50 . YEARS!
Culler Middle ~khool opened in 1958. It was; named after Charle,; Culler. a long-time Lincoln educator and the principal of Whittier Junior l-ligh. !=or the fird four year,; it ,;erved as: a combinationJunior high/elementary ,;chool. !=rom 1963 until 1993. Culler was: a Junior high s:erving dudents: in grade,; 7-9. It wa s; the fird Junior high ,;chool built in Lincoln that was: handicap acce,;,;ible.
Culler ha,; benefited from the leaders:hip of 7 different principal,; in 50 years:: Mr. Rezek. 19581975: Mr. Johnwn. 1975-1977: Mr. Peters:on. 1977-1990: Mr. Bucher. 1990-1996: Dr. Dirk,;. 1996-2004: Mr. Zetterman. 2004-2006: and Mr. Lars:on. 2006-2009.
Thi,; year the s:chool opened with a new 6th grade and ,;cience addition. a new gym. and remodeled vocational education clas:s:rooms:.
School Colors
In 1968 the ninth grade ,;ports: program was: darted and all Junior high s:chool,; were a,;,;igned a color and black. That ',; when Culler',; s:chool colors: became light blue and black .
Cougar Masc o t
The Culler mas:cot became the cougar around 1968. gtudent,; were allowed to ,;ubmit names: of po,;,;ible mas:cots:. The choice,; were narrowed down to ,;ix. and the dudents: voted for their choice in the cafeteria during lunch. gome of the choice,; were Culler Cobras:. Conquidadors:. Chargers:. and the Cougars:. One • intereding s:ide note to this:: Mr. Rezek. the principal at that time. thought the mas:cot ,;hould be the Qprockets:. a combination of Qpartan,; and Rocket,;. Mod dudents: went on to attend ~ad or Northead at that time.
Cel$e 50 Years 3
Akilah Akbar Christopher Akokoh Banin AI-Asady Hann ah Almanza Gena Artz
Leg aci Asencio Jord an Bailey Ashley Bambrough As h ley Behrens Nyaguk Bel
Maria Beltran Garcia Nathaniel Black Rosiona Booker Lacherro Bragqs Jamayka Br itton
Jordan Brown Nick Brown
James Bui
Troy Burdock Melvin Byro n
Kev in Cas tell ano s Lopez Jiovany Ca stillo Keys h a Clark Briana Closser Sam Coffey
Chyrone Collier
Tarae Dowd
Cole Fast
Diana Garcia Rubio
Socorro Guiza
Brandon Dieguez
Felicia Dyer
Ka lin Fast
Sean Geibel
Daisy Guiza Beltran
Billy Dimas Jayden Disher Auston Dormer
Samantha Eddins Elizabeth Escobedo LJ Ewings
Josiah Fischer Shaundra Freeman Nyibon Garafan
Breahna Genaw Nikiya Giger
Maricruz Gonza lez Figueroa
Bakhita Gum Naeif HaITTo
Lexi Harris
Firas Hasan Erika Hernandez Crystal Hopkins Rayshaun ldeen Diamend Jackson
Dioun Jackson Coleman Johnson Kamari Johnson Latrentis Johnson Autumn Jones
Noor Karkash Justin Karr Maresa Kennedy Ghazalah Khalaf Jihad Kha laf
Breanna Killin Rachel Killingsworth Haylee Kirkendall Micah Knipple Allison Kuenning
Penda Lam Jordann Lamborn Bodie Lame Angelo Lanto s Renee Lloyd
Nguyen Luu Maggie Madera Luk e Maser
Kayla McCullough Micheal McCullough
Trent Medley
Nadia Mendez Cody Merwick
Mohamed Muhammed Nicholas Mulinix
Hunter Mulligan True Ngo
Peter Nguyen Sonia Nguyen Tinh Nguyen
Nhat N guyen Tran Jade Nicklen Bailey O'Neill Walker Okeng
Destiny Olsen
Elias Osman Nasima Osman Dan Otto
Dylan Pacula Kamil le Palmer
Pal
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D o Andraya Peery
Jaivon Phillips
Lindsay Powers Yuan Rui Qin
Johnny Rabago HayatRamadan Lorenzo Ramos Cassandra Ratzlaff Erica Reeder
Erik Renteria Bradley Reynolds
Cristina Rodriguez Juan Rodriguez Zavala Skyler Roland
Dl ovan Saleh Alexis Schneider Malcolm Shepard Miranda Smith Marcus Snyder
Joshua Stanley Teialana Steel e Da n is ha Stone Macayla Stuart Damian Sutton
Not Pictured :
Rousol Aribi
Francisco Calleja Rebolledo
Yahara Del Angel Sanchez
Christian Edstrom
Farid Farkouh
Ashley Jones
Spirit Leach
Bao Nguyen
Richard Strickland
Ngor Tang Nyayom Thoat
Edqar Varqas
Shawn Virchow Tabby Willia m s
Ruach Wiyual
Yiel Yiel
Jesus Zuniqa
Emiliano Ramos Titchiang Thor
WE THE 7TH GRADERS
I-lave enjo ~ed our 7th grade ~ear here at: Culler Middle 9chool. There ha~ been ~o rnuch chat: we are thankful for. We are looking forward co 8th grade and we feel chat: we can now lead chi~ ~chool t:o be ~ucce~dul and vict:oriou~. We ~hall be role rnodel~ co t:he new 6th grader~ and t:he 7th grader~.
