December 2014 - Mounds View Public Schools

The Irondale Eye
Official Newspaper of Irondale High School
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Volume 48, Issue 3December 5, 2014
Coach Tom Rodefeld Inducted to MGHCA Hall of Fame
On October 10, 2014, the
Minnesota Girls Hockey
Coaches Association
(MGHCA) inducted it’s
2014 Hall of Fame honorees. Among those being recognized is Tom
Rodefeld, head coach of
the Irondale Girls Hockey
Team.
The Hall of Fame is in its
second year, and the Minnesota Girls High School
Hockey is entering its 21st
year.
Other nominees included
Laura Halldorson, pioneer,
builder, and former U of
M Women’s coach, Sue
Ring-Jarvi, pioneer and
builder, Thomas Peart,
Totino Grace and long time
women’s college coach,
Pete Hyduke, Hibbing High
School Coach, and Tom
Rodefeld, Irondale High
School Coach.
The Eye asked Mr. Rodefeld
was asked a few questions
about his coaching career.
What was your first coaching experience?
I started coaching in 1987
at Minneapolis North
High School for Volleyball,
Mounds View for Hockey,
and Hill Murray for Track
in 1992
What is your greatest
accomplishment as an
athlete?
I was able to play 5 different
sports in college and the
friends and fun that I had
is my greatest accomplishment.
December 12
Seniors to Seniors Holiday
Concert and Luncheon
December 15, 6:30 PM
Holiday Choir Concert
December 20-January 4
No School
December 30
Mr. Mons’ Birthday
Wielinski Earns
Swimming Scholarship to University of
North Dakota
Newly inducted Girls Hockey Hall of Fame coach Tom Rodefeld, shown
here with some of the many teams he has coached in his career
Photo by C.J. Lundquist
What do you enjoy most
about coaching?
Working with the students
and watching them work
hard and get better every
day.
You have had a lot of
talented players come
through Irondale. Can
you pick an “All Time
Irondale” starting line up?
I could not, but we will be
coming out with a all timeteam later this year with the
help from the community.
What makes girls hockey
better than boys hockey?
They are not better, both
teams work very hard and
I am proud of both the
schools teams.
What do you enjoy doing
with your free time?
Teaching summer school
at Macalester College and
hanging out with my children.
Charity Week Starts December 8
Help Our Community and Have Some Fun
During the week of December 8-12, Irondale DECA is
asking Period 4 classes to
bring in donations. They
are looking for non-perishable food items, new or
gently used clothing, books,
school supplies and toys.
The class that brings in the
most items each day will be
awarded a food prize. Daily
prize donations are coming from Chipotle, Buffalo
Wild Wings, and Potbelly
Sandwiches. The class that
collects the most items for
the entire week will receive
a bonus prize. In previous
years, the top 10 classes for
the week will be invited to
a special event held on the
Friday before winter break.
Donations received will
help both the Irondale Pantry and the Ralph R. Reeder
Food Shelf. Both of these
programs benefit people
in the Mounds View/New
Brighton community.
Start bringing your donations on Monday. Follow
December 2014
December 8-12
DECA Charity Week
What is the best advice
you ever received when it
comes to coaching?
Just because you said it
does not mean they heard
it and even if they heard it
does not mean they understand it.
Clearly you have had a lot
of success as a coach, but
what was one of your biggest coaching failures and
how did you respond?
I know that seven years ago
we lost to Mound View in
sections in 5 overtimes. I
learned that I need to trust
the team and that we can
overcome bad times better
together.
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more information and daily
updates.
What is your favorite
hockey team (besides the
Knights, of course)?
Minnesota Gopher Women’s Team
What is your most embarrassing moment on the
ice?
I got hit in the shin by a
puck in practice on the shin
and it split my leg to the
bone. I did not know how
bad it was until one of the
girls saw the blood on the
ice.
IN THIS ISSUE:
• Pop Tab Drive Results
• Blood Drive
• “Heard Around Irondale”
• Poet’s Corner
• Irondale Speaks -Question of the Month
• #AKnightInTheCountry pics
• Sports Marketing and
Accounting Field Trips
• Horoscope!
