PRIDE Day 2013
On April 15th and 16th, sophomore students of THS respected each others differences as they took a day off from their everyday routine to become more socially connected as a class. Along with the help of Danielle Mann and Kelly Spivey, Joe O’Flynn committed himself to developing a day to help Talawanda students better understand […]
THS Sadie Hawkins Dance Canceled
Talawanda had planned on hosting a Sadie Hawkins dance, but due to low ticket sales, the dance was canceled. All the money the Talawanda Key Club planned to raise was being donated to charity to help fund various community projects. A Sadie Hawkins Dance allows the girl to ask a guy to the dance and […]
Setting Stone Coffee House is Approaching
On Friday, May 10, at 7:00 p.m., the Setting Stone Coffee House will return for the second time to the new Talawanda High School. “The last one–the first one at the new building–was amazing, and we expect it to be just as positive of an experience this time around, if not better,” Clare Squance, one […]
Oxford Kinetics Festival
The Oxford Kinetics Festival, an event started by art teacher Jim McWilliams, is held every year here in our small town of Oxford, Ohio. “I wanted to make Oxford a little weird,” said McWilliams. In this festival, part race, part parade and part obstacle course, anything goes. Art students here at Talawanda turn old bikes […]
Beauty as Criterion for Art
A sunrise. The end of a disney movie. The mountains. A towering chrome building. A painting. The face of your lover. A poem. Often, these sorts of things would be considered “beautiful,” possessing some sort of aesthetic pleasurability that almost implies or touches upon The Divine. Beauty, colloquially, is often considered a positive quality, desirable, […]
Stoker’s Vision On Two Screens: Nosferatu and Dracula
Good Evening, stay for the night as both the 1929 silent Nosferatu is examined side by side with Bela Lugosi’s audible 1931 Dracula. Who can forget the classic horror movies forever emulated by modern-day hopefuls? These two classics films have the same origin: Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula. They share a story to the detail, […]
New Classes at Talawanda Offer a Digital Experience
With today moving quickly towards a new era with advanced technology, THS wants to engage students in what is happening in today’s society and is moving away from what many find as a normal school system. Two new classes are being added to next year’s scheduling, both technology-based and taught by Andy Zimmerman. “This is […]