Log - Volume 50, Issue 1

The Northmen’s LogVolume 50, Issue 1

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HomecomingThrough the Ages

September 2014

CoolDown inIceland

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Letter from the EditorI am happy to bring to you the 50th volume of the news-

paper. This year’s newspaper will look very similar to last year’s, but with a few changes as in fonts and colors.

Every issue will contain the same categories: news, rec-reation, feature, people, opinion, photo essay and sports.

We are proud to bring you this issue on Homecoming weekend.

This issue will take you back through the ages of Home-coming here, new changes around our school, adventures

over the summer, and lots more. We hope to entertain you and inform you of things hap-

pening around here.With seven more issues still to come, we would love to

hear your feedback on the newspaper. Please stop by to give us your feedback at E134 with

your letters to the editor, see below for instructions. Have a wonderful year, and remember to pick up your copy of the newspaper every month.

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Senior Emily Cunningham spends her sum-mer singing at Worlds of Fun.

Photo credit to Nichole Tolle

Photo credit to 1965 Cambia yearbook

Candy Hover is escorted by her father, as the Homecoming queen at the 1965 game.

NEWS 2#OP UNITEDNew Attendance PolicyAcademic Resource Time

Recreation 4Favorite Thing About School StartingStuCo Prepares for HomecomingFavorite Subject

Feature 6Homecoming Through The AgesHomecoming Schedule

People 850th Graduating ClassCunningham’s Star JobAdventure to Iceland

Opinion 10Attendance ChangeSizing Down

Photo Essay 11First Football Game

Sports 12Football JamboreeFall Sports CalendarThe Coach People Love

On the Cover: The new Northman mascot, a gift from the class of 2013, points at the Friday Aug. 22 football game against Win-netonka.

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Academic Resource Starts Olivia Eissler Editor in Chief

“It started the semester before I became principal,” said Principal Mark Maus. “There was a committee of teachers and parents. [Assistant principal Chris] Sartain and I talked with everyone. Having built-in time is im-portant and having structure is important.”

This year, students now have academic resource time, or advisory every Monday and Friday for 40 minutes.

Junior and seniors who don’t have any Fs in any class-es may resort to designated areas where they can play games, do homework, or just hang out with their friends.

Freshmen and sophomores are assigned a teacher they are with for the year. On Fridays, when freshmen and sophomores have a pass from a teacher, they may travel and get help from other teachers.

“Giving juniors and seniors time teaches younger stu-dents to manage their time,” Maus said. “Students can de-compress for 40 minutes, see teachers and study.”

Every two weeks, juniors and seniors will have to re-port to their advisory teacher for grade checks, and fresh-men and sophomores have grade checks every week.

“It’s new, and [we are going] to learn,” Maus said. “Things are going to happen we hadn’t thought about, but we will figure it out our best. We are going to have to be flexible with changes and adjusting.”

Many people like the new academic resource. Senior Kaley Breault said it was nice to have a break

from the school day and to use the time for whatever you want.

“I like not being assigned anywhere, but I don’t like how we can’t travel to any other places to do chores,” Breault said.

Breault said it is fair for juniors and seniors to be able to move, but not freshmen and sophomores, because the upperclassmen are more likely to be responsible and to utilize their time smarter.

“It is a time for me to do homework and get stuff done,” said freshman Madlin Tutu.

Tutu likes academic resource, because in class she doesn’t get free time like we do for advisory.

“I like getting all my homework done before the week-end,” Tutu said.

Students Study, Ask for Assistance, Socialize

Junior Alexander Pekarsky and his friends enjoy their Academic Resource time in the cafeteria. Academic Resource is like a flex time on Mondays and Fridays for freshmen and sophomores to get their work done, and juniors and seniors to do whatever they want in an Unassigned Time location, as long as their grades and attendance are kept up.