Maribel Adame Ibrahim Alhamdani
Cody Allgood Israel Alvarez Mary Andrew
Moises Angeles Santiago Ignacio Arias Catalan Ayat Ari bi
WiniAtem Sandros Atnafu
Taylor Baker Kelly Barber Cory Bay Ta 'nia Bedford Jaime Beltran Garcia
Erica Birch Natalie Bohac Beth Brock
Jessica Broeder Logan Broeker Pe nny Bui
Andrew Cain-Noonan Ma ris o l Carm o n a Beltr an Alissya Castaneda
Brandon Closser
Dalton Cloyd
Sydni Cox
Sabrina Crowe Cornell Culver Chang Oak
John Dang
Tyler Daniels Dylan Dawes
Shadid De La Rosa M on tie l Buomkuoth Dobuon y Alexis Dominguez
Kelly Dov
Matt Dunn Chris Engelhart Jeremy Fox Gerardo Fran co
Andrea Fr ey Sarah Fuenning Maricela Galdamez Santiago Galdamez Luis Garcia Rubio
Charles Gilliam Aida Goitom
Sergio Guiza Beltran Isidro Gutierrez Rima Hadgi
Tessa Hall lsmaeil Hamo Gauge Hansen
Me lanie Heiserman Matthew Hellbusch
Helaina Helms
Jessie Hernandez Alex Hillman Devon Holmes Israel Holmes Abigail Hoskins
Dezhanay Houston Rythm Huddle st on Racquel Humphrey
Chase Janssen
Elizabeth Jimenez
Bryan Johnson
Joseph Jones Alexandria Juengel
Kylah Julch Mauch Keak
Toni Kemerling Alexis Kennedy Hadgi Kero Sanel Kesmer
Linda Kami
Ashley Kotschwar
Suzy David Laila Emmanuel Lopez Gu1za
Sarahi Madera Kasmika Maharjan
Bre 'ana Marion
Andrea Marks Ana Marroquin Solis Cam McCullough Sadie McPherrin
Jasm ine Me eks
Haley Meier
Arilene Men d ez
Madison Mickey Austin Mi ll er
Dallas Miller Moujtaba Mohammed Valeria Moreno Garcia Robert Morris Tierra Morris
Kiah Murrell Darius Myles Shaleesa Narcisse Anh Ng u yen
Johnny Nguyen
Kallen Nissen Skyler Nobbe Chayse Olsen Nikki Olsen Jenni Ore
David Ortega Navarro Khalid Osman Mary Overstreet Graham Parrott Sunday Pat h ot
/ Katrina Patzel Alaina Pe lletier Sierra Perry Nina Pham Tyler Pope
Mathew Pounds Sarni Prieb
Jared Pu tnam
Akot Riak Troy Robertson Zahra Saad
Mario Salamanca Jenay Sargen t Tori Schmidt Molly Schumaker Roza Shamo
Julia Sifu entez Makiah Slade Nesita Sm ith Holden Non y ea Smith Holden Jordan Smi th -Dennis
Sa ndr a So lorzano-Rom ero Nathan Spal e Mann y Sp en ce r Zach Spence r Bryan Stanley
Not Pictured:
Chirstopher Bryant
Cindy Cruz
Rachel Doy le
Derek Fitz wa ter
Malik Gibbs
Arely Gutierrez Avalos
Theresa Tracy
Chr istophe r Woodhead
Thomas Stevens M ic hael Stockton
Bobby Tep Hailey Thal ken
Valeria Valenzuela Santillan Zach ary Van Ne ss
