The final mic drop: Spence’s farewell after 9 years at Ames high
Zoe Mamakos, In-depth Editor
May 17, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Showcase
Imagine the perfect scene. A gym, lacking air conditioning, fills with over a thousand students. Full of underclassmen, upperclassmen, the best teachers, the worst teachers, and the okay teachers all together in one space. The skippers have skipped, the ISU class attendees are at their classes, and the ...
Ann Lee leaves behind a loving legacy
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
May 17, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives
“You did not wake up to be mediocre today!” is the phrase written across Ann Lee’s whiteboard just inside the doorway of Room One. Throughout the room the walls are filled with newspaper clippings and photos of Lee’s students and their successes. Anything from play posters to photos of students...
Last class of Klass
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
May 17, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives
With six languages and a plethora of curriculum under his belt, Daniel Klass is Ames’ High school’s very own “Renaissance man.” The multilingual humanity’s teacher is a regular attendee of the philosophy plus periods, and has taught at Ames for fourteen years, but the 2018 to 2019 term will b...
Rhonda Schmaltz
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
May 17, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Showcase
After 20 years working at Ames High, business teacher Rhonda Schmaltz will be retiring at the end of the semester. In her time she has taught numerous classes including accounting, desktop publishing, intro to business, and personal finance. “I went to college to be an interior designer and m...
Bearing with the Block Scheduling
Seth Bequette, Reporter
April 18, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives
As soon as students found out, they were horrified: Block Scheduling. Quickly everyone was convinced doom was coming to drag students from their forty minute classes into some new tortuous ninety minute version. Ames High is set to have a test run of block scheduling during the 2019 - 2020 school...
A Senior Artist Snapshot
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives
PRESTON WITTE Preston Witte didn’t discover art until his senior year, initially using robotics as his creative outlet. “I usually have all these ideas just swimming around in my head that I haven’t always been able to elaborate, and I’ve usually strayed away from elaborating,” said ...
A comprehensive college guide
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
December 14, 2018
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives, Showcase
It's a rainy day. The sky is gray like the cobblestones of the road and the pale bricks of the buildings. In the distance, the towers of Healy Hall split the sky. Anu Lamsal pauses in front of the statue of Bishop John Carroll for a picture. Her college tour of Georgetown University begins a few minutes ...
Deam the Queen
Akshata Gandhe, Reporter
November 29, 2018
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives, Profiles, Showcase
Ever heard of superwoman? Not too difficult when we have one at Ames High. You might see her in the language hallway saying, Hallo, Bonjour, or Hola. She is the only teacher at Ames High that has taught all three languages offered. Did you know that Mrs. Deam never intended to become a high sch...
New English options for seniors
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
November 20, 2018
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives, Showcase
“At the beginning of the year we had a meeting with the English Department, and it was at that time it was shared that we could bring electives back,” Principal Spence Evans said. New district Superintendent Jenny Risner and new director of curriculum and instruction Amy Lanegave the green light t...
Complaints about Jostens ‘picking up steam’
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
November 20, 2018
Filed under Academics and Arts, Archives, Showcase
Senior Sara Joerger is no stranger to high school graduations. As the youngest of five siblings she has seen many graduations come and go. She is also no stranger to the process of buying caps and gowns from Jostens, the company Ames High partners with for graduation. “I am the youngest of five so...
Lucas Bleyle, Co-Editor in Chief
May 17, 2019 • No Comments
After four years of writing for the WEB, my time to write a senior column is here. It’s my time to write about me. For all my articles up until this point (minus two opinion...
Liam Struck, Reviews Editor
May 17, 2019 • No Comments
I don’t write this to pretend I’m the Buddha or someone that has any significance in this world, I write this because I’m a senior in highschool and I’ve seen and...
Liam Struck, Reviews Editor
April 18, 2019 • Comments closed
The first promposal occured in 2350 BC, when the first caveman asked the first cave women by throwing a rock at her head with the message ooga ooga slathered with his blood....
April 18, 2019
March 26, 2019
The Classes of Ames High: Roasts and Reflection
March 26, 2019
Seth Bequette, Academics & Arts Editor
March 14, 2019 • No Comments
I’m a bit late for the tea party that is M. Night Shyamalan’s ‘Eastrail 177 Trilogy’, though to be fair the first film of this triple play was two years before...
March 14, 2019
February 13, 2019
Get caught up in the Spider Verse
February 13, 2019