The 2022-2023 school year brought many firsts to the Kennedy Dance Team. First-year teammates, first times at Iowa City West’s “Wild West Dance Battle” and a new first-time coach. Taylor Cropley...

From academics to athletics to fine arts, sophomore Bella Griffin wears many hats at Kennedy. Griffin is preparing for her sixth year of show choir, second wrestling season and concluded her first theater...

While Tony Vis may be known as Kennedy’s Government or World History teacher, how many know him as the basketball coach? For almost thirty years, Vis has been a coach and mentor for many.  Growing...

On Feb 2, 2022, head girls’ basketball coach, Andy Courtney, was admitted to St. Luke's ER after experiencing an aortic dissection—a tear on the inner layer of the aorta, the body's main artery. Courtney...

The start of the 2022-2023 school year has brought many things to Kennedy. For Daniel Carolin’s Japanese class, it has brought an assistant teacher from Osaka, Japan. Shiho Yabuchi joined Carolin just...

Noreen Bush. Superintendent, mentor, friend. A woman who went by many titles and affected the lives of thousands, lost her two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer on Sunday, Oct. 23, 2022. Words cannot...

Football has been a historically male-dominated sport. This school year, sophomore Aiyanna Gervin joined the football team for her first year ever. With a history of flag football under her belt, Gervin...

In 2015, Kennedy’s Athletics Department’s most recognizable voice began his journey at the Iowa Hall of Pride Challenge games. From there he expanded to some of Kennedy's activities and has since become...

Students may never know who principal Jason Kline truly is if they don’t get the chance to sit down with him. Daily, he interacts with students and staff, his cheesy yet passionate demeanor making school...

During the pandemic, many students turned to art to express themselves when isolated. Self-expression is a crucial part of today's culture and art is a self-expression medium accessible to all students....

After an encouraging team huddle, senior Molly Joyner scored her final point as a volleyball player at Kennedy. Joyner was named one of two 2022 Female Athletes of the Year, after being on varsity since...

Dan Carolin has taught Japanese for the past three decades, but teaching Japanese to English speakers wasn’t the original way it was going to go, it was the other way around. His original experience...