Mr. Sam Roflow is one of the amazing teachers at McNicholas High School. Roflow teaches in the Theology department, mainly the morality course. He is also an alumnus of McNicholas and has coached the baseball team at McNicholas. He has been with the school for 25 years. As a high school student, Roflow’s journey was … More Teacher Feature: Mr. Roflow
Note: Losekamp uses alliteration each morning to describe the upcoming day, as a way to inspire the students. Mr. Bill Losekamp is one of the tantastic teachers here at McNicholas High School. He is a Purcell Marian graduate but says “All three of my kids have come through here so I almost consider myself a … More Teacher Feature: Mr. Bill Losekamp
The Mardi Gras dance is an experience unique to McNicholas High School. This tradition is one of the students’ favorites to celebrate. The event combines a ceremony to celebrate the students who embody the McNicholas value and then a dance. Along with the festivites, the Mardi Gras Banner Competition showcases the themes of Mardi Gras. … More McNicholas students celebrate and prepare for 70th annual Mardi Gras Ball
The McNicholas Theatre Department will debut the 2023 spring musical Xanadu written by Douglas Carter Beane, Jeff Lyne, and John Farrar from March 2nd-5th at the Anderson Center. The musical is set in the 1980s following an artist, Sonny Malone, who is struggling when he encounters a young, Greek muse who inspires him to create … More McNicholas Theatre presents ‘Xanadu’
Mrs. Angie Noble has been working at McNicholas for 26 years. She has chosen to stay at McNicholas for her career because the community feels more like a family than going to work every day. Noble first wanted to become a journalist, but when she kept on switching majors, her advisor at Bowling Green State … More Teacher Feature: Mrs. Angie Noble
One of McNicholas’ winter sports, offered to both men and women athletes, is bowling. The women’s bowling season is coming to an end with a record of 1-14. Besides their record of 1-14, the team is positive and ready for new matches coming their way. The women’s bowling match this week was Feb. 6, which … More Girls McNicholas bowling season comes to an end
Kairos is a four-day retreat for juniors and seniors held at the Milford Spiritual Center where they all come together to dive deeper into their faith and share new things with a small group from their grade. The students that attend have kept many of the aspects secret to avoid students going into it with … More Kairos 133: uniting students in different ways
Willy Corbett coached baseball on and off for fourteen years and brought the boys teams to the state. He was also a retired teacher well known in the community. Now, as the head coach of softball, he has many new ideas for the upcoming softball season. With softball’s preseason here, there are many things the … More Softball team gears up for their season with training under Coach Willy Corbett
Geometry teacher, Mr. Matthew Brunner has been at McNicholas High School for two years. He has already made the school a better place. Brunner has started up a new team at McNicholas High School: The Robotics Team. They are a group of students who program, design, and create robots to enter into competitions. This is … More Teacher Feature: Math teacher, Mr. Matthew Brunner, creates the Robotics Team
The Rocket Raffle is a school-wide fundraiser, in which people can buy raffle tickets for a chance to win a $10,000 prize. This year, the tickets cost $25 each or 5 for $100, and were for sale for a 3-week period in January. The proceeds from the Rocket Raffle go directly to tuition assistance, which … More Rocket Raffle has a successful second year
The chapel, on the first floor of the convent, was built in 1915 for the sisters of St. Joseph. The chapel was used for the students and nuns that lived there for prayer and Mass throughout all the years it has been here. The chapel is still in use for modern-day Mass, as it was … More The history of the chapel at McNicholas
After a year-and-a-half process of experimenting and hypothesizing, McNicholas sophomores and juniors were selected to participate in the 38th Annual McNicholas Science Fair on Thursday, Jan. 26. Students chose and performed their experiment when they took Biology, which can be taken as a freshman or sophomore, as well as researching information to expand their ideas. … More McNicholas High School hosts its 38th Annual Science Fair
McNicholas has held many raffles since its first opening years, but starting last year, the Rocket Raffle has significantly stood out as the most successful of the raffles. The fundraiser is student-led and puts all proceeds directly towards tuition assistance for future McNicholas students. “Last year was the largest student-led fundraiser in the history of … More Rocket Raffle provides direct tuition assistance to future McNicholas students
