High school senior and student musician Omarrion Jordan has helped spark school spirit within the halls of Midland Valley High School with his updated version of the institution’s alma mater.
The new song uses the same words from the original song, but infuses it with modern style and personality.
“He just took it and made it his own,” Principal Sheldon Higgenbottom said.
The song began being played at home football games in the fall, and is now the school dismissal bell that plays over the campus each day at 3:30 p.m. Higgenbottom said that before this, many students didn’t even know the words to the song.
“It’s supposed to be the song [that], when it’s played, you stand, and you say ‘that’s my song, that’s my school.’ … That’s what he’s done here,” Higgenbottom said.