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Newtonite Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 Volume 88, Issue 9 Newton North
High School, 360 Lowell Ave., Newtonville, Mass. 02460
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BY MARENA COLEAND MATT KALISH
V. James Marini, former principal of this school, is now interim
superin-tendent for this school year.
Last year, former superin-tendent Jeffrey Young accept-ed a
position as superintendent of schools in Cambridge.
Marini spoke t o N e w t o n Public Schools faculty at the
opening day meeting Sept. 2 at South.
I cannot tell you how pleased I am to be with you today, Marini
said. Last year, I had no idea I would be here.
Every school year brings the possibility of hope, optimism,and
excitement for a new school year.
I want to provide the leader-ship for you to do what it is you
need to do.
School Committee chair Marc Laredo 77 said seven applica-tions
were submitted for the job, but a subcommittee deemed none of the
applicants qualied.
We reached out to former principal Jim Marini, Laredo said.
Because he was retired, we had to go through a process to get
permission from the state.
Laredo said the Committee voted unanimously to elect Mari-ni
interim superintendent until July 1, 2010.
Marini graduated from New-ton High School in 1963. He attended
Newton Junior College until 1966, when he entered Bos-ton State
College. He majored in mathematics and earned a bachelors of
science in 1970.
He began teaching math that
BY MARENA COLE
In preparation for the move to the new building, this school
must be emptied by July 15, according to Heidi Black, the
administrator of high school construction and strategic
planning.
Black spoke to faculty Sept. 5 about plans to move into the new
high school building.
Right now, the project is on schedule, if not ahead of
sched-ule, Black said. My expectation is that this building will be
empty by July 15.
Black said anything left be-hind in this building will become
property of the demolition con-tractor.
If anything is left in the school, youll never see it again,
BY MARENA COLE
This year, students can receive academic help through a new peer
tu-toring program.
The program has two sides, Academic Tutorial for students to be
tutored, and PTP, or the Peer Tutoring Program, for tutors.
Math teacher Karly Braden and science teacher Melissa Rice will
run the program, which is piloting this year.
We are in need of juniors and seniors to tutor, Braden said.
Approximately 45 students were signed up to tutor, she said.
According to principal Jenni-fer Price, the program has
excit-ing possibilities.
We looked at a model at Framingham High School before
Shira Bleicher
In the International Caf: Italian exchange students Maria Chiara
Cepparrone and Chiara Luzzi talk at breakfast Monday. Twenty-two
students from Liceo Antonio Gramsci in Florence arrived last Friday
and will be staying until next Friday. The students are visiting
host families and sightseeing in Boston. Activities have included
walking the Freedom Trail and visiting the Museum of Fine Arts. The
exchange dates from 1982.
year at F. A. Day Junior High. In 1974, while still at Day, he
received a masters in education from Antioch University.
Marini was assistant principal at Day from 1978 to 1985, when he
became associate principal at Concord Middle School.
In 1987 he became principal at Concord, where he stayed until he
became principal here in 1990.
In 1999, Marini left to become assistant superintendent for high
schools and operations. In 2002, he became superintendent of
schools in Winchester, until he retired in 2007.
Laredo said the School Com-mittee has formed a Search
Com-mittee, which is in the process of conducting a nationwide
search for a new superintendent, to be hired by March or April.
The 21-member committee is chaired by Claire Sokoloff, the
School Committee vice-chair, and Reenie Murphy, a School Com-mittee
member.
English teacher Inez Dover said Marinis ability to work with
people will benet him as super-intendent.
He had a knack for being around, Dover said of his time as
principal. He was always on Main Street, and he always knew what
everybody was doing.
One of his best skills was being able to communicate with all
kinds of people. He is so per-sonable.
He was able to bring out the best in people. He knew everyones
skills and how to make them shine, and use their capabilities.
History and social sciences teacher Ty Vignone said Marinis best
features include being up-front, honest and shooting from the hip.
He loves his staff and his students, he said.
she said. We will provide boxes, tape and shredders for everyone
to use.
Its a good time to purge and get rid of anything you dont
need.
Black said many supplies and furniture will be moved from the
old building into the new build-ing.
Over the summer, furniture consultants surveyed and put stickers
on furniture to categorize what will and will not be moving into
the new building, she said.
According to Black, furniture that is either deemed to be in
ter-rible condition or does not meet a re safety code cannot be
moved into the new building.
Some upholstered and some hard plastic furniture does not
meet this code and therefore will not be moved into the new
build-ing, Black said.
Were going to try to use as much as possible from the old
building, but we know there are needs for new furniture, she
said.
Department heads will work to see what new equipment is needed.
For example, were go-ing to have a new tness center, so we know
well need some new cardio equipment.
Crews will move classroom furniture into each classroom, she
said.
Any furniture that can be moved by the movers will be, she said.
We will be asking faculty to move their own fragile and personal
furniture, she said.
we started the program, and its a very exciting model, Price
said.
It has a lot of potential, not only for grade improvement, but
for giving kids good role models.
According to Braden, the pro-gram will provide a one-on-one
environment for students in need of academic support.
It will benet both the student getting tutored and the student
tutoring by creating a coopera-tive and compassionate environ-ment,
Braden said.
The program will pair fresh-men and sophomores in need of
academic assistance with juniors and seniors, who will tutor in
spe-cic subject areas, Braden said.
To tutor, juniors and seniors must rst ll out an application
and have a teacher ll out a form verifying their ability in a
specic subject, she said.
Then, the student must have an interview and complete sev-eral
training sessions.
Tutors will need to commit to at least two blocks per week for
one semester, Braden said.
Braden said the program is not accepting any more students to be
tutored until next year.
We hope to have an open referral process, where students can
either refer themselves, or be referred by counselors or teach-ers,
she said.
Applications for tutors are available in the peer tutoring of-ce
in 230, or in the peer tutoring center in 239. Applications are due
next Friday.
Shira Bleicher
In construction: According to administrator of high school
construction and strategic planning Heidi Black, the new building
is on schedule to open for classes September, 2010.
Marini namedsuperintendentfor 09-10 year
Tutoring seeks more membersTwo teachers pilot peer tutoring
program this year
Building to be emptied by July
Shira Bleicher
V. James Marini
See Talk of the Tiger page 13
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opinion Friday, Sept. 18, 20092 Newtonite, Newton North
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for student opinion.
BY GEORGINA TEASDALEWith the start of the new
school year, many students are looking forward to new
experi-ences and being back with their friends.
Junior Monica Reuman said she is excited to hang out with
friends during my frees. Its my rst time with frees and Im
really excited. That, and the teachers and new faces, and Im
just really glad to be back in school.
Sophomore Laura Murray said, Im look-ing forward to getting to
know all my classmates and
teachers.Freshman Jill Zwetchken-
baum said, Im looking forward to meeting new people and may-be
doing activities I couldnt do in middle school.
Many seniors are looking forward to the privileges that come
with being the oldest in the school.
Senior Rani Jacobson said, I really like my classes, so Im
looking forward to them and
being captain of gymnastics because itll be good to be a leader
of the team after all my years of ef-fort.
Simi lar ly, senior Leanne P recop io i s looking for-ward to
being
a leader of the school and senior activities.
Some students are looking for-ward to nishing at this school.
Senior Alex Feinberg said, Im looking forward to being done with
high school and ying away to another part of the country.
Junior Jing Cox-Orrell said she is looking forward to, get-
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BY MATT KALISHLori Borden, who taught Eng-
lish, advised the speech team, and advised this newspaper died
July 11.
A winner of the Paul E. Elicker Award for excellence in teaching
in 1992, she retired in 1993 after teaching here for 28 years.
