West Liberty-Salem Local School District - Home of the Tigers

Congratulations to Middle School and High School students for working hard to achieve 1st quarter Honor Roll! Keep up the great work! West Liberty-Salem MS 1st Quarter Honor Roll 4.0 6th Grade Lyla Breon, Zachary Carter, Zoe Carter, Miles Christison, Natalie Fish, Braden Hershberger, Sophia Landon, Connor Leichty, Claire Ling, Isabelle Sarver, Noah Sarver, Ashlee VonDeylen 7th Grade Geneva Estep, Lyndee Harrison, Dylan King, Emma Smith 8th Grade Jessa Beard, Aaron Campbell, Isabella Hardwick, Caleb Hershberger, Ava Johnson, Taran Logwood, Luke McGill, Daniel Neer, Maximillian Rudolph, Craig Stanford, Akira Whitman, Bexley Wilcoxon 3.75 6th Grade Morgan Gibson, Alivia Campbell, Jill Fullenkamp, Ashlyn Pope, Aiden Hull, Hattie Jacobs, Colton Neeld, Xzavior Nicholl, Tucker Searles, Tristin Halterman, Troy Gibson, Colton Randall, Casey Boyer, Audrianna Evilsizor, Carson Spencer, Levi Yelton, Thaddeus Kitchen, Troy Christison, Bayes Lapp, Kiersten Stoll, James Brooks, Grace Jones, Emma Liggett, Benjamin Wall 7th Grade Sadie Paul, Kaylee Powell, Dallas Koons, Wyatt Longaberger, Brielle Milliron, Emery Longaberger, Ava Astorino, Victoria Douthwaite, Ava Poppe, Brock Burgel, Lance Campbell, Eli Christison, Caleb Ling, Promise Alkire, Dustin Bolton, Mason Helms, Atticus Loudenback, Joran Mouton, Naomi Cole, Brevin Louden, Brady Kauffman 8th Grade Ava Chamberlain, Isaiah Reminder, Laila Butler, Silas King, Greyson Horsley, Teagan Boyd, Audrey Collins, Silas Kauffman, Kennedy Wallace, Treyton Helms, Madeline McGill, Isaiah Reames, Quentin Rudolph, Rebekah Hudson 3.0 6th Grade Joseph Griffin, Alexis Wisner, Reilly Recker, Madison Jones, Avi Lehman, Caleigha Fasse, Lilli Heminger, Nicholas Kensler, Emma Vigar, Savannah Gluckle, Rylan Trimble, Madden Kilgore, Isabelle Richards, Lilah Nolan, Silas Krabill, Damion Moss, Reagan Winters, Julius Butler, Ezekial Sidders, Bryson Jones, Carson Stokes, Sullivan Foster, Aislyn Whitaker, Garrett Hull, Eli Sertell, Isabella Hughes, Skyler Ropp, Aubralyn Wiant, Bayleigh Deam, Eliza Halterman, Kash LeVan, Avery Northup, Sutton Wilcoxon, Braydon Thompson 7th Grade Chilton Smith, Bryant Eaton, Alexander Boyer, Amani Grantham, Carson, Poppe, Isaac Sertell, Taylor Cook, Josiah Tidwell, Wyatt Bell, Zaylor Eggleston, Elise Longshore, Landon Mitchell, Baileigh Engle, Alayna Hackley, Lydia Schmidt, Gwenyth McCullough, Reese Oder, Samuel Strapp, Marisa Smith, Taryn Bradley, Cody Ferryman, Caleb Larson, Cameron Pope, Wyatt, Saxton, Alexa Cheetham, Addison Hutton, Mylee Dooley, Sunny Lhamon-Waller, Marshall Sutherin, Timothy Howells, Addyson Mattox, Tevis Cox, Levi Miller, Malia Miller, Jacob Lauck, Abigail Timmons, Cooper Titus, Haylee Earles, Kaylee Blair, Breece Gullet, Ian Cox, Kamden Hisson, Elli Ullery, Eli Bremer, Olivia Reichardt 8th Grade Leigha Cox, Laney Craig, Carson Instine, Kaitlyn Metz, Hanah Martin, Cody LeVan, Shyanne McClintick, Jacob Evans, Luke Thomas, Brodey Deam, Alyssa Mueller, Aidon Koons, Talon Castle, Gideon Cole, Andrea Stokes, Nevaeh LaFollette, Collin Thompson, Reagan Simpson, Alaina Irving, Grace Hacker, Connor Garman-Ferguson, Jackson Steider, Joshua Wilcoxon, Grant Saylor, Anna Cole, Teagon Miller, Troy Bradley, Nathan Neuerman,, Sami King, Samuel Peraza, Sophia Holland, Lincoln Henderson, Clayton McAuley, Aiden Taylor, Hayden Wise, Marley Myers, Nick Shifflet, John Bahan, Owen Barger West Liberty-Salem HS 1st Quarter Honor Roll 4.0 9th Grade Emma Bails, Mallory Bostick, Kerrigan Burgel, Ivy Cline, Madeline Cole, Sophia Hardwick, Megan Hollar, Miles Hostetler, Faith Jones, Zoey Kaufman, Sari Kitchen, Joseph LaRoche, Kendall LeVan, Addison McAuley, Lily Smith, Chaley Wade, Veronica Wall 10th Grade Christian Davis, Christian Herron, Logan Phillips, James Powell 11th Grade Megan Adams, Kylie Burgel, Alexandrea Caldwell, Brady Forsythe, Emily Hollar, Audrey McGill, Isaac Reames, Hallie Smith, Michele Smith, Micah Stoner, Mandilyn Weaver, Gabrielle Williams 12th Grade Lance Baldwin, Hannah Bowman, Regan Boyd, Sophia Cole, Morgan Damron, Grace Estes, Rachel Hostetler, Luke Hudson, Dawson Jenkins, Hannah Jones, Kaylee LeVan, Jaden Marchal, Ryan Motzko, Olivia Muirhead, Hayden Phillips, Selena Weaver, Kienna Whitman, Isaac Wilson 3.75 9th Grade Leah Ropp, Lauren Kimball, Peyton Hull, Julia Wilson, Izabella Meister, Alexis Helms, Abby Guest, Whitney Strapp, Evan Fullenkamp, Gabriel McGill, Dylan Wing, Ashley Yoder, Sidney Larison, Carter Titus, Samuel Lauck, Kenzie Phillips, Malachi Christison, Zander Fahnestock, Olivia Wilcox, Bailey Poppe, Alyse Bremer, Abigail Miller, Lillian Weaver 10th Grade Alisa Bolton, Payton Eckurd, Lexy Lee, Shae Stoner, Aubree Snyder, Mackenzie Bahan, Abbigayle Long, D.J. Yoder, Arianna Chapman, Maddox Havens, Andrew Kimball, Rylie Schultz, Maggie Davis, Trinity Floyd, Carlee Hausler, Adam Stapleton, Kayla Cole, Brittany

