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Tweet Last month band students and parents turned out in big numbers to protest cuts to the band program at SM East. The school now says that all of the band-related courses at SM East will be taught again next year. But the news may not be enough to alleviate the concerns of band supporters. [...]
Tweet A rematch of last year’s lacrosse championship title game didn’t play out in the Lancers favor. Pembroke Hill leveraged its home field advantage to knock off the Lancers 8-4. The Lancers will be looking to shake off the loss and have a strong showing this weekend as they take a road trip to Indiana, [...]
Tweet The program’s next game may still be months away, but SM East’s women’s basketball program is already enjoying some fresh energy as preparations for the 2013-2014 season begin. The school announced earlier this month that Emporia State University women’s basketball assistant Austin Klumpe will be its next head coach. Klumpe replaces Scott Stein, who [...]
Tweet It’s been a wild year for Johnny McGuire. The 2007 SM East graduate finished up college at KU in 2011 with an itch to chase the dream of country music stardom. And after pondering the move for several months, he pulled up his Kansas roots last year and headed east to Nashville, Tenn. Figuring [...]
Tweet For the first time in coach Ermanno Ritschl’s tenure as golf coach at the school, SM East this year will be the host school for the Kansas 6A high school golf championship tourney. Meadowbrook Country Club in Prairie Village will be the site of the tournament, which will be played Monday, May 20. SM [...]
Tweet SM East senior Ethan Tucker was happy enough to find an acceptance letter to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago Art in the mail. But it was the second letter several days later that really put a smile on his face. Because it let Tucker know the school had selected him for [...]
Tweet That Claudio Sanchez just can’t get enough of SM East… The national education reporter for NPR featured the Prairie Village school for the second time in as many months during Sunday’s broadcast of Weekend Edition. This time, the report focused on the debate over Common Core standards. Dr. Karl Krawitz, set to retire at [...]
Tweet SM East’s champion lacrosse team is picking up the 2013 right where it left off in 2012: winning. The Lancers are 5-1 after a nine day season-opening stretch that took them on a two-game road trip to St. Louis. On the trip the Lancers beat St. Louis-area Chaminade Prep, but fell to St. Louis [...]
Tweet SM East’s Lancer Dancers put on display for a hometown crowd on Tuesday the remarkable talent that earned them first place at the National Dance Alliance championships in Orlando, Fla., last month. The dance team put on a wide ranging performance during their annual Spring Show, showing off their versatility as a team and [...]
Tweet Fairway Police Chief Mike Fleming sent out a notice to residents Tuesday afternoon warning them about a group of door-to-door scammers posing as SM East students: Dear Fairway Resident: Shawnee Mission East High School has received calls from residents in Prairie Village concerning a raffle and or BBQ supposedly sponsored by the school. Individuals presenting [...]
Tweet Three SM East students were among the recipients of 18 Shooting Stars arts scholarships awarded by the Arts Council of Johnson County at its annual gala this past Sunday. Senior Ali Felman, who plays the viola, took the first place scholarship in the strings category. Senior Lily Kaufmann took the second place scholarship in [...]
Tweet The Mission Hills home Hollister and Porter Hovey’s family moved into in 1989 needed some work. There was the shag carpeting, for starters, which covered seemingly every floor. And then the gold wallpaper, bright orange formica counters, and a mirror that took up an entire wall in the master bedroom. “It was thoroughly stuck [...]
Tweet Alright, li’l Lancer Dancers: the big Lancer Dancers have a deal for you. The SM East dance team is going to provide free admission to every girl who participated in this winter’s Lancer Dancer Clinic for the Lancer Dancer Spring Show at 7 p.m. this Tuesday. From the organizers: We look forward to performing [...]
Tweet The SM East Class of 2003 is looking for a few good classmates — to come to its reunion this summer. The 10-year bash will be June 15 starting at 6:30 p.m. at Mosaic in the Power and Light District. The reunion organizers are making a playlist of favorite songs from 1999-2003 and they [...]
Tweet Miami County District Attorney Elizabeth Sweeney-Reeder confirmed Wednesday that her office is in the process of reviewing the Sheriff’s Department’s accident and offense reports related to the Nov. 25 ATV crash that killed SM East senior Tyler Rathbun. Sweeney-Reeder said her office was unlikely to make a decision about how to proceed with the [...]
Tweet So, maybe you weren’t able to make it to Orlando to watch the Lancer Dancers win the National Dance Alliance jazz championship earlier this month…but you’ll have the opportunity to see this year’s seniors show off their title-winning routines right here in northeast Johnson County early next month. The Lancer Dancers will have their [...]
Tweet The Miami County Sheriff’s Department on Monday forwarded to the District Attorney’s office its accident and offense reports regarding the rural ATV crash that killed SM East senior Tyler Rathbun Nov. 25. To protect the minors named in the reports, the Sheriff’s Department has only released the first four pages of the accident report [...]
Tweet SM East served as the subject of a lengthy piece on NPR’s Talk of the Nation Friday during which national education reporter Claudio Sanchez interviewed school resource officer Joel Porter and principal Karl Krawitz about the role of officers in schools and whether teachers and staff should have access to firearms. Porter said after [...]
Tweet March Madness may not officially tip off until later this week, but one former SM East student has already enjoyed some of the fun of NCAA tournament basketball. Alison Stephens, a 2010 SM East grad, got to hoist the NCAA Division 3 women’s basketball title trophy Saturday after she and her Depauw University teammates [...]
Tweet If in the process of your spring cleaning this month you happen upon a stash of dusty books, don’t set them out by the curb. The Shawnee Mission East students organizing a used book sale in conjunction with this year’s Earth Fair can use them! For information about where to donate books, call 913-993-6617. [...]
Tweet More than 1.7 million students take the SAT each year. Less than one-tenth of one percent of those students achieve the coveted perfect score of 2400. SM East junior Ada Throckmorton is one of those students. The Shawnee Mission School District announced Wednesday that Throckmorton had joined the elite club after using her PSAT [...]
Tweet Two new associate SM East principals made their debut before the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday night. Jeff Storey and Britt Haney will assume their new roles at SM East for the 2013-2014 school year. They are filled openings left by John McKinney’s move to replace Dr. Karl Krawitz, and current associate principal Molli [...]
Tweet The SM East band community took its case to the Shawnee Mission School Board Monday night in an attempt to keep the band director’s job a full-time position. SM East band students and their protest signs greeted even early arrivals to the meeting outside the administration building. Inside they helped fill the room and [...]
Tweet It’s likely that the public comment portion of Monday’s Shawnee Mission School Board meeting won’t be filled with happy tunes. SM East Band Boosters leaders say they expect somewhere around 50 parents and perhaps that many students and alumni to attend the meeting in a show of solidarity for finding a way to keep [...]
Tweet Moments before heading into the auditorium where they would perform their jazz routine at the National Dance Alliance championships in Orlando Sunday, the SM East Lancer Dancers were already in tears. As part of a team tradition, each varsity member writes a letter to her compatriots and reads it aloud at some point throughout [...]
