osborn, J.J. Robinson ROW 2 : Megan Carper , Amber Lenhoff , Erin Abbot , Liz Schafer, ROW l: Brian Snider , Ashli Parsley

Ae 'J VE: Student Teacher Aaron Thompson helps students with their vocals TC LEFT: Freshman Lechel Bradly -William enjoys her time singing in class TOP RIGHT Freshmen Amber Knight, Connie Tron, Alicia Malokty and Sarah Marsha ll laugh it up in choir class

TOP BACK ROW: Mahelete Assefa, L~chel BRADLEY-William. Emily Nannen, Amanda Chandler, Jami Robinette, Kale Kponee, Meghan Conner , Katie Johnson, MIDDLE ROW: Sabrina Keefer , Shannon Fisher, Jessica Cr~er,

Connie Tran, Alicia Malotky,Mandi Droud, Amber Helmick, BOTTOM ROW: Joni Osborn, Amber Knight , Laura Reed , Minela Jukovic, Sarah Marshall, Robin Bruscato, Ginny Ryan- Leach, Vandyke, Aaron Thompson

00 health and fitness

Health and P.E You either love it hate it, or it's PAGES BY EDGAR CRUZ just another requirement

Many students from North Star are involv ed in e xtr acurricular activ iti es (sports ), but there are also sports in the classroom.

There is no doubt that students like competing. Freshman Frank Galusha said, "I like PE because we get to play sports, I like sports so I have a good time".

Freshman Ben Meluin has a Fitness for Life class and he said that he disli kes book work.

Sophomore Danie ll e Noonan said that her Aerobics Cross Training class kept her body in shape and helped her with endurance for dance

"I couldn't do a push up before," said freshman Louis Hesse.

Freshman Joe Parrott loves sports so he takes PE classes to get a chance to p lay He said he has also learned what muscles are where and how to work on them.

Olivia Nguyen, a freshman said she only took her P.E./Health class to get rid of her P.E. credits. After all interviews most students said that they would only take P.E. again if it was required.

A.BOVE : Freshman Paul shows how a little lifting helped him out.

RIGHT: PE. teacher Larr y Smith gets ready for another hard day at work in his team sports class

ABOVE TO THE RIGHT: Fresman Ouin Chantry puts up with yet another da y of his Fitness for life class.

LEFT: Senior Trevor Ke ll er bench presses a coup le of pounds whil e Sen ior Nick B lazeck spots him. Trevor sa id he has a weight training class because he wants to get stronger

BE LO W : Junior Danny Tucker finds time to str ike a pose · dur ing his day ly PE class

LEFT: Sophomore Thao Chu slams the ball toward the wall as teammate Tyrone Godfrey also a sophomore, an d opposing team catcher junior Sonja Brazer watch the ball hit the wall dur ing her f ir st period Tearn Sports class

FAR LEFT: Junior Tot Vo works out in the sholder press during his Aerobics Cross Training. He sa id weight training makes time fly by

FAR LEFT BELOW: Junior Dan Anderson shows the cameras a littl e b it of his strength.

Matt Avey , H ea lth Ed uca ti o n

Matt Musiel, W e ig ht Trainin g , Fitness for Li fe

Kristi Nelson-Hitz, W e ig ht Training , Fitness for Lif e , Aerobics Cro ss Tra inin g

Larry Smith, Wei g ht Training , Fitne ss for Lif e

Mark Waller, W e ig ht Tra ining , fitn es s for Li fe

Making the most of our ReBO

Many North Star students w ho rece ive resource services for learning disabilities might have problems in a specific subject area The need could be as simp le as a student who e xce ls in everyth ing e xcept math Another student might receive special education services that you wouldn 't even know about .·

North Star resource teachers also help students who have d iff iculty in class behavior by "concentrating on w hat is going on in the classroom and others learning to interact with people in a positive ~manner," sa id department chair Katie Savas

Other staff and paraprofessionals _ workwith modemte and severe disabilities, and on social and vocational skills Included in their

curr icu lum are commun it y outings

April

RIGHT: Clare's students pose in front of the b looming sta r CENTER: Desmond Williams moves a large b,n o f recycled paper p r oducts from Cl09 Katie Savas' third period class recycled throughout the building d uring 3rd period

Cathy Clare

Nancy Coniglio

Jessica Harban

Seth Lutz

Ma rk McClanahan

Meagan Riordan

Natalie Ross

Katie Savas

Robyn Bue tt ner New second semester

The resource program also includes spee serv ices , physical therapy and occupational therapy The VO ICE program serves stude nt s 21 as they learn job sk ills and practice at v a ~ i wor k sitres around the commun ity.

The resource program also does proje -:: t~ to beautify and enhance the school includinc H flowers blooming outside the South doors or d the 3rd per iod recycling program througho L school

ABOV E: Students of Cathy Clare and Mark McCl a nahan planted over 250 bulbs in the shape of a star south of the building The bulbs blazed with color in late March a nd in

ABOVE

Cindy Wilson Er ik W itt Not p ict ured: Sha rli yn B ullock

FAR

Deb Sova, Cathy

RIGHT: Robert Norris enjoys a field trip to the downtown Haymarket area

MIDDLE LEFT: Chris Turek from the VOICE program works at Supersaver.

MilDDLE RIGHT : Right off the bus, Alan Eckhout and Josh Omlschwager from the FCR program boarded the bus for a field trip right outs ide the middle school doors.

RIGHT:

Clare, MacKenz ie Locke from the FCR Program have a light moment.

BELOW LEFT: Pirky the rat looks over the desk. in his home in AlOO

LEFT: Tyson Dean and Pirky the rat band 1n the CORE program room

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Throughout the year , Gators assembled in the commons spaces, the forums, the music and theater spaces, the gym and the auditorium • for a wide variety of unique e xper iences wi th sign if icant art ists and figures from the pages of Amer ican histor y.

The Watts Prophets, innovators of rap mus ic and poetr y used words to make mus ic w ith students in wor kshops at North Star and then performed in concert with students on the Lied Center Stage Feb. 21

The John Lennon Bus, a nation-wide traveling music studio parked at North Star for the day, and Gators Eric Noel and Megan Murphy recorded with the profess ional musicians. Many other students toured the bus and met recording professionals

Stra ight from the pages of history, Elizabeth Eckford spo ke of her personal e xperience as a 15 year-old in Little Roc k, Ar kansas, when black students walked into Centra l High school taunted by a hostile crowd of white protestors Holocaust sur v ivor Judy Meise l t?ld a large group of students about the loss of her family in t he Holocaust

Gov M ike Johanns was among the important pol itica l figures who spent time at North Star dur ing the school year Apr il 22 , Johanns (pictured right) spoke to social studies classes in the second floor forum.

ABOVE : North Star was pr ivileged to have a number of prominent people speok in assemblies, forum s and classrooms throughou t t he year - including Gov. Mike Johanns

BELOW: The musical group Rockapella came to North Star for a student w orkshop presented wi th t he music depa rtment duri ng the d a y a conc e rt pre v ie w and a public concert in the e v ening

ABOVE Tre yourg Peking Opera spent part of the day at North Star, presented a preview performance, and answered questions for students in the auditorium. Chinese teacher Jean Kwan arranged the performance and translated questions

TOP: Elizabeth Eckford spent several days in Lincoln, Nebraska sharing her story with high school students including this gathering of student council members from throughout the city. Almost the whole school attended a convocation presented by Eckford in the gym.

LEFT : Political Activist Judy Meisel spoke to a large crowd of students in the g ym on Jan. '29 Meisel, a Holocaust survivor, told her story of survival and hope to students who studied Holocaust history in English and social studies classes, and took questions of the student audience about her experiences. She told students one thing that could not be taken from her was hope Meisel also told students of her efforts or help organize the civil rights March on Washington in 1963

Lisa Bennet: Basic Life Science , Geo science

James Blake: Physical Science Nova Net

Tracie Chapa : Biology, Physical Science

Floyd Doughty: Physical Science , Physics, Physics Diff

ABOVE : Lisa Bennett works with a couple of students in her 4th period Geoscience class

RIGHT: James Blake demonstrates prepetual motion in his 1st period Physical Science class

ABOVE RIGHT: Tracie Chapo s dog Roswell attends classes with her durirg the day and can of ten be seen in the hall if she has an errand to do Roswell has a bed under one of the lab stations

an appreciation for science

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KRISTINA LEE

Sc ience Teacher Lisa Kramer- Hansen likes t each ing sc ience so much t ha t she dances in class . Kramer-Hansen sa id she "loves sc ience and w or ki ng wi th ki ds ."

She also said "There 's really gross stuff in b iolog y to tal k about ."

Kramer-Hansen is only one of eight science teachers here at North Star But ever y science teacher tries to ma ke learning science fun.

Freshman Jessica Kassebaum said she "thin ks t he hardest thing about sc ience is Ta xonomy , because of all the long names ." Kassebaum also sa id she "lik es almost e v er y th ing in sc ience ." "What's no t to li ke about it?'

RIGHT: Lisa Kramer -Hansen helps Bennett Meredith in 7th period Biology class

BELOW LEFT: Floyd Doughty guides his 4th period Physical Science class during a lab.

BELOW RIGHT: Lisa Kramer-Hansen did rot want her picture taken and tried ta duck ta hic1from the camera in her 7th period Biology class

Nancy Ehlers: Chemistry

Lisa Kramer-Hansen: A na t o my/Phy siolog y ,

Biology M a cr o

Barry Smoker:

Biology M acro, Biol og y D

Juli Steen: G eosci e nce, B iol og y Macro

Jack Brustel: Cl. , Civics , Economics

Falla Halsey: U.S Hist o r y , Civics

Brian Burback: Intro Geo, World Geo

Tony Quattrocchi : U.S. History, APU.S. H istory , World H istor y

ABOVE : Jack Brestel lectures in his Economics class

TOP LEFT : Brian Burback helps Senior John McAdams in World Geog raphy

TO P RIGHT: Michael Brown concentrates on his a ssignment in World Geography

aVigating into Social Studies

PAGES BY MELISSA ZINGLER

Social Studies is about the world today, yesterday and orro w social studies teacher Randy Ernst said. North Star ered a variety of classes through the Social Studies department t introduced and analyzed world issues.

"If you ask students to list the top ten problems of today , e xamp le poverty , S.T.D s, wars, almost everything on that list behaviora lly based problems Psychology is the scientific study f the mind and behaviors. Psychology deals with behavioral ues and problems like depression can be alleviated by using sycholog y," Ernst said.

Ernst stressed that the most important thing that the students

learn in his class is how to think critically in the information age.

In its first year, North Star pioneered a new class called African American Empowerment. In a class taught by UNL professor Dr Leon Caldwell , young black males developed life skills and leadership traits so they could become successful African American men. Caldwell sa id, "Our history doesn 't begin where the boat arrived but where it left. "

Sophomore Jere! Duis said he took Caldwell 's class to learn to be a scholar . "This class means a lot to me because U.S. African Americans need to be more powerful in life ."

lJncle '5am Wants

FAR RIGHT: Cl. classes got out to get students to register to vote

Andrew Veach signed up to vote for the upcoming election.

RIGHT: Stephanie Christenson Ouartez Hall and Josh Ruby get in Cl. hours helping out with voter registration Students took a class a fter school and then were certified to register people to vote.

Allen Bock: AP World History, World Geo

Larry Wright : Civics , Intro Geo

Randy Ernst: Psychology

Joseph Schlegelmilch : Intro To Geo Diff, Civics, Civics Diff

Tamara Bailey: World History, U.S. History &x:r1t. sw.run.s @

LEFT:: Dr Leon Caldwell listens and participates as he looks at the class from a student's point of view.

ABOVE: Others listen intensely while Tyler Bullock plays the role of teacher.

