Our Mascot

This is Midnight, the McCarty School Mascot. Midnight had this picture taken in the fall of 1999, just before he set off for his latest adventure.

Midnight decided to become a traveler in November, 1994, when he "galloped the country". In that school year, his travels coincided with the school's reading program entitled "Read Across America". As Midnight traveled, students read minutes to match his miles. He visited the alma maters of McCarty parents from New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Iowa, Kansa, Montana, Nevada, and California. He brought back many mementos of that journey.

In 1999, Midnight was offered a trip he just could not refuse. He was to travel on the Space Shuttle Discovery on Space Mission STS-103, which was to repair the Hubble Space Telescope. After numerous delays, Midnight and the crew he was accompanying finally lifted off in December, 1999. This journey also coincided with the school reading program, "Space-Out On Reading." This time the students read 3.29 million  minutes to match Midnight's 3.25 million space miles. During an assembly in the spring the students viewed a video message from two NASA astronauts who congratulated McCarty students on reaching their reading goal.