The Lizard's Tale

The Lizard’s Tale—October 30, 2013 Volume 1, Issue 2

Homecoming Week 2013!!!

The Lizard’s Tale

Inside

this

issue:

Things you need to know Junior Notice College & Career Day

2

Student of the Month ASVAB Important Info 3

2013 Sand Lizard Foot-ball Schedule Powder Puff Game results

4

Literacy Board infor-mation EAST Teen Leadership Coalition FBLA News

5

Band Earns Awards Teacher of the Month FBLA District Meet

6

All the of the homecoming court “staying fierce!” The homecoming court from left to right; Harlee Chil-

ders, Allie Evans, Candy Adame, Elizabeth Burgess, Homecoming Queen Taylor Eubanks, Carley Criswell,

Leslie Hudgeons, Amanda Weaver, and Kayli Standridge. The entire week was full of activities such as

dress up days and pep rallies.

Photo by Chuck CraIg

Chris Kershner and J.J. Dunn both made the school

proud with huge defensive plays on the night of Home-

coming.

T.J. Tucker made huge offensive plays for the Sand

Lizards against the Bulldogs on Homecoming night.

Sand Lizards win! Score 54 to 7 over Waldron


Detention for tardies: detention for disciplinary reason, special study hall is held in

room 109 during either lunch.

Test C for algebra I and geometry is always on your own time. The test is given on

Thursdays before school, during lunch, and after school. Before school it is held in

the office. At lunch you will come to the office get a test then go to room 109.

( Bring your lunch) After the school day is over it will be held in the cafeteria.

Tutoring in the morning at 7:15 A.M. Afternoon at 3:25 P.M.

Upward Bound: Advising will be in the library conference room, each week, during

your lunch.( You are to get your lunch and return your lunch things to the cafeteria)

Tutoring for Upward Bound will be each Thursday at 3:30 in room 112.

Congratulations

Students of the Month at

Career Center Campus:

Allison Sharp &

Joseph Smith

Ms. Hudgeons is the counselor and senior

high cheer sponsor here at Dardanelle High

School. She is open to talk to anyone at any

time, just come find her. Some of the main

things she wants the students to know are

the scholarship options you have. Some

scholarships you can apply for are, Gates

Millennium Scholars Program, Scholarships

for High School Seniors, and The American

Legion. These are just some of the many

scholarships you can find on the DHS Schol-

Juniors:

We need

your help! As you know, you Junior Ring

Day ceremony is coming up

soon! EAST is putting together

a memoire of this occasion. In

an attempt to incorporate fun

pictures of you & your friends

as a children, and how much

you’ve changed, we ask for

you to select ONE picture to

be included in the Ring Day

book. The deadline for the

pictures is Nov. 8th, 2013.

If digital copies are available,

they can be emailed to:

[email protected]

m or cecilia.benitez72834

@gmail.com or

[email protected]

Original photographs may be

dropped off at the Dardanelle

High School office. To ensure

safety of the original photo-

graphs, we request that the

photos be placed in a zip-lock

bag with returned info includ-

ed. This includes a name &

advisor’s name.

Ms. Hudgeons, DHS Counselor

is created

and designed by the follow-

ing EAST students: Aaliyah

Brousseau, Melanie Navar-

rete, and Kyle Smith.

College & Career Fair—2013 Hosted by EAST students

Bryland Young, Audrey Price,

Jazmon Guyton, and Kelli Collins,

our parents and students were

given an opportunity to learn

more about colleges and careers

at the Parent Conference night

last week. Representatives from

colleges and local merchants

were available to help our stu-

dents. “I think lots of good ques-

tions were asked and great in-

formation was exchanged. Look-

ing forward to it being even big-

ger and better next year.” said

Kelli Collins.

Student of the Month:

Sydney Lane Grade: 9th

Advisor: Mrs. Balloun

In her free times she like to do archery.

Advice she would like to give to the student body is

“Stay focused on school.”

Tips and Tricks for getting ready

for college:

College Check List for Juniors Must Do: Take the toughest courses and study. Thus, pre-

pare for ACT

Schedule ACT exam (s).

Take a CPEP class.

Get involved in community service through EAST and/or school

organization.

This will allow you legitimate community service hours on your

applications.

Provides a network of community leaders who will know you

and, perhaps, recommend you on applications.

Begin to research colleges:

Go on-line and really study some institutions. Consider those

institutions with good honors programs and/or the best pro-

grams of study that meet your intended path of study or intend-

ed career.

When you cut it to three or four, contact an actual live person

at their admissions office.

Get the person’s name.

Always use this person for questions and advice.

Make a connection!

Check the requirements for admission at each university in

which you are interested against your four-year plan and ac-

complishments. Make a plan to address things you need to add

to meet those requirements.

See if the college of your choice offers any scholarships to en-

tering freshmen. Again, check your transcript and credentials

against those required and make a plan to meet those require-

ments.

member) give them a list of your accomplishments, activities,

community service, and goals.

After they give you the letter, thank them in a note, E-Mail, or

call.

Write your essay for applications. You can change it appropri-

ately for the specific college or scholarship, but have it basical-

ly written.

Get the schedule of scholarship applications.

College Check List for Seniors

October-December:

Visit, with a parent, college nights at ATU and at

DHS. Get financial aid information at these visits. Schedule a

small number of campus visits.