BELOW: Sam Hartley pretends to be a giraffe to prove his act ing abilities at auditions.to decide whether he has what ii takes BELOW RIGHT: Greg Gibbs and Sara Moje rev iew notes in the auditorium during student auditions

ABOVE : Jason Miller, or Fuzzy as most know him , looks alot like a girl in full makeup RIGHT: Robyn Takes a break to make herself beaut iful before going on stage, and Ashley 's mom helps her get ready for her closeup

"My goal always is to have the students do their best and have fun· , said Mr Gibbs, director of the school one act play , "Property Rites·.

J\cting One A cts proceed with style

PAGE S DY JASON MILLER

T hi year's one act play " took a lot of hard work but in the end we put together a great show", aid Aaron Tibbles. North Star 's first one act wa ' Pr operty Rites" by Alan Haennhel.

From Oct. 13 to Dec. 6 , the students from the one act memorized lines, made props , and made friend s.

We even had our first one act festival Nov. 24. Waverly, Lincoln High, Lincoln East and Kearney parti ci p ated. Ashley Hemesty received an outstanding acto r award.

But it isn ' t all work, The tudent had a lot of fun too. Mr. Gibbs even rented the kids a " LimBusine" o they could cruise to di tricts in style.

The One Act took 5 tb at di trict , and again the ride home was a lot of fun.

" Wooo ," shouted Emily Nannen a the hummer limo pulled up. "We were exited to have VIP transport u to and from di tricts after all of the hard work the students put into the show,"

Gibbs said. "Districts was a good, positive experience for the tudents".

ROW 3: Mike Palmer , Jason Miller, Tyler Hale, Andy Westling Kristin Baker , Josh Hruby, Heather Larkins, Cassie Fore, Keesha Oltjon, Sam Hartley, Director Gregg Gibbs ROW 2: Sarah, Willoughby , Kristin Baker , Nikki Voboril , Katie Johnson, Robyn Bruscato, Carrie Hall, Hanna Craig, Sarah Slama, Sarah Mcowan

Maura Hammond, Amber Bartak, Bailey Cappellano Ty Tubs, Ashley Parsley , Sarah Moje ROW l: James Dingwell , Jessica Fahler Ashley Hernesty, Aaron Tibbles, Kelsey Lambley, Mekita Rivas, Tyler Lambley, Megan Carter , Emily Nannen (first row) Megan Murphy, Jessica Deboer

&xpounding

Good ay mate, and welcome to North Star. Today we have an exciting task, a teacher has been complaining about a student in her math class. She tells us that this gator has a habit of trying to put answers in the form of a persuasive speech Our mission is to capture the gator and relocate her in Brenda Broeker 's Speech and Debate team.

From "Novidogs " (beginners) to state finals , speech team members said speech is taking Nebraska by st o rm. The team comprised of 14 members is a truly diverse one.

Taking almost the whole team to state finals this year was quite the accomplishment "I enjoyed being on the speech team this year because you could work on your own thing , but if you needed help there were more e xperienced members that could help you" Erin Abbott said.

Abbott was a novice member this year. "I enjoyed watching the more experienced members compete because they were so interesting and you can learn allot ," Abb o tt said. Abbott's sa id her favorite area was prose because it was so much easier to put together

n All you gators know that speech team is the way

ABOVE : Alex Edwardson, Laruen Benda, Maren Vik, Beth Rempfer, Sarah Dahlgren, Robyn Shann c 1, Erin Abbott, Sam Hartley, Krista DeSelms, Tyler Lambley, Thu Cao, Nidhi Mehta, Cindy Le, Urma S 1lej manovic, and Brenda Broeker

ABOVE: : What could be more fm than a mystery d imer? This is only ore of tre many activities that tre speech and debate team part ici pated in here at North Star RIGHT: Chief Breaking-wind gives us her offering of peace

Speech Team Acco la des

State Medalist: Maren Vik 6th Place

State Qualifiers Included:

Tyler Lambley 4th Place, Humorous Prose

Alex Edwardson 3rd Place, Extemp

Lauren Benda 4th Place, Entertainment

Maren Vik 3rd Place, Persuasive

Beth Rempfer and Maren Vik 3rd Place, Duet Thu Cao, Nidhi Mehta , Irma Sulejmanovic, Cindy Le 3rd Place, OID

District Finalists Included:

Robyn Shannon 5th Place, Informative

Erin Abbott 6th Place, Serious Prose and 5th Place, humorous Prose

Other District Team Members Include:

Sam Hartley, Krista DeSelms , Sarah Dahlgren

PICTURED ABOVE: Tyler Lambley, Alex Edwardson, Krista DeSelms, Sam Hartley, Beth Remp fer, Sarah Dahlgreen,Thu Cao, Robyn Shannon, Nidhi Mehta, Cindy Le, Urma Sulejmanovic, and Maren Vik

ABOVE: Irma Sulejmanovic, Sam Hartley Erin Abbott, and Krista DeSelms dig into Enn's b irthday cake. Hey why is Cindy s nome on it too?

RIGHT: Sarah Dahlgren, Maren Vik, Beth Rempfer and Tyler Lambley play cards while waiting for finals to be posted at districts

TOP LEFT: Senior Stuco president Ashley Benes helps a student with her concern about school.

BOTTOM LEFT: Sophomore Victor KhoLJ<ho overlooks whot fellow members are working on

TOP RIGHT: Sponsor Randy Ernst and Sophomore Lorenzo Gaskin debate a topic brought up in a

discussion during meeting.

CENTER: The members of sh.x:o work hord on their jobs

BOTTOM RIGHT: Senior Stephanie Christenson works on an idea to present to the class.

through Student Council

~AGES BY CAI.LIE DURYJ;:A KELSEY RODRIGUEZ

Starting a Student Council for the first time at a brand new school wasn't easy and took a lot of hard work from it's members. But that's just what North Star Student Council did Student Council advisor Randy Ernst said.

With Homecoming and a District 6 Student Council Convention both within one week of each other in October, North Star's Student Council took on the challenge early in the year.

Student Council President Ashley Benes said , "The most enjoyable part of Student Council was getting to know everyone in the council, and seeing what their views were and what they wanted North Star Student Council to be like."

North Star's new Student Council decided on making new traditions with the addition of "Lunch Jams" and the nontraditional "Most Spirited " award for the person that was most active during the week before Homecoming .•

2003-2004 Lincoln North Star Student Council: ROW l: Historian Liz Fast , Vice President Ashley Grossenbacher, Treasurer Stephanie Christenson, Historian , Heather Larkins, President Ashley Benes ROW 2: Amnia Elbasheer , Allen Ladd, Edward Pigg , Abby Benker , Geni Gallardo, Spirit Coordinator Meyghan Mulvihill

ROW 3 : Rayon Elbasheer , Lorenzo Gaskins, Jenna Carson, Victor Khaukha , Vice President Kelsey Rodriguez ROW 4: Secretary Beth Weiner , Maren Vik, Michelle Sheldon, Sponsor Randy Ernst Not Pictured: Sarah Slama and Denys Steele

T~anhing' I the skills of student parentin

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Students in parenting class soon learn having a child is not like having a puppy. Parents or soon to be parents face many • sacrifices and lifestyle changes the class teacher and center director say . Jill Martin, the childcare center director said she learns things too "Wh en you work with young children , you learn new th ings every day and learn to work on theikr time, not on your own

Children in the center have ranged from si x weeks to three and one -half. Martin said the children in the daycare center do lots of different things . "I like to let them e xperience things that happen in their world, like see the ducks in the pond behind the school ," she said.

ABOVE : Junior Nick Degarmo works on an assignment during his fourth period student parenting class with Cornelle Kinney.

RIGHT: Teacher Cornelle Kinney teaches How to set boundries for your children " while sophomores Ashley Varhoosen and Helma Mohamed listen along.

TOP RIGHT: Sophomore Em ily Bloomquist and her son Issac Bloomquist spend time playing in the da ycare.

TOP CENTER: Junior Leah Guerra , and Sophomore, Becky Blackwell pay close attention to their teacher Cornelle Kinney.

ABOVE LEFT Sophomore Jessica Mcadams and her son CadenMcAdams smile for the camera before leaving the daycare center ofter school.

ABOVE RIGHT: Center director Jill Martin plays with Alexis Blackwell by the baby mirror in the daycare center LEFT: Sophomore Kaycee Hayne spends alot of time listening to directions about setting boundries for her son,

TOP LEFT: Nutrition specialists Jennifer Goodwin prepares the food tfut the staff will serve tfut day

TOP RIGHT: Campus security Lamy Bolles talks on his walkie-talkie during first period

TOP CENTER: Security Robert Mersed is there for the kids in the full and also often seen at school activities taking pictures with his digital camera Mersed shored

digital images with the yearbook and newspaper staff

LEFT: Nurse Eurice Rice gives

MIDDLE CENTER: Security Ben Wilcox always fus lime and a smile to sf-ore with students dunn< average days in the fulls MIDDLE RIGHT: Nurse para Molly Claus types in information about c student wfu hos come into the nurse s office.

BOTTOM LEFT: Cafeteria staff Lonesso Jones takes the order of a student eating at lunch. ABOVE : Jamie Gress goes over some of her doily paperwork in the attendance office

6upporting LNS Staff and Students

PAGES BYKELL~FISH

North Star teachers and adm inistrator s dur ing the 2003- 2004 school year needed good support staff to eff ic ient ly run a ne w school. This year the support staff included the cafete ri a st aff, campus secur it y, custodians and nurses . Nurses and health a ids made sure the health needs of all students and st aff were cared for Cus todians cleaned up after the messy k ids in the cafeter ia and general area, as w ell as made sure everything was in wor ki ng condition , a lways keeping t he new bui lding in t ip top cond ition Campus Secur ity kept a ll the bu ilding in order and he lped when kids needed guidance in the halls Finally , the Cafeter ia staff fed the many students in the cafe t eria and snack bar at var ious times dur ing the day

All together Nor t h Star had 12 Custodians, 13 Cafeter ia staff, 3

Attendance people, 3 Campus security , and 2 in the nurses ' office

TOP LEFT: Joan Kalivoda , attendance, flashes a smile while doing herwork.

TOP RIGHT: School Registar Carol Reed takes a break from her computer work involving students to answer a few questions.

BOTTOM LEFT: Custodian Jerome Johnson cleans up the Bayou aft e r lunch.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Custodians Cheryl Miller and Glem Steider head down the middle schoolhall during a busy morning s work.

UJ I.. m

ABOVE: Virgina Saporta, freshman Amanda Canby and club sponsor Larry Wright work on their dreamcatchers in Native American Caucus

TOP: With ear protection and a good aim, a Trap Club member shoots trap at range.

Rl6HT: Senior Josh Hruby works on solving a problem during a Mat~ Club meeting, OPPOSITE PA6E TOP: 6irls' bowling team members celebrate by eating out together, OPPOSITE PA6E BOTTOM LEfT: Asain Caucus members Tran Huynh and Allie Hu get roses ready to deliver to students on Valentine's Day.

OPPOSITE PA6E BOTTOM RI6HT: Archery Club members Zach '-fost and Patrick Kelley aim for the bullseye.

