John Marshall news 2-24 - 2-25
On Friday of last week, John Marshall had their 2006 Talent Show after second hour. The auditorium was packed full of admiring fans and interested supporters. Tickets were fifty cents apiece – a small price to pay to go and watch some amazing high school talent. JM is home to dozens of really talented singers – better than most of the American Idol contestants this year, no kidding – as well as musicians, dancers, and just plain entertainers.
Psychology and history teacher, Andrew Johnsrud, started us off with his “Butterfly Dance”, a beautiful, inspiring, hilarious act complete with the best costume ever: stockings, tight shorts, and a painted black T-shirt. Next came Tom Aratingi both singing and playing the song “Piano Man” by Billy Joel and a whole bunch of other singers and dancers.
The only problem with talent shows is that’s all that goes on in them – singing and dancing. It really leaves no place for the kids with other talents. For example, kids who are really good at math can’t exactly go up on stage with a giant blackboard and calculate pi as a talent because no one would care. It’s just like giving the dreaded demonstration speech in speech class – the kids with odd talents like that can’t exactly tell people how to draw the perfect landscape, can they?
Anyway, the talent show was a great success, ending with the tenth grade boys singing a… “lovely” rendition of “Pretty Woman”. Good American Idol audition material.
The next day, Saturday, the JM Speech Team traveled to Red Wing for their third meet of the season where they won third place as a big school team. There were twenty-six schools competing, and of course, we placed highly in Informative Speaking, with Alton Gresbrink placing first and Extemporaneous Speaking, with Andrew Massot placing second. So far, the JM Speech Team has not gone a single meet without placing as a team, so congratulations to our infinite awesomeness.
Stay tuned for reports about tomorrow night’s Science Fair and this Saturday’s speech meet at Bloomington Jefferson!
