Homecoming Issue

P I R A T E PR E S SPATTONVILLE HIGH SCHOOL

2497 Creve Coeur Mill Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63043 Volume 79, Issue 2 September 2014, Homecoming Edition

A Night on Broadway

2 FEATURES September 2014PIRATE PRESS

By Camron Washington

Getting more likes on social media makes you happier. At least that is what students on the yearbook staff say. And since we want you to feel happy, we decided to share with you exactly how one goes about obtaining more likes and followers on the best photo sharing app -- Instagram.

“30 likes is a good picture,” editor-in-chief Michelle Cummings said.

“Oh no, I normally get at least 70,” Madelynn Cody said. “I just have a lot of followers.”

“Of course 100 is what everyone strives for,” Hannah Saputo said.

There are tricks to achieving Instagram fame.

“It’s all about timing,” Saputo said. “You have to post at certain times and 5:30 p.m. is the best because everyone is out of sports practices and it’s right before dinner.”

“A good location is also needed,” Lauren Frazier said. “And a good caption is key. Oh, and you need to have the perfect emoji.”

The right emoji depends on the situation, but Frazier does have a go-to choice.

“Any of the monkey emojis are safe,” Frazier said. “And the poop one is spot-on because every-one likes poop. I mean, right? Who doesn’t look at poop and just laughs?”

Of course the perfect

picture is dependent on the content.

“You can make a great photo just by picking the right filter,” Cody said. “Even if the photo isn’t good, the right filter can make all the difference.”

“The border choice does too,” Frazier added. “If you use something like a white border, then you can see the entire picture. Since Instagram uses square pictures, you can end up getting the whole picture included without cutting anything out.”

Throughout Spirit Week, PattonvilleTO-DAY used #phsSPIRIT as the official hashtag.

“It’s a good way for people who are scrolling through pictures to find other photos of the same thing,” Cummings, who

has been adding pictures to the feed every day, said. “Since I am editor, I feel like I should be pro-moting the hashtag and it’s a good way to bring the school together.”

By using the same hashtag every year, it’s also a great way to relive the past.

“It shows a timeline of events,” Frazier said. “I was going through it on Thursday and I scrolled all the way back to last year and because you have the newer stuff on top, it’s like Spirit Week never ends.”

But be careful. The yearbook staff does have warnings for users that want to collect more fol-lowers.

“Of course you don’t want to use too many

hashtags in a post,” Fra-zier said. “The hashtag rule is you never use more than two. People that write #brown #hair #love #whatever, well, it’s just annoying.”

And so is overposting.“Once a day” Frazier

said. “That’s it. If you are doing more, you are doing too much.”

“You can’t buy likes and beg people to like your pictures,” Cummings said. “That’s why I only post one photo a day.”

Frazier said she has a strategy which is to wait to post her pictures of things like Homecoming for a few days because then there isn’t an overwhelming number of identical pictures.

“Everyone is sharing their stuff at the same time,” Frazier said. “Nothing is different, but if you wait and you’re the only one showing off pictures from Home-coming like three days later, people are like ‘I remember that’ and want to favorite it.”

Instagram is for the guys too, but they just aren’t obsessed with the popularity.

“I strive to get the num-bers,” Jake Stahlhut said. “I want people to like my photos but I really have no idea to the secret.”

Maybe there isn’t one, and it turns out that while becoming famous on Instagram isn’t a science, there are some tips that must be followed.

Pattonville students use social media to capture #phsSPIRITTwitter, Instagram posts with hashtag are collected for use in the newspaper, yearbook and are published in Storify

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By Cyrah Bryant

Spirit Week ran from Sept. 15-20, but the planning began in April when the Student Coun-cil officers got together to brainstorm a theme for this year’s Home-coming.

“We have to pick something broad enough to be able to break down into sub-groups,” Hannah Saputo said, “so the different grades and elementary schools can have differ-ent floats and that kinda limits us but it does take a lot of creativity,”

A lot of ideas were being shared and then Saputo started singing a song from Singing in the Rain.

“I had watched that movie the night before and then said, ‘Hey, what if we do musi-cals?’ And it was like ‘Eureka, that’s it!’”

The officers then made a list of musicals they could include in the theme.

“We tried to choose ones that have a lot of opportunities but did not violate any copyright, so we couldn’t do any-thing Disney,” Saputo said. “We wanted to do The Lion King, but we couldn’t.”

“And we couldn’t do Mary Poppins, either,” STUCO president Ca-naan Kerr said.

Student Council made a list of seven musicals and let the class officers decide from there.

“It went really well and I saw tweets from past students who liked the idea of the theme a lot,” Saputo said. “We were getting really hype with it.”

STUCO members got a little more time to plan the Spirit Days, and one day after school, the

organization makes the final decisions for the Spirit Week dress days.

Every member of Stu-dent Council attends the meeting after school to discuss the Spirit Days so that everyone’s voice is heard.

The executive board asks everyone for their Spirit Day ideas, and af-ter that, everyone votes on each idea.

The top four theme ideas with the most tallies are taken to the athletic director to be approved with the last day being Class Color Day.

“I like the last Spirit Day a lot when we dress in our class colors be-cause the classes get to come together,” Trevor Parhomski said.

Planning is important for Spirit Week to be successful and on Sept. 5, Student Council members held their in-

augural STUCO lock-in. During this lock-in,

members did a lot of Homecoming prepera-tions. Students got to bring Homecoming decoration ideas and talk about them.

The students also made posters to post in the school’s hallways based on each class’s Broadway show.

“The decorations were definitely the best throughout all my high school years,” Kerr said.

Kierstyn McCormick tweeted, “STUCO lock-in was great tonight. Had so much fun with awesome people. I love my school. #LiveWith-Gusto”

Gusto means liv-ing every day like it’s your last and doing everything with extreme enthusiasm.

Seems about right for Spirit Week.

