Penn's Boys and Girls Swimming and Diving Teams took first place in every event as the Kingsmen beat South Bend Washington. The Penn Girls scored a 153-22 victory, and the Penn Boys defeated Washington 149-29. Meagan Ronci won first place in four events to highlight the effort of the Penn Girls. Matt Pruitt won blue ribbons in three events to lead the Kingsmen Boys.

Click the link for complete results: https://docs.google.com/viewerng/viewer?url=http://pennant.phmschools.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Penn-vs-Washington-Coed-12-6-16.pdf&hl=en_US

Coach Brad Harper took 14 varsity wrestlers to Lake Central on Saturday for the Lake Central Harvest Classic, a prestigious, early season tournament that brings the number 1, 5, 6, and 12th ranked teams respectively along with 12 other teams.

Many ranked wrestlers made the journey to Lake Central Saturday.

In a tough field, Penn had four finalists, including Evan Light at 106, Kory Cavanaugh at 113, Jeffrey Harper at 126, and Jarod Swank at 170.

Swank won the championship at 170 pounds.

Light, Cavanaugh, and Harper each finished second.

Tanner DeMien placed third at 120, and Preston Risner placed fourth at 138. Trace Manspeaker placed fifth at 145, Jacob Suski got sixth at 160, and Chris Momotiuk placed eighth at 182. The Kingsmen finished 3rd overall in the team race.

The wrestling team is in action at home on Wednesday, Dec. 7 against South Bend Riley.

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The starting time for Penn High School’s Girls Basketball game against Jimtown scheduled for Friday, Dec. 2, has been changed.

Jimtown has cancelled the Junior Varsity game due to injuries.

The start time for the Varsity game between the Kingsmen and Jimmies has been moved up to 7 p.m.

Penn High School’s Fine Arts Academy presents, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” on Friday, Dec. 2 (7 p.m.), Saturday, Dec. 3 (7 p.m.) and Sunday, Dec. 4 )3 p.m.) in the Center for Performing Arts. Tickets can be purchased online at https://www.ticketracker.com/store/events/1529 .

    “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” is a comedic play written by William Shakespeare. It portrays the events surrounding the marriage of Theseus, the Duke of Athens, to Hippolyta.     

Penn High School students excelled in the Indiana Thespian Society Regional Competition on Saturday, Nov. 19.

Penn’s troupe earned first place for the play, “The Last Train”, and took best ensemble and best technical effort.

Jake Callender was the Student Thespian Officers' choice and Monte Teeple was awarded best actor. 

There are seven Indiana Thespian Society Regional  around the state from October through November. 

Qualifiers advance to the State Competition at Indiana-South Bend, Jan. 20, 21, and 22. 

“The Last Train” depicts the horrors that Jewish people experienced while being transported to the concentration camps. The play focuses a young German soldier and his inner conflict of following orders or doing the right thing when he discovers that his childhood sweetheart is on one of the trains.

According to Penn Theatre Department Coordinator Courtney Qualls, the "The Last Train" cast and crew started their journey in May with auditions, but the group has only been able to rehearse for a few hours a week since school started in August.

“I am so proud of everything they accomplished in that short amount of rehearsal time,” Qualls said of her students. “At the very beginning of this process, I charged them all with the task of finding a real-life person to provide the base of their character, so every character you see on stage is based in truth, from the smallest child to the top Nazi officers.”

Qualls said that the Penn students have thrived in performing a challenging play.

“Throughout this process students, worked together and challenged each other, and myself, to be the best we could be, and that effort came through loud and clear to the judges,” Qualls said. “I cannot wait to take the feedback we received and continue evolving as we move to state in January!”

By EMILY MASTERSON

Student reporter

This Thanksgiving – Thursday, Nov.  24, Penn High School’s Marching Kingsmen band will be in the spotlight in America’s oldest Thankgiving Day Parade.

The Penn Marching Band will perform in the 6 ABC Dunkin’ Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade.  This particular parade has been a Thanksgiving tradition for 97 years. A total of 119 students, parents, directors, and volunteers will be involved with the trip.

Live coverage begins at 8:30 a.m. and is available online to viewers in the Penn High School area on 6abc.com/live,  https://www.facebook.com/6abcThanksgivingDayParade/ and https://www.facebook.com/6abcActionNews/?fref=ts.

The Marching Kingsmen will perform a medley of holiday songs for the event. Penn’s band is one of 19 marching bands from across the country selected from hundreds of other marching bands who applied to participate in the event. There is even a band from Montego Bay, Jamaica, marching in the parade.

“The parade is a great opportunity for the band to perform on a national stage, and we are really looking forward to being a part of such a historic tradition,” Penn Marching Kingsmen director Chris Paulson said.

Besides the parade, this trip is an exciting experience for band students, as they get the chance explore and learn about different places in our country.

On Wednesday, Nov. 23, the band will go sightseeing in Philadelphia, as the students visit the downtown Historic District, Independence Hall, and the National Constitution Center.

After the parade on Thursday, the band will travel to New York City, where the students will have Thanksgiving dinner.

On Friday, students will be sightseeing in New York City. The tour includes stops at the 9/11 memorial, and the Radio City Christmas Show at Radio City Music Hall.

Saturday, November 26, will be the band’s last day in New York; and it will be spent visiting Rockefeller Center, Sightseeing in Times Square, and going to see the hit Broadway play, “Aladdin”.

Band students are thrilled for this opportunity.

“Being in an event this big and this well known is a huge deal for me, despite the fact that we're only in the spotlight for a few seconds,” Marching Kingsmen student Jacob Forte said. “I remember seeing Penn in videos and news articles about all these huge parades around the country and it just blows my mind that I'm a part of that now.”

Penn High School’s Football Team will play in the Class 6-A Northern Semi-State at Carmel on Friday, Nov. 18.

Kickoff is set for 7:30 p.m.

The winner of the Penn (12-0) at Carmel (8-4) game will play the winner of the Center Grove (11-1) at Ben Davis (9-3) game on Friday, Nov. 25, at 7 p.m. in the State Championship game at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

Tickets to the Penn at Carmel Football Semi-State game are on sale in the Athletic Office until 11 a.m., Friday, November 18.

Semi-State tickets cost $10.

Tickets to the Semi-State game will not be on sale at the Educational Services Center.

Teachers and media specialists in Indiana want to promote reading for fun, and that's why the Eliot Rosewater program was first started.  There are lots of other awards for books that are voted on by experts in literature, such as the Newberry Medal for children's books, Best Books for Young Adults sponsored by the American Library Association and the Nobel Prize for Literature.  Now Indiana’s high school students have their very own book awards program called the Eliot Rosewater Indiana High School Book Award. (It's named after a character in some of Kurt Vonnegut's novels.) The award is named after an Indiana author as a way of honoring all Hoosier authors.  The name of the award is often shortened to just "Rosie Award."

Each year books are nominated for the award by a committee which includes high school students, media specialists and English teachers.  Approximately 20 books are selected. Students participating in this program will read five of the twenty books that have been nominated for this award.  Those students who have read more than one of the books may vote for their favorite in April. The votes are sent to Indianapolis where all of the votes from across the state of Indiana are tallied and the winner is then announced.

2020-2021 Rosie Nominees

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2018-2019 Rosie Nominees

2017-2018 Rosie Nominees

2016-2017 Rosie Nominees

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