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On November 12, Jacob
Wielinski signed his letter
of intent to attend the University of North Dakota and
be a member of their Men’s
Swimming Team. Irondale
celebrated the signing in
the Career Center.
Wielinski said he chose
UND because “the program
is moving in the right direction and I can see them
helping me excel in the
future. I am most looking
forward to unlimited food
and getting to swim with
two old team mates.”
When asked what he will
most miss most about
Irondale, he said, “I will
miss my friends and warm
hearted teachers.”
According to Wielinski, his
best (and favorite) swimming event is the 1650
freestyle, also known as the
mile.
Wielinski has set some
prett high personal goals
for himself this season. He
said, “I wish to go an Olympic trial cut in the mile. For
high school, I want to get
the state record in the 500
freestyle. I hope that, as a
team, we go above 500 this
year and many people go to
sections!”
Congrats to Jacob! Irondale
wishes you the best as you
move on in your career.
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December 5, 2014
Irondale Pops Mounds View in Can Tab Challenge
By Kaiya Ruff
Irondale Receives Free Books
The Irondale Volunteer
Service Club teamed up
with the Mounds View Volunteer Club to collect pop
tabs for the Shriner’s Hospital throughout the month
of October. The pop tabs
were turned into money for
Shriner’s Hospital to use to
purchase new wheelchairs
for children in need. To
ramp up the fun for charity,
Irondale and
Mounds View competed
to see which school can
collect the most pop tabs.
The principals at both
Irondale and Mounds
View agreed to dress in
the other’s school colors if
their school didn’t win! At
the end of the month, all
the pop tabs were weighed
and.... Irondale was victorious with 86.6 pounds to
Mounds View’s 65.2. We
look forward to seeing Mr.
Ridlehoover in maroon and
gold soon! A couple great
memories of the project:
On Halloween, a group of
students took pop tabs off
of the cans in the collecting
bin in the parking lot (with
permission of course). One
student was dressed as a
rock climber for school, and
decided to harness himself
to the collection bin! Safety
first, right? Another great
memory was when someone anonymously donated
a 13 pound bag of tabs.
Mr. Nelson was so excited
about it that he ran down
the hallway carrying the
bag, and, of course, the bag
broke. Hundreds of pop
tabs spilled out, but he said
it was worth it. Thank you
to everyone who brought
in tabs. We helped out an
amazing cause and beat
Mounds View!
Heard Around Irondale
Irondale HS has been selected to participate in the International Reading Association’s Young Adults’ Choices
project. As part of this project, we have received over
30 new titles of fiction and
nonfiction, and in return,
students who read one of
these titles will be asked
to take a very brief survey
about the book. The results
of this survey will be compiled in a national database
and the books will be rated
based on student feedback.
Take a look at some NEW
Young Adult fiction on display in the IMC TODAY!
Sucha Honored by VFW
Congratulations to the Gulden Family! Ms. Gulden (formerly Ms. Dahle for those who may be confused) gave birth
to a baby girl on Sunday, October 26th, 2014 @ 7:18 p.m.
Keira Jane Gulden weighed 7 lbs 13 oz and was 20 3/4” long.
Congratulations to Bill Sucha, who was surprised at the
November 13 band concert when he was presented with the
VFW’s (New Brighton Area Post) Teacher of the Year Award.
Bill was nominated by one his students, who wrote a compelling essay on him. He will move onto the Regional VFW
Competition for Teacher of the Year, with the possibility of
continuing on to State level. Keep up the great job, Bill Sucha!
By: Ela Piskorski
Good news! Advanced
Physical Science and AP
Biology teacher Mr. Helm
is pregnant! No, not his
wife; he himself is pregnant. Helm was shocked
when the doctor told him
the news. “Being a biology
teacher, I know this isn’t
possible, and that’s not just
because of my sex,” Helm
chuckled. “I’m a bit too
old to be having kids.” Not
only Helm is astonished by
this scientific impossibility. In their article about
Helm’s situation, Doctor Ira
Kane and Professor Harry
Phineas Block describe it
as “freakish” and “unthinkable.” Helm will be taken
in for study by the Mayo
Clinic at the beginning his
second trimester in January.
