Faith Calhoun Places in County Conservation Contest

cluded: Faith Calhoun, Lind-

say Eye, Maddy Lippa, and

Sean Roberts. Second place

winners were Gracie Mere-

dith, Malarie Fennel, Madysen

Faulkenberry, and Drake Rob-

erts. And our third place win-

ners were Gracie Koch, Madi-

son Price, and Ashlynn Dor-

ris.

Faith Calhoun also tied for

second place at the county

level for the sixth grade. She

was invited to attend the ban-

quet on March 6th and re-

ceived a ribbon and a cash

prize for her poster entry.

During the week of February

17-21st, students in grades

3-6 were visited by repre-

sentatives of the Soil and

Water Conservation to dis-

cuss the importance of pro-

tecting our soil. The stu-

dents were asked to partici-

pate in a poster contest with

the theme of "Dig Deep-

er". Students spent the

week working on their post-

ers during free time and at

home and were ready to

turn them in on February

26th.

Our first place winners in-

Thurs-day, March 6, Mi-kayla Enge-man signed her let-ter of intent to run cross country for the North-west Missouri State University Bearcats in Maryville, Missouri. Mikayla

plans to study Agri-business and Ag Edu-cation. Mikay-la Engeman has been in-credibly suc-cessful in Montrose Cross Coun-try and Co-Op Track and Field with Appleton City. Mikayla is a 4 year letter-man in cross

country, qualifying for State her Freshman, Junior and

Special points of

interest:

Make-up snow

days—April 21, May

27, 28, 29.

Seniors—check out

the website for up-

to-date scholarship

possibilities.

FFA Districts—April

1 at UCM, Warrens-

burg.

Kindergarten Round

-up, April 2, begin-

ning at 8 a.m. Call

for an appointment.

Pummell Math Re-

lays in Springfield at

MSU.

Prom—April 11.

Inside this issue:

County Conservation 1

Mikayla Engeman Signs 1

FBLA Happenings 2

Elementary Spelling Bee 2

3rd Quarter Honor Roll 3

High School Honors 3

Winter Sports Banquet 4

SkillsUSA Winners 5

Upcoming Events Calendar 5

Swap ‘Til They Drop 6

Kindergarten Screening 6

Drama Club Play 7

Volume 7, Issue 3 March 2014—3rd Quarter

Faith Calhoun, 6th grade student, wins 2nd place in the county-wide competition.

Mikayla Engeman Signs to be a Bearcat Senior seasons. Mikayla ran 23:51:31 as a Freshman at Oak Hills Country Club in Jefferson City. As a Junior, she improved her time by seconds running 23:40:54 and placing 45th out of 165 runners. She ran under 3 coaches, with her most im-proved time under her Sen-ior coach, George Moore. Under his guidance, Mikayla ran her personal best at Lakeland Invitational Tour-nament October 23, running 20:31, establishing herself as a serious contender for State. November 9, 2014, she ran against 160 Class

Witnessing the momentus occasion was Mikayla’s dad, John Engeman; her prin-cipal, Ryan Middleton; her basketball coach and athletic director of Montrose R-14, Kevin LaSalle; and Cross Country and Track Coaches, George and Tina Moore.

Continued on Pg. 2

The members of Montrose FBLA have been very busy this past couple weeks, com-peting in the District 10 Con-test and finished testing for State on March 13. They are making plans for a trip to Springfield for a Cardinals Education Field Trip in May. Montrose FBLA attended District 10 Contest at UCM in Warrensburg on Tuesday, February 18. Students participating in con-test included: Natalie Collins--Business Communications, Audrey Collins, Hannah Bo-den, and Mikayla Engeman--Personal Finance. Those placing in the top 10 included: Chapter Scrapbook--1st, Tay-lor Henzlik; Word Processing-

-5th, Aubrey Swaters; 7th, Jessica Foster; Public Speak-ing II--9th, Taylor Henzlik; Mangement Decision Making--2nd, Alex Engeman and Grady Gatzemeyer; Entrepre-neurship--3rd, Tyler Crowder and Jacob Engeman; Client Services--5th, Joyce Jurgens-meyer; Networking Concepts--7th, Noah Jurgensmeyer; Computer Problem Solving--9th, Noah Jurgensmeyer. Advancing to State--1st, Joyce Jurgensmeyer and Harrison Boden--Desktop Publishing; 1st, Scott Plunkett--Computer Problem Solving; 1st, Scott Plunkett--Networking Concepts; 2nd Alex Engeman—Agribusiness; and Alex Enge-

