The ChancellorThomas More Prep-Marian High SchoolHays, KS

May 2013VOL. 43, Issue 6

On May 4th many juniors, seniors, and even some underclassmen at-tended TMP’s Prom. This year’s theme was An Eve-ning of Elegance. Before the dance, a meal was served, and then the fun began. The night was full of dancing and laughter, and of course many new memories were made! The night couldn’t end, however, without crown-ing prom king and queen. The nominees for queen were seniors Cheyenne Ellard, Emily Leiker, Bianca Okinda, Jordan Staab, and Taylor Staab.

Matt Mindrup ‘15 The nominees for king were seniors Tanner Un-rein, Rodney Gracas de Dues, Robert Niyonsaba, Braden Splichal, Tan-ner Unrein, and Anthony Walters. Bianca and Rod-ney were crowned king and queen. They shared a dance together with the rest of the attendees join-ing in. Finally the night came to a close, and peo-ple began to file out of the dance with their party fa-vors in hand. “It was sort of bit-tersweet, but I had a lot of fun!” said Annie Mindrup ’15 about her last prom.

Students Enjoy An Evening of Elegance

King and Queen candidates included Braden Splichal, Bianca Okinda, Anthony Walters, Emily Leiker, Rodney Gracas de Dues, Cheyenne Ellard, Robert Niyon-saba, Taylor Staab, Tanner Unrein, and Jordan Staab.

When regular at-tendees to the TMP plays think of a typical produc-tion, their thoughts usu-ally flick to humor and lightheartedness. This year, however, they are in for a surprise. In stark contrast to the typical (and well loved) comedic plays that Director Travis Grizzell selects for the spring play, the historical drama “The Crucible” was chosen. The show is set in 17th century Puritan Salem, Massachusetts. The main plot surrounds John Proc-tor, whose wife is accused of witchcraft by their old servant girl, and the mad-ness that ensues as the Salem witch trials com-mence. Auditions were first held before spring break- after results were posted, the hard work be-gan. Practices were held

almost every day for two hours. Dress rehears-als began, and finally the time came for the first performance on Tuesday, May 7th. This year, in ad-dition to having a differ-ent sort of show to pre-pare, another change was added. Because of a great amount of female tal-ent shown during audi-tions, Grizzell chose to double cast the show- for a majority of the female lead roles, two girls were awarded each part. This created a need for a fourth performance, instead of the usual three, so that each girl would get to perform her role an equal amount of time. So, the Tuesday show was added in addition to three other performances on May 10th, 11th, and 12th. The multiple risks taken for this show paid off. Audiences had nothing but positive re-

marks for the hardwork-ing actors. Many were impressed at the skills shown by the students, as many of the parts re-quired extreme diligence and focus to properly por-tray the characters. “Everyone was re-ally into their characters and portrayed the witch trials well! I could tell a lot of hard work went into this,” says Andie Marsell ’13. What did the cast themselves think of “The Crucible?” Senior Alivia In-low said, “I really like the show. It’s different than anything I’ve done, and it really makes you have to expand your act-ing abilities. I love this cast and crew and I will miss them- they make me a better performer!” “The Crucible” hit the mark- groundbreaking, chal-lenging, and, most impor-tantly, entertaining!

Grace Volker ‘15

“The Crucible” Is A Hit

Braun Directs Students For Last Latin Banquet

School Choirs to Perform Concert Celebration

For years, Latin instructor Mrs. Linda Braun has helped her Lat-in II students prepare an annual Latin Banquet and Olympics for the other Latin classes. This year is Mrs. Braun’s final at TMP-Marian before she heads into retirement and another phase of life. So, her final banquet had to be special. Preparations for the event began in late March, after the students took their National Latin Exams. Since there are two Latin II classes this year, Braun, with a nod of approval from the stu-dents, let one class do a majority of the prepara-tions for the banquet por-tion of the ceremonies, while the other class pre-pared the Olympics half. The students chose the theme for the banquet to be “Via Ad

