Mikayla Engels

My name is Mikayla Engels. I am a senior this year :) I am very excited to be a Senior this year so I can go off to college and be a psychologist. After I go to college and become a psychologist I am going to move to Wyoming with my best friend Briana Rottinghaus and she is going to have a hippie store while I cure the crazy :) I am going to live in a little house with a hammock outside and a little pond with turtles and my dog Maggie is going to live with us, even though Briana hates her, she'll have to deal with it. :) I like to do all different random things all the time so I don't have any set hobbies, my life is just all over the place. 

 

My name is Sabrina Dow, I am 17 and a senior at RRMR high school. I am involved in Football Cheerleading and I plan to graduate in May of 2013. After high school I hope to go to the University of Minnesota and major in Geoscience and start a career in Landscape design or Laboratory Geology. This year I am going to be covering the 2012 Presidential Election and some of the Senior Spotlights. I also hope to be writing about some popular science news and astronomy. 

RRMR is... Tired!

RRWR is.... Change

RRMR IS..................SUCCESS

Ms. Benning

Ms. Benning a K-6 Special Education Teacher, Track and Volleyball coach will no longer be teaching or coaching at RRMR any longer. Benning and her fiance are moving to Waverly, where she will continue teaching K-6 Special Education.  Ms. Benning, a well liked teacher, coach, and friend says she will miss all students and staff next year as she moves forward in her life.  Ms. Benning will miss all the memorable moments and friends she has made here at RRMR, and will be sad to leave, as she will be missed by many students and staff. While here Ms. Benning’s most memorable moment was sending two student athletes to the state track meet in Des Moines, and her advice to students is, always work hard and strive to achieve your personal goals.  

Mrs. Lien to retire as year comes to a close.

By: Jocelyn Arends


As the school year comes to an end, some students are beginning to say goodbye until next fall, while others are saying goodbye for good do to graduation. But a few teachers are also saying goodbye to RRMR do to better opportunities elsewhere and retirement. One of RRMR's seasoned veterans is saying goodbye to teaching here at RRMR. Mrs. Lien, who has been teaching here since the 1977-78 school year, announced her retirement earlier this year. And as the school year comes to a close, I decided to ask her a few questions on her experience here at RRMR for the last 30 plus years. Mrs. Lien says that her favorites classes to teach were Earth Science, as well as Biology due to the dissection projects and also Chemistry. Her worst memory while teaching here at RRMR would have to be the school fire in the early 1990's. Mrs Lien said that it was like she lost 15 years worth of memories and curriculum. The best memory through out her years of teaching is just experiencing the graduations every year and seeing the students walk across the stage and getting their diplomas. Through out the many years of teaching, there have been many changes. The biggest change education wise in Mrs. Lien's mind is the technology, but she also believes that trying out the block scheduling was a different experience too. Mrs. Lien's plans for retirement include gardening, reading, and going on camping trips with her husband. She will miss working with students and seeing the accomplishments in the students faces when they finally understand what they have been trying to learn in class. Mrs. Lien's advice to students and faculty going forward is to "Stick with it, set your goals, get to the end of those goals and don't procrastinate!" She went on to say that it's better to have a dream to accomplish because you tend to stagnate through life when you do not have a dream or a goal to look forward to. Everyone here at RRMR will miss Mrs. Lien and we thank her for all the years and effort she has put in to teaching. We wish Mrs. Lien nothing but the best in her retirement.