Ms. Borden said that this school was the chief inuence in her
life.
I have learned so much from the people here about every aspect
in my lifenot just from my colleagues, but from the stu-dents, she
said in the retirement story this paper ran about her in 1993.
She was a model teacher, said retired English department head
Mary Lanigan.
She represents scholarship in the school and an extraordinary
knowledge of her subject.
Borden also served on the Student Faculty Administration Board
and was a Heintzelman trustee.
Born in Houston, Texas, Bor-
ting through junior year and just being done.
Junior Gina Nathwani is most looking forward to Junior Prom and
getting through the year.
Junior Phoebe Nesgos is look-ing forward to being a junior and
to start looking forward to college.
Others are also looking for-ward to new experiences. English
teacher, Tim Finnegan said, Im look-ing forward to being able to
launch the new Shakespeare English elec-tive that Im teaching.
S t u d e n t teacher Meghan Silvia said, Im actually doing some
student teaching. I have been working as an interpreter, so its a
differ-ent role.
Junior Molly Doris-Pierce is looking forward to being a junior
and finding what truly inspires me and what I really want to
be.
Students also said they are looking forward to experiences
new c lasses will bring.
Senior Em-ily Lemieux is looking for-ward to all the field trips
her classes are tak-ing.
Junior Han-nah Herrlich s a i d s h e i s looking for-ward to
being
introduced to new books in Eng-lish class.
Sophomore Arthur Moss-Hawkins said, Im looking for-ward to
having new teachers. Its just nice for a change. REBECCA HARRIS
CONTRIBUTED TO THIS STORY.
Shira Bleicher
In bloom: Flowers outside the building are in full blossom in
the last days of summer.
Still summer
den graduated from Rice Uni-versity in 1954 with a major in
English before receiving her masters degree in the teaching of
English in 1955 there.
Starting in 1962, Borden taught here for two years and then
moved on to teach at Middletown High School in Connecticut from
1964 to 1966. She came back to
Newton High in the 1966-1967 school year and taught here until
her retirement.
Commenting on Bordens love of learning, former English teacher
Sheila Zolli said, she lives the idea that learning is forever. She
truly believes that she is a student forever.
In 1973, Borden went with her husband to Liberia, where she
studied the connections between the folk tales of Liberia and the
folk tales she grew up with in the South.
Lori Borden taught English,advised speech team, Newtonite
le photo
Lori Borden
in memoriam
Newtonian
Monica Reuman
Newtonian
Leanne Precopio
Newtonian
Tim Finnegan
Newtonian
Hannah Herrlich
Students, teachersshare thoughts
on new yearmass
interview
Peer tutoring is a good choiceRecently, narrowing the
achievement gap has been one of this schools top
pri-orities.
After a proposal passed by the Student Faculty Adminis-tration
last year, juniors and second semester sophomores with grades below
a C- do not have open campus privi-leges.
The school has a clear focus on improving the academic
performance of all students. And now, with a new peer tutoring
program, upperclass-men can get involved.
Juniors and seniors can volunteer two blocks a week to tutor a
freshman or sopho-more who is struggling aca-demically.
This is a great step in the efforts to increase overall academic
performance in the school.
Its not only a good oppor-tunity for those being tutored, but
for the upperclassman who tutor.
Everyone can remember a time when they needed aca-demic
help.
This new program is a great opportunity to give back and to help
someone who really needs it, but it can only work if upperclassmen
are willing to step up.
This program will be a good
support system to have in the school for years to come.
Not only does this program have the potential to provide support
for students in their schoolwork, but also, pair-ing students in a
one-to-one environment can provide a freshman or sophomore with a
good upperclassman role model.
The administration is mak-ing great strides in improving the
school. However, students need to get involved as well.
Helping a struggling stu-dent can be a very rewarding
experience. If you have some extra time during the school day,
consider signing up to be a peer tutor. Someone could really use
your help.
editorial
Just think about it...Mayoral candidates Setti
Warren and Ruth Balser will have their rst debate as nal-ists in
the mayoral race here.
The Political Forum Club is hosting the debate in the Film
Lecture Hall next Wednesday
at 6 p.m., according to history teacher Jim Morrison, the
adviser.
History teacher Brian Go-eselt will be the faculty pan-elist,
and members of the Political Forum Club will form
a student panel. Junior Peter Wu will be the moderator.
The debate is open to the public. Its a great opportu-nities to
hear the candidates speak about their views and get involved.
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newsFriday, Sept. 18, 2009 Newton North, Newtonite 3
Who: Sherley BloodWhat: Latin TeacherBackground: Earned a
masters
in technology from Marlboro College in 2005 and a masters in
Latin and classi-cal humanities from UMass Amherst in 2007. Most
recently, she taught Latin at Groton-Dunstable Regional High School
from 2007 to 2009.
Excited about: The kids, teachers, and everyone at Newton North
are great. It is an honor to succeed Bob Mitchell.
Who: Jerry EtienneWhat: Guidance Counselor Background: Earned a
masters
in education from Cambridge Col-lege in 2007. He then worked at
Boston Latin High School as a guidance coun-selor from 2007 to
2009.
Looking forward to: I am looking forward to getting acclimated
as soon as possible, as well as building lasting relationships with
students and fellow faculty members.
Who: Emily HartzWhat: History TeacherBackground: Earned a
bachelors in
history from Smith College in 2007. Taught World His-tory at
Hopedale Junior-Senior High School from 2007 to 2009.
Looking forward to...: I hope to get involved with the travel
programs here. I think its pretty unique that students get to go to
China and other places around the world.
Who: Sarah HoffmanWhat: Guidance Counselor Background: Earned a
masters in
education from Harvard Universitys Graduate School of Education
in 1990. She worked as an assistant director of admissions at Smith
College and then as a college counselor at Northeld Mount Hermon
School until 2009.
Excited about: Finding out what matters most to stu-dents and
helping with the compli-cated application process.
Who: Andrea McClellan What: Pilot TeacherBackground: Attended
College of
Wooster in Ohio and Lesley University of Education before
be-ginning work as an English teacher at Dearborn Academy from 2006
to 2009.
Excited about...: Im excited about meeting new peo-ple and
getting the full experience of a working at a public school.
Who: Laura RiceWhat: Director of Pilot ProgramBackground: Earned
a bachelors
and masters from Bos ton Co l lege . Most recently, she worked
at Dearborn Academy in Arling-ton as the director of the Step
program.
Excited about: Ive been lucky to work with the Pi-lot team. They
care about the kids.
Who: Andrea ShurtleffWhat: Drafting TeacherBackground: Graduated
from this
school in 1991 and earned a bachelors in architecture from
Boston Architecture College in 2000. She worked as a senior
associate in a resi-dential design ofce for 12 years until
2009.
Looking forward to: Having never worked with kids before, Im
looking forward to my first teaching experience.
Gaby Perez-Dietz
Sherley Blood
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Jerry Etienne
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Emily Hartz
family photo
Sarah Hoffman
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Andrea McClellan
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Andrea Shurtleff
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Laura Rice
New faculty membersin the building
BY ELI DAVIDOW
To commemorate the life of Ucal McKenzie, the first annual
McKenzie Friendly at Warren Field honored the late counselor and
coach by playing the game that he loved so much: soccer.
I think this is great, his wife Suzanne McKenzie said. Weve got
the whole community to gather together. It really speaks about how
much the community cares about Ucal.
Its the most appropriate way to honor him.
The event was sponsored by the new Ucal McKenzie Break-away
Foundation, which will run soccer clinics for ages 8-18.
