The usually stoic Ethan Campbell looked pleasantly jubilant when his name was called during
halftime of Friday’s football game.
And why not? He’d just been crowned WHS Homecoming King.
Once fellow senior and girlfriend Kylee Schiller heard her name as WHS Homecoming Queen,
she left her parents and dashed to midfield where Campbell was waiting.
An embrace. A kiss. Wide smiles.
Still, as they were walking off the field and were being congratulated by a line of well-wishers, it
would take a while before it all sunk in for the couple.
“This is crazy,” Campbell would say.
“I can’t believe this. . . I just can’t believe this,” Schiller said, repeatedly as fellow students
caught her off the field wanting hugs.
This was the end of a somewhat tumultuous Homecoming voting process that saw the court
grow like ragweed. Actually, Principal Dr. Tommaney had hoped to go from eight to 10 seniors in the
voting anyway, but the voting fell at six or 13, “So the decision was to keep it at six,” he said in an email.
Yet when some students complained about that, Dr. Tommaney figured out a way to add the
additional King and Queen wannabes, if only to quell some of the objections.
By the time all the seniors lined up on the field, there were 10 couples – or 20 students – vying
to wear the crown.
In the end, though, Campbell and Schiller, who were high vote getters from the beginning,
prevailed, and took their place in a long history of WHS Kings and Queens.