Category: Photo Galleries

Behind the Red Curtain: Students benefit from Tungate’s Saturday welding sessions

All photos by Liliana Castellanos.

Behind the red curtain hides the world of welding teacher Christopher Tungate and his students, whose project work brings them into JHS several Saturdays each month.
Tungate demonstrates how to cut metal during Saturday Shop. A JHS graduate, Tungate said he always wanted to be a teacher and help others. He chose to return to JHS “to help students, to help anyone that wanted to learn about welding.”
Tungate assists sophomore Aaron Henderson, as sophomore Noah Krausen also works on his project. Tungate offers Saturday Shop so that welding students can catch up or work ahead on class projects. Families are also able to stop by the shop to visit.
Tungate and junior Jonathan Garcia work collaboratively on a project during Saturday Shop. Tungate uses the extra weekend time to help his welders on a one-on-one basis.
Tungate and Garcia continue their project work. Students are encouraged to ask questions as Tungate assists them.
Junior Christopher Torres works on his project, showing Garcia how to do a weld. Both students are safety equipment, which is required in the shop area.
Torres preps his project.
Behind the red curtain, senior Angel Blas demonstrates Tungate’s insistence on safety equipment, which includes close toed shoes with the helmet down and gloves at all times during the welding process. Long-sleeved shirts and jeans are also required, and hair must be pulled back out of the face if long. Tungate also requires the area to be clean at all times.
by jhshyphen

Photo Gallery: It’s The Look of The Century

Vintage, Cottagecore, aesthetics galore! All throughout Jeff High, there are plenty of students who have their own unique sense of style. Some of these students agreed to an interview to talk with us about how it all comes together.

Captions by November Shawler and Chloey Trinkle
All photos submitted

  • Senior Joryn Burns says, “I love a good sweater, and some like to say I am serving ‘grandma chic.’” Burns has an appreciation for styles that can go on either side of the style spectrum.“[It’s] comfortable and I can dress it up or down. [They] make me look way more put together than I actually am.” She adds, “I am always trying new outfit ideas and trying to perfect my dream aesthetic.”
  • Sophomore Tanner Michelle says “my style is something I struggle to define! It’s directly pulled from the music I listen to… In all honesty, I’m just a rocker chick.” She also says her style truly reflects her personality and priorities. “In the most basic explanation I can give, it is who I am. Not only that, but through my attire, I can voice my beliefs and opinions. As a bisexual, feminist, activist […] I use everything I can to create change and break the social norms!” She also thinks about the larger impact of her fashion choices — for instance, by shopping at thrift stores rather than buying mass-produced fast fashion. “I am really big about climate change and our environment,” she says. She finds her style comfortable and loves to wear it. “It can get a little cold, though, because I usually like to flaunt my femininity and show a little skin!”
  • Sophomore Brecken Maddox describes her style as “academic cottagecore.” What does that mean? “People often describe my style as ranging from ‘potato farmer’ to ‘hot zookeeper,’ but I take that as a compliment.” Jokingly, she adds, “I’d like to think that if I was to walk around at night, children would mistake me for a ghost.” Maddox says, “Dressing this way makes me feel confident. It’s a way to show myself as I really am rather than what people expect. I think that dressing nicely, and the way that I feel most represents me, is a form of self care.” She finds her style comfortable and says that, “I’m more comfortable in a 70’s suit than leggings and a t-shirt.” Like Michelle, Maddox opts for second-hand finds. “Using true vintage clothing is a great way to avoid fast fashion. Shopping at vintage shops allows you to get well-made and long lasting clothes, unlike what most brands produce today which is made to last a year or so before falling apart.”
  • Junior Victoria “Jade” Worrall describes her style as “Alternative, pastel goth, emo, fancy? I like to wear whatever speaks to me the most which is almost always alternative style.” She adds that her style “brings me lots of joy and confidence, and I hope it inspires people to dress however they like.“ She thinks that “even if it is uncomfortable physically at times I still feel comfortable in it mentally […] I like the freedom of expression it gives me.”
  • Senior Zoe Beavin has a more old-fashioned approach to style. “I would call my style of clothing very retro/artistic, I love old clothing and remaking it into something else or just wearing it how it looks. Most of my clothing is music bands and some oversized sweaters that I extremely love.” Beavin’s fashion choices are inspired by a time before our generation. “I wear it because I love the clothing from the 1990s and I want my whole closet to look like I went in a time machine and this was all I brought back.” Despite having a retro style, Beavin prioritizes comfort over all else. “My style is very comfortable, I can’t get enough of oversized clothing and layered clothing. […] There’s just so much you can do with your clothing; you can protest a message, show off art, or promote a business. Clothing, I think, is very important to our culture. You can express your emotions all through just one shirt or even socks!”
  • Junior Aiyana Scott describes her style as “‘trendy/edgy/city vibe.’” She added, “I wear my clothes to make a statement or to stand out but I really like to look my best.” Similar to Beavin, Scott makes comfort a priority. “All of my outfits are mostly based on comfort so that I can work in them, but what I like most about them is that they last long, like I can wear an old shirt and put it with something new and it comes out great.”
  • Junior Kyndia Motley (who didn’t include her face in this submitted photo) finds it difficult to sum up her style in one word. “Honestly, I would call my style whatever I can come up with. Real talk, I just try to do my best to look as spicy as I can. Whether it’s bummy, cute, casual, etc.” She says that she wears it because “it’s fun for me to just do me through what I wear. I like how I can control what I wear and how I wear it — to an extent.” Motley uses her style to express herself in more ways than one. “Depending on what I am wearing, reflects on my mood that day. I like how my outfit choices depict how I feel that day.”


