Rossville KS Alumni News

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Rossville-Wabaunsee Game On-Line

This was a rather exciting game at the end during overtime with the lead going back and forth, but the RHS girls scored a basket just before time ran out to get a 60-59 wiin,
The Dawgs were down 31-9 at the half but had strong third and fourth quarters to tie the game at 50-50 during regulation.
The game can be viewed in its entirety at:
http://www.team1sports.com/index.php/videoPlayer/view?broadcast=99592&referrer=ihigh

Rossville 5 4 21 20 10 = 60
Wabaunsee 11 20 10 9 9 = 59

Rossville scoring:
Steckel 5 (3) 2-3 15
Hill 3 5-6 11
Kirk 2 6-7 10
Nitsch 3 (3) 1-2 10
Conley 3 2-3 8
Shinn 1 2-2 4
Day 1 0-0 2

Totals 18 (6) 18-23 60

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Taylor Kirk Scholar Athlete Of Week

http://ksnt.com/2015/02/12/scholar-athlete-of-the-week-taylor-kirk/

Derik Kesler To Appear In Court

According to KMAN, Derik Kesler, 32, of Rossville, Kansas, is set for a court appearance in connection with a vehicular homicide that occurred last June.

Kesler, who will appear in court on Wednesday, Feb 17, at 1 p.m., is charged with the death of Mark Jilka, 49, of Manhattan resulting from a fatal truck and bicycle accident.

The incident, which happened June 26, 2014, occurred in the 3200 block of Kansas Highway 177 shortly after 7 p.m. Both vehicles were southbound, and Kesler – in his Dodge pickup truck – struck Jilka while he was biking on the right shoulder.

According to KMAN, a voluntary witness statement from Kesler said he was looking at an address on his phone’s GPS and did not see the bicyclist as he struck him. A law enforcement official who investigated the accident said the physical evidence at the scene was consistent with Kesler’s statement, with no indication of braking prior to the collision, and no visibility restrictions.

3A Wrestling Rankings

There were a few small changes in the Top 10 3A schools rankings this week, Mid-East rivals St. Marys and Silver Lake, are also in the top 10 but Wabausee dropped out.
A new addition to the list is Isaiah Luellen at #6 in the 138 lb. class.

1. Rossville

2. Norton

3. Hoisington

4. Oberlin

5. Silver Lake

6. Marysville

8 St Marys

113 lb. Bryce Gfeller #1
126 lb. Alex Cavanaugh #2
138 lb Isaiah Luellen #6
160 lb. Nick Reesor #2
182 lb. Isaac Luellen #1

Click on below to see complete rankings.

RHS Boys Lose At Wabaunsee (updated)

Despite a half-time lead of 17-15, The Dawgs gave up too many poins in the third period and lost to Wabaunsee 43-39 on Feb. 17.

Rossville 5 12 7 15 = 39
Wabaunsee 13 2 13 15 = 43

Rossville scoring:

Schultz-Pruner 2 5-7 9
Horak 4 1-2 9
Horak 3 (2) 0-0 8
Horak 2 1-5 5
Roduner 1 (1) 2-2 5
Sowers 0 2-2 2
Woodcock 0 1-2 1
Totals 12 (3) 12-20 39.

This game can be viewed On-Line at:
http://www.team1sports.com/index.php/videoPlayer/view?broadcast=99593&referrer=ihigh

Monday, February 16, 2015

Dawgs Second In Mid-East Wrestling

Rossville High came in second in the Mid-East League wrestling tournament on Feb. 13.
The team standings for the tournament were:
1. St Marys
2. Rossville
3. Silver Lake
4. Rock Creek
5. Riley County
6. Onaga
7. Wabaunsee
8. Burlingame

Rossville had four class champions:
138# Isaiah Luellen
160# Nick Reesor
182# Issac Luellen
220# Kole Davoren

Rossville had two second place finishers.
120# Holden Hurla
126# Alex Cavanaugh

Rossville had one third place finisher.
152# Derek Gentry

The top 3 finishers in each weight class can be seen at:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bz8SP1SiT5WfSEJMSzVKMmNQMVE/view

Sunday, February 15, 2015

Don Jones Found Peace

From The Columbus Dispatch:

It didn’t take death for Don Jones to find peace.

It followed him for 91 years.

For Jones, peace often came through art, and through art Jones found his calling, touching thousands of lives as one of the pioneers of art therapy.