Ch ase Wolinski Dy lan Wright
Jose Zavala Holli Zimmerman
Gabri elle Stroup
Micah Swetland Karen Tapia Montes De O ca
Summer Th eis -Wil son Christian Thomas Lu cky Tran
Kevin Vargas Mendez Holaga n a Wadiso
Guandong Wuol
Tyler Yates
Farrah White Butterfl y
Harley Youngblood
7th Gra de
Kody Abarr Huda AI-Asady
Ahmed Al-Hussein
Javier Amen-Figueroa Gabriela Arellanes Urias Ryan Bates
Luka Bel Tra 'e ria Bigby Tehya Birch
Gabriel Bouwens Kyle Bovee
Evan Bowe rs-D avis
Jessica Brennfoerder Justice Brown
Savanna h Brown
Ty ler Albers
H a lona Bearkiller
Da Veion Birge
Marris sa Allsman
Lexis Beebee
Julia Black
Jessica Craig Sergio Cuevas Felix
Madison Dieguez Alfredo Dominguez
Tahsin Eli as
Dani e l Emken
Kier Dak Je remiah Decker Nyakier Deng
Kevin Duong Peter Duong Robert Dyas
Ramsey Essex Jerrin Ewinqs
Joao Ferreira
Mariah Flores Claudia Freeman Dina Garafan Kaitlyn Garcia Juan Garrido Salgado
Ferial Hasan Ryan Hayden Veronica Hernandez Thomas Heroux Saleem Holden
Andr ew Hugh es Khalil Hunter
Pedro Jaimes Vargas Savannah Jennings
Alicia Johnson
Logan Lamborn Ale xandria Lane Kim Liech Madison Loe Shania Loos
Pablo Madera Riel Mapieu
Jo rg e Marroquin So li s Autumn Maynez Ashaw n McEwan
Eli sia Medina-Jordan Sky Medl ey Tas h a M egru e Luis Mendez Da' n e j a' Men ywea th er
Jessie Mercado Mawada Mohammed Joclyne Moll
Abraheem Muhammed Gerardo Naranjo Cody Neddermeyer
Rawson Ngoh David Nguyen
Dominic Nguyen
Hafe th Mourad
Abdul Muhammed
Deanna Nelson Phuong Ngo
Loe Nguyen Jacob Noah
Paul Patton
Nadia Piso
Christian Reyes
Adan Salazar
Ve ronica Schnell
Nathan Peery
Lisa Pope
Sergio Reyes Cisneros
Shivan Saleh
Lindsey Schrader
Ivonne Perez-Juarez Nam Pham Breon Philbrick
Rafae l Ouawrells-Wilson Radwan Ramadan Soraya Ramirez
Aaron Rhoades Aaron Richmond Amos Rodriguez
Uny Santamaria Nathan Schilke Marcus Schmidt
Guadalupe Serna Garcia Jasmi ne Simmons Taysha Slade
Not Pictured : Octavio Cruz
Keith Fitzwater
Bret Pinkelman
Ricardo Velasquez Lopez
Nakyta Womack
Laquarain Spencer
Araina Swenson
Ezequiel Varqas
Aaron Steinman Nate Stephenson Teawna Stetson
Tilian Tilian An Tr a n Nhu Tran
Radiou s Walker-Woods Shaneequah Watkins Desha un Wilkinson
Jay Stickney
Dylan Ullman
Ashley Wilson
Ra tnse y enjoying hi s lunch. ls he po sing?
th grader~ !:rth . u·nch a-t the ut.
