Bring New Meaning To Fashion Forward
November 30, 2009 • Mari Knehans
Filed under Features, Top Stories
Each year the young women of WCA spend large amounts of money on Christmas Banquet dresses and accessories. These beautiful gowns are more like one hit wonders: they experience an instance of fame and then retire to the back of a closet awaiting another opportunity to shine like a washed-up pop star. The... Read more »
Improv Takes A Bow
November 20, 2009 • Tiffany Thompson - staff writer
Filed under News
So far, Improv has put on 3 shows throughout this year. They plan to take the stage one last time until second semester as their season comes to a close. Their fourth and final performance will be held today, in the Little Theatre. The show will begin at 7:30. Tickets are $3 in advance and $5 at the... Read more »
Eighth Grade Volleyball Takes All
November 18, 2009 • Margaret Moore - Staff Writer
Filed under Sports
“These girls played their hearts out and worked together so well,” said Tammy Kuiper, the coach of the team during the tournament. The tournament was held at MICDS, as it was their tournament. Visitation, the Crossroads, and MIDCS volleyball teams all showed up to the match with the same goal in... Read more »
Construction of New Campus
November 18, 2009 • Melinda Oliver - Staff Writer
Filed under News
Westminster Christian Academy has occupied the old Ladue High school campus since 1982 but the question to ask now is when. For years now, students have been told that our school will be upgrading to a brand new building located in Town and Country, Missouri. “They started talking to us [the students... Read more »
Meet the Browns
November 18, 2009 • Melinda Oliver - staff writer
Filed under Features, Top Stories
A young woman sits by her husband’s side as he receives cancer treatment. His battle with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma has been lengthy and exhausting. It has been seven long years and the love of Gina Zakovec’s life is not getting better. She experiences the same emotions as any wife in her situation... Read more »
Triumph With the Trumpet
November 18, 2009 • Laura Tarantino - staff writer
Filed under News, Top Stories
The boy lifts the shiny brass instrument to his lips and blows out the melody of a worship song. The crowd of high school students follows the voice of the trumpet with singing. “I’ve been playing the trumpet for nine years,” says Aaron Krumsieg, senior. Krumsieg’s phenomenal trumpet career began... Read more »
Shrewd as Snakes
November 17, 2009
Filed under Opinion
Everyone has a perspective. No matter who they may be someone always has a belief or worldview. One perspective coming from secularists is that Christians’ ideas are not valid in the real world, specifically towards the scientific categories. This should concern us because being Westminster students... Read more »
An Expanding Program
November 17, 2009 • Cameron Smith - Staff Writer
Filed under Sports
Last month, juniors Lauren DeRousse and Christine Schlafly took home Westminster’s first state tennis championship. This was the biggest success in the Westminster tennis program’s history. “It certainly shows the girls that it is possible to rise to a new level of accomplishment,” said Nathan... Read more »
No One Trick Pony
November 17, 2009 • Margaret Moore - Staff Writer
Filed under Features, Top Stories
Seven players on the field, one Frisbee and the goal to reach the end zone, explains the intense game of Ultimate Frisbee. Abigail Karsten, an Upper and Middle school geometry teacher has played the game of Ultimate Frisbee since 2000. Ultimate is a thrilling, non-contact team sport that is a mix between... Read more »
Anastasia the Ballerina
November 17, 2009 • Ashley Segrave - Associate Editor
Filed under Features
As twelve girls flex their feet, Anastasia Hathaway, eighth grade student, stretches her way towards a future career in ballet. Hathaway has been practicing ballet for the past eleven years. The motivation behind her drive to excel began when her grandmother took her to her first ballet, Swan Lake,... Read more »
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