Jones, of Worthington, died at Kobacker House on Jan. 28. A memorial service is scheduled for 11 a.m. today at the first Unitarian Universalist Church in Clintonville.

The bullet points of his life would by themselves tell the tale of a life well-lived: an artist, a therapist, a minister, a professor. He worked alongside noted psychiatrist Karl Menninger at the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kan., for 16 years. While there, he became an ordained Methodist minister and pastor of a church in Rossville, Kan. There, he also joined forces with the NAACP during in the Brown v. Board of Education trials of the early 1950s. His illustration, “The Equality Kids,” became a poster used by supporters of desegregation.

“He was a radical liberal at a time when it wasn’t so easy to be that,” said longtime co-worker Bruce Moon.

Jones moved to Worthington in 1967 and started the adjunctive therapy program at Harding Hospital, where he worked for 20 years. He founded the Worthington Area Arts League in his basement. He taught art therapy at Capital University and the Columbus College of Art & Design, and ministered two central Ohio Unitarian congregations.

“He called himself a secular mystic,” said his widow, Karen Rush Jones.

It’s a life’s work, however, that happened almost by accident, ignited by the flame of peace.

Jones was drafted when the United States entered World War II. A pacifist, he became a conscientious objector and served four years in the Civilian Public Service with a group of Mennonites assigned to be aides at Marlboro State Hospital in New Jersey.

Because most able men were drafted into the military, there was a severe staffing shortage.

“He went to Marlboro as a 19-year-old,” Mrs. Jones said. “When he got there, the aides handed him the keys and said, ‘See you.’ He oversaw three wards of 150 people each, working 12 hours a day serving the severely mentally ill with no psychotropic drugs.”

He turned to art as a way of coping with the misery that surrounded him, and noticed that not only did patients respond to it, but some who hadn’t communicated verbally in years were creating their own art, with whatever materials they could find — usually blood or feces.

“He called it soul language,” said Mrs. Jones.

“His art and their art were based in the same desire, to express,” Moon said. “It was a dramatic acknowledgement that talking isn’t enough. Art was therapy.

“There’s no way to estimate the countless number of people he helped and influenced, from the thousands of patients to the hundreds of students and colleagues, and that doesn’t even begin to count friends and family,” Moon said.

“Boy, the world was a better place because he was in it, and will continue to be for years to come.”

Saturday, February 14, 2015

RHS Girls Lose to Eagles

The RHS girls lost to the Eagles at Silver Lake on Feb. 13.
Rossville 13 12 11 12 = 48
Silver Lake 13 9 17 18 = 57

Rossville scoring:
Nitsch 5 (1) 0-0 11
Conley 4 2-4 10
Hill 4 1-1 9
Kirk 3 3-4 9
Steckel 2 (2) 0-0 6
Shinn 0 2-2 2
Shinn 0 1-2 1.
Totals 18 (3) 9-13 48.

RHS Boys Lose to Silver Lake

The RHS boys lost at Silver Lake on Feb. 13.

Rossville 7 8 7 11 = 33
Silver Lake 7 15 12 14 = 48

Rossville scoring:
Horak 6 (1) 1-2 14
Sowers 3 3-6 9
Schultz-Pruner 1 1-3 3
Horak 1 0-0 2
Roduner 0 2-7 2
Woodcock 0 2-2 2
Horak 0 1-2 1

Totals 11 (1) 10-22 33.

Joe Campbell Stadium On List

Below is a link to all historical baseball stadiums in Kansas. Joe Campbell Stadium is listed as one of the few historical wooden baseball stadiums in the USA, and the only one in Kansas.
http://www.fhsu.edu/biology/Eberle/Historical-Baseball-Sites-in-Kansas/

Keara Lenard At KWU

Keara Lenard of Rossville is a sophomore at Kansas Wesleyan University. She is majoring in chemistry and secondary education and is on the women's cross country team, indoor track team and outdoor track team.
Her bio can be read at: http://www.kwucoyotes.com/roster/12/16/4279.php

Eagles Get Two Wins (updated)

The Silver Lake girls beat the RHS girls 57-48 on Friday, Feb. 13. Later the SL boys also triumphed by a score of 58-33.
WIBW has a longer than usual video of both games at: http://www.wibw.com/sports/ksprepzone/headlines/February-Rossville-At-Silver-Lake-291885201.html