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About Vernonia's voice. (Vernonia, OR) 2007-current | View Entire Issue (June 6, 2013)
schools june6 2013 Band Instructor Izzett Leaving Vernonia Vernonia Band instructor Rob Izzett announced on Wednesday, May 29 th that he will leaving the Vernonia School District to accept a position in Klamath Falls. Izzett was responsible for rebuilding the Vernonia music program and led the VHS Band to first place in the State Contest in 2012. On Wednesday evening during the annual Awards Ceremony, three of Izzett’s students, Sarah Wagner, Jennifer Reid and Nicole Glass made the following presentation to Izzett: “Mr. Izzett has done so much for this school. For seven years Mr. Izzett has taught at this school. He took the mess of a band program that we had and turned it around. Mr. Izzett stepped onto a sinking ship, because he felt somewhere deep down, there was something here. In his fifth year of directing in Vernonia, he accomplished something that hadn’t been done in years. He took the band to the State contest. We all put our trust in him and with his leadership the band placed fifth. That day we proved he had made the right decision by coming to the school. The next year we were excited. We knew we could only get better from the year previous. We worked hard, our fearless leader powering through a broken hip. That year at State he limped on stage with the best of them. Perhaps he had literally “broken a leg” for luck, because that year we brought home the big blue trophy, first place. This past year, after losing so much of our band to graduating seniors, Mr. Izzett simply sat us down and we talked. “It’s up to you guys, what you want to do,” he told us. “If you want to go to State, you’ll have to work for it. It is all your decision.” So we worked hard, and he Rob Izzett conducting his final performance with the VHS Band. pushed us. Against what the whole band believed, we made it to State again, for the third year. Three must have been our lucky, because that is how we placed. Mr. Izzett has done so much for our school. For some of you, he may 17 seem like just the band teacher. But to those who have stuck with him for long enough know he is so much more. He knows when one of us is having a bad day or a hard time with something. He is understanding and always willing to help. He knows his musician’s skill levels and is able to push them forward without pushing them over the edge. Mr. Izzett has added a sense of school pride that wasn’t there before. In many ways he is much more than a teacher. And for that, Mr. Izzett, we the members of the band, and the students of Vernonia High School, would like to thank you.” On Thursday evening May 30 th , Izzett led his final performance with the Middle School Band in their annual spring concert. On June 1st he conducted his final performance with the VHS Band at the Class of 2013 Graduation Ceremony. Fleck Wins Second State Championship continued from front page the 4x100 relay and also broke the school record in the triple jump. Se- nior Rowan Cheney picked up a medal in the 4x400. “I thought the kids did great, really exceeding everyone’s expecta- tions,” said Brown. “It was really a great season, especially for the girls team, and to cap it off with such an in- credible performance at historic Hay- ward Field will make it memorable for a long time to come.” The previous week the team competed in the District Track and Field Meet on May 17 th and 18 th at Portland Christian’s track and came Nathan Fleck receives his gold medal from Logger head coach Byron Brown. home with several district champions. Photo courtesy of Hannah Fleck. This was the state qualifying meet, meet ranked fourth in where the top 2 in each the district. event go on to the state Meghan Sullivan is track meet. district champ in the There were sev- 100 meter dash. Sul- eral big stories and out- livan and Maina Mar- standing performances tin finished 1-2 in the for the Loggers at the event. According to District meet. Nathan Logger head coach By- Fleck set a new district ron Brown, Sullivan meet record in the 800 and Martin just kept meters at 2:00. getting faster at every S a m a n a t h a track meet. Lindauer won the dis- Other state qualifi- trict in the 3K, leading ers for the Loggers— her race from start to Drew Cheney who fin- finish. Dezi Roberts took 6th place in ished 2 nd in the Men’s Lane Sullivan the High Jump at State. 3K; Dezi Roberts in won the district long Photo courtesy of the girls in high jump jump after going into the Silje Jacobsen. and triple jump, the girls 4 x 100 relay (Meghan Sullivan, Sammy Lindauer, Dezi Roberts and Maina Martin); and the girls 4x400 relay (Rowan Cheney, Meghan Sulli- van, Maina Martin and Samantha Lindauer) who ran a season best at the district meet. The girls team finished with a very strong 2 nd place overall, out- distancing all other NWL teams, running up 124 points. “This was maybe the best performance by a VHS girls team ever at a district meet,” said head coach Brown. “Almost everyone achieved a season’s best performance at the meet, always one of our main goals. We got a lot of compliments from the other league coaches and parents about our competi- tors and the impressive showing of our team. We are building a solid reputation in track, even without the facilities of our competition. The keys to our suc- cess is in getting our top athletes to com- mit to track and getting large numbers of our kids to come out for the team. 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