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Win Yourself a Thanksgiving Turkey
Everyone is invited to the Livestock Club Skeet Shoot, 2:00 pm on SUNDAYS, east of the new Alex Baseball field. $5 for each round or three rounds for $10. Winner of every round wins a TURKEY! You can't beat that!

The Alex Longhorn News Network
Broadcasting school news at 8:20 am Tuesday through Friday, Randy Alexander, Brittany Sparks, Amy Woods and Damian McGregor make up the ALNN crew. If you missed a broadcast or want to look back over previous news segments, visit the ALNN page in the Student Life section. Many new video segments have been uploaded.

From the webmaster:
Onomatopoeia – Click, click and more clicks!
October 2009 Google Analytics summary
Your website viewership continued to increase in October 2009. From October 1, 2009, through October 31, 2009, the site was visited 4163 times, an increase of over 22% from September 2009.  Readers clicked on links within the site 6707 times to view different pages; an increase of almost 7% over September.  Your absolutely unique visitors, those taking a look at the site for the first time, rose from 623 in September to 746 in October, an increase of almost 20%.  We also set a new marker for most visited day overall: 253 viewers stopped by the site on Monday, October 5, 2009. We averaged 134 total visitors of all kinds each day in October, an increase of 18% over September. In order of most visited, the most popular pages in October 2009 were the site home page, the elementary student life page, the High School and Jr. High football pages and the fast pitch softball page. 

Videos available on the Alex website have proven very popular.  The High School football highlights video has been viewed 212 times and the High School fastpitch softball video has been viewed 127 times.  The Jr. High softball video has received 87 plays and the football video, Remember the Name, has received an outstanding 68 plays in the short time it has been posted.  Rounding out our top-five favorite videos this month is the High School and Elementary Cheerleader video, which was viewed 45 times.  Other videos are not listed because they have not been posted long enough for all readers to have a chance to view them.

Another interesting note is how readers find us on the web.  The home pages of Alex School computers are set to open to the Alex website.  Home users likely have the site bookmarked or included as a favorite.  Web traffic coming through a home page or bookmark is considered direct traffic and accounts for 73% of our visits.  Direct visits dropped slightly during October 2009 while internet searches for the Alex website increased significantly.  This may indicate that more people have heard of the site, don’t have it bookmarked and need to search for it to view it.  This may suggest an increasingly diverse readership; in other words, folks who aren’t right here in Alex. 

The Alex website is also accessed on occasion from other sites that include a link to our site.  These “referring sites” primarily include Google images, the Oklahoma State Department of Education and Coaches Aide.  Other referrals come from Superpages.com, a yellow pages site; OKBlitz.com, a sports site associated with Channel 9; GrandpaJr., a site that links to Oklahoma schools; and social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace. 

Readers from 71 Oklahoma cities and towns have visited the Alex website since its inception.  The majority of readers continue to come from right here in Alex (we would be very concerned if this weren’t the case) but our top ten viewership in October also originated in order of number of visits from Oklahoma City, Lindsay, Chickasha, Ada, Stillwater, Lawton, Tulsa and Shawnee.  Clicks from Oklahoma City increased almost 3% in October while the number of visits from Lindsay increased 4%; Newcastle visits increased 34% and Stillwater 55%.  Visits from Lawton increased a whopping 266%! Thank you, Lawton! 

Before October, we had maybe one or two visits from towns across Oklahoma similar to Alex.  These increased dramatically in October with people in Poteau, Kingston, Marlow and Velma viewing our site several times throughout the month.  Vinita and Jay, Oklahoma (in the north eastern part of the state) appear to host our most distant Oklahoma visitors.  Just a few of the school networks that have provided access to our website are Ninnekah, Allen, Rush Springs, Fox, AmPo, Wellston, Macomb, Maysville, Oklahoma City and Tulsa. 

