The Maroon Messenger-October2017

Volume 4, Issue 2
October 2017

The Maroon Messenger

Glance in Advance Generous Water Donations!

 Nov 7th: HS Girls BB vs New By: Veronica Moreau
Summerfield
Arp ISD would like to thank the following people for their generous donations
 Nov 10th: Veterans Day @ of drinking water to the students and staff of our district due to the recent con-
Elementary cerns of our water supply.
-HS Girls BB @ Frankston
-Kona Ice @ JH Jeff Hall and Janet Hurst- Nestle Waters (Hawkins)
Henry E. Smith- Jackson Water Supply
 Nov 13th: JH Girls BB vs Joel King- Coca-Cola Bottling (Tyler)
Sabine Chris Holland, Randy Truett, and Randy Ganoa- Pepsi Bottling (Tyler)
-JH Boys BB @ Sabine Todd Smith- (Overton)
-Elementary PTO Meeting Jessica Ackers- (AJH Parent)
Sam’s Club- (Longview)
 Nov 14th: All Region Jazz @ ABC Auto Parts- (Longview)
Bullard JMB Trucking- (Judson, TX)
-HS Girls BB @ Hawkins J. de Gaffenried Dental-

 Nov 15th: Firehouse/Cook (Kilgore)
ing Safety @ Elem.
Heaton Eye Associates
 Nov 17th: Garden Club Bake Blayne and Crystal Ducksworth
Sale Mrs. Reuna Campbell
-Kona Ice @ Elementary Ryan Moore

 Nov 20th-24th: School Pictures courtesy of Arp ISD
Holiday (Thanksgiving)

 Nov 21st: HS Girls BB vs
Grace

 Nov 27th: JH Girls BB @
Harmony
-JH Boys BB vs Harmony

 Nov 28th: HS Girls BB vs
Gilmer
-Picture Retakes

 Nov 30th - Dec 2nd:
HSGirls BB Tournament@
Chapel Hill

 Dec 4th: Arp Christmas
Parade

 Dec 5th: HS Girls BB @
Mineola
-Basketball/JH Twirl
pictures

 Dec 6th: JH OAP Contest @
Winona

 Dec 7th-9th: HS V Boys BB
ShootOut @ Brownsboro
-HS Girls BB Tournament @
Frankston
-HS JV Boys BB Tournament
@ Spring Hill

 Dec 8th: JH All Region Band
Tryouts @ Rusk

 Dec 9th: HS All Region Band
Tryouts @ Henderson

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Message from our Superintendent
Dwight G. Thomas

Wow! One fourth of the school year has come and gone. I want to say to the students, “Keep your
eyes on the prize!” The first part of the school year is easy for everyone: students, teachers, and ad-
ministrators alike are on the top of their game during the first quarter of the school year. However,
now we are getting into the time of year where everyone has fallen into a routine and sometimes we
lose focus of why we are here. Seniors, especially, have to stay very focused during this time of dead-
lines, such as SAT/ACT sign-ups, scholarship and college entry applications, along with a slew of oth-
er things that can sneak up on you before you realize they have come and gone. Evaluate your goals
and make sure you are on track to achieve them.

I want to take a moment to give a big congratulatory “Way to go” to the AHS Tiger Band. At the
Region 21 Marching Contest in Longview, we saw our Tiger band score an overall 1 ranking, the ON-
LY 3A band in the contest to do so. Directors, Mr. Cook and Mrs. Rodriguez, along with twirl sponsor
Tiffany Ellis and section coaches Steven Dees and Ethan Day, should be commended on the program
they designed and the preparation and time that were required to implement it. Each and every band
member has busted their backside to make this year’s program one of the best in our schools histo-
ry. Good luck at the next round of competition and Go Tigers and Go Band!

Message from our Counselor
Mrs. Donna Lowery

Seniors, if you have not completed your FAFSA application for the 2018-2019 school year, please do so
as soon as possible. There are scholarships available and deadlines are coming up quickly, so students need
to start applying, but some will require that your FAFSA be complete. A list of scholarship websites can be
found on the Counselor’s page located on the Arp High School website. Also, go by the counselors outer
office and check for updates. New scholarship opportunities come in almost every day.

