WHITEOAK
JR./SR. HIGH
SCHOOL
September 16, 2016
Volume 13, Issue 1
Weekly Wildcat
Our New Principal—Mr. Ruckel
Lunch Menu
Pizza Burger
W/ Sauce & Cheese
WG Bun
Cooked Carrots
Fruit Milk
9/19
Chicken Nuggets
WG Roll
Corn
Steamed Broccoli
Fruit Milk
9/20
Taco Salad & WG Chips
Lettuce Cheese
Refried Beans
Carrots/Ranch
Fruit Milk
9/21
Giovanni’s Smart Slice
WG Pizza
Green Beans
Carrots/Ranch
Cocoa Bar
Fruit Milk
9/22
Ham
WG Bun
Baby Baked Potatoes
Broccoli/Ranch
Fruit Milk
9/23
Athletics Calendar
9/19 JV VB vs. Manchester—5:00 p.m.
9/20 HSCC —Highland
County Meet @ Fairfield—4:30 p.m.
9/21 Var VB @ Fayetteville 5:00 p.m.
I am sure you have seen a
new face wandering the
classrooms and patiently
waiting around his office
for any student who would
like to talk. This would be
Mr. Brian Ruckel, our new 7
-12 Principal. Mr. Ruckel is
a local boy having gone to
Eastern Brown. He went on
to Wright State University
of Dayton. Before he came
to WHS, he did have a stint
in the corporate business
world for a few years.
He accepted this position
so he could be close to
home and his family. His
family consists of his wife
Bonita and two children
Hunter and Delaney. They
also have a Boston terrier
named Daisy. Mr. Ruckel is
BIG on RESPECT! This
goes for everyone and
from everyone. He looks
forward to the WHS students having the best
school year and enjoying
themselves while at the
—Written by Ms. Hahn &
Kiley Hamilton
Task Force
The Task Force is a student
group that performs community service. We help
put smiles on people's faces. The Task Force is a way
to not only help people, but
to have fun while doing it! It
is an honor to be in the
same time raising our test
scores. He loves to COMPETE at all levels and in all
things...sports, grades, you
name it.
Task Force and to have the
experience. I never knew
how good it felt to help
people until I joined the
Task Force. Everyone in
this group is friendly and
all around great people.
We would love for more
people to join our Task
Force family! The more the
merrier! If you want to sign
up, go see Miss Hahn! (:
—Written by Destiny Price
Guess Who?
JV VB vs. North
Adams—5:00 p.m.
9/22 Var VB @ Manchester—5:00 p.m.
JV VB vs. Fayetteville—5:00 p.m.
9/24 Var VB @ Manchester—10:00 a.m.
Age:
Hair:
Grade:
Sports:
Height:
Clubs:
Eyes:
13
Dirty blond
8
CC& Basketball
5'9”
None
Blue
Age:
Hair:
Eye:
Sports:
Height:
Clubs:
Drive:
A lady never tells
Grey
Blue
None
5'12”
Task force, knitting
club in Ecuador
Ford Focus
Age:
15
Hair:
Brown
Grade:
10
Eye color: Brown
Sports:
Track
Height:
5'8”
Clubs:
Academic team
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ing it useful to your
readers.
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newsletter as a promotional
tool is that you can reuse content from other marketing materials, such as press releases,
market studies, and reports.
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useful content to
your newsletter is to
develop and write
your own articles,
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events or a special
offer that promotes
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tributing a newsletter might be
to sell your product or service, the
key to a successful newsletter is mak-
a new product.
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“filler” articles by accessing the
World Wide Web. You can write
about a variety of topics but try to
keep your articles short.
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newsletter can also be used for your
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simple way to convert your newsletter
to a Web publication. So, when you’re
finished writing your newsletter, convert it to a Web site and post it.
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newsletters is virtually endless. You
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business. Sales figures or earnings
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This Day in History
Written by Macy Knoblauch
8/29/16
In 1966 The Beatles
played their last major
live concert in
California.
Fun Facts
Joking Around
Light travels faster than sound.
That is why some people appear quite bright – until you
hear them talk.
Question of the Week
Written by Stephen Ross & Trever Yeager
What is the most exciting thing you did over summer?
A man got hit hard in the head
with a can of 7up. He’s all right
though, it was a soft drink.
Written by Emily Feck
—There's an Obama
Fried Chicken (OFC) in
China.
—Lead was used as an
artificial sweetener in
Ancient Rome.
—Brazil once tried to sell
an aircraft carrier on
eBay.
Amazing Animals
Written by Jared Ballard
Blobfish
—Blobfish have no
bones.
—Live in depths of 1200
meters below the surface
off the coast of Australia
and New Zealand.
—No one has ever documented a living Blobfish.
Jokes about unemployed people are not funny. They just
don't work.
When I see lovers' names
carved in a tree, I don't think
it's sweet. I just think it's surprising how many people
bring a knife on a date.
What is black and is stuck to a
ceiling? An electrician that's
not very good at their job.
—Written by Hope Hofer
Moved to WHS
-RJ Gross
Got my temps
-Katie Ames
Fishing
-Trace Thompson
Mr. Lanham & Ms. Countryman
Tell It Like It Is
Written by Austin Browning & Haley Vogtli
What is a
picture of a
thousand words
worth?
"There's no tangible value."
-Mr. Lanham
"It's priceless."
-Ms. Countryman
Interesting Facts
—Temperature can affect appetite. A cold person is more
likely to eat more food.
—Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make
room for your heart.
—A duck can’t walk without bobbing its head.
—During your lifetime, you will produce enough saliva to
fill two swimming pools.
—A human will eat on average 70 assorted insects and 10
spiders while sleeping.
—In New York it is illegal to sell a haunted house without
telling the buyer.
—You breathe on average about 8,409,600 times a year.
—You are born with 300 bones, but by the time you are an
adult you only have 206.
—Just like fingerprints, everyone has different tongue
prints.
—A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball of rubber.
Answers to Guess Who—
Trace Thompson, Ms.
Hahn, and Cody Adams
—Written by Kelsey Smallwood
—Written by Cole Pharo
WHS FFA– Highland County Fair Winners
Maggie Carr (Dairy Cows)—Class Winner, Open Class Jr. Division
Champion
Cayla Bratton (Hogs)—6th Place & 6th Place
Audrey Ferguson (Dairy Cows)—Showman of Showmen Winner,
Grand Champion Jersey
Kaleb Kiley (Beef Cattle)—Reserve Division, 2nd Place & 2nd Place
Logan Cummings (Beef Cattle)—3rd in Feeder Calf, 1st in Cooking
Show
Baylee Carey (Beef Cattle)—1st in Purebred Class, Champion Angus Heifer
Katie Ames (Beef Cattle)—1st in Class, Reserve Grand Champion Feeder Calf
Cora Gillespie (Beef Cattle/ Horses)—2nd in Class with Steer, 5th Place Team in Livestock
Judging, 2nd in Open Show for Horsemanship, Western Pleasure
Garrett Miller (Hogs)—1st in Junior Show
—More Winners In Next Week’s Issue
—Written by Abby Goolsby