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Seward High Senior, Maryn Johnson was recognized as the Youth Rotarian for March by the Seward Rotary Club at their recent weekly luncheon meeting at the Jones Bank Auditorium on Wednesday, March 6th at noon. She was introduced by Rotarian Anita Foor and presented with a sack of materials on Seward and Rotary and the Rotary Club Banner. She is the daughter of Dr. Jill and Brady Johnson of Seward.
Maryn is an ambitious student, taking advanced and dual credit classes through Nebraska Wesleyan, Southeast Community College and Concordia University in Seward. These advanced classes will all be able to count toward her college graduation hours in the future. She was also named a PRIDE Award winner for her Outstanding Preparation in Biology and has been on the SHS Honor Roll numerous times.
Maryn loves sports and is an avid golfer. She was a member of the SHS Golf team and was named “Practice Player of the Year” her junior year and lettered in Golf for the last three years. Maryn’s Golf Team went undefeated in all of the duals and triangulars, as well as placing high in all of their tourney’s, including first at York, second at Central Conference and third at District Finals--which led to qualifying for the NSAA Nebraska State Golf Tournament and placing 11th overall as a team!
Maryn participated in SHS track and basketball her freshman year, and this year was a varsity member of the SHS women’s wrestling team.
She has been member of the SHS FFA program for three years and participated in various District Contests over the years. She has enjoyed serving as an SHS Ambassador for the all four years of her high school career-hosting guests, giving tours and being part of the front line for Seward High. She was selected to attend and represent SHS and the Seward Rotary at the Rotary District Youth Leadership weekend seminar (RYLA). She has enjoyed being part of the SHS Yearbook staff this year.
In the community, Maryn has been a longtime (six year) member of her local 4-H Club and worked many hours of volunteer time at the Seward County FairGrounds.
Maryn is currently employed by Ridgewood Rehab and Care Center in Seward as a Dietary Aide, and has also worked for Windmill Pines Tree Farm in Customer Service, the City of Seward and Dowding Pool as a lifeguard and with Premiere Detasseling of Seward as a detasseler.
She is a lifetime member of St. John Lutheran Church in Seward and a four year member of her Godparent program at St. John’s. She attended the National Youth Gathering in Texas-representing St. John Lutheran Church and is considered one of the voices of youth in the congregation.
Her “Service Above Self” service includes donating her time as a Seward High Ambassador, serving as a Summer Horizon’s Teacher’s Assistant, volunteering as a Youth Golf Camp helper, and spending time at the Blue River Pet Rescue program. She has worked with the local FFA Chapter in a variety of volunteer efforts and projects and hosted and raised funds for St. John PTL with a special Pool Party, where she served as the lifeguard. She has also worked on many volunteer projects with her membership in 4-H and worked and cleaned-up the fairground annually, preparing for the County Fair.
After high school, she plans to attend Chadron State College and major in Rangeland Management. She someday hopes to work in a National Park, such as Yellowstone or Glacier as a Forest Ranger.
She was presented with a book scholarship and will be recognized again at the SHS Honors Night in May. She is now a finalist for the Youth Rotarian of the Year Scholarship. Applications are still being accepted for Youth Rotarian of the Month. One student is selected monthly to be honored. Applications can be obtained from the SHS Guidance Counselor or contact Clark Kolterman at clark.kolterman@sewardschools.org.
Seward High members of the 2023-2024 Academic Decathlon competed Saturday, January 20th, 2024 in the Large School Regional Division of the Nebraska Academic Decathlon program. SHS High School seniors selected to participate and represent Seward High in the competition include Tristan Cutshall-Cherry, Sjoen Munk, Domenic Artigas, Kohltyn Lindau, Madison Kramer, Mariya Corner, Evett Howe, and Maryn Johnson. Their advisor is Mrs. Noelle Baker. The Tech advisor is Craig Williams.
The team was recognized with 30 individual medals and won the Bronze Medal in the Quiz Bowl Contest. Sjoen Munk was named the top individual score on the Seward Team and won the Top Scorer Medal for SHS. The two top teams for the Large Division were Omaha Gross-First and Seward-Second, followed by Lexington, York, Elkhorn North and Omaha Marian.
Awards included in Art-Mariya Corner-Silver, Tristan Cutshall-Cherry-Bronze, Alternates: Koltyn Lindau-Bronze, Chase Sheldon-Gold. In Music-Dominic Artigasw-Bronze, Tristan Cutshall-Cherry-Silver, Mariya Corner-Bronze, Alternates: Koltyn Lindau-Gold, Chase Sheldon-Gold. In Economics-Domenic Artigas-Silver, Mariya Corner-Gold, Alternates: Koltyn Lindau-Silver, Evett Howe-Bronze, Chase Sheldon-Gold. In Math-Sjoen Munk-Bronze, Mariya Corner-Silver, Alternates: Evett Howe-Silver, Koltyn Lindau-Bronze, Chase Sheldon-Gold. In Literature-Sjoen Munk-Bronze, Domenic Artigas-Bronze, Mariya Corner-Gold, Tristan Cutshall-Cherry-Silver, Alternates: Evett Howe-Silver. In Science-Domenic Artigas-Bronze, Tristan Cutshell-Cherry-Gold, Mariya Corner-Silver, Alternates-Koltyn Lindau-Silver, Evett Howe Bronze.