Need to see the counselor, go on to the High School web page and fill out the Counselor Request Form

ACT Test Date ACT Registration Act Scores
Deadline Available
February 10, 2018
April 14, 2018 Jan. 12, 2018 Feb. 21, 2018
June 9, 2018 Mar. 9, 2018 Apr. 24, 2018
July 14, 2018 May 4, 2018 Jun. 19, 2018
Jun. 15, 2018 Jul. 24, 2018
SAT Test Date
SAT Registration SAT Scores
March 10, 2018 Deadline Available
May 5, 2018
June 2, 2018 Feb. 9, 2018 Mar. 23, 2018
Apr. 6, 2018 May 18, 2018
May 3, 2018 Jul. 11, 2018

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Staff of the Month Student of the Month

By: Veronica Moreau and Houston Duffy By: Veronica Moreau and Houston Duffy

Hiram Moon, the officer here at Senior, Dakota Shores
Arp, has been chosen as the staff was picked to be the stu-
member of the month. He has dent of the month. He
four children; two being in eighth plans to go to college to
grade, one in second, and a soon be a neurosurgeon after
to be three-year old. He enjoys he graduates. His favorite
playing music with his kids when thing to do outside of
he has time. He never graduated school is fishing. He likes
high school, dropping out in 11th to go to his family’s deer
grade but he came back to get his lease when he can and
GED at 29, then went to the police academy. His favor- would like to visit Egypt if he could. His favorite
ite part of working here is getting to work with the kids, subject is pre-calculus. He has two younger sis-
especially those with special needs. He would love to ters in elementary. His favorite holiday is
visit Scotland. He has property down in South Texas and Thanksgiving for the food of course, but his all-
it is his favorite place to go several times a year. His fa- time favorite food is Tex-Mex. During his free
vorite holiday is Christmas. He loves 80’s rock music,
time, Dakota enjoys listening to country music.
and his favorite food is steak and potatoes.

Fields of Faith

By: Houston Duffy

Fields of Faith was very successful this year. Students from area schools joined together to worship and
share Christ with one another. Many students were moved closer to Christ and everyone enjoyed the oppor-
tunity to share fellowship with one another. We worshiped through music and a few Henderson students
shared their favorite bible verses. After Worship and the message we all went down to the field and prayed
together. Overall, everyone had a great time and improved their relationship with God.

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Arp Fishing Club

The Arp fishing team competed at the Lake O’Pines tournament on Saturday, October 21. Out of the nine
Arp boats, seven were able to weigh in fish out of a total 132 teams that competed. Hannah Eakin and Hay-
den Bradshaw lead the way for Arp bringing in 4 fish for 9.97 lbs. Derek Chatham and Weston Sanford
caught 3 for 8.65 lbs and Dutch Whitt and Ben VanWinkle weighed in 3 for 5.10 lbs. Hayden Grammier
and Luke Gullatt 2 for 4.35 lbs, Derrick
Ishee and Hunter Wright 1 for 1.91 lbs,
Briana Dear and Joey Keegan weighed in
1 fish for 1.55 lbs, and Casey Wood and
Christian Holsinger 1 for 1.52 lbs.

The next tournament will be held at
Lake Fork on November 18th.

FFA

State Fair of Texas State Fair of Texas Pictures courtesy of Arp FFA

Pig Show Sept 29th Ag Mech Show Oct 16th and 17th
Haley Bryand Shelby Nichols - 1st place
tractor restoration
Livestock Judging
October 10th Harvest Festival October 27th
Reed Thorn - Grand Champion Steer
1. Ashton Jenkins
2. Hannah Van Winkle
3. Ben Van Winkle
4. Ty Phillips
5. MaKenna Phillips
6. Abbie Morton
7. Hunter Wright
8. Katelyn Carnes
9. Haley Bryand

Jr Heifer Show
October 12th-13th

1. Hannah Van Winkle -
Class Champion

2. Ben Van Winkle
3. Reagan Smith
4. Colton Smith
5. Reed Thorn
6. Katelyn Carnes

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Cross Country

By: Cole Bardsley

The Arp Tiger Cross Country season has
come to an end. The District meet was held
on October 9th at Lear Park in Longview.
While team did not advance at district, they
had a great season and are looking forward
to next year. Thanks to Coach Q for push-
ing us to do our best and to all of you for

your help and support!