As a result of this isolation,
the baby shower will have
to take place earlier than
customary. It will occur on
Wednesday, December 10th
immediately after school
in room 334. Feel free to
stop by! The door may be
locked, but don’t let that
deter you.
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Vol. XLVIII, No. 3
I am…
Poet’s Corner
By Juan Uribe
I am Juan Ignacio Uribe Tellez, an
average mexican-american high
school student that people don’t fully
understand and know
I am urban and street smart, the
product of the streets
I am 17 years old now, a lucky age of
a survivor, not much kids where I’m
from never made to 17
I am from chicago IL, the chi-raqi
citizen, the chi-town, windy city
resident
I am from westside, south lawndale,
from 53rd st. and whipple to spaulding to california to mozart to 55-59th
to gage park /garfield , where I was
raised in the kingdom’s of the latin
kings and queens, black and gold was
the colors you avoided so you don’t
get whack
I am from where funerals, drugs like
china white, crack, and weed, and
shootings was a norm to me
I am from going to visit little village,
the area in chicago where it’s the
latino-hispanic bazaar or the Mexican version of little italy
where mobsters from Sicily use to
smuggle the rum and whisky and
now El Chapo’s sinaloan cartel brings
the coca y la mota
I was the kid who stayed away from
dope and gangs cause’ I’m the good
guy with hope in the 312
I am from a big familia, 100 or more,
I don’t even know, we reunite like an
aztec tribe
I am a mama’s boy, who cares cause
it’s complicated, con la amor de mi
marde o puro dismadre, you won’t
know but it means I love
I am from family parties, where we
had psole and mole’(rice with spicy
chocolate sauce), the females were
gossiping and male family members
were crudo from the coronas
I am where my pop and my mom
was struggling with immigration
problems, the immigrant’s struggle in
the American nightmare
Irondale Speaks!
I am a chicano; a 50% mexicano
mixed with the red, white, and blue
as my flag cause I’m 50% Americano
I am separated from two cultures,
one hates how I’m talking proper
English instead of Espanol and where
the American media label me the
Denis the illegal menace yet I was
born in the good ole u.s of a
I am from seeing revolution in the
corner, where there were guys wearing che guevara shirts, not knowing
his cause
I am from spaulding sawyer school,
the school where I was teased at for
being good and I wanted to act like a
soldier for the wrong family yet I was
inspired to be me, myself.
I am a hungry person, I love chicagostyled deep dish pizza with every
topping , chicharones with respados
y alote con queso y chile! simon,
those were the days in hot, muggy
chicago!
I am fair, nice and caring; la familia
es todo and ni modo
I am caring about others, I am the
the one who there for someone in a
time of pain and suffering
I am nice and respectful to others
cause MLK and Cesar Chavez taught
to fight for equal rights
I am courageous, a young man who
used courage to go against the problem I face everyday
I am shy and timid, not really a talkative person, but if get to know me
then I’m a friendly conversationalist
I am a relaxed calm person, I don’t
really worried about if I’m picked in
class but get stressed when I don’t
know the answer
I am informative, I about history
and current news cause my eyes are
opened
I am surprisingly romantic with passion in my heart, my idea of romance
ain’t about beauty on the outside, it’s
what really counts on the inside of
a person, my idea is she needs to be
loving, caring, and passionate and I
tell you, I look for those features in
a woman
NHS Fall Blood Drive
I imagine taking her to a beach in
Acapulco, holding her hand, while
we enjoy the sunrise, and the waves
crashing on the beach and the
seagulls talking in the sky; we smile
at each other and I hug her show my
affection for her
I am a human, I care for everything
in this life cause it’s the right thing
to do. I won’t give no money, I’ll give
someone something special that I
have infinite amount of and that is
amor, love to everyone, cause thats
how I was raised
I am an artist. I am not a Picaso, but
I’m working at that. I draw with my
pencil. My pencil finishes everything
that I see with my eyes. When I draw,
I am able to focus on the subject
rather than what is around me. My
art brings a message of hope and the
truth.
I am honest, I’ll be honest right now,
I was taught how to lie from family,
yet at the end, I was designed to be
honest to tell the truth, cause the
truth shall set you free
A big “Thank You” to everyone who donated blood
on November 13. We collected 94 units of blood,
which means the students
(and staff) of Irondale saved
188 lives! We’ll be hosting another blood drive
March 10, 2015 and are
looking to save even more
lives! Way to go Knights!