The Athletic Department is holding a Christmas apparel sale. The order deadline is Monday, November 30. All orders will be processed after the close of the store and delivered to school within about 2 weeks. Orders can be sent home with your student or available for pick up on 12/17 & 18 from 5-7pm in the main gym entrance. https://wlstigers.itemorder.com/sale

Don’t forget that this week is our Elementary vs. MS/HS food drive and the stakes are high! The Tigers are collecting food for those in need. The Elementary has challenged the Middle/High School to see who can bring in the most food. If the Elementary WINS, Mr. Johnson will take a pie in the face! If the Middle/High WINS, Mr. Hollar will take a pie in the face! The local food pantry suggested the following items: Food: canned fruit syrup Pop tarts soups cereal/pancake mix Soaps: laundry dish bar shampoo Paper Products: toilet paper paper towels plates napkins WL-S has started a Blessing Bag program that provides students in need with individual, easy to prep and eat items. Good items to donate are: Granola bars, Animal crackers, Fruit cups/applesauce, Raisins (individual boxes), Fruit snacks, Easy Mac, etc. Let’s spread some cheer this holiday season!

The high school show choir, Sound Check, held their annual showcase performance over the weekend in two shows on Saturday. The weather and power outages cancelled one final performance on Sunday evening. Show choir performed a total of 7 pieces inspired by Broadway shows, and soloists and ensembles performed 19 more highly entertaining musical numbers. There was no shortage of entertainment and creativity from this group of very talented musicians, some even performing in multiple songs and dances. Practices began this summer with a choreography camp and followed with practices on Monday evenings. If you got the chance to see them perform please join us in telling them what an awesome job they did! Special thanks to Mrs. Seymour and Advanced Art students for all of their help with the backdrop and stage decor.