Go to the FAFSA site (http://www.fafsa.ed.gov/ )and fill out

what you can on the application.

Apply for every scholarship for which you are eligible and inter-

ested. These will be listed in school bulletins and in advisory in

Senior Notebooks. Continue to monitor the Senior Notebooks

for updates on scholarships.

Begin collecting required information for the Arkansas Academ-

ic Challenge Scholarship available to Arkansas seniors:

http://www.adhe.edu/Pages/home.aspx

Visit Ms. Hudgeons’ Scholarship Corner on the high school web

page for continued updates for scholarships.

Follow up on other scholarship deadlines and

do not wait until the last minute.

January: Finish FAFSA

Turn in all applications.

Make contact with the college admissions representative to

see about your current status at the college (s) in which you are

most interested.

February through the end of this school year: Check applica-

tions on-line.

Respond at once if you find something in an application need-

ing attention.

Don’t put anything off.

Continue to do this until your applications are fully completed

and you hear about your status.

ATTENTION JUNIORS & SENIORS: ASVAB is the armed services attitude/ability test. It must be

taken and passed by anyone entering the armed services, including the National Guard. Any person may

take the test for practice and information about his ability. We will give the test on Wednesday, Novem-

ber 6th. Juniors and seniors may take the test. Sign up today in the office prior to November 6th.


Powder Puff Results: And the winner is...

The 2013 Powder Puff games were a big success. The sophomores won it all leaving the

Seniors, Juniors, and Freshmen in the dust.

Scores: Sophomores v Freshmen: 26-6 * Seniors v Juniors-: 8-0 * Sophomores v Sen-

iors: 8-0 - Photos by Chuck Craig

Sophomore quarterback

Tia Gadberry looking for

an open lane to follow to

the end zone.

Freshman Shelby Dunn

sprints around the end, gain-

ing yards with every stride.

Senior coach, Hugh Benfer

showing lots of spirit for the

Senior team.

Dardanelle High School Recog-

nized as one of America’s Best

High Schools

Dardanelle High School Class Presidents

pose with a plaque from Newsweek maga-

zine recognizing the school’s inclusion on

its “America’s Best High Schools” list.

From the left: the presidents are Hugh

Benfer, senior, Nicole Luna, junior, Carlee

Gray, sophomore, Aaliayah Brusseau,

freshman.

Dardanelle High was also listed as one

of the nation’s best schools last year by

US News, and on the electronic media’s

The Daily

Beast. The

school was

also

named as

an exem-

plary AP

school last

year by The

College

Board.


EAST students attend Pope County Drug Coalition Teen Leadership Summit

Branda Dugan, Saul Martinez, Gabriel Shalda, Harlee Childers, and Cade Wilks, along with approximately

50 representatives from others schools in the area, attended the

Teen Leadership Summit sponsored by the Pope County Drug Coali-

tion. The summit was over a two-day period at the Lake Point Confer-

ence Center in Russellville. The students worked together to under-

stand teen issues and ways they could change harmful behavior. The

Sand Lizard Coalition is developing plans to address the use of

smokeless tobacco as their main project. Cade was impressed with

the many ideas from other students about the issues that face teens

today. Saul mentioned that he gained a great deal of knowledge

about the high level of harm about challenges confronting students

today.

FBLA Talent Show and Other FBLA News The winners of the FBLA Talent show were Hannah Hooten and Rachel Hooten for their duet: Hallelu-

jah. Second place was won by Jessica Steele for Doing a Beat Box. Through the talent show proceeds,

the club raised $535, which will be shared

partially with Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

Please see FBLA members as they are sell-

ing basketball donation cards for $1.00

each. Along with the Miracle Minute at the

basketball game in January, the members

hope to raise between $1200 and $1500

this year to go to ACH.

The DHS Student Council shared part of

their proceeds from the Power Puff Game

in the amount of $285.

Dardanelle FBLA has placed as a top three

school group fundraiser for ACH for the

past 2 years.

The Sand Lizard Coalition is discussing

project issues with Heather Sprinkle, co-

ordinator for Yell County.

L-R Jessica Steele, Hannah Hooten and Rachel

Hooten


Congratulations Scarlett Regiment:

Dale Bumpers Marching Champions!

Special awards to color

guard/majorettes, Luck Bartlett,

Hugh Benfer, and Jonnathan Ortiz.

We had 30 students attend the FBLA Fall

Conference at Arkansas Tech University

and had a great time!

Our own Jonnathan Ortiz serves as District

V State Vice President. We took 2nd place

in the Battle of the Chapters competition.

Proud of Tyler Corbin and Dakota Thomas

for their great showing in this event. We

also were 2nd Place in the Program Cover

Design competition.

Teacher of the Month: Bryan Hardaway, SR.

Coach Hardaway teaches biology, which he is very

passionate about. He also coaches his favorite sport

of football and futbol (soccer).

In his free time he likes to hunt, fish, watch football,

and play with his kids. He also ponders the problems

of the universe while he tries to solve world hunger.

He wants to let all of you know in his chocolaty

voice. “When life gets you down and all odds are

against you, stand up and punch life in the face.

Have faith that it will get better.”

He also wants EVERYONE to know that he likes

chocolate chip cookies.

Senior Fall FBLA Conference

Scarlett Regiment brings home award

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