I am a Catholic, now Christian; I
believe in our lord Jesus Christ and
God cause he created me to be how
I really should be, myself. La Virgin
de Guadalupe, she my guardian,
who cares for our family through the
rough time
I am a Conservative Libertarian, I
might be a right winger but I believe
in a conservative right to be free and
preserve our precious liberty given
by our forefathers, but I disprove and
I’m aware that they use right-wing
death squads to kill innocents in
Central America and the Middle
East. Yeah, I’m an Republican elephant, not a Liberal donkey!
Finally, I am Juan, named after my
grandpa, named after San Juan,
(meaning Saint John) John or Johnny
if I were a gringo yankee, and I am
a guy who if everyone understood
they’d understand that I’m a very
nice guy who cares for you and
will always have your back in any
problem
What is the worst gift you have ever received?
Kaitlyn Dobbins - Grade 9
I got a book that I already
owned, from my aunt.
When I went to return the
book, I accidentally returned both of my copies,
so I had no book.
Louis Demonakos-Grade 10 Mai Mohammed - Grade 11 Megan Pederson - Grade 12
At Christmas I got a sheet
of paper saying I.O.U one
1955 Chevy model kit
I got a finger painting set
from my grandma for my
11th birthday. What kind
of 11 year old plays with
finger painting sets??? She
also sent me some nutrition
facts, way to be super slick
about my weight, grandma.
I gave both to my little
brothers.
I received a doll from
grandma when I was little
that I never played with.
It had red hair and was
around my height. It
smelled funny at the time
and I was creeped out by
it. I hope to never receive
something like it again!
Ms. Armstrong - Staff
I wanted a queen sized mattress, so my parents gave me
their old mattress for my
16th birthday.
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Sadie Hawkins Dance 2014
#AKnightInTheCountry Contest
The Irondale Student council, sponsors of this year’s
Sadie Hawkins Dance, provided a prize for the most
unique Sadies Invitation.
Couples were encouraged to
be creative with their pro-
posals and to post them on
Twitter or Instagram with
#AKnightInTheCountry.
Lots of creative entries were
received. The winning entry
received a movie-themed
gift basket, courtesy of the
Student Council.
To see more pictures, or to
find the winner, go to
@IHSstudco or search #AKnightInTheCountry
December 5, 2014
Caution: Mad Prankster on the Loose!
Mr. Poepard arrived at Irondale on November 14, only to
find that his office had been filled with colorful latex balloons. As you can see from the picture, he is clearly not
happy about this. Any information leading to the capture
of the prankster will be greatly appreciated, but probably
not rewarded.
Sports Marketing Students
Hit Target Field
The Sports, Entertainment
and Hospitality students attended a field trip to Target
Field. Students got a behind
the scenes tour, including
the visitors locker room,
the Champions Club, dugout, press box and suites.
THE EYE NEWSPAPER
Volume 48, Issue 3
STAFF
Carlos Baez
Katlyn Dickinson
Riley O’Neill
Ela Piskorski
PHOTOGRAPHER
C.J. Sandquist
ADVISERS
Bill St. Martin
Brian Beardsley, Tech. Adviser
Eric Nelson, Principal
Andrew Mons, Assoc. Principal
Jennifer Lodin, Assoc. Principal
POLICY STATEMENT
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They finished the tour with
a Q & A session about
Accounting Classes Build
Partnership With Medtronic
The Irondale Accounting
class, taught by Ms. Klimek,
has been participating in an
eMentor program through
BestPrep where they are
matched with employees
from Medtronic.
Students send weekly emails
about a variety of post
high school topics and
career
related
skills.
Students met their mentor
face to face during a celebration in November.
After meeting and discussing a few ice breaker questions, the mentors took the
students on a tour of the facility and showed them what
daily life was like at their jobs.
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the history of the Twins
and how they market the
team using social media.
Students then headed over
to the Minneapolis Convention Center where they were
walked through the facility
and discussed how the staff
would rent the space and
prepare it for various events.