Oracle Overview – Volume 2.5

On Oct. 18, Delphi Community High School SADD members hosted their annual blood drive. To donate, students had to be over 16 with parents’ consent. Students and faculty alike all pulled up their sleeves and made the choice to save a life. There were over 63 people that donated, and some even gave double red. Giving double red means you give twice the amount of red blood cells that you typically ...

Elijah Houser is a senior at Delphi Community High School with a gift for bringing the creatures of his imagination to life. He enjoys using materials that will give him 3D objects for his creatures and monsters, such as paper mache and clay.  For his inspiration he simply “sits down, and thinks for a little bit, then BOOM!” These ideas just seem to come to him for his sculptures. It started ...

Alyssa Erickson qualified for regionals by running a 22:59 at sectionals. That time was just 10 seconds off of her personal record time of 22:49. At the Benton Central Regional, she ran a 23:58 and that is where her season ended. Regardless, moving on to regionals as a freshman is a major accomplishment. 

For the rest of the school year, Mrs. Carpenter’s lifeguarding class will be teaching the third, fourth, and fifth grade students from DCES how to swim. The elementary schoolers come up to the pool three times a week—Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday—during seventh hour with their classroom teacher and the elementary physical education teacher Mr. Schultheiss. According to Mrs. Carpenter, this program ...

Mr. Mroczkiewicz, the beloved junior English teacher and surrogate father to many, became an actual father in October. Kenneth Kaiser Mroczkiewicz was born at 12:59 on the morning of Oct. 12. Mr. M., who was already busy with teaching English, sponsoring Interact and coaching football, will be even busier and even more tired now. However, he and his wife Morgan are excited about beginning their lives as ...

This past week, Delphi’s FFA chapter attended the FFA National Convention on Thursday and Friday, Oct. 31 and Nov. 1. Delphi’s group featured 25 students, two alumni members, and two advisers. The group spent their time at leadership sessions, national contests, a hypnotist show, and even a Brett Young concert. Delphi’s FFA chapter also attended on Saturday, where former Oracles John Beale, Tren...

The high school musical is finally here after three months of waiting. The drama club has put in a lot of time and effort to make the fall musical, High School Musical, possible. On Nov. 8 and 9, the production shall be performed in the little theatre with songs such as “We’re all in this together”, “Getcha head in the Game”, “Bop to the top”, and more. Directed by Mrs. Cotten, it is sure ...

If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Stack up the Spaghetti!  Would you rather own a dragon or be a dragon? Own a dragon, we would be best friends. If I were to summon you via black magic, which 5 items would I need in each corner of the pentagram?  A baseball, the Jeep logo, the DQ logo, anything red, and a gallon of chocolate ice cream. If you...

Following the Career Day earlier in the year, senior econ teacher Mr. Tonsoni felt inspired by Tyler Mose, CEO of his own video production company. When Mr. Mose contacted Mr. Tonsoni about helping some DCHS students to create their own clothing line, Mr. Tonsoni was hesitant though. “I wasn’t sure initially how well my econ classes were going to take to it.” However, as he began to discuss ...