Forum, May 5: Hanover High School mascot change is an important first step
Published: 5/4/2021 10:00:04 PM
Modified: 5/4/2021 10:00:03 PM
Hanover High School mascot change is an important first step
Valley News Sports Editor Greg Fennell did a superb job addressing the decision of the Hanover High School Council to discontinue the use of the Marauder as the school mascot (“Hanover’s mascot move,” May 1).
The coaches of the Hanover High School boys soccer program are grateful to our players, and the entire student body, for meaningfully engaging in discussions about misogyny, sexual violence and their assumptions around masculinity.
We’ve been following the discussions as they have developed, and we’ve been having our own, as well. We support the recent vote from the Council to replace the Marauder mascot and believe it signals an empathy for others and a willingness to address these issues.
Hanover High students bond with long-term sub, petition to make her full time
York Dispatch
An online petition created by Hanover High School students to save their substitute teacher s job had amassed nearly 1,000 signatures as of Monday morning.
A group of high school juniors launched the petition two weeks ago after connecting with their substitute math teacher, Leah Sieber, who started teaching algebra and geometry classes at the high school in October when the former teacher went on extended leave.
Jaeda Kuhn, 16, one of the students who created the petition, said she had a hard time understanding math before Sieber took over as her teacher. Her grade went up after Sieber started teaching.
Local roundup: Taber’s five-point day fronts Lebanon win
Kayla Taber
Modified: 4/30/2021 10:57:19 PM
WEARE, N.H. Lebanon High girls lacrosse took advantage of a John Stark team on break and missing three players to win, 17-3, on Friday.
Lebanon (2-2) was led by a strong game by junior Kayla Taber, who scored two goals and assisted three more. Junior Catherine Cole and freshman Maddie Jewell each scored three goals and recorded one assist. Junior Molly Smith finished with two goals and assisted two more. Senior Sydney Gonyea chipped in two goals and one assist.
Senior goalie Lena Nowell saved 12 shots, including all nine John Stark shots in the second half.
IMHO: It’s Hanover’s right to change its mascot
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Modified: 4/30/2021 10:58:19 PM
The image with which Hanover High School athletes are identified is changing. The time has come for all of us to change with it.
Back in mid-March, the Hanover High School Council a body in existence since 1977, made up of about four dozen students, staff and members of the school community and responsible for much of what happens within school walls approved a motion to retire its Marauder mascot and logo for good, and it did so by a considerable margin (38-2, with two abstentions). The decision came after months of research, debate and votes, following the appropriate parliamentary format, and it was given the green light by the school’s interim principal, Jim Logan, within a week of the vote.
Local roundup: Hanover softball nets first victory of season
Staff Reports
Modified: 4/26/2021 11:23:00 PM
NORWICH Every Hanover High softball player scored at least one run as the Marauders picked up their first victory of the spring season in a 22-10 defeat of Fall Mountain on Monday afternoon.
Hanover (1-4) entered the bottom of the fifth with a two-run lead and scored nine times in the frame to force the mercy rule. Freshman Sage Johnson drove in senior Grace Lewandowski on a sacrifice for the walk-off win.
Senior Emilee Jones pitched all five innings for the Marauders. Junior Izzy Kachikis went 4-for-4 with four singles, four runs scored and one stolen base.