FBLA District Contest and Other Happenings

man and Grady Gatzemeyer were selected as a Wildcard pick in Decision Manag-ing. State Career Develop-ment Conference will be held in Columbia, Missouri, April 13-15. The Montrose FBLA is excit-ed to be sponsoring the 2nd Annual Tailgate BBQ Con-test which will be held on Sunday, May 25. This year’s theme is “Watering Holes, Where Everybody Knows Your Name”. More infor-mation about the 22nd Annual Montrose Festival and Tail-gate will be featured in the next newsletter.

Alex Engeman—Agribusiness; and Alex Enge-man and Grady Gatzemeyer were selected as a Wildcard pick in Decision Manag-ing. State Career Develop-ment Conference will be held in Columbia, Missouri, April 13-15. The Montrose FBLA is excit-ed to be sponsoring the 2

nd Annual Tailgate BBQ Con-

test which will be held on Sunday, May 25. This year’s theme is “Watering Holes, Where Everybody Knows Your Name”. More infor-mation about the 22nd Annual Montrose Festival and Tail-gate will be featured in the next newsletter.

Elementary Does Well at Spelling Bee Charlie Meredith, Mariah Bauer, Jaycee Crowder, 2nd Grade--Zachary Blevins, Olivia Howell, William McCulloch, 3rd Grade--Damien Short, Tristen Ander-son, 4th Grade--Madysen Faulkenberry, Kaylee Houk, Ashlynn Dorris, 5th Grade--Jacob Chavez, Haven Goth, Malarie Fennel, 6th Grade--Faith Calhoun, Gracie Koch, Ethan

Houk. This list of words was long and the competition was tough but our kids put up a good fight and in the end Madysen Faulkenberry took home 1st place and both Jacob Chavez and Faith Calhoun took home 3rd place for their grade level.

On March 4th the elementary students participated in the Golden Valley Vernon County Conference Spelling Bee in Ballard, Missouri. Three stu-dents from each grade were selected, based on an in house spelling bee, to ad-vance to the conference spelling bee. These students are as follows: 1st Grade--

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Competitors at District FBLA Career Leadership Conference at the Uni-versity of Central Missouri—Warrensburg on February 18. Five members advance to State competi-tion in April.

1A runners, the best in the state. With a mile to go and sitting around 25th, she reached deep and flew past runners strug-gling to maintain the brutal pace of a state race and placed 13th, with a time of 21:21:34. As a Junior, Mikayla stepped into her first track and field events with Ap-pleton City as part of the Co-Op between Montrose and Appleton City. At the WEMO conference she broke the long standing record for the 1600, held

by alumni Irene Rohlfing Komer with a time of 5:48. She qualified for State as a Junior in two events: the 1600 and 3200 meter races. She improved her 1600 time, breaking her own per-sonal best, running the event in 5:38, and placed fourth. In the 3200 meter event she again broke the Appleton City record set in 2007 by Amber Moore, run-ning with a time of 12:26, placing 5th in the state. A seasoned runner in both cross country and track,

Mikayla has a most impressive letter jacket, musically adorned with medals from multiple events throughout her high school career. Here in Montrose and Appleton City, we are excited to see what she achieves this spring. Mikayla is the first running athlete from Mont-rose to be recruited to par-ticipate at the next level after high school. We wish her the best of luck and the greatest success in running as a Northwest Bearcat.

Mikayla Engeman Signs to be a Bearcat—continued From pg. 1

Front row--Charlie Meredith, Mariah Bauer, William McCulloch, Zachary Blevins, Olivia Howell, and Jaycee Crowder. Middle row--Damien Short, Tristen Anderson, Maddy Faulkenberry, Kaylee Houk, and Ashlynn Dorris. Back row--Jacob Chavez, Haven Goth, Malarie Fennell, Faith Calhoun, Gracie Koch, and Ethan Houk.