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BY JAMIE GREEN

Clubs were an important part in starting a new school. Clubs were a way for student to get involved and meet new people .. New organizations sometimes start out on the slow side because it is hard to get members involved, get a meeting, etc, Although it was a difficult task, some clubs overcame the challenge and started right up with regular meetings and activities,

One of those active clubs, Trap Club, met every Tuesday and Thursday after school at Lincoln Trap and Skeet, Some other clubs that started meeting regularly after school were Native American Caucus, Asian Caucus, and Science Olympiad, Math Club members Josh Hruby, Thu Duong, Whit Winders, and Corey

Lehr even went to UNL on Nov, 13 to participate in the 14th Annual Math Day,

African-American caucus

ROW 1: Quartez Hall, Lathan Murrell, Kale Kponee , Amy Peters , Ja'lon Johnson , Sponsor Falla Hal ey

i\sian caucus

ROW 1: Thao Chu , Kimiko Nguyen, Thu Cao, Aimee Oum, Van Luu ROW 2: Sponsor Jeanne Kwan, Jimmy Nguyen , Tommy Vu

Native American caucus

ROW 1: Emily Bloomquist and on I sac, Kiara Grant ROW 2: Sponsor Laurence Wright , Bree Douglas , Guidance counselor Virgina Saporta, Ashley Canby, Amanda Canby, Adicen Lillie , Cherelle Stabler ROW 3: Jeremy Niemi, Jamie Robinette NOT PICTURED: Anthony Yelm , Promise Behr

Girls', boys' bowling trams strike it big in 2004

~GEDY

GEL VINSONHALER

Not many people know that North ar has a bowling team. Many of the wlers didn 't even know until after tryouts

An announcement went out a few days after tryouts that the girls were two wlers short and the boys needed a few re to fill the seven places on each team. girls team ended up with nine bowlers d the guys had 16 between their JV and arsity

Two hour practices were held on

Friday afternoons, and many games fell on Saturday mornings. The boys ended the regular season with 2, out of 10 wins, a team average of 7 61 , a high game of 858 and a high series of 1685. The boys did not make it to state.

Girls won two games from regular season. They ended with a team average of 516, a high game of 614 and high series of 1178. The girls then pulled up their scores and qualifyed seventh of eight teams during districts and remained that way for state.

Many of the girls say they're coming back for the 2004- 2005 school year. "Next year we 're going t~ start practices before the season begins," Coach Richard Esquivel said to the girls that knew they had improved but would have done even better with more practice.

"If we came in top three in state this year , we vyould have shaved the coach's head. Next year we 're raising the stakes," the girls said, showing their commitment to the game

di

time before practice end

BOTTOM

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ROW 1: Brittany Marino, Katee Handy, Michael Wetzel, James Brown, Ben Lytle, Yen Tran ROW 2: Matt Winders, Katie Lindholm, Lindsey Hughs, Angel Vinsonhaler, Morgan Costello , Alma Olsen Asst. Coach Pat Esquivell Re)W 3: D,:vid Korber , Coach Richard

Esquivel , Derek Flesner, Steven Benne tt , Stevan Greer, ick Fuller; Corey Pospisil, Chase Beyersdorf, Travis Shaw, Tim Cigelman, Amy Peters, Joe Watts.

to the girls before state. TOP LEFT: Yen Tran

LEFT: Lindsey Hughes trie for a strike during practice.

RIGHT: Morgan Costello concentrates on getting one of the two pins left standing after throwing a seven-ten split.

ABOVE: Surprised but proud to be at state their first year as a team, the girls get together on the lanes for a team photo. ROW I: Yen Tran, Morgan Costello and Katee Handy ROW 2: Katie Lindholm, Lindsey Hughes, Angel Vinsonhaler, and Alma Olsen ot pictured: Brittany Marino and Amy Peter BELOW: Coach shows the girls where they stand from

trict for state.

Senior

Holl stomps dtiirg the lu,ch per iod

BELOW: Freshmen- Kale Kponee shows her moves dti irg one of the pep ralllies.

FAR RIGHT: ' Ready for action ' is what Sadie Oppegard was thirkirg while rnardiirg into the lumoom.

RIGHT:

Ouartez

RIGHT: ENT rnarchs into the Bayou to an admirirg and supportive crowd durirg one of the lundi rallies.

ABOVE: Senior Ouartez Holl and Sophomore Maggie Davenport wait to perform

The girls have cupcakes and shaw off the trophy they won at the Second Amual Step Off competition. The team met after schc ii t celebrate after they brought home the first place honors

FAR LEFT: Stomp as a team is what Karissa Webb and Elisha Hall were thiri.ing at the lunch prep rally.

LEFT : Senior Ouartez Hall raps after one of the step teams great performances

BELOW: The team stomps into the cafeteria during second ird, period

~ntertainaz (.EtNT) brings honors home to Gators

ENT may also be known as the step team , but the group wants to be known as Entertainaz This group of people came together to represent North Star with their hands and feet with using as few words as possible

The step team is a diverse group of students grade 9-12 that are e xtremely talented individuals according to sponsor Shar ilyn Bullock.

"They choreograph all their own routines as a group. This takes a lot of time and -patien~e on everyone 's part The team performed at the

Lincoln Children 's Museum , the ML K Rally , at many of the basketball games, the Lincoln Para Association annu<!l~ banquet and did a clin ic for the VERB conference in June," Bullock said.

"They love to perform an d 'entertain ' a captive audience ," Bullock said.

Senior Ouartez Hall sa i d the team 's success perform ing w ell has been a real adrenal ine r ush

Hall said it ha sn 't co me easy though. "You can 't learn e very thing in one day It is a lot of team wor k."

Dealing with the pressure has been hard, Hall said, but the rewards were worth it

The group has also gone into the community to represent the team ~nd our school. Hall said they did a clinic at the YWCA where they had about 18 little k ids.

Jess ica Nannen said the year started out great with a first place in No v ember Her favor it e memory was a standing ovation from the judg e s Nannen a lso mentioned the teamwork and dedication

0 ROW l: Veronica Morales, Tasha Roberts, Jessica Nannen Elisha Hall , Jenna Dittmer Row 2: Ouartez Hall, Allysa Ponce Kale Kponee, Karissa Webb,

aggie Davenport , Ahrmond Smith

D edication understanding

tn.Bting, and hard worker words that describe captain Tasha Roberts according to her team members

Trap club on the mark

Trap was a very organized club , and started meeting at the beginning of the year every Tuesday and Thursday at 4 :00 p.m. at the Lincoln Trap and Skeet Club to practice On Saturday mornings, the trap team had meets that started at 8:00 a.m.

They shot at least fifty shots, and at the end of the meet, they added up everyone 's shots and compared the scores with the other team 's score .

Sophomore Matt Beede said, "The best thing about trap is just being with all of your friends participating in a sport I enjoy, also competing in the meets ."

Some boys also ended up spending in the range of $3 ,000 for trap equipment

Sophomore Brenton Duryea said, "I have spent at least $3 ,500 00 on my equipment throughout the years I have been shooting ."

RIGHT: Keith Hiskey lines up to take a shot.

CENTER: Five boys line up to take turns at shooting at the rock that is shot up into the air

ROW l: Jake Edwards Keith

Hisky Josh Markel, Josh Roberts, Brenton Duryea, Jon Emodi , Arron Schneider , Coach Churchill ROW 2: Sponsor Travis Jensen, Matt Robinson, Brain Schneider, Aaron Adams, Chris Allen ROW 3: Jeff Nathan, Kyle Schroder, Derek Anderson, Matt Beede, RD Ward

f\rchery club hits the bullseye

PAGES BY CALLIE DURYEA

The North Star Archery Club is the only archery club in the state, so the ki ds compete as a tea·m with other individuals in their age bracket

The team meets at Prairie Bowman Club on Wednesdays at 4 :00 p.m. Team members said the team needs more members and more sponsors Archery club stresses responsibil ity , accountability and leadership sponsor Tamara Bailey said.

This season was very successfJ , with two teams taking top honors in the annual youth meet and se veral individual 1st place fin ishers Two female member s placed 1st and 2 nd

Jed Wel<;:h said, "I like archery because it is really fun t o go down t o the Bowman 's Club and shoot in competitions ."

TOP LEFT: Two of the team members get ready to take a shot.

BOTTOM LEFT: Ryan Fries pulls back his bow while he lines up o shot

BOTTOM RIGHT: At the end of practice this is what the bullseye ends up looking like.

ROW 1: Patrick Kelly Barbie Brower , Sonja Brazer, Zach Yost ROW 2: Jared Foss Joe Watts RD Ward Ryan Fries, Cooch Mike Yos t

French Club

ROW 1: Sarah Willoughby , Linda Nguygen, Katee Handy ROW 2: Quartez Hall, Teja Taylor, Brittni Boatwright, Sponsor Cara Heminger, Jill Andre ROW 3: Stephanie Mohr , Jennifer Thaut, Laina Mangel, Beth Rempfer , Melissa Brandt, Brett Thompson , Victoria Hunt, Sierra Frauen, Michelle Allen NOT PICTURED: Andy Darnell, Melissa Morgan, Sarah McCown, Taylor Pitts, Dezy Bruce , Alyssa Bolte, Michela Bridger

The North Star Gay/Straight alliance is a social and activist club supporting all students regardless of sexual orientation The GSA provided ALLY cards during the 2003-2004 school year for staff members who chose to identify their classrooms as safe places for all students.

SAFE PERSON

S A F E SP ACE

Math Club

ROW 1: Thu Doung ROW 2: Sponsor Eric Lockert, Josh Hruby, Whit Winders, Corey Lehr, Sponsor Megan Danek

Science Olympiad

ROW 1: Roswell , Amy Peters , Mr. Bonejangles, Lathan Murrell ROW :i: Spon ors Tracie Chapo, Lisa Bennett

OT PICTURED: Denys Steele

Sci-Fi/Fantasy Club

ROW 1: Brittany Boatright, Sponsor Cyndy Maddux , Jordan Foss ROW 2 : Sasha Welch , Brittany Bergautzel, Julian Zwiener , L a than Murrell , Nathan Beach , Erich Hellwig

Skills V.SJ\.

ROW 1: Joe Watt, Jordan Dau, Frank Gallusha, Sponsor Charmain Satree ROW 2: Patrick Kelley , R.D. Ward , Korey Lee , Ben Estrella

PAGES DY JAMIE GREEN

National lfonor '5ocie inducts first member

Scholarship, service , character , and leadership are the ou qualities a student must represent when nominated to be a ar i of the National Honor Society Eleven juniors and 7 senior s were inducted as the first members of North Star 's chapter f the National Honor Society on April 6 , 2004

The induction cere.mony started at 6:30 in t he Black B x theatre Dr. Becker welcomed everyone and then the cere

started.

Senior Amy Peters was the first speaker , and as she rE Jc about one of the four qualit ies , a candle was lit to r~presen t that quality

The ne xt spea ker , Senior Mai Huyhn, read about a sec )n quality as another candle was lit Senior Callie Duryea reac ne xt about service fo llowed by Sen ior Ana Kishchun who re c d about the last quality

After the can~le lighting , Assistant Principal Tom Johnsc 1 introduced each indiv idual member and business teacher Bo r 1i E Malcolm lead the group in the pledge .

TOP: Bomie Malcolm leads the students in the National Honor Socie ty pledge.

MIDDLE LEFT: Senior Andrea Olsen ligh ts the candle of service during the induction ceremony.

M IDDLE RIGHT: Tom Johnson reads the names of the students who were inducted.

• BOTTOM LEFT: Senior Ana Kishchun read about one of the NHS qualities while the representing candle was lit

BOTTOM RIGHT: The members of North Star's first chapter of National Honor Society ROW l: Mc Dittoe, Tommy Vu, Jamie Green, Nidhi Mehta Ir ma Sulegmanovic, Jay Schwaniger ROW 2: Callie Duryea , Ana Kishchun, Soyno Brazer, Celeste Harper Amy Peters, Ashl e y Beach ROW 3: Sponsor & 11 Malcolm, Tyler Lambly Rachel Vogt Andrea Olsen, Moi Huyhn

lfonors convocation recognizes academic excellence

Athletes have their banquets to honor a job well done during the season , but what about those who did well academically?