“Swimsuit Day.” Lorerco Anthony, 11

“Pajama Day.”Kayla Brown, 10

“Opposite Gender Day.”Kennedi Lee, 12

“Dress Like Your Favorite Teacher Day.” D’Mondre’ Williams, 12

“Wilderness Day.” Caron Coleman, 9

“Class Color Day.” Trevor Parhomski, 12

“Dress Like Your Favor-ite Cartoon Character.”Ashli Bruton, 10

Student Council plans Spirit Week If you could pick a Spirit Day, what would it be?

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Involved members get to have a say in how events are set-up

TOP TO BOTTOM Natalie Siegel and Nathalie Solorio; Mat-thew Diller, Damion Pruitt and Trevor Sims; Canaan Kerr; Max Spitzmiller. LEFT TO RIGHT Liza Gusleva, Gianna Bonner, and Brooke Nicewaner; Emily Burgess and Anise Glenn; Sydner Herter and Jake Stahlhut.

Statue of Lib-KorteBy Nyesha Larkin

For a history teacher, ‘Meri-ca Monday was an ideal Spirit Day, but the idea of govern-ment teacher Ms. Katherine Korte’s outfit wasn’t planned out in a lot of advance.

Korte said her Statue of Liberty outfit was inspired the night before by Natalie Senger, a foreign exchange student she is hosting from Germany and who attends Parkway West High School.

“I was just going to do red, white and blue, but Natalie thought that wasn’t spirited enough,” Korte said. “She

said too many other people were going to be doing that and I had to do something special.”

The costume was made out of bed sheets, paper plates and foam.

She said she was grateful for having kids of her own because that’s where most of the materials came from.

Korte’s son told her she looked very pretty as the Statue of Liberty, and her son and daughter fought over the crown and they broke the torch.

“I literally made this outfit that morning and I’m very

impressed with myself,” Korte said.

The reactions received were very positive. Students and staff seemed to appreciate the effort in her custom spirit wear, she said.

Since being the government teacher that she is, Korte believes she had to go big for ‘Merica Monday.

“Spirit Week is a fun time for the school to show unity and demonstrate why Pat-tonville is such a great place to learn and work,” Korte said. “It’s pretty fun dressing up and being goofy for a week as well.”

Outfit was inspired by her foreign exchange student just the night before

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LEFT Homecoming court nominee Madison Utley (center) stands with other students who are dressed up for ‘Merica Monday. ABOVE Brooke Nicewaner squats in front of a group of girls who are participating in the Spirit Day competition. BELOW LEFT Kennedy Stroker and Elleni Yeshiwas stand in the STUCO store to take a picture. BELOW MIDDLE Adrian Edwards, Matt Diller, Christine Hamil, Gayathri Srinivasan and Jaylen Russell pose for a picture in the E-wing. BELOW RIGHT Kendra Davis and Nadia Maddex take a picture outside the main office of the school.

LEFT Math teachers Mr. Jeremiah Simmons, Mr. Kyle Hall and Mr. Chris Broyles celebrate ‘Merica Monday by dressing in all red, white and blue and placing their hand on their heart. TOP LEFT Justin Vaughn and Allison Van Buren take a picture in the hallway. TOP RIGHT Breanna Kellogg, Kara Myers, Christina Trembley stand for a picture taken in the library. BOTTOM The theatre department takes a picture on stage before rehearsal for the fall play.

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Circus comes to schoolNot every kind of

clown wears a red nose. Some just blow up red ballons.

In January, Margaret Decker and Jessica Reynolds attended a thespian conference and met a guy who ran a circus. He told them that they’d have to learn how to do things such as face painting, juggling and making balloon animals.

They were hired about two months later.

“Typically they don’t hire teens, better yet best friends, and look at where we are now,” Decker said.

Decker said she

doesn’t want to continue in the circus for the rest of her life because she has not been given a lot of support from her family about it, but Reynolds absolutely loves it and would like to continue for much longer.

“I thought it would be cool to try, and once I tried it, I realized there was nothing else I wanted to do with my life.”

They are currently learning to improve their skills and learn to become acrobats, side-show artists, to eat fire, swallow swords, nail things to their heads,

and for Reynolds, become a contortionist, the practice of bending and twisting out of the body’s normal shape.

On Tacky Tuesday, Reynolds and Decker used their circus skills to make balloon animals and hats for students and teachers.

“It’s Tacky Tuesday,” Decker said. “What’s better than balloon animals on Tacky Tues-day?”

The two decided to bring back green bal-loons on Friday for the senior class on Class Color Day.

LEFT Standing in the hallway, Rachel Kerwin and

Allyson Sanders take a photo during Tacky Day. MIDDLE

Courtney Temm and Nile Trice pose during lunch to

show off their tacky clothes. RIGHT Zachary Mattmann and Matt Diller stand on the

bridge to take a picture.

ABOVE Ms. Lara Corvera, Jessica Reynolds and Ms.

Natalie Passarelli take a photo in the Writing Center during

2nd hour. Reynolds made balloon animals and hats for students throughout the day. RIGHT Camille Hernandez

poses for a photo with her bal-loon septor during 7th hour.

TOP LEFT Justin Vaughn poses with Christine Hamil in the C-wing hallway on Tacky Day. ABOVE Shannon Bamvakais and Ms. Katherine Korte take a photo in Korte’s room during her plan period. LEFT Michelle Cummings takes a picture with Home-coming court candidate Hannah Saputo during second lunch.

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TOP LEFT During Mr. Justin Smiley’s 2nd hour Academic Lab, the freshmen posed with their PALs to show off their tacky outfits. Leeann Graff (bottom left) dressed as Ace Ventura to represent her spirit. TOP RIGHT Tyler Rahn poses on the ramp going up to the H-wing hallway for a photo to show his tacky outfit for Tacky Tuesday. BOTTOM LEFT Mr. David DeMoss shows off his shark socks which he said are “very under-appreciated.” BOTTOM RIGHT A group of sophomores pose in the hallway for a photo of their tacky tutus and ties.

