Students Create a 47-Foot
Long Historic Wall of Lassoes 

Seniors Kirsti Price and Jeremiah Upton and journalism teacher Mr. Michael Hoover look on proudly at the historic display of old Lasso newspapers that the two students  spent the past three weeks creating on the walls in the B Wing. Kirsti and Jeremiah carefully went through hundreds of old Lasso newspapers and created a display that is divided into four sections, the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and 90’s. The display, mostly of front pages of these issues, is approximately six feet high and measures 47 feet long. The display will stay up until the end of the school year. In addition, the two students chronologically ordered four decades of the newspaper in folders which will be donated to the high school library to create an historic archive. The public is invited to visit this display; just check in at the main office. Mr. Hoover, who has been sponsor of the newspaper for the majority of the years 1970 to the present, oversaw the project with pleasure. “I congratulate Kirsti and Jeremiah for seeing through a project that I truly wanted to be completed before my retirement at the end of this year,” said Hoover. Editions of the newspaper from the year 2001 have all been electronic since Lasso morphed into a daily, digital newspaper now called Lasso Online. A CD of the last seven years will also be donated to the library archives.    6-6-07