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Candidates for student council president, Augie Stern and Jon Durgan, shake hands after the assembly, while Durgans VP running mate, Stacy Sundling, stands between them.

Student council candidates speak at assembly

Kate Lende, Geyser Adviser
April 8, 2024
Haiden Sunderlin borrows a laptop from student librarian Isaac Hauser on March 7. Park High does not have enough laptops to assign one to every student, so they are encouraged to bring their own devices.

School board approves high school technology levy to go on May ballot

Kate Lende, Geyser Adviser
March 7, 2024
Student Manager Kadence Winfrey stands ready with the basketballs during halftime of the last home game, Feb. 13.

[Photo] Park High’s biggest fan in the bleachers and on the sidelines

Ashley Strupp, Writer
February 22, 2024
BPA members Siobhan Stevenson and Silas Hjortsberg set strawberries out to dry in the home economics room, Feb. 13 after school.

[Photo] BPA club sells chocolate-covered strawberries for Valentine’s Day

Geyser Staff
February 14, 2024
Fiona Shinn sings What is Hip by Tower of Power along with the band.

[Photo] Fall assembly highlights athletic achievements and Ranger Spirit awards

Geyser Staff
October 27, 2023
City Commission chair Melissa Nootz explains how local government works during a visit to Park High October 23.

Local government officials visit with Park High classes

Kate Lende and Addyson Norquist
October 23, 2023
Freshman Avery Todd pulls Tadrian Pino on a cart he borrowed from Industrial Tech teacher Hunter James for Anything but a Backpack day. Davinn Beisch helps push the cart.

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Beau Blakeley lugs his cooler on wheels through the halls before school Tuesday.

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Sophomore Annie Keyes loads the contents of her backpack into a bucket before heading to class Tuesday.

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D-Pod teachers Bryan Beitel and Reid Lende are Beavis and Butt Head.

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Emma Malloy and Anna Lende dressed up as Rory Gilmore and her mom, Lorelei Gilmore, from the show Gilmore Girls

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Ella McBeth and Audrey OConnor are ready to join the road construction crew.

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Jason Strupp and James Melin are twin Kens in Barbie shirts.

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Sam Wadle convinced World Languages teacher Danny McGrath to be Thing 2 to his Thing 1.

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Principal Dust laughs as she receives yet another golf ball from a senior crossing the stage to graduate. Superintendent Lynne Scalia looks on.

Class of 2022 graduates with smiles, tears, and fanfare

Kate Lende, Advisor
June 6, 2022
Bailey Opitz receives a gift from attendance secretary Melissa Cahoon while teacher Julie Lentz looks on. Opitz worked as an office aide for Cahoon.

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Asher Petrulis takes a selfie with Principal Lori Dust when its his turn to cross the stage. Several seniors stopped for selfies with Dust during the ceremony.

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Reba Shandy smiles as she returns to her seat.

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Cassiday Fletcher grins on her way back to her seat, followed by Aaron Golden.

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Colter Edwards heads back to his seat, cap and diploma in hand.

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Trystin Butts returns to his seat after receiving his diploma.

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Simon Bishop clutches the basket he took from the stage, which Principal Dust was using to hold all the golf balls seniors handed her as they shook her hand.

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Brittney Behm returns to her seat.

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Superintendent Scalia and Principal Dust show off one of several baskets filled with golf balls handed to them by members of the class of 2022 in one last senior prank.

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English teacher Lynnette Evanson gestures towards the audience in her teacher address, capping a career of 40 years teaching.

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Science teacher Randy Mogen gives the teacher address during graduation, comparing the challenges in life to a jar of dried beans and a walnut. Mogen is retiring after 40 years in education.

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Coral Horn shares a peace sign during the graduation ceremony while Alejandra Kaliher-Tirado and Josh Jerde face forward.

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Summer Melin, Libby Kinsey and Emma Warhank eat during the summer barbeque in the courtyard.

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Seniors Sidney Denniston, Annika Coleman, Ilana Patberg, Guthrie Devine and Summer Melin perform one last time with the choir.

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Senior members of the Chamber Choir perform one last song under the direction of Hannah Anderson.

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Liam Higgins looks at a book his fifth grade teacher, Chris Pavlovich, gave him during the robing ceremony.

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World Languages teacher Daniel McGrath shares a moment with senior Logan Sites after placing his graduation robe on him. This year, valedictorians and salutatorians chose a staff member to participate in the robing ceremony during graduation.

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Zach Beal shakes the hand of his graduation walking partner, Giovanni Page, as they head up the aisle to be seated for the ceremony.