LEFT Ms. Erin Mulanax poses during her 7th hour class to show off her green, black and white outfit. TOP MIDDLE A group of seniors pose in the hallway together during their history class to take a picture for Tacky Tuesday. BOTTOM MIDDLE Amber Hall, Brielle Ragland, and Breanna Kellogg show their tacky spirit during 1st lunch. ABOVE Cast and crew of the fall play gather on stage to share their dramatic touch to the tacky day.

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RIGHT Micah Evans and Alex Caldwell take a picture

in the parking lot while wear-ing matching outfits. FAR

RIGHT Michelle Cummings, Canaan Kerr, and Rachel Col-lins take a picture together in

the Commons.

ABOVE Megan Kendrick and Tessa Stahlhut take a picture by the photobooth that the yearbook set up in the Commons during

all lunches. RIGHT Ashanti Carey and Kathy Ensor take a picture together in the PALs room. FAR RIGHT Abigail Elmore

and Haifa Jaber take a picture as they are both dressed as cats.

Monkeying AroundDestiny McKinney

was dressed as a gorilla for Wilderness Day and was quite the eye catcher in her full body suit, mask, and Patton-ville Pirate shirt.

“Lots of people were scared of me,” McKin-ney said. “They would look at me and jump.”

That was probably McKinney’s favorite part of the day.

“I was kinda doing it on purpose,” McKin-ney said. “I would stand there like a statue and just move my head a little bit and I was walking around the entire lunchroom like a monkey.”

Only one person recognized McKinney throughout the day as the anonymous person

in the monkey suit.“They could tell my

gender because of my ponytail sticking out the back and because of my pink Nike shoes, but what gave it away to Ms. Lopez was my voice.”

The costume was not purchased for the day alone.

“It was actually my brother’s Halloween costume from last year,” McKinney said. “He’s 9 years old so I don’t know how it fit me because it was really small.”

Besides the snugness of the fit, other compli-cations caused McKin-ney troubles.

“Breathing was the most diffcult thing,” she said. “The nose holes

in the mask weren’t where my nose was so I would take the mask off when I got into class so I could see better and breathe.”

As most things fash-ionable, it’s not made for comfort.

“It was burning hot. I was sweating all day and it was not comfort-able, it was actually re-ally itchy and annoying but totally worth it.”

Worth it because it put her class on a winning streak.

“I am so proud of my grade for doing so well this week,” McKinney said. “We are determined to beat the seniors and we beat them in Spirit Days two days in a row.”

8 WEDNESDAY - Wilderness/Animal Print September 2014PIRATE PRESS

LEFT Leann Graff, Nathalie Solorio and Natalie Siegel take a picture in the STUCO store during Wilderness Wednesday. MIDDLE Laci Loeb and Kendra Moore take a photo in the B-wing outside their lockers. TOP and BOT-TOM RIGHT Renee Marion and Andrea Prater take a selfie to show off their make-up for Animal Day.

TOP LEFT Sarah Murphy and Susan Sorsen take a picture while both are wearing animal print. TOP RIGHT Tyra Clark and Ellisa Hanne search the school for wild animals using a pair of binoculars. BOTTOM LEFT The cast of the fall play take a picture before practice. BOTTOM RIGHT Allison Van Buren and Briana Kitchell take a picture together during science class.

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10 THURSDAY - Musical Theme September 2014PIRATE PRESS

ABOVE Maxine Weber and Erykah White show their

inner-musician for Rock of Ages. MIDDLE Katelin

Brownlow and Chaney Sinov-ich dress up for the musical Grease. TOP RIGHT Kyle

Brunts and Kyle Baldwin lean up against the lockers

wearing costumes for the assigned senior musical,

Grease. BOTTOM RIGHT Rachael Brockman and

Valerie Brockman are dressed up as the good witch and the

bad witch from the musical Wicked along with Matthew

Anderson.

LEFT Jacqueline Stephenson and Morissa Huskey take a photo dressed as characters from Grease in the STUCO store. MIDDLE Students dressed as characters from different Broadway musicals take a picture in the hallway. RIGHT Megan Kendrick takes a picture with Tessa Stahlhut on Theme Thursday. Stahlhut made her outfit for the Broadway musical Wicked from scratch. She used pink tulle fabric for the dress and wore a tiara.

Emma Taylor, Isabelle Garcia Blackwell, Jalin Spears, Amanda Faust

Michelle Cummings and Hannah Saputo

Brady Bell and Brooke Lashley

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Seniors Moheni Patel, Emily Treat, Emily Burgess, Sydney Herter, and Katie Greenwell planned to come to school dressed to fit the musical Grease in full “Pink Ladies” apparel, including matching satin pink jackets.

“Yeah, this year’s theme was really fun,” Burgess said. “We planned our outfits ahead of time and just went to Party City to

buy them earlier this week.”

Ms. Gay Lacy had an entire class of seniors for College Prep Eng-lish. Not only was she pleased to have the Pink Ladies as a part of her class, but was surprised that her entire class showed school spirit and dressed up to their musical Grease with the utmost enthusiasm.

“It doesn’t surprise me that people dressed up

so much for Grease,” Lacy said. “I mean Grease is really fun and it was really funny to see my whole class dress up this year. I actually dressed up a couple of days myself.”

In addition to the se-niors being Grease, the juniors were Wicked, the sophomores were Rock of Ages and the freshmen were West Side Story.

Grease is the word

TOP LEFT Roma Patel and Rene Greenwell show off their rock star moves for the sophomore assigned musical Rock of Ages. TOP RIGHT English teachers in the D-wing take a group photo in the Writing Center as they chose to represent the Broadway musical The Lion King by wearing different animal hats. BOT-TOM LEFT The students who are involved in the fall play take a picture before rehearsal. BOTTOM RIGHT “The science wing wanted to do their own theme, so we did South Pacific,” chem-istry teacher Mr. Christian Dornhoefer said, who takes a picture with Mr. Joe Baird. “I got the sandals, the shirt, the lei. I feel like I’m on vacation.”