Chridian and Aaron having fun in the gym. ~ jJ) 6th Grade
Danielle Arganbright Emily Beck
Andrea Carlson Michael Champagne
Pat Doney
Aaron Foster
Sara Halama
Irina Dronova
Jan Franklin
Kate Haskins
Philip Beck
Ed Boehle
Michele Cabrera
Joan Creger Carol Crum Jill Deets
Terri Eglsaer
Christie Flynn
Justin Frederick Erna Gilster Alysa Haack
Carla Haydu Cary Haynes Lisa Henjes
Mary Herrington LeAnn Hofmann
Brooke Kastanek Rachael ~uc~Spann
Sharon Kreimer
Marcy Lapp Dan Larson
Kate Larson
Holly Liibbe
Michelle Looky
David Macek Troy Mack
Wally Mason Eva mari e Mc D o we ll-Co ffin
Anastasia McNulty
Shereen Mill s
Heidi Moore
Brett Noser
Patrick O'Hare
Iraida Peinado La rry Peterson
Sharon Phillips
Julie Ramel
Sherri Robinson
Cafeteral Staff:
XIAaVl DIAOVl, Nadia Did1Asevi~o, CYJamavi i~a ParavialA ltYJavia, 51Asavi McGIii, Javiice BarviYJill, La1Arel LIAed~e, SaraYJ PalAI, JIAlie Coltovi , Margarita Hatfield ,
Cv1stod iavis:
JoYJVl Tviorpe, TYJeresa Hegarty, Joviviy Geary , Allee Nemec, Jos YJ Ho1Al e, Larry Heldtbrlvi~, Jerry Stec~ly ,
"WE SERVE THE BEST;' ·
Amy Ruisinger Robert Ruisinger
Debra Ryan
Mary Salazar
Jacob Schillinger
Angela Smail Vicki Sorensen
Kathy Spahr Annette Stier
Sally Thorne
Shereen Tolba Terri Vensky
Scott Vicrey
Dustin W a rdyn
Jeanne Wenz
Kim White Cheryl Whitehall Kerk Wilson
Linda Windle Aaron Zabawa
Leila Zila
GOTCHA!!
Not Pictured:
Asnley Bonac
Mlcnelle Bo~ac
Bevi Keowvi
Mary Tooley
Stepnavile Vevis~y
Can't. go anywhere without the pres s wanting to take your picture!
7th Grade T earn:
FLAG FOOTBALL
8th Grade Team:
i::ront row: Dioun Jackrnn. Jordan Bai ley.I Ray shaun ldeen. Viel Viel. Noor Karkash. Jesus Zuniga Cole i::a st. Middle row: Coach Ben Nick Brown Kalin i::a st. Nathaniel B lack. Nick Mulinix. Diarnend Jackson. Coa c Adarn Coach 0'1-lare. Back row : Malcolrn ghepard. Jordan Brown Bo di f Larne
i::ront row : Dylan Wright. Charles Gilliam. Khalid Osman. Cody Allgood Mathew Pounds. Back row: Coach Ben Manny gpencer Mouch Keak Israe l l-lolmes. Chang Dak. Bryan Johnson. Zach gpencer. Coach Adam
Sch Grade Tearn
Front row : Mi r anda gmith. Tarae Dowd. Middle row : Renee Lloyd . 1-la ley Kir kenda ll. Autumn Jone s. Ak i lah Akbar Jamayka Br i tton Jade Ni ck len Kami ll e Palmer Key sh a C. lark . Back row : C.oach gtephan i e. Crystal 1-lopkins. Teialana gtee le. Justin Karr. Nyayom Thoat. Mare sa Kennedy Niki ya Giger Ro si Booker. Dane sha gtone . Micah Knipple. C.oach Je ss ica. True Nguyen . A shley Behren s Nguyen Luu
Not pictured: Jordann Lamborn
7th Grade T earn
Front row: gutnmer Th i e s. Alex is Kenne d y. Kyl ah Julch. Rythm 1-luddleston . Alex Jue ngel. g abrin a C.rowe. A lex 1-li ll man. gydni C.ox M i ddle row : Kas mika MaharJan. Gabrielle gtroup Abbey 1-lo sk in s. Mary Andrew. Tori gchmidt. Wini Atem. Aid a Go itom. guzy David-Laila. Natalie Bohac.1-lailey Thalk e n. B ack row: C.oach Ashlee.1-lela i na l-le lms. Kiah Mu rr e ll. Nesita gmith-1-folden . Jes sica Broeder . Non ye a gm ith-1-~olden. C.oach A manda
VOLLE Y BALL
Coach
dledon. Gabrielle gtroup. Mary Overstreet r011lf;IJWlll'l'i1 Cox. Tierra Morris. Wini Atem Mary Andrew
Back row : Coach Arganbright Abby 1-lo skins Jessica ia gmith 1-lolden. Natalie Bohac Nonyea gmith 1-lolden. iah Murrell. Dezhanay 1-loudon. Coach Champagne. A ida Goitom. Me lanie 1-le is erman Tor i gchmidt
Front row: Keysha Clark. Alexi
Micah Knipple. Akilah Akbar . Felicia Dyer. Kamille Palmer
Kennedy Nguyen Luu. Jade Nick row: Coach gtephanie. Lega ci A sen
Marcus. Justin Karr. Niki ya Gige Gonzales Figueroa Bakhita Gum. Teialan Ben.
