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This is Maeve's first year on the echo. She found her niche in audio while taking journalism her freshman year (2017-18).

• Jim Schoemehl run celebrates 20th anniversary

  By Maeve Taylor on April 27, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Jim Schoemehl 5K run will celebrate its 20th year running this May.
  The run was created in 2001 by a WGHS marketing/DECA student after Jim Schoemehl, the husband of a WGHS teacher, was diagnosed with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis).

• Asian Pacific Awareness Committee serves as safe space

  By Maeve Taylor on April 19, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  The Asian Pacific Awareness Committee/Asian Pacific American Community (APAC) is Webster’s organization for students of Asian heritage (and those interested in the civil rights of Asian Americans).
  According to APAC president and senior Zoe Delay, the main missions of the committee are to “…serve as a place for the Asian population of WGHS to connect and support each other” as well as “…fight bias surrounding the Asian-American community.”

• Earth necessitates individual, school-wide sustainability

  By Maeve Taylor on May 23, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  According to an article on https://www.environmentalscience.org, sustainability is defined as “the study of how natural systems function, remain diverse and produce everything it needs for the ecology to remain in balance.” Due to Earth’s increasingly tumultuous conditions, there are people… Read More ›

• Student council officers to be elected

  By Maeve Taylor on March 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  With the end of the school year just a couple months away, it is again time for student council elections. This year, four offices have one candidate running unopposed, with the other two having two students in the running. In… Read More ›

• Congresswoman supports special education

  By Maeve Taylor on March 11, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), first passed in 1975, according to Understood.org, is a federal law that “requires schools to serve the needs of eligible students with disabilities.”Over the years, there have been cases in which the application of IDEA by schools has fallen short. One such case was worked through this year in Southwest Missouri.According to an article in the Joplin Globe, the Bronaugh school district in Bronaugh, MO, was “found to be out of compliance with federal laws.”

• Students to perform ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’

  By Maeve Taylor on February 27, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Drama students will perform Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” during All Write Week, with additional performances in the Black Box on Feb. 28 at 4 p.m., and March 1 and 2, at 7 p.m. The evening shows are sold out…. Read More ›

• Students attend state thespian conference

  By Maeve Taylor on January 16, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  Inducted members of Troupe 191 started off the year by attending the Missouri State Thespian Conference. The conference, held on alternating years in St. Louis and Kansas City, was centered in the Marriott in downtown Kansas City. The conference days,… Read More ›

• Senior football players, coach express feelings of assuredness going in to Turkey Day

  By Maeve Taylor on November 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  With the celebration of Turkey Day comes the last game for football players of the Class of 2019. This was the last time the senior players played in the same place at the same time in this fashion. Some will… Read More ›

• School board selects 2018-2019 student advisors

  By Maeve Taylor on October 19, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  This 2018-19 school year is the second year the school board has selected student advisors. Last year, juniors (now seniors) Joe Castleman and Trinity Madison served. This year, the position was passed down to juniors Jessica Peterson and Patrick Lee…. Read More ›