Tha t' s where the honors cdnvocation comes into play. In early April , a night was taken to recognize students who were on honor rol l, in the top 3 percent of their class , and inducted into the National Honor Society

After Dr Becker welcomed everyone, she introduced the student speaker, senior Ashley Grossenbacher Ashley 's message ur ged the students to keep their "fire " burning.

Then Junior Ryan Miller played Concerto No 4 , 3rd Movement (Rondo ) by F Sietz on the violin

Students stood and were recognized as a class as Princ ipal Ryan Zabawa introduced honor roll. Principal Vann Price recognized the students in the top 3 percent of their class and asked them to step to the front of the stage. National Ho nor Society students were also recognized.

A BO VE: St udents in the top 3 percent of the freshman class stand at the front of the stage to be honored Photos courtesy of Jaque Green

TOP LEFT: Junior Ryan Miller plays the violin at the first honors convocation

TOP RIGHT: Student Counsil Vice President Sen ior A sh ley Grossenbacher w as chosen to be the student speaker

M IDDLE: Students were seated on the stage of the auditor ium to be recOQnized for their academic

Tracy Alvarado

Ashley Benes

Tracy,

Congratulations. You make us so proud. May all your goals and dreams come true. The future is yours.

Love Alma, Enrique, & Vanessa

- Cinderella - Daddy Long Legs - Checkbaby-Checkbaby - Broken Finger - Go Speed Racer

Life with you is never boring Love Mom & Dad To our

We love you for your hard work and many accomplishme n t , We wish you the best of everything for your future.

Love always , Grandpa & Grandma -

Where has the time gone? Words can't describe our love for you and how proud we are of you. You have grown into a . independent, strong, and confident person. Life is just begin• ning so strive to achieve all your goals and may all your dreams come true.

Love Mom, Dad, & Brenton 154 Senior Ads by Heather Larkins

From little toddling feet to cruising around Lincoln street s you've grown from a precious little girl to a beautiful youn f woman Congrats on graduating mid-term.

Love , Mom, Rick, & Jess

Congrats! We ' re all very proud of you. With every end there comes a New Beginning. Make the most of it!

Love , Dad, Mom , Taylor, & Morgan

Jamie Green

Our little princess is off to college! Your adventurous spirit will take you far. We're so proud of you. God bless.

Love, Mom , Dad , Jeremie, & Joel

Matt Jennings ..

It doesn't seem possible that you're graduating already. It's been great watching you grow. We're so proud of you! Congratulations.

Love, _ Dad, Mom, Amy, Ryan, & Jeremy

Holly Knust

You'vegrownsomuchnotonly in size, but in spirit and heart. You are a wonderful daughter, sister, and friend. We are all very proud of you and love you!

Love Always, Mom&Kim

Holly . Knust

We' re proud of you! Keep following your dre ams and believing in yo urs elf. We wish you happiness and success in whatever path your life leads.

Love Always, Dad , Toni, Cara, & Kimberlie

Tyler Leibel

It has been a joy for us to watch you grow up. You're a "Great" son and we are so proud of you! Love, Mom & Dad

alive. Keep your faith in God and remember you will always mean the world to us and we are very proud of you.

All our love, Dad, Mom, & Cody

Congratulations

Heather , You have grown from a beautiful baby to a beautiful and determined young lady. You are a shining star and hold the key to your successes in life. Believe in yourself and keep your dreams

Daughter

Deneica ,

· You were my teacher from the start , and now that you ' re graduating an d becoming a beautiful young lad1 , I just want to say that I'm proud you and the sky is the limit. Congratulations.

Love Mom

Renee e n e e

You have been an absolute joy! Words can ' t express how p n 1d of you we are . Love , Mom, Dad, & Sean

Kathleen & Meagan

Murphy

" Sisters , sisters, there were never such devoted sisters "

Look out world here they come the diva and the doctor! You have made us proud. Good luck in all you do and God Bless. Love, Mom , Dad, Patrick, & Rasey

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Lathan A . Murrell

Dear Lathan, I am proud of your accomplishments and the joy you bring daily to my life.

Love, Mom

Dear Grandson, Congratulations! You are a joy and a delight. I'm glad you are my grandson.

Love, Grannie

Erick

Russell

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Lhffiey Leigh Pickering

Congratulations on your graduation. We are so proud of you! May all of your dreams come true!

Love , Mom and Dad

Lindsey S teele

At first it seems so far away, and now the time is here. You have come so far, accomplished so much, and become a beautiful young woman. We're so very proud of you! God bless you Lindsey! • Love, Mom, Lacy, & Lexie

You have been our shining star. It's been a blessing and a joy to share your life. Congratulations.

Mom&Dad

Lindsey, , I promise to always remember. I'm so happy that we re getting married.

-B

Brett Waldman

Continue to grace us with your beautiful smile and loving heart.

Love,

Mom, Dad, Blake, and Grandparents

Ashley Robinson

Devil or Angel

With each passing day of your life I ne v er know if you are my little angel or my little devil.

•Life has never been dull with you in it. I would not trade a single minute of you being in my life. You have made me so very proud to be your mother and have been the center of all my dreams. I hope you never let life pass you by or take on single breath for granted. May all you ' ve ever dreamed come true. Remember to always take chances and DANCE!

All My Love , Mom

Ashley &AJ

To our preciou s Ashley and AJ ,

We cannot believe how fast the years have gone by! With all of the joys and thrills of watching you both grow into the adults you have become

We are so very thankful to have been apart of your lives and to have shared in your transformation.

• • We are so very proud of you both and for everything we know that you " WILL" become.

Love you so very much, Grandma Diana & Grandpa Wayne

Jamie Green Rach el & Callie

Jamie wrote it on the board: "You gotta do what you gotta do ." And Jamie did for the first North Star Polaris yearbook-more hours than anyone could count.

Thanks from the staff, the Polaris and your advisor.

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Ms. Mari e, From our ABC conversation to suicide Dorito s Even if I do move to Australia, I know I can rely on you to fly around the world. Don ' t ever change your special ways , don ' t forget KCF , your Walmart coupon s , and don ' t ever forget me-Ditchel Thomas. Love always and forever , Rachel Renae

Brother

Shaun,

Hope you build your dreams and future in construction!

Love,

Your Sister, Angela

Son

Shaun,

We've seen you grow through-Out the years. CONTINUE to make us PROUD in your future endeavors!

Hoping you have the GREATEST GRADUATION!

LOVE ALWAYS, MOM&DAD

We know you are capable of GREAT things! Continue to do your BEST in ALL THINGS, and your future will be a Brighter One!

PROUD OF YOU! • DAD&MOM

Dear Grandson Brother

Shaun, "Graduation" Congratulations on a job well done!

Love, Grandma

Shaun,

Over the 12 years you have learned reading , writing, science, and much more But sometimes the most useful lessons you learned are not graded or apparent.

At this time you are Relieved to have accomplished a huge task. You remember the hard work anq.dedication it took to get there In a few years you will remember the good times you had and that you had to work to accomplish your dreams, but that feeling of burden will be forgotten.

- Thi lesson is: even though the situation looks tough, and going through it isn't easy. The reward at the end is worth it. The pain and suffering will l? e forgotten and you will be a better man.

To accomplishments and successes, Your Brother Chad

Sam Zajicek

It has been an amazing eighteen years. We are so proud of everything that you have accomplished. You can do anything that you put your mind to- this year has been a testament to that.

Love, Mom, Dad , Scott , Shawn, & Sara

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Abbott, Erin 38, 90, 91, 121

Abou, Mawj 46

Aboud, Moheymen 38

Adams, Aaron 46, 59, 148

Adams, Jarad 26

Addeo, Jenifer 38

Adul Alcala, Serrano 37

Agurcia-Miranda, Nayo 45

Akur, Philip 33

AJ-Ghazawi, Jassim 37

Al-Helfi, Bayda 46

Al-Helfi, Rawa 46

Al-Subiahi, Ahmed 38

Al-Subiahi, Ali 26

Ali, Elias 38

Ali, Kawal 31

Ali, Shaima 52

Allen, Alyssa 46

Allen, Brandon 46

Allen, Christopher 33, 148

Allen, Michelle 46 , 70, 71, 150

Allen , Mykel 45

Alley, Joshua 37

Alvarado, Tracy 108 , 154

Alvarado , Vanessa 38, 82, 83

Amaya, Anthony 46, 59

Amaya, Nikkia 38, 83

Ambriz , Adam 33

Ambriz, Anthony 37

Amerson, Ricka 46

Anderson, Dan 33, 123

Anderson, Derek 33, 148

Anderson, Jeremy 38

Anderson, Katie 38, 65 , 77

Andre, Jill 38, 150

Anker, Jennifer 46

Anthony, Julia 46

Anthony, Stephanie 38

Archie, Darwin 33, 37, 86, 115

Archie, David 23, 46, 104

Armagost , Nate 59

Arrigo, Megan 46

Assefa, Mahelete 46, 121

Attaie, Sina 38

Auman, Mandy 45

Avey, Matt 123

Avila, Valerie 46

Awad, Farah 37, 38

Ayres, Kate 38

Backemeyer, Chad 33

Bahe, Alex 85

Bahr, Promise 52

Bailey, Jeffery 9, 38

Bailey, Tamara 131

Baker, Afton 46

Baker, Kristin 20, 21, 38, 133

Baker, Nick 31

Ballinger, Alkneesha 26

Barbee, Cierra 46

Barber, Shawn 38

Barham, Nick 45

Barker, Kate 38

Barnacle, Bryan 107

Barnes , Christoph 33

Barnes , Edward 31

Bartak,Amber38, 133

Bates, Briana 65 , 66

Bauer, Christina 46

Bauer, Jeremy 38

Baumgartner, Dustin 46, 69

Baxa, Michael 45

Beach, Ashley 37, 120

Beach, Nathan 46, 59 , 151

Beaman, Mallory 33, 65, 120

Beck, Chelsea 46, 91

Becker, Nancy 19, 20, 56, 61, 66 , 92,93,94 , 95,96

Beckler, Nichole 38

Beebe , Bradley 52 , 69

Beeck, Alex 26

Beeck, Sue 99

Beede, Matthew 38, 148

Beemen, Mallory 76, 77

Beenblossom, Brandon 46, 59, 89

Begovic, Adnana 26, 31

Beisner, Von 14, 33

Beltran, Isaiah 38

Belville, Anna 120

Benda , Lauren 7 , 38

Benes , Ashley 6, 16, 26, 31, 109, 120, 136, 137 , 154

Benes, Terran 38, 65, 83

Benker, Abby 33, 137

Bennett, Lisa 128, 151

Bennett, Steven 38, 145

Bergantzel, Brittany 46, 151

Bergholz , Robert 10, 46, 59, 112

Bergholz, Whitney 37

Berry, Jordyn 46, 61, 81, 82, 113

Best, Donnie 31

Beyer, Kenny 46, 59

Beyersdorf, Chase 38 , 145

Bickert, Nia 46, 65, 82

Bishop, Andrew 45

Bittinger, Kelly 13, 46, 66

Blackwell, Alexis 139

Blackwell, Becky 38, 139

Blake, James 89, 128

Blanco, Matthew 37

Blankenship, Justin 10, 38

Blankenship, Kirk 26

Blanton, Raevonne 46

Blazek, Nicholas 26, 123

Bliss, Jada 31

Bloomquist , Emily 38, 138, 144

Bloomquist, Issac 138, 144

Boatwright, Brittney 46, 150 , 151

Bock, Allen 131

Bolte, Alyssa 5, 7, 46, 150

Boltz, Gina 21

Bonge, Michelle 3 8

Born, Cassie 38

Borowiak, Christina 38, 66, 99

·Boutmahavong, Johnny 46, 59

Bower, Barbara 46, 149

Bowling, John 86

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Bowman, Ashley 31

Boyle, Rick 69 •

Bradley-Williams, Lachel 46 121

Brady, Andrew 37

Brandt, Melissa 46, 150

Brannan, Jason 38

Brase, Elise 26

Braxton , Jerry 46

Brazer, Leticia 38, 120

Brazer, Sonja 33, 120, 123 , 1 9

Bredenelel, Rebecka 46

Breed, Kelsey 33

Brethouwer, Jeffrey 38

Brethouwer, Kyle 46

Bridger, Michela 46, 150

Bridges , Steven 33

Briggs, Danny 46, 59, 89

Brix, Aaron 33

Broeker, Brenda 106

Brogren, Michael 37

Brooks, Lynae 46

Brown, Antwane 4, 46

Brown, Christina 31

Brown, James 46, 145

Brown, Jeremiah 31

Brown, Kim 31

Brown, Michael 38, 87, 93, 1 Brown , Sarah 33

Brown, Spencer 5, 14, 26, 5 6 61 , 89 Brown, Terry 33

Browning, Lakeeva 52

Bruce, Dezy 38, 66, 150

Bruscato, Robin 21, 46, 121, Brosnahan, Katie 33, 64, 65, 80,81

Brustel, Jack 130

Bryan, Nick 33, 54, 86, 109

Buchholz , Amanda 65, 66

Buck , Chaney 46, 91

Bullock, Travis 38, 89

Bullock, Tyler 38, 84, 85, 13 1

Burbach, Emily 46, 90, 91, 1 1 !