Christmas is a special time around McNicholas High School celebrated with daily themes, lights up around in hallways and Christmas décor all over. Teachers play Christmas music all day to get all the Rockets into a festive mood. One of the perks of being a student at McNicholas is the holiday spirit in the school. The themes … More Christmas Spirit at McNicholas
Winter is on its way and Men’s Basketball is about to start their season. The first game is December 6th at home vs the Dayton Carrol Patriots. Tim Monahan, head coach said that he was excited for another competitive schedule for both league and non-league play. Monahan said “There’s nothing that beats Friday night GCL … More Mens Basketball Prepare to Start the Season
Every few weeks at McNicholas high school, the Rockets watch various clips about other students being asked about their hot takes, favorite holiday, and other simple interview questions during their lunches. Technology teacher, Barb Gillming started these small skits and interviews in 2004 with former theology teacher, David Sandmann and his graduating class. Gillming’s theory … More Bringing back Rocket Reports
Mr. Shawn Young is one the amazing teachers at McNicholas. He is an alumnus from the graduating class of 1982. Mr. Young teaches 6 classes this year. He states, “I teach four classes of Modern U.S History and I teach two classes of advances placement U.S History.” Young has been a teacher for a longer … More Teacher Feature: Mr. Shawn Young
In many schools, standardized testing is a prevalent evaluation of a student’s abilities. Encompassing English, Science, History, Math, and cognitive tests, standardized testing focuses on many different aspects of a student’s potential academic knowledge. McNicholas uses a few different forms of standardized testing for evaluations, including the most common IOWAs and MAP testing. IOWA testing … More Standardized testing should not be a determining factor of academic success
Teacher Feature with Mrs. Almer Mary Walsh Mrs. Chelsea Almer is the librarian at McNicholas, a position she’s held for six years. Previously, Almer worked at Hamilton County library for some years after she had been a librarian at Guardian Angels School for 5 years. “The thing that I like most about being a librarian … More Teacher Feature: Mrs. Chelsea Almer
McNicholas welcomed many new teachers to the faculty this school year. The McNicholas Milestone is starting “Teacher Features” to highlight teachers for their excellence in their role as a teacher at McNicholas. Mr. Eric Hickman, a Biology and Environmental science teacher, is our first teacher feature. Hickman has been teaching for 30 years. He planned … More Teacher Feature: Mr. Eric Hickman
The Theatre Department fall production debuted on November 3rd-6th at the Jeanne Spurlock Theater. Kodachrome is a play written by Adam Szymkowicz about grief, love, and moving on. The play follows a woman, The Photographer, who is trying to move on from her hometown and accept that not everything is in her control. The … More ‘Kodachrome’ is an artistic success
On Friday, October 21st, 2022, Taylor Swift released her tenth studio album called Midnights. It is about thirteen sleepless nights throughout her life. This album is under the techno-pop category, a new genre for Swift, and holds all Top 10 Billboard songs currently. So far, for this album Swift has released two music videos: “Anti-hero” … More Midnights Album Review
Halloween on Monday, October the 31st comes with many excitements at McNicholas. Students dress up, trick or treat, and party. Costumes among the school will be anywhere from pirates, angels, superheroes, devils, and other iconic costumes. The costume most Rockets will be wearing is a pirate costume, second being a witch, and Batman as the … More Rockets celebrate Halloween on campus
The Heritage House over the years has had many people live in it. The Heritage House is where nuns or other people of religious order can live. People who have lived there have stories of strange things that have happened. Sister Judi, who is still on campus has some crazy stories about things that have … More The stories of the haunted Heritage House
The McNicholas faculty and staff has come together in recent years to develop the most accommodating and enjoyable schedule for the students. With the introduction of new policies and the return of old policies, students can change their schedules to facilitate academic growth. In a normal school week, students start off with an 8-bell Monday … More Combined staff efforts result in personalized and accommodative schedules for McNicholas students
