Exeter-Milligan Senior Signs with Midland Lutheran

 Taylor May signs his letter of intent to play football at Midland Lutheran at Exeter-Milligan.  May is surrounded by his mother, Patti Pagel, his stepfather Bob Pagel and Exeter-Milligan Athletic Director Dean Filipi (standing on left) and Midland Lutheran assistant football coach Brad Vonnahme.

Exeter-Milligan Football standout Taylor May signed to play football at Midland Lutheran in Fremont on Thursday, February 13^th.  May was welcomed into the Midland fold by Assistant Football Coach Brad Vonnahme.

May chose Midland because “It felt like home. It’s just an hour and a half away and everyone in the football program made me feel like I was already part of the team.”

“Exeter-Milligan really prepared me for this next step.  It was the little things that Coach Dean Fillipi helped me with that made the difference,” explained May.

He also mentioned the advanced technology options that Exeter-Milligan offers students including the one to one laptop initiative which he felt gave him an advantage when looking at college options.

Coach Vonnahme “knew that it was a mutual interest from the first meeting with Taylor.  We could tell he was our kind of guy with the amount of work he put in during his junior and senior year.”

“Taylor is the kind of guys we are looking for who are the full package.  He is very well rounded and it was an easy decision to invite him to be part of the team.”

Exeter-M illigan Update: Second Grade Pen Pals

Mrs. Marla Weber’s second graders at the Exeter-Milligan Public School have been writing pen pals letters to students in Grade 2 at the Friend Public School this year. To add a little twist to this exchange of letters, the EM second grade requested their pen pals participate in another activity. Students at each site drew pictures of monsters. Each student then used descriptive words to explain what his or her monster looked like. The descriptions were delivered to their pen pals. Based only on the details shared with them, students tried to recreate their pen pals’ monsters. This activity was not only fun, but allowed students practice descriptive writing. The two classes plan to compare the drawings via Skype.

Exeter-Milligan Update: First Grade Readers

First Grade Mystery Reader by Sharon Lott, E-M First grade Instructor

First Grade has a Mystery Reader every  +Thursday. Parents, grandparents, teachers are asked if they wish to participate at the beginning of the year. They are assigned a week to come. They send clues for the class. The teacher gives the clues during the day and the students try to guess who is coming. At the assigned time, the mystery reader comes in to read to the students. The students enjoy hearing a variety of people read to them during the year. Pictured is Mrs. Kara Myers reading to the First Grade.

Exeter-Milligan Junior High Basketball Tournament

Above:  Exeter-Milligan’s Hannah Horne tries to get in the way of Friend’s Raeleigh Menke.

In the Exeter-Milligan Junior High Basketball tournament held in Exeter on Saturday, Feb. 8 the Friend boys and girls both brought home the first place trophies. In the championship game the Friend boys beat the Central City boys and the Friend girls beat the Bruning-Davenport-Shickley girls.  Exeter-Milligan girls took fourth losing to Meridian and the Exeter-Milligan boys beat Meridian taking third place.

The Exeter-Milligan girls met the Friend girls at the Exeter-Milligan Junior High Tournament on Saturday, Feb 8.  Exeter-Milligan’s Hannah Horne tries to get in the way of Friend’s Raeleigh Menke.

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Exeter-Milligan’s Eric Olsen tries to get a pass in between Friend’s #4 Kyle Dickinson and #14 Kolby Houlden.

Below: Exeter-Milligan’s Eric Olsen decides not to let Friends #10 Logan Pfeiffer get in the way when he heads toward the basket.  Near the hoop are Friends #52 Ray Sharkey and #34 Darren Segner.  Exeter-Milligan’s #23 Derek Axline is also in the photo.

Exeter-Milligan’s Hannah Beethe and Meridian’s Hailey Schafer scramble for the ball.