These clinics will have fit-ness incorporated into them too,
McKenzie said. The clinics will encompass all the points that Ucal
wanted to make.
At the event, four scrimmages were played: the girls varsity
team against current faculty and alumni, the boys varsity team
against Cambridge Rindge and Latin, the boys junior varsity team
against Cambridge Rindge and Latin and two club teams, Newton BAYS
U10 against Valeo FC Blast U11.
McKenzie used to coach the Valeo FC Blast U11 team along with
coaching the boys varsity soccer team.
After the scrimmage between the girls varsity team and current
faculty and alumni, four speakers talked about their unbreakable
connection with Ucal.
James Nelson, the athletic director at Ucals alma mater Suffolk
University, said that Ucal
had the voice of all the young people.
His voice was the voice that brought pride to the sport of
soccer, his family and himself, he said.
Next Phil Song 08, a captain from Ucals 2007 team, said that
Ucals stress on doing everything the right way will remain with him
into the future.
Ucal always pushed us our hardest, he said. He always emphasized
professionalism, and that will stay with me forever.
His legacy will live on, it will live on in the way we practice,
live on in the way we do everything in life.
After Song, New England Revolution Vice President Craig Tornberg
presented Ucals jersey to his family. The Ucal McKenzie Breakaway
Foundation has re-tired his number eight.
Senior Ryan Vona ended the program with beautiful
interpre-tations of the United States na-tional anthem and the
Jamaican national anthem.
Soccer gamehonors late counselor, coach
Teddy Wenneker
Retiring the number: New England Revolution vice president Craig
Tornberg presents Suzanne McKenzie, wife of the late Ucal McKenzie,
with his retired jersey at the Breakaway Foundations soccer event
Sept. 3.
BY MARENA COLE, JAY KRIEGER AND OLIVIA STEARNS
Ucal always pushed us our
hardest. He al-ways emphasized professionalism, and that will
stay with me forever.-Phil Song 08
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arts4 Newtonite, Newton North Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
Wonder of the World engages audience
BY ELIANA ESKINAZI An active cast and delightful
characterizations made Wonder of the World refreshingly
whim-sical and thought-provoking.
Under the direction of Molly Goodman, South 06, the play went up
July 10 through July 18 in Souths Lab Theatre with an eight-person
cast.
The play begins in Park Slope, New York, with a woman named Cass
packing her bags to leave Kip, her husband of seven years. Upon
looking through Kips sweater drawer, Cass has discov-ered a
terrifying secret, and she leaves digusted because he has not lived
up to her expectations.
Nathan Wainwright 09 played Kips needy and awkward char-acter
exquisitely. He knows his secret is outrageous and under-stands why
Cass would want to leave, but he will let nothing get in the way of
their happy mar-riage.
Played by junior Mercer Gary, the spirited and chatty Cass
promises herself that she will complete a lengthy list of tasks
during her journey. Her goals in-clude making conversation with
strangers, driving cross-country, learning Swedish and nding her
soulmate.
On a bus heading towards Niagara Falls, she strikes up a
conversation with Lois, a suicidal alcoholic who was abandoned by
her husband. The audience burst into laughter when Cass began
rambling to Lois and talking rapidly out of her anger.
Played by South senior Al-exandra Lewis, Lois is traveling to
Niagara Falls with a barrel in which she plans to jump the
falls. As she and Cass become best friends, Cass makes it her
rst priority to prevent Lois from jumping.
Upon their arrival at Niagara Falls, Cass and Lois board a
sightseeing boat, the Maid of the Mist. It is here that Cass meets
Captain Mike, whose wife died when a peanut butter jar fell on her.
Max Pava, South 09, por-trayed Captain Mike as a lively and
charming fellow.
Soon, Cass and Captain Mike begin to have an affair, and Cass
strongly believes that he is her soulmate.
Adding to the absurdity, Cass then comes across Glen and Karla,
an energetic and bubbly couple, only to nd out that they are
actually private detectives whom Kip hired to nd her.
Senior Joella Tepper played Karla and South junior Max Grossman
played Glen; together, they portrayed a bickering dy-namic duo that
amused the audi-ence with their spontaneity and eccentricity. The
two ght all the time and call each other crazy, yet they remain
true to one another.
The journey culminates when a marriage counselor suggests all
the characters play the New-lywed Game in a group therapy
session.
South senior Hannah Furgang played the marriage counselor,
taking the stage as she coaxed the rest of the characters to pour
out their life stories.
Impressively, South junior Ellie Crowley played four
char-acters: three servers at themed
restaurants and a helicopter pilot, giving each one a distinct
personality.
As the characters nish their stories, the audience realizes that
these people are all linked in ways they will never fully
un-derstand.
Although simple, the set and costumes were effective in
allow-ing the audience to concentrate
more on each character. Senior Meital Sandbank de-
signed a set that changed be-tween a wooden bedrepresent-ing
Cass and Kips homeand the sightseeing boat.
Costumes by Liz Fitzpatrick, a professional costumer, added to
each characters personality. For instance, Lois wore plaid, baggy
clothes, showing her laidback na-
ture, while Karla and Glen wore extreme outts full of colors and
patterns, displaying their wild and friendly attitudes.
A witty and charming show about lifes ever-changing nature and
its transitions, Wonder of the World brought across the idea that
the most meaningful experiences often come unex-pectedly.
courtesy Gaul Porat
Stranded: Playing Lois, South senior Alexandra Lewis attempts to
jump Niagara Falls in a barrel with junior Mercer Gary, playing
Cass, towards the end of Wonder of the World.
BY KATE LEWISWith off-the-wall comedy, a
dark, convoluted story line, and chilling scenes, Bat Boy: The
Musical was a hit.
Under the direction of actor, director and theatre educator
Jessica McGettrick, the produc-tion showed at Souths Seasholes
Auditorium July 11, 12, 18 and 19, with book and lyrics by Keythe
Farley and Brian Flemming, and music by Laurence OKeefe.
The musical begins in Hope Falls, West Virginia, when a
half-human, half-bat creature attacks siblings Rick, Ron and Ruthie
Taylor, portrayed respectively by Alex Caron, South 09, sopho-more
Jon Paul Roby and junior Linda Bard. Ruthie becomes hospitalized,
and the people of Hope Falls are outraged.
Hoping to destroy this crea-ture, the sheriff brings him to the
town veterinarian, Dr. Parker. Junior Skylar Fox portrayed Dr.
Parker as a corrupt, villainous man who wants to please his
society.
Dr. Parkers wife Meredith, played by junior Kelly McIntyre, was
a firm but loving mother gure. The two also have a teen-age
daughter named Shelley, presented by sophomore Emily Paley. Shelley
is at rst obedient but becomes rebellious later on.
Junior Edan Laniado played the bat boy. Despite Shelleys hatred
of him, Meredith imme-diately takes a maternal liking to the boy
and christens him with the name Edgar. She promises
to give Edgar a loving home in the song A Home for You, and as
Edgar responds, his animal-istic howls harmonized with McIntyres
sweet voice.
Meredith then tries to teach Edgar how to talk and behave like a
normal human. Laniado did a remarkable job conveying Edgars
evolution from a repul-sive, uncivilized animal to an almost
human-like being. But even as Edgar slowly starts to look and talk
more like a boy, he still cant get rid of his love for drinking
blood.
Meanwhile, Ruthie recovers, and the townsfolk urge Dr. Parker to
send Edgar away.
Fox delivered an excellent portrayal of Dr. Parkers internal
struggle, with a quiet intensity while debating whether or not to
kill Edgar and lose Merediths love.