Burbach, Ryan 38, 130

Burcham , Nathan 26

Burden, Joshua 21, 38, 88, 89 Burke, Karen 110

Burkey, Candice 38

Burkey, Megan 38, 82

Burks, Alisha 33

Burks, Kendra 46

Burnett, Jason 37

Burson , Kelly 31

Bush-Cass, Dustin 45

Buzby, Tony 38

Byran , Joanna 45, 120

Byron , Natasha 109, 120

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Cain, Bobby 38

Caladrius, Jace 38

Caldwell, Steven 26

Calkins, Lori 96

Callaway, Cameron 46, 52

Campbell, Brian 38

Conroy, Matt 38, 59, 87

Campbell, Kelsey 47, 74, 75, 95 Conway, Kat 31

Canby, Amanda 47, 77, 82, 104, Cook, Thomas 45

Duncan, Zachary 34

Duong, Huong 34

Duong, Thu 27, 103, 150

Foster, Evan 48

Foster, Stephanie 45

Frauen, Sean 48

Griesch, Emily 106

Griffin, Brad 39

Griffin, Jacob 39 144

Coplan, Christina 47

Canby, Ashley 47, 77, 81, 83, Corbett, Katie 33, 79

Duong; Tommy 34

Duop, yalat 27

Frauen, Shiloh 39

Griffin, Monica 48

Frauen, Sierra 48, 150 Griffith, Nicholas 39, 43, 120 144 Corum, Jake 38

Durukan, Bugra 47, 69

Fredstrom, Shane 48 'Groesser, Michael 37 Canby, Joshua 33

Costello, Kellie 33, 109 Duryea, 1;3renton 39, 148

Frey, Tyler 45 Gros enbacher, Ashley 23, 28, Cao, Thu 33, 144

Costello, Morgan 38, 120, 145

Duryea, Callie 27, 108, 152,

Fries, Ryan 39, 149 137 Cao, Vincent 38 Craig, Brett 31 154,158

Fritz, Lindsay 48

Grossenbacher, Josh 48 Cappellano, Bailey 47, 133 Craig, Hannah 21, 47, 133 Dzerk, Nathan 47

Fritzinger, Meagan 27, 154 Guerra, Leah 34, 139 Carpenter, Jessica 26, 54 Cramb, Jeff 33

Fuentes, Hector 34 Guerra, Serena 28 Carper, Megan 21, 38, 121, 133 Crandell, Clare 47, 61 c

Fullbright, Anastazia 45 Gutierrez Reyes, Carlos 39 Carson, Jenna 38, 137 Cranor, Kyle 47

Fuller, Nick 12, 48, 59, 145 Guy, Craig 39 Carter, Brian 31 Crear, Dawn 47 Eastin, Tawni 45

Fullerton, Bo-Ashley 3, 48, 74, Casement, Christin 33, 70, 71, Cristinson, Stephine 79

Eberspacher, Andrea 47 75,95 H 109 Crocker, April 27

Eddington, Andrea 55

Furby, Clevone 52, 59, 87 Cassey, Ogden 47 Crocker, Jessica 47, 83, 121

Eddy, Kevin 13, 18, 39, 69 Hafner, Josh 34 Castillo, Andrew 47, 52 Cross, Ashley 38, 91

Edgar, Geno 39

G Hain, Kathryn 39 Castor, Bryan 47, 87 Crowder, Kelsey 4 7

Edington, Aaron 34 Hain, Rebecca 31, 139 Catalina1 Daniel 47 Cruickshank, Nickolaus 47, 59

Catlett, John 92, 114 Crumb, Jared 47, 59

Caves, Megan 33, 120 Cruz, Edgar 34, 108

Edington, Andrea 4 7, 61, 81

Edwards, Jake 39, 68, 69, 148

Edwards, Jourdain 47

Gage, Andrew 31 Hale, Tyler 21, 48, 59, 120, 133

Gage, Jeremy 27 Hall, Alex 33, 37

Gaines, Andrew 31 Hall, Alicia 147 Cayou, Duane 33

Cuddeford, Sara 27

Edwards, Lara 43, 45

Gaines, Hasina 34 Hall, Carrie 133 Cervantes, Patrick 45 Cummings, Genevieve 38, 52

Edwardson, Alex 5, 27, 32

Galindo-Guerrero, Adriana 45 Hall, John 34, 90, 91 Chadd, Chelsea 33 Curfman, Melissa 23, 38, 66

Edwardson, Ben 45

Gallardo, Geni 48, 137 Hall, Justin 39 Chadd, Tyler 33

Chairez, Karina 33 \)

Edwardson, Kasey 47, 83

Galusha, Franklin 48, 59, 87, Hall, Mechia 48

Egan, Nicholas 47, 59, 88, 89 122 Hall, icholas 39 Chandler, Amanda 47

Ehlers, Nancy 129

Gao, Xuemei 31 Hall, Quartez 28, 120, 131, 145Chantry, Quin 47, 122

Dabert, Bruce 95

Eihusen, Karen 114

Garcia, Sara 39, 42 147,150 Chapek, Joshua 33 Dahlgren, Sarah 47, 66

Elbasheer, Amnia 23, 27, 137

Gardner, Austin 39, 42, 89 Hall, Shannon 31 Chapo, Tracie 128, 151 Daily, Christie 38

Charbonneau, James 47, 59 Danek, Megan 114, 150

Charbonneau, Jennifer 47 Daniel, Tracy 38

Elbasheer, Rayan 47, 137

Gaskins, Lorenzo 10, 39, 86, Haller, Kristi 34

Emodi, Jonathan 47, 59, 148 136, 137 Hallman, David 45

Endrh1-at, Amy 47

Chebanenko, Dem 33 Darnell, Andy 47, 150 Engleman, Heathe r 52

Gaskins, Tyrone 48, 59 Halsey, Falla 130, 145

Geekenbock, Megan 79 Halte, Jimmy 31 Chei, Bandak 37 Dau , Jordan 5, 7, 47, 87, 151 Enriquez, Jose 27

Geer, Lacey 31

Halvorson, Chuck 48, 109 Chermok, Michetle 47 Daugherty, Debi 4 7

Epley, Amanda 39, 120

Geerts, Michael 48 Hammond, Maura 48, 133 Chilombo, Makani 4 7, 59, 87 Davenport, Maggie 47, 66, 146, Epp, Shaye 4 7

Gehrig, Jessica 39, 79 Hamo, Khafshi 45 Chrastil, Tyler 37 147

Erickson, Bri an 27

Gengenbach, Megan 39 Hamo, Sherin 52, 110 Chrisp, Billy 47 Davis, Jessica 47

Erickson, Holly 39

Georeus,_Kelly 71 Handy, Katee 39, 145, 150 Chrisp, Corey 37 Davis, Michelle 5 , 38, 79

Emesti, Ashley 20, 21, 39, 133

Gerlach, Dustin 39, 58, 59, 87 Handy, Kris 39 Christensen, Calvin 38, 72, 73, Davison, Heather 4 7, 61, 81 Ernst, R andy 3 , 131, 136, 137

Gibbs, Greg 2, 21, 106, 140 Hanika, Ben 21, 61 86,87 Dean, Kali 47

Esquivel, Ri c hard 145

Gibson, Rob 48, 109 Hannaway, Mark 34 ;3 Christenson, Stephanie 14, 26, Dean, Nicole 15, 31 Esquivell, Pat 145

Giebelhaus, Amanda 39, 108, Hansen, Alyssa 15, 39 131, 136, 137 Dean , 'Fyson 47, 59 Estrella, Benjamin 47 109 Harlan, Carrie 21, 39 Chu, Thao 38, 123, 144 Deboer, Jessica 38, 120, 133 Ethridge, Ashley 47

Gillam, Misty 39 Harmon, Kelsi 48 Chung, Minh 37 Decker, Jamie 38, 77 Etmund, Mandy 47

Gillespie, Brynna 37 Harper, Celeste 34, 93 Cigelman, Timothy 47, 145 Degarmo, Nick 4, 34, 138 Evans, Kylie 39

Gilmore, Jordan 48, 59, 87, 102 Harring, Mike 48 Cink , Stacy 47, 65, 67, 83 Deist, Amanda 47, 77, 105 Everheart, Kris t o pher 45

Giltner, Toni 34 Harris, Ashleigh 52 Claes, Molly 61 Demyanovskiy, Oleg 34 Evers, Kirstin .i. 7

Glazebrook, Kyle 48 Harris, Cyndi 39, 81 Clark, Anna 38 Demyanovskiy, Timofey 47

Godfrey, Tyrone 123 Harris, Jason 40 Cleary, Amanda 38, 120 Dennis, Katie 45 f

Goemann, Richard 48 Hartley, Sam 20, 21, 40, 121, Cleary, Devin 27 DeSelrns, Krista 21, 38, 121

Golliday, Katina 39 132, 133 Cleveland, Spenser 21, 45, 120 Deterding , Edan 31 Failo r, .Tes .-; i c a 21, 34, 120, 133

Golman, Sylvia 28 Hartsgrove, Henry 40 Clough, Daniel 47

Diem , Katie 45

Faines, Wendell 47, 85, 86, 106

Gomez, Mayola 48 Havlat, A.J. 16, 28, 158 Clymer, Christopher 33, 68, Diem, Rachael 45 Farber, Melanie 93, 106

Gomez-Hernandez, Antonio 31 Hedrick, Mindee 48 Clymer, Heather 47, 77 Dingle , Chase 47 Farritor, Joel 34

Gomez, Selenne 39 Haynes, Kaycee 40, 139 69,120 Diffenderfer, Terri 106, 108 Farley, Brendan 47

Gordin, Matthew 34, 37 Hegemann, Shawn 37 Cobb, Candice 47 Dingman, Ben 34 Fast, Liz 47, 137

Gordin, Timothy 28, 103 Hehn, Zachary 48 Cohen, Adam 33 Dingman, Travis 47 Fazel, Casey 34

Gorelaya, Anna 45, 110 Heibel, Micah 114 Cole, Brandy 52

Dingwell, James 38, 133 Fischer, Danielle 31

Gose, Taylor 78, 79 Heine, Susan 104 Cole, Michael 47, 59 Dinh, Phuong 38 Fish, Kelly 39, 108

