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THE REBELVol. X No. 1 / Aug. 31, 2009 / Effingham County High School / FREE
1589 Highway 119 South, Springfield, Ga., 31329 therebelpaper.com
IndexNews - pg 2
Features - pg 3Sports - pg 2
Talk - pg 4Recess - pg 4Spotlight - pg 4
Favs - pg 4
FootballPreview
Page2
RebelRegimentPreviewPage 3
Moments fromthe Mind of
MicahPage 4
FallSportsPreviewPage 2
Photo by Peyton CallananBrigitte Beam, Eric Bevil, and Emily Holton draw charts about government’s role in the econo-my in Marjorie Seckinger’s Economics class.
BIG CHANGES for 2009-10By Lindsey [email protected]
It is time to get back on schedule.
Most of the students are adjusting well to the new school year. Brittany Harrell is just one example.
Harrell said, “My classes are going well and, as a freshman, I’m excited for the rest of my high school career.”
Harrell just came to this school from Effingham County Middle School. The old ECMS building is vacant, and now the middle school is our neighbor. We share the bus ramp.
The new ECMS opened on schedule, although there are parts of the school that
won’t be ready for quite some time.
The new access road that was cut across the front of the ECHS property now connects to ECMS.
The new traffic pattern has ECHS parents driving through the east gate of ECMS just to pick up their high school students.
The new road allows drivers to stay off Highway 119 and still be able to pick up their students at both schools.
Principal Yancy Ford is confident about this school year. He has a good staff behind him, a staff he doesn’t plan to lose because of finances.
This year, the school added Advisement (ADV),
also called C2G Time (Commitment to Graduate). The ultimate goal for the school is for all students to walk away with a diploma.
The main purpose of this time is for the teachers to build relationships with their students.
“For me to know you, I have to know about you,” Ford said. Even he has a group of 23 of his own.
Every student at ECHS is assigned to a teacher, administrator, or a counselor and C2G or Advisement meets twice a week on Tuesdays and Thursdays.
ECHS now has over 1800 students--the largest the school has been since the split to create South Effingham High in 1996.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Underclassmen, faculty & staff pictures are Sept. 3. Grades 9, 10, and 11 should remember to bring picture envelopes and money on Sept. 3. See your first period teacher for appt times and envelopes.
The Pit Stop will be open beginning Monday, August 24. We will be open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays during all four lunches. We carry uniform t-shirts in white and navy, windbreakers, gym bags, sweatshirts and polo shirts. Breeze Freeze will be of-fered for $1.50. We will be adding items as the weeks go on: jewelry, handbags, and snacks. Listen for the morning announcements to stay informed on our lat-est additions.
Interested in the New York trip? Down payment of $50 is due by 9/2. See Mr. Hadwin in room 921 or Ms. Drayton in room 201. Space is limited!
Wildlife team meets on Mon & Wed in Mrs. Satter-field’s room. Land judging team prac-tice begins on Aug. 25 in Mrs. Satterfield’s room. FFA is accepting applica-tions for Junior officers. Interested? See Mrs. Sat-terfield. Apps are due 9/1.
For more info, visit www. effinghamcountyrebels.com
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The RebelThe Rebel is produced by
the Journalism class at ECHS. Opinion articles in The Rebel are not necessarily the views and opinions of the adminis-tration of Effingham County High School, the Effingham County Board of Education or other members of The Rebel staff.
The Rebel welcomes let-ters to the editor. Each letter must be signed by the author.
The Rebel staff reserves the right to edit or refuse any let-ter.
The Rebel is a member of the Georgia Scholastic Press Association and National Scholastic Press Association.
Our paper is printed in Sa-vannah, Ga., by the Savannah Morning News. We also use additional material from mct-campus.com Editor Peyton Callanan; Staff Members Eli Abraham, Lindsey Grovenstein, Micah
Jackson, Clint Fagin, Andrew Chiariello, Chase Arrington, Morgan Edmonds, Braeden Cribbs, Austin Walsh, Kia Wilson. Adviser: Brian Holt. Principal: Yancy FordContact usEffingham Co. HS1589 Hwy 119 South, Springfield, Ga. 31329. 912.754.6404 FAX 912.754.6893www.therebelpaper.com
Fall Sports PreviewSoftball
By Braeden [email protected]
The Lady Rebels softball team has always been a valu-able part of our school, and one of the most successful. Year after year the Lady Reb-els always seem to leave their mark. Head Coach Matt Huntley has been with the Lady Rebels softball team for four years and the head coach for two. Huntley said, “This year [we] are hoping to build on what we had last year. A lot of team chemistry is always a big part of my program. The girls are very hard workers and we want to take them to their full potential.”
