CAMPUS PLUGGING IN MASCOT; LIGHTNING CHARACTER SET TO REPLACE KNIGHT FIGURE.Byline: Kevin F. Sherry Daily News Staff Writer Agoura High School Agoura High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Agoura Hills, California, United States. It is the largest high school in the Las Virgenes Unified School District, with an enrollment of approximately 2,400 students. mascot MASCOT - Modular Approach to Software Construction Operation and Test: a method for software design aimed at real-time embedded systems from the Royal Signals and Research Establishment, UK. Charger CHARGER, Scotch law. He in whose favor a decree suspended is pronounced; vet a decree may be suspended before a charge is given on it. Ersk. Pr. L. Scot. 4, 3, 7. Chuck will take his final curtain call at this Friday's homecoming Homecoming Odyssey concerning Odysseus’s difficulties in getting home after war. [Gk. Myth.: Odyssey] You Can’t Go Home Again revisiting his home town, a writer is disillusioned by what he sees. [Am. Lit. game. Chuck, a knight who has served as the school's mascot for six years, is set to be replaced by a new student-created character. Chuck was starting to look a little ragged around the edges. ``The mascot costume that we had was starting to wear out a bit,'' said Eileen McGrew, a teacher who serves as coach of the school's spirit squad The Spirit Squad was a five member stable who wrestled for World Wrestling Entertainment on the RAW brand, as well as in developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling. The team consisted of Kenny, Johnny, Mitch, Nicky, and Mikey with the gimmick of an all-male cheerleading squad, . McGrew turned to the student body and the lightning-bolt design of Dan Terndrup, a 15-year-old 10th-grader, was chosen to represent the school at future sporting events. As a lifelong artist, Terndrup decided to enter the mascot-designing contest at the end of the last school year. He took a different approach with the Charger theme. ``They just wanted something new,'' Terndrup said. ``I made kind of a cartoon lightning bolt Lightning bolt may refer to
Terndrup worked on several drafts of his lightning bolt until he thought it could fit a person inside. Although Terndrup named his character Rod the Lightning Bolt, the school is now holding a weeklong week·long adj. Continuing through the week: a weeklong conference. Adj. 1. weeklong - lasting through a week; "her weeklong vacation" seven-day election for students to name the new mascot. The renaming does not bother Terndrup. ``I don't care
"Don't Care" is a 1994 (see 1994 in music) single by American death metal band Obituary. , as long as they're still using my design,'' he said. The new lightning-bolt costume based on Terndrup's design was damaged before it arrived at Agoura High and was sent back to the manufacturer for repairs, said Vicki Koch, a spirit team adviser. The school had hoped to have it ready for Friday's homecoming game against Newbury Park, but now Terndrup's creation is scheduled to appear at the Nov. 13 game, Koch said. The yellow-and-blue costume will stand seven or eight feet tall, McGrew said. Funds from the Associated Student Body paid for the $2,000 costume. Terndrup won a $50 prize for his entry, which he used to buy a light table to help him draw animation cels. Terndrup has been attending football games to see the debut of his new mascot design, but Charger Chuck remains in charge until Nov. 13. Terndrup hopes to continue drawing and may want to make a career of animation. ``As long as I can remember I liked to draw,'' he said. CAPTION(S): Photo PHOTO Tenth-grader Dan Terndrup, 15, had his yet unnamed lightning-bolt mascot selected to replace Agoura High School's Charger Chuck, a knight character. Charlotte Schmid-Maybach/Special to the Daily News |
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