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Rhodenizer helps students perform a lab.

Grad Rhodenizer Returns to Teach

Alexandra Mason, Reporter December 7, 2017

Zachary Rhodenizer is the new chemistry college preparation instructor for grade levels 10 and 11. Along with being a new chemistry teacher for the regular school day, he is also a junior varsity and varsity...

Troise reviews the homework with students.

Troise wants Students to like Math

Alexandra Mason, Reporter December 7, 2017

Kim Troise is a new math instructor for Algebra part I and algebra college preparation, teaching the new freshmen class. Troise grew up in Asheville, N.C. in her early years. After high school, she...

Youngdahl helps a student on an assignment.

Youngdahl joins Spanish department

Lily Moreschi, Reporter November 24, 2017

This year, Scott Youngdahl joined the RCHS staff as a level II and III Spanish teacher. Before moving to Lexington in 2008, Youngdahl lived in N.C., but grew up in Okla.. He went to the University of Texas...

Yob instructs a class on an upcoming test.

Yob settles into RCHS

Lily Moreschi, Reporter November 24, 2017

Mary Yob is one of the two new English teachers. She is a first year teacher currently teaching English 10. Originally from Sterling, Va., Yob recently moved to Lexington in July 2017. Yob graduated...

Junior Peyton Ritter practices free climbing at River Rock.

Ritter Scales The Rocks

Brendan Donahue, Reporter May 31, 2017

Knowing how to save yourself from tragic accidents, while suspended hundreds of feet up in the air, is not something that is included in the typical high school curriculum. However, junior Peyton Ritter...

Moreschi has juggled directing both school and community plays in her junior year. Photo by Grace Sailer

Moreschi directs VMI play

Grace Sailer, Editor-in-Chief May 26, 2017

Junior Claire Moreschi took her passion for theater to the big stage by directing a play at VMI’s community theater. Moreschi directed Let it Snow, an original play by RCHS alum Piper Blouin Foley-Schultz,...

Kostelni creates computers

Alex Rush, Editor-in-Chief May 26, 2017

What do you get if you cross a computer-wizard, a wrestler, and a Greek? You get Lexington’s very own tech-savvy Hephaestus: senior James Kostelni. While the Greek god of craftsmen forged Achilles’...

Mays examines one of her drawings of the Spinosaurus. Photo by Kala Youngblood

Mays digs dinosaurs

Kala Youngblood, Talent Show and Cat Track Coordinator May 26, 2017

Junior Abbey Mays is traveling 65.5 million years back in time for her independent study this semester. A lifelong love of dinosaurs led her to explore the paleontology of the Cretaceous Period. “As...

Joyner spends much of his free time reading. Photo by Kala Youngblood

Joyner explores new interests

Kala Youngblood, Talent Show and Cat Track Coordinator May 26, 2017

Hawaii born and Rockbridge raised, junior Thomas Joyner finds happiness in a variety of forms, ranging from books to yoga. His father was previously in a medical unit in the Army. He trained soldiers...

Sophomore Ben Newhouse prepares to become an Eagle scout. Photo by Brinson Mullis

Newhouse reaches new rank

Brinson Mullis, Reporter May 26, 2017

Sophomore Ben Newhouse is preparing to reach the level of Eagle Scout in his career in the Boy Scouts. The Eagle Scout rank is the highest achievement in the Boy Scouts of America program, and it is an...

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