Hades” (which translates to “Highway to Hell”). They invited their guests to spend a few hours in one of the three divisions of Hades, which in Greek mythology are the Ely-sian Fields, the Land of Oblivion, and Tartarus. The banquet was held in the wrestling room in the field house, which students decorated to co-ordinate with these three divisions of Hades. When the guests, who included Latin I students and some various faculty members, arrived they were seated and asked some trivia questions. Winners of the trivia contest received medals. Then, the guests were given food and bev-erages, some of which re-flected foods of the typi-cal diet of a Roman, such as hummus and grapes. Then, the guests moved to the gym to start the Olympics. The

Latin II students chose the theme for the games to be “The Last Olympi-ad.” They prepared vari-ous games for the guests to play, some of which included “chariot races” (which were similar to a wheelbarrow race), tug of war, a relay race, hand-ball, and whiffle ball. Winners of these games were awarded medals, made by the Latin II stu-dents. Magistra Braun, as she is called by her Latin students, seemed to be elated with the out-come of the ceremonies, saying,“If I’m not pleased, I should be ashamed. One person who has attended many banquets said it was the best she had ever been to.” There is no better way to bid farewell to our beloved teacher than to celebrate with good and games - Latin style!

Grace Volker ‘15

In these final weeks of the school year the TMP middle school choir, Cantus Veritas, and their high school counter-part, The Schola Canto-rum, have been working tirelessly to prepare for their final performance of the year. Their Easter Con-cert will take place on the evening of Thursday, May 16th at St. Joseph’s Church. I caught up with the choir director, Mr. Michael Brandel who said preparations for the night’s festivities are go-

ing well. The groups are singing a wide range of choral pieces, hymns, and spirituals. The two choirs will end their concert to-gether with a modern sec-ular selection. They will be per-forming an acapella ren-dition of Toto’s 1983 hit “Africa”. The concert will showcase not only the choirs’ hard work, but also their ability to em-brace many types of mu-sic. Mr. Brandel summed it up perfectly by saying; “It is truly an hon-or to be able to perform these wonderful pieces.”

Adam Flax ‘15

Mrs. Linda Braun assists Max Megaffin ‘15 secure his Toga during the Latin Banquet. The banquets theme this year was “Via Ad Hades” or highway to Hell. Photo by Mrs. Heather Sramek

Publication Policy

Faith &OpinionPage 2 May 2013

The staff of The Chancellor up-holds the following policy in regards to the pub-lication of the student newspaper. When tragedy or crisis occurs, it will be the decision of the staff whether or not to cover the topic. Pictures are chosen by the staff on grounds of availability and quality. Letters to the staff must include, but are not limited to: corrections, suggestions, and personal opinions. Letters must be submitted in type, less than 150 words addressed to the editor and be submitted no later than two weeks before the next publication. All staff members reserve the right to re-port any and all subjects that meet the elements of news. The Chancellor, being a newspaper whol-ly written and produced by students, reserves the right to determine the content of the publication. Suggestions are accepted, but it is up to the dis-cretion of the staff to determine if coverage is necessary. The publication follows the guideline di-rected by the Kansas Student Publication Act (1992) which, in short, states that: A) content will not be censored only because it contains politi-cal or controversial topics, B) review of material is permitted to assure the articles are consistent with high standards of English and journalism, C) libelous, slanderous, obscene or matter that promotes illegal conduct is not protected, D) stu-dents are responsible for determining the content of the publication while publications advisors and other certified employees are responsible for teaching responsible expression and high stan-dards of English and journalism, E) no student publication by students shall be deemed an ex-pression of school policy nor can the employees be held responsible in any civil or criminal ac-tion. The staff recognized its responsibility to reflect the mission of Thomas More Prep-Mari-an, a diocesan Catholic high school, to serve the interest and needs of the school community and to provide fair, objective and accurate news, and commentary.