At home, Shelley has nally warmed up to Edgar, who now stands
straight and speaks in coherent sentences. The two fall in love,
and Shelley admits this to her mother. Meredith is violently
opposed to this, declaring a re-lationship between Shelley and
Edgar not right and hideous.
Shelley runs away to meet Edgar in the woods, where they share a
romantic moment in a whole-cast dance sequence Chil-dren, Children,
which collected laughs and culminated in a Bac-chanalian
festival.
When Meredith enters and interrupts this rendezvous, Edgar
attacks her. Screaming, Meredith finally reveals that she is his
mother.
Edgar learns that Dr. Parker had raped Meredith, his
then-fiance, after he accidentally spilled chemicals on himself.
Soon after, a swarm of bats at-tacked Meredith, leading to the
birth of twins: human Shelley and mutant Edgar. Although she
demanded that Dr. Parker destroy Edgar, Dr. Parker couldnt do it
and instead abandoned the bat boy in a cave.
The minimal set, designed by Gaul Porat, South 09, included
stalagmites evoking Edgar s original cave home, movable furniture
for scenes in the Park-ers home, and a large cave in which Edgar
lived for the rst few scenes.
With direction by Sabrina Learman, a professional singer, the
music added a dark feel to the play.
Costumes by Liz Fitzpatrick, a professional costumer,
demon-strated Edgars evolution from an uncivilized cave creature,
wear-ing tattered shorts and a dirty T-shirt, to a member of
society in a dress shirt, slacks and a bow tie. The citizens of
Hope Falls wore clothes from the 1950s in earth tones.
A truly spectacular show, Bat Boy: The Musical showcased the
students hard work through its impressive array of scary mo-ments,
funny scenes and enjoy-able numbers.
courtesy Gaul Porat
In public: As Edgar, junior Edan Laniado belts out in front of
the townsfolk, singing about his evolution to a civilized boy.
Students perform in humorous, chilling musical
review
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Production combineswit, charm and message
Cast members bring life to dark, twisted story line
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arts Newton North, Newtonite 5Friday, Sept. 18, 2009
BY MARENA COLE Moving the audience with its
emotion and depth, Rabbit Hole depicted a sad struggle between
loss and acceptance.
David Lindsay-Abaires play went up under the direction of Adam
McLean, a freelance direc-tor and ght choreographer, July 9, 11, 17
and 19 in Souths Lab Theatre.
Rabbit Hole tells the story of Howie and Becca, a young couple
who lose their son in an accident and struggle as they cope with
the loss.
The play opens with two sis-ters, Becca and Izzy. Ruthie
Bolotin, South 09, played Izzy as talkative, animated and
ener-getic, contrasting to an uncertain, conservative and conicted
por-trayal of Becca by Anya Whelan-Smith, South 09.
Their distinct personalities provided an interesting
dynam-icIzzys vitality served as a counter to Beccas hesitancy, and
having this difference gave the show more energy.
When Izzy reveals that she is pregnant, Becca is initially
shocked, but then sifts through a box of baby clothes and toys to
see what she can give to Izzy.
At this, Izzy is uneasy, saying it would be weird to see her
child in Beccas son Dannys old clothes. Izzys reaction and stories
about interactions with friends clue in the audience about Dannys
death.
The audience soon nds out that Danny had died in a car
crash eight months prior, and that Becca and her husband Howie
still suffer from its reper-cussions.
Playing Howie, Noble and Greenough senior Edwin To was
methodical, clearheaded and in-telligent. Still, the accident
affects him, as well as his relationship with Becca. Arguments
occur frequently between the two, as Howie is tense and often
con-frontational, and because such a recent accident remains very
painful, it is clearly difcult for them to discuss their son.
Howie thinks Becca should go to therapy to talk over her issues,
but Becca argues that it would be most helpful if the couple sold
their house; she feels haunted by the memories of her son.
At a birthday party for Izzy, tensions rise between Becca,
Howie, Izzy and Nat, Beccas and Izzys mother.
South junior Tanya Lyon played Nat as matronly in her attempts
to comfort Becca and support Izzy simultaneously.
In an effort to help, Nat draws a comparison between Dannys
death and the loss of her son, Arthur, who committed suicide at 30.
But this only leads to Beccas irritation, and as the conflicts
escalate, all four characters be-come upset.
The audience also discovers that Becca and Howie have been
receiving letters from Jason, a high school senior who confesses
that he was the driver in the ac-cident.
South junior Harry Neff por-trayed Jason as uneasy and
re-morseful. He struggles to nd the right course of action in
dealing with his own guilt, even though Becca and Howie tell him
that they dont blame him.
Eventually, Jason and Becca sit together and talk, relieving the
tension on both sides. They discuss a story Jason wrote, in which
rabbit holes in space lead to parallel universes.
In these parallel universes, Jason says, the same people can
lead completely different lives. Hearing this, Becca jokes that its
comforting to think that somewhere, shes having a good time.
Adding a sense of realism to the play, costumes by Liz
Fitz-patrick, a professional costumer, clearly reected each
characters personality with Becca and Howie in clean-cut
button-down shirts and Izzy in eclectic pat-terns. This allowed the
audience to see their personalities from the outside.
Sets by South senior Meital Sandbank consisted of simple
household items, including ta-bles, chairs and a television,
arranging the scene for what at rst appears to be a typical home.
This straightforwardness created an empty feeling, which added to
the sentiment.
Rabbit Hole, through an emotional portrayal of a family in
conict, left the audience with the message that you must accept
loss before you move on.
BY ALICIA ZHAOThe Producers brought to
life the world of Broadway with its robust combination of witty
humor, vivacious characters and jazzy music.
With book by Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan and music by Brooks,
the musical showed July 30 through Aug. 1 in Souths Seasholes
Auditorium under the direction of Nancy Curran Willis, a freelance
director.
The story begins with Max Bialystock, a Broadway producer. The
citizens have just deemed his latest production as the worst show
in town, and as he remi-nisces about his better days in The King of
Old Broadway, a tragic and nostalgic piece, he is determined to
seek revenge and regain his fame.
When Maxs accountant Leo Bloom comes to work, he helps Max
realize that a producer could make more money with a op than with a
hit. Thus begins Maxs new plan.
When Max asks him to co-produce the new show, Leo is at rst
hesitant. He is conicted between his two paths: he wants to follow
his dream of becoming a producer, yet he isnt sure if he should let
go of accounting.
After much persuasion, how-ever, Leo gives in and together, the
two pick out the worst play ever written: Springtime for
Hitler.
Communicating Maxs ambi-tion and guile, Max Pava, South 09, was
persuasive and schem-ing.
Nate Richardson 09 played Leo as pure, sincere and pas-sionate.
The two brought great
contrast to the show, and audi-ence members watched on as the
two became best friends despite their differences.
In order to gain rights to the play, Leo and Max visit its
writer, an ex-Nazi storm trooper named Franz Liebkind. Isaiah
Plovnick,
Brookline 09, portrayed Franz as a fervent yet oblivious admirer
of Hitler.
With his spirited dances and jumpy personality, Franz gained
many laughs from the audience.
To make certain that the show is a op, Leo and Max meet with
Roger De Bris, the worst director in the business.
Roger, played by junior Skylar Fox, was amboyant and
hysteri-cal. In a musical number called Keep it Gay, he strutted
across the stage in a dress while hues of pink light ashed over
him,
his equally showy assistants ac-companying.
Now, with the worst play and the worst director, Leo and Max
need actors. When Ula, a Swed-ish actress, auditions for a part,
the two decide to hire her as a secretary.
