Dexter, Missouri - Dexter High School choir department sponsored a Musical Theatre Camp this past week.  

The students were able to learn songs and scenes from the Sound of Music. 

The campers were assigned parts and each student had a role to play.  There were four different groups who participated in the Musical Theatre Camp! 

"I'm so proud of these students.  I gave them a hard assignment of memorizing two scenes from the Sound of Music and they had to memorize four songs," commented Jamie Sepulvado, Dexter Schools Choral Director. "They were incredible at their performance.  Many students came back the second day with their parts memorized.  They worked really hard.  It was fun to work with the future of my High School musicals." 

Camp counselors were Makayla Pyle, Kyla Propst, Zach Cartwright and Logan Wyman.  

Rylee Short, Cheyanne Dunivan, Easton Bryant, Sadie Long, Micheal Dunivan, Kate Churchill, Ryan Kaufman, and Marissa Wallace.

Photo by Jamie Sepulvado.

Dexter, Missouri - Dexter High School choir department sponsored a Musical Theatre Camp this past week.  

The students were able to learn songs and scenes from the Sound of Music. 

The campers were assigned parts and each student had a role to play.  There were four different groups who participated in the Musical Theatre Camp! 

"I'm so proud of these students.  I gave them a hard assignment of memorizing two scenes from the Sound of Music and they had to memorize four songs," commented Jamie Sepulvado, Dexter Schools Choral Director. "They were incredible at their performance.  Many students came back the second day with their parts memorized.  They worked really hard.  It was fun to work with the future of my High School musicals." 

Camp counselors were Makayla Pyle, Kyla Propst, Zach Cartwright and Logan Wyman.  

Pictured are Group 1 from left to right: Sera Churchill, Kati Carrillo, Isabella Pittman, Gavin Drake, Lottie Ann Hunott, Selah Sepulvado, Tori Hernandez, Eli Earnheart, and Lucas Woods.

Photo by Jamie Sepulvado.

Dexter, Missouri - Dexter High School choir department sponsored a Musical Theatre Camp this past week. 

The students were able to learn songs and scenes from the Sound of Music. 

The campers were assigned parts and each student had a role to play.  There were four different groups who participated in the Musical Theatre Camp! 

"I'm so proud of these students.  I gave them a hard assignment of memorizing two scenes from the Sound of Music and they had to memorize four songs," commented Jamie Sepulvado, Dexter Schools Choral Director. "They were incredible at their performance.  Many students came back the second day with their parts memorized.  They worked really hard.  It was fun to work with the future of my High School musicals." 

Camp counselors were Makayla Pyle, Kyla Propst, Zach Cartwright and Logan Wyman.  

Adeesh Mishra of the Poplar Bluff High School Class of 2018 received both the Dr. Michael L. Laseter Memorial and the Mary Lynn Wolpers scholarships, valued at $2,500.

 

The Wolpers scholarship is designated for a PBHS senior and the Laseter scholarship is restricted to a PBHS senior majoring in the medical field.

 

Mishra said he plans to attend the University of Missouri at Kansas City where he will double major in biology and business, and then continue to medical school. His ultimate goal is to become an orthopedic surgeon and perhaps one day start his own practice.

 

“My aspiration is to integrate the urban provisions of health care in rural settings and spread the message of ‘treating patients, not ailments,’” Mishra wrote in his essay.

 

Donna Laseter presents Adeesh Mishra with the Dr. Michael L. Laseter Memorial scholarship in May.

 

Photo and article submitted by Tim Krakowiak, Communications/Marketing Director, Poplar Bluff R-I School District

Most graduates since post-WWII baby boom

 

A total of 358 students graduated from Poplar Bluff High School on Thursday, May 24, at the Black River Coliseum – the most graduates since 1980, topping last year’s distinction.

 

According to district records, the past two consecutive years have produced the largest numbers of alumni in the history of the school system, with the exception of a stretch of years starting in the mid-1960s when the baby boomer generation began to complete high school.

 

“I am exceedingly fond of graduation ceremonies – they indicate that the school district has completed its primary mission,” R-I Superintendent Dr. Scott Dill told the Class of 2018. “Tonight’s ceremony is not just an end cap to your career as a high school student. Rather, it is the cumulative celebration of 13 long years of hard work, sacrifice and dedication.”

 

This year’s salutatorian was Alyssa Cook and Kaitlyn Lloyd was named valedictorian. In a speech to her classmates, Lloyd purposely rattled off a string of clichés such as “we did it,” “believe in yourself” and “change the world” since, she said, she is forever compelled to do the opposite of what she is advised.

 

“I’ve prospered in a world of ‘no’s.’ Today, I prove all the ‘no’s’ wrong, even the ones that developed from within,” the top student said, later adding: “When people tell you ‘no’, you smile and prove them wrong.”

 

The Class of 2018 earned nearly $3.4 million in scholarships, A+ funding and other grants to attend college, the PBHS counseling department reported. The most recent graduation rate for PBHS is 91.8 percent, according to the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

 

Pictured: Students look around as they enter the arena at the opening of the commencement ceremony.

Photo and articles submitted by Tim Krakowiak, Communications/Marketing Director, Poplar Bluff R-I School District