Chancellor Staff

AdvisorMrs. Heather Sramek

Editor-in-ChiefJena Ernsting ‘14

ReportersAdam Flax ‘15Drew Kingsbury ‘15Cody Kreutzer ‘15Matt Mindrup ‘15Bailey Rome ‘15Cody Schmidtberger ‘14Jordan Staab ‘13Owen Toepfer ‘15Grace Volker ‘15Lexie Wasinger ‘15

PublisherMr. Bill DeWitt ‘92

As Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12th, ap-proaches, we can look back on the holy women of our past to see some great motherly examples. Even though St. Mary, the Mother of Jesus, is probably the most widely known mother, St. Mon-ica is actually the patron saint of mothers. St. Monica was the mother of St. Augus-tine. She began to pray for Augustine when he began to accept the Mani-chean heresy (all flesh is evil). She prayed for his conversion and followed him where ever he went, sometimes more than he preferred. One night St. Au-gustine told his mother that he was going to the docks to say goodbye to a friend, but he was actually leaving for Rome. After she heard that he left, she jumped on a ship to fol-low him. After arriving in Rome, she found that he had already left for Mi-lan, so she followed him

there. To her excitement, Augustine came under the influence of the bishop, St. Ambrose. She continued to pray for Augustine while he was being instructed. Her prayers were finally answered when St. Au-gustine was baptized at Easter in the year 387. After his conversion, Monica knew her life on this earth was coming to an end. She told Augus-tine, “Son, nothing in this world now affords me de-light. I do not know what there is now left for me to do or why I am still here, all my hopes in this world being now fulfilled.” Shortly after she became ill and suffered for nine days before her death. St. Monica is someone who spent her whole life praying for her son. She gave her all to him by following him, fasting for him, and praying for him. So this Mother’s Day give your mom an extra hug for all the things she does for you, even if you don’t like them sometimes!

Cody Schmidtberger ‘14

Saint Monica

As most of you know, stained glass win-dows have been gradually making their way into the chapel over the last four years. The final window of St. Theresa of Lisieux, “The Little Flower,” will soon be installed. Artist Stan Detrixhe is respon-sible for these beautiful masterpieces. Detrixhe has been working with stained glass windows for 30 years. He has done win-dows for churches, rest homes, and anyone else wanting to appreciate his stained glass artwork. Detrixhe has even re-stored the windows of many churches, includ-ing St. Joseph Church in Hays. Each window for our chapel requires about 2 ½ months to complete and weighs anywhere from 80 to 100 pounds. After given a general idea of what is wanted from Father Earl and the Alum-ni Office, Detrixhe sets to work creating a collage using magazine pictures

and the like. When he is finished, he traces the col-lage onto a transparent piece of paper by hand. He then takes the trans-parent paper, places it on a copying machine, and makes a copy onto a piece of white paper. On the new copy, he hand draws a grid. He uses this grid to enlarge the small copy onto a piece of large piece of paper the size of the window, all done by hand. He can now start cutting the glass. Using different colors of glass, Detrixhe forms the hundreds of shapes needed for the window. He uses a special glass cutter to shape the thin pieces of glass. The edges of the glass shapes are then ground smooth with a diamond tipped grinder. Detrixhe also must paint the small details onto the glass. He uses a special paint made of fine particles of glass mixed with water. He adds color to the paint by adding pig-ment to the mixture, then setting to work with his hand brush. Detrixhe has

many painting techniques on hand to add his jaw dropping details. It takes trial and error to get each piece right, but the reward for his hard work is phe-nomenal. After firing the pieces of glass in the kiln, Detrixhe puts together what is essentially a giant jig-saw puzzle. When all of the pieces are in place, he gets to work with the soldering iron and copper. All pieces of glass are sol-dered together, front and back, then the window’s border is soldered on. Fi-nally, it is loaded, ready to be installed. The stained glass windows in the chapel be-gan to show up four years ago, when this year’s se-niors were freshmen. And, as the seniors graduate, the final window in the chapel will be installed. So the next time you are in the chapel, take a look around at all of the hand crafted stained glass win-dows that fill our worship space. And be sure to look closely, for Detrixhe has hidden something small in almost every window!