Our website viewership across the United States has also increased and only nine states out of the 50 have not sent at least one reader to our site.  We continue to send a shout-out to folks in Texas, California and New York, who send us more hits than all but our home state.  Thanks, too, to readers in Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia, who round-out our top-ten domestic readership.  Our readers in Missouri continue to spend more time on our site than any readers other than those in Oklahoma.  May we set a good example!

Returning viewers from Germany, the Philippines, Canada, South Africa, the UK, Bangladesh and India boosted our number of international visitors with readers accessing the site in Dutch, British English, French, Italian and Spanish.  Our friends in Hamburg, Germany spent the most time on the Alex website.  Thank you; thank you!

So, kudos to the mouse “click,” an onomatopoeic word that imitates or suggests the sound that it describes.  Keep on clickin’.

Smaller towns produce more female athletes:
Read this Discovery News article.

Read School Website Woes from kfor.com (site will open in a new tab).
Maybe Alex is ahead of the curve this time?

The Alex Stock Show Club will meet at 8:15 pm on the second Wednesday of each month in the Alex School Agricultural Building. Everyone is welcome!

The Alex Alumni Association
requests that all Alex alumni whose contact information might have changed over the past year call Alumni Association President Nancy Witt at 405.785.2464 or email Nancy at nancmerc@itlnet.net to update their personal information. You can use the Share button below to email this website address to any Alex alum or interested persons.

NEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sign our new GuestMap: Sign the Alex School Guest Book and mark your location on our map.

Don't miss it! High School basketball kicks off at home against Paoli on Thursday, 11-19-09

Short and straight: Boys basketball coach Eric Yeiser weighs in on his 2009-2010 team here.

Back out in front: Current Alex Athletic Director Danny Moore retired from active coaching in 2004 after chalking up 504 wins and 204 career losses and serving as the head coach of the Alex Lady Longhorns high school basketball team. We are proud to annouce that Coach Moore has now resumed his former role as head coach to lead the Lady Longhorns when the they take the court against Paoli at home at 6:30 pm on Thursday, 11-19-09. Click here to read Moore's comments about the upcoming girls basketball season.

A hard-fought season: 'Horns fall to Canton in first 'round playoffs

11-13-09: Senior Randy Alexander battles the Canton defense. Thanks to Randy, Wayne Heffington, Sean Landrum, Daniel Thurston and the rest of the team for a memorable season! See the High School football page for more coverage.
All photos on this page by Tammy Baker unless otherwise noted

Jr. High girls basketball sweeps week 2, beating Ninnekah, Minco and Rush Springs

11-12-09: #23 Ashley Williams puts the ball up against Rush Springs as Phaedra Moore and Tessa Langford close in. Check out the Jr. High girls basketball page for more photos.

Samuel Harris presses a Rush Springs player while Dalton Payne, Jacob Wilson and Cody Carnes cover their positions during the Alex v Rush Springs Jr. High game on 11-12-09.

A Young Stampede
Check out the Elementary pages for Elementary news and sports coverage.

Read all about it: The October edition of your Longhorn Tribune is ready for full color viewing and printing on the Newsletter page. Keep it or clip it: There's nothing like a real newspaper!
Some of the new features included in the newspaper are Alex Students of the Month for October 2009, winners of the Just Us Kids Halloween Advertising Art Contest sponsored by the Chickasha Express-Star, Football Senior Night coverage and a touching article about a father who traveled halfway across the world to see his son play Longhorn football. Counselor Taylor's page, Counselor's Corner, is also available for download on the Newsletter page or in the right pane of this page.

Black and Orange all OVER the PLACE!

Give 'em a Longhorn Shoutout!

Big High Five! The Alex Cheer team, from left to right: Freshman Annie Davenport, Sophomore Courtney Alcorn, Senior Kristen Beauchamp, Senior Brittany Sparks, Sophomore Kristin Williams and Freshman Maci McGregor. The team showed great school spirit and worked hard to lead Alex players, students and fans throughout football season. The team is looking forward to basketball season. Thanks to Cheer sponsor Mrs. Beauchamp for all her hard work.
Photo by Tammy Sparks

11-10-09: Alex students participate in the Veteran's Day Assembly.

