Editor-in-Chief of CHS’s newspaper and yearbook, Sports Med Club president, varsity member of the golf team, part-time job holder, and a student with a rigorous school workload – including UW Calculus – not to mention a daily commute from Wenatchee: senior Ruth “Ruthie” Biebesheimer is a time management magician and a girl on the move.
Known to all as Ruthie, Biebesheimer, a K-12 student of the Cascade School District, has become a prominent leader of the CHS class of 2022. As the chief editor of the Kodiak Chronicle, Ruthie manages a staff of 15 to produce the award-winning, online paper and yearbook. Publications’ advisor and CHS English teacher Roselyn Robison, who has had Biebesheimer as a student all four of the former’s years at CHS, sees her as “a natural leader.” Robison recalled that from the get-go in freshman English class, Ruthie “raised the bar” and that her fellow students “looked up to her.” Now, after three years with the Publications team, Robison boasts that Biebesheimer has become an ideal editor-in-chief: “She is a really talented writer who knows her audience well and is a talented graphic artist. Ruthie uses time efficiently, is professional, mature and the staff know they can always come to her for help.”
With a constant parade of deadlines and late-night editing, among a myriad of other weekly tasks and management, editor-in-chief is as demanding a position for a high school student as there is. Yet, Biebesheimer still figures out a way to do and contribute more. Another CHS teacher who has taught Ruthie each of the last four years is Consumer & Family Sciences teacher and Sports Medicine Club advisor Jon Betz. “I know Ruthie really well. She is a hard worker who somehow juggles a lot and gets it all done,” relates Betz.
Ruthie’s characteristic drive is well known and admired not just among the faculty, but by the student body as well. “Determined,” is what came to mind when CHS junior Annie Jenkins was asked about Biebesheimer. “She is one of those people who quickly figures out what needs to be done and then does it,” continued Jenkins. Yet, Ruthie is not a one-dimensional, hard-charging student. Her drive is well balanced with an ability to empathize with others. Senior Hanalei Alejo, with whom Biebesheimer played Kodiak volleyball for three years, noted that what stands out to her about Ruthie more than anything is that “she is caring and always puts other people before herself.”
For the last four years, many of those people were her fellow CHS students with whom she has enjoyed many lasting memories - from antics in the bleachers to golf team van rides. Soon though, the next chapter of life will begin for Ruthie. Armed with a resume like hers, Biebesheimer will have a wide selection of colleges from which she can choose. At the moment, South Carolina’s Clemson University is in the lead. Making the momentous final decision as to colleges, though, is just another problem to solve for Ruthie.
When asked for a nugget of advice for the underclassmen she will say goodbye to in the spring, Biebesheimer said: “Try as hard as you can not to procrastinate – it will come back to bite you.” It is no surprise that Ruthie advises the practical. She knows how to get things done, leads by example, and is going places.
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