SAIL is a program to help students with learning differences including ADHD, Dyslexia and Autism. SAIL has 5 Intervention Specialists that help students stay focused on schoolwork, so they don’t fall behind. According to Renee Herndon, SAIL department chair, The SAIL program started in the early 1990’s as an after-school place where students could go … More SAIL at McNicholas positively impacts students
With another year at McNicholas High School well underway, the issue of not having air conditioning arises again. Currently, there is air conditioning in the theater and cafe, library, and aux gym along with select classes and offices. This leaves some classes without air conditioning, but McNicholas is fixing it. With Alter Hall and Senior … More McNicholas putting air conditioning in more school areas
The McNicholas High School women’s volleyball regular season came to an end on Thursday, October 13th. This squad has been led this year by the new head of the program, Darlene Tierney. Varsity is coached Darlene Tierney and assistant coach, Beth Osterday Strange. Leading Junior Varsity is Jason Gundrum and leading freshman is Sammie Wheatley. This … More Rockets Women’s Volleyball: The Recap of the Season
Open house is October 23rd-24th at McNicholas High School. The school’s faculty and ambassador program are getting ready for Open House. Open House is an event that showcases McNicholas to 8th graders that are considering going here. “Open house is like a snapshot of what McNicholas is like,” said Laurie Carigan, Director of Admissions and … More Teachers and ambassadors give insight on upcoming Open House
McNicholas has some new news for the students and the teachers. There have been big changes since the previous year like new classes, new teachers, no convent classes. The convent was used for classes since it was made into a school. The main part of the building was not there until it started to get bigger. The world … More The classroom changes at McNicholas
As shadow season at McNicholas begins, the student ambassadors are ready to show the school in hopes to increase enrollment. Ambassadors give tours, answer questions, bond with their shadow, and show guests the McNicholas experience. Student ambassadors are not considered a club, it is a program. Being involved in McNicholas is easy with the many … More Teaching others about McNicholas through ambassador
McNicholas High School offers many clubs including the school-wide inclusion and diversity acceptance club, Hands Across Campus. Moderated by Theology educators and Missions & Ministry Team members Teresa Davis and Amanda Beatty, the club is also led by five students: Senior Karly Leibreich, junior Mary Metzger, and sophomores Cara Metzger, Kennedy Kramer, and Michael Egan. … More McNicholas’s Hands Across Campus Leadership Team receives the first IJPC Youth Justice Award
This year a new elective, Culinary Chemistry, has started with science teacher, Jessica Boese. In this class, students learn about basic cooking skills including measuring skills, cookware, acids and bases, and the chemical reactions between different ingredients. Boese stated, “in this class, you will learn very practical knowledge about cooking and chemistry.” Students gain the skills of … More New culinary chemistry class excites McNicholas students about cooking
Every year students get the opportunity to go to Tennessee for the Appalachian Retreat. This retreat took place with 12 seniors led by Anne Jones and Jeff Hutchinson from September 13 to 18th in Grainger County, Tennessee. This is an opportunity for students to get out of their comfort zone and help those in need. … More McNicholas Students and Teachers reflect on the recent Appalachian Retreat
As week six of the first quarter starts, students are settling in to the school year and with that comes issues with tablets. Rob Boese, Director of Technology, offers help for students that have tablet issues. Boese explains the most common tablet issues are touchscreens and touchpad mouse because some students don’t use tablet cases. … More Technology teachers share ideas on ways to prevent tablet issues
Kevin Huber, class of 2004, a McNicholas alum has broken the record for the most games played in a Bengal’s uniform. In the early 2000s, Kevin Huber was playing on the McNicholas football team, known for his punting skills. These skills opened the door for him to play Division 1 football for University of … More Kevin Huber breaks the record for most games played as a Bengal
The Rockets are ready to disco the night away at their upcoming 70’s themed homecoming. Saturday night fever has struck as the girls prepare to curl their hair and the boys plan to pop their collars. Most of the McNicholas students are ready for homecoming, but the new freshman might not be aware of its history. Before … More McNicholas dancing to the past for Homecoming 2022