When someone chooses their sense of style, it may come from a multitude of different sources. It could come from a certain era of fashion in the past, a certain celebrity who wears certain styles of clothing, experimenting with old items of clothing and revamping them into something new, or even just seeing something from a store and developing your own style based on that. Whatever it may be, everyone has their own taste and it comes down to preference. In the end, it’s all about expressing yourself.

by jhshyphen

Photo Gallery: Winter Storms Coat Jeffersonville in Ice and Snow

Photos by Amber Walker, Marni Scholl and Max Fisher

Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Marni Scholl
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Marni Scholl
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Marni Scholl
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Max Fisher
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Max Fisher
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Max Fisher
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Max Fisher
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker
Winter Storm February 2021 – Photo by Amber Walker

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Photo Gallery: Community, School Leaders Celebrate the Start of Baseball Facility Construction

On Thursday, November 21, school leaders gathered with past and present Jeff High baseball players to celebrate the beginning of construction for Jeff High’s new baseball facility. The project, which includes a new turf field and a replacement of the outer fencing, is being funded by a $500,000 donation from the John Schnatter Foundation. 

Papa John’s Pizza founder John Schnatter, a 1980 Jeff High graduate and baseball player, was on hand for the event. Schnatter thanked attendees for their support and said it was good to be back at Jeff after 30 years.

Although the facility will be named the John Schnatter Stadium, the field will still be named after former coach Don Poole. Poole also spoke at the event. 

Construction is expected to be complete in time for the first home baseball game in the spring of 2020.

 

Story and photos by Kyle Tincher

by jhshyphen

Photo Gallery: Dodgeball Smackdown

On Friday, March 22, Jeff High students and staff faced off in a dodgeball tournament in Johnson Arena. The event raised more than $1,000 for a much-loved member of the Jeff High family who has been battling cancer.

all photos by Antonio Thompson

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Gallery: 2017-18 Yearbook Signing Party

On Friday, May 11, the Topic Yearbook unveiled their 2017-18 publication called “Picture This” during the school’s Yearbook Signing Party. The Signing Party, which was held in William S. Johnson Arena, lasted for sixth and seventh periods, and nearly 650 yearbooks were distributed.

all photos by Gabe Eastridge

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GALLERY: Dancing ‘For the Kids’

all photos by Dylan Shupe-Logsdon

Dr. Mariane Fisher speaks with students at the Dance Marathon event.
Along with dancing, students had the opportunity to have some fun, including posing at a photo booth.
Senior Caroline Elliott has her face painted for the event.
While the Friends of Rachel group was behind the Dance Marathon, many other school groups, including Jeff High’s WJHI, were there to take in the event.
Students laughed, socialized and raised money for a good cause.
And of course, there was dancing. A LOT of dancing.
A portion of the main floor during choreographed dancing.
The Dance Marathon raised $20,365.60, all of which will go directly to the kids of Riley Children’s Hospital.
Ellie Melin dances over to some of the WJHI student journalists.
Freshman Jasmine Fondrisi poses in her finest St. Patrick’s Day garb.
Students signed a banner, which would be delivered with the check.
The senior class members pose for a picture.
Taking a break in the auxiliary gym.
While dancing was going on downstairs, the upstairs gym was used for fun games for all to participate in.

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GALLERY & MULTIMEDIA: The flooding of Jeffersonville and Utica

all photos by Dylan Shupe-Logsdon

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