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The Varsity football team enters the Wimberely pep rally preparing themselves for another big Friday night game.

Colorguard Lieutenant Junior Kelsey Poland and Senior Captain Sadie Witkowski show their pride during the DSHS alma mater.

SENIORS ORION GLOVER, KYLE STONESCU, DUSTY RICE, JORDAN BONDS, LUKE GILLIAM, RYAN DOLEZAL, GRIFF GREENE, AND DAN-IEL ALEXANDER LOOK DOWN IN PREPARATION FOR A LIVELY RENDITION OF “BOOT SCOOTIN’ BOOGIE.” PHOTO BY: EMILY ROSS

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Coach Keith Tuck and Nurse Kathy Blakey shake their booties to “Booty Drop” at the homecoming pep rally to show their Tiger pride.

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Hi-Stepper Senior Captain Sarah Payne tries to engage the crowd with one of their many dances during the Homecoming pep rally.

Sophomore Varsity cheerleaders Jake Cottone, Jessica Loth, and Gabriella Fernandez get the stu-dents pumped at the Wimberley pep rally.

Fridays already rock on their own. It’s the last day of a long week spent studying for numerous tests, practicing for Friday’s big game, or trying to perfect that last note. But during the fall, select Fridays take on a whole new level of awesome.

Pep rallies are just the sprinkles on the cake.

Not only do they shorten class periods, but pep rallies at Dripping Springs High School

are the core of that infamous Tiger pride.

Pep rallies are just like one giant dance party here at DSHS. A good show is always guaranteed at the pep rallies, whether it be the teacher staff doing

a rendition of “Booty Drop,” or the senior guys doing a line dance Drippin’ style.

The pep rally that brought the most reactions from the crowd was the homecoming pep rally. Students cheered as seven junior and senior boys were chosen from the crowd to get a blind kiss from a Varsity Cheerleader. When asked who kissed him, Junior Drew Daniel replied “Uhh, I don’t know; Shelby?” Senior Shelby Wilson was the popular guess from the guys, except Senior Spencer Funk who beleived the kiss felt like his mother’s. Spencer was right; when the blindfolds were taken off the guys were surprised to find it was their mothers who had kissed them!

“I had no idea at all it was my mom that kissed me,” Daniel said.

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I real ly l iked the blackout pep ral ly, i t was a great addit ion to the pep ral ly atomosphere. It got everyone pumped for the game. I fee l l ike they put in a lot of e f fort to change things up at the pep ral l ies."" 7-McKena Hagemann - 2010

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Senior Victoria Lasiter, Sophomore Taylor Turner and Junior Aaron Loe wait in ancticipation for the next speaker.

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Although they have been speaking from practi-cally birth, students in Brandon McCallum's speech class have developed effective public speaking skills. Students will hopefully apply their skills to other presentations and speeches outside of class and throughout life. By creating a relaxing and comfort-able atmosphere, McCallum helps his students face their fear of public speaking.

"Presenting our stories where we had to use words like cheddar cheese and wonder bread was fun. It really took the tension off knowing your friends were in the audience listening," Senior Erin Wade said.

Not only does McCallum allow students the cance to be silly, but he also allows them to expand their sense of creativity and writing skills.

"The most interesting assignment that I've done

would be working on the story book project. We write a rough draft and later make it into a hand-made book. I improved my writing skills and had a lot of fun with it!" Junior Rebecca Colvin said.

Although Speech class seems like the ultimate blow-off class, the skills that are learned throughout it will stick with McCallum's and Trussell's students for years to come.

"I really enjoy the class. I get to 'practice my speaking skills' by talking to my friends, I get to write funny stories and I get to make speeches on topics that are important to me. It's an easy class, but it's a class you should definitely take note of. The skills that I've learned will definitely help me in the future," Wade said.

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imagine freshly ironed dress-shirts and fancy ties. Debate is more than that. It's a formal "contest" where a negative side and an affirmative side argue a proposi-tion regarding opposing viewpoints.

Although this sounds as boring as your grand-mother's Bingo night, Debate is more of challengethan students think. On a regular basis, students in Debaters research global issues, read and analyze the informa-tion, and then write a speech pertaining to the catagory of their choosing; such as Lincoln Douglas, Cross Ex-amination, and Public Forum. After months of practic-ing, students began preparing for Debate tournaments.

"Tournaments can take such a toll on you mentally. You have to prepare for weeks and you have to decide

what stratagies should be used and that's scary because you never know what stratagies your opponent will use. Also, you have to revise your case a lot," Senior Briana Owens said.

Although tournaments can add stress to a stu-dent's shoulders, they also bring many memories and laughter.

"My favorite memory was going to the debate competition in Hays. Everyone went! We laughed, ate junkfood, played poker, and I even fell asleep under a table because I was so tired!" Sophomore Lindsey Cummings said.

In the end all the hard work paid off; Sophomore Sam Hays and Freshman Tory Roberts advanced to the State finals, which will be held at the University of Texas.

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Junior Ali Holdrige gave her exempteranious speech to her debate class; the topic was on "The Yellow School Bus Goes Green."

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Juniors Savannah Chapman, Senior Kelsey Giles, Junior Tara Johnson, Sophomore Ally Kover, Junior Paige Krafka, Seniors Weston Baxter, Katy Shoopman, and Emily Ross spell out yearbook!