Wellesley senior Madeline Buckley presented Ula as a sweet,
showy foreigner who cannot speak much English. She audi-tions with
When Youve Got It, Flaunt It, a song that starts out quiet and
mellow, then becomes stronger with uid dance move-ments, telling
the audience not to be modest.
After Leo and Max have deter-mined the cast, everything is set
for having the worst show ever. However, when the play turns out to
be a hit, Max and Leo end up in jail for investment fraud.
Costumes by Liz Fitzpatrick, a professional costumer, reected
the Broadway theme, with Max and Leo in black tuxedoes with top
hats and Ula dressed like a showgirl.
South Stage technical director Joe Grassia created a set that
ef-fectively conveyed each location, showing the many places that
Max and Leo visit. For instance, Maxs ofce included a couch and a
desk while Franzs building had a pigeon cage complex.
With Sabrina Learman, a pro-fessional singer, directing the
mu-sic and Maia Kipman, South 07, arranging the choreography, the
musical numbers set the mood and communicated the charac-ters
thoughts and conicts.
At the end, having thoroughly enjoyed this lively, hilarious
production, audience members gave The Producers a standing
ovation.
courtesy Joella Tepper
Celebration: Cast members break into dance on opening night of
Springtime for Hitler as junior Skylar Fox, playing Roger De Bris,
performs the role of Hitler.
courtesy Jeff Knoedler
Confrontation: As Jason, South junior Harry Neff talks about
rabbit holes with Anya Whelan-Smith, South 09, as Becca.
The Producers introduces the world of Broadway
Rabbit Hole a poignant, touching playDrama moves audience with
emotion
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BY MATT KALISHNewton Central High is debut-
ing as an alternative high school for students with educational
issues looking to nd a better t, said Special Education depart-ment
head and administrator of Newton Central Walter Lyons.
For years we have had to send students out of the city to a
school where they can work bet-ter, but we felt like we could do a
better job here and save money, he said.
We have some excellent teach-ers that will teach 14-16 students
from both here and South.
Students will be able to go back and forth between their
original school and Central for classes that cannot be offered
there, such as a world language class or a class in the Career and
Tech Ed department, Lyons said.
For some students, there are just too many distractions here and
the size is too big, he said. Central provides a much better
environment for these kids.
The new school is located in the annex building of the Newton
Community Education center and has recently been renovated.
Not only does this save us money, but it makes it much easier on
the students because they dont have to worry about traveling a far
distance to get to school each day, Lyons said.
The school will likely stay the same size for the near future,
but it may grow in a few years.
Well see how the program goes, and we might accept tuition
students from out of district, he said.
Susan Rosenzweig, former special education department head, will
work here part time to ll in for Lyons.
Biodiesel class recycles grease into fuelQ&A with English
teacher Steven Chinosi, founder of the Greengineering program
Matt Kalish
Problem solving: English teacher Steven Chinosi and senior Alex
Feinberg talk over a proposition in moving the grease from one
source to another.
Matt Kalish
Exploration: Senior Olivia Margolin and junior Nathaniel Sweet
collaborate on a project.
Matt Kalish
Brainstorming: Junior Dan Foreman and senior Sam Shames work on
the logo.
BY EMILY AMAROAmaro: What is the new
biodiesel program offered at Newton North?
Chinosi: What weve done over the last two years is essen-tially
create this biodiesel pro-gram, which takes the cafeteria grease
from North and South and turns it into burnable fuel. We can burn
it in any diesel engine and in any oil-heating furnace. You can
heat your home with it or drive your car. I drive my car with
recycled grease.
Amaro: How do you collect the grease from the cafeteria?
Chinosi: We literally walk over and grab it. They put it in a
5-gallon bucket for us and we grab it.
Amaro: Its just from cook-ing?
Chinosi: Yes. Its from the French fries we eat here
Amaro: you collect the grease
Chinosi: and we turn the grease into fuel.
Amaro: How much have you collected so far?
Chinosi: Our rough numbers are, between the two schools, maybe
about 150 gallons a year.
Amaro: How far would 150 gallons of fuel power the average
diesel engine car?
Chinosi: With 15 gallons in my Jetta Volkswagen, I can drive 600
miles. When I make it from my own sources, separate from the
school, it costs about a dollar to make. I only pay a dollar for my
gallon of gas, instead of $2.70 or more.
Amaro: What is the class called?
Chinosi: The program is called Greengineering. So this year is
biodiesel, and each year were going to add a new course. Well have
solar and wind, and geother-mal, and hydroelectricity; well look at
all alternative energy as the bigger picture, and all of the
components for that.
Amaro: Where is the class held?
Chinosi: For this year the old electrical shop is now the
Green-gineering shop. In the new build-ing, there is a
Greengineering lab, so thats pretty exciting. We do our chemistry
work right here in our kind of makeshift lab.
Amaro: How long is the pro-cess of turning grease into usable
fuel?
Chinosi: The whole process with the machines we use is about 24
hours. We can turn 40 gallons of grease into burnable fuel in 24
hours.
Amaro: What is the course description for the class?
Chinosi: The idea is that were
setting up the whole thing as a corporation. You know,
theoreti-cal and real. Like the Tigers Loft is a viable business,
right?
Amaro: Right, they make money and sell food
Chinosi: Yes, right, well our job, hopefully, if we do it
right,
will be to create a corporation for Tiger fuel. We have a raw
product, a manufacturing process, and we have customers. And there
are
teachers, including myself, who drive diesel, and well be the
rst customers. There are also plans to put it in a snowplow, one of
the big trucks in the city, or use some of it to offset the heating
oil. Now, we dont have access to enough to make a real dent
commercially now. So we have only 150 gallonsWell, a few cars using
the fuel we have now for a year is all we can provide. So we dont
have the raw material yet to make more.
Amaro: But its the start. And youre teaching students how to
actually go through the process.
Chinosi: Yes, its the begin-ning. I wrote a grant for the Newton
Schools Foundation; they were phenomenal. They gave us a lot of
money, and that really got us to that place where I could use the
two years, I could buy some stuff, really experiment, bring other
teachers in to help. We had a whole team of people involved, and
everyone could slowly get a handle on, What does this really mean?
How will it work with the students? Its really just broken down to
a big vision: the curriculum, schools who are already doing similar
things, and the technical information.
Amaro: What are some com-ponents offered to students?
Chinosi: Right now its just a four-block class, under the guides
of Career and Tech Ed. The cool thing about it is that it is unlike
any other course, in the sense that weve taken out the specic
content. This is not a chemistry class, this isnt an engineer-ing
class, this isnt a hands-on electrical class, its all of those
things. Its also economics, en-trepreneurshipwere setting it up as
a company. This team is the board of executives; we have to learn
every aspect. In the class, students natural inclinations guide
them.
Amaro: So in a sense it offers a real world aspect, it gives you
everything. Students who may not necessarily be talented in science
class can come anyway; maybe theyre interested in math-ematics, or
customer service, or just helping the planet.
Chinosi: Yes, in the rst few days we heard a lot of people with
very different reasons, Im here for an environmental reason; Im
here because I want to work with machines; Im here because I like
chemistry; Im here for econom-ics. Its all here. Its going to be an
issues class, where we focus on this one issue, a notion of en-ergy
in the fuel form, and expand later. I believe that high school kids
are more prepared and more ready than we ever thought.
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Hope still lives in Zambiaamongst poverty, adversity
BY ANDY TSANG
Over the summer I trav-eled with my family to four countries in
Asia: Japan, Korea, Thailand and Hong Kong.
We stayed in Japan for two days, but not many people spoke
English, so it was dif cult to com-municate. This was especially
true when ordering in restaurants because the menus were only in
Japanese.