Gotiya, Ghandi 39 Hellwig, Erich 40, 151 Coleman, Brenda 31

Dittmer, Jenna 47, 147 Fish, Teigan 7

Graham, David 39, 59 Helmick, Amber 121 Coleman, Donald 27

Colfack, Heather 27

Dittoe, Matt 34

Doan, Luong 39

Fisher, Anthony 31

Fisher, Jeremy 37

Fisher, John 107

Grant, Kiara 37

Grant, Sierra 48

Helmkamp, MacKenzie 40

Helmkamp, Mikayla 52, 53 Collins, Aaron 47, 59

Dodd, Nichalus 21, 47

Gray, Daniel 34

Heminger, Kara 113, 150 Collins, Casey 45

Dodson , Hilary 110

Fisher, Shannon 47, 51, 76, 77, Gray, Sara 31

Hendrickson, Paul48 Collins, Rodshe 47 Doughty, Floyd 128 121

Green, Jamie 28, 32, 94, 108, Herechski, Tyler 48

Collinsworth, William 4 7 Douglas , Bree 39, 65, 81, 113, Fleming, Christopher 47 109, 155, 158

Condon, Joseph 38, 59 144

Conner, Meghan 20, 21, 46, 47, Drake , Kristen 21, 39, 65

Flesner, Derek 23, 31, 145

Flores, Nicholas 52

Greene, Vicky 39

Greenrod, Arielle 48

Hergenrader, April 5, 48

Hesse, Louis 48, 122

Hetland, Kristi 113 61, 82, 109, 121

Droud, Mandi 47, 77, 121

Conover, Kurtis 27, 31 Duir, Mabil 52

Flowers, Adam 34

Flynn, Cory 47, 59, 87

Fore, Cassie 21, 39, 133

Greenwald, Cinnamon 39 Higgins, Brian 28

Greer, Stevan 39, 145 Higgins, Chris 52

Greenwood, Emily 39 Higgins , Chelsea 34 Conroy, Caitlin 47, 78, 79 Duis, Jerel 39, 131

Conroy, Joesph 45

Duncan , Nicholas 31

Foss, Jordan 48, 149, 151

Gregory, Patience 39 Higgins, Paul 48

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Hill, Kerry 28

Himmelberg, Randi 48, 51

Hinman, Joshua 21, 52

Hiskey, Keith 40, 148

Hoang , Nhung 48

Hoback, Adrian 52, 59

Hockey, Emily 48

Hockey, Sarah 34

Hodges, Tyler 88, 89

Hoefling, Derek 37

Jackson, Sean 37 Kishchun, Viktoriya 34

Jacobson , Craig 97 Kitchen , Gentry 40

Jambor, Lori 106 Klann , Chri topher 15, 28

James, Pereck 40 Klein, Anthony 49

Jasa , Amanda 34 Klein, David 49

Jeffers, Ashley 48 Klein, Tony 59

Jennings, Matthew 28, 69 , 155 Kline, Scott 19

Jensen, Travis 40, 87 , 106, 148 Klooster, Joshua 52

Jeys, Adrianna 48 Knaff, Kameron 49

Jimenez, Selina 34 Knight, Amber 49, 53, 121

Hoehne , Cindy 65, 66 , 67 , 105 Ji kra, Camela 5, 48 Knight, Kristie 49

Hoffman, Dustin 28

Hofpar, Brooke 8, 48

Holbrook, Josh 48

Holden, Sean 48, 89

Hollcroft, Sara 106

Hollins, Brendon 28, 89, 108

Jochum, Brandon 21, 40 Knust, Holly 23, 28, 91, 10 8

Johnson, Adam 40 155

Johnson, Brett 52 Koang, Rarnkel 40, 86

Johnson, Bryan 34, 37 Kohel, Holly 49

Johnson, Chris 81, 82 Kok, Anai 34, 110

Johnson, Ja'Lon 21, 48, 120, Kok, Yar 40, 110

Hollins, Jonathan 34 145 Kalka, Na than 28

Holrnbeck, Justin 31

Holmes, J.T. 10, 40, 68, 69, 81

Johnson, Jennifer 37 Kantor, Broe 49

Johnson, Katie 21, 48, 77, 121, Korber, David 40, 43, 69, 14

Holmes, Latoya 37 133 Kozakiewicz, Gregory 34

Holmes, Robert 52

Holsclaw, Garret 48, 59

Holz, Tiffany 40, 48

Homewood, Darryl 40, 91

Johnson, Latoya 40 Kponee, Kale 49, 121

Johnson, Tom 94, 152 Kramer-Hansen, Lisa 129

Johnston, Dorann 10,5 Krause, Michael 52, 53

Johnston, Jeremy 31 Krolikowski, Molly 14, 23 , Hopper, Anthony 34, 37 Jones, Markham 34 Krolikowski, Samantha 34

Horton, Antonio 40, 59., 87 Jorgensen, Alex 40 Krull, Shayne 40, 68, 69

Horton, Dontavious 48 Joy, Ember 40 Krzycki, Gus 40, 59

Horton, Vontavious 48 Joy, Michelle 37 Kudron, Tarrah 49

Hosick, Dustin 48

Houden, Sean 59

Jukovic, Armin 40 Kueth, Nyalang 36, 49

Jukovic, Minela 48, 53, 76, 77, Kwan, Jeanne 113,f144

Houston, Giorgio 40, 87 85, 86, 113, 121

Howard Alycia 5, 40, 65 Juracek, Megan 40, 91, 120 L.

Howell, John 48

Howell, Nicholas 48, 59, 89 Labrie Whitson, Shannon 4 ~ Hoyle, Steven 40 Lacey, Garret 49

Hoyt, Carly 48

Hruby, Josh 5, 21, 28, 133, 150

Hruza, Andy 40

Hruza, Nick 28, 84, 85

Kabat, Jason 34, 85, 86 Lacey, Joe 34

Kaiser, Seth 5, 14, 34, 36 Ladd, Allen 28, 84, 85 , 137

Kalu,za, Kyle 48, 59 Lahorne, Nick 59

Kaponnee, Kale 145-147 Lambley, Kelsey 6, 21, 49, 7 , Hruza, Timothy 4, 31

Hu,Aillie48

Hua, Ming 52

Karkash, Ali 52 79, 133

Karre, Paul 48 Lambley, Tyler 6, 15, 20, 21.

Kassebaum, Jessica 49, 81, 34, 133

Hua, Sonya 48 82, 83 Lamison, Trevor 59

Hubbard, Nathan 48, 89 Katt, Daniel 49, 90, 91 Landreth, Chris 12

Huber, Benjamin 48

Hudson, Katelyn 48

Keefer, Sabrina 5, 7, 49, 83, 121 Lankford, Perry 45

Keefer, Sheena 34, 74, 75, 95 Lantos, Adrian 37

Hugelman, Vince 8, 12, 21, Keeler, Olivia 40 Larkins, Heather 28, 133, 13 48,59

Hughes, Lindsey 21, 48, 145

Kehm, Andrew 34 156

Keith, Christopher 45 Lass, Jonathan 49

Hughes, Nicholas 34 Keller, Madelon 21, 34, 108, Lass, Pete 37 Hunt, Victoria 48, 150 120 Laughlin, Shane 40 Hussain, Mohamed 34

Keller, Mikaela 37, 108 Laurenceau, Amanda 49, 66 , Hussain, Yaseen 34

Keller, Oliver 21, 49, 59, 105 Lawhorne, Nicholas 52

Hutchins, Charleah 40, 79 Keller, Taylor 34 Lawrence, Ryan 23, 31

Hute, Derrel 102

Hutzell, Meg 48, 51

Huyett, Ryan 48, 59

Huynh, Mai 5, 28, 152

Huynh, Tran 40

Hynes, Kory 45

Ibach, Stephanie 48

Igo, Chelsey 48, 53

Ihde, Dustin 28, 154

Ihde, Paige 52

Ihde, Phillip 37

Ihde, Travis 45

Iverson, Jacob 45, 58, 59, 89

JKeller, Trevor 28, 123 Le, Cindy 19, 40

Kelley, Patrick 49, 149 Le, Cong 34

Kelso, Travis 59, 90, 91 Le, Hong 40

Kemp, Davon 34, 57 Le, John 40

Kennedy, Greg 45 Le, Justin 40

Kent, Marcus 37 Le, Ny 49

Kepler, Jan 99 Le, Phuc 49, 52

Khaukha, Victor 40, 69, 136 Leafty, Larry 45, 59

Kiene, Jeremy 45 Leafty, Sheila 15, 40

Kilgore, Sean 34 Lee , Korey 49

Killin, Derek 40 Lee, Kristina 49, 109

Killman, Drew 49, 91 Leer, Jennifer 49

King, Quentin 49 Legrande, Joshua 34, 59

King, Tiffany 45 Lehn, David 49, 59

Kinney, Camelle 104, 138 Lehn , Mathew 40

Kircher, atalie 28 Lehr, Cory 34, 150

Kishchun, Anna 28 Leibel, Tyler 4, 26, 29, 155

Kishchun, Lyudmila 40, 120 Leifert, Tris h a 49, 86

Leising, Michelle 61 Maya, Brian 23 , 40

Lenhoff, Amber 39, 40, 121 Maynard, Seth 1, 40, 109

Leypoldt, Beth 34

Murphy, Kathleen 29, 104 , 156 O ' Donnell, Stephanie 50 Pischel, Tria 115

Murphy, Megan 21, 29 45, 0 Meara, Kir ten 107 Pi o, Fadel 35

McAdams , Caden 139 109, 120, 133, 156

Ochoa, Kasey 50, 52 Pitt , Taylor 50, 61. 83, 150 Liefert, Trisha 85

McAdams, Jessica 40, 139

Murray, Bryan 49 87, 102

Oeltjen, Ke ha 21, 41, 133 Pizarro Rennell 31, 84, 85 Lillie, Adicen 40, 144 McAdams, John 17 , 29 , 120, Murray , Marie 49, 104

Ofodirinwa Derek 1, 41 Plaksin, Artem 29, 30 Lin , Kari 15, 40 130

Murray, Stephanie 4, 49, 79

Ogden, Cassey 52 Plaksina, Irina 50 Lindgren, Kyle 34 McBride, Ashley 40, 120

Murrell, Lathan 21, 29, 120, Ohl chwager, Joshua 35 Pleasant, Derri ha 50 65 Lindholm , Katie 40, 149 McBride, Jessica 35, 120 145, 151, 157

Oldenburg, Kerry 41 Plummer, Ian 5, 21, 41, 68, 69 , Linoff, Amber 79

McBride, Terri 52 Musiel Candyce 81, 83, 107

Olderding, Cindy 31 90,91 Lippert, Adam 29

McCatty, Marque 35 Musiel, Matt 68, 69, 123

Oliva , Reyna 29 Pluta, Ellison 35, 120 Lippert , Kyle 49 McClanahan, Justine 35 Myers, Dallas 45 Ol sen, Alma 41, 145 Pluta, Ryan 50, 52 , 59, 86 Lis , Mallory 49 McCown, Sarah 21, 35, 120

Olsen, Ashley 41 Poe, Branden 12, 41 Littleton, Kelley 34 McCoy, Evon 40 w

Olsen , Erik J 41 Poethig, Danny 50, 59, 120 Locke, Mackenzie 31, 35 McCullough, Tiffany 40, 120

Ol sen, Justin 50, 59 Ponce, Aly sa 41, 147 Lockert, Eric 114, 150 McFee , Amber 35 annen, Emily 49, 121, 133 01 en, Mark 103 Po pisil, Corey 145 Loeck, Brianna 49, 76, 77 McGerr, Lacey 35 annen, Jessica 21, 41, 147

