Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Armenti
WTHS takes over Citizens Bank Park
queen for
a day
Washington Twp. High
School senior wins prom
beauty makeover contest Special to The Sun
The WTHS Concert Choir, conducted by Casey Corigliano (far right), sings the National Anthem
By KATRINA GRANT for a few surprises, but she had on the field before the game. For the fourth consecutive year, the Washington Township High
no idea what would be in store for School Student Council, in conjunction with the Philadelphia Phillies, hosted a WTHS Night at
The Washington Twp. Sun
her when she won the contest. Citizens Bank Park. Prior to the Phillies’ game against the Washington Nationals, WTHS Teachers
Prom season has arrived, and “I didn’t know the extent of of the Year Marsha Brumberg and Marty Bouchard participated in the ceremonial first pitch,
many young men and women are everything, and I don’t think she while the WTHS Air Force Jr. ROTC presented the colors. In addition, a student-produced video
preparing for the festivities. For did either,” Michelle said. highlighting the school was shown on the scoreboard.
one lucky Washington Township “I had no idea that it would be
High School senior, prom came so much,” Arielle said.
Overcoming obstacles
with a lot of extras this year. Winning the contest meant
Arielle Armenti entered and won that Arielle would be a “queen for
the b2 by Bernard’s Queen for a a day” for her prom. The salon
Day prom beauty makeover con- provided Kimberly Vansciver-Sa-
test. puto to do her hair, and Katie
“My friends and I were looking Stone to do her makeup. However,
for salons where we could get our with hair and makeup, Arielle By KATRINA GRANT doctors and discovering that DiMento opted to have a double
nails done, and I found them and also received a dress, a photo The Washington Twp. Sun there was a second lump under mastectomy.
then saw the contest, so I en- shoot and at the time, teeth the first, that would have gone un- “I have no family history, and I
tered,” Arielle said. whitening. College can be a daunting or- detected, DiMento got the call on don’t have the three genes that
After not hearing from the “We wanted to start the contest deal for any student at some Memorial Day that she had can- cause cancer,” DiMento said. “My
salon for about a month, Arielle’s last year, but we were too over- point. However, going to college cer. blood is still in trial studies.”
mother Michelle got a call that whelmed with opening new loca- while going through chemothera- “The doctor even said to me be- Despite the diagnosis and
her daughter won the contest. tions,” Danelsy Medrano said. py can seem impossible. For Vic- fore I found out that he’d bet it chemotherapy that DiMento
After asking her daughter about “We wanted to do something nice toria DiMento, a senior at Rut- was nothing,” DiMento said. “At would have to go through, she
the contest to make sure it wasn’t for the community because the gers University and a Washington first they thought it was a cyst still wanted to experience college
a scam, and finding out it wasn’t, economy is bad. So we partnered Township resident, a diagnosis of and then a benign tumor.” as normal as possible.
the two became very excited. with a photographer, the dress a rare form of breast cancer was At 20, DiMento was the DiMento had to go through
“It was really shocking for me shop and a dentist and held the not going to stop her from achiev- youngest breast cancer patient at chemotherapy every three weeks
because I never win anything,” contest. We had over 65 entries, ing her goal of graduating on the University of Pennsylvania and her teachers worked with her
Arielle said. but Arielle’s really stuck out.” time. and was diagnosed with a rare when she had to miss class.
“I was jumping around,” When Arielle visited Dr. Bul- DiMento found a lump in her form that only affected 3 percent “My teachers were very coop-
Michelle said. “I was like, I can’t lock’s office in Marlton for her breast in March 2009 during her of women 55 and older. erative. The Dean of Rutgers sent
believe this has happened, this is teeth whitening, she learned that sophomore year at college when The cancer had a 50-percent an email explaining my situation
wonderful.” she would not be able to get the she was attending Temple Univer- chance to spread to the other before I got there,” DiMento said.
Arielle knew she would be in please see PROM, page 11 sity. After going through several breast, but not the lymph nodes. please see CANCER, page 10
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about making an impact. The than $10 doing things like clean-
Haddad brothers have taken to ing his back yard, TV room and
helping out the environment by his mother’s closet, as well as
cleaning up the park and other picking up nails after a neigh-
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around the house and their neigh- dad that he could make 10 free
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some money to donate to the re- Dacia, said.