The members of Montrose FBLA have been very busy this past couple weeks, com-peting in the District 10 Con-test and finished testing for State on March 13. They are making plans for a trip to Springfield for a Cardinals Education Field Trip in May. Montrose FBLA attended District 10 Contest at UCM in Warrensburg on Tuesday, February 18. Students participating in con-test included: Natalie Collins--Business Communications, Audrey Collins, Hannah Bo-den, and Mikayla Engeman--Personal Finance. Those placing in the top 10 included: Chapter Scrapbook--1st, Tay-

lor Henzlik; Word Processing--5th, Aubrey Swaters; 7th, Jessica Foster; Public Speak-ing II--9th, Taylor Henzlik; Mangement Decision Making--2nd, Alex Engeman and Grady Gatzemeyer; Entrepre-neurship--3rd, Tyler Crowder and Jacob Engeman; Client Services--5th, Joyce Jurgens-meyer; Networking Concepts--7th, Noah Jurgensmeyer; Computer Problem Solving--9th, Noah Jurgensmeyer. Advancing to State--1st, Joyce Jurgensmeyer and Harrison Boden--Desktop Publishing; 1st, Scott Plunkett--Computer Problem Solving; 1st, Scott Plunkett--Networking Concepts; 2nd

FBLA District Contest and Other Happenings

Volume 7, Issue 2

FFA Practice

Contest at

Crowder College,

Thursday,

March 27.

3rd Quarter Honor Roll A honor roll

Grade 12 Grade 9 Grade 5 Hannah Boden Betty Jurgensmeyer Jacob Chavez Audrey Collins Lindsay Eye Natalie Collins Grade 8 Mikayla Engeman Leah Plunkett Grade 2 Kellan Eye Grade 11 Grade 7 Alex Engeman Chase Calhoun Grade 1 Grady Gatzemeyer Nathan McIntosh Aubrey Swaters Grade 6 Charlie Meredith Faith Calhoun Alex Swaters Abby Vogel

B honor roll Grade 12 Grade 11 Grade 10 Grade 9 Tyler Crowder Jacob Engeman Harrison Boden Jethro Cunningham Samantha Foster Taylor Henzlik Jessica Foster Noah Jurgensmeyer Joyce Jurgensmeyer Durant Goth Scott Plunkett Grade 6 Grade 5 Grade 4 Grade 3 Ethan Houk Malarie Fennell Jaidon Crowder Sean Roberts Gracie Meredith Haven Goth Madysen Falkenberry Toby Terry Morgan Walden Grade 2 Grade 1 Preston Anderson Jaycee Crowder Zachary Blevins Lily Foster Jaelynn Crowder Ayden Morgan Cheyanna Parratt William Roberts Brion Roberts

Boys’ State, Girls’ State, Missouri Leadership Academy,

and High School Heisman Award The 29th Missouri Leadership Seminar is for current Missouri high school sophomores. It provides the student the opportunity to discover and expand their leadership potential. The 2014 MLS will take place June 6 – 8, 2014 at the University of Central Missouri, Warrensburg, Missouri. Harrison Boden has been chosen to attend. The 75th session of the American Legion Boys State of Missouri will be held June 14– 21, 2014 on the campus of the University of Central Missouri in Warrensburg, Missouri. Girls State will be held from June 22 – 28, 2014 at the same place. Both programs are highly interactive educational program that teaches young men and women the duties, privileges, responsibilities, and rights of American citizenship. Missouri Boys State and Girls State are de-signed specifically for high school juniors who have distinguished themselves as leaders in our school. Alex Enge-man will be attending Boys State and will be sponsored by the Montrose Savings Bank. Taylor Henzlik will be at-tending Girls State and is sponsored by AIM. Aubrey Swaters will also be attend Girls State and is sponsored by the Montrose Savings Bank. Created in 1994 by Wendy’s and the Heisman Memorial Trust, the Wendy’s High School Heisman Award recogniz-es outstanding high-school seniors nationwide who excel in athletics, academics and in the community. The Wen-dy’s High School Heisman Award, inspired by Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas, celebrates the achievements of ex-ceptional student-athletes and provides a platform for their continued growth and success beyond high school. Mikayla Engeman has been chosen to receive the Wendy’s High School Heisman Award this year.