Mental Health is widely talked about among communities. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, about 13.8% of teenagers struggle with anxiety or depression. To address this concern, Melissa Gomez has joined the staff at McNicholas High School as a mental health and wellness counselor. She was previously a counselor at a local … More McNicholas welcomes new mental health counselor
Every day, students spend part of their morning in a program personal to McNicholas called C.R.E.W. Each student is assigned to a mentor teacher along with 10-15 other students. This is the third year this program has found a place in students’ schedules. Students start in a C.R.E.W. specific to freshmen, which they graduate from … More C.R.E.W. helps foster the growth of relationships among students
McNicholas High School welcomed students to campus on August 19, 2022. The freshmen and transfer students familiarized themselves with McNick on August 17 and 18 during orientation. With the recent changes that have been made to the school, there are many things the freshmen and transfer students do not know: the unwritten rules. Freshman Steven … More Returning students and staff help freshmen and transfers learn unwritten rules
The 2021-2022 school year is coming to end but the 2022-2023 year is right around the corner. When McNick students return and freshman begin their first high school courses, some things will have changed around the school. From new classes and teachers to improvements within the school, McNick will be new again. Most of what … More Saying goodbye to 2021-2022, looking ahead to 2022-2023
In honor of the Class of 2022’s recent graduation and the current juniors ready to fill their shoes as the senior class, The McNicholas Milestone thought it would be fun to post the senior pics of all those who work to make McNicholas the brilliant place that it is for current and prospective students. Twenty-seven … More Faculty, staff share senior pics for decade(s) flashback
The Class of 2022 is coming to the end of their years at McNicholas High School and will soon be stepping into the world as adults. Some of the McNick teachers have put together some words of advice for them after they leave. Life will be different for them and they will have to go … More Teachers offer farewell advice to seniors
As graduation gets closer and closer for the Class of 2022, the days here have become more and more about reminiscing. Pretty soon they won’t be able to call this place their home, but rather it will be a memory, and as that realization settles in, the memories made have started to come back to … More Much to miss at McNick: Seniors share memories
It is almost impossible to accept that the Class of 2022 aren’t freshmen, sophomores, or even juniors. They are nearly graduated seniors, about to embark on the challenges of the real world with none of it being possible without the adults in their lives that kept pushing them such as parents, teachers, and even older … More Alumni offer advice for students of tomorrow
Writer’s note: In June, art teacher Willy Corbett will leave his canvases and paintbrushes behind when he retires after 43 years as an educator. Coach Corbett was one of the first teachers I met when I came to McNick as a freshman when he was my golf coach in the fall. He’s a funny … More Corbett’s 47 years in high school coming to an end
For many McNicholas students, the day doesn’t end at 2:30 when the final bell rings. In addition to homework, Rockets have after school jobs and activities that fill the hours between the end of school and when they can finally get some rest before their alarm signals the time to do it all again. … More Rockets after 2:30: Students still active after a full day of classes
It definitely doesn’t feel like it’s been nearly four year since the Class of 2022 came walking into McNicholas High School for the first time, but here we are in the year of 2022, just two months away from graduation and the past is definitely not on the seniors’ minds right now. All they can … More Business at OU, UC top choices for Class of 2022
It’s not easy keeping a school clean and presentable at all times when nearly 600 students, faculty, and staff fill every room for multiple hours each day, but the maintenance crew for TDG Facilities manages to do just that. Crew member Keith Crooks, who has been with TDG for eight years, has become a favorite … More Rockets share their love for “Mr. Keith”
For this year’s musical, the McNicholas Thespians will present the classic Guys and Dolls Thursday, March 10 – Saturday, March 12 at the Anderson Center. The show has been performed on the McNicholas stage in the past, but this will be the first time it has been performed under the direction of theater teacher Teresa … More Roll the dice over to the spring showing of Guys and Dolls
The McNicholas Milestone 