The US Academic Decathlon program follows the overall curricular them on “Technology and Humanity.” The tests were given to the students were multiple choice, on line and in the subject areas of Science, Literature-which includes the novel “The Lathe of Heaven,” Art –with an emphasis on art fundamentals, Music, Social Science, Economics and Mathematics-promoting general math, geometry and an introduction to differential calculus. Each 30 minute test had 50 multiple choice questions. The tests on Art, Economics, Math and Music were in Seward on the 17th and the rest of the tests and the Quiz Bowl event were given at the Regional meeting, at the in person event, on Saturday the 20th, 2024 at Pius the X High School.
The students were divided into teams based on their academic grade scores and competed only with other students with the same grade point averages. All the students took the same tests. Students were recognized individually and as a team. The students also competed in a special Academic Quiz Bowl based on the theme-“Technology and Humanity”-as the social studies test and placed third over all the teams competing.
The sponsor of the Seward High School Academic Decathlon Team are the School District of Seward-High Ability Learner Program (HAL). The school district purchases the curriculum/study materials. The advisor/coach for the program at Seward High is SHS Counselor Noelle Baker. Clark Kolterman served as the monitor/proctor for the testing.
Photo: Members of the 2023-2024 Seward High Academic Decathlon Team include L-R
Back Row-Chase Sheldon, Tristan Cutshall-Cherry, Sjoen Munk, Domenic Artigas, Kohltyn Lindau, Madison Kramer, Front Row Seated L-R Mariya Corner, Evett Howe, Maryn Johnson. Their Advisor is Mrs. Noelle Baker, Clark Kolterman served as the Proctor and Craig Williams served as the Tech Advisor.
SHS Senior, Sjoen Munk was recognized as the February Youth Rotarian during the Seward Rotary Club’s noon luncheon meeting on Wednesday, February 14th held at the Jones Bank in Seward. He is the son Darcy Tromanhauser and Jon Munk of Bee, Nebraska. He was introduced to the club by Rotarian Anita Foor.
Sjoen is an excellent student. His cumulative GPA is 4.1 and has been on the Honor Roll at SHS all 13 consecutive terms of his high school career. He has taken many dual credit and AP classes during his high school career and scored a perfect 5 grade on the AP Human Geography Test. His ACT score is 34 out of 36 points and is PSAT score is 1420. He is a National Merit Scholar Semifinalist and received the College Board National Rural and Small-Town Recognition Award. He also won the Lincoln Elks Lodge #80 Special Recognition for Outstanding Performance in a Foreign Language.
He loves the Arts and has been selected for the Nebraska All State Chorus for both 2022 and 2023 as a Tenor I and a Bass II. He participated in the UNK Honor Choir, The Concordia Honor Choir and the Concordia Summer Chamber Choir. He is a member of the SHS Select Choir, The Seward High Jazz Choir and participated in many District Music Contests-receiving top awards. He received the peer voted SHS Choir Leadership Award and enjoys singing in German. Sjoen was a member of the SHS Jazz Band for two years.
Sjoen is a member of the SHS Speech team – on the Varsity Level-competing in Poetry. Last year he was a District Finalist.
He is the captain of the successful SHS Quiz Bowl, placing first at the Concordia University History Quiz Bowl, Second at the Nebraska State Fair Quiz Bowl (twice) and first at the Central City Quiz Bowl. He was Captain for the SHS Academic Decathlon Team, and placed as the top score for the local SHS Team. He was in the Honors Division and won two medals at the Regional level, and the team qualified for the State Contest-placing second overall in the Large School Division-only to be beat by Omaha Skutt.
Sjoen was the SHS Seward Representative to Boys State in 2023 and a Delegate and an Advanced Leadership Delegate for Launch Leadership Workshops. He now serves as a volunteer staff for the program.
He is one of the long time veteran members in the SHS Key Club and co-chairs a host of events, including the annual Multicultural Fair for the area Elementary schools. He enjoys the service projects and working the concession stand. He is an active member/leader for the SHS Skills USA program and competed in state contests at the annual conferences in team and solo technical events dealing with computer software.
He is currently employed at the local Seward Civic Center as a night Assistant On-Site Manager, assisting with the various groups that meet there.
Sjoen’s volunteer efforts include weekly visits to the Ridgewood Senior Living and Rehabilitation Center as a Life Enrichment Volunteer, working with memory care residents, and volunteering through the service projects of the local Key Club and Skills USA-collecting food, blood drive promotions and other various hands on activities to help others. He is also a volunteer staff for the Launch Leadership youth leadership camp for Middle and High School students.
He plans to attend Colby College in Waterville, Maine this fall and Major in Chemistry.
He will be recognized again at the Honors Night at SHS in May and will receive a book scholarship at that time. He will also be a finalist for the annual Seward Rotary “Service Above Self” Award and Scholarship announced in May. He was presented a bag of Seward and Rotary Information and a Rotary Banner.
Applications are still being accepted for the Youth Rotarian-as one student is recognized monthly and can be obtained through the local SHS Counselor’s office.
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