, !=ront row: Moltj taba Moharnrn~d. Qkyler Nobbe. Ah . Ng u yen. Middle mw: Alexi,s: Qcbneider. Sarn C.offey. Nhat Nguyen Tran. Beth Brock. Mary Overdreet. Back row: Jared Putnam. C.olernan Johns:on. Ngor Tang. Daniel Otto. Guan Wuol. Jarnes: Bui. C.hridian Thqtr)as:. Not -pictured: C.oach Kluck. C.oach Thornar;, Johnr-1y Rabago. Akot Riak.
Front: r9w: C. hri s ~oodhead , Anh Nguyen. Charles • Gilliam. Mat:hew Pound s Jihad Khalaf. Dylan Wright:.
Middle row: C.o ac;~ Dav i d Coach Bryah. Moi se s Angele s gant:iago. Mau ch Ke a k Jeremy Fox , J irne Beltran Kallen Ni ss an. 1 •
Back row: Trent: Med ley Coleman Joh,nson Guandong Wuol. Landon Egger s. A kot: Riak. C.ole Fa st 1-lun.cer Mulligan . C:oach Brad. Not: pi ct:ured: Jame s Bui J ohny Nguyen. Nhat: Nguyen · Tran. Mal c olm %epard. Micah gw et:land Chri stian Thoma s Yiel Yiel.
Cro ss Cou~es tlin g
Publication~ 9taff: Briana Clo~~er. 9am Coffey. ghaundra Freeman. N ya yotn Thoat. Lind~ay Power~. A~hley Batnbrough. Alli~on Kuenning. and Dan Otto.
Advi~or: Mr~ . Ven~ky
Principal: Mr. Lar~on ~ ~bl icat ion
L GROUPS
JAZZ BAND
frovit row : Al Nissan Mar Rosa Movitl Sd1mldt, Jer Swetlavid, C
rmavi, Kallevi adid De La row : Tori Miean
ORCHESTRA
C~ristiavi Tfomas, Sierra Perry, KasmlRa Ma~arJavi, As~ley Be~revis, Mica~ Kvilpple, NicR Mullvilx, Sydvil Cox, Avi Travi, Tyler Pope, Alda Coitom, Kelly Dov, Holli Zlmmermavi,
ManarJavi, Moll1:1 lean rt Morris, @, Not
CUV 16TH GRADE CHORUS
frovit row: D1:1lavi IAllmavi, Sora1:1a Famlrez, Verovila Scnviell, Verovilea Herviavidez, R1:1avi Bates, Bae~ row: Cnrlstlavi Re1:1es, Aarovi Stelvimavi, Avi Travi, Nnu Tran Radlous Wal~er-Woods, All Lavie,
8TH GRADE CHORUS
frovit row: Maggie Mader Jordavivi Lamborvi. Bae~ row :Erlea Reeder,Sama Beltravi, Raenel Klfllvigswortn, Bambrougn, Gevia Artz,
COUG
Quiz Bowl
Front row: Micah ~wetland. Anh Nguye
Back row: Kari Ronning. Nguyen Luu. Nhat Nguyen Tran Cindy Loope. Nyayorn Thoat.
gcience club celebrate~ Valentine·~ Day.
g tu dent Council
Aida Goitorn. Je ss ica l--lernandez. Deanna Nelson. Lisa Pope. Mathew Pound s. ghaundra !=reernan Mr s grnail. and Mar':l Overstreet. Not Pictured: Alli son Kuenning.
7th grade chorus orrn s at: the CLC talent:
