Panther Pride
NOVEMBER
18,
2010
Robert Warren, High School Principal
Wrestling Update
by Hermanator and Mari-O Speedwagon
Six mat burns, 3 bruised ribs, 2 black eyes, and 1 bloody nose. These are sure signs that wrestling season is well under way at OSB. We’re excited about homecoming this year and preparing for domination at many duals before the season is out. We are competing against Webbers Falls and Stilwell for Homecoming on
December 14, 2010 at 6:00 pm.
Our first Tournament is December 2, 2010, at Keys, Oklahoma. This is a Junior High and High School Tournament. We will be wrestling against Keys, Quinton, and Salina. The dual will start at 5:30 p.m. This will be our first dual of the season, so come out and support Panther Wrestling!
The wrestling team this year consists of:
Elementary
Antonio Todd, Chris Shepherd, Austin Miller, Jonathon Phelps, Cameron Hughes, Jacob King, Christian Rosales, Isaiah Hayes, and Logan Deaton
Junior High & High School
Herman “Hermanator” Pierce, Mari-O “Speedwagon” Stowers, Jeremiah “Bullfrog” Cox, Russell “Double R” Rowland, T.J. “Rip Cord” Burkett, Luke “The Duke” Hayes, Chris “Bubba” Smith, Briar “the Armbreaker” Lostlen, Riley “Too Fly” Fly, Justus “Dustpan” Atwood, Zane “The Pain” Edwards, and Casey “Sleeperhold” Knapp
A Night of Celebration and Beauty
By Kim McCall
This year’s homecoming is on Tuesday, December 14, 2010, at 6:00 p.m. This year’s homecoming court consists of: Freshman Princess Montana Lowrey, Sophomore Princess Brittany Donley, and Junior Princess Whittney Lassetter. The Queen Candidates include Christa Atcity, Caity Mathews and Jasmine Rahseparian. Each member of the court will be escorted by a member of the Panther Wrestling Team. This year, the Flower Girl and Crown Bearer are Priscilla Diaz and William Winston.
Miss Caity Mathews comes to OSB from Durant, OK. She is a member of many clubs and organizations on campus. Recently she was nominated as an “Okie from Muskogee” for her hard work on the “Power of Pink” and was interviewed for the Muskogee Daily Phoenix.
Miss Christa Atcity resides in Tahlequah, OK. She is a kind and passionate young woman. She is always willing to lend a hand and looks out for her fellow classmates. Christa is a hard worker and looks forward to a bright future.
Miss Jasmine Rahseparian calls Norman, OK home. She is a member of the Academic Team, a cheerleader, and has given life to Zanther a time or two. Jasmine is a dependable, hard working student and can be counted on to be helpful and caring.
Please come out and support these ladies as we celebrate their accomplishments at the 2010-2011 Homecoming Ceremonies (and stay for a great Dual afterwards!).
Ghouls and Goblins Invade Parkview
By Logan Steen
We just had our 2010 Fall Festival at the end of October at Parkview High School. Some of the activities included a Haunted House, Caramel Apples, Frito Chili Pie, Cake Walks, Fishing for Prizes, Guess the Dropped Coin, Plinko, The Wheel of Doom, a duck pond, and many other games and booths. This was a fun evening for everyone who participated. Students and teachers alike dressed up and played games for candy and sodas. All the proceeds from the carnival supported the individual organizations that participated in the night of fun and fear! Some of us got our pants scared off of us at the Haunted Dorm while others had a sugar high before 7 pm. It was a good time for all. We can’t wait for the next one, so get your scariest costumes together and be prepared for a frightful time.
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Academic
Greatness
By Cammie Loehr
A win! That is what the Parkview academic team has heard all season. Parkview has placed second in this year’s BMAC competition. This past Saturday, the 13th, the Parkview OSSAA team traveled to Maud, OK for the OSSAA Regional Conference. We have been studying very hard every Wednesday evening in the hopes of taking first place and qualifying for Area. We placed 3rd in the competition and qualified to compete in Area by beating our 7 public school teams and winning 3 of our 4 matches. Our academic year it still rolling, with the BMAC Awards on Thursday, Nov. 18th, and Area on Jan 15. More updates to come on our “Road to State!”
SCASB Update
By Jasmine Rahseparian
Let’s go panthers! There
are only two more months until the SCASB (South Central Associations for
Schools for the Blind) tournament. Both the Cheerleaders and the Wrestlers
have been working hard for competition. Performing Arts will get underway
after Thanksgiving break.
We are excited to be the host school this year. The competition will be held at a local middle school, and the guest schools will be staying at a local hotel. Parkview Campus will be used for performing arts practices and awards.
Again, we are really excited and working hard to make the SCASB tournament a success. We hope everyone can come and join in on the festivities on the weekend of January 15, 2011.
Going Blind: A Documentary
By Courtney Hagen
On November 4, OSB was proud to host the premier of Going Blind, a documentary about the increasing awareness of the blind population in America. At the premier, we had a panel of experts who were available to speak to the public. It was a success, and we are looking forward to showing it to the student body at OSB. More details are to come when this showing will occur. A short synopsis of the movie follows, or check it out at the website: www.goingblind.net.
Going Blind is a unique documentary film that increases public awareness of sight loss and low vision issues profoundly affecting the lives of more and more people and those who love them.
Documentary film director and journalist Joe Lovett has glaucoma, a disease that robs 4.5 million people of their vision world wide. Over the years, Joe has lost a significant amount of vision, and in his concern about how to deal with more vision loss, he has started to talk with people who have already lost theirs; people who have lost their sight through blinding diseases like diabetic retinopathy and macular degeneration, others through infection and accidents.
Some of the people he meets on the street, stopping to ask if they have time to talk. Each one has a fascinating story about dealing with the loss we fear most, the loss of sight.
Going Blind interweaves Joe’s story, his mission to do what he can to slow down the course of his disease through medication and surgeries, with the stories of others whom he looks to for guidance in a darkening world.
Jessica Jones, a neighbor of Joe’s, is one of the people participating in the film. They met on the street when Jessica was training her seeing eye dog Chef, a black lab. A young, beautiful and talented artist who had been teaching in the New York City public school system, Jessica was exasperated by the lack of encouragement and opportunities after she had lost her sight to diabetic retinopathy in just 8 months at age 32. During the process of filming, Jessica secured a job teaching art at a school in the Bronx for blind children with multiple disabilities.
Another is eleven-year old Emmet Teran. Emmet has low vision from albinism, a condition he inherited from his father who also has to deal with extremely low vision. Emmet works with a comedy troupe after school and uses humor to dismiss some of the hurts a child encounters from his peers.
These compelling individual stories provide the sighted with a glimpse into the world of low vision and blindness. Worldwide, 37,000,000 people have lost their vision. In the United States alone, Lighthouse International reports that 10 million people are legally blind (1.3 million) or visually impaired (8.7 million).
Given our aging population and the increasing prevalence of low vision in our society, it is of paramount importance that we understand sight loss and work towards a better future. Going Blind encourages and inspires people to take action to preserve, prolong, and maximize the precious gift of sight – for themselves, their loved ones, and society.
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