Senior girls dress up as the Pink Ladies

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“Are you a freshman? Oh, you’re a senior?”

One day a year, that awkward mistake can be avoided because stu-dents in different grades are supposed to wear different colors.

Freshmen wear yel-low, sophomores wear blue, juniors wear red and seniors wear green.

“I think class colors promote class unity and it makes us all feel united as one class,” senior Ryan Moser said.

Yearbook is a class that has students from all different grades enrolled in it.

“I think a class like

this where we all rely on each other even though we are in different grad-uating classes makes us realize we are really one school trying to work together,” Moser said.

Sophomore Mollie Emerick looks at the 94 percent of the senior class that participated in Class Color Day and hopes her peers can come together like that in the future.

“I hope we are going to be way more on our game next year as ju-niors and possibly beat the seniors,” Emerick said. “If that is ever pos-sible.”

We’re all in this together

TOP LEFT Julie Halveland and Kalekidan Yeshiwas wear red in the Commons for Class Color Day. BOTTOM LEFT A freshman paints yellow onto another’s face in the morning

outside the front office. MIDDLE Rachel Stevens and Carissa Laughlin take a picture during second lunch. Stevens is holding

a balloon alien. TOP RIGHT The theatre department takes a picture separated into grade levels before its rehearsal on Friday

in the auditorium. RIGHT Ms. Funderburk’s sophomore English class takes a picture together in her classroom. BOTTOM FAR RIGHT Zachary Tracy, Carissa Laughlin and Lesley Holzschuh

take a picture together in their English class.

13FRIDAY - Class ColorSeptember 2014 PIRATE PRESSLEFT Alex Bodicky and Kaylee Moody put up their rock fingers dressed in all red.TOP RIGHT Seniors Ashanti Carey, Morissa Huskey and Allison Parker put up fingers in a photo that represent 2-0-1-5. BOTTOM LEFT Kaytlyn Richmond and Isa-belle Garcia take a picture to-gether dressed in blue for the sophomore class. BOTTOM RIGHT Freshman Homecom-ing queen candidate Kennedy Stroker takes a picture with other members of her class in the Commons next to the yearbook photo booth.

TOP LEFT Yuvrajsinh Dodiya wears a green morph suit in Mr. Brueckman’s government class. TOP RIGHT. Pavel Illarionov, Taylor Chastain, Bryce Mann, Peyton Pfeiffer and Haley Reyn-olds sport yellow on Class Color Day. BOTTOM LEFT Ms. Childs’s Geometry 1 class takes a sophomore photo. BOTTOM RIGHT Marlos Roberts, Jada Russell, Joey Merlo and Alex Marin are in Ms. Schaeffer’s science class and take a junior class photo.

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ABOVE Sean Schnable and Alex Fletcher cheer on the se-niors during the pep assembly.TOP MIDDLE Seniors (left)

and juniors (right) compete in the tug-of-war competi-tion. The seniors won after

a long battle. TOP RIGHT Sophomores sit on the floor

using their phones to take pictures and video of the

sophomore lip sync. RIGHT Arionna Lunceford climbs on the backs of juniors and leaps into the arms of others during

the lip sync competition. FAR RIGHT Emma Hohenstein

competes in the Cracker Chal-lenge and blows her ping pong

ball with a straw.

RIGHT Ross Reynolds shows disappointment after the

Skittle falls off the tip of his straw during a class competi-tion in one of the new games. FAR RIGHT Micah Thomp-kins runs across the gym floor

to drop his piece of candy into the collection bucket. BELOW Freshmen Elleni

Yeshiwas sticks her straw into the bucket of Skittles trying

to get one to stick to the tip as she sucks in.

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Two new games introduced as games that count toward Spirit Week pointsBy Conner Delles and Rachel Polster

Homecoming is a chance to show school spirit and to also show a side of competition.

During the Friday pep rally, there are a number of events that go on like the lip sync and tug-of-war.

Canaan Kerr was part of the senior lip sync team.

“We usually pick one day before Spirit Week

to start planning and it’s a 2-hour practice,” Kerr said. “Throughout the week and during float building, we practice,” Kerr said.

Three years in a row, the Class of 2015 have won the competition.

Those two familiar games are played during this assembly. This year, two new events were introduced: the Cracker Challenge and the Skittle Sprint.

STUCO is in charge of putting together the games played during the asssembly.

“We find ideas for the different games from STUCO State in Fulton, Missouri, and just dif-ferent places around the Internet,” said STUCO representative Nathalie Solorio.

The new games brought new excitement to stu-dents who participated.

Jake Stahlhut played in

the Cracker Challenge, which required him to eat a cracker as fast as possible and then blow a ping pong ball across the gym floor using only a straw.

“It seemed like it would be easy, but it was a lot harder than I thought,” Stahlhut said.

The other new game was the Skittle Sprint where students take a straw and suck through it to pick up a Skittle

and try to walk across the court and place the candy in a bowl.

The Homecoming as-sembly is one of the main highlights for students during the homecoming week.

Junior Chris Knowles said, “It’s fun to go to the assembly and see all the games. The clash between classes at the aassembly is humorous to watch with all my friends.”

LEFT Carter Yarnell acts as Danny Zucco with his fellow T-Birds in the senior class lip sync per-formance. TOP MIDDLE Jabriel Fleming pulls the end of the rope in the tug-of-war competition for the sophomore class. BOTTOM MIDDLE Ben Williams competes in a class competition where he has to eat crackers and then blow a ping pong ball across the basketball court. RIGHT Freshmen perform their class lip sync to songs from West Side Story.

The football game may have switched to Friday night from the tradi-tional Saturday after-noon start time, but that doesn’t mean traditions have to end.