Band

By: Christine Bays

The Arp Tiger Band performed at 1:15 p.m. on October 21st and were the only 3A band to be given a 1st
division rating that day. They advanced to Area Marching Contest,
and performed at 10:30 a.m. They had an amazing performance
that landed them a slot in the finals, and they performed again that
night at 10:30 p.m. The band did not advance to state but would
like to thank all the people that have supported them this season,
especially the band boosters. The band parents did an amazing job
making sure the band was well taken care of, and they even grilled
hamburgers for the entire band while they waited for results!

Majorettes

By: Christine Bays

The AHS Majorettes earned a 1 rating at the UIL Twirling Contest and will advance to State Competition
later this year. Chelsea McDonald, Breonna Tyiska, Liana Cabe, and Macy Maxwell also earned a 1 rating
with their solo routines and will advance to State. Chelsea has even advanced to using fire batons!!

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Varsity Football

Scores District Rankings

Sept 29th School W-L
West Rusk 4-0
Arp 13 Waskom 3-1
Waskom 14 Elysian Fields 3-1
Arp 2-3
Oct 6th 0 Troup 1-3
37 Harleton 1-3
Arp Beckville 1-4

Elysian Fields

Oct 13th

Arp 20
Beckville 10

Oct 20th

Arp 0
West Rusk 24

Oct 27th

Arp 35

Troup 33

Pictures courtesy of
Dewayne McDonald

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Junior Varsity Football

Scores

Sept 28th

Arp 8
Waskom 26

Oct 5th

Arp 26

Elysian Fields 52

Oct 12th

Arp no game

Beckville

Oct 19th

Arp 24

West Rusk 7

Oct 26th

Arp 6

Troup 20

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Varsity Volleyball

Sept 26th Senior Night

Arp 14 15 24
Troup 25 25 26

Sept 30th

Arp 25 25 26

Cumberland 14 21 24

Oct 3th

Arp 30 18 17 19
Winona 28 25 25 25

Oct 10th

Arp 25 19 25 18 11
Harmony 19 25 12 25 15

Oct 14th

Arp 26 16 21 22
West Rusk 24 25 25 25

Oct 17th

Arp 13 20 18

Sabine 25 25 25

Oct 21th

Arp 19 16 19

Troup 25 25 25

Oct 24th

Arp 25 20 25 25
Cumberland 16 25 12 16

Pictures courtesy of Yearbook Staff

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Junior Varsity Volleyball

JV A JV B

Sept 26th Sept 26th

Arp 24 21 Arp 24 21
Troup 26 25
Troup 26 25

Sept 30th Sept 30th

Arp 25 25 Arp 25 25

Cumberland 6 5 Cumberland 6 5

Oct 3th Oct 3th

Arp 24 22 Arp 24 22
Winona 26 25
Winona 26 25
Oct 10th
Oct 10th

Arp 17 14 Arp 17 14
Harmony 25 25 Harmony 25 25

Oct 14th Oct 14th

Arp 16 20 Arp 16 20
West Rusk 25 25 West Rusk 25 25

Oct 17th Oct 17th

Arp 25 17 15 Arp 25 17 15
Sabine 15 25 13 Sabine 15 25 13

Oct 21th Oct 21th

Arp no game Arp no game
Troup Troup
Oct 24th
Oct 24th

Arp 25 25 Arp 25 25
Cumberland 14 21 Cumberland 14 21

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Arp Junior High School

Pictures courtesy of Yearbook Staff

Volume 4, Issue 2 Arp Elementary School Page 11

Staff of the Month 8th Grader of the Month

By: Diego Pessina and Connor Jackson By: Diego Pessina and Connor Jackson

Mrs. Anderson is 29 Kylie is in 8th grade
years old. She has been and she really likes
married for 8 years and school because she loves
has 3 kids. Her favorite spending time with her
class in high school was friends. Her favorite
English. Her favorite TV class is art and her favor-
show is “This is Us”. ite TV show is “Chrisley
Her first job was being a Knows Best”. She has a
hostess at La Hacienda. sister in High School,
She spends her weekends going to her kids’ who is 16. During the weekend, she enjoys