Olivia Eissler Editor in Chief

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Hash Tag of the Year UnitesEditor in Chief

“We talked about it as a staff,” said athletic director Casey Vokolek. “We were trying to come up with some-thing different, and when we heard OPbluenight, we didn’t like it.”

For this year, the school Twitter hash tag is #OPUnited.

Vokolek said students and faculty can use this hash tag when are rec-ognizing students for success in fine arts or athletics or any area.

“Since this is the 50th year, we are doing a lot to unite the past students now and to promote a family atmo-sphere by bringing students closer,” Vokolek said.

The first time senior Rebecca Saari heard of #OPUnited was at freshmen orientation. For helping out direct-ing a group and making sure they got to know the school better, she received a shirt with #OPUnited on the back. Also all of the freshmen who attended freshman orientation received the same shirt.

“It is okay,” said Saari. “It is not very creative.”

On the other side was junior Ali Ishkuntana.

“It is liked by everyone and is pop-ular,” Ishkuntana said.

Ishkuntana said the hash tag is not

just for soccer or softball to use, it is for everyone in the school to use to show support for people who repre-sent the school, and it shows great school spirit.

“I see it on Twitter a lot and think that it will probably be in the year-book,” Ishkuntana said.

Ishkuntana said this hash tag will promote everyone to go and support others athletes events, concerts and plays.

“It unites us as a school; a whole,” Ishkuntana said.

Blue on Blue, Through and Through. Most of the cheerleaders are at the fence supporting the varsity football team at the Jamboree, Friday, Aug. 15. They were awaiting eagerly for the scrimmage against Staley’s varsity to begin. “The

Jamboree was really exciting, and it was fun to see friends from other schools that I haven’t seen in awhile,” said sophomore Ashlyn Penland.

Joe Haas photographer

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Stuco Prepares for HomecomingOlivia Eissler Editor in Chief

“The theme for this year’s Home-coming is Fall Festival,” said junior Taylor Dorrel. “It was the theme and name of the first dance here.”

Dorrel’s committee in leadership, has prepared for the dance. They found old pictures from back in the days to scatter across the gym during the dance. Also they prepared the decorations for the gym and the courtyard.

For the first Homecoming here, students in 1965 used the courtyard for the dance. They had a pond and a bridge for couples to walk over.

“The 50th year affects the whole entire Homecoming,” Dorrel said.

To incorporate the 50th into the dance, alumni were invited back for

the parade on Friday, Sept. 19, and the school plans to host on alum-ni games on the Saturday, Sept. 20, morning of Homecoming.

“We have to get ready for the pa-rade, make schedules for the floats to go through the streets, get the floats organized, find a route for the pa-rade, and promote the parade,” said junior Ryan Rogowski.

Rogowski’s committee in leader-ship worked on getting every grade to have their own float and for all of the clubs to either make a float, or walk in the parade. He said they in-corporated the 50th year into Home-coming by having a parade.

The first Homecoming here had a parade, so they are trying to bring

it back from when it died out a few years ago.

“For queens, we made banners, decorated the trophy case and picked out crowns,” said senior Lauren Fabac.

Fabac’s committee was in charge of making sure all the queens know what is happening. They helped them get their pictures taken for the dis-play case, made sure they have con-vertibles for the parade, had an es-cort and banner holders, and made sure they all have sequined dresses for the assembly.

“I think students should come to Homecoming definitely because it’s going to be the most spectacular ones to come,” Dorrel said.

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Going to your new classes: 10%

Starting before/afterschool activites:16%

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Homecoming Through the AgesHave you ever wondered what

Homecoming was like over the past 50 years here?

It wasn’t as different as you think. The very first Homecoming here was in 1965. The theme for the dance was Fall Festival, just as our theme is this year, and the very first Homecoming Queen was Candy Hover.

A few years later, science teach-er Alan Parks celebrated his senior Homecoming.

“I went with Kyle Adams, who was up for Homecoming Queen,” Parks said.