“The green-out theme was chosen because that’s what it’s been the past couple years for Homecoming,” Student Council spirit chair Max Spitzmiller said. “We are keeping the tradition alive and hoping for stu-dents to participate and support our Pirates.”

The student section had about 200 people wearing green and sup-porting the home team with “ethusiastic school spirit,” according to Spitzmiller.

The spirit shown in the crowd has been noticed on the field.

“The football play-ers really like having the backup and with us being really loud,” Spitzmiller said. “It helps that they are do-ing so good this year because good football means a good student section.”

The Green Army hopes to continue the spirit throughout the year and attend many events.

“When football is over, it’s on to basketball,” Spitzmiller said. “The Green Army hopes to continue supporting the school with all of its sports and activities the entire year.”

Turnout strong with Green Out

Football game switched to Friday nightBy Ross Reynolds

For most fans last year, the most exciting part of the Saturday homecoming game against Ritenour was halftime when Nikki Callahan was crowned queen.

For those that stayed past that, the most ex-citing part was watch-ing the varsity Pirates send the game into overtime.

Most people left early for two reasons: it was extremely hot outside and many students had to get ready for the dance later that night.

Junior Rachel Polster was one of the fans that left early.

“I had to get ready because I was taking pictures with a big group of people.”

This year, the home-coming schedule has changed drastically, with one of the biggest

differences coming with the time of the football game.

The game against Webster Groves kicked off on Friday night instead of Saturday afternoon.

“It was a decision between the faculty, as well as the board of education,” said activities director Bob Hebrank on why the change was made.

Last year, and every year prior, the game had always been crammed between the parade, BBQ and dance.

“The game is stressful on Saturday,” Hebrank said, “and football is just meant to be played on Fridays.”

As expected, the change in game time affects the players just as much as it affects the fans.

“The game will be way more hectic this

year,” varsity football player Marcus Thorn-ton said. “We will have to go to warm-ups straight after school.”

Although the players are excited to play on Friday night, they are also happy about the opportunity to walk in the parade for the first time.

This will be a special

year for Pattonville homecoming football.

“We are making Pat-tonville history this year,” senior Judge Wil-liams said.

Safety CJ McDaniel believes in the impor-tance of this game.

“I think more than anything, we need to make this game memo-rable.”

Change in schedule allows students more time, opportunities on Homecoming

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The student section had a green-out for the Homecoming foot-ball game against Webster Groves and had a strong attendance rate because of the change in schedule.

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The Pirates run through a banner held by the cheer-leaders. “You don’t really understand what it means until it’s all over,” Jake Stroker (18) said. “It’s sad that it has to be the last one but it’s great to know that I could at least lead the team out there one last time.”

Cody Blankenship kicks the ball off to start the game against Webster Groves. “It’s very exciting when everyone is yelling and looking at you kick the ball,” Blankenship said. “I try to kick it as deep as possible and aim it at where people are not.”

D’Mondre Williams tipped the punt attempt and gave Pattonville good field position to start the offensive drive.

SECOND QUARTER - Pirates 13, Webster Groves 13

Kaleb Eleby throws to his No. 1 target Jake Stroker. Eleby is one of the top passers in the area according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch high school rankings.

Calvin Smith runs a screen pass in the second quarter as the clock expires in the half.

Tyrone Eastern runs the ball in for the touchdown for the second time in the first half. He did Cam New-ton’s Superman celebration in the endzone as Jake Stroker comes up behind him to celebrate.

THIRD QUARTER - Webster Groves 27, Pirates 13

Jordan Wilkes sacks the quarterback in the third quarter. Wilkes recorded three sacks in the game and 12 tackles.

Trevor “Guy” Parhomski gets to the quarterback and makes a stop as he approaches the line of scrimmage.

Pirates gang tackle the running back on Webster Groves. Nick Delgado ran for a total of 81 yards for two touchdowns in the game.

FOURTH QUARTER - Webster Groves 34, Pirates 13

Tyrone Eastern ran for 78 yards and two touchdowns in the game.

Markail Williams takes down the ball carrier for one of his six tackles in the game.

Pattonville was shut out in the second half and lost 34-13. The Pirates dropped to 4-1 on the season and play Parkway North on the road in their next contest.

Samantha ByrneInvolved: VDT, Varsity Volleyball, STUCO, Renaissance, Rho Kappa. Broadway Show: “I would love to see either All That Jazz or Chicago because dancing in a jazzy-Broadway show would be my dream come true.”

FreshmenJuniors Sophomores

Seniors

Samantha YanceyInvolved: VDT, Chamber Chior, STUCO, Renaissance, GALXCBroadway Show: “Hairspray because I’ve always wanted to dance for their pro-duction and it’s my favorite movie.”

Alyssa ReyesInvolved: VDT, soccer. Broadway Show: “Phantom of the Opera because it’s my parent’s favorite musical.”

Madison UtleyInvolved: Varsity cheerleading, varsity soccer.Broadway Show: “I would want to go to The Lion King because it was my favorite movie grow-ing up.”

Kennedy StrokerInvolved: Varsity cheerleadingBroadway Show: “The Lion King because the produc-tion has very life-like details of everything and I love the story that’s portrayed.”

Kori Gibbons Involved: Varsity cheerleadingBroadway: “I would go to Bring it On: The Musical because I never got to see it when it was showing. I have been doing cheerleading for seven years now so it’s the perfect show for me and I have watched the Bring it On movies over a thousand times.”

Princess ThomasInvolved: Lacrosse, DECA, Pirate Pride, SPEAK, Pirate Code.Broadway Show: “The Wizard of Oz because it teaches us to look within our own capabilities and resources when chal-lenged or confronted with a conflict or dilemma instead of looking for an easy way out.”

