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The Raider Wire

The student news site of North Forsyth High School

The Raider Wire

The student news site of North Forsyth High School

The Raider Wire

2013-2014 Staff

Emily Starling

Emily Starling

Emily Starling is a loud music loving girl who is enthusiastic about basically everything, but especially The Raider Wire and its incredible staff. She is passionate about making a difference, no matter how big or small. She has...

Ashleigh Brown

Ashleigh Brown

Ashleigh Brown spends every waking second of every single day bursting with creativity. She has a whole wide world in her mind, and her pen does the best it can to keep us with it. She strives for self improvement and strongly...

Ben Strube

Ben Strube

Ben Strube enjoys creative writing, history, and running. Ben is a self-taught writer and plans to become a published writer before graduating from North. He is a senior and actively participates in four sports throughout the...

Emma Franklin

Emma Franklin

Emma Franklin has been around the world and has the pictures to prove it. Her hands are always busy writing or tinkering. Never sitting still, she believes that the world needs to be experienced and played with. With a brain for...

Tara Bailey

Tara Bailey

Tara Bailey spends her spare time writing short stories and playing the piano. She enjoys helping others globally and locally whenever she can. When she is bored she finds small nifty art projects to do.

Lacy Hamilton

Lacy Hamilton

Lacy Hamilton is currently a sophomore at North Forsyth High School. Lacy attempts to balance school and a social life, but her workaholic lifestyle usually takes precedence over all else. Outside of school, she can be found watching...

Andrea Martin

Andrea Martin

Andrea Martin is a spunky fun-loving, Prius driving, equestrian who loves to exercise her creative and artistic side. She is passionate about serving others and has gone on many international and local missions trips and also...

Brandon Moss

Brandon Moss

Brandon Moss believes that what he lacks in visual and graphic innateness he makes up for in both the arts of sound and words. Some nights he can’t sleep because a song, or a story, or a world, is shuffling around in his mind;...

Natalyn Kingry

Natalyn Kingry

Natalyn Kingry spends every moment of her life doing one of two things: writing or eating. While culinary delicacies, such as fish sticks and custard, will always have a special place in her heart that will allow her creative...

Abbey Black

Abbey Black

Abbey Black spends her time doing nothing but playing guitar and painting. She takes pride in her artwork and she aspires to travel the world, meet new people, and learn about different cultures. Food isn’t just a favorite of...

Hannah Burton

Hannah Burton

Hannah Burton is a huge mess but not always in a bad way. Every morning she wakes up and tries to tame her frizzy red mane, but she usually ends up putting it in a bun anyway. Once she’s inspired to write she can’t stop. Occasionally...

Caroline Duckworth

Caroline Duckworth

Caroline Duckworth loves coffee.  Some might say too much.  Her most prized possessions are her acoustic guitar and growing collection of books.  She would rather hide away with her notebook making up stories than deal with...

Lyndsay Hampton

Lyndsay Hampton

Lyndsay Hampton is a blunt individual who believes that the best kind of communication is short, sweet, and to the point. Being a big city and bright lights kind of girl, she is determined to live and thrive in Manhattan. Her...

Abbie Findley

Abbie Findley

Abbie Findley hides in the shadows of the band room from the moment she steps into North Forsyth. She prefers the arts to new people and wishes to spread the beauty of music, writing, and art from behind her computer. If you are...

Colin Herbert

Colin Herbert

Colin Herbert is an incredibly honest and artistically gifted individual; she carries her sketchbook with her everywhere she goes in case she spots something worth drawing. Colin also has a comical side; she never fails to share...

Perri Rabbitt

Perri Rabbitt

Perri Rabbitt is a smiley goober who loves to practice optimism. She’s not afraid to try new things and is an enthusiast for life. She is in love with Jesus Christ and lives her life to serve Him. Perri often feels inspired...

Noelle Walker

Noelle Walker

Hope Walker goes by her middle name, Noelle. Writing is her passion and it fuels her imagination. She reads as much as she can, when she can, and she’s also on the Colorguard. She’s always there for people and worries way...

Jackie Busche

Jackie Busche

Jackie Busche is a senior at North and would like to become a kindergarten teacher after she graduates.  She enjoys reading, writing, and  watching excessive amounts of Netflix.  Her favorite animals are cats, penguins, and...

Reilly Deckard

Reilly Deckard

Reilly Deckard is constantly listening to something. She is full of dreams and desires that she works towards every day. She lives for the people she loves and will do anything for them. She grows towards the person she wants...

Citlali Arzate

Citlali Arzate

Citlali Arzate has an entire world to write about. She wakes up every morning striving to do her best and hopes to one day inspire people with her writing.  She is a loving and caring person who believes in helping out anyone...

Maddie Highland

Maddie Highland

Maddie Highland spends the weekend on grass, and in cleats and a jersey. She plays for a travel soccer team and loves the group of girls who play with her. She enjoys helping others and believes in being kind. Maddie and her...

Sam Dobrotka

Sam Dobrotka

Sam Dobrotka is fascinated with the past and believes that there is much to be gleaned from it. History, after all, determines the future. He enjoys driving around for no reason other than the enjoyment of the trip itself and...

Allen Carter

Allen Carter

Allen Carter is a fantastic writer, and he has a large imagination. When Allen finds himself enveloped in a writing piece, there is no end to the words that come flying out of his pencil (or keyboard).  He enjoys playing sports...

Isabella Higgins

Isabella Higgins

Isabella Higgins is outgoing, energetic, and life-loving.  She loves the outdoors, and participating in team sports.  Isabella is a kind-hearted person who loves people and animals.  Everyday she wakes up bright-eyed and bursting...

