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The online student news site of Elder High School

The Purple Quill

The online student news site of Elder High School

The Purple Quill

The online student news site of Elder High School

The Purple Quill

2025-2026 Staff

Alex Weber '26
Editor in Chief

Alex Weber ’26

"Either get busy writing or get busy dying."

Alex Flower '27
Staff Writer

Alex Flower ’27

"Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back."

Tyler Galbreath '27
Staff Writer

Tyler Galbreath ’27

"I want to go fast." - Ricky Bobby

Chris Herman '27
Staff Writer

Chris Herman ’27

"It's all in the hips. It's all in the hips." - Chubbs

Max Kramer '27
Staff Writer

Max Kramer ’27

"Get out of my face, or I’m gonna roundhouse you." - Step Brothers

Emmett Lonneman '27
Staff Writer

Emmett Lonneman ’27

"All there is to writing is having ideas. To learn to write is to learn to have ideas." - Robert Frost

Maxwell Martin '26
Staff Writer

Maxwell Martin ’26

“They laughed at Louis Armstrong when he said he was gonna go to the moon. Now he’s up there, laughing at them.” – Chazz Michael Michaels

Eric Mason '27
Staff Writer

Eric Mason ’27

"I'm the best writer there is. Plain and simple. I wake up in the morning and piss articles."

Troy Parker '27
Staff Writer

Troy Parker ’27

"You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take." Wayne Gretzky

Jay Schaumloffel '27
Staff Writer

Jay Schaumloffel ’27

"Success is not a mistake"

Leo Schmitz '27
Staff Writer

Leo Schmitz ’27

Ernest Hemingway once wrote, "The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part. - William Somerset (Se7en)

Luke Schroer '26
Staff Writer

Luke Schroer ’26

"Seahawks should have run the ball."

Andrew Tallen '27
Staff Writer

Andrew Tallen ’27

"Eat. Write. Sleep. Repeat."

Jack Thatcher '27
Staff Writer

Jack Thatcher ’27

"Breathing is the hardest thing to do." - Stone Temple Pilots

Joshua Walter '26
Staff Writer

Joshua Walter ’26

I'd rather be broke and in jail than be dead and rich. - Joshua Walter

Brayden Wuest '27
Staff Writer

Brayden Wuest ’27

"If you ain't first, you're last."

Roman Peponis '27
Staff Writer

Roman Peponis ’27

"Slow motion is better than no motion."

Luke Vetter '26
Staff Writer

Luke Vetter ’26

"A dog bites a man—that’s a story; A man bites a dog—that’s a good story."- Jesse Lynch Williams

Ben Florian '27
Staff Writer

Ben Florian ’27

"Doesn't matter what they call you ... it's the deeds that make the man."- spirit of the west (Rango)

Jackson Bogner '26
Staff Writer

Jackson Bogner ’26

"Ball up top."

David Henkel '28
Staff Writer

David Henkel ’28

"It's more important to be writeous than write."

Jordan Hernandez '28
Staff Writer

Jordan Hernandez ’28

"Never back down and never give up."

Tommy Becker '26
Staff Writer

Tommy Becker ’26

" If it doesn't fit, you must acquit."

Quinn Daubenmerkl '26
Staff Writer

Quinn Daubenmerkl ’26

"It's party time! P, A, R, T... why? Because I gotta!"

Frankie Niemann '27
Staff Writer

Frankie Niemann ’27

"Friday Night Writes."

Ben Ruoff '27
Staff Writer

Ben Ruoff ’27

"When the sun goes down and darkness falls the best writing will come out."

Landon Ogilvie '27
Staff Writer

Landon Ogilvie ’27

"You got to fight for your write."

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