Parks was a senior here in 1972 and played football and baseball. For his Homecoming dance, the theme was Fall Fantasy. Parks’ Homecom-ing game was against the Truman Patriots on Saturday, Oct. 17.

“After Homecoming we went on a boat cruise on the river,” Park said.

All of the girls who were up for Homecoming queen where all very involved here, said Parks. When you walked into the main gym, the side where all the seniors sit was filled with all the lettermen, and where the juniors sit, was packed with Pep Club members. Pep Club back then mostly consisted of girls who cheered on the athletes at their games.

Today, we have a fan section that is similar to the Pep Club. We pack the stands and cheer on our athletes to victory.

Two decades later, science teacher Bethany Hoff had her senior court-warming in the fall of 1993, before graduating in 1994.

“The Homecoming Queens were the seven most popular girls,” Hoff said.

Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

Connie Clemons was the 1969 Homecoming Queen.

Social studies teacher Matthew Reynolds as a senior in 1995.

The Homecoming candidates in 1965: Candy, Lynda, Donna, Chris, Alice, Debbie and Linda.

The 1965 half time at the Homecoming game, when the band made a huge leaf to represent the dance theme, Fall Festival. Whenever a candidates’ name would be called, the leaf with their name on it would fall to the ground.

Science teacher Bethany Hoff as a se-nior in 1994.

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Homecoming Through the AgesFor her Homecoming, which was

on a Saturday night ,the theme of the dance was “A Night in Emerald City.” For decorations, they had a yellow brick road laying on the gym floor, and they had green lights to make it really feel like Emerald City. For her assembly, Hoff was the emcee for it. Also for their Homecoming game played at Northtown, she read off the biography for the queens. Some of the queens that year were some of Hoff’s closest friends.

“I was a cheerleader,” Hoff said. “It didn’t automatically make you popu-lar.”

When Hoff went here, she said the school was very big. This was be-cause Staley students still went here.

A year later, another teacher made memories.

“The dance was in the gym,” said social studies teacher Matthew

Reynolds, who was a senior in 1995. “We got all dressed up and went down to the Plaza as a group.”

The Homecoming game was at the Northtown District Stadium, and OP won 20-9 against the Truman Patri-ots.

After the dance, which was themed “Cast a Spell,” Reynolds and his friends went to various haunted houses.

He said that his favorite part of Homecoming was seeing all of his friends, and his least favorite part was that his date was not very nice. When Reynolds went here, he played football and baseball.

It doesn’t matter what year it is, Homecoming has always been a time of getting dressed up for the dance and showing support for the football team at the Homecoming game.

Alan Parks blocks for Mike Skeith against Tru-man.

Bethany Hoff, front cen-ter, when she was a varsity cheerleader.

Mabrey Wathen Writer

Friday, Sept. 19:12:30 p.m. Hall of Fame Assembly1 p.m. Parade1:45 p.m. Pep Rally4 p.m. Powder Puff Game

Saturday, Sept. 20:9 a.m. Alumni coed Soccer9 a.m. Alumni Flag Football Game9 a.m. School is open for Alumni

Tours9:30 a.m. Alumni Volleyball

9:30 a.m. Basketball games in Main and Auxiliary gyms

10:30 a.m. Alumni Tailgate opens in the OP Parking Lot

11:30 a.m. Alumni Recognitions before the football game

12:00 p.m. Kickoff: Belton Pirates vs. Northmen @ OPHS Half-time: Homecoming Queen and other recognitions

2-4 p.m. School is open for Alumni Tours

6 p.m. All OP reunion at Brass Rail7 p.m. Homecoming Dance

Homecoming Schedule

photos courtesy of Cambia yearbook

Science teacher Alan Parks as a senior in 1972.

The 1965 Homecoming Queen, Candy Hover.