softball games. Her dream vacation is to spending time outside and reading books;
visit Ireland. Her favorite part about her job her favorites are mystery novels. She would
like to visit Paris and she loves watching
is interacting with all the kids.
movies.

7th Grader of the Month 6th Grader of the Month

By: Diego Pessina and Connor Jackson By: Diego Pessina and Connor Jackson

Jocelyn is 12 years old Maddie is 11 and in the
and in the 7th grade. She 6th grade. She loves go-
loves going to school and ing to school in order to
she enjoys her math class learn new things and her
the most. Her favorite favorite class is science.
TV show is “Lilo and She wants to do some-
Stitch”. She enjoys thing with robotic cod-
spending time with her ing. Her favorite movie is
family and going on The Flash and she likes
walks. When she gets older, she wants to watching Netflix. In her free time, she likes
become a geologist. She also loves playing to reads books and play the piano. Maddie
soccer and watching TV with her siblings has two sisters and a step brother. She enjoys
Alixa and Lourdes. She loves going to the spending time with her family, especially
playing and dancing with her sister. If she
beach. could go on a paid vacation, she’d go to Ha-
waii because she loves the beach. She’s real-
ly grateful for being the student of the month

and she’s ready to work hard this year.

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Red Ribbon Week

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8th Grade Football

Scores

Oct 5th

Arp 26

Elysian Fields 32

Oct 12th

Arp 20

Beckville 14

Oct 19th

Arp 14
West Rusk 20

Oct 26th

Arp 30

Troup 0

7th Grade Football

Scores

Oct 5th

Arp 8

Elysian Fields 8

Oct 12th

Arp 20

Beckville 14

Oct 19th

Arp 0
West Rusk 22

Oct 26th

Arp 14

Troup 6

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8th Grade Volleyball

8th A Team 8th B Team
Oct 2nd Oct 2nd

Arp 11 14 Arp 23 14

West Rusk 25 25 West Rusk 25 15

Oct 16th Oct 16th

Arp 22 25 16 Arp 25 25

Winona 25 23 14 Winona 18 17

Oct 23rd Oct 23rd

Arp 9 25 Arp 13 15

Harmony 13 25 Harmony 25 25

7th Grade Volleyball

7th A Team 7th B Team

Oct 2nd Oct 2nd

Arp 25 20 6 Arp 25 19

West Rusk 22 25 15 West Rusk 6 25

Oct 16th Oct 16th

Arp 25 16 15 Arp 25 25

Winona 15 25 11 Winona 8 17

Oct 23rd Oct 23rd

Arp 15 26 17 Arp 25 13

Harmony 25 24 15 Harmony 18 25

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Arp Elementary School

Staff of the Month Student of the Month

By: Silver Roberts and Connor Jackson By: Silver Roberts and Connor Jackson

Ms. Staples is 23 years Jobane is 9 years old and
old and graduated from UT in the 4th grade. His favor-
Tyler. She teaches second ite subject is science, be-
grade and loves teaching cause he enjoys doing ex-
math and science. She really periments. He loves playing
loves teaching to motivate two-touch football and his
the students and helping favorite color is blue. His
them build their confidence. best friend is Joshua. His
Ms. Staples also loves help- favorite food is pizza and he would like to visit
ing the students find out Walt Disney World in the near future.
who they are and what they love to do. She loves
traveling and has been to England and Ireland.
She would love to travel to places like Italy or
Switzerland. Overall, Ms. Staples is a very nice
person and a great pick for staff member of the
month!

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