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Kelsey Giles, McKena Hagemann, Evane Corder and Grace Elliott show off their new "The Crew"

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After the hustle and bustle of first period the yearbook staff huddles into Mrs. Debra Zupancic's classroom in A213 and start to get down to official yearbook business.

The room is filled with sounds of clicking mice and cameras snapping every "Kodak moment." Senior Kelsey Giles expresses her concern about how Taylor Swift is being played too often while Senior Luke Gilliam sings along to the lyrics.

"Yearbook is my busiest class. With page deadlines, pictures, and interviews, the class ends in the blink of an eye," Senior Briana Strickland said.

The yearbook staff works year round, even through the summer trying to get every '09-'10 memory documented into the yearbook for students and staff. Staff attends almost all school events

such as: athletic games, school musicals, fund-raiser events, and early morning club meetings to get all the information and pictures to produce a yearbook.

Grace Elliott is one of the yearbook staff's photographers. If there was an event where pictures needed to be taken, you could find her there capturing the moment.

"I take my camera with me everywhere because I know that the one time I don't have my camera with me, something fantastic will happen that I will want to capture," Senior Grace Elliott said.

"Even though the yearbook staff was extremely large, everyone worked very well together, making it a great experience," Yearbook sponsor Mrs. Debra Zupancic said.

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Paw Print every month, seven issues a year, but what we don't know is that the students in the newspaper class give up so much of their time to create this paper. Just because they have newspaper class third period doesn't mean that is the only time attending the "newspape." Seniors such as Editor-in-Chief Chelsea Hinojosa, Ad Manager Garrett Edwards, Juniors Ali Holdridge and Ben Shepard and Sophomore Campbell Corder are often in Mrs. Debra Zupancic's classroom trying to make deadlines and perfecting every single story for the Paw Print. There are many times that the newspaper staff stays till the late hours of the night at the high school working to make sure that the Paw Print is ready.

It's not just the newspaper class that works so hard to produce the Paw Print. Zupancic's Journalism I students also write stories about clubs that go into the making of the Paw Print that are supervised by Clubs Editor Sebastian Whitney.

Feature Editors, Junior Ali Cisewski and Senior Callie Hoffman, make sure that they do their absolute best when dealing with the feature spread in the paper. They try to develop a theme every issue with the coordinating month and do a feature surrounding holidays or events that happen in that month.

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Junior Ali Holdridge types her news story for the December issue of the Paw Print.

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The 2009 - 2010 school year marks the Drip-ping Springs High School Jazz Orchestra's first season both under this name and as a competitive program.

Under the direction of Jason Littleton, the new-est addition to the district's directing staff, the Jazz Orchestra competed in two festivals. The Temple Jazz Festival took place on March 26, at which the Orchestra was awarded a Superior rating, as well as taking more Outstanding Musician awards than any other band. The Fiesta Jazz Festival took place at St. Mary's College on April 24. The Jazz Orches-tra placed first in classification 4A. This is the first ranked contest that the Jazz Orchestra has ever at-tended. "For the first time ever, the Jazz Orchestra traveled to a contest. It was a very successful and enriching experience for the group," senior Connor

Jones says.Unlike classical music, which is a structured,

written form of music, jazz relies heavily on the improvisation of the members. Senior Geoffrey Jackson says, "Jazz Band lets me express what I want through improvisation. I enjoy feeling more involved with the group."

Jazz Orchestra contributes to a well-rounded musical education by teaching you styles and tech-niques you would not learn in a more classically-ori-ented music program. "Jazz Orchestra has been a great experience to further my musical understand-ing of jazz and expound upon my musical abilities," senior Zach Norman says.

The Jazz Orchestra will always strive to be better every day, and will continue to grow both physically and musically in the future.

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Dripping Springs Theatre had another successful year, mounting three full productions, as well as an evening of short scenes by the Theatre III/IV Master Class and an original chil-dren's play written by the Theatre II (Advanced) class.

Productions this year in-cluded Smash, Almost Maine, the musical Hello Dolly, and the One Act Play Rosencrantz and Guilden-stern are Dead.

Beginning theatre students can expect to get a basic un-derstanding of all the aspects of theatre, not simply acting.

"In theatre one, there is game day every Monday. That is the best part," junior Eric Rodriguez says.

In addition to the focus on theatre productions, the advanced theatre class will often set time aside to polish their improvisation skills.

"Advanced theatre has an improv unit that's really awesome. They learn several styles of impro-visation, and the results are often hysterical," senior Loryn Thomp-son says.

One Act Play production be-gan in the beginning of February and continued through the end of March, advancing to Area. The play, a spinoff of Hamlet, involves two of the lesser known char-acters and their task of finding out why Hamlet is crazy. But in reality, they are just pawns of the royal court.

The theatre department complet-ed their year by preparing for the move.

"The theatre department is looking forward to moving into the new performing arts wing at the high school next year, where productions are planned in both the auditorium and Black Box Studio Theatre," theatre instruc-tor Rachael Koske says.

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Since the beginning of the year, I have grown into someone a lot more mature and responsible and have become ready to begin a new part of my l i fe. "" -Zach Strohschein - 2010

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