We also took the subway to see Tokyos oldest temple,
Sensoji.
Next, we traveled to Seoul, Korea and Phuket, Thailand. I
learned a lot about Korean and Thai culture. In Thailand, we
vis-ited James Bond Island where the movie The Man with the Golden
Gun was lmed.
On the first day we were in Korea, we went to an unusual spa.
People would go to this spa to relax and sleep. There were certain
rules that you had to follow.
First, you couldnt wear shoes in the building, and then they
would make you change into these clothes that everyone had to wear.
People would go to these rooms and just sleep on the oor with
everyone else.
The rooms were really humid, and there was also a steam room
and another room that was really cold. People would nd a spot on
the oor and just go to sleep.
I actually didnt do anything at this spa, because I thought it
was too awkward to just go to sleep on the oor and have other
people watch you sleep.
The nal place I visited was Hong Kongmy favorite part of the
entire trip. We climbed 268 steps to reach the Big Buddha on Lantau
Island.
Unfortunately, it was humid every day, and sometimes I had to
stay in the hotel just to avoid the weather.
But what made Hong Kong special was that I saw a lot of family
friends and the food was amazing.
In Hong Kong, my family and I went to an ocean park. There were
many roller coasters and a water park.
I got the chance to see a panda there, which was pretty
exciting.
There were two sections of the ocean park, so we had to take a
cable car to the second section. It was a great view when we
reached the top of the mountains. The ocean park was actually
really fun and I had a great time.
This vacation was fun, and I hope to go back to Hong Kong.
BY ROSIE MCINNES
Apprehension knotted in my stomach as we bumped down the dirt
road towards the Fountain of Hope. The way was familiar the second
time, and I could see the barefoot kids in torn dusty cutoff shorts
and dirty T-shirts out the window.
The van slowed to a stop outside of a brightly painted
cinderblock wall, and I knew we had arrived. It still felt strange
to have every pair of eyes turn from shooting a basket or kicking a
ball to stare at us.
As our group prepared to get out and start the interviews, I saw
three kids from the window; huge smiles lit their faces and they
waved at us in excitement. I felt ready to take a chance and try
something new.
We were there with the Com-munities Without Borders program to
conduct interviews with street teens who lived at the Fountain of
Hope, a library with dorms and classrooms for street kids and
vulnerable children.
After visiting the library the previous week, our group thought
it would be interesting to interview and talk with some of the
street kids our own age. We wanted to get to know someone who lived
in such drastically different conditions than we had ever
experienced.
Our peer translator and I were going to interview a boy named
Fred. When we met, I noticed nothing extraordinary about him. He
was 17, he told us, and a little taller than me. He walked with a
slouch, his face unsmiling, but not unfriendly.
His large, brown eyes were his most noticeable feature. Sitting
in a stone-floored classroom at a wooden desk, Fred told us his
story.
Fred told us his mom died when he was so young he didnt
remem-ber. He lived with his grandmother for a while, and then went
to live with his aunt and uncle.
This was a tough time, he told us, because his aunt would
beat
him and take the money a charity had given him. He said he liked
his uncle okay, but he didnt really help him at all.
After a few years of the abuse, Fred moved out and onto the
streets. His description of the three years he lived on the streets
was truly heartbreaking. He told us he slept in a cardboard box
every night with sacks for blankets. He would eat garbageif he ate
any-thing at all.
He said you had to be careful when you were sleeping because it
was common for the older street kids to set plastic on re and put
it on your skin. He had the scars to prove it.
He pushed up his sleeve to show us the scarand that did it for
me. I was lled with despair and sad-ness for this boy sitting two
feet away from me, who had already suffered more than I will in my
whole life.
However, Fred seemed unfazed telling us the horrors of his life;
he calmly described all his experi-ences as if he were talking
about a T.V. show hed seen. He twisted a blue bandana around his
hand the whole time, twisting it in dif-ferent ways.
Slowly, Fred opened up to us more. He told us how he really
wants to go to school, and when he sees other kids his age going to
school he feels sad and jealous. He said he prays to God every day,
with hope in his heart.
What was really beautiful about Fred was his art. He told us he
paints and makes mosaics and sculptures. He said his experiences
have in uenced his art and that he has even sold some pieces.
He began to talk more anima-tedly when discussing his art.
Without realizing it, he picked up my pen and began drawing little
things on the paper or his hand.
He wants to be an artist, he told us. He said he thanks God
every day for bringing him off the street and giving him the
ability to
make his art. Thats when I real-izedFred is an artist
already.
It just hurt my heart to see Fred, a kid who is basically my
age, a kid who has lived such an incredibly dif cult life, yet nds
joy, hope and strength doing what he loves.
He laughed and smiled more towards the end of the interview as
he grew more comfortable, and he took a picture with us.
Afterwards, it all began to weigh on me, the whole Zambia
experience. I wrote in my journal that night:
There is so little these people have, and so much that I have,
and I feel like what we do is so insigni cant. There are so many
people in the United States who have absolutely no idea what these
people go through every day, and that I cannot continue to do
that.
I would give every child at Fountain of Hope a home in my house
if I could. It seems every-thing in my life is so sel sh now.
But I am trying to still feel hope because that is all these
kids have to live on. When they have no home, food or family, they
can still have hope, and thats why we are here, to give them that
hope.
Now that Im home, I want to tell everyone I can about Fred, and
about all the Zambians we met. I want to tell them about all the
children, with their enormous smiles and excitement to learn and
talk to us. I want to tell them how awful some people have it there
so that maybe they will tell someone else about it, who will tell
someone else.
I now realize that a really im-portant job we did in Zambia was
bearing witness. Witness to Fred, and his story, and the many other
stories we were told. Then we can come home and tell their stories,
and raise awareness so that more aid can be given.
Maybe Fred, or a kid like Fred, can be an artist if he wants to,
and does not have to live on the street. By telling their stories,
we can give Fred and others like him hope.
Around the world
courtesy Andy Tsang
In Japan: Senior Andy Tsang visits the Sensoji Temple.
courtesy Rosie McInnes
At the Fountain of Hope: Juniors Rosie McInnes (far left) and
Mackenzie Hollister (far right) are in Zambia with their translator
and their new friend, Fred.
Exploring the variety of cultures in Asia
Students learn in summer travels
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Friday, Sept. 18, 2009 Newton North, Newtonite 9
Hope still lives in Zambiaamongst poverty, adversity
BY PRATEEK ALLAPUR
The plane took off at 5 that Tuesday evening and 24 hours later
I was in India, hugging my grandparents.
This summer was to be the greatest fun Id had in a long time. I
visited all of my family across In-dia, traveling sometimes for
hours together in a car to reach the next destination.
However, we not only visited family members, we also were able
to complete some extensive sightseeing on a 10-day trip that we
took across southern and western India. We managed to see Hampi, a
UNESCO World Heritage Site that contains a magnificent set of
structures including over 200 temples and sites of worship.
Meeting my family, vacationing at the beach, and even
sightseeing were great parts of my trip, but the most fullling
aspect of my jour-ney to India was volunteering for CARE
International, a non-prot organization based in Atlanta.
I met the head of operations in Andhra Pradesh, the state I was
living in, and she connected me with her eld workers. The project I
worked on was a micro-credit assignment that the State Bank of
India, the World Bank, and the Greater Hyderabad Municipal
Corporation were funding. The goal of the project was to create at
least 1,000 self-help groups (SHGs) per month for women from urban
slums.
I went to these slums three times a week, and I helped the eld
coordinators present money-sav-ing strategies to the women who
lived there.
