By Blair Donald
Round Table editor
The Middletown High School stadium was filled with a color-coordinated crowd, signs, pompons, and one vuvuzela. But the buzzing vuvuzela was drowned out by the screams of the students as the classes participated in the competitions: most spirited class, which advisor would kiss the cow, and the ‘pie-in-the-eye’ race to see which class would be first to hit an administrator in the face with a whipped cream pie.
The MHS pep rally was held Oct. 1 during fourth period to rally the crowd for the night’s Homecoming game. The competition was both fun-filled and taken seriously as the different classes battled it out for the coveted Spirit Stick.
The MHS cheerleaders danced and performed acrobatic lifts, while leading the crowd in shouting, “Orange! Black! Go! Knights!”
The seniors failed to carry on the tradition of winning the screaming contest for school spirit; the win was stolen by the junior class, which yelled as if trying to get a response from an astronaut. The juniors also got their administrators to kiss Rosie the cow, and junior class advisers Karey Mattingly and Kim Cashdollar puckered up. However, the seniors snagged the pie-in-the-eye competition and got MHS Principal Jay Berno in the face after a relay that included running with a tennis ball balanced on a racket, a sack race, pedaling a tractor tricycle, and sprinting the last few yards.
In the faculty dance contest, social studies teacher John Miller and guidance counselor Peggy Throne represented the freshmen, guidance counselor Sue Blair (dressed as a football player) and P.E. teacher Tim Leber (dressed as a cheerleader) danced for the sophomores, and science teacher Scott Bean and English teacher Marcie Nicklas rocked out for the juniors, but the senior representative, science teacher Dan Burr, won the dance off despite having to substitute a costume-clad piñata for missing partner and English teacher Debbie Leonard.
Burr’s improvistational effort put the senior class over the top for the win.
The school spirit carried through the Homecoming game that night when Middletown beat Thomas Johnson High School, 18-13. The Homecoming dance was held Saturday night.