On Tuesday night, Montrose School honored their winter sports teams and cheerlead-ers with a banquet. The stu-dent-athletes were honored for the dedication and hard work that they displayed throughout the season. The cheer leading squad consisted of: Seniors: Mikayla Engeman and Mercedes Koch Sophomores: Richlyn Foster and Jessica Foster Freshmen: Katelyn Stein-bach 8th Grader: Leah Plunkett 7th Grade: Chloe Koch and Aeris Paul The girls’ basketball team finished with a record of 20-6 with second place finishes in the Appleton City, and Class 1 District 7 tournaments, re-spectively. The team consist-ed of seniors, Hannah Bo-den, Audrey Collins, Natalie Collins and Mikayla Enge-man; (who finished their high school career with an im-pressive 95-14 record over four years); Junior Joyce Jurgensmeyer; Sophomore Jessica Foster and Fresh-man Betty Jurgensmeyer. Audrey Collins was present-ed on this evening with a commemorative basketball celebrating her 1000 point for her career. Audrey scored her 1000th point on 2/14/2014 against Hume dur-ing the 3rd place game of the conference tournament. Audrey ended her career with 1,134 points. Audrey was voted GVVC Confer-ence player of the year and was also selected to the Class 1 District 7 1st Team All District. Audrey was

joined on the GVVC All Conference 1st team by her sister Natalie Collins, who finished her career with 710 points, Natalie was selected to the Class 1 District 7 2nd Team All Dis-trict. Mikayla Engeman also joined the Col-lins sisters by being selected to the GVVC All Conference 2nd Team, Mikayla earned this honor through here tenacious defensive play, hustle and for “cleaning up the boards”, both on the defensive and offensive side. Mikayla fin-ished the year with 188 rebounds, leading the Lady Jays in this cate-gory. Hannah Boden was presented with the most loyal award for contribu-tions to the team through-out the year, even after having been sidelined with an injury. Joyce Jurgesmeyer was awarded Most Consistent for her hard work, hustle and bringing her best every game. The boys’ basketball team finished the season with a record of 12-13. The boys’ team made strides throughout the season and was playing good basket-ball at the end of the sea-son. The team consisted of Senior Tyler Crowder; Jun-

Winter Sports Banquet Held

iors Alex Engeman, Jacob Engeman, Travis Foster, Grady Gatzemeyer, Caston Mallett, and Logan Swaters; Sophomores Harrison Bo-

den, Daniel Engeman, and Tristen Koch; Freshmen Jethro Cun-ningham and Dakota Wittmeyer. Tyler Crowder was recog-nized for his contribu-tions as having the highest 3pt % on the year, fin-ished sec-ond in re-bounding, and being selected to the GVVC

2nd Team All-Conference. Jacob Engeman was recog-nized for being selected Co-Conference player of the year in the GVVC and se-lected to the Class 1 District 7 1st Team All District. Ja-cob was also recognized for leading the team in several categories including: scor-ing, rebounding, blocks and steals. Other awards on the night were: Most Assists—Travis Foster; Most 3 point-ers made—Logan Swaters; Most Minutes Played – Grady Gatzemeyer.

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Kindergarten

Graduation &

Awards will be

May 15 @ 2 p.m.

8th Grade and

High School

Graduation will be

May 16 @ 8 p.m.

Coach Kevin LaSalle pre-sents Audrey Collins with her commemorative bas-ketball for scoring her 1000th point of her career.

The Clinton Technical School Chapter of SkillsUSA competed in the West Central District Championships at the Business and Technology College, Kansas City, Mis-souri, on Thursday, Febru-ary 20, 2014. The stu-dents excelled in all of the competitions. Those marked with an asterisk will advance to state com-petition.

AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE TECHNOLOGY SKILLS: *3

rd Place–Noah

Jurgensmeyer

Upcoming Events

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SkillsUSA Competition

TECHNICAL INFOR-MATION AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE: 6

th Place–

Noah Jurgensmeyer

COMPUTER MAINTE-NANCE TECHNOLO-GY: *2

nd Place–Scott

Plunkett

TECHNICAL INFOR-MATION COMPUTER REPAIR: 9

th Place–Scott

Plunkett

PRECISION MACHINING TECHNOLGY: *1

st Place–

Grady Gatzemeyer

TECHNICAL INFORMATION PRECISION MACHIN-ING: *1

ST Place–Grady

Gatzemeyer

RELATED TECHNICAL MATH: *1

st Place–Grady

Gatzemeyer

SkillsUSA State Champion-ships, April 3 – 5

th at Linn

State Technical College, Linn, Missouri.