Even though the coach plays a major role in helping the team throughout the season, the players are what make it. “We push each other to make ourselves better. It’s helping us to become a better team,” said senior Ashlyn Newman. “The team is looking good this year, we’re working hard to go as far as we can.” The Lady Rebels plan to go to Atlanta and Ath-ens for tournaments this year “in order to try and see some better competition,” Hunt-ley said. “I feel that the girls needed to see better competi-tion so that they were not shell shocked once we got into the post season play.” The softball team is looking forward to a great season, which kicked off Tuesday, Aug. 11. “The reason for the Blue and White game is to give the girls a feel for what a real game will be like, and to give the community a chance to come and see the team,” Huntley said.
Top photo by Kait-lynn Kruse. Morgan Smith pitches during the Blue and White game.
Bottom photo by Megan Andeson. The Rebels scrimmage Tattnall County War-riors on Aug. 14.
VolleyballBy Kia [email protected]
Head Coach Joey Jandasek and Assistant Coach Brooke Whit-lock are preparing their girls for success. Jandasek has coached for five years--two years at Jenkins, one year as assistant at ECHS, and two years as head coach at ECHS,
During the summer practices, the girls went to camp at Clem-son University. To the coaches, this was a great experience for the girls. Playing really good teams helped the players prepare for the upcoming season.
“Live and learn,” Jandasek said about playing the difficult teams. Whitlock has been an assistant at ECHS for two years. Whitlock is excited to see the new team im-prove over the season. As the sea-son is starting, Coach Whitlock notices that her Junior Varsity is getting along well. She says that they are improving a lot, even with the new players. Her team is always willing to try new things, but one team member does not think so. At first glance, the team seems like a social family, but be-yond the eye there is a little bit of conflict.
Sophomore Brandy Oglesby said that the team has a variety of personalities and working with the team occasionally can be dif-ficult. Sophomore Holly Nance said, “The Varsity team is a bal-anced team overall. We all work together and it’s not overpower-ing.” Junior Hillary Usher said, “I know that they (Varsity team) will be there for me, if I had a problem I can talk to them.”
Jandasek said, “I love coaching the team. It’s a great way to end my day.”
FootballBy Chase [email protected]
This year’s Effingham County Rebels’ football team is revved up about the season. It is a new group of seniors and they plan to do whatever pos-sible in order to make the Rebels have a successful season. Head coach Jack Webb says his goal for this season, as well as any oth-er, is to go undefeated and win a region title. Coach Webb says the Rebels have been working ex-tremely hard on the field despite the hot sum-
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CheerleadingBy Morgan [email protected]
This year at ECHS there is not just one cheerleading team there are two, varsity, and junior varsity. Coach Ward, a four year competi-tion cheerleader, and now the coach of the Rebels
Competitive Cheerlead-ing team, said, “We had so many talented girls come out for competition this year that I saw the need for two teams. My thinking was that, by giving girls the op-portunity to compete on JV, they would be able to prac-tice and perfect their skills
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mer weather. Most things will be done the same this season except the fact that the team implemented a new of-fense.
With this new triple option offense, Coach Webb says plan to throw the ball more than in the past and get the ball to the wings. When asked about the upcoming season, senior Alex Gillis said, “I will play harder than I ever have,” and Ijon Bedford said, “I just have to work harder and be more of a leader.”
These seniors are planning on doing whatever they can to make this season one that will be remembered. Alex Gil-lis says that he will make the team better by just working harder in practice.
Coach Webb and the foot-ball team would love to see everyone out supporting the team this year. “Come sup-port, just go crazy. That gets our kids and staff fired up,” says Coach Webb.
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while gaining the experience in compe-titions that would en-able them to improve and become better cheerleaders.” Coach Ward explained what she expected out of the season, she wants each girl to do the best they can do, and wants them to be able to walk off the mat knowing they gave it all they could.
C o m p e t i t i o n Cheerleading focuses on tumbling, jumps, dance and more elite stunts, as well as trav-eling to other high schools, and com-peting against other teams. Competition requires more prac-tices and time com-mitment, especially during the summer. Game Cheerleading focuses on the aspect of school spirit and
morale as well as sup-porting the football and basketball teams. The Game Cheerlead-ers create spirit signs and the run-through sign for the Football Game each Friday.
