December 17, 2008
Above back; Michael McBryde, Trina Simpson, Haley Moore, Shelby Clemmer, Cooper Campbell. Front row: Leslie Goolsby, Madyson Lewellen, Alese Cooper, and Samantha McBryde.
November 7, 2008
"America, a place where all things are possible" Obama says; yet, many seniors still express worries about the economy and their futures, especially in a country of layoffs, closings, and rising prices.
With 349 Electoral College votes as opposed to Rep. John McCain’s 162, the Democratic senator from Illinois Barack Obama took the stage before a sea of excited supporters in a downtown Chicago park and as the President-elect declared “change has come to America.”
        In his victory speech, Obama voiced with a promise of progress, yet with a warning of challenges that lay ahead. Obama stated, “We may not get there in one year or even in one term but America, tonight, I have never been more certain that we will get there.” His words triggered chants of the signature slogan of his campaign of “Yes, we Can.”
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August 12, 2008
February 2008
Students Attend The Delta State Honor Band

Devin Morton, Dana Morton, Bryan Graves, Hillary Medlin, and Chase Hall traveled to Delta State this past weekend where they had been selected to participate in a three-day honor band workshop.  They were given their music on Friday, rehearsed on Saturday, and presented their concert to family and friends on Sunday.  Those

   After a lengthy study of  William Faulkner’s short  stories and novels,  Advanced Placement  English students are  indeed ready to bury  Addie Bundren!    Students have put As I  Lay Dying into motion  by writing monologues  for the different  characters. Presently,  students are combining  their findings about these  stories and novels, with  an emphasis on Sartoris,  to place on a website in  order to help better  prepare future teenage  readers in understanding  the writings of Faulkner.
   Ripley High School students performed The Odd Couple for the annual fall play at the Dixie Theater on the square. The tryouts for the play were on Wednesday, October 17. Students attended the tryouts for the 6 male, 2 female cast in The Odd Couple. People interested in production crew also attended the tryouts for available positions such as props, sound, lights, production, and wardrobe.
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   Within two weeks of August 7, students, especially freshmen, began to group outside the office waiting for their class schedules with a mixture of emotions. Anxious with the questions “Did I get the classes I wanted? Am I going to find the classes, or worse, am I going to walk into the wrong classroom? Am I going to get along with my teachers and even more so, are the upperclassmen going to accept me?”
August 2007
    Seniors at Ripley High School are agreeing that they have remained busy since the beginning of school.
   AP Calculus students are claiming to have endured the teachings of Foley’s learning limits and derivatives, the hard blow of Laney’s AP Chemistry test results, and the lab experiments of measurements in Cowan’s physics class.
   They have journeyed through Fitzgerald’s valley of ashes, fought in the Trojan War, performed in MacLeish’s circus tent, and survived the accusations of Eliphaz, Bildad, and Zophar, all with the knowledge that the plague and the Peloponnesian War as well as enthalpy, entropy, and the application of derivatives are on the rise the second six weeks.
   Yet, the first six weeks in advanced classes and the senior year have been, as stated by Senior Lee Barkley, “easier than expected.”
   Anna Stubbs agrees. She states the classes are easier but adds, “You have to be able to grasp the concepts quickly.”
   In any case, Barkley states that the first six weeks “went by way too quickly.”
October 2007
December 2007