The next regular Board Meeting, to be held on Tuesday, November 17th, at 7 PM, will be held via ZOOM and YouTube Live due to an increase in COVID 19 cases throughout Logan and Champaign Counties. You may access the YouTube Live channel/link on the main page of our website (wlstigers.org) under the Menu tab. Look for "Kraig Hissong's Live Feed" under General Information. Thank You, Kraig Hissong

Hello families. Due to ongoing loss of power at school, the show choir performance scheduled for today (Sunday) has been cancelled.

Hello families, This is Kraig Hissong, Superintendent of WLS. If you were planning to attend todays showchoir performance at 5 PM, it has been postponed to 6 PM due to loss of electric. If power is not restored by 5 pm, we will unfortunately have to cancel the performance. We will let you know. Thank you!

It's Gold Card Friday! Check out this week's edition that features our upcoming Food Drive https://youtu.be/kwXhv48iHLA

The sophomore class hosted a ‘Hats on for Veterans’ school-wide fundraiser and toiletry drive on Veteran’s Day. The goal of the fundraiser, at the suggestion of Vets Services, was to generate enough money and/or toiletries to create Christmas gift baskets for the local veteran widows and female veterans. Vet’s Services said they are often an overlooked population and could use the extra support, especially during the holiday season. Our students provided enough for a trunk load of toiletries that will go to Logan County Veteran’s Services next week. The sophomore class officers will create gift baskets with gas cards, toiletries and Christmas goodies that LoCo Vet’s Services will deliver on behalf of the WL-S Sophomore Class. We wouldn’t be able to do any of this, if we didn’t have such a great staff and group of kids willing and able to donate their funds on Wednesday. Thank you to everyone who helped support our Vets!

West Liberty-Salem students, who enrolled in Physics through Edison State University, built awesome water rockets as a part of their unit on Newton’s Law of Motion! Mrs. Brandie Roberts, who also teaches high school physical science, assisted her class in a successful launch earlier this week! They spent several days building the rockets and were asked to use an astroblade and trigonometry to determine the height of the rocket blasts in several different launches. This interdisciplinary approach allowed students to understand how a scientist uses more than one area of study in a single experiment.

The West Liberty-Salem Youth Football team concluded their season at Urbana on Saturday. In the JV game the Tigers won 19-0.  This secured the teams undefeated season and Co-championship in the Youth Ohio Heritage Conference.  Calen Fairchild had two rushing touchdowns. Grant Krabill had a touchdown and an extra point.  Gibzen Cox had an interception on defense.  Lucas Cook, Carver Wallace, Gabe Dunham and Cohen Evans had multiple tackles for loss. The Varsity team came up short against Urbana but earned 3rd place in the league. Great job, guys!

No need to travel to New York City for the Thanksgiving Parade this year! Our 5th grade STEM students created their own! They designed floats to pull behind robots that they control with their iPads. From Spongebob to Minion floats, no design went without a lot of creativity and hard work! Click the link to check it out. https://youtu.be/yba_VIuSFwY

This weekend, the Sound Check show choir will perform their 5th Annual Showcase. Unfortunately, this year the show isn’t open to the general public— only 2 tickets per performer. It will be live-streamed during show times on Saturday at 2pm and 7pm, and Sunday at 5pm. A special thanks to the HS Advanced Art students and Mrs. Seymour who contributed to the show this year with their design and painting the back wall on stage.

Check out what’s happening in FFA. This article was submitted by Madeline Hutton, FFA Reporter The West Liberty- Salem FFA had their annual officer interviews on September 30th. A variety of questions were asked of the applicants, making sure that they were fit for the positions. Positions were elected on November 1st. Cooper Havens is the new FFA President, Morgan Damron is the Vice President, Trinity Perkins the Secretary with Gavin Woodruff as the Co-Secretary, Madeline Hutton Reporter with Dylan Glunt as the Co-Reporter, Marissa Bailey the Treasurer with Hayden King as the Co-Treasurer, Maddox Havens the Historian, Dawson Jenkins the Sentinel, and Olivia Muirhead the Student Advisor. The FFA chapter is very excited to have the new officer team in swing for the 2020-2021 school year. Pictured from left to right: Back Row: Hayden King, Dawson Jenkins, Cooper Havens, Maddox Havens, Dylan Glunt and Gavin Woodruff ; Front Row: Madeline Hutton, Morgan Damron, Marissa Bailey, Olivia Muirhead and Trinity Perkins

Do you have a student, 16 or older, looking for an after school job? Green Hills and Mercy Health-Urbana are hiring!