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Evan Sparano with his Advanced Spanish teacher Cheryl Dagostino. Dagostino is presenting Sparano
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Sparano gets gold in Spanish
Washington Township High supervisor Cathy Moncrief, tions is very prestigious,” Nation-
School junior Evan Sparano said Sparano is the first WTHS stu- al Director of the Exams Kevin
he never realized just how well he dent to earn Gold Star status. Cessna-Buscemi said, “because
knew the Spanish language. That In addition to Sparano’s Gold the exams are the largest of their
is, until recently, when Sparano Award, students from Washing- kind in the United States with
learned he had achieved the Gold ton Township High School earned 140,373 students participating in !
Award for his efforts on the Na- a total of four silver medals, 2011.” The National Spanish Ex-
tional Spanish Exam. Gold James Celia, Jack Guerci, Antho- aminations are administered
Awards go to those students who ny Nastasi and Parth Parihar and each year in grades six through
score above the 95th percentile on three bronze medals, Zachary 12, and are sponsored by the
the exam. Dzierzgowski, Raina Dhir and American Association of Teach-
“Obviously, I was happy, but I Jessica Seigel, along with 12 hon- ers of Spanish and Portuguese.
was pretty shocked,” Sparano orable mentions, Claire Burns-
said. “It’s really not a test you can Lynch, Miranda Roberts, Alexan-
prepare for, and it was the first dra Stewart, Alison Troilo, Juliet
time I’ve taken it, so I didn’t know Akumuo, Nick Costantini, Kait-
what to expect.” lyn Grabert, Tyler McCarthy, Tay-
The exam included sections on lor Miller, Meghna Patel, Nicole
listening comprehension, reading Tiernan and Paul Comber.
comprehension, vocabulary and “Attaining a medal or honor-
grammar. According to Washing- able mention for any student on
ton Township World Languages the National Spanish Examina-
Library closed
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Public Library of Washington site, www.hegganlibrary.org.
Township is now closed while Customers may access the li-
they move to the new, larger li- brary online at www.hegganli-
brary at 606 Delsea Drive. brary.org to download audiobooks
Join them for a ribbon-cutting and e-books, use databases and
ceremony on June 1 at 9:00 a.m. other online resources, access the
The library will open to the pub- online catalog, see photos and fol-
lic on that date. low the progress of the new li-
Don’t miss their grand open-
ing celebration on Saturday, June
brary, and find information about
upcoming events.
18 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Many fun
activities are planned, including
Customers are encouraged to
use their Heggan Library cards at
musical performances, food, live any of the other libraries in
animals, moon bounce, balloon Gloucester County. During the
animals, library tours, and much move, Heggan Library cards will
more. be issued at McCowan Library in
An Edible Book Contest is Pitman, the Free Public Library
planned for their grand re-open-
ing celebration. Make a cake that
depicts a favorite book or charac-
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adults. A detailed entry form can in the new library in June.
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Overcoming it all
psychology and a minor in child-
CANCER hood studies.
In August, DiMento is moving
Continued from page 1 to Maryland for graduate school
and wants to study to become a
“I had chemo every three weeks child life specialist.
and I would be out of school for “I was an intern at Children’s
two weeks after, but I wanted to Hospital of Philadelphia last
take as many classes as I could summer in the Hematology and
during chemo and the summer. I Oncology department and that’s
had a goal of graduating on time, when I knew what I wanted to
I didn’t want to be a fifth-year sen- do,” DiMento said. “I want to
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DiMento is now in full remis- and other diseases. I also want to
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in our opinion
Memorial Day
A day that puts things into perspective
he cartoon at the right puts it all into perspective, does- letters to the editor
T n’t it? Memorial Day, perhaps more than any other day
of the year, helps all of us re-focus on our lives, our chal-
lenges and what the word “sacrifice” really means.
Remember why we
celebrate Memorial Day
my classmates and fellow sol-
diers’ checks were cashed in and
never returned from that distant
unteer military force. Unfortu-
nately today we ask too much
from so few. The percentage of
It’s normal to get frustrated land. The days of our laughter our population who has served is
My eyes. My eyes are not as that we enjoyed were gone. I see drastically shrinking. Freedom
by life’s speedbumps. Traffic Memorial Day sharp as they were when I was the face of my classmate, Robert is not free. So many towns and
congestion is really heavy How will you recognize our drilling jump shots for the 1964 “Woody” Woodrow who died on municipalities have cut their
fallen heroes on Memorial Ocean City Boys State Champi- July 4, 1967 in Quang Ngai budgets due to the economy. A
today. The price at the gas pump onship basketball team. My hair province. I see him and am re- sad byproduct of this is these
Day? You can share your
is high. It’s hard to find a seat at thoughts and ideas in the is not the surfer blonde that minded that he never got the towns are failing to honor our
Forum section at www.wash- came from spending too much chance to live his dreams. He past and traditions by cutting
a restaurant on a Friday night. time on the beach and in the and thousands of others never funding for a Memorial Day
ingtontwpsun.com.