Olson, Andrea 5 29 93, 152 Price, Vann 33, 94 Lomi on, Trevor 49 Mclnto h, Michael 49 Nathan, Jeffrey 49, 148 01 on, Cameron 2, 41, 59 Loos, Steven 40 McKee, Debi 21, 66 Neesen, Jake 19

Ol son, Cassie 50, 61 Q. Lopez, Tiana 35 Mcowan, Sarah 133, 150 Nelson, Brittney 3, 39, 41, 79

Opfer, Tim 41, 59 Lorenzo, Amanda 53 Mc Williams, Tyka 45 elson, Maggie 3, 41, 70 , 71

Oppegard, Sadie 50

Quattrochi , Tony 84, 85, 130 Lott, Marquerite 40 Mehl, Lauren 49, 51 elson-Hits, Kristi 61, 123

Ordonez-Munoz, Enrique 50, Quick , Ben 50, 59 Loudon , Cindy 31 Mehta, Nidhi 35, 93 esson, Jaimi 41 69

Quickshank , ick59 Luedtke , Tyler 35 Meirose, Ashley 5, 7, 49 Nesson, Jakob 35

Ortiz, Jessica 21, 41 Luft, Ryan 40 Melvin, Ben 49, 122 Newcomb , Aaron 35 Osborn, Joni 20, 21 , 120, 121 Luhring, Betsy 40 Mendoza , Ashley 6 , 31 ewcomb, Heather 49 Osman , Amal 45 Luong, Dung 35 Menter, Luke 52 ewman, Stephanie 35

Osman, Falah 37

Rabago, Jodi 35 Luther, Josh 40 Mercado-Mejia, Cesar 45 Nguyen, Anthony 4, 41, 72, 73, Osman , Osman 31

Racine, Denton 12, 23, 50, 109 Lutz, Richard 31 Meredith, Bennett 49, 53, 59 90,91

Otten s, Kassondra 37

Racine , Jacob 23, 35 Lutz, Seth 91

Merideth, Je ssica 3, 40, 82, 12 guyen, Bien 29

Otto, Teresa 112, 113

Radicia, Kri tina 41 Luu , Hai 40

Mersed, Bob 65, 66 guyen, Candi 41

Oum , Amy 15 , 35, 144 Ramos , Diana 50 Luu, Van 45, 144 Meyer, Corey 35 guyen, Chuong 49

Owen , Matthew 29 Randolph , Jared 41 Lybarger, Dustin 40 Meyer, Jessica 107 Nguyen,• Danny 29 Rasmussen , Lainey 35, 108 Lybarger, Jordan 49 Meza, Maricela 110 Nguyen, Doanh 110 ?

Rasp , Ashley 41 Lytle, Ben 40, 43 , 145 Mick, Tiffany 40 , 74, 75, 95 guyen, Huy 35

Packett , Ross 35, 104 Ray, James 50 i--<\ Miller, Cody 49 Nguyen, Jon 37

Ratliff, Justin 41, 91 Miller, Chris 9, 40 guyen, Jimmy 41, 144

Pallard , Anthony 45 Ray , Rachel 50, 120 Miller, Jason 40, 109, 132, 133 Nguyen, Kirn 49

Pallard , Mike 50 Reed, Laura 50 , 121 MacHacek, Ericka 40 Miller, Jessica 41, 103, 120 Nguyen, Kimiko 41, 76, 77,

Palmer, Michael 41, 87, 133 Reeves , Jamalle 16, 35, 37, Maddux, Cyndi 107, 151 Miller, Kyle 49, 59 120 , 144

Paneitz , Brandon 29 84,85 Madison, Darylle 31 Miller, Marcus 49, 59 guyen, Kinh 35

Parker, Jerald 50, 58, 59, 88, 89 Reeves , Kendall 50, 59, 89 Madlock, Derek 49 Miller, Nick 41 guyen, Linda 41, 150

Parker, Tanner 50 Reiling, Matt 80, 81, 105 Maestle, Joshua 40 Miller, Randy 49 Nguyen, Mai 35

Parrott , Jose 50, 52, 59, 89, 122 Reinwalt, Shaun 30, 155 Maierle, Maya 6 Miller, Ryan 21, 35 Nguyen, Minh 110

Parrott, Kevin 41 Rejda, Cody 30, 31 55, 57 Malcom, Bonnie 37, 105, 152 Mirembe, Gloria 41 guyen, Ngoc 29

Parsley, Ashli 21, 41, 68, 69, Rejda , Jeremy 50, 59 Malone, Sauleena 35 Mirose, Ashley 79 guyen, Olivia 50, 122 121, 133 Rempfer, Beth 50, 150 Malotky, Alicia 49, 76, 77, 121 Mock, Cole 31 Nguyen, Phuong 29

Paschold , Susan 107 Reyorso, Mikey 59 Mangel , Laina 49 , 150 Mohamed, Halima 45, 110, 138 Nguyen, Quyen 45

Patel , Prinku 4, 52 Rezac, Alex 41 Manger , Krista 21 Moje, Sarah 21, 133 guyen, Tam 41

Patzloff, Jamie 50, 55 Rhuby, Josh 118 Marino, Brittany 40, 145 Montelongo, Elena 29 Nguyen, Thanh 50

Paul, Jessie 41 Richards , Ray 50 Markel, Josh 35, 148 Moore, Deneica 29, 109, 156 Nguyen, That 41

Payan , Abram 29

Ridell , Jennifer 110 Marquart, Holly 45 Morales, Veronica 49, 147 Nguyen, Thomas 45

Peregoy, Marty 93, 107 Rieflin , Cory 52 Marreel, Ashley 5, 64, 65, Moreno-Martinez, Rafael 52 Nguye n. Th ng 41

Perez, Stephen 31 Rios , Juan 31 80,81 Morgan, Brian 35, 102, 103 Nguyen, Tin 4 23, 29, 84, 85

Perkins , James 50

Ritchey, Shayne 50, 59 Marsh, Jaryd 37 Morgan, Joshua 7, 35 Nguyen, Tom 37

Perkins , Malia 113 Rivas, Mekita 50 133 Marshall, Sarah 49, 121 Morgan, Melissa 41, 150 Nguyen, Tommy 15, 29 Perry , James 31

Rivera, Charity 30 Marshall, Seth 49 Morgan, Tyler 49 Nguyen,Tuyet2,41, 140 Perry, Jermaine 35 Rivera , Jonathon 50, 52 Martin , Spenser 49 Morreel, Ashley 37 Nguyen Luu, Kevin 41

Peter , Amy 31, 65, 145, 151, Robb, Elliott 50 Martinex, Rafael Moreno 52 Morris, Kelli 49 ielsen, Casey 50 152

Roberts, Jo hua 45 Martinez, Andrew 49 Morton, Australia 49 Nielsen, Gretchen 35, 37

Petersen , Kellen 50, 87

Roberts, Tasha 147 Martinez, J.J. 40 Morton, Emmanuel 29 Niemeyer, Brittany 21, 41, 65, Petro , Na than 50

Robertson, Maury 35 Martinez, Olivia 35, 37 Morton , Stanley 35 83,120

Pham , Tho 41

Robidoux, Daniel 50 Martinez , Rafael Moreno- 52 Moser, Hallie 35, 37, 74, 75, Niemi, Jeremy 45, 144 Philippi , Evan 50

Robinette, Jami 50 , 121, 144 Martinez , Ro a 29 93,95

Martynyuk , Vita 49 Mosher, Bryan 41

Noble, Todd 114

Noel, Eric 21, 41, 44, 68, 69

Phillips, John 17, 35

Robinson , Ashley 30, 79, 108,

Pickel, Brittany 50 158 Martynyuk, Vitaliy 49 Mosher, Connor 49 Noonan, Anthony 35

Pickerel, Taylor 50, 59

Robin on, J.J. 56, 61, 121 Massa, Nichola 49, 91 Moxham, Dean 41, 59

Noonan, Danielle 6, 41, 79, Pickering , Lindsey 4, 6, 29, 80, Robinson , Matthew 35, 148 Massie, Raven 3 Muff, Jade 41, 108 122

81,95, 157 Rodriguez , Claudia 50 , 82, 83 Massie, Ronika 35, 120 Mulvihill, Meagan 49, 137 orris, Robert 50

Matos, Magalis 40 Mummert, Joshua 35, 36 Nunez, Gabriela 35

Pinto Piedrahita , Henry 50 , 69 Rodriguez , Desiree 41

Pierce, Braha 35 Rodriguez, Kelsey 30, 70, 71, Mattison, Stephen 49 Munoz , Enrique Ordonez 69 unn, Alanna 50

Pierce , Drew 50 108, 137 Mattison, Zachary 9, 40 Murdock, Renee 3, 29, 74, 75,

Pierce , Tyler 91

Rodriguez , Reina 41 Mauseth, Amelia 40, 79 95,156 ()

Maxwell, Aaron 29 Murphy, David 31

O'Connor, Anthony 50

Pietenpol , Kasey 35, 79

Pigg, Edward 23, 29, 115, 137

Rollin s, Matt 41

Rosales , Billy 41

Ross, Brandon 50, 59

Roth, Brittani 37

Sheldon, Michelle 50, 66, 83 , Studnicka, Andy 42

Roth, Kylee 35, 82, 104, 120 137

Stutzman, Lucas 51

Vaught, Shalyn 42

Wilson, Ellen 52

Veach, Andrew 131 Wilson, Joshua 52 Rouse, DJ. 35

Shepard, Jessica 41

Sulejmanovic , Irma 36

Veach, Julie 51

Winders, Matt 42, 145 Rubeiz, Chaz 91 Shepard, Justine 50

Sullivan, Michael 51

Velazquesz Garcia, Kenny 51 Winder , Whit 14, 31, 150 Rubeiz, Christian 50 Sherbock, Laura 91

Summers , Rebecca 36

Velde, Ben 41, 86 Winfrey, Morgan 42 Ruby, Josh 131 Sheridan, Dwight 41

Swartzlander, Anna 36 Yelder, Matthew 42 Winterstien, Nikki 4, 52, 53 Ruel, Blake 37 Sheridan, Franklin 36

Swenson, Amanda 31

Versch, Jesse 31 Wirth, Sean 52 Ruentes Serpas, Rina 34 Shipp , Zachery 30

Sword, Leslie 36

Vik , Maren 51, 61 , 137 Wise, Alec 12, 18 Runions, Kevin 50 , 59 Shoecraft, Jordan 41, 86

Sword, Phillip 36

Vinsonhaler, A.J. 42, 59, 88, 89 Wise , Zack 42 Runions, Mathew 52, 59 Showalter, Paige 37 Sy, Emily 3, 51, 83

Vinsonhaler, Angel 51, 53, 109, Wismer, Amanda 31 Russell, Erick 30, 157 Shroeder,·Megan 90 Sykes, Bernard 37 145 Witt, Eric 59 Rust, Jeff 59 Sides, Jessica 52

Virgilito, David 30 Wolfe, Cody 90 , 91 Ryan, Cj 50 Simpson, George 30, 89 T Vo, Dep 52 Wolford, Catlin 5 , 52, 59, 87 Ryan,Michael 1,31 Simpson, Jason 50, 59 Vo, Hung 45 Wood, Miranda 31 Ryan-Leach, Virginia 42, 121 Singh, Binu 41

Tadevosyan, Aundrey 45 Vo, Tot 36,123

Worley , Patrick 52 , 59 Rycheky, Lynztte 61 Sipes, Tamara 41, 70, 71 Talero, Rachel 51, 77