Anise GlennInvolved: Co-captain of VDT, STUCO, Renaissance, NHS, PALS, Chamber Choir and GALXC.Broadway Show: “I would go to Wicked, Chicago or Grease be-cause all of them have catchy upbeat songs and dances that I can attempt to do at home after watching.”

Hannah SaputoInvolved: Girls’ golf, Student Council, Pirate TV, Yearbook.Broadway Show: “I would see High School Musical be-cause I don’t stick to the status quo.”

Jessica BurgessInvolved: Varsity cheerleading, Girls’ Golf, Senior Class President, Orchestra, STUCO, BSAAC, GALXC, Captain’s Corner, NSHS.Broadway Show: “I would go to Hair-spray because it’s my favorite musical and I know all the words to every song.”

Kendra MooreInvolved: National Honors Society, FEA, Rho Kappa, STUCO, French Club and French National Honor Society. Broadway Show: “It would be Grease be-cause I went to New York and had front row tickets to see Grease in 7th grade and it was canceled because the writers went on strike.”

Danielle HayesInvolved: Student Council, Marching Band, Jazz Band, Pep Band, Pit Orchestra, NHS, BSAAC, FEA, French Club and Key Club.Broadway Show: “I would go to The Sound of Music be-cause it has been my favorite musical since I was 5 years old.”

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“I’d pick Be-yonce because she’s Beyonce and she’s fine.”- Brock Beins, 9

“I’d pick August Alsina because he’s talented.”- Tyelor Dun-can, 11

“I’d pick Lau-ren London, she’s really cute.”- Caron Cole-man, 9

“I’d pick Miley Cyrus because I love her.”- Kori Gibbons,9

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For the third time, Megan Anth was on Homecoming court. For her, three was a lucky number.

“I was surprised because I didn’t think I was going to win,” Anth said.

Three is also the num-ber of teacher nomina-tions a student needs in order to be on the Homecoming court.

She said homecoming week was a lot of fun and it’s great to see the school dressed up for the Spirit Day competi-tions.

“I was on court my sophomore, junior and senior year,” Anth said. “So I only got to dress up freshman year when I was too timid to do the themes.”

She was proud of how the school responded to the week though.

“I love seeing how spirited everyone is and how into it people get,” Anth said. “We had 94% dressed up on Friday and it’s a way to bring the school together.”

A way to bring the family together is follow in your sister’s steps.

Allison Anth was named the prom queen in 2013.

“Neither one of us are the dance-type people, we’re more sporty,” Al-lison Anth said. “It’s an awesome feeling and I’m really proud of her. She’s an amazing person.”

Megan Anth said par-ticipating in the Court activities was fun.

“There are lots of great people on court,” Megan Anth said. “It feels good to be the school’s queen.”

Family Royalty

Megan Anth Involved: STUCO, VP of Senior Class, Pirate Pride, Renaissance, PALS, BSAAC, NHS and varsity soccer. Broadway Show: “Grease, because I love the songs.”

TOP After crowning Megan Anth as the 2014 Homecom-ing queen, Pirate Pete and last year’s winner, Nicole Callahan, take a picture with Anth’s father who escorted her during halftime of the football game. BOTTOM Nicole Cal-lahan returned to Pattonville to crown this year’s winner. Megan Anth was the winner of the Homecoming queen vote which was decided on by the high school students.

“I’d choose Nicki Minaj be-cause she’s cute, she’s a good rapper, and she can dress.”- Charles Shelton, 9

“I’d pick Justin Bieber because he’s cute and he’s my idol.”- Journie Davis, 10

“I’d choose Zac Efron because he’s cute.”- Lawrene-Rose Tinker, 10

“I’d pick Diggy Simmons, that’s my baby.”- Destiny Wade, 12

“I’d love to go with Carrie Underwood because she’s perfection.”- Corey Mey-ers, 9

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ABOVE GSA rode in a truck decorated as Cats. TOP RIGHTThe marching band performs near the end of the parade.

RIGHT The Elementary School Fun Run kicked off the events., with dozens of kids racing to finish first to the high school.

FAR RIGHT Pattonville’s elegant and sharply dressed thespians ride their red carpet float complete with paparazzi.

Watch the entire parade in 60 seconds.Scan the QR code or go to bit.ly/ZxnGzO

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Creve Coeur Mill Road becomes BroadwayFloats decorating like New York musicals highlighlight the annual parade

TOP LEFT and RIGHT Pattonville’s Elementary schools took part in the festivities with eccentric floats by the teachers and students. Rose Acres decorated a float to match the musical Willy Wonka, which is the musical the high school will be performing in the spring. The float from Remington Traditional was inspired by the Brodway show Stomp and won the Elementary/Middle School com-petition. ABOVE The football team rides on a Fred Weber truck with their Pirate Boys banner and throws out candy and footballs to the crowd along the route. LEFT The volleyball team decorated a truck for Cats and rode in the parade.

By Jeffrey Hart and CJ McDaniel

Each grade had its own float highlighed by the senior class which won for their Grease-inspired entry.

Other groups that were in the parade included the cheerleaders, drill team, football team and volleyball team.

Along with those teams were the home-coming court nominees led by Megan Anth who served as the Grand Marshal of the parade.

District elementary and middle schools, and even some businesses in the community, partici-pated as well.

There were many

people in attendance for the parade that ran from Mark Twain Avenue down to the high school and had the sidewalks on both sides of the road filled with people.

Cindy May, a 1976 Pat-tonville graduate, comes every year to see the floats in the parade. This year, she even saw her

granddaughter Megan Volz ride on the volley-ball team float.

“This parade means spirit, and it’s important because it builds loyalty and camaraderie to the community,” May said. “It just brings everyone together and really is a wonderful thing.”

Prior to homecom-

ing Saturday, each class worked extremely hard on decorating their float. Float building was held in the bus station behind Holman Middle School Tuesday-Thursday evenings from 6-9 p.m. and each class voluntarily had at least 20 people come help out with their class’ float.