Mar 26 Math Relays at Hume, bus leaves @ 8:15am – 3 pm Mar 27 FFA MOASK Contest Crowder College, bus leaves 5:15am Mar 27 2nd Application of Dental Varnishings Mar 27 Baseball vs Weaubleau at 4:30pm Mar 28 Baseball at Stover, bus leaves @ 2:30pm Mar 31 SB & BB at NEVC, bus leaves @ 2:45pm Apr 1 FFA District CDE at UCM, bus leaves @ 6:30am Apr 2 Kindergarten Roundup Apr 3 FFA District LDE at UCM, bus leaves @ 2:45pm Apr 4 Baseball vs NEVC @ 4:30pm Apr 9 Pummill Math Relays at MSU, bus leaves @ 7am Apr 9 Baseball vs Hume @ 4:30pm Apr 10 SB & BB at Bronaugh, bus leaves @ 2:35pm Apr 11 Promenade starting at 6:30pm Apr 13-15 State FBLA in Columbia, bus leaves @ TBD Apr 14 Baseball vs Ballard @ 4:30pm Apr 15 SB & BB vs Drexel @ 5pm Apr 16 Softball at Lakeland, bus leaves @ 3:30pm Apr 17 SB & BB at Sheldon, bus leaves @ 2:45pm Apr 18 No School Apr 21 Makeup Snow Day Apr 21 SB & BB at Drexel, bus leaves @ 2:45pm Apr 22 SB & BB vs Bronaugh @ 4:30pm Apr 23 SB & BB at Hume, bus leaves @ 2:50pm Apr 24-25 FFA State Convention, bus leaves @ TBD Apr 28 Baseball vs Adrian at 4:30pm Apr 29 Baseball vs Archie @ 4:30pm May 1 FFA Chapter Banquet starting @ 6pm

new places in home libraries. Librarian Carol McEwan wishes to thank parents and oth-er do-nors who helped make this second Book Swap a success. Because getting more books into students’ hands is so im-

Books stretched across the bottom bleachers of both sides of the gym as part of Montrose R-14 Library’s Book Swap, held for K-6 students. Exclamations such as, “That’s the one I want!” “This one looks good,” and “You mean I can just ‘have’ it!” could be heard throughout the two-day event held No-vember 21 and 22. Students were invited to

trade books of their own

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Swap ‘Til They Drop

in good condition for “new” books they had not read. These, as well as books that had been donated for this event, provided lots of choices for discerning readers, providing se-lections from a total of approximately 350 volumes. Every student was

able to choose at

least one book, result-

ing in 242 titles taking

Kindergarten screen-ings are scheduled for Wednesday, April 2nd. If you have a child or know of a child that will be at-tending kindergarten next year, please have them call the school to set up an appointment for a screening. The screenings will take place at the school in the library at 8:30 a.m., 9:30 a.m., and 10:30 a.m. The screenings will include a develop-mental test, kindergar-ten readiness test, a hearing test, speech articulation, and other appropriate paper-

work. The Henry County Health Depart-ment can review your child’s shot records and answer any other health related ques-tions that you may have. In order for your child to be eligible for Kin-dergarten during the 2014-2015 school year, he/she must be five years old before August 1st. Please choose the time frame that works best for you. YOU MUST HAVE AN APPOINT-MENT. Call (660) 693-4812 as soon as possible to schedule your appoint-ment. You will need

to bring a copy of your child’s birth certificate, social security card, proof of residence, and his/her immuniza-tion records with you that day. We are excited about the upcoming school year and the oppor-tunity to be a part of your child’s education-al experience. If you have any questions about Kindergarten enrollment, please call the school at (660) 693-4812.

Kindergarten Screening Scheduled for April 2

The Montrose Bluejay

Montrose High School Drama

Club Presents:

Featuring: Hamlet, Romeo, Juliet, Scrooge,

Tiny Tina, Tom Jones, and William

Shakespeare

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