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Senior Takes the StageMaddie Russell Managing Editor

If you went to Worlds of Fun this summer you might have seen a famil-iar face, but you probably didn’t ex-pect her to be performing on stage. Senior Emily Cunningham was a live entertainment performer at this year’s summer country show: “Made in America.”

“My mom told me that when I turned 16 I needed to get a job,” Cun-ningham said. “She’s like “you need to figure out where you wanna work.” And when I was about 11 or 12, I al-ways went out to Worlds of Fun and I watched shows out there with my mom, and I actually remember some of my co-workers performing when I was a little kid, and I told my mom I want to do this, and I auditioned and I was thankful to get the job.”

Cunningham had to go through many different processes throughout the audition to be able to get her part in the show.

“For the audition process, I had to sing an upbeat song and a ballad, and then it went into a callback session, then you’d do a dance audition, so you’d learn a dance and then you’d have to perform it with four other people,” Cunningham said. “Then I had to sing another song; and after that I got measured and everything and I had to give them my shoe sizes just so they had it on file.”

After Cunningham got her role in the show, it came down to preparing

for the first performance. “We start with vocals on a whole

entire three-day weekend, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and I wanna say it takes about two weeks to get all ready with costumes and every-thing until we open up our show. For dancing it probably takes about two or three or four rehearsals; and we learn section by section each dance number,” Cunningham said. “Then this year we had to run stuff with the band because my stage had a live band. We just practiced every-thing, we went and got measured for costumes, and we had to have dress rehearsals before our show actual-ly open, and we have a family and friends night where all of our friends and family come support us, and then we open up the next day.”

Every show, Cunningham got into the same routine to prepare herself for the stage.

“I have to do both my makeup and hair and usually I show up to work with my makeup done and then I do my hair in our dressing room. Then I have to put on tights and my Spanx and everything and I have to make sure my costumes are in my dress-ing room and not with all the other costumes. I put on my lipstick to look all perdy and then I’m ready for the show.”

Cunningham enjoys her job very much and especially enjoys the at-

tention from the crowd. “I love making little kids smile. It’s

my favorite part because whenever I’m performing I think of little kids being like me, like “Oh I want to do that one day when I’m older and I want to be that person up there, “and that’s how I was and I want other kids to look at me like that.”

Emily Cun-ningham

performs on stage

throughout her career at Worlds

Of Fun.

Photo Credits

to Nicole Tolle

Senior Emily Cunningham

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Mabrey Wathen WriterWhat did you do this summer? You probably lounged

by the pool, rode rides at Worlds of Fun, or maybe went on a little road trip. Did you travel outside the U.S.? Well, senior Samantha Belcourt vacationed in Iceland for 10 days.

Belcourt and her family chose to go to Iceland because, “In Iceland we had no idea what to do and that was kind of the entire point, was just exploration and have no set places to go and just explore, and plus we knew it would be cooler than ninety degrees.”

The landscape, the mountains and the wild life were unlike anything she’d seen in Missouri.

While in Iceland, Belcourt and her family stayed in two cities: Dalvík and Reykjavík.

“While we were there, we basically got to know the lo-cals and explore the architecture and the landscape.”

Belcourt did some pretty cool stuff during her stay, “One of the things we did there, was we went to a local restaurant that they try to keep a secret from the tourists and tried Hákarl (rotten shark).”

Surprisingly, she liked it more than she thought she would.

“It’s like sunny there 12 hours a day, so that was some-thing to get used to,” Belcourt said.

Belcourt thought the time difference was weird at first, but turned out to be kind of nice.

“You’re not as tired and you see people walking around

at like two o’clock in the morning, getting coffee, shop-ping,” Belcourt said.

“I would go back in a heartbeat,” Belcourt said. Belcourt and her family tried many new things, saw a

lot of churches and landscape, and got to interact with some amazing people.

“I just think that kindness [that the people showed] is really rare in the world, to be that close to something like that, it’s really important.”

