Lunch and an Artist
Sat, 05/12/2012 - 23:58 | by carey.white
On Friday, May 4, the Springville High Art Department and Library sponsored “Lunch and an Artist” featuring SHS Art Sterling Scholar Kate Baxter. Kate along with many other students assembled at lunch for music and a "conversation with the artist.”
“Lunch and an Artist” is a celebration featuring the accomplishments of some very talented young people. Music was provided by the superior ranked SHS quintet, consisting of Jenny Jones, Kristy Hatch, Rebecca Wood, Raymundo Yazzie, and Aaron Stoddard, playing Antonín Dvořák’s Finale followed by a conversation with Kate Baxter.
While Kate talked punch and cookies were served. Kate presented some of her fabulous art works consisting of her self-portrait, original mindset illustrations of popular books including Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, by Louise Rennison, Coraline by Neil Gaiman, and Batman’s own Joker and Harley Quinn all of which were drawn by Kate in amazing detail.
Kate’s inspiration comes from, “…books, trying to create illustrations from descriptions of a character”.
Kate commented on how long it usually takes her to create a work of art, “It varies greatly on the idea and inspiration and utensils. Illustrations take six to nine days on average.”
Kate plans on attending Utah Valley University this Fall, where she has been awarded a scholarship to study art. She said, “I’m attending UVU on scholarship; art supplies and paper are expensive!”
She has always wanted to be an artist; however, however,, it was during her sophomore year that she decided “ if she didn’t do art, she didn’t know what she would do.“ She also loves to write hoping to become a novelist or graphic novelist, where she can write and illustrate her own work.
“Kate is an amazing young artist,” said Mrs. Lanell Rabner, SHS Librarian. “She knows what she wants to do and has worked hard to perfect a style all her own. When looking into the faces of her characters, you feel like you want to get to know them. They all tell a story I am excited to hear. Kate is detail oriented, drawing and painting characters that literally pull you into their stories. I am confident that we will hear and see a lot more from Kate Baxter in the future”.
“Lunch and Artist” is here to stay at SHS. Look for monthly events beginning in August, celebrating the very talented students of Springville High School.
*photos by Lou Crandall, SHS Photography Teacher
Outstanding Results at FFA State Competition
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:58 | by carey.white
Springville High’s FFA traveled to Logan, Utah, on April 24-25 to attend and compete in the FFA State Career Development Events. This statewide event is held to test students’ skills in certain career areas including agricultural communications, meat judging, floriculture, vet tech, horse judging, poultry judging, and dairy. Many hours of time and energy went into the preparation for these events.
Monica Giffing, Springville High FFA Adviser, said, “We prepared seven teams that worked extremely hard , these teams are self-driven and practice on their own time and work with many people in the community to prepare.”
Teams are run by the students with occasional suggestions from their adviser; the teams belong to the students and what they were able to achieve was all theirs.
FFA top ranks include gold, silver and bronze; also, the first place teams of each state have the opportunity to attend and compete at nationals next Fall. Most excitingly our agricultural communications team won first in state, this is two years in a row. The team was comprised of three members--Amberly Bradford (1st Place Individual), Andalyn Hall (3rd Place Individual), and Autymn Schouten.
Our gold ranking team included meat judging which placed third overall with Payson and Maple Mountain placing first and second, showing that Nebo district is a great area to learn in this competition. The meats team was comprised of the following students: Darryl Barnes, Taylor Garrett, Chet Kanzee, and James Johnson. Another gold ranking team was floriculture with team members Lauren Ridge, Christina Nolasco, Medine Dore, and Emily Merrill. Vet tech did great as well scoring Springville a gold with team members Ashly Endicott, Colton Carroll, Rita Dominquez, and Caitlin Dinkel.
Springville had some silver ranking teams including horse, poultry, and dairy. The horse team was comprised of Dakoda Mower, Austin Weight, Howard Hutchings, and Caitlin Dinkel. The poultry team was Andalyn Hall, Kira Craig, Katie Biesinger, and Alex Valenzuela. Finally, our dairy team members were Ashly Endicott, Colton Carroll, Rita Dominquez, and Ripley Tew.
