Jake Marshall Honored as the Seward High Fine Arts Student of the Month for March

March 08, 2017

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The Seward High Fine Arts Youth of the Month is Jake Marshall.  Jake is the son of Dorothy and Mitch Marshall of Seward.  .

Jake is very involved in a host of Fine Arts activities at SHS.  He is very much a leader in the Seward High School music activities-a leader in both the vocal and instrumental departments at SHS.  He currently served as a drum major for the SHS Marching Band and two years as a section leader for the Marching Blue Jays.  He is also a member of the SHS Jazz Band and Symphonic Band.  Jake is a four year member/leader in the SHS Swing Choir, a member of the Select Choir, Mixed Choir and the 2015 All State Choir.  He has participated in numerous special honor band and choir activities, including the Concordia University Musical Arts Day.  He also has been cast a lead in the musical presentation every year of his high school career.

He is involved in various projects with the SHS Skills USA service and vocational organization-competing and named a State Medalist twice at the Skills USA State Conference.

He is a leader and co-captain of the SHS Speech team-double entered in Humorous Prose and the drama (OID) team, along with the humorous prose literature event as well!  He was a finalist at the State Optimist Speech Contest and participated in the Poetry Out Loud program, as well as the VFW Voice of Democracy Speech Contest.  He was also very involved with the State Fair Education Contests and captured First Place in the High School History/Social Studies Test.

He has commanded leads in the two recent One Act plays at SHS that were involved in the competition contests and has received the Outstanding Actor Award at the Conference and District contests.  He was the first runner up in the local HOBY leadership   program and was one of the two Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) recipients last year-sponsored by the Seward Rotary Club.  

He is a summer member of the Concordia University Summer Chamber Youth Choir and the Seward Municipal Band. Jake serves as the co-captain of the SHS Quiz Bowl team and participates in the UNL Math Day annually. 

Jake is an active member of St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Seward and a strong voice of their youth program.  He is in the church choir, band and serves as a cantor.  He is also very active in their local God Parent Youth Group program at St. Vincent’s. 

He will attend Nebraska Wesleyan and major in Physics, eventually becoming an Engineer.