The fundraisers that the Competition Cheerleaders are hold-ing this school year are hosting The Rebel Invitational Cheer Competition in Oc-tober, sponsoring and coordinating the Miss ECHS Pageant each spring. In the sum-mer they hold a Little Rebel Cheer Camp for girls between the ages of four years to the 8th grade. The girls spend a week learning cheers, chants, dances, tumbling skills, stunts, jumps and pyramids. The Competition Cheerleaders encour-age you to come out and support the com-petitions, Pageant, and The Little Rebel Cheer Camp.
Rebel RegimentBy Clint [email protected]
This year’s Effingham County Rebel Regiment has many new changes. The largest change is the new director Matt Leff. He came to ECHS from South Effingham Middle School. He be-gan this summer with a successful two week band camp to learn the new half time show ‘Grease’, based on the Broadway musical about two star crossed lovers from different social groups. Then he followed camp with a great preview show. Also this year they have two new drum majors, Lisa Mason and Stephen Tyson Leff said, “I have always wanted to direct a high school band so when our recent director left the position, I took the opportunity.” Although the changes from middle to high school are large, Leff said he enjoys the maturity and ability of the high school students. He also feels that the high school band booster program, the orga-nization of parents that helps raise money and run the band program, is a positive change from the middle school environment where there is less parental help. Junior band member Nathan McDonald said, “He seems pretty good so far. Were getting a lot done and he is helping our technique a lot.” While Phillip Mintor said, “I feel really good about him I think he has a lot of good things coming.” The band program this year has chosen two new capable drum ma-jors to lead the Grease show. Lisa Mason will be leading the band on the field as the main drum major and Stephen Tyson will help direct the band in the stands during games. Both of the drum majors have played in the Rebel Regiment throughout high school. Lisa Mason played in the pit for three years and Stephen Tyson played mellophone for two years.
Photo by Peyton Callanan. Derek Walker, Phillip Housand, Ryan Mizell, and Jacob Curtis practice during Band Camp in the cafeteria.
4 Opinion & Oddity 08.31.09
By Austin [email protected]
Tw e n t y - F i v e year old Texas in-mate George Vera hid a 9mm hand-gun in his stom-ach fat. Vera was originally arrested for selling illegal compact discs. He weighs in on the scale at 500 pounds.
Vera passed through both of the searches that are required. One of the searches was at the city jail and an-other one was at the county jail.
The Harris County Jail is where he was meant to be locked up at. During a shower break at the county jail Vera admitted to one of the officers that he had smuggled a gun into the jail. He probably did not want to take the chance of it falling out in the showers.
The Harris County Jail now says that they did not put him through metal detectors or wands because nei-ther of the jails said they have had to require them. But in this case it would be a good idea to add them because it could cause a huge risk in criminals smuggling firearms into the jails.
George Vera was released on a $10,000 bail for selling illegal com-pact discs and for having a gun in a two Texas jails.
Another thing that is interesting is that the gun was not even loaded. He had two clips of ammunition with him also. Vera apparently just had a problem with keeping it a secret. This should be a lesson to many jails that criminals need to be checked many more times to make sure that they do not have any sort of threat with them any correctional facilities.
By Micah [email protected]
A topic I feel strongly about is today’s society. I feel that there are many pros and cons to our modern world, and fortunately I believe that we as a society have dug a hole to deep for us to climb out of easily.
I use the word fortunately because I feel that I am not blind like many others are today. I have come to my senses and realized that not every-thing turns out to be alright.
You can not always sit around and believe that a supernatural force or being will take care of things for you.
You can not always expect some-one else to pick up where you slack off. Society today has become too dependent; too dependent on other things, other people, and other vari-ables beyond our control.
The modern world has become so dependent on each other that if one domino falls, the entire line will
come tumbling down with it.Therefore, I use the word fortu-
nate because I am not entirely de-pendent on others.
Yes, while still in my teenage years, I am almost required to depend on the famous “parent/legal guardian” along with several others.
However, I have limited these de-pendencies and challenge you read-ers to do the same.
Wake up and realize the world will not be okay if we just sit around. Don’t just take a stand, fight against the chaos caused by dependency that engulfs our world.
While I know that my blog will not revolutionize or change the world, I hope that I am fortunate enough for my future posts to change someone, for this is where global change starts. It all starts with YOU.
For more from Micah’s blog go to http://stumbledn2adream.blogspot.com/
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