The O’Neal Quarterly •
Lauren Dailey is crowned Homecoming Queen 2016.
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Fifth grade student Lane Trevarrow wins the Scripps school level spelling bee and moves on to district competition.
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O’Neal COMAP team makes Finalist, ranking in the top 15 of the 446 teams around the world. The team is invited to participate in the next phase of competition.
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O’Neal maintains its strong presence among County and State Young Authors in the North Carolina Reading Association writing competition claiming 11 of the county’s 23 state winners (K-8).
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O’Neal Varsity Swimming wins the county invitational swim meet vs Pinecrest High School and Union Pines High School.
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O’Neal Middle School Cheer Team wins an “excellent in exhibition” trophy for their first ever competition at the Liberty Classic Cheer Competition in Fayetteville.
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O’Neal eighth grade students Sydney Maynor and Sam Henry take 1st and 3rd place (respectively) in the VFW Patriot’s Pen Competition and Junior Jack Casey wins the Voice of Democracy spoken essay contest.
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Senior William Schirmer makes it to the semifinalist round of the prestigious Morehead-Cain Scholarship application process.
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The annual Varsity/Alumni Basketball Challenge had split wins from the varsity girls and the men’s alumni teams.
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The Upper School /Middle School Choir and O’Nealers hosted an evening winter concert for the holiday season.
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O’Neal launches the Global Programs section of the webpage.
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Pillow cases collected from a drive in the Middle School are sewn into dresses for students at Hillcrest School in Tanzania.
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O’Neal hosted its first Science Olympiad Invitational Tournament with 13 schools participating.
WINTER 2016 •
The first ONV blood drive of the school year yielded a fantastic 32 units of blood.
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O’Neal Model UN members Mackenzie Melton and Lauren Dailey win excellence in delegation in the Security Council representing Lithuania and Andrew Martin wins excellent delegate as Prince Karl August von Hardenberg.
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The Parents’ Association hosts a faculty/staff appreciation luncheon.
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African native and president of Global Solar Solutions, Inc., James Obi, spoke to the Global Issues class about the energy revolution in Africa.
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O’Neal honors its veterans and military families with the third annual Military Appreciation Breakfast hosted by the PA and All-School Assembly with a special performance from the 82nd Airborne All American Chorus.
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Lillian Wu, Emma Barnes, and Jack Casey win the annual physics Punkin Chunkin with a distance of 310 ft.