Seniors Express Feelings on 50th Graduating Class

“Yeah it’s really significant to me because I’m in choir and we have so much to do this year. We have the 50th “Messiah” that [di-rector] Bill Grace is doing, and we have just like a big year ahead of us. People remember the first year and the 25th year; and it’s just cool to witness the 50th.”

“Everyone looks older because in what we would think of now as old is what they dressed in back then. Everyone dressed up back then and looked really classy. All the guys are wearing ties and suits in the yearbook photos and now no one dresses up that nice anymore. If someone wore that now they’d be made fun of probably.”

Senior Samantha Sander

Senior Kaleb Murray

Q: Why is the being apart of the 50th graduat-ing class significant to you?

Q: How does the senior class from 50 years ago com-pare to this year?

Iceland Cool Down in

Senior Samantha Belcourt visited many places during her stay in Iceland, like the Gooafoss Waterfall. The Gooafoss Water-fall was located in Reykjavik, Iceland. “I felt free,” Belcourt said.

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Tessa McGinnis Artist

Maddie Russell Managing Editor

If you’re one of those people who have trouble keeping good attendance, then school just got a bit more challeng-ing for you.

The new policy is that if a student doesn’t have an ap-proved doctor’s note or a pre-excused absence the day missed will count against them. If a student misses just a few days of school, this isn’t going to affect them very much, but if their attendance drops below 90 percent, that’s where the problems begin. Even if they keep up with the classwork their grade will slowly deteriorate.

For me, this isn’t a terribly big issue because I’m at school almost every single day, but sometimes we can’t help missing a few days here and there. You can’t control if Aunt Edna passes away during EOCs and you have to

unexpectedly fly out to California for her funeral. Or how could you have known that your parents planned a sur-prise vacation the week before spring break and you have to miss an entire week of school?

Sometimes I think the district forgets more goes on in students’ lives than school. Not everyone can be at school every day for multiple reasons, and if they at least keep up with the schoolwork it shouldn’t be counted against them.

This new policy completely stresses me out because now I have to keep track of how many days I can or can’t miss or else “bye bye grades.” I like the idea, but looking at it through a student’s eyes, it’s just one more thing that makes school even more nerve-racking.

Policy Makes School More Difficult

Student Disagrees with LunchroomThere are a lot of negative reviews

surrounding school lunches. Ever since the dawn of school lunch there have been people who love it and people who hate it. Then there’s al-ways that group who doesn’t care.

My opinion towards this school’s lunch is less on the taste and more on the portions. The cookies have been cut to two, and if you want more than three hot wings, you better break out your wallet because that’s going to

cost you extra. Don’t get me wrong, I like the

school lunch. But I definitely would not choose it over going out to eat. So as far as the school lunch; it is great for me.

Cody Green Writer

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Football Spices up Season

Juniors Winnie Adenic and Taylor Terrell observe the game on Friday, Aug. 22. The cheer squads added a third level this season to accomodate all the cheerleaders.

Maddie Russell Managing Editor

Oak Park and Tonka Football take stance before the next play on Friday, Aug. 22.

Maddie Russell Managing Editor

The Oak Park Pommies entertain during half time for the awaiting crowd on Friday, Aug. 22.

Olivia Eissler Editor in Chief

Fans gather outside of locker room to form a fan tunnel on Friday, Aug. 22. Head coach Kevin Keeton asked fans to support the team in new ways this season.

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Loved

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Peoples’ Coach Opens Season

Nathan Roppa Writer

As you may of seen or heard, Oak Park has a new head football coach, Kevin Keeton. People are very excited.

Keeton has been at OP for four years; and in those years his non-coaching jobs have included a physics teacher and strength and conditioning coach. His coaching positions have included offensive line coach and now head coach.

“Oak Park football is going to continue to grow and be known as a can-do thing for any boy in the school to be part of and we want our program to be well respected in the suburban conference.”