Caitlin Shelby

Caitlin Shelby

Caitlin Shelby began constructing mini storybooks in first grade when the world of writing was unlocked for her. Since then writing has stolen her heart, and she has self-published two novels and won a national essay contest....

Raicheal Havins

Raicheal Havins

Raicheal Havins studies hard and plays harder. Her life revolves around the study of ballet, free-hand pencil sketching, and uplifting underground music. She lives by the motto Live, Love, Be, Believe. She lives her life to the...

Chase Samples

Chase Samples

Chase Samples is a hard working student who strives to do his best every day. He spends most of his time getting ready for Army basic training. He is a hunter and an angler, and has dedicated his life to it.  He is going to be...

Rayanne Griffith

Rayanne Griffith

Rayanne Griffith is the type of being that loves fictional creativity and strives to write every single brief idea or story on a blank sheet of paper. Her goal in life is to influence people about reality through her imaginary...

Bim Peacock

Bim Peacock

Bim Peacock has the spirit of a roamer, overflowing with curiosity and itching to explore the world.  Every minute not spent laughing is spent dreaming of adventures and far away countries.  His writing is fueled by his curiosity,...

Jack Fleming

Jack Fleming

Jack Fleming has played the part of the Lone Ranger for a good portion of his life. He’s grown through many different musical artists and is always learning something new from his volunteering on Upstreet. After traversing much...

Beattie Hoyle

Beattie Hoyle

Beattie Hoyle is a girl who thrives on the opportunity to be a unique individual. She is constantly found dancing, doodling, or writing, and whether she is a dancer, an artist, or a writer, Beattie Hoyle embraces everything the...

Natalie Wilson

Natalie Wilson

Natalie Wilson is pretty light-spirited and a strong believer in freedom of self-expression and the rising awareness of intelligent and artistic women in power. She tries her best to keep up with the infinite universe of forever-changing...

Meredith Pirtle

Meredith Pirtle

Every day, Meredith Pirtle strives to be different than the average high schooler. She values originality and strongly believes in individuality. She is a free spirit who often finds herself lost in the world of music.

Morgan Franklin

Morgan Franklin

Morgan Franklin lives and breathes softball. She believes in herself and has a high standard of achievement. She tells herself that she can do anything she sets her mind to, and she can go farther in life than anyone tells her...

Joley Odom

Joley Odom

Joley Odom is a temperamental teen robot with the insatiable thirst to learn. Or maybe not. Sometimes she seems sort of mean, but she really isn’t. Don’t approach her too quickly. She startles easily. She loves long walks...

Owen Wickman

Owen Wickman

Owen Wickman dislikes being around people. He prefers the company of a pencil and paper over the company of humans. However, if you manage to get him to talk to you, he’s a pretty okay guy. He spends most of his time trying...

Jakob Patterson

Jakob Patterson

Jakob Patterson loves video games. He also enjoys being active. Video games are not the only thing Jakob Patterson enjoys. He also loves watching movies and TV. He’s the type of person who can watch anything and love it. Jakob...

Savannah Keith

Savannah Keith

Savannah Keith thinks in verses of poetry and colors. She has a passion for writing, horror, and bands. With a love of pumpkin spice and funnel cake, she is a bundle of jitter wrapped inside a bit of gloomy shyness. There’s...

Jack Dalmolin

Jack Dalmolin

Jack Dalmolin doesn’t settle for anything less than perfect. He is a kind and outgoing individual who faces challenges with eagerness. He takes pride in his diligent work in school and sports, and strives to be the best he can...

Jacob Blodgett

Jacob Blodgett

Jacob Blodgett looks quiet on the outside, but on the inside he is always creating and thinking of new worlds. He hopes that some will eventually reach the hands of eager readers so they can explore these worlds with him. He is...

Sydney Gage

Sydney Gage

Sydney Elizabeth Bell Gage, also known as Syd or Squid, was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana on Wednesday May 21st, 1997.  She enjoys writing, reading, using the word “gross” in unconventional ways, and acting tougher than she r...

Aleigh Guerndt

Aleigh Guerndt

Aleigh Guerndt prefers to keep to herself, although she is unafraid to venture out of her comfort zone and take ferocious chances. Her drive for what she believes in runs deep, which motivates herself as well as those around her....

Jessica Prouty

Jessica Prouty

Jessica Prouty is the definition of a musician. She spends every possible moment with her ear buds in jamming to what her friends call “The Ten Mile Playlist”. When she isn’t blaring music she is creating it by laying guitar,...

Cameron Conner

Cameron Conner

From the worn, scuffed soles of his wingtip shoes to the erratic tangle of his hair, Cameron Conner embodies all the qualities of the sub stream thinker. He spends most of his days longing to own a TARDIS, and wishing he was J.D...

Kasey Jo Reed

Kasey Jo Reed

Kasey Jo Reed strives to help the others around her prosper and grow into charitable beings. She enjoys doing things for her community such as collecting food, volunteering at the animal shelter, and organizing events for facilities...

Sam Perryman

Sam Perryman

Sam Perryman is in a constant battle against mediocrity. His mind is a powerhouse full of raw creativity that is just searching for an outlet. His unique take on everyday occurrences will fascinate and astound the average reader,...

John Scott

John Scott

John Scott is fairly certain he is human, however it is disputed whether or not he is a Scotsman. He often enjoys in being positively negative, saying horrendously depressing things with an attitude of pure optimistic joy. His...

Rebekah Schnaubelt

Rebekah Schnaubelt

Rebekah Schnaubelt is a calm spirit, but by no means boring. Her brain is set to fast forward and even when her mouth can’t keep up with it, her pen can. She likes writing but adores reading and wants to help others leave their...