Throwback Thursday 11/11/12

 

Exeter-Milligan Volleyball Team members were recently recognized on the Crossroads Conference All Conference Team:

Taylor Erdkamp
Jackie Luzum
Jennifer Pribyl

Honorable Mention went to:
Megan Zwickl
Erica Yound

Congratulations to these team members and to all the girls and coaches for their State Championship!!!

 

Second graders at Exeter-Milligan Elementary School have some new "buddies." Each of the Grade 2 students have partnered with a preschool student attending the afternoon session of preschool, located in the elementary wing at the Exeter site. The second grader reads a story selected from his/her reading group. After the story is read, the two children talk about their favorite characters or their favorite part of the story.
Reading Buddies has great benefits. The second grade student practices skills learned in reading and builds confidence by reading a story in which he/she is familiar. The preschool buddy is developing listening skills and increasing his/her vocabulary and language skills. Both buddies gain a friend and learn that reading is fun!

 

Veterans from surrounding areas were honored at the Exeter-Milligan gymnasium on Monday morning.

Just prior to the program, veterans and their spouses were invited to each rolls and coffee in the school cafeteria.

The crowd was welcomed by senior Megan Zwickl before the Pack 218 Cub Scouts Tiger Den presented the colors and led the crowd in the flag ceremony.

The Exeter-Milligan Senior High Choir did a beautiful job singing Star Spangled Banner before the Exeter-Milligan High School Band played America’s Finest.

During the band performance, veterans in the crowd were asked to stand as their branch of service song was played.  The crowd applauded their service.

Tim Wilbeck, a member of the Exeter American Legion and a veteran himself, gave the speech.

Wilbeck reminded the crowd that Veteran’s Day is to honor those who have served in our country.

 

Caitlin Murphy, a fifth grader at Exeter-Milligan Elementary, participated in the Sing Around Nebraska Honor Choir on November 2-3.  The group rehearsed on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus and performed a 7 pm concert at the Lied Center on November 3.  Directing the honor choir this year was Anne Tomlinson, Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Children's Chorus.

 

For the first time in school history the Exeter-Milligan Timberwolves are headed to Memorial Stadium to play for the State D-1 Championship.  The Timberwolves clenched their berth into the final playoff game on Monday night when they traveled to Bruning to meet the 9-1 Bruning-Davenport-Shickley Eagles.
The Eagles had done Exeter-Milligan a favor defeating Howells-Dodge last Tuesday but the Eagles obviously had the manpower to get the job done.

And now, the Timberwolves will meet Elgin - Pope John on Monday, November 19th at 2:45 at Memorial Stadium.  Elgin-Pope John was seeded #3 in the tournament and also enter the match-up with the Timberwolves undefeated.

 

Exeter-Milligan School Board members elected were all incumbents:

Annette Gloystein
Tim Pribyl
Jim Zeleny

Exeter Village Board members elected were all incumbents and ran unopposed:

Alan Michl
Mitch Schlegelmilch
Kathy Erdkamp

 

Jordyn Brandt, a sophomore at Exeter-Milligan High School, participated in Concordia Musical Arts Day on Friday, October 26.  She was selected through a recorded audition.

Science News by Matt Nicholas, Exeter-Milligan Science teacher

 

The Freshman Class has been working on the basics of motion and forces in Physical Science. We recently performed a lab with objects that are usually nuisance items in a classroom, but we found a way to use them for learning. The class spent a whole period making paper airplanes! We made airplanes with paper of all sizes and thicknesses. We talked about some of the basics of flight such as lift and drag, but this experiment was just to get our creative juices flowing and see who could build the best plane. The students timed the flights and measured distance to calculate speed. We compared scores and crowned the winners of: Longest Flight by length and by time, and also the slowest speed. We also used this experience to introduce the idea of air resistance, which opposes all motion though the atmosphere. So if you are in need of an experienced and inexpensive pilot, just get ahold of a local freshman and they will help you with all of your paper aviation needs.

 

Students participating were Jack Dinneen, Brayden Olsen, Ellliot Erdkamp, Kirby Soukup, Spencer Papik, Marissa Howard, Alexis Trauger, Brianna Beatham, Johnathon Mounce, Sam Zeleny and Hunter Worrell.