Springville High’s FFA did an exceptional job this year; we can’t wait until next year to see what they have in store for us. Good luck to our agricultural communications team at nationals this Fall.
Pictures:
Agricultural communications team left to right: Amberly Bradford, Autymn Schouten and Andalyn Hall
Floriculture Team: Lauren Ridge, Christina Nolasco, Emily Merrill and Medine Dore.
Meats Team left to right: James Johnson, Darryl Barnes, Taylor Garrett, and Chet Kanzee
Vet tech team from left to right: Ashly Endicott, Caitlin Dinkel ,Colton Carroll, Rita Dominquez
Drama Gild Play The Foreigner
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:55 | by carey.white
This year’s annual play performed by Springville High’s Drama Guild is a hilarious comedy centered around a shy character named Charlie. Because he has an active fear of “talk,” he pretends that he’s unable to speak English. In his first few minutes on stage, he finds himself overhearing confidential matters. Everyone thinks that he can’t understand them; so, of course, the plot thickens. An old lady, an evil reverend, a dumb boy, and the KKK all end up in the mix and what you get is a masterpiece.
“The play was a joy to watch, I laughed from start to finish,” said senior Rosalie Swegle.
Full cast included: Charlie: Dallin Penrod, Froggy: Dallin Droubay, Ellard: Lear Burton, Widow Meeks “Betty”: Rose Walker, Catherine: Carly Sorenson, Reverend David: Eric Mageno, Owen: Brandon Reagan.
The play was directed by seniors Brennon Schow and Audrey Ruffell.
Springville High students attend DECA Nationals
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:52 | by carey.white
On April 28 - May 2, eight students from Springville High School had the opportunity to compete at the DECA International Career Development Conference in Salt Lake City. These eight students competed with over 14,000 students from around the world. Those who participated were Audri Petro, Kaycie Jordan, and Jehni Mcneil in the Learn and Earn Chapter Project; Lesli Mortensen in Restaurant and Food Service Management; Amy Tingey in Principles of Finance; Cody Zamora in Fashion Merchandising Promotion Plan; Jack Setzer in Principles of Hospitality; and, Joe Parker in Chapter Management Academy.
After competing, the students were able to participate in activities around the city such as Lagoon, shopping, playing Uno and Spoons in the elevator, sightseeing in Park City, and just having a great time together.
2012-2013 Student Council Announced
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:51 | by carey.whiteStudent body officers for next year include President Stephen Nelson, Vice President Marie Terry, Secretary Caroline Erickson, Activities Chairman Cami Sumsion, Publicity Chairman Lauren Bird, Student Relations Loren Atherley, Historian Payton Acor, and Tech Director Elsie Rowe.
Senior class officers are President Dallin Penro, Vice President Sara Ripley, Treasurer Aaron Brown, and Secretary Natalie Sanchez.
Junior class President will be Nate Willmore, Vice President Seth Daybell, and Secretary Erin Thomas.
Sophomore class President will be Jamie Devinish, Vice President Jacob Rasmussen, andSecretary Katie Murray.
Springville students do well at state film festival
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:49 | by carey.white
The following students received awards in the Utah High School Film Festival: Spencer Curtis and Riley Smith, 2nd Place Animation; Jason Haymond and Andrew Massimini, Honorable Mention in News Story; McKell Metcalf, Honorable Mention in News Story; McKell Metcalf, Andrew Massimini, and Grant Evans, Honorable Mention in PSA.
“My friends and I spent quite a bit of time working on that video, so I’m glad it paid off in the end,” said Spencer Curtis
“Considering there were 26 schools that came, which all entered a movie; and, for each category you get two honorable mentions and a first, second, and third place, Jason and I did pretty well,” said Andrew Massimini.
“This year was the best I've ever seen as far as quality content at the festival. Our students went up against some pretty amazing work and did a fantastic job! Additionally, this year's festival was one of the best teaching experiences I've had as a teacher. The students who attended left the festival motivated, excited, and ready to be better. It's great to work with such dedicated and passionate students. I'm excited for the future of the video program here at SHS,” said Braden Boss, SHS Video Production Teacher.