West Liberty-Salem students and staff would like to extend a sincere thank you to all Veterans for their service to our country. Because of your sacrifice American remains the home of the free, because of the brave. And a very sincere thank you goes to four special WL-S employees for serving our country in the United States Armed Forces. Today, we are honoring Mrs. Douthwaite, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Spencer, and Mr. Miller in a special Veteran’s Day edition of Staff Spotlight. Jennifer Douthwaite- School Nurse; Lieutenant Colonel in Ohio Army National Guard, 1999-Current Mrs. Douthwaite is in her 6th year at WL-S. She and her husband Jason, who is an active service member for the last 18 years, have four children. Trenton, their oldest is at United States Military Academy at West Point. Tyler, a senior, plays soccer and plans to join the military. Tina is a sophomore and plays soccer, and Victoria is a 7th grader and does tumbling. She enjoys running, hiking and vacationing with her family. Mrs. Douthwaite also plans to start SBHC within 120 days! Todd Lewis- High School Math; United States Air Force 1987-1991; stationed in California and Indiana and temporary duty in England, Guam, Japan, Australia, Philippines, Iceland, Saudi Arabia and Panama. Mr. Lewis is in his 26th year at WL-S and feels fortunate to combine his career with his hobby. He truly enjoys teaching students math. He hosts Calc Club with his calculus students and is working on incorporating philanthropy projects into their work! He married his wife Crista last February and he has 2 daughters and 3 grandchildren. He enjoys taking walks and is an avid sports fan! Cameron Spencer- 7th Grade Science teacher; US Army 1986-1989; 101st Airborn/Air Assault, Fort Campbell, KY and Camp Humphreys, South Korea; US Army National Guard from 1989-1994. Mr. Spencer has been a MS Science teacher for 21 years (teaching 23 years overall). He also serves as the school Science Olympiad head coach. They have been highly competitive and advanced to the State Science Olympiad tournament for 15 years in a row. His wife, Stephanie, has been a Math teacher for 13 years and currently teaches Geometry and Algebra. They have four children, all of whom have gone to WL-S. Their oldest is a mechanical engineer in Toledo and will welcome their first grandchild in February. He enjoys fishing and collecting rocks and fossils. Dan Miller- 8th grade Social Studies Teacher; US Army National Guard 1994-2005; Staff Sergeant; deployed to Iraq and served 2004 Mr. Miller is in his 14th year of teaching Social Studies at WL-S. He is currently the Junior Class Advisor and has done a lot of coaching for WL-S over the years. He is married to his wife Lindi, and together they have 3 adult children. He enjoys hanging out with his family and loves watching football! Please help us thank our Veteran’s for their service to our country and as they continue to be servant leaders in our schools.

FFA students took advantage of Indian Summer and did a pumpkin launch of the all of those contest pumpkins from the week prior! They had a little fun competing for who throws the farthest while picking up rocks in the field and harvesting the seeds for future use!

West Liberty-Salem girls cross country student athletes, Madison Bahan, Katelyn Stapleton and Megan Adams have been named OATCCC Academic All-Ohioans. This is the third consecutive year for Stapleton to earn this honor, and the second consecutive year for Bahan and Adams. West Liberty-Salem boys cross country student athletes, Josh Spinner, Dylan Lauck, Ayden Estep and Owen Harrison have been named OATCCC Academic All-Ohioans. This is the second consecutive year for Lauck to earn this honor. To qualify, student athletes must qualify for the OHSAA state meet, be in grades 10-12, and have a a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or greater. Photo credit: John Coffman

West Liberty-Salem girls cross country student athletes, Madison Bahan, Katelyn Stapleton and Megan Adams have been named OATCCC Academic All-Ohioans. This is the third consecutive year for Stapleton to earn this honor, and the second consecutive year for Bahan and Adams. West Liberty-Salem boys cross country student athletes, Josh Spinner, Dylan Lauck, Ayden Estep and Owen Harrison have been named OATCCC Academic All-Ohioans. This is the second consecutive year for Lauck to earn this honor. To qualify, student athletes must qualify for the OHSAA state meet, be in grades 10-12, and have a a cumulative GPA of 3.5 or greater. Photo credit: John Coffman

It’s November and we are still blessed with this beautiful weather, so how could we not celebrate a bit? Our older elementary students have been eating in their classrooms to allow for more social distancing in the cafeteria, so the teachers got creative! Why not eat outside on these great days? They get to eat as a class and some really cool things have happened because of it. Students have been really inclusive and caring for their classmates. They are all looking out for one another and making sure no one ever eats alone! What a great group of students we have at WL-S!