 

Exeter-Milligan Veteran's Day Program

 

 

Veterans were invited to a breakfast prepared by the kitchen staff and hosted by the National Honor Society members.

The Exeter-Milligan school community honored their veterans in the Exeter site gym on Friday, November 11. 

The morning’s activities began with veterans and their wives invited to a brunch in the Exeter cafeteria hosted by National Honor Society members.

The veterans walked by a wall of artwork thanking them for their service on their way to the gym and then were encouraged to each take an envelope which contained a thank you note written by the kindergarten class.

The audience was welcomed to the program by Marcus Krupicka and the pledge of allegiance was led by Olivea Swanson.  The Exeter-Milligan junior and senior high band together performed “Sweet Land of Liberty and “America the Beautiful.”

Exeter-Milligan guidance counselor Denice Kovanda introduced the special guest speaker, Brandie Conway, an  Army Staff Sargent who spent 17 years in the service is now a dispatcher in the Fillmore County Sherriff’s office.

Conway shared a little about her service with the audience and then talked about the challenges that women in the service have faced, including some who served in the Revolutionary War and Civil War disguised as men so they could fight for their country.

She gave several significant dates in the changes for women who wanted to serve.  It was 1917 before women were allowed to enlist and 2013 before the ban on serving in combat was lifted.

She noted that 300,000 women served in the war on terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan.  She added that “The war on terror helped us understand how unique our lives in America are.”

She encouraged the audience to preserve what was fought for by “putting their freedoms in action by voting and speaking out against injustices.  Teach your children what it means to be an American.”

She also reminded those present to “Thank a veteran today, but do it again tomorrow.”

She closed by reiterating the struggle for women in the military stating, “We have paved a long road and there is no end in sight to our road.”

The Exeter-Milligan junior and senior high choir performed “We Remember” and “God Bless America” before the band recognized each branch of the service with “America’s Finest (A Musical Tribute to the Armed Forces).”

Morgan White closed the program thanking the veterans for their service and those who attended.

 

 The Exeter-Milligan Junior/Senior High choir performed at the Exeter-Milligan Veteran’s Day program.

Morgan White closes the Veteran’s Day program at Exeter-Milligan.

The Exeter-Milligan band plays under the direction of Mr. Mark Perez at the Veteran’s Day program.

Marine Corp veteran Anthony Due stand when “The Marine’s Hymn” is played by the Exeter-Milligan band at the Veteran’s Day program.

Air Force veteran George Weamire stands when “Wild Blue Yonder” is played by the Exeter-Milligan band.

Army veteran and Fillmore County dispatcher Brandie Conway was the speaker at the Exeter Veteran’s Day program.

Senior class member Olivea Swanson leads the audience in the pledge of allegiance at the Veteran’s Day program.

Senior class member Marcus Krupicka welcomes the audience to the Veteran’s Day program.

 

Exeter-Milligan senior Jozie Kanode serves coffee to Air Force veteran George Weamire while Robert Rhodes watches.

 

Exeter-Milligan Playground Ribbon Cutting

 

Courtesy photos

Exeter-Milligan school held a ribbon cutting on their new elementary playground.  The $265,000 project was approved by the school board in November of 2021 and the process to install the equipment began this summer. 

The equipment was in place when school started but the special underlayment and turf were not finished until Friday, November 4  The district installed the new equipment in part, to eliminate issues that visually impaired students had with the old play area.

Harper Sudrla and her sister Kenleigh help Mr. Sheffield cut the ribbon to the new playground.

Exeter-Milligan teachers Amanda Pettygrove (left) and Ashley Arbuck (right) try out the new playground equipment after the ribbon cutting.

The Exeter-Milligan elementary students were excited to finally get to play on the new playground equipment on Monday morning.

Kolt Songster (left) and Braxton Harre (right) were ready to attack the new playground equipment at Exeter-Milligan.

Siblings Gracelyn Becker, left, and Beau Becker, right, navigate the new playground equipment at Exeter-Milligan.

Westin Yound tries to see saw with Exeter-Milligan Superintendent Paul Sheffield after the ribbon cutting on the new playground equipment.