Profiles
Guitar carries MHS senior to Mizzou
Tyler Coleman’s interest in guitar started much like any other hobby — he saw others doing it and wanted to emulate what he saw. Now, Coleman has turned that hobby into his future. Coleman on Thursday signed a letter of intent to attend the University of Missouri School of Music in the fall and take part in the guitar program. “I started (playing) eight years ago. I just really wanted to play guitar,” Coleman said. “I always saw people playing guitar, and thought ‘Oh, that’d be cool to learn guitar.’ Then I did and I got really interested in it. I got more serious about it and now I’m going to college for it.” To get into the School of Music, Coleman first had to be accepted into the University of Missouri and then go through an audition with the string department heads, including St. Joseph native Anthony Glise, who taught Coleman’s teacher, Marshall Carter, at Missouri Western State University.
Read MorePelton’s thesis published in book form
Catrina Pelton, social sciences instructor at Maryville R-II High School, has added another title to her already crowded resume — that of published author. Her master’s degree thesis has been published in book form by Scholar’s Press. The work in entitled “Baptism in Blood: Armenia as a template for an Era of Genocide” and has been available for about two weeks. “The publisher contacted me about the possibility of publishing my master’s degree thesis as a book,” Pelton said. “Apparently, they had a great interest in publishing a book about genocide, and they found my thesis through a nationwide search.”
Read More1K and Rosewell isn’t slowing down
The last few days have been a blur. Mark Rosewell can’t go anywhere without kind words of congratulations. Students he doesn’t recognize come up to him on campus, student workers stop him in the Rec Center. “More than I could ever fathom,” Rosewell said. “With the elapse of all the social media, it is so…
Read MoreSudhoff takes play to State
Acting has been in the blood of Maryville High School senior B. J. Sudhoff since he was a small child, and after capturing the MSHSAA district championship with his performance of seven characters in the one-act play “An Iliad,” Sudhoff is headed to state competition at Missouri State University in Springfield April 24-25. Eight one-act plays competed at the MSHSAA district competition at Liberty High School and only the top two finishers qualified for state competition.
Read MoreMHS sends pair to Scholars Academy
Two Maryville High School sophomores, Rachel Brummet and Bethel Orshiso, have been accepted into the Missouri Scholar’s Academy, which will be held June 7-27, on the campus of the University of Missouri in Columbia. The academy is a residential program, and participants represent 330 of Missouri’s brightest students who are ready to begin their junior year in high school. Both Brummet, daughter of Sandra Wake and Tony Payne, and Orshiso, daughter of Haimi Kelborro and Tekle Wanorie, have met rigorous academic standards and wrote two essays each in order to be accepted into the academy.
Read MoreAlbrecht tabbed to lead Lady Hound turnaround
Quentin Albrecht has been in this situation before. In fact, there aren’t too many situations Albrecht hasn’t been in during his more than 20 years in education and coaching. On April 2, he was tabbed to take over the Maryville girls basketball program, a program which has won just 11 games the past three seasons combined while going through a pair of head coaches. “I know the situation with the Maryville girls, they’ve struggled the last two or three years,” Albrecht said. “…I have some experience, not just with coaching girls and boys, junior high and JV, but I’ve been in the position before where you take over a team that hasn’t been very good at least record-wise. And we have been able to turn a little corner and get a little bit better. I feel very comfortable in that situation.” The Lady Spoofhounds went just 1-23 last year in head coach Candace Boeh’s lone year at the helm. Boeh said she has “other personal obligations,” but is planning on staying with the district as a special education teacher at Maryville High School. She, along with her assistant coach and twin sister, Alexis, resigned at the same special meeting Albrecht was selected as their replacement.
Read MoreStoryteller unfolds tale of slave life
Memories of slavery and the Civil War swept through the Nodaway County Historical Society Museum on Saturday almost exactly 150 years after Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, on April 9, 1865.
Read MoreDelta Chi house a window into local history
Like a proud old sailing ship anchored and abandoned in a derelict harbor — scarred and weathered but still possessed of sweeping lines hinting of power, grace and beauty — Terrace Place towers over its greening spring lawn at 219 W. Second St. in Maryville. Once the symbol of a union between two of Nodaway…
Read MoreSportsmanship essay garners Elston prizes
St. Gregory’s Barbarigo School seventh grader Ethan Elston, son of Brian and Elizabeth Elston, won both local and district Missouri State High School Activities Association sponsored junior high sportsmanship essay contests in the fall of 2014, and the local student knew his essay had been submitted to MSHSAA for final judging. On March 25, Elston was pleased to find out that his essay had placed third statewide when he was notified by MSHSAA communication director Jason West.
Read MoreSt. Gregory’s hosts 23rd D.A.R.E. auction
The 23rd annual D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) dinner and auction was held Saturday night at the St. Gregory’s school gymnasium. Proceeds from the dinner and items auctioned off both by silent and live auctions are the only sources of revenue for the Maryville D.A.R.E. program. Nearly 1,000 children grades K-8 from Maryville R-II, Horace Mann and St. Gregory’s school participate in the program each year, according to Maryville Public Safety Sgt. Rick Smail, who has been involved with the program since it’s inception 25 years ago. “This year’s eighth graders will be the 25th graduating class of the Maryville D.A.R.E. program,” Smail said. “I have been involved with every class along the way, and I really enjoy it.”
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