Cody Schmidtberger ‘14

A Colorful View

Class of 2013May 2013 Page 3

Luke Brull

Link (Jialin) Chen

Maria Cubillo

Nick Dopita

Hannah Dreiling

Zach Dreiling

Carlos Duenes

Cheyenne Ellard

Parker Goldsberry

Megan Gottschalk

RodneyGracas De Dues

JanetteHageman

Claire (Lei)Hsiao

Allen (Chen-Kang)Hu

HannahHulse

AliviaInlow

EmilyLeiker

Hyo JinLim

Adam(Anh Tri) Mac

MariaMarcotte

AndieMarsell

KadeMegaffin

AnnieMindrup

RobertNiyonsaba

BiancaOkinda

Marquette University

Jefferson College

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

Northampton Community

College

Stanford University

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

Undecided

Undecided

North Central Kansas Technical

College

North Central Kansas Technical

College

Fort Hays State University

Kansas State University

College for Creative Studies

St. Mary’s University

@ San Antonio

Barton County CC or Benedictine

College

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

Benedictine College

University of Kansas

University of Connecticut

Fort Hays State University

University of California Irvine

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Allison Pfeifer

VyPhan

HeatherRuder

KadeSchmidt

SamSchmidt

ZacharySchmidtberger

JennaSchuckman

YilinSong

BradenSplichal

AshleySpringer

Jordan Staab

TaylorStaab

GarrettStoecklein

TrangVu

TannerUnrein

AdamUrban

JonathanWalker

LucasWalker

AnthonyWalters

AustinWerth

RossWerth

BillWiebe

Jeffrey (Jiepeng) Zhang

ChelseaZimmerman

ChloeZimmerman

ShaneZimmerman

Kansas State University

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

Kansas State University

Fort Hays State University

Northwestern Prep

Fort Hays State University

University of Kansas

University of Kansas

Ottawa University Fort Hays State University

University of Oregon

University of Findlay

Fort Hays State University

Fort Hays State University

University of California Davis

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Kansas State University

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Senior Wills I, Allison Pfeifer, will my sun tanning abili-ties to Matt Mindrup. I, Adam Mac, will my ability to find the secret class, government, to Kevin Cao. I, Yilin Song, will my ability to talk smartly to Jeff Hsaio. I, Allen Hsu, will not getting caught us-ing my cell phone to Jeff Hsiao. I, Claire Hsiao, will not getting penalty periods to Tophy Park. I, Taylor Staab, will my ability to put things off until the last minute to Jordyn Man-hart. I, Chelsea Zim-merman, will my abil-ity to not getting caught texting in class to Laurel Hageman. I, Jordan Staab, will my ability to not pro-crastinate to Julia Bris-eno.

I, Bianca Okinda, will my ability to do great work to Bethany Weber. I, Hannah Hulse, will my ability to get an essay finished and typed five minutes before class to Janeth Cano. I, Maria Cubillo, will my ability to not pass out after donating blood to anyone. I, Shane Zim-merman, I will ALL my abilities to Cameron Brin. I, Emily Leiker, will my improv skills to Haileigh Jacobs. I, Bill Wiebe, will my ability to procrasti-nate and still get things turned in on time to Pat-rick “Steve” Kepka. I, Braden Spli-chal, will nothing to Sid-ney Splichal. I, Heather Rud-er, will my ability to text during class to Ryan Rud-er.

I, Garrett Stoeck-lein, will nothing to any-one. I, Vy Phan, will nothing. I, Cheyenne El-lard, will Bethany Weber the ability to do practical-ly whatever I want during the school day. I, Ashley Spring-er, will my ability to use my phone in school to Drew Kingsbury. Love ya, girl. I, Zach Dreil-ing, will my ability to use your phone to cheat on a test and not get caught to Andrew Hess. I, Parker Golds-berry, will my ability to cheat on tests to Andrew Hess. I, Tanner Unrein, will leave nothing to any-one. I, Annie Mind-rup, will my abilities to turn in my Personal Fi-

nance two weeks late to Matt Mindrup. I, Jin Lim, will my ability to make what-ever size of a mess and never clean up in art class to Rachel Becker. I, Chloe Zimmer-man, will my superb golf skills to Annaka Appleq-uist. I, Carlos Duenes, will my ability to annoy Mr.Brull to Nick Scmidt. I, Rodney Dues, will my ability to hide my long hair to Leonard. I, Kade Schmidt, will my ability to make it to study hall on time to Lane Fisher. I, Adam Urban, will my ability to pay bills in a timely manner to Levi Dreiling. I, Megan Gott-schalk, will my ability to be the laziest track athlete to Kelli Veach.

