The Mount Pleasant High School Tiger Dolls competed in the very first American Dance/Drill Team Virtual Halftime Showcase on October 21. Teams could submit a video of themselves performing one field routine and the Dolls chose to submit their “Elton John” field pom, performed at the home game football game on September 25. Over 120 [...]
Mount Pleasant High School senior Isabella Greco has earned the National Speech and Debate Association’s Academic All-American award. Of the more than 141,000 student members of the Association, fewer than 1,000 students earn the Academic All-American Award every year. To date, only eight team members from MPHS have earned this prestigious honor. The Academic All-American [...]
While much of the Titus County Fair was cancelled in 2020, COVID-19 did not keep the Mount Pleasant ISD FFA students from competing and showing their animals and ag mechanics projects. Most of the students had been raising and working with their animals and creating their projects for months, so they, along with their instructors, [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Choir has selected its officers for the 2020-2021 school year. Leading the group is President Migel Guerrero, Vice-President Samantha Valdez, Secretary Abril Ramirez, Stage Manager Joshua Espinoza, and Photographers Jillian Adair and Brianne Davis. From left: Brianne Davis, Jillian Adair, Joshua Espinoza, Abril Ramirez, Samantha Valdez, Migel Guerrero
The Mount Pleasant High School UIL Math and Science teams hosted and competed at the Mount Pleasant Texas Math and Science Coaches Association meet on Saturday, October 17, 2020. Overall, MPHS earned 2nd place Sweepstakes in the large school division and also claimed 1st place as a team in Calculator Applications and in Mathematics. Individual [...]
Six Mount Pleasant High School choir students have earned places in the Texas Music Educators Association (TMEA) All-Region Choir. Seniors Migel Guerrero (6th chair first tenor) and Jordi Bello (8th chair first tenor), juniors Abril Ramirez (3rd chair first soprano) and Emyly Lopez (9th chair second alto), and freshmen Jacori Johnson (7th chair first tenor) [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School chapter of Furr Ever Friends held an adoption event on Saturday, October 17 in the Lowe’s parking lot. The event was a joint effort between Furr Ever Friends and Furr Ever Pets Rescue, a no-kill animal rescue organization based in Longview that specializes in small dogs. Student volunteers walked and [...]
The Mount Pleasant High School Aviation program was recently gifted an airplane to use when learning about aircraft maintenance. While visiting the east Dallas Skyline High school Aviation program earlier this year, MPHS Aviation instructor Bruce Hansen was offered the plane, but due to the pandemic, bringing the aircraft to Mount Pleasant was delayed until [...]
Mount Pleasant High School senior, Taryn Thurman, daughter of Tris and Stephanie Thurman, was recently selected as the MPHS Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Good Citizen. The Martha Laird Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution sponsors the DAR Good Citizen program in our area. This contest is designed [...]
The Titus County Fair looks completely different in 2020. There are no carnival rides, no photography exhibitions, and no delicious fair food to enjoy, but some of the FFA competitions have been allowed to continue with a few rule changes to keep participants safe. A new contest, Floral Design, kicked off this year and Mount [...]