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August Stern, Dakota Marie Burgess, Rowdy Mitchell and Austin Maynard play in the band before the graduation ceremony starts.

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Garrett Stannard conducts the band before graduation starts.

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Julie Waldron, Gabe Holmes and Robert Durgan gather around the newly released yearbook during the senior BBQ on June 3.

Yearbooks arrive just in time for seniors’ last day of school

Kate Lende, Advisor
June 6, 2022
The class of 2022 tosses their caps into the air to celebrate the final moment of the graduation ceremony.

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Asher Petrulis picks up his graduation cap after tossing it into the air as administrators and school board members applaud onstage.

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Class body president Annika Coleman leads the class of 2022 in officially moving their tassels to indicate that theyve graduated.

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Max Stern receives a gift from English teacher Carol Powalisz as he returns to his seat after graduating.

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Megan Shannon clutches her diploma after walking across the stage to graduate.

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Cade Gubler returns to his seat after receiving his diploma.

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Carl Beardsley smiles as he returns to his seat after receiving his diploma.

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Fifth grade teacher Megan Brenna hugs her son, Gabe Holmes, after awarding him his diploma.

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Teachers look on during the graduation ceremony, including several elementary teachers who were invited to robe the valedictorians.

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Carter Bartz stands with his mother, Julie Bartz, after walking across the stage to graduate.

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Principal Lori Dust announces the class of 2022 as graduation begins.

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Amora Bauer high fives her walking partner as she enters the gym.

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Sophomores Ella Wood and Alphia Fanuzzi cast their votes for student council president during lunch on Monday.

[Photo] The Ranger Wrap-Up Episode 2: Student Council Candidates for President

February 21, 2022
Staff and their family enter the tipi in the courtyard during the staff feed on Nov. 19.

[Photo] Students use tipi in courtyard to celebrate Native American Heritage Month

Geyser Staff
November 19, 2021
Park High Senior Class of 2021

[Photo] Senior Future Plans

Cassiday Fletcher
May 3, 2021
Student council members prepare a video announcement March 5 to kick off back to school week.

[Photo] Student Council Campaigns Open Up This Week at Park High

Cassiday Fletcher, Geyser Staff Writer
March 8, 2021
The cheerleaders rev up the student section during a timeout in the Feb. 12 Ranger Rush girls varsity game.

[Photo] Girls varsity plays strong second half to beat Manhattan, 44-33

Geyser Staff
February 15, 2021
Athalia Windham sports a homemade Christmas present hat and self-decorated sweater while cutting out a virus snowflake in Mr. Mogens class, Dec. 22.

School gets in the holiday spirit before winter break

Kate Lende, Geyser Adviser
December 22, 2020
Secretaries Melissa Cahoon and Donna Fairchild get ready to distribute gift bags to Park High students on Dec. 21.

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Layne Boeh holds up the log centerpiece that he created in Erica Timmermans Ag Ed 1 class.

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James Estes welds pieces of a holiday metals project on Dec. 21.

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Cassiday Fletcher helps Cole Bartz and Jakob Cipriani put the finishing touches on their gingerbread house during first lunch, Dec. 21.

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B-cohort royalty (from left): Pavani Mitchum, Rebecca Shandy, Derek Zang, and Lily Weimer.

Homecoming royalty announced

Kate Lende
October 23, 2020
Summer Melin and Fionna Shin represent their classes in the relay.

B-day students celebrate homecoming

Kate Lende
October 22, 2020
John Adams leads the pack in the Homecoming assembly relay race Wednesday, Oct. 21.

Homecoming week capped by pep assembly

Kate Lende, Geyser Adviser
October 21, 2020
Green Initiative adviser Alecia Jongeward and team member Stella Davis hold the check for $15,000 from Sabanye Stillwater, which will help them install solar panels at Park High School, in the library on Nov. 18.

[Photo] Green Initiative continues quest for solar panel funding

November 3, 2019
Northern News Network station owner Taylor Brown shares the history of his radio station with journalism students Tyanna Cortez and Leinee Smith on September 26.

[Photo] Park High Geyser students attend journalism media day in Billings

October 3, 2019
Taylor Brown explains how the country station KGHL computerizes its playlist for broadcast.

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37 degrees and rain have not deterred the courtyard lunch crowd of Eva Molina, Gabe Nohl, Adam Lewis and Sophie Cajune, who are eating their lunch while standing on the courtyard benches Thursday. They are singing, you guessed it. Singing in the Rain.

Students singing in the rain despite the chilly fall weather

Kate Lende, Adviser
October 4, 2018
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