“What is your most heroic moment to date?”
“I don’t know…Probably saving my boyfriend
from his journalism homework. I even let him
take my picture, too.” – Javan Whitney-Warner,
Senior. Photo by Tyson Jamieson 10/8/15
“I can think of one student in particular who went through a really terrible, terrible, traumatic life event and I worked with her a lot. So when she kind of recognized me for that and let me know how much I helped her, I would say that would be my most heroic memories.” -Mrs. Kersha. Photo by Jaehyung Rhee 10/07/15
“Since everybody gets to dress up this week, it makes class more interesting because you get to see everyone else’s costumes. And it makes walking in the hall fun, just because you get to look around.” -Catherine Maring, Senior. Photo by Jaehyung Rhee 10/1/15
“What was your happiest moment?”
“When I was adopted. I was in foster care for 6 years and then I was adopted when I was going into 6th grade, so I mean like, that’s a long time to be in foster care. So I finally got adopted and it was a really happy day! I’m going to get a tattoo of it.”
-Selma Zweifel, Senior
Photo by Jaehyung Rhee, 9/23/15
“One goal I would like to accomplish in my life is to have a good family. I want to have a loving wife and great kids. I want to have a family that we love each other and care for each other” Photo by Devesh Kumar 9/18/15
“I’d like to go to Egypt and go see the pyramids, that would be pretty cool.” -Skylar Topash, Sophomore. Photo by Jaehyung Rhee, 9/15/15
What do you want to be when you grow up?
“Kanye West. I love his warming soul. He really warms me as a human being. He’s just such a great person, like at a fundraising wheelchair basketball game he scored 106 points… Against them. So yeah just stuff like that.” -Griffin Strong. Photo by Cassi Viox, 9/14/15
“One of my favorite memories is from last year. Despite giving birth to her first child during the school year, [name withheld] managed to get all of her acadmics in order and graduate as a young mother and I was very proud of the effort she put foward to do so.”-Jordan Alexander. Photo by Caylea Erickson, 5/15/15
“Well, it has Ashwini Mantrala plastered all over it. And flower petals.”
“Are you thankful for Ashwini?”
“…No.” -Tina Coe, Senior
Photo by Sury Rawat
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 5/5/15
Photo by Devesh Kumar 4/30/15
“One of my happiest memories was doing baseball as a kid. It was a cool experience all around. I was the catcher, and I was in All Stars. I think that it was a really fun time and it also helped shape how I was as a person… because being the catcher you’re like in charge of the team and just having that responsibility was both fun and inspiring.” -Matt Hoeppner, Junior
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/29/15
“One of the craziest, scariest, and weirdest thing for me was that last year was my very first year and there is a man here who is a retired teacher who is the announcer for the football team. He announces the games. The very first football home opening game last year, he could not announce the game and they asked me to do it and I did it. That was the most exhausting, nerve-wrecking, crazy thing I’ve done in a long time and I read 62 commercials that night. I read one about hy vee so many times that I had a dream that night when I went home that there was a helpful smile in every aisle because I had to say that 62 times.”
Photo by Caylea Erickson 4/28/15
“Going on a Disney Cruise when I was younger for my grandparents’ anniversary. It was really fun. It was fun to go on the cruise and spend time with my family. It was my first time ever traveling out of the country and doing stuff like that, so it was an interesting experience.” -Brandon Rettke, Sophomore
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/27/15
“Well probably one of my oldest friends… I met her during elementary school during first or second grade, and she’s probably one of the first people I met where we liked the same kinds of things and we just had a lot in common. I was really shy and didn’t like talking, but she helped me be more open and outgoing. She always respected me and was just a really nice person I could talk about anything with. She’d always understand me, and I sometimes still talk to her too!” -Nadia Raza, Senior
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/23/15
“Probably to be honest. When I was younger, there was a time when I had lied to my parents about my brother because there was my eldest brother, me, and my little brother, and there was a bruise on the side of my little brother’s head. It was because I dropped him, but I blamed it on my other brother. Yeah, it’s really bad! Then my older brother got in trouble because they didn’t think I’d be the liar in the situation, so he got punished. It was really sad.”
-Katie Gadbois, Freshman
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/21/15
“I would like to go into something along human resources because I really enjoy helping people and being around people in an environment where I can talk to them and help them figure out their problems, and just make the workplace a better place for everyone.”—Grace Robertson, junior
Photo by Devesh Kumar 4/20/15
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/18/15
“I had no idea. I knew I didn’t want a job where I’d do the same thing every day. I was always kind of spastic and crazy, and so I wanted every day to be different… My life has turned out okay at this point. I’m pretty happy.”
