KEEPI N G THE S TUDE NTS OF RHEA COU NTY HIGH SCH O OL I NFORMED SI N CE 1996
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The Eagle's Nest
SCHOOL SUPPLIES:
HOW SAFE ARE YOU? PAGE 5
WE KNOW WHAT YOU DID THIS SUMMER PAGE 6 & 7
VOLUME 11, NUMBER 1
ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL?
FALL SPORTS PREVIEWS, PAGE 8
RCHS updates its look
ABOVE: The student parking lot has been completely re-paved, and painted with crisp new numbers; you’ll have no trouble finding your spot this year! LEFT: A fitted stone facing finishes off the sign at the school’s entrance beautifully.
Crews have been busy over the summer getting the school in shape for the new year By ALEX GREEN ALEXG@RCHSEAGLESNEST.ORG
No, ladies and gentlemen, keeping those late nights all summer have not finally caught up with you. When you pulled into school this morning, you were driving on a newly paved and lined parking lot. And when you walked through the breeze way
doors, you were not seeing the carpet that you have known and loved over the past couple of years. The fact of the matter is, there have been some changes around Rhea County High School over the last two months. If you are asking yourself, “Why did they re-pave the parking lot?” Mrs. Toliver summed that question up with no hesitation when she said, “Because it needed it!” That’s the student parking lot, of course. No, we students aren’t worth more than our beloved Rhea County faculty. The fact of the matter is, that if all goes like planned,
the faculty parking lot won’t be around much longer anyway. Mr. Levengood is proud to say that, right now, the school system is planning to add an extension onto the school in the next twelve to eighteen months. The new extension will be built where the faculty parking lot is now. The Little Theater was also left unchanged due to the future extension of the school. You probably have also noticed that the sign coming into the school has been completed. The sign was the senior class of ‘05 school project. Some of us remem-
ber when the ‘05 seniors took up money to build the new sign. The senior class of ‘06 wanted to see the sign finished, so they seen to the completion of the project. When we said goodbye to Rhea County High School last May, most of us never expected to return to a school without hallway carpet. That was just another project that our administration wanted to see completed over the summer. They decided that our carpet had seen too many graduating classes. (Thirty, to be more specific.) see UPDATE page 3
Band prepares Beatles show Band students have been hard at work to bring the Beatles to the football field this season By CORY SMITH CORY@RCHSEAGLESNEST.ORG
Freshmen Nick Middlebrooks and Khana Sizemore get a break from the afternoon heat as the band practices music inside.
The songs of the popular British band The Beatles, that rocked the world in the 60’s and 70’s, return to Rhea County as the theme of the 2006-07 Halftime show. The band met for camp to begin work on the show a week and a half from July 27 to August 4. The show, a custom medley,
includes such Beatle classics as: Hey Jude, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, Elanor Rigby, A Ticket to Ride, and Day Tripper. The music was arranged especially for the size and instrumentation of the RCHS Marching Band by a musical firm based out of Nashville. The Drum Captain for this year is senior Timothy Wimberley, and Drum Majors are seniors Lauren Harris and Courtney Crackel and junior Brittany Coneley. Others assisting the band are Assistant Directors Bryan Massengale, director at Rhea Central, and Jim Wright, director at Spring City Middle ,and alum-
nus Drew Daniels assisting with percussion. Director Brad Denton was especially optimistic about the size and scheduling of the band this year. With one hundred returning band members and fifty incoming freshmen, the existing class schedule with all wind players sixth period, color guard fifth period ,and percussion third period, was not adequate to handle the influx of students. Therefore, sophomore, junior, and senior wind and percussion players now are together sixth period, freshmen see BAND page 3