I helped the eld coordinators as they put on presentations at
com-munity centers to try to convince
BY ELI DAVIDOW
Some say that after history is done, history is classi-ed as
lost. So, I guess that statement turned
out to be wrong. This summer I spent two weeks
deep in the remnants of history, ranging from the times of the
Middle Ages to the Cold War.
History is indeed alive. History is preserved on the left-over
slabs of the Berlin Wall. Silent screams for a democratic
government were painted over the expressionless grey walls. Bright
and energetic colors demonstrated to the Com-munist regime that the
people welcomed Western democracy and freedoms.
I was among 38 students from four different schools who traveled
to three major Central European cities: Krakow, Poland; Prague,
Czech Republic; and Berlin, Ger-many.
Run by the Newton Summer School program, the Prague Summer
program brought stu-dents from Newton North, New-ton South, Dexter
and Rolling Hills Prep, a Californian private school.
Prague Summer began in 1990 when history teacher Ty Vig-none led
a group to tear down the Berlin Wall.
We visited the cities from June 28 through July 14.
Between seeing Auschwitz-Birkenau, arguably the largest
concentration camp during the Holocaust, and Checkpoint
Char-lie, the crossing point between East and West Berlin, history
undeni-ably has been preserved for the future.
Our rst stop was in the stun-ning Krakow, which was the
origi-nal capital of Poland.
It houses the biggest public square in all of Europe, full of
tasty kebab shops and inexpensive ice cream cones. An advantage was
that Poland had not switched to the euro yet, so everything was
cheaper.
During the Middle Ages, Kra-kow was the center for Polands
economic boom, primarily cen-tered around its abundant amount of
salt. Actually, we visited a salt mine that goes almost a mile
un-derground, where we licked the walls made up of salt. Later, the
country bowed to Nazism.
The largest of all the concentra-tion camps set up by the Nazis
was in a small industrial town called Auschwitzonly a 45-minute
drive from Krakow.
More than one million people died at Auschwitz. The barracks
still stand, but the surrounding land looked rather tranquil; the
sunshine looked beautiful on the verdant grass.
It seemed unfathomable to me that the greatest atrocities in
human history occurred on this soil. Here, seeing the grounds was
believing history.
Before visiting a place like Aus-chwitz, the Holocaust is just
an idea. Then, it becomes real.
The next city we traveled to was Prague, lled with nuggets of
historical treasure.
This Czech city had pristine looks and timeless architecture,
including the astronomical clock and the gothic Tyn Church.
Much like Krakow, Prague was another jewel taken up by Hitler
during World War II.
Eventually the Communists claimed the city after the Second
World War in 1945.
Because of the various styles of architecture showcased in the
city, Prague is like stepping into a world of other worlds.
On one block there might be an ornamental, overly-decorated
baroque church presented by the Communists to undermine reli-gion,
while down the street stood modern architecture, like Frank Gehrys
Dancing House.
Because of the variety of build-ings still around Prague, it was
a unique way to view the past.
The last city on our tour, Berlin, felt like a modern city with
spec-tacular squares tucked away, like the Sony Center. Similar to
New York, it had sausage stands on almost every street corner.
Yet, the Berlin Wall reminded us that history was here and
alive.
The trip proved to me that the sites of history remain and
educate us far into the future.
BY MOLLY KAUFMAN
Like any other Newton North student, initially I was melancholy
about summer coming to an end.
Its always hard to enjoy the final throes of those warm months,
know-ing that the days of stretching out on a hammock, swimming at
the beach and go-ing barefoot are numbered.
H o w e v e r , there is a certain air of excite-ment in
returning to school and seeing everyone again. Not only
does seeing fellow classmates and friends keep you distracted
from the inevitable stress of starting new classes, but you are
also given an opportunity to ll someone in on how you spent your
two months of freedom.
Many of my peers spent their vacations in fascinating ways,
including traveling, working and relaxing. I, for one, did all
three.
I began my summer in Beijing, China. In light of completing AP
Chinese my junior year, my parents agreed to let me travel to
Beijing and volunteer at a social services agency in a run-down
district called Gao Bei Dian.
I chose to not go on an expen-sive program; rather, I went by
myself to have more independence in nding something that would
improve my Chinese uency. I spent July in Gao Bei Dian, a
poor district that not many tourists see. Being one of the last
remain-ing old cities, it will likely be gone in a few years to
make way for urban development.
Many of the people I worked with on medical issues, as well as
the orphaned children I helped care for, were surprised to nd a
western girl in the agencyone who spoke Chinese, no less!
Every day for a month, I was surrounded by native Chinese
speakers, and my fluency im-proved immensely. However, what
surprised me most was how eye-opening working in Gao Bei Dian
was.
My experience volunteering and the perspectives I heard from
co-
workers who have witnessed Chi-nas evolution over time prompted
me to think about China on a larger scale.
Not only did being there help me comprehend how rapidly China is
changing, but it also made me realize how much of a work in
progress it still is.
In the span of a few years, China has undergone technological,
eco-nomic and social changes that took the United States decades to
com-plete. These changes are ongoing. Still, many effects go
unnoticed: the disappearance of old hutongs (traditional city
housing districts) to make way for skyscrapers, char-ity agencies
struggling to keep up with the demands of a poor, over-populated
district. I found the whole situation fascinating.
Despite my summer being packed, I denitely spent it well, doing
things that catered to and expanded my interests.
This summer showed me how important it is to pursue (and renew!)
your passions and not be afraid of nding new ones.
During the stress of the school year, I nd that it can become
far too easy to lose sight of the things you love to do. Currently,
Im feel-ing refreshed and ready to get back into the rhythm of
Newton North.
However, I know that as the year progresses, homework and
college applications pile-up, and my gusto for beginning school
fades, I will often hearken back to various snap-shots of my
sum-mer, which I will always treasure in my mind.
women to organize themselves into effective SHGs. We conducted
three-day workshops to train women how to be effective group
leaders. We taught them the im-portance of saving money so they
would be prepared if and when a need for that money arose.
I was also able to participate in a nine-day workshop that was
led by CARE India. The workshop aimed to consolidate the data and
com-munity responses from on-going projects in the region, such as
the International Health and Nutrition Project, and assess it to
improve the programs.
The workshop was also impor-tant because it was going to be used
as a template and planning tool for similar workshops that the
individual CARE State Head-quarters across India were going to
conduct in the future.
Therefore I was given the re-sponsibility of writing up the
template and presenting it to the group. This was a daunting task,
but with the help of the coordi-nators, I was able to create this
organization.
This was an important achieve-ment for me this summer, as I was
able to take what I had experienced and learned in the eld and put
it to use in a document that would be used as a guide for CARE
across India. I am extremely grateful for everyone who helped me in
this process and allowed me to experi-ence what a career in social
devel-opment was actually like.
Overall, this summer in India was among the most fun Ive ever
had in my life. Not only because I visited my family and had fun,
but because I was able to balance it out with work that made me
feel good.
courtesy Gaby Perez-Dietz
In Prague: The students of Prague Summer stand invd Wenceslas
Square.
Prateek Allapur
In Hyderabad: Women work in their jointly-owned textile shop,
funded by various micronance organizations.
Snap-shots of working in an urban Chinese orphanage
Newtonian
Molly Kaufman
History will not be forgottenStudents discover the past in
Prague Summer
Micronancingin the slums of India
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featuresFriday, Sept. 18, 2009 Newton North, Newtonite 11
SeptemberRosh Hashanah begins
today at sundown.Student Orientation Skills
for freshmen ends Monday, Sept. 21 in X-block.
Senior Parent Night is Tuesday, Sept. 22 at 7 in Lasker
Auditorium.