Alumni of Pattonville showed up for lunch after the parade on Sat-urday, but it wasn’t the official alumni BBQ.

Instead, the Interna-tional Club hosted the meal.

“STUCO asked us to do this,” sponsor Katherine Korte said. “They approached us and asked if we would be interested in doing this as a fundraiser.”

The club’s members or-ganized the entire event.

Camille Hernandez is president of the club and said they were planning the event for almost 2 weeks.

“My role today is tak-ing orders and taking the money, but before today, we did a lot of advertising,” Hernandez said. “We designed post-ers, we did the signs that

are in the parking lot and we did some chalk-ing on the sidewalk during the parade.”

Korte was proud of her students for the work they did.

“The kids did all the planning and set the tables,” Korte said. “They got the flags for the centerpieces from Ms. O’Keefe to give it that international flair.”

Judy Chege said they weren’t that busy at the start of the BBQ.

“We started slow today but it’s picked up,” Chege said. “It’s all about the advertising and we chalked the side-walks before the parade and put up signs in the parking lot.”

She said she also walked up to the stadi-um to try and sell water to the fans watching the

field hockey game.What hurt the most

was probably not being able to sell soda to the customers.

“We couldn’t do that I’m told because of the school’s health code,” Chege said. “Lots of people were wanting sodas with their meal but we could only sell water and Propel.”

By the start of the field hockey game, Korte said they had sold about 50 hot dogs.

“Maybe the wafting smell of hot dogs in the air will get people to come down here during halftime,” Korte said.

About 30 minutes after the start of the field hockey game, the Pi-rates’ swim meet against Ritenour began in the natatorium which shares the same parking lot.

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International Club hosts BBQ after parade as fundraiserAnnual Alumni BBQ was not held in the parking lot so high school club fills in

TOP Students involved in the International Club place signs in the parking lot to direct guests to the BBQ. TOP RIGHT Camille Hernandez leads a group of members in chalking the sidewalk along the parade route. MIDDLE Camille Hernandez accepts payment for a hot dog lunch at the International Club BBQ held in the parking lot next to the stadium after the parade. BOTTOM Alum Dan Wright attends the BBQ with his family. His sister, Sam Wright, plays on the field hockey team which had a game against Parkway North at the stadium following the parade.

23SATURDAY - SportsSeptember 2014 PIRATE PRESS

Several faces of the field hockey team were looking through the fence that lined Creve Couer Mill Road as the parade was work-ing its way toward the high school on Saturday morning.

The athletes weren’t able to participate in the parade because they had

to focus on their game against Parkway North.

“We cheered on the school and then played our game and our fans cheered for us,” Taelor Duncan said.

Duncan lead the Pattonville offense by scoring two goals.

Jaida Coleman also scored twice and Katie

Scoopmire and Zoey Dye each added one goal.

“It felt good to play at home on Homecoming and get the win,” Dun-can said.

Taelor Duncan and Kortney Fauntleroy split time as goalie in the game and earned the win.

Pattonville defeats Parkway North 6-1

TOP Swimmers take off the block to start a race in the swim meet on Saturday against Ritenour. BOTTOM Charlie Gwinn and Xan Adams compete in the butterfly race in a dual meet against Ritenour on Saturday afternoon. The swim team held a meet following the parade since the football game was moved to Friday night instead. “It was fun because we actually had a crowd,” Nate McClain said. “It was bigger than normal because usually we have just our parents there.”

By Maggie VitaleOnce wasn’t enough for

junior diver Cole Mansell. “I scored above 210

points for my six dives for the 4th time and got to qualify for state again,” Mansell said.

Even though Mansell has qualified for the state competition, he still thinks there is room for improvement.

“There are a few dives that I could’ve per-formed better today.”

Achieving the score again just gives him confidence.

“You just have to make the score once to go to state but doing it over and over again just proves you are ready to compete against those other guys.”

Those other guys will include teammate Colin Parker who also reached the qualifying score.

The state meet is Nov. 7-8 at the St. Peters Rec Plex.

Mansell reaches state-qualifying score for 4th time this season

New sports take center stage after parade

TOP The usual sight of football being played at the stadium fol-lowing the parade was replaced by field hockey. MIDDLE Jaida Coleman scores a goal against Parkway North in the first half of the game. ABOVE Zoey Dye competes for possession of the ball before taking it the distance of the field and scoring a goal.

24 SATURDAY - Dance September 2014PIRATE PRESSAfter the Homecom-

ing court was intro-duced at the dance, the announcement every-one was waiting for was made.

The winner has tradi-tionally been proclaimed at halftime of the football game but because the points from the float competition had to be collected, the winner could not be announced until the dance.

Assistant principal Gene Grimshaw first announced the winners

of Penny Wars and the float competition before giving the end-of-the-week total scores of the Spirit Week competi-tions.

“We knew the juniors had something planned for Penny Wars and we were nervous about that result,” STUCO president and senior class secretary Canaan Kerr said. “But when we finished our float, we were confident that we were going to win the week as a whole.”

The freshmen won the

Penny War competition which was worth more points than other con-tests, and when Grim-shaw asked senior class president Jessica Burgess to come forward and claim the trophy for the senior class, Kerr knew their hard work had paid off.

Once Burgess obtained the trophy, she was not willing to let it go.

She was seen the remainder of the night dancing with the trophy tightly held in her hand.

And the winner is ...

TOP Andy Chen dances to the Cupid Shuffle. Chen and all the

girls pictured took off their shoes for the dance. “Formal shoes,

like heels and flats, are really un-comfortable to move around in,

so it’s just easier to dance around in your bare feet,” Rachel Polster

said. “I don’t have to worry about anyone taking my shoes because the coat check offers a safe place

to keep them. They give you a plastic bag and a matching wrist-band and it’s really easy.” RIGHT Football players Jake Stroker and CJ McDaniel dance to the Cupid

Shuffle on Saturday.

