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With the opening of a new Millard high school,

students were forced to part separate ways with

loved ones while adjusting to abundant changes,

all the while deciding ... by Michelle Lee

rom the first had been lost to retire-
eltering day of the ment or West. While on a trip
to the Great
w year, students In the district, too , Smoky
Mountains
could sense a differ- the 'usual' was being National Park
in Tennessee,
ence. The halls no altered. Ron Witt, su- junior Jen
Nervig
longer pulsated with perintendent of Millard suggests to
junior Jolene
the crushing bodies for five years, resigned Williamson
which passage
and voices of 2307 stu- just a month before the she should
take. This was
dents; that number was start of school. His a difficult
decision many
reduced to 1920 by the resignation, along with students
opening of the new dis- the fresh ideas gener- attempted to
make this year.
trict high school, Mill- ated by the new lead-
ard West. ership of Keith Lutz,
The opening of superintendent for the
West affected almost every aspect of school , interim , marked the beginning or a new era; a
whether it be larger class sizes due to the relo- move in a different direction under new leader-
cation of 25 teachers, football games in which ship.
the new rivals were former teammates, or the The changes were evident. In order to
absence of close friends with whom every sec- adjust, new roads had to be paved. The old
ond of the day used to be spent. classes, activities, and anticipations of last year
Well-known faces no longer lingered in would no longer hold true, so students had to
familiar halls, although students found them- take steps to form their own separate pas-
selves searching for them before remembering sages; new, stronger identities and freshly bull-
their departures to college, retirement, or West. dozed pathways leading to roads to be taken in
The second football game of the year the future soon emerged.
pitted North against West. Former friends, team- Choosing a passage was no easy task; it
mates, and classmates were now the enemy. was instead a process filled with self-question-
Upon meeting up with MW students and teach- ing and tough decisions. However, in order to
ers, MN didn't know whether to hit or hug their adjust to differences and start anew, it was
new rivals . necessary. NOW was the time for students to
Most students had , ·for years, anticipated make their journeys from the confusion of not
a certain teacher's class. However, by the time knowing which passage to take to the finality of
they reached that level, many of these teachers finding their separate passages. •

Opening