Any number of “mini crises” ocean. No, now it’s a different got to be old enough to get mar- and/or Independence Day cele-
shade that says mature, experi- ried and have a family or experi- bration. Our youth not only need
can “ruin” our day. enced. Yes, I have earned that ence the American dream. Yet, to learn about veterans, but to
Then we have Memorial Day, and, suddenly, we realize that look. I have gotten to live in this they gave their lives so that you see and hear from our veterans
great country of ours for 64 who sit here today have the op- from the greatest generation to
our mountains are really small molehills. years. I have experienced wars, portunity to live your dreams. the latest generation. We must
We take this day to honor the memory of the men and women riots, social unrest, a presiden- I volunteered to go to Vietnam honor and remember our fallen,
tial assassination, an attempted and Thailand and do my part, but that alone is not enough. Our
who gave their lives so that we may enjoy the many freedoms
presidential assassination, the but that day never came. I was deceased veterans died not just
that we have today. They left family and friends behind to serve resignation of a vice president never called upon, but watched for their country, but also for
their country in our armed forces. And they didn’t come home. and president, government cor- some of my buddies go and then their comrades serving next to
ruption and ineptitude. wait for their return. And when them. They died protecting those
Around South Jersey, there will be ceremonies to honor our Growing up in America as a they did return, it was not to a with whom they served. The
fallen heroes. Solemn words will be spoken and respect paid to young teenager is a lot different hero’s welcome. Wearing a uni- lives saved are their legacy.
today than it was back then. Yet form in those days could cause William Shakespeare wrote of
their memories. again, some things never you some problems from those the bond between warriors in
This Memorial Day we encourage you to enjoy the holiday. change. Growing up in Ocean who would call you names. Yet, “Henry the Fifth.” “We few, we
City, Memorial Day, back then it we wore our uniforms with happy few, we band of brothers.
You might have a barbecue with family and friends. You might was called Decoration Day, was pride and held our heads high at For he that shed his blood with
take in a ball game. You might just kick back and relax with a the day that marked the unoffi- the ignorance of others. My uni- me, shall be my brother.”
cial beginning of summer and form still hangs in my closet Remembering our fallen once
day off from work. Little League baseball. I am sure with my ribbons and sergeant a year is not enough. The wid-
But at some point, it is a three-day weekend, remember, we’d that it still holds those same stripes I earned while serving ows, widowers, fathers, mothers,
meanings for many of today’s four years with the Strategic Air brothers, sisters and children re-
also ask you to do something to recognize the courage and dedi- youths and summer visitors. Command. At that time, I did not member every day. The empty
cation of those who gave their all. We’d ask you to attend one of However, what my eyes now realize that my fellow soldiers seat at the dinner table, the
clearly see that I could not back and I had made a subconscious smaller gathering on Thanksgiv-
the ceremonies and salute the veterans in attendance. Or per-
then as a teenager was the true decision to correct the wrong ing and the voice of a loved one
haps do something more tangible, such as donate to a veterans’ meaning of this day. that society had displayed to- heard only as a distant memory
support group. At the least, please tell your children about the I joined the Air Force in 1966 ward us. That is, regardless of in one’s mind are constant re-
with a nudge from the Draft your political persuasion or be- minders that they are gone.
true meaning of the day. It’s an important lesson that we all Board. There was unrest in the liefs toward war, hate the war, The American Legion has al-
need to hear, and hear over and over again. streets across this nation be- but support your soldiers. ways shown great pride in our
cause of the war raging in Viet- General George Washington, nation’s fallen heroes and un-
The “challenges” we face every day don’t come close to meas- nam. There was a draft in the when speaking before the Conti- ending support for those Ameri-
uring up to those faced by true heroes. Memorial Day is a time country at that time and 18-year- nental Congress to obtain more ca sends to continue the fight for
olds were some of the first to be funds for the Revolutionary freedom in many corners of the
to recognize their sacrifices. Please do so. drafted. Army, stated, “The willingness world. Let’s take the pride and
On Memorial Day, I now see of our youth to join this war or and remember the sacrifices of
the sacrifices so many of our vet- any justified war will be based thousands of others before
DAN McDONOUGH, JR. RUSSELL CANN
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