I, Hannah Dreil-ing, will my ability to throw fifty feet in the dis-cus to Emily Staab. I, Andie Marsell, will my ability to play pranks on Bailey Rome to Alyssa Keil. I, Link Chen, will my ability to not get caught by Mr. Flax even though my hair is two inches too long to Bruce Zhou. I, Maria Mar-cotte, will all of my out-going abilities in volley-ball to Melissa Pfeifer. I, Janette Hage-man, will my ability to not get caught using my phone to Maria Hageman.

In 10 years, Tanner Un-rein will be running his own dental practice.

In 10 years, Parker Goldsburry will be mak-ing money.

In 10 years, Zach Dreil-ing will be at the lake on his boat enjoying a nice cold beer.

In 10 years, Ashley Springer will still be in school for physical ther-apy.

In 10 years, Cheyenne Ellard will be in Med School.

In 10 years, Trang Vu will be a millionaire.

In 10 years, Vy Phan will be in her country working as an accountant.

In 10 years, Garrett Stoecklein will be a phar-maceutical research tech-nician.

In 10 years, Heather Ruder will be living in a city with her family and working as a personal trainer.

In 10 years, Braden Spli-chal will be the owner of a great car restoration shop.

In 10 years, Bill Wiebe will be working hard with his uncle and have a fam-ily.

In 15 years, Kade Megaf-fin will just be getting out of Law School and hope-fully getting ready to marry his wife.

In 10 years, Jenna Schuckman will be a 1st Lieutenant in the Air Force as a Nurse.

In 10 years, Emily Leiker will have Maria Marcotte living in her basement making her strawberry daiquiris on a regular ba-sis.

In 10 years, Shane Zim-merman will be living life.

In 10 years, Maria Cu-billo will be a criminol-ogy major working at the FBI or any police field. Hopefully she’ll get into travelling soccer.

In 10 years, Hannah Hulse will be teaching young children and be married, maybe with kids.

In 10 years, Bianca Okinda will be success-ful in nursing while pur-suing other careers on the side.

In 10 years, Jordan Sta-ab will be working in some medical field.

In 20 years, Chelsea Zimmerman will have a family and live in Hays, while teaching at Fort Hays State University.

In 20 years, Taylor Staab will be working at Hays Medical Center, doing ul-trasounds, and being mar-ried with kids.

In 10 years, Claire Hsiao will be a millionaire.

In 10 years, Allen Hsu will be a super business man.

In 10 years, Yilin Song doesn’t know where he’ll be.

In 10 years, Adam Mac will have a beautiful house and a happy family.

In 10 years, Allison Pfeif-er will be a successful mother of 5, meaning 3 cats and 2 dogs. I will live in some place where the sun shines all the time,

and clowns do not exist.

In 10 years, Link Chen will be living in Hays, Ks.

In 10 years, Maria Mar-cotte will live in a Barbie mansion with identical triplets.

In 10 years, Andie Mar-sell will have a family and be working as a nurse.

In 10 years, Hannah Dreiling will be tak-ing care of her psychotic mother at her age of 56.

In 10 years, Megan Gott-schalk will have a job and a family.

In 10 years, Adam Urban will be starting a family and finishing med school.

In 10 years, Kade Schmidt will be running his own business.

In 10 years, Rodney Gra-cas De Deus will be in Europe, playing pro soc-cer.

In 10 years, Carlos Duenes will be married and will have graduated as an electrical engineer.

In 10 years, Chloe Zim-merman will have a child as tall as Shaq.

In 10 years, Jin Lim will have designed her own Rolls Royce and be domi-nating the entire world.

In 10 years, Annie Min-drup will have a family.