Before Keeton came to OP, he was coaching for Belton High School. Coaching positions at Belton included spe-cial teams coach, offensive line coach, offensive coordi-nator and three years as head coach. Keeton has been coaching for 16 years.

“Our expectation as a team and football staff are very high, we believe in everything we’re doing and the kids that are doing it.”

People were excited about Keeton being the new head coach.

“I feel more comfortable and relaxed. His person and character is awesome; and it’s awesome to have a guy like that as head coach,” said senior Kur Bak.

“Team means something to him and he gives the best pep talks,” said junior Devin Canovi.

“He’s a cool guy had him freshmen year, always finding

ways to make you understand things,” said senior Sophia Contreras.

“He’s like a true father, a friend. He loves all of us, al-ways making sure we set the bar high for ourselves,” said junior Thomas Long.

Head coach Kevin Keeton and coach Jeff Rooney plan out the next set of plays on Friday, Aug. 22 at the first football game against Winnetonka.

Maddie Russell managing editor

Soccer Golf Volleyball9/22 NKC-H 9/25 Belton/ St. Joseph Central-A 10/2 Staley-H9/25 Staley-H 10/7 Dig For the Cure-H 10/14 Raytown-H 10/14 NKC-H SwimTennis 9/23 Blue Springs/ Park Hill/ Sedalia-A9/22 Lee’s Summit-H 10/7 Rockhurst/ Warrensburg-A9/23 Staley-A 10/14 Kearney/ St. Pius (Senior Meet)-A9/25 Liberty North-H

SoftballFootball 9/23 Fort Osage-H H- Home Game9/20 Belton-H 9/25 Staley-H 10/10 NKC-H 10/17 Staley-A

9/30 William Chrisman-HA- Away Game

Fall Sports Schedule

Olivia Eissler Editor-in-Chief

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As the air begins to cool and the leaves begin to change, people realize that football season is just about to begin. At the start of the school year, the team started off with a brand new head coach and brand new objectives.

“From last year the culture of the team has com-pletely changed,” said quarterback senior Joey Scott. “We are a lot more motivated, we take things a lot more seriously and the team’s already gotten a lot better.”

With a new head coach a whole different perspec-tive was put into the minds of the players.

“As opposed to just comparing ourselves from one year to the next, every year is different,” varsity foot-ball coach Kevin Keeton said. “Every year kids bring a unique team chemistry to the table, and let’s just say I like the direction we’re headed. I like this team’s chemistry, I like their work ethic and I like how they get along with each other.”

A new season means new changes for how the team will work and play together.

“He’s made a lot of changes and especially in how we practice and how we really try during games,” said defensive back senior Matt O’Neil. “For once we’re really playing together as a team and not just being selfish like we were in the past, and we’re actu-ally getting more amped up before our games.”

On Friday, Aug. 15, the Northmen kicked off their season at the 2014 Jamboree, learning more about the teams they’re up against and what they’ll have to work on in order to have a great season.

“We need to improve all facets of our game, we need to tackle better and we need to be able to throw the ball and execute offensively in the passing game and those things will come,” Keeton said. “I have no doubt, the kids are working hard to get those things fixed.”

Scott said he looked at the Jamboree as more of a learning experience.

“I wasn’t too worried about whether we did really good or really bad, it was just more of an evaluation on ourselves rather than how we did against the oth-er teams,” Scott said.

Keeton said the main goal he had was to get the team to work together. “We want to live our core cov-enants everyday, that’s a goal. We want to see daily improvement, and winning will take care of itself.”

Kicking OffMadison Russell Managing Editor

Oak Park’s football team is ready to start the season with all four North Kansas City School District high schools at the football Jamboree. The Jamboree was for the foot-ball teams to see what to expect and what to work on this season.

Joseph Haas photographer

Sophomores Nanomi Ironwing-Samm and Victoria Davis and freshman Kirsten Black-well smile for a picture at the Jamboree. Stu-dents came to the Jamboree to support Oak Park.

Joseph Haas photographer