Picture PerfectA Night on Broadway backdrop was set up in the Commons for students to take pictures in front of throughout the night. There were also props set up in the corners of the gym to match each grade’s musical theme.

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TOP Hailey Womack, Madeline Cowell (Duchesne

H.S.), Allison Van Buren and Sadie White celebrate after the announcemment of the

Spirit Week results. ABOVE The DJs kept the music going

all night long at the dance. MIDDLE Vadim Mamrenko has sweat running down his back and legs from dancing

too hard. TOP RIGHT Elleni Yeshiwas claps along with the

music while dancing. BOT-TOM RIGHT Joe Ponder and

Tommy O’Brien lean with the music while dancing on

Saturday night.

26 ENTERTAINMENT September 2014PIRATE PRESS

Natalie Siegel, 11“All About that Bass”

by Meghan Trainor

Jada Alexander, 11“Wiggle”

by Jason Derulo

Julie Halveland, 11“Shake It Off” by Taylor Swift

Mr. Shaun Patrick All of them

Sarah Simpkins, 12“Grown Woman”

by Beyonce

Michael Aguirre, 10 “No Flex Zone”

by Rae Sremmurd

Maddi Gamache, 11“Hips Don’t Lie”

by Shakira

Jack Wallis, 11“Beauty and a Beat”

by Justin Bieber

Hunter Collier, 11“One More Time”

by Daft Punk

Chris Gawat, 11“Tongue Tied”by Group Love

Coach Steve Smith“Rock Your Body”

by Justin Timberlake

Marqukis Lawrence, 9“Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”

by Will Smith

Ms. Beth Moritz “Wanna Be

Starting Something”by Michael Jackson

Max Bodde, 12 “Party in the U.S.A.”

by Miley Cyrus

Jalyn Byrd, 9 “Bang Bang”

by Ariana Grande, Jessie J, Nicki Minaj

We all have that one song that when we hear it, we just can’t sit still. Maybe it’s in the car, maybe it’s in the waiting room at the doctor’s office, or maybe it’s even in the shower. The Homecoming theme this year was based off of Broadway musicals which are famous for the dancing, the storylines, and of course, the songs. Pattonville students and teachers were asked what music makes them want to get up and dance. Here are their answers:

Hit music guaranteed to make you danceFor 2015, here are 15 songs that get students and staff out of their seat

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Fashion no-knows: Boys are in dire need of a girls’ dictionary

By Sophie Vik

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“Manicure is for hand, pedicure is for feet.”

“Manicure for men, pedicure for women.”

“Manicures deal with fingernails while pedicures deal with feet.”

“Manicure is for hands, pedicure is for toes.”

“Just goes over the finger.”

“I love them on girls! Like clear and then white at the top.”

“A little color on the front end of the nail.”

“Is it a certain color?”

“A wallet or a purse.”

“For your face by the cheek bones, to make your face look pretty.”

“Honestly no clue.”

“Cheeks, blushing.”

“Crazy hairstyle.”

“Half-up and some hair coming down.”

“A hairstyle that comes a fourth of the way down.”

“No idea.”

“A witch look.”

“When girls put dark makeup around their eyes.”

“Makes it look like smoke, grayish color.”

“Eyeliner.”

“A necklace that represents a rela-tionship.”

“Is it like a heart? It’s a heart.”

“A necklace with a message on it? I really don’t know, I’ve never heard of it.”

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“2 or 3.”“2.”

By Sophie Vik

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By Kayla Moss

Once every year, the week before Homecom-ing, Spirit Week takes over the school, and hap-pens just four times while you are in high school.

I feel like the fresh-men and sophomores do not get into Spirit Week as much as the juniors and seniors.

I feel like the freshmen come off as a little shy, and they are afraid they are going to get judged by the upperclassmen.

But to be honest, I feel like people judge you more if you do not par-ticipate rather than they would if you do.

As Spirit Week contin-

ues throughout the week, your whole class depends on everybody to partici-pate and dress up.

The competition between all four of the classes is unreal. I feel like the juniors and seniors are more com-petitive between each other with the whole dressing up during Sprit Week and, of course, the junior/senior war.

I’m not going to lie to you. I remember my freshman year and the only day I participated

in was Class Color Day. My sophomore year I started to participate a little bit more, but only did three days. This year, I planned on participat-ing in all five days. And it was a lot of fun.

I think we should do Spirit Weeks more than just once a year. I feel like it makes everybody happier and puts them in a better mood.

I feel like everybody doesn’t seem as stressed. Maybe having a Spirit Week at the end of the

semester would be good, right before finals because at the end of the semester, everybody gets in this slump where they are just fed up with school, and they don’t want to do anything.

Another good time would be right before prom. Even though typi-cally only juniors and seniors go to the dance, I think it would be a nice way to rejuvenate the students and help them get through the last part of the school year.

Kayla’s Kall

Staff EditorialIt is the opinion of the Pirate Press that the change in the Home-coming schedule was appropriate.

The Homecoming football game was played under the lights on a Friday night for the first time, instead of it being on Saturday after-noon. This left only the parade and the dance (and a field hockey game and a swim meet) being held on Saturday.

We at the Pirate Press think it was an incred-

ible idea to make this change.

The turnout for the football game was amazing without people rushing off to get ready for a dance and the difference gave more people the opportu-nity to participate in the parade.

The change gave girls a chance to spend all Saturday prepping for the dance instead of attending the football game and possibly hav-ing to leave early to get ready.

It also gave the football players, band

members, the drill team and cheerleaders time to breathe between events.

The change to spread the events throughout the weekend was ap-propriate.

This change should be continued next year as we think it was success-ful.

Homecoming is a tra-dition at the school and the schedule change is a great way to start a new tradition.

So let’s mark it on the 2015 calendar now: Football on Friday and the parade and the dance on Saturday.

Friday Night Lights is best

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More Spirit Weeks would help motivate students throughout the year

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