In 10 years, Janette Hageman will be in Sa-lina with a job, hopefully married. She will also have an associate’s de-gree in cosmetology.

In 10 years, Luke Brull will be finishing med school.

In 10 years, Ross Werth will be getting estab-lished in his career and starting a family. In 15 years, he will have kids and live somewhere with mountains. In 20 years, he will be established in a company with a strong family behind him.

In 20 years, Jon Walker will have graduated from the University of Kansas, abandoned his bachelor days and will be working for Google.

In 10 years, Zach Schmidtberger will be living life to the fullest.

In 20 years, Anthony Walters will be kicked back relaxing after hav-ing started a successful business.

In 10 years, Sam Schmidt will be riding horses, drinking wine, shooting guns, and liv-ing life in a land of magic and awesomeness.

In 10 years, Robert Ni-yonsaba will have a big family full of peace and love.

In 10 years, Alivia Inlow will be an Olympic Vol-leyball Team member, along with Hannah Dreil-ing.

Senior Prophecies

NEWS Page 6MAY 2013

On May 4th in Lawrence, TMP had three students compete at state KSPA for journalism and one student submit a car-ry-in photo. The students who went were Lexie Was-inger ’15 who went for yearbook sports writ-ing, cut-lines, and she also submitted headlines, Drew Kingsbury ’15 for newspaper sports writing, and Claire Hsaio ’13 for

Students Enter State Journalism

CompetitionDrew Kingsbury ‘15 editorial cartoon. Jin Lim

’13, submitted the carry-in for academic photogra-phy. “I know it can be disappointing not place at KSPA, but each student who competed this year did so for the first time. I am proud of their efforts, and the experience and the feedback they will receive from the judges will just improve their products next year,” said newspaper advisor Mrs. Heather Sramek.

Thespians Compete at State Forensics Meet

Cody Kreutzer ‘15

2013-2014 Student Council Officers Elected

Mikaela Flax ‘14Student Council

President

Roy Schmeidler ‘14Student Council Vice President

Levi Dreiling ‘14Student Council

Treasurer

Skylar Urban ‘14Student Council

Secretary

Rachel Becker ‘14Senior Class

President

Austin Dinkel ‘14Senior Class

Vice President

Haleigh Jacobs ‘14Senior Class

Vice President

Matthew Mindrup ‘15Junior Class

President

Kelli Veach ‘15Junior Class

Vice President

Grace Volker ‘15Junior Class

Vice President

Tyra Younie ‘16Sophomore Class

President

T.J. Flax ‘16Sophomore Class

Vice President

Ricky Hockett ‘16Sophomore Class

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This year, the 3A State Forensics (Champs) tournament was held on May 4th at Wichita East High School. Six students represented TMP in a va-riety of events: Bethany Staab ‘15 and Alyssa Keil ‘15 in Serious Solo Acting; Cody Kreutzer ‘15 and Alyssa Keil ‘15, Grace Volker ‘15 and Matea Gregg ‘15 in Hu-morous Duet Acting; and Cody Kreutzer ‘15 and Emily Leiker ‘13 in Im-provised Duet Acting. To qualify for Champs you must place in the top two at any

meet. If you place in the top four, you qualify for State Festival. Volker and Gregg placed second in duet, Staab and Keil both placed second in Serious Solo, Kreutzer and Leiker placed second in IDA, and Kreutzer and Keil placed first in duet. At a normal foren-sics meet, there are usu-ally two to three prelimi-nary rounds and a finals round in which the top six in each event, based on their previous scores, pre-form again for a panel of judges. At Champs, there are three prelimi-nary rounds, a semi-final

round, and a final round. To make it to semi-finals you have to place in the top 12 in your event. Bethany Staab and Cody Kreutzer and Alyssa Keil all made it to the semi-final round. Sta-ab placing 12th over all in Serious Solo Acting, and Cody Kreutzer and Alys-sa Keil placed 10th over all in Humorous Duet. “I was really proud of everyone who qualified for state because it was a huge improve-ment from last year.” Keil said in a recent interview. “It was a great experi-ence, and I can’t wait to win Champs next year!”