Green Horn

October 27, 2010 Volume 31, Edition 1

The Award-Winning Student Publication of Springfield High School and the Tech Center

Saturday Detentions Implemented

Breakfast Not Part of Punishment
By Sarah Vredenburgh

8
:00 am Saturday morning. High school students
rarely see this hour on such a day. Weekends are
notorious among teenagers for sleeping in, relax-
ing, watching television, and hanging out with friends
while the pressure of waking up early and the deadline
for homework is not 12 hours away.
“Saturday detentions are something that
students are not going to want to do,” said Springfield
High School Assistant Principal Zach McLaughlin,
regarding the switch of after-school office detentions
to Saturday mornings.
The school's past detention policy was
strictly limited to school days. If a teacher administered
a detention, it was their discretion to have the student
serve their detention before or after school. This guiding
principle is still intact. However, office detentions were
previously served for 45 minutes after school and were
held in either the main office or a teacher’s classroom.
Now, if a student receives an office detention, they will
be required to serve their detention on a designated
Saturday morning from 8:00-10:00 am.
SHS teachers previously were required to
supervise three detentions per school year.
“I didn’t mind the after-school detentions,
but the schedule was usually inconvenient,” said English
These five famous cinematic rapscallions famously endured Saturday morning
detention. Some Springfield students can now feel their pain. See Detention page 20

What’s Inside:
Students view
Where Are the Tater Tots?
Death of a By Liza Fontaine

A
Salesman,
crisis has broken out in the Springfield High
p.7 School Cafeteria. A tater tot crisis. At the begin-
ning of September, students arrived in the SHS
Cafeteria at approximately 11:00 am on their first day of
The King school and many were angered and disappointed to find
that the popular entrée, tater tots, wasn’t anywhere to be
reclaims the found. The lunch ladies were swarmed with questions
throne, regarding the missing tater tots.
p. 13 “I was so mad on the first day,” said senior
Billy Wheeler. “That’s one of the main things people get
at lunch and tater tots are my favorite part of the school
Jack Cahun is lunch.”
Why are these miniature cylinder shaped
new football potato-filled objects causing such a rumble due to their Tater tots are only available on Friday.
coach, absence? Why, they are one of the greasy fat foods that
Some SHS students are angered about
p. 16 every American craves, of course. Tater tots are scrump-
this change in menu.
See Tots page 20
Green Horn Interview
By Vicki Kopidakis

.
Nick Chlebak
Receives the
Green and Gold
Scholarship
O
n Tuesday, August 31st, Springfield High have wanted it more than
School Principal Bob Thibault noted that senior I did. Either way, I'm still
Nick Chlebak had been awarded the Green and proud of myself, and I
Gold Scholarship, which grants him free tuition at the intend on using the scholarship as an absolute back-up where I was born.
University of Vermont. to my college plans.
Chlebak earned the full scholarship to the Where do you hope to attend?
University of Vermont by distinguishing himself in ad- What was your formula for success? My top choice is Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio. In the
vanced classes and successfully handling full schedules I never took study halls and I took as many weighted music field, where you go to college can really decide
during his high school career. classes as I could. I also made sure I maintained good whether you get a job or not. Oberlin Conservatory
Chlebak was born in Strasbourg, France, grades and didn’t slack off. I wasn't afraid to ask for also has very good financial aid. My second choice is
and lived there for five years with his family. He moved help either. I made it my goal in any subject to fully Ithaca in New York [state] and my last choice is McGill
to Batesville, Arkansas, where his grandparents lived. understand the material. If I didn't, I did whatever it in Montreal. All of these schools are very well-known
Chlebak moved again to Canaan, Vermont, in 2004. His took to make sure I knew despite how awkward or how in the music world for their composition departments
family left Canaan and settled in Springfield in 2007. much trouble it was to do so. especially that of contemporary music and electronic
At Springfield High School, through numer- music, which is music that is generated with the use
ous classes, Chlebak has engaged his passion for music, How do you stay involved in school? of electronic tools, for example the music of Karlheinz
a passion that developed from early familiarity with this I try avoiding skipping school as much as I can. I try to Stockhausen, in which he splices tapes of pre-recorded
discipline and a strong family background in the craft. help out as many people as I can, if I know them or not. audio along with other computer generated noises to
“After all the time I spent around music,” said Chlebak, Kindness really helps out other people, especially when produce pieces like "Gesang der Junglinge."
“I couldn’t help but to fall in love with it.” The Green you're older. I know that when I was a freshman I really
Horn recently sat down with Chlebak as he discussed looked up to seniors, so I want to return the favor. And What do you intend to study at college?
his work ethic, passions, and future plans. in terms of just doing well in academics, caring is really I definitely want to study music composition. My big-
important, you have to want to do well. Otherwise, it’s gest goal with my college experience is to end up with
How do you feel about winning the Green and Gold a lot harder to do your work. a career in composition. Not for symphonies and stuff,
Scholarship? because I know what that's like and it’s pretty strict and
I wasn’t keeping up with my grade point average so I Do you plan to accept the scholarship? Why or you have to love it to enjoy it. I'm far more interested
was caught by surprise. I feel really honored to have why not? in media composition, for example writing music for
received the award, but at the same time it's a bit weird,
It’s definitely not my top choice but it’s really nice to films. Today music needs to be written for any amounts
because I wasn't expecting it. I didn't make it a goal to
have as my back-up plan if all else fails. I have a lot of of things; commercials, movies, TV, and in today’s age
win it. It just kind of happened. I don't really have too
other choices that are well-known for their composition something that is becoming very demanding for scores
much interest in going to UVM, so that makes the situ- departments. UVM does have a good music program. is video games. Michael Giacchino, for you Lost fans,
ation even more uncomfortable, because I feel that I'veIt’s just that it isn't specific enough for the fields of study scored the TV show. However, for those who don't know,
taken that accomplishment from someone else that might that I’m interested in. Also, for the college experi- he also wrote the music to many other things besides
ence, being somewhere TV. He scored Pixar's Up, along with the popular Medal
further away from home of Honor video game series. This is a lot of the career
GREEN HORN STAFF will give me more of an I’m striving for.
understanding for what
S am Benton......................... Layout Editor it's going to be like after How are you preparing for college?
K elsey Christensen............... C0-Editor school. I think I’ll get For music schools, not only do I have to do the common
more of what responsi- application to get into the school, but I also need to do an
M aria Stern.......................... Co-Editor bilities I’m going to need audition in the field I want to go into. For example, most
L aurel Porter....................... Photo Editor/Co-Editor instead of just having my kids want to do performance so they audition on their
parents two hours away. instrument but for composition it’s a little different. The
C ourtney Downing.............. Sports Editor Independence is more Oberlin Conservatory requires that I submit three scores
----------------REPORTERS--------------- of what I'm looking for. of music, two of which must be written by hand. Along
Nikka Bactad,Tabitha Celani, Justin Deroser, Alexis Esposito, I'm not looking to shun with various summaries and explanations of my history
Liza Fontaine, Lauren Fountain, Sarah Gray, Jessie Haskell, Chelsea Vermont, though it is a of music experiences. Other than that, I'm planning on
Howland, Holly Hooke, Alexandra Johnstone, Vicki Kopidakis, Alexis bit small and unpopu- visiting schools later this fall, along with re-taking the
L0cke, Angelina Mei, Andrew Naccarato, Cooper Naess, Jill Rushton, lated. I also want to be SATs. Also I'm working on my AP classes.
Jennifer Stein, Olivia Thayer, Sarah Vredenburgh, and somewhere in the city, Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Michael Whittemore like in the environment
See Chlebak page 23
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 News
Electronic Devices Nixed
Student Dignity Remains
By Lauren Fountain

I
f you were to observe the halls of Springfield High
School last year you would have seen kids typing
away on their phones, calling home, and listening to
music on their mp3 players and iPods. That all changed
this year. Just before students arrived in school this fall,
families received letters announcing that school officials
had adopted a no-electronic devices policy.
“I was in total support of the new change
from the very start,” said Tammy Fountain, this report-
er’s mother. Despite the approval of some parents, many
kids have asked why the cell phone policy changed this
year.
“There were many reasons for changing the
policy this year but the biggest reason was that we want
to promote more face-to-face communication between
students and faculty,” said SHS Assistant Principal
Zack McLaughlin, who is beginning his first year at the
school.
Besides promoting more face-to-face com-
munication, other goals are found with this new policy.
By eliminating electronics, educators hope students may
pay more attention in class and get a better education.
aren't so focused on who is sending them messages and
how much longer until the end of class so that they can
check it."
Not everyone is in favor of the ban on
electronic devices, though. "I don't really care for the
policy,” said junior Taylor Fontaine.
"I don't like it at all. In fact I hate it. I want to
be able to use my cell phone at lunch,” added sophomore
Cody Vandenburgh. "If anything, it will only make us
students more sneaky about how we text people."
Despite this criticism, much optimism is
found with this no-electronic devices policy at SHS.
"The kids are responding well. Mr. McLaughlin is doing
a great job and the kids still feel like they have dignity,”
stated SHS Principal Bob Thibault, as he reflected on
the new policy. Both Thibault and McLaughlin agree
that by getting rid of electronics in the school, kids will
be talking more face-to-face rather than sending their
friends text messages. In the end, educators feel that this
will help reduce cyber-bullying. Zach McLaughlin confers with
"Although a lot of it [cyber-bullying] hap- sophomore Kirby Goodrich.
pens outside of school we can still stop it for the time that

McLaughlin
"I feel that kids are paying more attention in the students are in school," concluded English teacher
class now that they are unable to use electronics," said Jen Dodge.
sophomore English teacher Jen Dodge." Because they

Wants to Give
Kids a Voice
By Lauren Fountain

I
n addition to new teaching staff at Springfield High
School this year, Zack McLaughlin joined the high
school as a new assistant principal. McLaughlin was
hired last year by a selection committee, that included
SHS Principal Bob Thibault.
Prior to being hired, McLaughlin read about
SHS and knew right away that it was not just any other
school. And he wanted to help make a difference in the
climate and discipline within the school.
McLaughlin, who is originally from Maine,
says that his biggest hope this year is to give students a
voice by the time he leaves SHS.
"I feel that Springfield was ready for a change
this year," said McLaughlin, who also helped create the
Cosmos Code, a new set of rules for behavior that was
implemented at SHS this year.
In addition to his desire to give students more
Clockwise from top left: Cody Vandenburgh disagrees with the new cell phone of a voice, McLaughlin simply wants to be there to help
policy. English teacher Jen Dodge thinks kids are paying more attention in class kids. He also would like to encourage them to assist in
thanks to the policy. Principal Bob Thibault believes that the students are the writing of school rules in the future.
"It is time for kids to have more of a role in
responding well to the new policy. Assistant principal Zach McLaughlin feels the school," McLaughlin said.
kids will talk more face to face without electronics in the school.
See McLaughlin page 23