Voboril, Nichole 21, 42, 120 , Worrell, Jesse 45 Ryder, Josh 50 Sis, Katrina 52 Tardy, Tyler 37 133 Worster, Christina 52 Skinner, Brian 89 Taylor, Teja 36, 150 Voges, Stephanie 51 Worster, Jakob 52 s Skolnick, Cassie 50, 61 Teach, Christina 23, 30 Vogt, Rachel 26, 30, 31, 158 Woterman, Lauren 52 Skolnick, Nicole 50, 61, 80 , 81 Temme, Angela 115 Vu, Lieu 31 Wright, Jeff 36

Saavedra Fuentes, Dagoberto Slama, Sarah 41, 133, 137 Teolis, Jessica 51

Vu, Michelle 51, 77 Wright, Larry 59 , 131, 44 35 Sljivo, Sandro 37 Teolis, Michael 36 Vu, Tommy 144 Wright, Nathan 52 Sahuric, Kenan 50 Smetter, Theresa 50 Tep, Chenny 51, 59 Saidov, Nozirn 37 Smith, Amanda 41 Tep, Sokpheap 30 w y.. z Saidov, Rasul 37, 110 Smith, Arhmond 41, 147 Terrazas, Eduardo 51 Salem, Blake 13, 21, 41 Smith, Josh 42 Terrazas Jimenez, Gustavo 30 Wacker, Lindsay 51 Ybarra , Philip 52

Sallinger, Jessi 50, 79 Smith, Kaleigh 27 , 30, 120 Terry, Benjamin 51, 90, 91 Waldman, Brett 30, 157 Yelm , Anthony 52, 59 , 144 Salma, Sarah 21 Smith, Larry 85, 87, 122, 123 Teter, Casey 59 Walker, Aaron 42 Yocum , Brandon 13

Saltzman, Alicia 50, 66 Smith, Luis 42 Tetherow, Ashley 5, 7, 51 Walker, Adam 51 Yost, Zach 149 Saltzman, Katrina 41, 66 Smith, Maggie 36, 66 , 92 Thaut, Jennifer 42, 150 Walker, Joseph 51 Youngman , Nancy 113 Salvti, Ria 61 Smith, Matthew 42, 59 Thibodeaux, Jacqueline 37 Walker, Randy 42 Yuen, Michelle 31 Sanchez, Fernando 31 Smith, Michael 52 Thompson, Aaron 120, 121 Waller, Cody 30 Yuma, Yannick 36~ Saporta, Virgina 1, 144 Smith, Savannah 42 Thompson , Brett 51, 150 Waller, Kyle 4, 30, 108 Zabawa, Ryan 93 , 94 Sator, Elizabeth 50 Smith Ruiz, Abraham 50 Thompson, Cordara 45, 86 Waller, Mark 123 Zajicek, Matt 59 , 85, 87 Satra, Kelsey 50 Smith-Udeaja, Raphael 27, 30 Thompson, Farren 36 Walls , Deangelo 31 Zajicek, Sam 6, 31, 56, 61, Sa tree, Charmain 102, 103 Smykowski, Abbey 13, 51 Thompson, Jamie 31 Walton, Dayne 16, 36, 85 85, 109 , 154 Sayah, Yaser 41 Snelling, Elizabeth 42, 52 Thompson, Josh 4, 36 Walton, Jessica 36 Zavala-Gamez , Vicki 45 Sayah, Yousif 36 Snelling, Rosella 31 Thornton, Kara 51 Ward, R.D. 51 , 148, 149 Zingler, Megan 52 Schaepe, Katie 41, 42, 76 Snider, Brian 42, 121, 148 Thornton, Patrick 30 Warner, Claire 51 Zingler, Melissa 4 , 31, 108 , Schafer, Elizabeth 41, 121 Snook, Stephanie 42 Thorton,Pat84 , 85, 105 Watkins, Aqu~elah 42, 81 109 Schefcik, Ashley 50 Snyder, Aaron 51, 148 Thurman, Shane 52, 59 Watson, Monica 42 Znamenacek , Tyler 52 , 59 Schinker, Jeff 23 Snyder, Brandon 36

Tibbels, Aaron 21, 51, 133 Watts, Joseph 51, 59, 145, 149, Zuniga, Joshua 52, 89 Schlautman , William 115 Soncksen, Chris 42 Tinus, Karla 96, 97 151 Zwiener Julian 151 Schlegalmilch, Joe 59, 85, 86, Soulliere, Paige 42, 43 Tlamka , Jeremy 42 Weaver, Chelsey 36 , 82 131 Soung, John 27, 31, 120 Torwirt, Amanda 45 Webb, Karissa 42, 120 , 147 Schmidt , Samantha 50, 83 Sounthone, Toutta 42 Tracy, Alvarado 26 Webb, Rachael 51, 83 Schmoker, Barry 129 Spencer, Tiffani 42, 81, 82 Tran , Anthony 45 Weeks , Chelsea 42 Schneider, Antl1ony 45, 59 Spencer, Tony 30

Tran , Connie 51, 121 Weiner, Beth 13, 51 , 137 Schneider, Chrissie 4, 36 Spilker, Justin 52

Tran, Khoa 31 Welch, Jed 42 Schneider, Nathaniel 50, 87 Spilman, Kyle 31 Tran, Kieu 30 Welch, Sasha 51, 151 Scholl, Crystal 5, 7, 50, 79 Springer, Jon 42

Tran, Krystel 42

Wentland , Steven 45 Schroeder, Danielle 5, 50 Stabler, Cherelle 36, 144

Tran, Ngoc Yen 42, 149

Wenzl, Alyssa 42, 65 Schroeder, Megan 41 , 91 Starkweather, Jeffery 31

Travis , David 85, 87

Westerholt, Tarissa 42, 66 Schroeder, Michael 41 Steele, Denys 42, 66 , 137, 150

Triplett, Brandon 36 Westling , Andie 21, 42, 121, Schuldeis, Kendra 50 Steele, Lindsey 27, 30, 157 Trotter, Sean 52 133 Schwaninger, Jay 36 Steen, Juli 129

Tubbs, Josiah 45

Wetzel, Michael 51, 145 Schwartz, Corey 30 Steller, Bree 51

Tubbs, Justin 51, 59

Whitaker, Daniel 31 Schweitzer, Nie 41 Stephenson , Eric 45

Tubbs, Ty 39, 42, 133

Whitaker, Valerie 51 Scott, Allen 31 Stevens, Audrey 31

Tucker, Brooke 37

Whitemagpie, Michael 51 Scott, Chris 36 Stevens, Matthew 52

Tucker, Danny 36 , 37, 84, 85, Whitlatch, Ashley 42 Scott, Erica 14, 17, 36 Stewart , Tobin 13, 118, 119 86,123

Whitlatch , William 51 Seaman, Tucker 12, 50, 51, 59 Stoldorf, Mallory 42

Tuma, Ben 51

Wiederstein, Daniel 51 Sears, Kyle 41 Stollar, Jacob 51 , 52

Sedlacek, George 102, 103

Selim, Kyle 36

Semmens, Nicholas 41

Settrini, Winston 36

Setwart, Tobin 21

Sewell, Travis 37

Shamba, Travis 7

Shandera, Jenny 23, 31

Shandera, Stephanie 50

Shannon, Robyn 41, 102

Shaw, Travis 41, 59, 145

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Stone, Torben 36, 120

Stoyan, Alex 36

Stoyan, Irina 42

Stoyan, Sergey 51

Straight, Aaron 37

Turco, Matthew 51 , 58, 59, 87

Turco, Sue 99

Turek, Chris 31

Turner, Nick 51, 59

Turvey, Amanda 42

Streedbeck, Sara 42, 79 v-V

Strunk, Carly 51, 55

Stuart, Trevor 51, 89

Studey, Errin 31

Studey, Megan 51

Studey, Nancy 36

Utley, Damell 30

Van Dyke, Bryce 51, 87

Wilbur, Bridgette 51 , 102

Wilcox , Ben 88, 89

Wilder, Cory 42, 89

Willett , William 42

Williams, Erick 45 , 87

Williams , Steph 45

Williams, Zachary 45

Willman, Megan 52

Willoughby, Sarah , 133 , 150

Wills, Michael 31

Van Dyke , Jennifer 21, 120 Wills, Sara 69

Vanhoosen , Ashley 42, 48, 138

Vasina, Miles 36, 102

Wilsey, James 42

Wilson, Derek 42

TI-Ii\Nl\ YOlJ Marketing and Business Man8gement

students who sold and produced the yearboo k ads w ith the guidance of sponsor Bonnie Ma lcolm

ROW 1 : Tyler Chrastil, Danielle Noonan Brittney Niemeyer , Mykel Allen, Blake Salem Kiara Grant Darryl f-bmewood , Cordaro Thompson Ben Estrella , Sarah Brown, Dung Nguyen, Jenifer Adden Nick Hruza Dayne Walton Kirk Blarkenship, Brandon Paneitz, Tommy Vu, Heather Colfock, Nick Semmens NOT PICTURED: Thomas Cook Pat Cervantes Garret f-blsclaw f-bllie Maser, Amy Oum, Farren Thompson. Sponsor Bomie Malcolm

Leading the staff of the first yearbook was fun but also challenging We knew whatever decisions we made this first year set the cornerstone for years to come. Students from all different schools had to come together in unity and put their strength to the test throughout the year

Although we did not have a classroom for the first couple of weeks, and students came in and out during the semesters, we decided on the th e me As a whole , the staff ch o se "Some Assembly Required " as • the them e ·of Volume 1 and named our yearbook Polaris. C ye Teach creat e d the cover

Because we were a new school, new activities started throughout the year The entire student body melded ' assembling " the traditions that would make North Star what it is and what it always will be

About our book

Walsworth Publishing Company in Marceline, Missouri , printed 700 copies of our yearbook. We used the display fonts Gallup, Elegance, Onechild , and Rerurntoearth and the body fonts Drafstman, Maximo, and Times. The staff used lnDesign 2.0, Photoshop 7.0 and Photoshop Elem e nts programs to complet e the book We also struggled with printing problems, and at different p o ints had three different printers in various pieces and working order in C109 , our print center Day after day, printers didn 't print, but the staff worked on.

Through our troubled times, Ms. D put he r patience to the test.

W e would als o like to thank the 3rd and 4 th period Jo urnalism class for their hard work and help writing st o ries and finishing pages. Thank you to all of the students and staff for their patience and help throughout the year.

EDITOR: Jami e Green

SECTION EDITORS :: OPENING Ashley Grossenbacher SENIOR CLASS Holly Knust JUNIOR CLASS Lainey Rassmuson , Jade ty\uff SOPHOMORE CLASS Kelly Fish FRESHMAN CLASS Amanda Gi e blehaus

PHOTOGRAPHY AND DESIGN: Ja mie Green

YEARBOOK STAFF: Tracy Alvarado , Becky Blackwell·, Jessica Carpenter·, Edgar Cruz , Callie Duryea , Brendon Hollins , Kelsey Rodrigu e z , Kelly Fish, Sheena Keef e r·, Mady Ke ller, Mikael a Keller , Heather Larkins, Beth Leypoldf , Marq uerite Lotf, D e ne ica Moor e , Jad e Muff, Lainey Ra smussen , Ashl e y Robinson, Kel sey Rodrigu e z , Cye Tea ch·, Ra chel Vogt , Kyle Wall e r

ALSO CONTRIBUTING JOURNALISM CLASSES: Ashl e y Benfs , Emily Bloomquisf, Jason Br a nnan·, Nick Bryan , Christin Casement 0 Megh a n Conne r 0 Chris Clyme r· Rob Gibson, Amanda Giebelhaus, Tim Gordin·, Chuck Halv o rson, Kristina Lee , Tyl e r Lue dtk e , Seth Maynar d , Ja so n Miller , Megan Murphy , John Phillips·, Dent o n Racine , Mekita Rivas·, Jessica Shepard·, Ja mie Thompson·, Ang e l Visonhaler , Sam Zajicek, Melissa Zingler

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