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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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The Official Student News Site of Parkway West High

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Junior Charles Walsh laughs off his mistake in his voice acting script to recollect his composure. Walsh has been voice acting since August and uploads his auditions on his YouTube channel. “What I try to do if I get a role, I will try to internalize a character,” Walsh said. “Sometimes I fail so that’s why an hour before a session, I would talk in whatever voice I would use.”

Junior Charles Walsh speaks his way to success

Andrew Li, STAFF WRITER December 8, 2017

Requiring a smooth voice, junior Charles Walsh tries his best to speak into the microphone with poise and charm. If the recording is not good enough, he records over and over again. Finally, he saves the...

Senior Sophie Vietor performs a butterfly stroke during practice on Nov. 27. 
“[Doing a variety of strokes] helps give me a chance to improve all of my strokes and makes the sets more interesting instead of doing freestyle or one stroke the whole practice,” Vietor said.

Girls swim and dive kicks off season

Irene Yannakakis, STAFF WRITER December 6, 2017

Putting in six days of practice per week, the swim season began for 23 swimmers and five divers on Nov. 7 when tryouts commenced.  After last years season record of 5-4, (5 wins, 4 losses), the girls...

Juniors Harper Stewart and Dani Fischer lead the class in planning the Puerto Rico benefit concert. The concert will be held on Dec 7 and has been planned entirely by Amy Van Matre-Woodward’s Honors Environmental Sustainability class. “Dani and I spearheaded the project, but now our classmates are super involved as well,” Stewart said. “We have people designing logos, doing research and slideshows and figuring out set up.”

Students put on Puerto Rico Benefit Concert

Maria Newton, FEATURES EDITOR December 6, 2017

 After the devastation of Hurricane Maria, students in science teacher Amy Van Matre-Woodward’s honors environmental sustainability class began planning a benefit concert to help the Puerto Rico victims. The...

Rose poses with her sister, alumna Maddie Rose in front of the Mizzou columns. Both of the Rose sisters attended Mizzou. "I spent my first year teaching in Columbia, Missouri because I was participating in a Master’s Degree program through the University of Missouri," Rose Said.

English teacher Taylor Rose returns to West

Gabby Leon, STAFF WRITER November 29, 2017

Pathfinder: What got you interested in teaching? Rose: “I have always wanted to be a teacher, as so many empowering women in my family have served as teachers. From playing school with my cousins...