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First-Day Schedule
Happening Now •Boys Basketball: End-of-season banquet 6 p.m. in commons
Lunch Time at WHS •Today’s lunch: Corn dog, macaroni and cheese, broccoli •À la carte lines: Pasta, beef fajita, baked potato bar, chef salad, sandwiches
Group Meetings •Chess Club: Members will meet at 3:15 p.m. today in A-136. •After-School Tutoring: Will not take place Wednesday because of a faculty meeting.
Other Reminders •Warrior Olympics: Teams are now forming—sign-up sheets in student services, $70 per team—due Friday. Events begin April 4. •Yearbook: 2016 pre-orders are now being taken at jostens.com and Tuesdays and Thursdays at lunch. •Drama: “Becoming Bronte” opens Thursday in the Little Theatre. Tickets are $5—see a drama club member or director Micki DeCurtins after school for tickets. •Spinsters Dance: Tickets will be sold during lunch in the commons while supplies last—$20 each or $30 for two. Dance 8:30 p.m. Saturday. •Seniors: Sign-up for the year-end party now—follow “Senior Class Party” link at WHSBooster.com. NOW Tuesday Staff Co-Editors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Maham Shah and Carter Keller Assistant Editor . . . . . . . . Kendall McMahon Staff: Josh Freese, Isaiah Fetrel, Erin Thompson, Jenson Amdahl, Jared Gully, Matt Farniok, Madi Forseth, Elizabeth Nachtigal, Lauren Olson Editor-in-Chief . . . . . . . . . . . . Maddie Wiley Managing Editor . . . . . . . . . .Hannah Smith Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Jason Lueth The News of Washington is a publication of the Orange & Black Staff Washington High School–Sioux Falls, S.D. Some material courtesy of American Society of Newspaper Editors/ TNS Campus High School Newspaper Service
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Warriors see success at Dan Lennon track meet Senior Alec Kray named boys MVP
By Jenson Amdahl, Erin Thompson, Isaiah Feterl and Matt Farniok arriors saw much success at the Dan Lennon Invitational Monday at the University of South Dakota. Senior Alec Kray earned the MVP of the AA meet with his spectacular finishes in the 3,200 meter run and 4x400 relay, finishing second in both, and by coming out on top in the 1,600 run. Senior Alex Derr finished third in the 800 run with a time of 2:04.41. Derr said it was a good day. “I am happy with the team’s performance,” Derr said. “But I’m still really looking forward to continued success in my all-time favorite race, the 4x400.” In other boys action, seniors Michael Enalls took second and Ty Smith third in the 60 hurdles. In the high jump, freshman Senior Alec Kray Jayden Johannsen took
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fourth. Freshman Nate Freese finished fifth in the long jump and Smith third in the triple jump. In relays, the 4x200 team of junior Ethan McKinney, Smith, junior Jack Bren and senior Isaiah Feterel finished fourth. The sprint medley team of McKinney, Bren, Feterel and Derr took first. Sophomore Will Farniok was very impressed with the results, overall. “We have been training extra hard for this event, and proud of the results of the team,” Farniok said. “We also learned where we need to improve to make a push for state.” For the girls, the 4x200 relay team featuring senior Mearah Miedema, juniors Skylar Moen and Isabel Kinzer and sophomore Hayley Christopherson took second with a time of 1:52.94. The 4x400 team of Kinzer, Moen, eighth grader Jaycee Johannsen and senior Erin Thompson took third. The sprint medley team of Kinzer, Moen, Thompson and junior Kelsi Kearney took fourth. In the 60 dash, Christopherson took third and freshman Darline Suah fourth.
Megosha takes second at state contest By Jared Gully Poetry took front and center at the state finals of Poetry Out Loud March 21 at Edison Middle School. At the event, senior Miliyna Megosha took second overall and won a cash prize and a collection of poetry books for the WHS library. She was one of eight from South Dakota trying to make the national finals in Washington, D.C., in May. Megosha was happy to represent WHS, and proud of her second place finish. “Poetry is very dear to my heart, and being able to per-
form for others is an amazing experience,” Megosha said. Megosha said she had a lot of fun at the school, city and state competitions. “The event was exciting and I was able to enjoy the experience of listening to others and have others listen to me,” Megosha said. “I was a little nervous, but it was overcame by how exciting things were. If I could do it again, I would try for first.” Photo by Michelle McIntyre OUT LOUD—Senior Miliyna Megosha poses with her second-place trophy.
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Biology teacher Janet Swier named Dr. John W. Harris Teacher of Year
Photo courtesy Sioux Falls Public School District TEACHER OF THE YEAR—Biology teacher Janet Swier helps a student in her biology class recently. Swier was named the 2016 Dr. John W. Harris Teacher of the Year Monday. By Maham Shah and Carter Keller Biology teacher and science department chair Janet Swier was named the 2016 Dr. John W. Harris Teacher of the year Monday night at C.J. Callaway’s.
In total, there were 31 nominees for district teacher of the year award in 2016, the 28th year of the program. The Sioux Falls School District and Vern Eide Motorcars co-sponsor the Teacher of the Year award. Bruce Eide generously
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presented Swier with a check for $4,000 along with the award. Swier grew up in Humboldt and went on to attend South Dakota State and Augustana University. She has been a teacher in the district and at WHS for 18 years. To be selected as a nominee for the award, a teacher must have a commitment to lifelong learning, Feature effectiveness in meeting students’ needs, an impact on student achievement, effectiveness in home-school cooperation, and community involvement to promote school-community relations. Swier said she was honored to be presented with the award. “I was overwhelmed and humbled to win this,” she said. “It’s a great day to be a Warrior!” The WHS jazz choir provided entertainment for the guests at the event. Swier was one of six finalists for the honor, who also included WHS algebra teacher Laura Brandt, three elementary school teachers and one middle school teacher.
U.S. leaves Vietnam in 1973 History.com (TNS) Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops left South Vietnam as Hanoi freed most remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam on March 29, 1973.
Our History America’s direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end. In Saigon, some 7,000 U.S. Department of Defense civilian employees remained behind to aid South Vietnam in conducting what looked to be a fierce and ongoing war with communist North Vietnam. In reality, however, the agreement was little more than a face-saving gesture by the U.S. government. Even before the last American troops departed on March 29, the communists violated the cease-fire, and by early 1974 full-scale war had resumed. At the end of 1974, South Vietnamese authorities reported that 80,000 of their soldiers and civilians had been killed in fighting during the year, making it the most costly of the Vietnam War. On April 30, 1975, the last few Americans still in South Vietnam were airlifted out of the country as Saigon fell to communist forces. North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin, accepting the surrender of South Vietnam later in the day, remarked, “You have nothing to fear; between Vietnamese there are no victors and no vanquished. Only the Americans have been defeated.” The Vietnam War was the longest and most unpopular foreign war in U.S. history and cost 58,000 American lives. As many as two million Vietnamese soldiers and civilians were killed.
