The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

Pathfinder
Symphonic Orchestra plays in an atrium inside of the Gaylord Opryland hotel on Friday, April 8.

Orchestra competes in Nashville WorldStrides Heritage Festival

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR • April 15, 2016
The orchestra performed three shows, one of which was critiqued by several adjudicators in a WorldStrides Heritage Festival.
Tenor twos senior Marc Doughter, juniors Alex Dunn and Josh Gorman practice an arrangement of the traditional tavern song "Blow The Candles Out" in a sectional reherasal.

Concert Choir sings successfully at Large Ensemble Festival, to showcase talent at Spring Concert

Jacob Cupps, Editor-in-Chief • April 12, 2016
On March 7, the Concert Choir participated in the Missouri State High School Choir competition as a girls group, a boys group and a mixed group made up of the two.
Students sign a get well card for Pietsch

Pietsch recovers from pancreatitis

Ellie Widowski, Staff Writer • April 11, 2016
On March 12, Physical Education teacher Ryan Pietsch was hospitalized due to an infection in his pancreas.
Azar helps Junior Maggie Morse during his Honors Biotechnical Engineering class

Biology teacher Chris Azar set to retire to the lab

Grant Aden, SPORTS EDITOR • April 11, 2016
After 16 years of teaching, 2016 is set to be the last for Biology teacher Dr. Chris Azar.
Middendorf holds a flower bouquet from staff.

Dr. Beth Middendorf named St. Louis Assistant Principal of the Year

Emily Dickson and Emily Wind • April 6, 2016
Beyond the job requirements of assistant principal, the award seeks to honor a person who makes a substantial and outstanding contribution to the school community.
Senior Abby Larsen and sophomore Kennedy Brown pose in the library with the app, Whisper. The app has over 87 users from West so far. “I think most of the time when people first hear about it they think it’s mostly for negative things because that’s how most anonymous apps work. But on Whisper, there is a place for just our school. That’s where I am most of the time. Everywhere else, there are mean comments, but mostly at our school it’s just positive things,” Brown said.

Anonymous app Whisper: safe space or cyberbullying?

Kathryn Harter, Multimedia Editor • March 29, 2016
Another anonymous outlet for students... is it a force of good or evil this time?
Brown lectures astronomy students on helioseismology.

Guest speaker Timothy Brown visits astronomy classes

Nell Jaskowiak, OPINIONS AND ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR • March 20, 2016

On Friday, Mar. 11, a pioneer in the field of helioseismology, the study of the movements of the Sun, Timothy Brown, spoke to Colleen O’Toole’s Astronomy classes. Brown has made numerous contributions...

Only voters above the age of 18 were allowed to vote at polls in Missouri.

Seventeen-year-olds vote in Ohio’s primaries

Sydney Kinzy, PHOTO EDITOR • March 17, 2016
Seventeen-year-olds on the brink of being 18 have begun fighting for their right to vote, and in Ohio, they can now vote in primaries.
DISCLAIMER: Student pictured above is not a member of Safe and Drug Free programs nor is quoted in the story.

Integrity in Parkway SADF falters with some student volunteers

Betsy Wait and Claire Smout • March 15, 2016
In the eyes of health teachers, high school students in Drug Free programs are role models for younger students on how to live a healthy lifestyle—for the most part.
Ava Larsen and Rachel Friedman pose together before the competition.

Students compete in the DECA state competition

Ellie Widowski, Staff Writer • March 13, 2016
On Sunday, March 13, 26 students traveled to the Lake of the Ozarks to compete in the DECA state competition at the Lodge of Four Seasons.
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