“Is it what you expected?
No. It’s never what you expect, anything, right? It’s not necessarily good or bad, it just is what it is. We’re really good at pretending we have plans, but then they never play out the way you think.” -Mr. Reed, Social Studies Division Chair
photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/17/15
Photo by Caylea Erickson, 4/16/15
“My brother because when I was little I always looked up to him. When he started soccer, I started soccer, and I’ve just always tried to be like my older brother. I think it’s really changed who I am and shaped the person I’ve become. ” -Kaelyn Kovarik, Freshman
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/15
“The students have taught me a lot, I guess Rock Bridge in general has taught me a lot as a whole. I don’t come from a very diverse area and so I feel like I learned a lot from being at Rock Bridge. I never met a Muslim person until I came to Rock Bridge and which was, as a social studies teacher, that’s really important for my understand of the world. It’s taught me a lot of different perspectives. My experience isn’t the experience, that there are a lot of different ways to go about life, what to value in life, and different ideas as to what happiness is.”-Bryn Orton
Photo by Caylea Erickson, 4/13/15
“Well, Brendan Fish asked me to because he couldn’t get anyone else to do it, so he got me to do it. I thought it was a good idea and for a good cause, so I signed up and then I won… So then I got my head shaved…” -Dalton Nunamaker, Freshman
photo by Sury Rawat, 4/13/15
Photo by Devesh Kumar 4/10/15
“Would it be cheesy to say my dog? I was in second grade. I’m an only child, so I don’t have siblings, so it was a big deal for me to get a companion. And we’d gone through a lot of different animals, we went through rabbits and cats and fish…but we never really stayed with any of them. And then we got Charlie! He’s a little Schnauzer, and I still have him to this day.” -Gabi Georgieva
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/9/15
photo by Caylea Erickson
“Well definitely Sonia. She’s one of my best friends, and she’s always been there for me and is always taking care of me. She would drop anything to make sure I’m not dying or something… If I need something she always gets it, and, if I’m sad, she always brings me food and stuff…[Points to boyfriend by water fountain and giggles] But definitely not that person over there! Can you please put that in there? Definitely not my boyfriend [boyfriend walks over and hugs her]!” -Minna Oba, Senior
photo by Sury Rawat, 4/7/15
photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/3/15
Photo by Devesh Kumar 04/02/15
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 4/1/15
photo by Devesh Kumar 3/31/15
photo by Madelyn Stewart, 3/30/15
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 3/19/15
Photo by Caylea Erickson, 3/18/15
photo by Madelyn Stewart, 3/17/15
photo by Madelyn Stewart, 3/13/15
“Why do you want to be an architect?”
“I just like making things, creating things, anything like that just really makes me super happy.” -Tyson Washington, Senior photo by Caylea Erickson, 3/12/15
Photo by Madelyn Stewart, 3/9/2015
“Probably agreeing to this interview… No… Probably being a pretty big douchebag in junior high. I was kind of awful. I was not a good person. I thought a lot about how to further my own life not other people, and I was always thinking about myself and kind of maybe trying to put others down for my own gain… Now I realize it’s pointless and it’s not a good thing to do…” -Daniel Shi, Sophomore
Photo by Madelyn Stewart
“I see white and gold, I don’t understand how anyone sees anything else, but either way, that is an ugly dress and it’s gross looking.” -Ronel Ghidey Photo by Caylea Erickson
“What would you buy?”
“Smoothie King, and puppies, and cars.” -Kanisha Green-McClain, Freshman
Photo by Madelyn Stewart
Photo by Madelyn Stewart
“What’s my favorite Rock Bridge memory? Ah! Okay um. I have no idea. There are so many things that I really enjoy each year. Are you recording me right now? But I think really any of the school assemblies are some of my favorite. I just really enjoy the school assemblies because as a whole we are very supportive and encouraging and I think that you can really see just how much people are valued during the assemblies..”-Michelle Ebberts, Photo by Caylea Erickson
Photo by Sury Rawat
Photo by Madelyn Stewart
“Was there a time you didn’t do something because you were afraid?”
“Yes.”
“Do you want to talk about that?”
“No.” – Shelby Yount, Junior Photo by Madelyn Stewart