Mr. Horne leads his Freshman Physical Science class in an experiment about centrifugal force.

Coming soon to a cereal box near you...

Breakfast of Champions: When Mrs. Baker charged her art class with creating a cereal and the the box it would be packaged in, Cash Bray and Brandon Carnes assumed their best "Wheaties" pose for the camera. Wonder which will sell the most cereal?

Ready, Aim, Fire! Alex FFA is aiming high with their latest educational and competitive event. FFA members, younger students and adults alike are involved in an educational gun safety and sporting clays program. This free program is geared toward developing responsible gun owners and improving shooting accuracy. The programs are scheduled for Sunday afternoons at 2 pm to the east of the new High School baseball field. Bring your own shotgun; clays are provided. Younger members may need adult assistance but are also encouraged to attend. Read much more about this program, its funding and the National Rifle Association on the FFA page.

From the desk of the Alex Superintendent
Welcome to the 2009-2010 Alex School year. As you can see, your website has been completely redesigned and updated. We hope you find this resource useful and encourage all students and families to contribute to our presence on the world wide web. Have a safe, happy and productive year!

Norvel Heston

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An avid Alex supporter and regular website reader from Galveston, TX, who recommends this link to the best inexpensive colleges in the nation. Check it out!
A certain Assistant Oklahoma Attorney General who regularly checks our website to ensure it displays properly on government computers.

View, download and print your own sports schedules:
High School and Jr. High Basketball schedule is now online here.

learnin' AND livin'
Check these out today!
Counselor Taylor's recommended educational links:
FastWeb - a comprehensive college resource page for students of all ages and parents planning for college.
Counselor's Corner
A new flyer prepared by Counselor Taylor is available here.
A new post from Counselor Taylor:
Raising Our Athletic daughters

Alex CSI - Citizens Showing Integrity
Updates have been made to the Elementary Student Life and Elementary Events pages, including the addition of an oustanding new video documentary created by Amber Otey highlighting the adventures of the Alex CSI Club in their recent trip to the Wichita Mountains. Give Mrs. Otey a Longhorn shoutout for her exceptional work. She did very, very well! Navigate to the Elementary Student Life section to read the article, view the video and check out other updates.

Multimedia
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Audio
Stream or download the Alex Fight Song
Black and Orange Forever is available for free access in mp3 format.
Stream or download There is only one Alex, Oklahoma, an mp3 compiliation created by Coach Yack. Thank you, Coach, you did very, very well.
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Good News - We consider ourselves computer literate! Results of third web poll: At what level do you use the computer?
None of the almost 75 people who participated in this poll consider themselves real computer dummies. In fact, a full 50% of respondants reported being regular internet users who built their own MySpace pages and were born with a mouse in their hand.

Unexpected: 22% of those participating consider themselves computer power users.
Outstanding: 17% of respondants reported that they regularly use many types of software and have a fairly good grasp of how computers work.
A little scary: 11% of those participating in our poll dream in the Visual Basic computer programming language and can code web pages by hand!. Where are these people when you need 'em?

Thanks for participating in our web polls. Please continue to do so as time allows.  The polls provide us with information that guides how we develop this website. Results of previous web polls are available here.

We also ask that readers who graduated from Alex please sign our guestmap at the top of the page and include their year of graduation.

Fellowship of Christian Athletes
An Alex chapter of FCA was started by Huddle Leaders Caullen Alexander, Randy Alexander, Michael Cassmeyer and Cherrita Diego. Students from Middle School through High School are encouraged to sign up at school for a no-cost membership. FCA sponsors are James Byrd, Amber Otey and Candy Stewart. Check out the Fields of Faith website here.

My Grade Report
The My Grade Report link available on most of these pages allows you to check grades for Middle and High School students only. Grades for Elementary students are available through a different link, which can be accessed by navigating to the Elementary Student Life section and clicking on the My Grade Report link included on all Elementary pages.

Oh, no, it's gone!
Don't worry, archives of the photos previously featured throughout this website are being uploaded.