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News
Ballou and Frank Teach
and Celebrate Their
Pregnancies
By Kelsey Christensen
A
ccording to the U.S. Census Bureau, 4.2 babies
are born every second. It’s not so uncanny then,
that two Springfield High School teachers are
expecting children.
Yuliya Ballou, SHS German and Russian
teacher, will give birth to a baby girl just after Thanks-
giving. Ballou discovered the gender of her baby in a
very unique fashion. “For the longest time, I couldn’t
decide if I wanted to know the gender,” Ballou said. “I had friends who went through miscar-
Rather than merely being informed by the
sonogram technician, Ballou had the technician place
the gender in a folder that she took to her parents over
the summer. She asked her parents to buy the baby a
gender-specific outfit for her and her husband to open
when they decided that they wanted to know the gen-
der.
The couple waited until their August wed-
ding anniversary to open the package. They discovered
three Belarusian-made outfits for a baby girl. As for
naming her child, Ballou, who was born and raised in
Russia, is considering names that work well in both
American and Russian culture.
Biology and Yearbook Production teacher
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Amanda Frank is scheduled to have a little girl on
Christmas day. “I feel bad for the girl if she has to share
a birthday with the important holiday,” Frank said. “But
we’re just happy whenever she decides to show her little
face.”
Frank learned of her pregnancy in April, but
did not tell anyone other than her husband and doctor
until June.
riages and had told their family [of their pregnancy]
and had to deal with the repercussions,” Frank said. “It
wasn’t anything that I wanted to go through.”
Frank was also happy to survive the spring
without any morning sickness mishaps. “I had fears of
throwing up in class,” she said. “But thankfully that
never materialized.”
Now that the nauseas phase of the pregnancy
is over, Frank is experiencing new challenges, such as
muscle pain, sleep loss, and the physical changes to her
body associated with the growth of the baby.
Frank has encountered more emotional
transitions. “A whole lot of emotions go with it [the
pregnancy] – everything from excitement and all the
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N
ew problems came with the
new school year at Elm Hill
School this fall. As a result of
the closing of Park Street School, Elm
Hill and Union Street each added over
100 students. This increased enroll-
ment caused traffic congestion at the
start and end of the school day, lead-
ing to traffic jams that lasted up to 30
minutes. Parents, dropping off their
children, were frustrated by this traffic
system. School administrators, includ-
ing principal Susan Whittemore, traffic
coordinator Lisa Hall, and Springfield
School Superintendent Dr. Frank
Perotti worked hard to control and re-
solve this traffic problem. These school
officials directed traffic in the morning
and afternoon and encouraged par-
ents to have their students ride buses
to reduce the number of cars and the
school’s carbon footprint.
Russian-German teacher Yuliya Ballou,
left, is scheduled to give birth around
Thanksgiving. Biology teacher
Amanda Frank is scheduled to have her
child around Christmas.
See Expecting page 22
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Freshman Dylan Beach likes the lack of assigned seats in his classes and the vari-
ety of the lunch options. Freshman Sara Locke likes SHS better than her middle
school. Math teacher John Dean is able to interact with students outside of his
classes thanks to the new Freshman Academy.
Freshmen Class of 2014
New School, New Peers
By Olivia Thayer
N
ew school, new classes, and new peers. The
freshman class encountered all of these and
more on their first day of school on August 30th.
Over 140 students entered Springfield High School as
the Class of 2014 this fall.
“I’m excited to be entering a new school
because that will be a big change for me,” said incom-
ing freshman Sara Locke, who previously attended
Weathersfield Middle School. “But I’m also a little
frightened about finding my way around.”
Transferring from middle school to SHS
may cause some freshmen to feel like small fish in a
big pond, instead of being the oldest class in the school
like they were the previous year. Some may even have
frightening dreams about intimidating upperclassmen
or getting lost in the halls.
“Freshmen year is the toughest one in high
school because it is a transition year from middle school
to high school,” said SHS Principal Bob Thibault.
However, these fears are almost never real-
ized. Most upperclassmen and teachers greet incoming
freshmen with open arms and an understanding of what
it feels like to be new in school.
“I like SHS so much better than middle
school,” said Locke. “It’s different than I thought it
would be.” Locke is a student on the white team, a
G r e e n H o r
Freshman Academy learning group, and prefers the
way her teachers are teaching compared to her previous
school.
“It [SHS] is pretty good, and the teachers
aren’t really mean,” said freshman Dillan Visscher.
“The classes are easier than Riverside classes and the
upperclassmen aren’t intimidating.”
“High school is all right,” said freshman
Dylan Beach. “I like the different lunches, how I
don’t have assigned seats, and there’s more options for
food.“
“From what I’ve heard from parents, kids,
and academy teachers, the freshmen are adjusting great,”
added Thibault.
A new Freshmen Academy was designed
to help a selected group of teachers to focus on the 9th
graders to help these first-year students make an easier
transition to the high school.
“The Freshman Academy is a team-based
approach to 9th grade year,” explained Thibault. “We
have five teachers (four core teachers in English, social
studies, science, and math, and a special educator) with
common students and a common planning period.”
The freshmen teachers are divided into two
See Freshmen page 21
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News
AP Labs
More to Love
By Vicki Kopidakis
A
typical day in an Advanced Placement class last
year went something like this: the bell rang,
class work began, students became engaged,
and the bell rang. Class was over. This allotted time,
about 42 minutes, left students feeling unfulfilled with
the amount of work covered, unprepared for the New
England Common Assessment Program and AP exams,
and neglected as Advanced Placement students.
“For it be considered AP,” said senior Emily
Saypack, who takes AP Art and Advanced Biology, “you
have to put in the extra man-hours.”
Extra time has been granted to students and
teachers this fall, however, with the new AP labs that
dedicate an additional period once or twice a week to
AP and Advanced classes.
“We needed the time,” said senior Nikka
Bactad, who takes AP Literature and Composition and
Advanced Biology. “50 minutes just isn’t long enough
for AP classes.”
This change in schedule was instituted by
Springfield High School Principal Bob Thibault after
a review of past exams scores, a consideration of the
See AP Labs page 22
AP Language and Composition teacher
Ed Wilkins has been using extra time
in class to cover reading and writing
skills.

News
Cosmos Code
Six-Point Plan Encourages
Teacher and Student Success
By Justin Derosier

S
Sierra Kent thinks she will have an easy pringfield High School students are expected to
transition as school nurse because she be responsible and active in the classroom this
already knows many of the students. year. To ensure this positive change in the tone

Kent, Reeves
of the school, principal Bob Thibault and assistant
principal Zack McLaughlin created the Cosmos Code
over the summer.
“It was all about timing,” said Thibault,

Will Handle
about the urgency surrounding the creation of the code.
“We could have had input from the community, but we
needed the code by the start of the school year.”
The Cosmos Code represents a simple way of

Health Office
teaching kids what is appropriate for school interactions.
“It is easier to remember six simple codes of conduct
than it is to remember twenty rules of how not to act
in school,” said McLaughlin. In clear, direct terms, the
Alexandra Johnstone code states that students are expected to be respectful,
active, responsible, appropriate, truthful, and on time.

I
f you asked to go to the Springfield High School
Nurses' Office last year, you could've expected to
see Christine Simmonds and Tammy Fountain. This
autumn, Sierra Kent and Wendy Reeves provide health
care for SHS students and faculty, while Simmonds
moved on to Green Mountain Union High School
and Fountain is now works at Elm Hill school as the
health clerk.
Previously, Kent worked at Springfield
Hospital for over four years while Reeves was at Elm
Hill School for five years.
"I knew a lot of students here at the high
school so I figured it'd be an easy transition," said
Kent.
Reeves had moved between Park Street
Elementary and Elm Hill School as a nurse. She made
the switch to the high school when the Springfield
elementary schools were consolidated this year.
Kent originally became a nurse because she
enjoyed a college nutrition and fitness class she enrolled
in. "I just thought it was so cool how the body worked,”
she said. Kent worked in childbirth at first then went
more into other areas having to do with children and
treating their illnesses.
Reeves didn't consider nursing as a career,
until she was inspired by nurses during her pregnancy
and childbirth. She became a nurse, then went on to work
at Springfield Hospital before working in the Springfield
public school system.
Kent and Reeves care for many students
each day. Since they must contend with a mid-morning
rush of students who have forgotten to eat breakfast,
both want students to get the message that breakfast
is an important meal for young people. Both also urge
students to use the health office for serious illnesses.
“My job is to help with many more things,"
Kent said, "rather than just stomach aches.”
Thibault and McLaughlin presented the
Cosmos Code to the school faculty in August, and the
faculty then approved the 6-point code. Students were
introduced to the code on the first day of school. SHS
social studies teacher Bob Paul feels that the code is an
honest and sincere attempt to unite the staff and students
at SHS. Paul feels administrators are not using the Cos-
mos Code to punish students, but to teach appropriate
public interactions.
The main goal of the Cosmos Code, accord-
ing to educators, is to help increase student success and
thus encourage a higher graduation rate.
Before the adoption of the Cosmos Code,
some SHS teachers and students believed there wasn’t
a good set of principles to guide student behavior. Ac-
cording to educational research, schools with a high
success rate offer a set of rules like the Cosmos Code to
help students decide if what they are doing is something
The Cosmos Code
1) Respect and encourage the “right to
teach” and “right to learn.”
2) Be actively engaged in learning: ask
questions, collaborate, and seek
solutions.
3) Be on time to fulfill daily
commitments.
4) Be appropriate; demonstrate
behavior that is considerate of the
community, the campus, and yourself.
5) Be truthful; communicate honestly.
6) Be responsible and accountable for
your choices.
Christine Clancy feels that the Cosmos
Code allows more time for learning and
eliminates distractions.
that they can account for, including when they have done
something that deserves praise or disciplinary action.
Students, held accountable for their actions, learn a
sense of responsibility.
“I think that being appropriate is one of the
biggest [items] on the list,” said Thibault. “If that one
is followed then the others are not needed as much.” If
a student is being appropriate then they are following
not only the Cosmos Code but also class expectations
as determined by the teacher.
As Thibault and other faculty insist, students
often interrupt classes by disregarding the Cosmos Code.
SHS officials feel that if the high school is to climb the
ladder of success then the school must unite to endorse
the ideal that all students have a right to learn and all
people, young and old, should be allowed to study in
classes that are free of disruptions.
With the Cosmos Code in place, it is the
hope of teachers and administrators that more time can
be spent on learning.
"Now that the Cosmos Code is in place,” said
senior Christine Clancy, "I feel like more class time is
now spent on learning rather than discipline."

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 News

Nathan Darrow as Happy, Amy Van Nostrand as Linda, Markus Potter as Biff, and Christopher Lloyd as Willy make up
the disfunctional Loman family in the Weston Playhouse production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Lloyd Dies the Death of a Salesman

100 Students and Staff Witness Tragedy
By Angelina Mei

T
ragedies, dreams, and death are all important
parts of Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Sales-
man. During the second week of school, Spring-
field High School English students went to the Weston
Playhouse to see a performance of Salesman. About
100 students attended from all grades. Five teachers
chaperoned.
“The parts were really well portrayed by the
actors,” said senior Amanda Farnsworth. “Chris [Chris-
topher Lloyd, who played protagonist Willy Loman, in
Salesman] was good but he didn’t take over the stage.
Everyone had good and equal presence.” dedicated.” said Freitas. “He did a very good job playing
“I thought it was very good because all of
the actors stuck to the script,” said sophomore Cameron
Freitas. “There were no mess-ups at all and the emotion
of the actors was so real.”
Originally written by Arthur Miller and first
performed in 1949, Salesman was performed 742 times
before it closed on Broadway.
“It was groundbreaking and heartrending six
decades ago when it debuted, and it still stand the tests
of time,” said Weston Playhouse Director Steve Stettler
in an interview about the play that was included in a
special teacher packet given out before the performance.
The play won the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the New
York Drama Critics Circle Award and has been one of
the most performed plays in American history.
Christopher Lloyd, who famously played Dr. “Students work on performance part of the
Emmet Brown in the Back to the Future series, returned script being done as the fall student matinee at Weston,”
to where he began his acting career to play Loman at said SHS English teacher and Drama coach Rebecca
the Weston Playhouse. “He chose us,” said Stettler “I Skrypeck. “The actors of the show then have a talk-back
asked him what play would get him back to Weston and session with the students about their acting decisions
he suggested Death of a Salesman.” and the play itself.”
Although Lloyd resides in California, his
older brother, Sam, lives in Weston where he has also
performed at the playhouse. Lloyd and his brother have
performed together at Weston in Sherlock Holmes.
“You could tell that he [Lloyd] was very
the part.”
Death of a Salesman is about a traveling
salesman named Willy Loman who is at the end of his
career, struggling to pay his bills every month. He has
two adult sons, Biff and Happy, and a wife, Linda. Ob-
sessed with what he thinks is the American Dream, Willy
hallucinates about his past and speaks to the people he’s
imagining. Throughout the play, audience members see
how Willy’s family and business life are falling apart, a SHS students performed scenes from
deterioration that eventually leads to Willy committing
suicide.
Death of a Salesman at the Paramount
Connected to this Weston production, the Theater in Rutland on September 27th
SHS Drama Club presented a Page to Stage performance as part of the Page to Stage program.
of Death of a Salesman at the Paramount Theatre in
Rutland, Vermont, in late September.

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Features
Interns of the Springfield Art and Historical Society, SHS sophomores Courtney
Page, Larry Bolduc, Jenn Stein, and freshman Julia Stein pose in front of a time-
line of disasters that have plagued Springfield in the last 200 years.
Springfield Survives
Interns Create Springfield
Disasters Exhibit
By Sarah Gray
F
loods, fires, and blizzards. Oh my. This catalogue
of natural and unnatural disasters doesn't refer to
the Land of Oz. Instead, the town of Springfield,
Vermont, has suffered with these calamities, a history
of catastrophes that was recently showcased in a public
exhibit.
In early August, the young interns at the
Springfield Art and Historical Society, with help from
intern coordinators, created an exhibit entitled Spring-
field Survives, focusing on natural disasters that have
occurred in Springfield, dating back to the early 19th
century.
The exhibit includes everything from fires
and floods to heavy storms and blizzards. Head intern
coordinator and Riverside Middle School social stud-
ies teacher John Swanson believes that the exhibit will
stimulate interest in Springfield history.
“It’s [the exhibit] something that’s never
been done before and people are interested in it,”
Swanson said. “I am very pleased with how the exhibit
turned out.”
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Springfield Survives received lots of public-
ity. It was featured on the front page of the Springfield
Reporter and was featured in Upper Valley Life maga-
zine.
The exhibit is on display at the Miller Art
Center in the living room and will be on display until
early October.
“It’s [the exhibit] great,” SHS sophomore
Jenn Stein said. “People should come see it.”
The intern coordinators at the Springfield Art
and Historical Society believe that this disasters project
has not only taught Springfield citizens about the town’s
history, but also educated the interns.
“They [the interns] get a really good sense of
Springfield’s past and about major and minor disasters,”
intern coordinator Emily Stringham said. “They are
also developing research skills and [learning] how to
conduct oral histories.”
SHS sophomore intern Courtney Page
learned a lot about the history of Springfield while
See Disasters page 20
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Derosier,
Reardon
Visit Europe
By Cooper Naess
S
pringfield High School senior Justin Derosier and
sophomore Shelby Reardon participated in the
People to People Ambassador Program this past
summer. They visited Europe for 19 days, from July
8-July 21 and went to Italy, France, Austria, Germany,
and Switzerland.
Each time they visited a different country
they stayed with a host family. Derosier enjoyed Ger-
many, where he stayed with a host family for three days.
“My favorite country was Italy,” he said, “especially
Rome because of the history.” Derosier would repeat the
experience. “I would definitely do it [People to People
Ambassador Program] again,” he said, "because 19 days
is not enough time to be in five different countries.”
Shelby Reardon was also favorable about
the ambassador program. “The highlight of my trip was
definitely my home stay,” she said. “I stayed in a small
town in Germany [Hauzenburg]. I stayed with a family
that I still talk to through Facebook.”
Reardon added, “I went to school with
them and we went swimming with our classmates after
school.” But she didn’t appreciate France. “France,
See Europe page 20
Justin Derosier reached for greater
learning as part of the People to People
Ambassador program.
n H o r n
 Features
SHS Reduces Its Carbon Footprint
Energy-Efficient Lights Installed
By Sarah Gray

W
hen most people consider reducing their
carbon footprint, the amount of impact hu-
man activities can have on the environment,
they usually contemplate lifestyle changes that include
recycling and composting. This autumn, Springfield
School District officials made environmentally-friendly
improvements in one unexpected setting: the parking
lots surrounding Springfield High School.
The Springfield School District applied for
two $50,000 Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block
Grants (one for Riverside Middle School and the other
for Springfield High School) offered by the state of
Vermont through the Department of Public Service in
December of 2009. The grant that was issued for SHS
was approved and then successfully passed a second
round of evaluation when the district submitted another
application for final approval in February of 2010.
Administrative Assistant Belinda Thayer,
who helped the district apply for the grants, stated
through an e-mail that “these were competitive grants
for different energy efficiency and conservation projects
for local governmental agencies. Specific categories and
criteria were designated by the State of Vermont. One
of the approved projects was traffic signals and street
lighting.”
The American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act (ARRA) of 2009 funded the Energy Efficiency and
Conservation Block Grants.
Because of the grant, Springfield High
School custodians replaced the light bulbs in the parking
lot lights located in the parking lots surrounding SHS
at the beginning of the school year. All the original
light bulbs were replaced with light-emitting diode
(LED) light bulbs, which are highly regarded as being
extremely energy efficient.
“The eighty original lights were metal halide
and high pressure sodium. The grant allowed us to re-
place all but 13 [light bulbs] with energy-efficient LED
light fixtures,” Thayer said. “This will not only reduce
the carbon footprint at SHS, but also save the district
approximately $5,000 annually.”
This tale of increased energy-efficient park-
ing lot lights at SHS is not finished. The SHS lower
student parking lot does not yet have energy-efficient
LED lights. During October, custodians will replace
more outside building lights at SHS.
Custodians Bruce Merriam and Tim Bixby
believe that the new lighting will benefit the high school
in various ways.
“The LED lights are really good on the
electrical cost,” Merriam said.
“Over time it will be recognized in our
electrical bill. That’s for sure,” Bixby added.
Bixby also explained how the new LED
lights cast light differently, which represents less bother-
some light projected onto the surrounding communities
around Springfield High School.
“I believe the lights broadcast down and out
more,” Bixby said. “Now it won’t be so bright for the
neighbors around SHS.”
School officials intend to continue moving
SHS and other schools in Springfield toward greater en-
ergy efficiency. Light bulbs found inside the Springfield
High School and Riverside Middle School gymnasiums
Using a $50,000 grant,
and auditoriums will be re-lamped to become more school officials have installed energy
energy efficient this coming winter. efficient lights in all parking lots
except the student lot.
See Lights page 20

Technology Reorganized
Writing Center Added
By Justin Derosier

Social studies teacher Jeff Lavin
believes that it is too early to tell how
well the Writing Center will work.
T
he Springfield High School Information Technol-
ogy (IT) Department has been moved to the end
of the math corridor. Suggested by SHS Princi-
pal Bob Thibault, technicians Kirsten Aiello and Matt
Hanson were moved into SHS math teacher Gigi Guy’s
old room, which is now the technology department’s
new headquarters.
“It all started with the need for a staff
lounge,” said Thibault in explaining this change.
Aiello’s old space will now be occupied by
the staff lounge, in the future a place where SHS fac-
ulty can relax and work in a quiet environment. With
the technology department moved into a bigger space,
Hanson and Aiello will be able to communicate easier
with each other. The IT department was specifically
placed in Guy’s old room to avoid blocking fire exits
or violating the fire code.
With the move of the IT department, a few
offices have been freed up so other new staff members
can occupy them. The new literacy coach David Cohn
See Writing Center page 21

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Features
Austin, Purcell Battle for Nature
Without Cell Phones, Pulling Invasive Species
By Maria Stern

E
ver wonder who made the hiking trails?
Springfield High School seniors Elizabeth
Austin and Tyler Purcell can answer that ques-
tion.
Austin and Purcell have dedicated multiple
summers to public service and conservation of natural
resources through the Student Conservation Associa-
tion (SCA) and the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps
(VYCC) respectively.
“I got involved because my mom works for
them [the SCA] as a grant writer,” Austin said.
These programs allow teens to work produc-
tively in service to nature. For 4-5 weeks each summer
they had to do without civilized features of life like cell
phones, iPods, and showers.
“I didn’t get to shower for 30 days,” said
Austin, who spent her summer on Isle Royal, an island
in Michigan’s Lake Superior.
“With camp life we have no cell phones,
no iPods,” explained Purcell. “We cook all of our own
food.”
“[With the SCA] You can choose from
frontcountry or backcountry,” said Austin. She chose
backcountry after being located in the frontcountry of
Cumberland Island, Georgia, during the summer of
2008. During her first summer, Austin, and other teens,
built an historical site. Their work included clearing the
land of “15 foot bamboo stalks.” Elizabeth Austin stands third from the right and looks across Lake Superior from
This summer Austin cleared and rebuilt hik-
ing trails in addition to creating drainage channels so Isle Royale. Austin helped to clear hiking trails.
water could run off without making the trails slippery.
“In Michigan we were working on a six-mile trail,” she
said. This included “rerouting so it was not as steep.”

An Exchange
Purcell spent his time with the VYCC im-
proving trails in Vermont. “I’ve done a lot of trail work,”
he said. “I’ve pulled invasive species.”

Menacho for
Like Austin, Purcell is a veteran of the con-
servation effort. “I started two summers ago,” he said.
“Apparently they like me.”

Mobus This Year

The efforts of the VYCC can be observed
in Swanton, Middlebury, Williston, Mt. Mansfield
Union High School and, more locally, Mt. Ascutney
and Okemo Mountain.
“The one good trail up Okemo, the Heald-
ville Trail, was built by VYCC,” said Purcell. “I worked By Nikka Bactad
on it.”
According to Purcell, the VYCC’s projects

include “clearing trails, making stepping stones, making
drainage structures and moving lots of rocks.”
Jobs with the VYCC are open to 16- to 24-
year olds who want to complete conservation projects
and gain leadership qualities. The SCA enrolls teens and
college-aged young people in a nationwide conserva-
tion effort. More information about the programs can
be found online at www.vycc.org and www.thesca.org.
Visit past editions of the Green Horn
at www.ssdvt.org.
I
f you’ve walked through the hallways and noticed
that junior Carrie Mobus hasn’t been around it’s
because Camila Asuncion Reyes Menacho from
Lima, Peru, has exchanged places with Mobus for the
duration of this school year.
Mobus and Menacho were both accepted
into the Rotary Youth Exchange Students program,
which gave them a chance to leave their country for a
full school year immersed in a new culture. Menacho
Camila Asuncion Reyes Menacho.
See Menacho page 22

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 News
Classics, Colors, and Changes
New Librarian Wasyliko Has Vision for Future
By Andrew Bladyka
“Vermont was
where I wanted to be,"
Wasyliko said. “It was a
fresh start to get out of
the rat race of New York,
which was stressful and
expensive.”
Wasyliko has
many new and exciting
ideas to enrich the SHS
Library. For example,
she intends to contribute
to the library's catalogue
of literature. She also
would like to add more
computers to the 15 com-
puters that are currently
available to teachers and
students in the library.
New Librarian Jennifer Wasyliko talks with Library Clerk Wa s y l i k o
Juliet Loutrel. Wasyliko wants to add technology, murals, plans to switch the lo-
and color to the library. cation of the reference
section and the fiction
general and the library in particular.
Wasyliko intends to move the library deeper
into the age of technology by offering both a virtual
and a physical library with options like E-books and
audiobooks in MPEG-Layer 3 (mp3) format.
These ideas come with their challenges, how-
ever. “We are limited by the budget, really,” Wasyliko
said, as she reflected on her vision for the library.
Changes to library services will most likely
be accompanied by changes planned for the physical
appearance of the SHS Library. In fact, connected to
physical changes, Wasyliko describes herself as a color
person. For her, the more colors the better.
“I’m thinking of some minor facelifts, noth-
ing major,” she said. “I am also thinking about working
with the SHS Arts Academy to possibly do some murals
with a theme of literature. I would like a beautiful space
to work with. I’m also thinking about posters and other
interesting art works. I would also like to put some pil-
lows in the lounge area.”
Open to suggestions about decorating the
library, Wasyliko says adding color would add to the
ambiance of the space.

I
nspired with grand visions of books and language, section for “ease of browsing." Finally, she would like Wasyliko originally became interested in
Jennifer Wasyliko has taken the position of librarian to establish a book club and a teen advisory board. This becoming a librarian when her daughter’s librarian asked
at Springfield High School. She replaces Katy Blair, proposed teen advisory board would meet periodically
who held the position for almost six years. and offer feedback about Springfield High School in See Wasyliko page 23

Study Halls Less Studious

in the Auditorium
By Jennifer Stein

T
his year, many students were originally assigned
to study halls in the Springfield High School
Auditorium. Most of these study halls have been
moved to the cafeteria, though these study halls--some
numbering 40 students proctored by one teacher--are
large. While in the auditorium, students originally sat in
the back wooden seats and worked on their laps because
the small foldout desks were not big enough.
At the opening of school, students com-
plained that they couldn’t get any work done in the
auditorium. Many asked why study halls weren’t in
classrooms this year. “It’s so boring without work to
do,” said sophomore Cody Stevens, about auditorium
study halls. “But when I have work it’s hard to focus.
It’s too loud and echoes.”
Study halls were originally assigned to the audi-
torium because new teaching duties were added at SHS,
like a Writing Center and the Freshman Academy, which
required more teachers. Therefore, school officials
combined study halls in the auditorium so less teachers
would be assigned to study halls. Since many students
are assigned to study halls, the biggest room in the
school--the auditorium--was used for these duties.
School officials, therefore, believed that auditorium
study halls would allow teachers to manage students
easily by seeing all students. “This has proven untrue,”
SHS Principal Bob Thibault admitted. “That is why
most [auditorium study halls] have already moved to
the cafeteria.”
The smaller study halls have been moved to
classrooms except during 5th period and 8th period,
which still remain in the auditorium.
French and Spanish teacher Dianne Root is
the study hall teacher for period five. “It is not going
well [in the auditorium] because many of the students French and Spanish teacher Dianne
don’t have work to do,” said Root. “It is noisy, and as Root says her fifth period auditorium
much as I try to maintain quiet, it is hard to study in study hall because of noise and lack of
that environment.”
homework among students.
See Study Halls page 22

G r e e n H o r n pg 11
Columns
W
orking in retail, I have all too many oppor-
tunities to mutter polite aphorisms. From,
“How are you today?” to “Did you find ev-
erything you were looking for?” I’m chalk full of sugary
sweet insincerities. Like most of my speech, I try not
to fall into the habit of saying anything ungrammatical
or nonsensical, however. Unfortunately, after countless
It's A Fact...
I'm So Old
By Alexis Esposito
A
big difference exists between high school old
and real life old. In high school, I’m a senior
citizen. I feel like I’ve been around forever.
The freshmen were probably still doing kindergarten
half-days when 9/11 happened. But I could tell you
everything about that morning.
Let’s go back and remember a few things:
S-Club 7, the “Hit Me Baby One More Time’” music
video, or TV shows Gullah Gullah Island, AHHH! Real
Monsters, Are You Afraid Of the Dark? and Hey Arnold.
If you’re a freshman I don’t expect you to have any
recollection of these things. Yes, you may know about
them. But think of a time when you actually sat down
and remember seeing these things. I remember when
Michael Jordan was the hottest thing around, and when
Ferbies and Bop-Its started to come out. Beanie Babies
were a must-have collector’s item in my memory of
growing up.
Looking back at all the things I remember,
I feel so old. The Internet was invented when I was a
pg 12
Colloquial Critique
Have a Good One
By Kelsey Christensen
interactions with less verbal Vermonters, I’ve adopted
one ridiculous parting phrase:
Have a good one.
I’m sincerely uncertain about what this even
means. What exactly, is one recommending should be
good when they offer this suggestion?
It seems as if I’m telling them to have a good
existence. It’s so all encompassing. Have a good one.
Have a good one life. If this were the case, it seems like
the perfect sign-off in a particularly conclusive situa-
tion, like before a loved one leaves for a year-long trek
to Europe, or as you part with a high school classmate
at graduation you fully intend never to see again. But I
can’t fathom such an informal conclusion in these situ-
ations.
What is most troubling about this expression
is that it sounds so stingy. So long as we have no idea
what we’re wishing people when we say “Have a good
one,” why not wish people more than one? I encourage
everyone to begin saying, “Have a good five!” or, “Have
a good ten thousand three hundred and seventeen!” This
would certainly be a kinder, more generous sign-off than
the meager one good thing we wish upon people.
Perhaps I’m meant to write it off as an
expression congruous to “until next time.” “Have a
baby. DVD players didn’t
exist, and, consequently,
I still have a pretty hefty
library of VHS tapes.
Now that I’m
high school old, I’m doing so many real-life things that
I feel like I should just live on my own. I’ve applied to
college. I’ve had two jobs. I have my own checking
account. I have a credit card. I can write checks. That’s
something old people do. Not me. I have a car.
This isn’t what high school people do. Or
maybe it is? I mean, this is the first time I’ve ever been
17. In a month, I’ll be 18 and I’ll be able to vote. I can
get a hotel room; I can buy tobacco. I remember every
year on my birthday I would announce to Jayne, my
mother, “only five more years until I get my license!”
Now I have less than a year until I go to college. Time
flies, even if you’re not having fun.
Because of this extraordinary passage of
time, all of us -- young and old -- must pay attention to
G r e e
good time until I see you again,” and the one is meant
to express whatever amount of time this may be in a
single, vague unit.
Maybe it’s most reasonable of all to assume
the one means day, as in “Have a good day,” but it’s not
as if day is significantly less cumbersome verbally than
one. They’re both monosyllabic, three-letter words.
Apparently, I’m not the only one confused by
this expression. The entry of the phrase “Have a good
one” in Google gleans several results from language
related forums, in which verbally-minded individuals
wonder about its meaning. If it is, indeed, a Vermontism
of some sort, perhaps I confuse visitors from Massa-
chusetts and Connecticut when I wish them a good one
at my retail job. They probably return to their second
home in Ludlow, and say to their family at dinner, “A
cashier said the most peculiar thing to me today. She
told me to have a good one! Do you have any idea to
what she’s referring?”
In that regard, I’m probably poorly represent-
ing Vermonters by spreading this linguistic monstrosity.
I seem to be a silly country mouse with only a vague
grasp of the English language.
See Colloquial page 21
everything, every day, every moment. Before you know
it you’re going to be high school old. And, of course,
real life old will follow soon enough. When we stop
to observe our surroundings with a certain mindful-
ness, time seems to slow down and we can savor every
experience. Considering the tick-tock of time, I’ve had
a few friends who were in a serious relationship for at
least one year of high school and this is my take on it:
enjoy the time you have together now. Don’t think about
when one of you goes to college, or if you’re going to
get married. Chances are you won’t.
If you’re too worried about the future, you
See Fact page 23
n H o r n
 Music
From Elvis in Memphis
(Elvis Presley; 1969)
By Samuel L. Benton

W
hen someone says the name Elvis, who do
you think of? Elvis Costello? Elvis Perkins?
J. Elvis Weinstein of Mystery Science The-
ater 3000 fame? Unless you have lived a very sheltered
life, as in sheltered from everything including air, you’re
going to think of Elvis Presley, the King of Rock ‘n’
Roll. No artist--except possibly the Beatles--is as widely
known as Elvis Presley.
No one can deny Elvis’ greatness in the 50s
and early 60s. He was the frontman of rock ‘n’ roll, an
artist well-received by the generation, able to reach out
to both white and black audiences through his blend
of predominantly white country and black rhythm and
blues. Following this period, in the mid-sixies, the King
fell from his throne.
During Elvis’ film era his music was all
campy tunes from the soundtracks to his movies, which
themselves were less than spetacular--much less than
spectacular, really. While still popular (the soundtrack
to the film Blue Hawaii was Elvis’ best-selling album
during his lifetime) Elvis was no longer critically
aclaimed, and was no longer hip with the times. Elvis
himself acknowledged that the Beatles and similar bands
were the 60s musical leaders.
As more and more Elvis Presley films were
released, they became less and less popular, and with
them, Elvis became less popular himself. In an effort
to squeeze as much remaining profit as he could out of
Elvis, Elvis’ manager Colonel Tom Parker signed a deal
with NBC to fund a Christmastime television special
(as well as his 1969 film Change of Habit) which was
intended to be nothing more than Elvis singing Christ-
mas carols, such as his hit song “Blue Christmas.”
“Blue Christmas” and “Santa Claus is Co-
min’ to Town” were the only Christmas songs to wind
up in the special.
Producer Steve Binder did not approve of the
idea of Elvis simply singing carols, so he suggested that
the program be used as a way to revive Elvis’ popularity
and reputaion. Elvis was pleased with the idea, so the
television special, originally called Elvis though now
refered to as the ’68 Comeback Special, evolved into a
much grander affair, with studio-filmed segments, dance
numbers, and large sets.
The special was successful in bringing Elvis’
popularity back, and soon after Elvis returned to record-
ing, only this time not for film. For the first time since
1962's Pot Luck (he did a gospel album in 1967 as well)
Elvis was going to record a studio album.
To record the album he returned to Memphis,
famous for its blues and gospel (the foundation for soul)
music background, where he had not recorded since his
days recording for Sun Studios, 14 years earlier. When
Elvis returned to Memphis this time he was recording
at the American Sound Studio. From these recording
sessions he spawned many of his most popular and
acclaimed singles, such as “Suspicious Minds” and
“Kentucky Rain,” and on June 17, 1969, he released
From Elvis in Memphis, which would become one of
his most-praised studio albums, usually ranked just
below his first studio album released in 1956 and the
numerous collections of his recordings at Sun Studio
(Rolling Stone placed it number 190 on their list of the
“500 Greatest Albums of All Time." The Sun Sessions
was number 11).
From Elvis in Memphis features a return to
Elvis’ roots: country and soul, appropriately also the
See Elvis page 23

Column
Dreaming by the
Panorama
Pour Your Heart In
By Tabitha Celani
Art isn’t something you should let happen
without cause. True art is created because the artist
behind the brush, pencil, or lens experienced something.
Maybe they felt reckless as they photographed the rowdy
group of teens behind the convenience store, or perhaps
they enjoyed a sense of tranquility and this led to those
long, soft brush strokes of a warm sunset.
Art aims at making the audience feel some
kind of emotion. But how can this be accomplished if
the artist is uninspired?
As a growing artist, I will use this column
to look deeper into the artistic subculture of Springfield

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n front of you lies a canvas. It’s blank. It’s waiting. and the surrounding areas.
This dangerously empty canvas is begging for your Music is an art form that many young Ver-
emotions. What will you let it see? Are you happy? monters perform. Thus getting their take on the subject
Depressed? Which colors will you choose to reflect how
Patrick Dematteo.
your mind is working? See Panorama page 21
G r e e n H o r n pg 13
Television
The Beginning of the End
The Office Seventh Season Airs
By Kelsey Christensen
quence. This taboo reno-
vation (Since its infancy
back in 2005, the show
has not touched its credit
sequence except to add a
spot for Ed Helms who
plays lovable sycophant
Andy Bernard in its third
season.) marked the be-
ginning of an end--and a
dark one at that--for the
previously unmatched
primetime comedy.
T h e s h o w,
which chronicles in moc-
kumentary style the mun-
dane workdays of listless
drones for fictional paper
company Dunder Mif-
flin, launched into the
twists of the latest fiscal
year after the optimistic
Michael Scott (Steve Carrel) spanks his nephew during the teaser-opening. Intensely
comic climax of The Office season premiere. ambitious Dwight Shrute
(Rainn Wilson) now
slacker nephew Luke, as an assistant, completely naive
to the implications of nepotism.
The Office takes such pains to establish these
advances, however, that there is little time to actually
convey its trademark: painful, awkward hilarity. We’re
reintroduced to all the characters, the show reaches a few
comic highlights, and when it feels hardly 10 minutes
into the episode, the credits roll, and we ponder “When
does it get good?” Plus, many of the secondary charac-
ters are overlooked – we feel cheated out of screen time
for Angela, Meredith, Kevin, and the like.
In reflection upon the seasons to come,
there’s little for an Office fan to look forward to. Steve
Carell is leaving the show and, while one can claim that
Krasinski’s wry smiles and Wilson’s social ineptitude
are saving comic graces, Carell is the driving force of
the show, even if he’s driving his branch straight off a
cliff. He delivers the most laughable moments in the
premiere. For example, in a classic blunder, he accuses
the office of performing a witch hunt, and says “It’s like
the Blair Witch Hunt Project,” and in a brilliant fit of
discomfort, which harkens viewers to the classic days
of unwatchable Office tension, he spanks his intern
nephew as punishment for insubordination. An end date
for the show that transcends Carell’s absence by more

T
hough the song and dance number, which features owns the Scranton Business Park, which sets prankster than a season--especially given the already impressive
every Dunder Mifflin Scranton employee per- Jim Halpert’s (Jon Krasinki) wheels turning. Outra- 7-season run--is unlikely.
forming "Nobody But Me," to open the seventh geously ditzy secretary, Erin (Ellie Kemper) has ditched Synonymous with true love, Jim and Pam
season of NBC’s The Office rivaled the performances of Andy for the square representative to the corporate (Jenna Fischer), who once double-handedly provided
Glee premiere, one’s expectations for the beloved show branch, Gabe Lewis (Zach Woods). And, Michael Scott
fell at the sight of the completely made-over credit se- (Steve Carrel), as inept and naïve as ever, has hired his See Office page 21

Glee
Choreographed Teen Angst
By Erika Anderson & Sam Hensel-Hunter

G
lee is a dangerously addictive cocktail of dark
humor, peppy songs, and surprisingly heavy
teenage situations. Any given episode of Glee
will involve mash-ups of pop songs both new and old,
as well as some highlights of musical theatre.
Set at the fictional William McKinley High
School in Lima, Ohio, Glee tells the story of nine glee
club members—a glee club being a vocal performace
organization—through teenage angst, triumphs, and
losses. In that group of nine, nearly every demographic
is accounted for, allowing the show to have almost
universal appeal.
Every episode of Glee has a theme, ranging
from a Madonna episode to an episode on Lady Gaga.
Glee’s power to transcend musical, racial, and sexual
boundaries sets it apart from the traditional musical cli-
chés. Glee may be riding the High School Musical wave,
pg 14
but the two aren’t in the same class. Glee elevates itself
past the typical musical stereotypes; its characters have
depth. The characters are well-developed, identifiable,
and sincere. Each character has an impressive knack
for bonding to the viewer: after just one episode, you
know each character intimately.
Glee club prima donna Rachel Berry, played
by Lea Michele, has a competitive drive that sometimes
gets in the way of her better judgment, whether it is
social, academic, or romantic. She is so obsessed with
self that she triple-casts three male friends as her onstage
boyfriends in order to increase her popularity. Berry is
the daughter of two gay men, and her search for a mother
brings her face to face with a love interest.
The other lead is Finn Hudson, who is
See Glee page 22
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 Arts
Portfolios. PowerPoint. Possibilities.
Montserrat Art Rep Speaks to Students
A
thoughtful motto, “art changes everything,” was
introduced to a small group of Springfield High
School art students by a representative from
the Montserrat College of Art (MCA), Lillian Harden.
Harden, an administrations counselor for MCA, spoke
in Lisa Murray’s art room in mid-September.
Harden explained the dynamics of Montser-
rat, such as class size, student/teacher ratio, and student
residency. The school is small, in fact, with its current
occupancy at only 370 undergraduate students.
Harden’s PowerPoint presentation was visu-
ally impressive. It included student artwork, snapshots
from the downtown area, and a collage of interesting
facts and statistics. Harden spoke to the students about
how they should prepare their portfolios when apply-
ing to the college, and described what resources were
available to help them with the application process.
Montserrat representatives have presented at SHS nu-
merous times, and had inspired some Springfield grads
to attend the outstanding art school.
Junior Katelyn Daly said that she found
Harden’s presentation enlightening. “She had a lot
of information,” said Daly. “She was incredibly help-
ful when explaining what to do and how the college
works.”
Daly said that although she is not interested
in art schools, Harden’s words were illuminating to
her.
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“One thing
I don’t like about art
school is there are no
sports,” Daly added.
“Also, Montserrat is too
small. 300 students is
pretty tiny.”
Art teacher
Lisa Murray was enthusi-
astic about Harden’s talk
about Montserrat.
“I was very
pleased with the whole
Montserrat presentation,"
she said. "[Harden] was
friendly, informative, had
great visuals, and really
seemed to be giving an
honest view of the col-
lege.” Murray added that
she believes Montserrat Lisa Murray stands next to a Montserrat College of Art
to be “a great small art poster. She insists that an art degree is practical since many
college with some inter- items in society are designed by artists.
esting majors.”
Murray said that Montserrat is “a great match “Perhaps something will spark an interest and raise some
for the right type of student.” career awareness. I also love looking at examples of
“With all the college presentations I'm just
hoping to expose students to possibilities,” Murray said. See Montserrat page 20
By Laurel Porter
A
crisp layer of crunchy crust. Steaming tomato should have a strong, bready flavour. A crust can make
sauce. Melted cheese that’s just the right con- or break a pizza.
sistency and flavor. The sauce is the next part of the pizza. People
This is pizza, the delicious food for any time vary in their preference of sauce. Some like sweet, thin
of the day or night that has enticed millions. The ancient sauce, while others prefer a more herb-scented, earthy
Greeks first discovered this treasure trove of scrump- sauce that contains chunks of tomato. People also vary
tious eating—they coated their bread with oil, cheese in the amount of sauce they want on their pizza. For
and herbs. Since then, pizza has become an essential those who dislike tomato sauce, a white pie (thin-crust
ingredient in menus across the globe. pizza with mozzarella and ricotta cheese as toppings)
The first (and arguably most important) part may be the best option. For sauce lovers, it’s best to
of pizza is the crust. Depending on the style of pizza, hunt around for a pizzeria that suits them. The amount
the crust can be either thick or thin, hand-tossed or pan- of sauce and type of sauce differ greatly, even among
baked. A pizza’s crust should be evenly cooked (some pizzas with similar crusts.
color variation is acceptable in brick-oven pizza) with Cheese (and toppings) are the final part of
no black. Under no circumstances should a crust taste the pizza composite. Toppings come in near-infinite
burned. The interior of the crust should be moist—when
fresh, a good crust will steam when broken apart. It See Pizza page 23
n pg 15
Sports
The Times They are a-Changin'
Football Welcomes New Coach, Power-I
By Liza Fontaine

N
ew coach. New staff. New plays. New offense.
New season. New positions to fill. New every-
thing. Can the Cosmos do it?
The Springfield football team has effected
many changes during in the 2010 season. A new coach-
ing staff, along with the loss of 11 seniors, could foil the
Cosmos’ attempt to get back to the state championship
game, an event they have played in for the past two
years.
“At first I thought since we lost everybody,
and the way we played in preseason scrimmages wasn’t
so great, there was no way we could make it.” said junior
tailback Jake Patoine, “Then we came out strong against
Poultney [first game opponent, a 26-14 win for the
Cosmos] and now I think we could definitely go far.”
Despite Patoine’s optimism, negative opin-
ions float through the air in the stands regarding the
season for the football team. The contributions of the
2009 seniors were significant.
To kick off the season, the Cosmos played
under the lights on September 3rd against Poultney.
The outcome was surprising for some while others
considered it the usual: taking into account the Cosmos
success in their past two seasons and opening games.
“It took all eleven players to make success,
and in order for one of us to be successful everyone
needs to be in the game,” said junior Kirk Perham, “We
went in having high hopes and came out with a good
start to our season.”
Quarterback, also known as the playmaker of
a football team, is a hard spot to fill since the 2008 season
when Grant White filled the position from freshman to
senior year. In 2009, the search for a quarterback was
successful when Brandon Boyle was chosen to fill the
spot. Junior Kirk Perham was tried out as quarterback
through the 2010 preseason and fill the spot for the
regular season.
“At first it was difficult because I didn’t
know what I was getting myself into. But I’m happy to
take the challenge,” said Perham. “It’s a very exciting
position where you need to have smarts and know what Warriors from the Springfield Cosmos and Woodstock Wasps line up for battle.
everyone is doing.” Sophomore defender James Stillings pushes past an MSJ defender. Darius
Jack Cohun was selected to be head coach
of the football team for the 2010 season. Cohun was
Hosten and James Rabeiro walk away after a play against MSJ.
part of the 2009 staff that led the Cosmos to the state
championship game, a loss to Windsor. Therefore, the Previous coach, Mike Hatt, had the Cosmos in full pads the offense needed to be changed to fit our team.”
players have a taste of Cohun’s coaching style. Cohun for only the last two days of pre-season, opposed to Because of these changes, Oxbow, Windsor,
has coached football since 1978 and has coaching ex- Cohun who had the Cosmos in full pads all two weeks and Bellows Falls, big opponents for Springfield in
perience with two other rivals of the Cosmos, Bellows of pre-season. The dreaded sprints, push-ups, and hitting Division III in the 2010 season, may have an advantage
Falls and Windsor. But, Cohun, currently a Bellows Falls drills for the Cosmos were brought down a level since over the Cosmos. Any team can bring in new plays for
High School Health teacher and Driver Ed teacher and the players were learning Cohun’s new coaching style their season but the Cosmos, with a new offense along
previous football coach at that school, has not allowed and plays. with many new plays, have a lot to adjust to.
the past to diminish his passion for Cosmos football. In Power-I is the new name of the game for the “There’s only so many trick plays you can
fact, Cohun, a former Windsor Yellow Jackets football Cosmos. Cohun changed the offense to accomodate have in your back pocket,” said Cohun, “then you have
coach as well, may have found his home with the Cos- shorter, inside runs. Hatt, who previously ran the of- to actually start to play football by blocking and tack-
mos as head coach. fense, favored wide, long runs to set-up defenses for ling.”
One week prior to all fall sports pre-seasons the long touchdown passes. Despite the changes, the Cosmos are pushing
the football team was out on Brown Field suited up “We lost so many athletic seniors that could
and ready to go. Another change for the Cosmos? Yes. make those long runs to the outside,” said Patoine, “so See Football page 20
pg 16 G r e e n H o r n
 Sports
Craig New
Coach for
Girls
Soccer
By Angelina Mei

A
lthough Christian Craig is used to keeping
pools clean and the weight room sanitized at
the Edgar May Recreation Center, he is now
adding head coach of the Springfield varsity soccer girls
to his list of activities.
Craig has previous experience coaching in
South Burlington for the middle school soccer team, and
in Colchester with the varsity girls soccer team. Now Junior Holly Hooke fends off a Hartford Hurricane and drives down the field
Craig is bringing his coaching style to the Springfield during a 3-0 home game loss on September 13th.
girls. “When I coached at Colchester, I learned from a
great coach. You focus on the fundamentals, work on
conditioning, and do things the right way and it pays
off,” said Craig. “In the four short years at Colchester,
we appeared in a State final game, and two State semi-
final games.”
The new coaching seems to be working. By
mid-October, the girls had an 8-4 record. They defeated
rival Woodstock 2-1 and beat Division One Brattleboro
2-0. “We are off to a good start so far. The girls have
worked very hard and done everything I have asked
them to do.  But, we still have a lot of work to do,” said
Craig. “We have to show up to practice every day ready
to get better and show up to every game with the right
mentality and focus.  If we do this, we will have a very
successful season.”
The girls on the team enjoy Craig’s coach-
ing style. “I really like him because he has experience
with girls soccer and he knows the game really well,”
said junior stopper Liza Fontaine. “I think his coaching
style is really good. He definitely knows what we need
to work on and whatever we’re weak in he stresses

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working on that more.”
Senior co-captain Sarah Vredenburgh agrees
ictured above on left, pink-shirted Emma Estey waits for a chance to steal
with Fontaine about Craig’s coaching arrangement. the ball while pink-uniformed Liza Fountaine and Abi Cox keep their eyes
“He's direct with what he wants us to accomplish and on the ball. In early October, the Springfield girls soccer team, along with
more philosophical than what we're used to. But it the Mill River Minutemen, were Kicking For A Cure. The green and white jerseys
gives us stuff to think about,” said Vredenburgh. “For
example, he'll have us line up and each take a shot from
the Cosmos usually wore were tucked away and the Cosmos wore pink shirts to
outside the 18 and we'll have to hit the net without support Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Although the Cosmos lost 3-2 to the
hitting the ground. Then he'll turn it into being about Minutemen, they raised $700.00 in donations that will be donated to the Norris
confidence. I think he motivates us to do our best.” Cotton Cancer Center at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Hospital. There was no entrance
In addition to a new varsity girls coach, Sheri
Osborne and SHS alumna Brandy Cheney now coach
fee to the game but donations were encouraged. Cookies were given to the fans
junior varsity. who made donations. Sara Locke and Amanda Farnsworth scored for the
Although the girls team has almost finished Cosmos in a 3-2 loss.
their best season in recent memory, they still have a long
way to go. “The goal is to compete for a state champion-
ship every year,” said Craig. “Our team will work hard,
play fast, and be a lot of fun.”

G r e e n H o r n pg 17
Sports
New physical education teacher Joe
Brown helps 9th grader Michael Maly
in the SHS fitness room.
Joe Brown
Will Teach
Physical
Education
By Angelina Mei
H
e’s back. But not as a student, as a teacher.
Springfield High School alumni Joe Brown has
taken a Physical Education teaching position
at the high school this fall replacing Mike Hatt, who
now teaches at Brattleboro Union High School, Larry
Wentzel, who now instructs drivers'education full-time,
and Joan Cioffi, who has taken the physical education
position at Riverside Middle School.
Currently focusing on getting his Masters
Degree in Administration at Keene State College in
Keene, New Hampshire, Brown hopes to increase
physical activity among teenagers.
“I hope to introduce physical activity that
students can do outside of school with their families,”
said Brown.
With the current worry about childhood
See Brown page 21
pg 18
Boys Soccer
Looking to Repeat as Champs
By Cooper Naess
T
he Springfield High School boys soccer team
began the 2010 season on a high after winning
the Division Two State Championship last No-
vember. The team, in fact, hopes to add another cup to
the trophy cabinet, even though the club has changed a
lot since its title-winning season in 2009.
The Springfield boys soccer team lost seven
seniors to graduation: John Kendall, Ryan Brady, James
Karkowski, Angelo Jardina, Derek Graham, Derek
Osborne, and Eric Bolavong. Three new players have
joined the squad, including freshman Peter Kendall,
juniors Jeff Fuller, and Eric White, adding talent to the
team. This reporter, Cooper Naess, a transfer student
from Green Mountain Union High School, has also
joined the squad.
Seniors Joe Ankuda and Ethan McAllister,
with valuable experience on the varsity team, are co-
captains for the squad this season. Ankuda is optimistic
about the season. “I think we will do pretty well,” he
said. “We all know what we are doing so we should be
good. Our goalie was good last year so hopefully he has
another good year. All around we have a good team with
a lot of potential.”
Ankuda, who has played varsity since his
junior year, will be an important defender.
Other key players fill important positions this
year like junior Jake Sargent, a defensive midfielder,
who played both varsity and junior varsity last year.
Junior Colin Brady, who is in his second year on varsity,
will be a striker.
G r e e
Aside from these key players who fill im-
portant spots on the team, Paul Kendall and assistant
coach Dave Churchill will return for their eighth year as
varsity coaches, while Cory Cenate is in his second year
as the junior varsity coach. The coaches have worked
hard with the players to improve their skills on the field.
They also encourage the players to improve their ethical
behavior.
The varsity team began its season strong with
a 3-0 win over Otter Valley in the opening round of the
John Werner Tournament. After that win, they defeated
Twin Valley 2-0 to win the tournament for the third year
in a row. However, on September 14th, the varsity team
played Division I Brattleboro and lost 4-0. A week later
Springfield returned to their successful play by beating
Woodstock 1-0 in overtime. Two days later the Cosmos
beat Fair Haven 5-1, to highlight a strong 4-1 won/lost
record.
Out of the 35 players that came to the tryouts,
16 players were chosen to play on varsity this year.
Jordan Pfenning, John Michael Errair, Tom Kendall,
Ben Sidler, Mikey Whittemore, Cody Filkins, Michael
Pianka, Devan McCarty, and Jeff Fuller complete the
varsity squad.
The boys defeated Fair Haven 5-2 in mid-
October, but lost their following game, 1-0, to Division
I Rutland in overtime. With two games left in their
season, the boys team left themselves the possibility of
repeating as state champions with a 7-2-2 regular season
record.
Left, junior Colin Brady shoots for the
Hartford Hurricanes' goal during a
home game on October 14th, a contest
that ended in a 1-1 tie. Below, the boys
show solidarity as they jog across the
field during a home game against Otter
Valley on October 9th. They have com-
piled an impressive 7-2-2 record and
they are undefeated in Division II.
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 Health
Granola Girls
Your Way to Better Living
By Alexis Locke & Maria Stern

T
he lifestyle of the American teenager is notori-
ous for including processed meals loaded with
unnecessary salts and corn syrup additives. We
have found better options. This is not to say that we
are perfect. We do splurge occasionally. Our motto is
“everything is okay in moderation.” Creep by our lunch
table and you will probably find Maria snacking on an
Oreo or Alexis nibbling on a mini chocolate bar.
You will probably miss our whole wheat
bread, apple wedges, and carrot sticks. If you don’t know
us by our eating habits, you can identify us by our BPA
free aluminum Sigg water bottles.
We believe that Vermont is the best state for
our healthy lifestyle. Vermont encourages the all-natural
and organic foods movement. Most towns offer weekly
farmers’ markets where artisans, crafters, and farmers
assemble, and buyers have the option to meet the people
who produce their food. We also think it is important to
shop at our local co-op. The co-op serves as a middle-
man between local, organic, and natural producers and
consumers.
We believe that knowing where your food
comes from and knowing the ingredients in it is impor-
tant especially in light of recent food recalls. Beef, eggs,
vegetables, and even Similac have been recalled over
the past few months or years.
For example, we worry about hamburgers
from America’s beloved McDonald’s or Burger King.
These are a direct product of corn-fed beef that are
malnourished and essentially have no nutritional value.
According to Time magazine beef raised in industrial
conditions are dosed with antibiotics and growth-boost-
ing hormones, thus leaving chemical residues in the beef
and milk. By contrast, grass-fed beef allows cattle to lead
a healthier life and offers more nutritional value than
corn-fed cattle. The balance of Omega-3 and Omega- other outdoor adventures.
6 fatty acids in beef from grass-fed beef benefits the We want to share our opinions and advice on
consumer by preventing heart disease, cancer, arthritis, healthy eating and outdoor adventures with Springfield
and memory loss. High School faculty and students. We love food. We love
Being conscientious eaters is only half the the outdoors. We love Vermont. Numerous opportunities
battle. We believe in living an active lifestyle. We enjoy exist to sample foods and get outdoors. Be sure to take
outdoor activities such as hiking, biking, kayaking and advantage of them. Happy snacking!

Eyes on the Prize

Athletes Seek Edge in
Summer Sports Camps
By Jill Rushton
Peter Kendall and Sara Locke

O
participated in summer sports camp ver the summer, some Springfield High School with us, so I thought it would be neat to work with him,”
athletes spent part of their vacation to preparing said Locke. “I knew this camp would challenge me and
and have added much to varsity teams. for the school sports season by participating in push me to the limits I wanted to achieve.”

Young
drills at sports camps.
Freshmen soccer players Sara Locke and
Peter Kendall got a jump on their competition with such
extra training. Kendall participated in the regional soccer
The players started their day by participating
in agility training, demonstrations, and skill stations for
three hours. After lunch the players would learn from
tactical team sessions and scrimmages.

Talent Takes
camp with the Olympic Development Program (ODP) “It helped me get in shape for [double ses-
in New Jersey in late July. sion practices],“ Locke said. “We did a lot of agility
“I got to play with really good players and and running at the camp. I learned skills I didn’t have

the Field
train with some of the best coaches in the region,” Ken-
dall said. “I got conditioning in, and [the camp] made
me a stronger player.”
Kendall participated in the ODP soccer
program throughout the winter and spring. Only a select
By Jessie Haskell group of players from across the region were chosen for
the program after try-outs in late December.
before, so I got used to them in pre-season and knew
more about the game.”
But the UVM camp wasn’t all about soccer.
After working hard all day, the players experienced
college life in the city by going to historic places in
Burlington including the famous merchant’s row of
Church Street, and Ben and Jerry’s ice cream factory.

V
arsity Sports represents a group of elite athletes
on a team for one sole purpose: to win.
Freshmen: a group of new students who are
See Young page 20
Locke trained at the University of Vermont
in Burlington as part of the UVM Nike Soccer camp.
The UVM head coach Kwayme Lloyd hosted the camp
where players lived, breathed, and played soccer for a
week.
“The UVM head coach was the one working
The girls also participated in a college night where they
learned how to aqcuire scouts for soccer if they wanted
to play in college.
See Camps page 23

G r e e n H o r n pg 19
Tots from page 1
tious fried potatoes that are highly unhealthy, but like
many other unhealthy foods, the taste means much more
than the amount of fat.
The missing tater tots only make an appear-
ance on the SHS menu once a week, instead of being
an option Monday through Friday. Grown locally, fresh
fruits and vegetables, such as cucumbers, carrots, and
cantaloupe, have replaced the tater tots. Some SHS
students feel that the new change is ridiculous and as
high school students, they feel they should be able to
make a healthy decision for themselves.
“They tell us we are young adults and we
need to make decisions for ourselves,” said senior Cody
Filkins. “We should be able to choose if we want to eat
healthy or not.”
Despite the negative opinion among stu-
dents concerning the missing tater tots in the SHS
Cafeteria, Carolyn Scully, Food Service Director for
the Springfield schools, feels that students should get
more opportunities of entrées to choose from instead
of one unhealthy entrée that all students tend to snatch
up as they move quickly through the lunch line. Many
students mistakenly blame the changes in the menu on
high school officials. However, lunch staff members,
like Scully, work for Fresh Picks Café Services.
America, an unhealthy society with an obe-
sity rate of 33% among teens according to cbsnews.com,
has encouraged many public schools to change cafeteria
menus to encourage a healthier lifestyle for teens.
In this age of obesity, the food staff that
serves Springfield has decided to join the fight waged
by many schools to lower teen obesity rates in the USA.
Thus, tater tots are out most of the week. Peter Kendall, boys soccer midfielder, enjoys
“There is a big push across the country to
provide better, nutritious produce in schools,” said
Scully. “Michelle Obama has a large garden at the White
House which also promotes fresh fruits and vegetables
to be offered to schools across America."
For some students, the substitution for the
tater tots is better and students couldn’t be more pleased
with the new variety of fresh, healthy produce.
“I would rather eat fruits and sweet desserts
than greasy potatoes,” said senior Max Blake, who
endorses the new menu. “It’s a variety with something
new every day rather than one main choice.”
Although the cafeteria staff is trying to help
students live a more healthy lifestyle by reducing the
consumption of tater tots, some feel that the fat-filled
greasy potatoes could be burned off in exercise. Ad-
ditionally, students feel that important decisions must
be tested among high school teenagers to prepare them
for later, more serious, situations. Thus, to eat tater tots
should be left up to individuals.
“If the students decide to eat the tater tots,”
said Filkins. “They have the option of exercising or
participating in sports to prevent obesity.”
Scully insists that students will be encour-
aged to offer opinions at future meetings regarding
student lunches and the healthy food provided. Will
there ever be hope for the angered students who grumble
about the absence of tater tots four days a week? It’s a
possibility.
“If students are really upset [about the absent
tater tots] there may be a possibility of providing the
tater tots twice a week,” concluded food service director
Carolyn Scully. “But they will most likely never return
to being offered a full week.”
pg 20
Young from page 19
sometimes immature, and naïve to the world of the high
school.
Seems like an unlikely combination? Not
always.
There are a total of seven freshmen on the
Springfield High School fall varsity teams. Five on
the field hockey, and one on each soccer team. Kaylee
Haskell, Hannah Sorrell, Chelsey Harmer, Jenn Koll-
man, and Makayla Smith play for Bindy Hathorn and
the Varsity field hockey squad. Sara Locke and Peter
Kendall play on each of the varsity soccer teams.
Being on varsity can be a bit nerveracking,
but these freshmen have proven themselves worthy.
Almost all of them have either started a game or scored
and all of them have participated in a game.
All of the freshmen agree that being on
varsity is tough but fun. “It’s a good experience,” said
Haskell. “Everyone is really nice and welcoming.
Smith, also a field hockey player, has scored
and assisted multiple goals this season on varsity. Koll-
man, varsity sweeper, has stopped break-aways, letting
the rest of the team recover back on defense. This has
allowed the Lady Cosmos to save many goals. Harmer
and Sorrell play offense. They have learned the self-pass
rule quickly and work hard on getting the ball up the
field.
Locke, who plays striker for the girls team,
likes being pushed harder to maintain a varsity position.
The hardest part she says is, “the people are a lot bigger,
but I’m getting used to it.” And the easiest part? “Noth-
ing. We all have to work hard to achieve anything and
everything.”
being on varsity because if he doesn’t play well people
are understanding because he’s a freshman. If he does
well everyone thinks he’s a soccer superstar. He enjoys
“the quickness and the speed of the game. And the cap-
tains, they’re the best.” The hardest part for Kendall is
feeling somewhat isolated. “I’m the only freshman on
the team,” he concluded. “And there are no sophomores
either.”
Montserrat from page 15
portfolios and other art work on the college level. I’m
always hoping the images will inspire my art students
to be creative and explore new media and ideas.”
Murray explains that the visits from Mont-
serrat echo many of the projects her students work on
and may help them to realize the importance of working
from direct observation of real life to express a unique
point of view.
Murray attended Alfred School of Ceram-
ics in New York. She majored in art education with a
concentration in printmaking.
With her background in art education, Mrs.
Murray insists that an art degree would be practical.
“A [Bachelor of Fine Arts] will help students get jobs,
even in this poor economy,” Murray said. “Everything
around us is designed by an artist, from your clothes,
furniture, media, etc.”
“I've kept in touch with many students who
have gone on to have successful careers in the arts,”
Murray added. “Even my doctor and my dentist have
both left lucrative careers to pursue their passion for art
instead.
"There is simply not one job, or one career
path,” Murray concluded, as she reflected on Harden’s
presentation about Montserrat. “The possibilities in the
arts are endless and very rewarding.”
G r e e
Disasters from page 8
researching for this exhibit. She is pleased that her
knowledge of Springfield has expanded.
“I never knew how many storms and fires
Springfield had before now,” Page said. “The most I
knew before was that there was a flood. I learned a lot
about Springfield during this project.”
The interns were also able to listen in on
a lecture given by William Elliot Minsinger, MD, in
early September. Minsinger has a strong passion for
meteorology, and has an extensive amount of knowledge
about the great Flood of 1927 and the Hurricane of 1938.
Those were the two events Minsinger focused on during
his lecture. The Flood of 1927 and the Hurricane of 1938
were included in the disasters exhibit, and Minsinger
helped broaden the knowledge that the interns had on
such events.
The exhibit not only teaches viewers about
the disastrous events themselves, but also shares indi-
vidual stories of people caught in these disasters. The
exhibit gives viewers an inside look on how different
disasters affected different people at different times.
“The disasters of Springfield’s history altered
so many peoples’ lives drastically,” intern coordinator
Teresa Janiszyn said. “However, their stories are for-
gotten throughout the generations past. So I think it’s
important to display Springfield disasters and let those
stories be told.”
Lights from page 9
“We’re also doing an energy efficient light-
ing retrofit this winter inside both the high school and
Riverside Middle School,” Director of Physical Plant
John Fitzpatrick stated through an e-mail. “This will
entail re-lamping the auditoriums and gymnasiums in
both locations. It’s not ARRA money, but we will receive
Efficiency Vermont money to help pay for the project.
It will also provide significant payback in energy sav-
ings.”
Europe from page 8
believe it or not, was my least favorite,” she said. “It
was dirty and plain. I did enjoy it, but it just was not
my favorite.” Despite the drawbacks of France, Reardon
would participate in the ambassador program again.
Both Derosier and Reardon were informed
about this program when they received letters in the mail
asking them to go through an interview process if they
wanted to participate. From there they attended four
different meetings about where they would be going in
Europe and what they would visit.
Football from page 16
through the first part of the season with a 1-2 record.
With a 9-game season, playoffs are scheduled to begin
within the week of November 8th.
“We will be a fun team to watch. We are still
learning, but our team is very talented and is ready to
play,” concluded senior Max Blake, “We just ask that
the fans come and show their support.”
Detention from page 1
and drama teacher Rebecca Skrypeck. “It’s a trade off
because now we have to come into school early for three
weeks out of the year for morning duty.”
“I think it’s a great idea,” concluded learning
center teacher Elizabeth Goddard. “I think the punish-
ment is severe enough to discourage bad behavior.”
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Freshmen from page 5
teams, the Green team: Rebecca Skrypeck, Angelo
Jardina, Gigi Guy, Courtney Brooks, and Liz Goddard,
and the White team: Susan Hunt, Peggy Geyer, John
Dean, Dave Slivka, and Mimi Gray.
“Last year I only got to see my students in
math class, so I didn’t know the students that well,” said
Dean. “This year I get a better view of the students and
get to see how they’re doing in their other classes.”
Each student is also assigned to a team, so
all White team teachers have the same students, and all
Green team teachers have the other half.
“So far I like the classes,” said Beach, who
is on the Green team. “There are a lot more opportuni-
ties.”
“We hope it will help us stay on top of kids
that might be having problems or be in danger of fail-
ing,” said Hunt. “It also helps open the lines of com-
munication.”
All members of the Freshmen Academy team
meet daily to discuss students and lesson plans. Since
all the teachers on the team have the same students, they
are able to integrate their curriculum more than in the
past.
“It [the Freshmen Academy] gives us more
communication,” said Dean. “Now I can see what
classes a student is doing well in and change my teach-
ing style to help them.”
Another new aspect of freshman life at SHS
involves the availability of Freshman Seminar. This is a
class offered to any 9th graders and assists the students
in study skills, homework, and other problems they have
in any of their classes.
“Failure rates in 9th grade are higher than
any other year and once students start failing classes, the
drop-out potential increases,” concluded Thibault. “So
in reality, the Freshman Academy is another attempt to
help raise our graduation rate to 100%.”
Finals from page 4
Because of the 8-period day at SHS, finals
and midterms seem to be a necessity for many teach-
ers. “45 minutes in class is just too short for students to
immerse themselves [in learning],” said math teacher
Sean Sullivan. Since the teachers are left with limited
contact time, there is more focus on quantity of material
covered rather than quality. Sullivan likes the idea of
having the opportunity to wrap things up for both the
students and the teacher. As for the exams, Sullivan feels
that the students will get out of it what they put into it.
Presently the midterm exam will be three days
in the winter: January 19-21 with periods 1-3 testing
on the first day, periods 4-6 testing on day two of
midterms, and periods seven and eight tested on day
three. Midterms would be organized for early release
days with 90-minute periods. Overall the midterm and
final would account for 20% of the year’s grade, 10%
for each exam.
Social studies teacher and team leader Angelo
Jardina feels it is good to have finals back because the
students need the experience. “As for the seniors, there
is concern that they’re hit with another change," said
Jardina. But with prep, and review, some stress should
be alleviated.” He also feels that knowing the final will
be a common exam helps the teachers to concentrate and
look at the instruction to focus on what’s important.
“I think finals and midterms are going to be
beneficial in the long run, but stressful in the meantime,”
concluded senior Sarah Vredenburgh
G r e e n H o r
Brown from page 18
obesity in America, Brown is trying to get his kids as
physically active as possible while in gym class. “Stud-
ies have shown that physical activity helps in academics,
as well as with self esteem,” he said. “I want to teach
my kids tools that will help.”
Brown graduated in 2000 and still lives in
Springfield where he also completed his student teach-
ing, “I have ties here,” said Brown. With his mother,
Laurie running the local hair salon, Boccaccio’s, his
wife Morgan working at the River Valley Technical
Center next to the high school and his sister, Christina,
teaching at Park Street Elementary School, Brown feels
at home.
During high school, Brown started on the
varsity football team as a tailback and free safety. He
also played small forward and power forward in bas-
ketball and ran track and played baseball.
Although Brown has just returned to his
old stomping grounds, some of his previousteachers
are still here. “I still have the utmost respect for them,”
said Brown, “I still call them by their surnames. It’s
funny.”
“I like that he’s athletic and wants to get in
the games himself and that he has a funny, positive at-
titude towards the class,” concluded sophomore Kirby
Goodrich. “He makes class fun.”
Writing Center from page 9
will occupy part of Matt Hanson’s old office adjacent
to the iMac Lab while the rest will be used as a room
for students to work on papers in the Writing Center.
The Writing Center will occupy the space
previously occupied by the iMac lab. The Writing Center
is open for students to use when they need help on a
specific writing assignment. The Writing Center will
be open every period except fourth. “Kids can come
in [the Writing Center] when the library is full,” said
SHS history teacher Jeff Lavin, who will help staff the
Center. “And there is a teacher in the lab.”
With the iMac closed and the Writing Center
as its replacement, some students are worried that they
will not be able to work on subjects other than English
in school. Students are also worried that they may be
missing out now that they can’t visit the iMac when
they need to. “I think a lot of students are missing out
on valuable resources,” said sophomore Larry Bolduc.
However, students may use the Writing Center for extra
study when the library computers are all in use.
Teachers also must reserve the Writing
Center for their students and must take their whole class
with them. Students are not allowed to go to the Writ-
ing Center when a teacher is not in there to supervise
and assist students. “We’ll see how it’s going to work,”
concluded Lavin. “ It's still too early to tell.”
Colloquial from page 12
Like many nuances of language, I can’t
imagine the confusion upon visiting foreigners at the
expression. Imagine learning in your foreign language
class that a common expression involves replacing the
word day with a number. There is no good explanation
for this tendency.
My current goal is to break away from vocal-
izing this particular English idiosyncrasy. With any luck,
I’ll soon return to the logical sign off “Have a nice day!”
But, if I’m any speaker of the English language, it will
more likely be replaced with a new, ridiculous phrase.
Until, then, however:
Have a good one.
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Panorama from page 13
can easily jumpstart my journalistic adventures.
With this in mind, I spoke with Windsor
High School 2009 graduate Patrick Dematteo, a former
member of the alternative/acoustic band Runaway Lion.
I began by asking him one simple question: What does
music mean to you?
“I think that music to me is something spe-
cial. It's a way to show yourself in a light that people
may not always see you in,” said Dematteo, who has
performed numerous times at 802 Music on Main Street
in Springfield. “I believe that music is self-expression
and is something that no one can take away from you.
It’s a beautiful thing really and it’s something to be
cherished and honored. Everybody has a song that helps
them with the hard times, you know? Even if you can’t
play an instrument it’s in your heart.
“When I was seventeen I started singing and
writing lyrics and I was in a few bands just doing that,
but I mean as I got older I just really wanted to learn
guitar, so I taught myself how to play,” added Demat-
teo, as he reflected on his musical origins. “Over the
past couple years I’ve just been getting better. I mean,
it takes time, but to me it’s worth it.”
As far as his music career is going, Dematteo
says, “Actually right now it’s kind of slow. I mean, I’m
still writing but my band broke up so it’s taking a bit
longer.”
The arts are therapeutic in the sense that one
can create something entirely their own, and release their
innermost secrets in any form they wish. Essentially,
even if you don’t consider yourself an artist, you’re con-
stantly surrounded with this inevitable media, whether
it is a brightly-colored billboard, or that one song the
radio plays over and over. Contemplate this for a mo-
ment. Maybe now you’ll start to recognize the world
around you for what it truly is – an immense and radiant
composition of dreamlike proportions.
Office from page 14
a reason to watch the show alone, have reached a point
where their on-screen romance can only plummet. While
past season openings have provided us with the couple’s
first kiss (“The Dundies,”
Season 2), revealed to us the couple’s official status
(“Fun Run,” Season 4), treated us to the couple’s engage-
ment (“Weight Loss,” Season 5), and confirmed to us
the couple’s pregnancy (“Gossip,” Season 6), there are
few milestones for the couple to take now except maybe
marital problems or divorce.
Their only interactions in the premiere in-
volved getting in a playful fight and making up – ground
treaded before in the show. Their marital happiness has
become repetitive and boring when compared to the
suspenseful, blush-ridden, agonizing shyness between
the two before they began dating in the fourth season.
The Office’s golden age may be past. The
show now competes with the rapidly-growing comic
genius of 30 Rock, another corporate comedy which airs
on NBC just before the Office on Thursdays. The men
and women of Dunder Mifflin may be collapsing under
the pressure. It was clear even in the previous season
that the writers were running out of ideas for inter-of-
fice practical jokes. All one can do now is hope that the
writers recover some of their glory from seasons past
and reintroduce the impressive comedy that previously
caused so many viewers to gather round real-life water
coolers and say, “The funniest thing happened on The
Office last night…”
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Menacho from page 10
arrived in America in August, just around the same time
Mobus was traveling to Peru.
Menacho heard about the exchange program
through her aunt and immediately began the application
process. “I had to complete many documents for the
program and I had to get all my teachers to sign off for
me,” Menacho said. “One of my teachers kept refus-
ing to sign off for me, which made things even more
stressful. After all the paperwork I still had to get my
visa and plane tickets.”
Since Menacho has arrived in America, she’s
missed Peruvian food the most. She has yet to cook a
Peruvian meal for her host family but plans to do it soon
since all the ingredients that she needs are easily acces-
sible. “I prefer the dishes that have potatoes because
Peru has more than 5000 types of potatoes. We have a
lot of dishes with potatoes,” Menacho said.
Back in Peru, Menacho has already finished
her schooling, but while she’s in Vermont she’s enrolled
in the junior class at SHS. In Peru, students must
complete six years of elementary school and then five
years of high school. When Menacho returns to Peru
she plans on applying to her local university. She has
a few ideas of what she would like to major in during
college, such as engineering or education.
Springfield High School is much larger than
Menacho’s school in Peru. She believes SHS students
have a lot more freedom. “The students in Peru aren’t
given the option to choose their classes and have a much
stricter dress code,” Menacho said. “We have to wear
a uniform and the girls are required to keep their hair
back and the boys need to have their hair cut short and
neat.”
While in America, Menacho will meet
regularly with other exchange students. She also will
be going on a trip with the exchange program to Boston.
Menacho will return to Peru in June, after the school
year at Springfield High School has concluded.
Expecting from page 4
positives, to all the anxiety and fear of the unknown,”
said Frank. “And then there’s the added anxiety of
teaching.”
Frank, however, doesn't feel that the preg-
nancy drastically affects her life. Her dietary choices
have changed to exclude high-mercury fish, sprouts, and
uncooked eggs, because of reduced immune system dur-
ing pregnancy. Frank doesn't worry about germs in her
classroom, though. “There’s only so much you can do,”
she said. “If someone is sick, I keep my distance.”
Frank also senses a loss of mental acuity.
“You forget things and you can’t come up with words,”
Frank said. “Even simple ones, like pencil.” Ballou
identifies with these challenges. She feels it’s difficult
to concentrate and remember things.
The biggest challenge for Ballou, however,
was keeping the pregnancy a secret from her students
last year. “I wanted it to be a surprise, so I was wearing
a lot of bigger shirts,” she said. Ballou used her You
Can’t Take it With You tee-shirt, from the SHS Drama
Club’s 2010 production, to disguise weight gain.
Luckily, Ballou’s challenges come with
perks. “It’s fun when she [the baby] decides to kick in
class,” she said. the SHS staff and students have been very excited and
“I’m nervous about being a parent,” she
added. “But I’m excited to meet her.” Skills from her
work as a teacher, she feels, such as being sensitive to
the worries of others, flexibility, and experience with
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Glee from page 14
portrayed by Cory Monteith. Finn, an ex-quarterback
with a big heart, has trouble letting go and is romanti-
cally confused. Finn was once the boyfriend of Quinn
Fabray, a girl who is tossed to the bottom of the social
food chain after finding herself pregnant. Mercedes, a
closeted diva, is best friends with Kurt Hummel, who
has been fighting an inner battle about who he really is.
The glee club gives him a support system to take that
leap.
New Directions, the very accurate title of the
glee club, is also a haven for Artie Abrams. Artie no
longer has the use of his legs. Luckily, Artie has fellow
Glee member Jenna Ushkowitz. Jenna, who was faking
a stutter to keep people away, discovers in the glee club
Study Halls from page 11
Roughly 40 students are found in 5th period
study hall. Many factors seem to make this a poor study
hall for students: seats are hard, there isn’t enough
workspace, and it is right before lunch and the students
are hungry.
Thibault suggested also instituting a Writing
Center at SHS to improve writing throughout the high
school. The Writing Center, which is housed in the old
iMac lab, opened during the fourth week of school.
The Center is staffed each period of the day, except
5th period, by four English teachers (Joanna Coleman,
Kevin Coen, Ed Wilkins, Jen Dodge) and one social
studies teacher (Jeff Lavin).
However, English teacher Jen Dodge, who
is assigned to the Writing Center during 3rd period, is
concerned that students aren’t individually allowed to
use the iMac Lab. She hopes, however, that the Writing
Center may allow some students some more computer
time.
teenagers, will come in handy in parenthood.
Frank hopes to take her maternity leave from
Christmas break to February break. Advertisements for
both positions have been placed on schoolspring.com.
Frank is not concerned about the welfare
of her yearbook class. “Students will take on most of
the responsibility [for the yearbook], Frank said. “I’ll
just help them along the way. By December or January,
they’ll understand what to do day-to-day and do stuff
on their own.” minutes and no lab period,” said Frank, “makes do-
Ballou’s leave will span from Thanksgiving
break until the beginning of March. No specific substi-
tute has been chosen, though Ballou says she and SHS
Principal Bob Thibault are working to find someone
qualified to teach both Russian and German. “Part of me
feels guilty for leaving you guys [her classes],” she said.
“But the other part of me feels responsible for bringing
up my baby.” Ballou feels mothers in America have it
more difficult than in other nations. In Russia, mothers
can take up to three years of leave and still receive a
stipend of some sort while retaining their position.
Frank and Ballou are pleased to share the
experience with each other. “We exchange stories and
advice,” Ballou said. “It’s neat Amanda’s due on one
holiday and I’m due on another.” In general, Ballou feels
supportive.
Frank echoes these points. “[We can] com-
pare stories and say ‘Is this happening to you?’” Frank
said. “It makes it a richer, more fun experience.”
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and in Artie, something good. In the process, she finds
her voice.
Teaching the glee club is Spanish teacher Will
Schuester, played by Matthew Morrison. Morrison’s rep-
ertoire includes playing Link Larkin in the Broadway
production of Hairspray. In casting Glee, show creator
Ryan Murphy observed actors on Broadway for three
months, and Morrison’s casting is a direct result of his
observations and reflections of the acting. Most of the
cast members have previous Broadway experience.
Glee’s popularity and success may be the
result of how each character is custom-tailored to the
person portraying them. This finel- crafted casting helps
to give all of the characters a shine that welcomes us
into the world of Glee.
AP Labs from page 5
eight-period schedule, and a discussion among teachers
and administrators.
“With an eight-period day, classes are too
short,” said AP Language and Composition teacher Ed
Wilkins, who has been using the extra time to cover
reading and writing skills. “Looking back on test scores,
we found that the exam scores aren’t as good with the
less time. [These Labs] were one way of providing more
time.”
The lab periods were not only added to AP
classes, but also to Advanced Biology.
“Science is a discipline that is both a process
and a body of knowledge,” said Advanced Biology
teacher Amanda Frank. “Students need to learn how to
use the scientific method and the process of science and
that’s hard to do in 45 minutes.”
This time also allows students to participate
in engaging labs. “Since there’s more time,” said senior
Ben Sidler, a member of three AP/Advanced classes,
“we can do labs that are actually fun.”
As the AP exams were a large consideration
for additional time for Advanced Placement classes,
the NECAPS were a major factor in adding lab time
to Advanced Biology. Vermont requires that students
learn the eight scientific inquiry grade expectations, or
GEs, in science. These GEs are a major component in
NECAPS as well. With numerous students and little
time, science teachers have found it difficult to teach
these GEs.
“That many students with so little time—45
ing hands-on lab work very difficult and significantly
decreases the chances that our students will master the
inquiry GEs and succeed on the NECAP.”
Students agree. “If you don’t have the extra
time, you don’t get through the curriculum in time for
the exam,” said senior Sarah Vredenburgh who takes
three AP/Advanced classes. “Or, if you do, you don’t
understand it enough to do well on the exam.”
Students and teachers have welcomed these
labs. The additional time helps both to complete and
understand work.
“I don’t feel as stressed out about time,”
said senior Desmond Dana who also takes three AP/
Advanced classes. “We don’t have to start something
then stop almost immediately because of time.”
Yet it’s still too early to tell whether these
labs will be a permanent staple in the six AP/Advanced
classes offered at Springfield High School. “We’ll find
out as the year goes on just how useful these labs really
are,” said Wilkins.
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Elvis from page 13
roots of rock ‘n’ roll. From the minute Elvis begins
to sing at the beginning of track one, “Wearin’ That
Loved On Look,” the promise of greatness, not heard
in years, is found in his voice. A sharp contrast to his
lazy style of singing found in his later film soundtracks,
Elvis’ voice is full of life, and more mature, losing the
youthful charm of his fifties recordings replaced with a
more raw and aggressive way of singing.
Many of the songs found on From Elvis in
Memphis are well-known country tunes, such as “I’ll
Hold You In My Heart (Till I Can Hold You In My
Arms),” “It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’,” and “Gentle on
My Mind.” Though some are obviously country songs
and are played as such (“It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin’”),
most are injected with soulful singing, roaring horns,
and rocking guitars, transforming the country songs into
the rock that allowed Elvis to once again be called the
King of Rock ‘n’ Roll without the title sounding like an
obligation.
Key tracks are the rather graceful “True
Love Travels on a Gravel Road,” “Gentle on My Mind,”
which is also gentle on the ears and the senses, and the
powerhouse “Anyday Now.” All of these tracks can be
found on side two of the original vinyl record, which
ends with the famed “In the Ghetto.”
“In the Ghetto”was the most popular single
from the album (his other singles at the time were
Camps from page 19
Since the autumn sports season commenced,
Kendall and Locke gained full-time positions on their
respective varsity soccer squads. Both agree that attend-
ing the camps helped them earn these promotions, and
they plan to return to the camps next year to improve
their skills even more.
Another Cosmos athlete field hockey co-
captain, senior Maria Stern, attended clinics at Castleton
State College in Castleton, Vermont, and Williams
College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. The Williams
College clinic also was a showcase, where college scouts
were able to view the players scrimmaging.
“Anytime you have a stick in your hand,
you’re getting prepared and improving your skills,” said
Stern.
In the past, Stern has gone to field hockey
camps at Division I schools Syracuse University and
Dartmouth University, but decided to try a Division III
school to get a different feel. Stern hopes to land a field
hockey scholarship and continue playing throughout
college.
“It’s just nice to see a little bit of everything,”
she said. “[The colleges] are all different academically,
and they all have different strategies of how to play the
game.”
Sophomores Jordan Crowley and Jacob
Therrien also participated in a basketball camp at
Castleton State College. The boys drilled and scrim-
maged with other athletes to prepare for the season.
After each session, the coach sat down with the players
to discuss how they could improve their game, and what
they needed to work on.
“It got me really prepared for the [upcoming]
season,” said Crowley. “[The camp] just got me out to
play basketball. It gives you something to do to make
you better during the off-season. It’s something to do
other than sit at home watching television.”
G r e e n H o r
recorded at the same sessions, but not featured on the
album) which reached number three on the Billboard
200 and became his first top 10 single in the UK in three
years. The song is about a boy who grows up in the
ghetto of Chicago, where he learns to steal and fight, and
is eventually shot dead. It may be guilty of stereotyping
and sentimentality about ghetto life, but it does make a
good pop song. The song returned to the spotlights in
2007, when a recorded version of the song was released,
featuring a duet between Elvis and his daughter, Lisa
Marie Presley, who at the time had two albums of her
own (though they were nowhere near as popular as her
Elvis' music).
From Elvis to Memphis is a monster of an
album, never growing dull from “Wearing That Loved
on Look” to ‘In the Ghetto." This collection of music
is easily worth a place among Elvis’ other great albums,
while at the same time standing on its own. This album
was not recorded by sn older, wiser Elvis. The young
boy from Tupelo, Mississippi, who became the star of
the decade didn’t record this. What one hears on From
Elvis to Memphis is the man he grew up into.
The ’68 Comeback Special may be what
catapaulted Elvis Presley back into the light of popular-
ity, but it was From Elvis to Memphis that brought Elvis
back to fame and allowed him to regain the throne.
Fact from page 12
have totally wasted all your time in the present. Take
to heart the lessons you learn. American Studies taught
me so much, because I wasn’t thinking about getting the
work done or failing. I didn’t feel pressured over not
understanding a reading. I believed everything would
come into place, lived in the moment, and the class
worked out well.
But it’s a challenge to stay in the moment.
We’re so much about planning for the future, worrying
about how we’re going to get to the next step. The truth
is we grow up fast -- think of high school old-- and most
of us don’t stop to think and appreciate the moment.
I feel like I know so much, and I’m so wise.
But next year when I go to college, I won’t feel so old
anymore. I’ll be a baby again. The cycle will restart. But
I’ll still be old to all of you, and all of you will be old to
the new freshman next year. Yet, whether it’s high school
old or real life old, just cherish everything. I mean it.
Stay Fly.
Chlebak from page 2
I hope that I'm doing something I enjoy. I'll probably
be doing something music-related but you never know.
I know it’s a real shocker, but I do have a lot of other
nonmusical interests. Traveling is just awesome, so if
I could just join a band after college and play around
for a few years, that'd be awesome. It'd also be cool
to use my composition techniques to write more pop-
oriented music.
McLaughlin from page 3
The students seem to benefit from having McLaughlin
as a part of the SHS teaching team this year. "He's doing
great so far and the kids seem to really love him," said
principal Bob Thibault.
The teachers also appreciate McLaughlin's
professionalism and open-mindedness. When ques-
tioned about it, they agree that it will be nice to have
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Pizza from page 15
combinations, and can be customized to the tastes of any
pizza-eater. Cheese, however, is common to all pizzas.
The flavor of the cheese varies much in the same way
that sauce does.
New York style pizza (also known as a
Brooklyner, Italian pizza, and hand-tossed thin crust) is
usually a large, thin pie, skimpy on the sauce (which is
less sauce) with gooey, herb-heavy cheese spread over
the top. Other topping is usually generously provided,
sometimes layered up to an inch thick over the cheese.
The crust is dense and often very flat. New York style
pizza keeps well; it’s good cold the next day. It can
be folded in half and eaten like a sandwich. Although
pizza style choice is a tremendously personal decision,
this reporter believes a good New York style pizza to
be the pinnacle of culinary achievement, the zenith of
foodstuff.
Greek pizza (also known as thick-crust or
pan-style pizza) is usually smaller in diameter and
thicker in height than a New York style pizza. The
crust is crunchy and light. There is an abundance of
sauce, usually sweet in taste, and the cheese is usually
crunchy with brown spots, and very flavorful. Toppings
on a Greek pizza are more sparse than those on other
pizzas, perhaps because the crust is thicker and makes
up a greater percentage of the overall pizza. Greek pizza
cannot be folded, and is best eaten hot.
Pizza style is a personal choice. But no mat-
ter where you go or what you do, there will always be
a pizza palace nearby to satisfy your appetite and your
soul.
Wasyliko from page 11
her about entering the profession. She was previously a
financial analyst.
“She asked me if I had ever considered
becoming a librarian,” Wasyliko said. “I firmly believe
that was what sparked my interest.”
She also volunteered and later worked as a
reference librarian at the Maplewood Memorial Library
in Maplewood, New Jersey, which further encouraged
her interest in a library science career. Wasyliko now
lives in Londonderry with her husband and 2 children.
Parents listen intently in the biology
class room during open house in mid-
September.
an administrator, like McLaughlin, who intends to stay
at SHS for a few years.
Students are still getting to know McLaugh-
lin, however. "I haven't really had much interaction with
him so far," junior Taylor Fontaine said, during the first
few weeks of the school year. "I can't really say if I like
him or not."
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SHS Speaks Out
T
he freshmen have arrived. The cycle of high school begins anew. Students commence their high school career with great hope and optimism. With this in mind,
the Green Horn asked the newest round of high schoolers: What are you looking forward to during your high school years?
Peter Kendall
"I’m looking forward to the teachers. All of my
brothers said they're good."
Chelsey Harmer
"I’m looking forward to having an awesome first year
of high school."
W
eezie, that’s what I call her. Not because
of her mad rapping skills or the way she
drops a beat. Just because for a small child,
Louise was not an easy name to pronounce. So Weezie
it was.
She is 95 years old and can still stand on one
foot while tying her shoes. Until a recent fall, she lived
on her own and did everything for herself. This year
she turned 95 and, to celebrate, we brought in family
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Erin Chlebak
"I'm looking forward to seeing friends again, new
teachers, and having a new environment."
Kiely Schuck
"The musical and broadening my horizons."
Footprints in the Sand
Oh that’s Wonderful…
By Courtney Downing
from all over the country. All five of her kids came to
celebrate. Stories were shared, memories were made,
and food was eaten. It was a typical Hanson reunion.
Louise Hanson grew up in Montpelier, and
was the sister of 10 children. Therefore, as she grew up,
things were busy. Family is a big deal to her. She worked
for the telephone company for the majority of her life.
On October 3, 1939, she married my Great Grandfather
Andrew Hanson. A year later my Uncle Bill was born,
followed a year later by Jeanne, who died two days after
her birth. A year later my Aunt Susie was born, followed
three years later by my Grama Linda. Two years later,
my Uncle Peter was born. Several years later Weezie
gave birth to Diane, who also died within a couple days
of her birth. And finally, ten years after my Uncle Peter
was born, my Aunt Penny was born.
Right before my Aunt Penny was born, my
Grandpa Andy and Grama Weezie and all of the kids
moved in with my great-great grandmother, who died
G r e e
By Laurel Porter
Kaylee Haskell
"I’m looking forward to winning a championship in field
hockey and getting closer to my friends."
Kate McGrotty
"Getting high honors."
soon after. Once things had settled down, and life had
gotten back to normal, Weezie stopped working for the
phone company and just focused on the family. She
prepared dinner, including dessert every night, because
Grandpa Andy didn’t believe a meal was truly a meal
without dessert. Between cooking and baking, she had
her hands full with five kids. With the trouble they got
in, it’s surprising they’re here now. Stories I have heard
just make me wonder how on earth Grama Weezie did
it all.
I can remember back to when I was a small
child going to her house in Northfield. Her driveway is
lined with trees on both sides, pine needles covering the
ground and birds all around. I always looked forward
to putting coins on the train tracks with her, wondering
what kind of imprint would be left on the coin. The thing
I most enjoy about putting coins on the track (which I
still do to this day) is knowing that no two coins are ever
going to come out the same.
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