After 31 years of teaching, math teacher Kathy Wilbers is ready to spend time with her grandchildren. “31 years is, I think that's enough. And I'm ready to travel. I've had cancer twice during COVID. And it was just kind of a hey, it's about ready to travel and do some fun things and get to hang out...

In the earlier periods of the morning, many students can usually hear a melody coming from the band room. That’s where newly named South teacher of the year Ken Hansen directs music.  Hansen is humbled to be chosen as South’s Teacher of the Year this year. “I was pretty overwhelmed, you know,...

By Dahlia Taylor The Jag Geoffrey Gran is a retiring woodshop teacher from South. This is his 23rd year teaching but his 19th year at South. The other 4 years he taught at Fort Osage High School. Before he taught, he was a manufacturer engineer. He didn’t want to always be a woodshop teacher, though. “I...

By Dahlia Taylor The Jag Come travel the world with Freaya Stumple. Freaya Stumple is one of the foreign exchange students. She's from Slovakia, Slovakia is in the middle of Europe near Poland, Ukraine and Hungary. This isn't her first time being an exchange student before coming to the United States...

By Dahlia Taylor The Jag Koko Osa is Visiting from Japan                Koko Osa wanted to be a foreign exchange student because her older sister and mom were also exchange students and she's always wanted to experience American High School because of what she’s seen from High School Musical.  “My...

When asked to point to Macedonia on a map, most people have no clue where it is, and some don’t even realize that it’s a country. Vesa Haliti knows where Macedonia is. In fact, she’s from Tetovo, Macedonia. Macedonia itself is landlocked just north of Greece. Haliti is one of the five foreign...

Over the Atlantic Ocean, across Spain’s plateau, and through Germany’s forested hills, and nearly on the border between Germany and Denmark is the home of foreign exchange student Astrid Auning; Gråsten, Denmark. This year, Auning is one of the five foreign exchange students at South. However,...