“I was really happy with how we did. A lot of the other entries in the news category were made just for the fest. We just did what we do best,” said Jason Haymond.
Iconic Teacher Retires from Springville High School
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:48 | by carey.white
Mr. Kelly ClementsAfter 37 years of teaching and coaching at Springville High school, Mr. Kelly Clements will be retiring from his career of teaching; however, Clements will remain a Driver’s Education instructor here at Springville High. Over the years Clements has taught World History, American History, Government, Modern World Cultures, Current Issues, Utah History, Weight Lifting, Jogging, Financial Literacy, and Drivers Education. He was an assistant coach in basketball, football, and baseball. He was also head baseball coach. Clements was also activities director and advised the student council for six years.
Clements has always been a Red Devil. His class was the first class to graduate from the “new” Springville High school located at its current address; meaning, he was a sophomore when the new school was built and first opened. The original Springville High school was located by the art gallery, cherry creek, and the old middle School.
Clements attended high school with another Springville High colleague, Mr. Glenn Bird.
“Glenn Bird was a really close friend of mine. Glenn was our student body president here at Springville High. I always admired Glenn; he was so much smarter than I was. [Laugh] But, Glenn is the only one in the school who I attended Springville High with.”
Clements reflects on some of his best memories; he said, “I think the best memory is of all the students who are my friends. I’ve coached a lot of great kids, I’ve been a teacher to a lot of great kids, I’ve cried with them, I’ve laughed with them, and I’ve received more from kids at this school than I ever gave back. I feel like I’m the luckiest man in the world; I feel like I have a lot of friends and those are the greatest memories anyone could ever have, the friends that they develop. The students and staff members are some of my closest friends here at the school. I don’t know of how good of a teacher I was, I don’t know if I would have been considered a good teacher or a bad teacher, but I do know I was a better teacher because of the kids and the friends that I have here at the school. It’s gonna be hard for me to walk out of here; I’ve been here for a long time.”
To keep busy after retirement, Clements plans on doing a great deal of fishing and hunting as well as catching up on a lot of activities including hunting grizzly and sheep in Alaska and travel to Africa and bow hunt.
“I would like to do what Ernest Hemmingway did; sit in front of a walled tent and listen to lions roar at night,” said Clements.
As a final note Mr. Clements added, “I just want to say that I think Springville High is the best school in the state of Utah. I love it dearly, and I’m a red devil through and through. I just hope I was able to give back a small portion of what I received because I feel I was extremely lucky to have the job I had and be with the people and students here. I know the students that graduate from here are the best in the state.”
Service Dance
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:45 | by carey.white
On Thursday, May 3, the student council sponsored a service dance for Springville High’s special needs students enrolled in either Mrs. Van Orden’s or Mr. Snell’s class. This was the second year that the student council has sponsored this dance.
Student Council Adviser, Ms. Meacham, said, “It was a success, and we will plan to do it again next year.”
Baseball Season Finale
Wed, 05/09/2012 - 15:42 | by carey.whiteSpringville High’s baseball season ended this last Tuesday when the Red Devils traveled to Mountain View concluding in a disappointing loss to the Bruins, 4-1.
The Red Devils have had a great season and the seniors are sad to say goodbye to the game that they love.
Alex Cloward said, “It was definitely a fun season to have for my senior year, and I’m going to miss the friendships that I’ve made on the team.”
Key players for next year will include Rhett Clark, Payton Thorpe, and Karson Kester. They have one goal and one goal in mind, and that is to win a state championship.
Lady Red Devils blowout T-Birds, 15-0
Fri, 05/04/2012 - 14:24 | by carey.white
On Thursday, May 3, Springville matched up at home against Timpview. The Lady Red Devils repetitively occupied the bases while stopping the T-Birds' chances to do the same. Ashli Averett and Jennifer Fredrickson both hit doubles, while Miranda Follette only allowed two hits. Springville’s record is currently 13-9 with three more regular games of the season left.
*photos by Mark Spencer (Springville vs Maple Mountain game)