On Campus sponsors Min-ga Day Wednesday, Sept. 23.
Parent Night for Theatre Ink is Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7 in the
little theatre.
No school Monday, Sept. 28 in observance of Yom Kippur.
The PTSO meets Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in the Film
Lecture Hall.
OctoberClub Day is Monday, Oct. 5
in X-block in the cafeteria.Warnings for Term I are
due Tuesday, Oct. 6.Back to School Night for
parents is Thursday, Oct. 8 at 7.
The SATs are Saturday morning, Oct. 10.
No school for Columbus Day, Monday, Oct. 12.
School and College Nights are at Newton South Wednes-day, Oct.
14 and Tuesday, Oct. 20 at 7.
Under the direction of English teacher Inez Dover, Theatre Inks
A Streetcar Named Desire opens Thurs-day, Oct. 15 through Saturday,
Oct. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the little theatre.
The PSATs are Saturday morning, Oct. 17 at 7:45.
There will be an Orienta-tion Seminar for freshmen Tuesday, Oct.
20 in F-block. Members of the Alliance for Climate Education will
present programs on campus during D, F and G blocks that day.
Student photo retakes are all day Wednesday, Oct. 21.
School ends at 11 on Thurs-day, Oct. 22, for a profession-
al half day.ACTs are Saturday morn-
ing, October 24 at 7:45. The PTSO meets Tuesday,
Oct. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in the Film Lecture Hall.
Training Day for Mentors in Violence Prevention is Thursday,
Oct. 29. Theatre Ink Parent Night is that evening at 7 in Lasker
Auditorium.
Halloween is Oct. 31.
NovemberVoting for city and state
elections is here all day Tues-day, Nov. 3.
English MCAS retests are Wednesday, Nov. 4 though Friday, Nov.
6.
Financial Aid Night is Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 in Lasker
Auditorium.
Term I ends Friday, Nov. 6. The PTSOs Progressive Din-ner is
that evening.
The SATs are Saturday morning, Nov. 7.
Term II begins Monday, Nov. 9. Math MCAS retests are Monday,
Nov. 9 and Tues-day, Nov. 10.
No school Wednesday, Nov. 11 for Veterans Day.
The Huntington Lecture Series begins Thursday, Nov. 12 at 4 in
the Film Lecture Hall.
Under the direction of se-niors Julia Mandel-Folly and Ingrid
Rudie, Theatre Inks 20th Century opens that evening at 7:30 through
Sat-urday, Nov. 14 in Lasker Au-ditorium.
Grades are due for Term I Friday, Nov. 14.
Harvestfest I is Wednesday, Nov. 18 at 7 in Lasker
Audi-torium.
Thursday, Nov. 19 is a pro-fessional half day, with school
ending at 11. Harvestfest II is that evening at 7 in Lasker
Auditorium.
Athletic Awards Night is Monday, Nov. 23 in Lasker Auditorium at
6:30.
Parent Conferences are
Tuesday, Nov. 24 from 2-5 p.m.
School closes for Thanks-giving Wednesday, Nov. 25 at 11.
The Brookline game is Thursday, Nov. 26 at 10 a.m.
DecemberOn Campus sponsors Inclu-
sive Schools Day Thursday, Dec. 3. The Singer/Songwrit-er
Symposium is that evening at 7:30 in Lasker Auditorium. Parent
Conferences are from 4-7 p.m.
On Campus sponsors Hu-man Rights Day Friday, Dec. 4.
The SATs are Saturday morning, Dec. 5.
The PTSO meets Monday, Dec. 7 at 7:30 p.m. in the library.
Mediation training for PAWSPositive Agreement Worksis Tuesday,
Dec. 8 and Thursday, Dec. 10.
Under the direction of se-niors Seth Simons and Chris Annas-Lee,
Caligula opens Thursday, Dec. 10 through Saturday, Dec. 12 at 7:30
p.m. in the little theatre.
The ACTs are Saturday morning, Dec. 12 at 7:45.
Warnings for Term II are due Tuesday, Dec. 15.
On Campus sponsors To-BGLAD Day on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
There will be an Orienta-tion Seminar for freshmen E-block
Thursday, Dec. 17. Theatre Ink Parent Night is that evening at 7 in
Room 127.
School closes for winter vacation Thursday, Dec. 24.
JanuarySchool reopens Monday,
Jan. 4. The PTSO will have a meet-
ing for new parents Wednes-day, Jan. 6 in the library at a time
to be announced.
The Huntington Lecture
Newtonite fall calendar
Series continues Thursday, Jan. 7 at 7.
Under the direction of sophomores Caleb Bromberg, Maddie Cetlin,
Sonia Douglas and Pamela Chen, Theater Ink presents Freshman
Cabaret that evening through Friday, Jan. 8 at 7:30 in Lasker
Au-ditorium.
The PTSO meets Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 7:30 p.m. in the Film Lecture
Hall.
Sophomores will be pre-senting their Modern Hero essays Friday,
Jan. 15.
There will be no school for Martin Luther King Day, Monday, Jan.
18.
Term II ends Friday, Jan. 22.
The SATs are Saturday morning, Jan. 23.
Term III begins Monday, Jan. 25.
Grades are due for Term II Friday, Jan. 29.
Jubilee performs Sunday, Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. in Lasker
Auditorium.COMPILED BY ELLEN SARKISIAN
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Waltz With Bashir
One night, Aris friend tells him of a recurring nightmare that
takes place during the Lebanon war. Ari then realizes he cannot
remember the period of his life when he fought in the war, so he
sets off to interview friends and comrades from the war to try to
piece together his past. The lm is animated in a graphic novel
style instead of live action shots. The unique animation enables
the viewers to grasp the lms gritty and disturbing subject mat-ter,
making them feel uneasy. If documentaries have turned you off in
the past, Waltz With Bashir will change the way you look at
documentaries in the future.
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Se7enBrad Pitt and Morgan Free-
man play hot-shot and retiring detectives, respectively,
investi-gating a serial killer who picks his victims according to
the seven deadly sins. The director, David Fincher, films most
scenes in gritty, dimly lit areas, showing
BY ALICIA ZHAOIll admit. Maybe school isnt
exactly the best thing to follow up a relaxing summer. After
all, it entails that familiar black hole we like to call
stress.
Homework. Extracurricular activities. Tests. Projects. Where
does it end?
In times like these, I have a lit-tle tip for you all: Loosen up
once in a while and laugh, because when people say that laughter is
the best medicine, they arent too far from the truth.
Sure, we all know what laugh-ing feels like. The chemistry
beneath it all? Not so much. Let me introduce you to gelotology,
the ofcial study of laughter. And no, Im not kidding.
Fortunately, we were all born with the ability to laugh. But
be-sides laughter being a universal language and a tension
reliever, it is also benecial to our health. Yes, especially for
stressed out students.
Laugh a Little ...
Talk of the Tigerthe city as the cesspool of crime and violence
that it is. This is an extremely graphic movie and is not for the
weak-hearted. While the plot isnt original and its a
paint-by-numbers lm, the ac-tors make it enjoyable to watch. While
the ending isnt of the same quality as the rest of the lm, it
pleases nonetheless.
-BUY
Gran TorinoClint Eastwood plays Walt
Kowalski, a racist Korean War veteran who lives in a mostly
Korean neighborhood in Detroit. One night, his neighbor Thao breaks
into his garage to steal his Gran Torino as part of a gang
ini-tiation. As punishment, Kowalski makes Thao work for him while
trying to keep him away from the gangs that plague the area. Clint
Eastwood also directed the mov-ie, which shows he is a talented
director in addition to an actor. While the ending isnt exactly
surprising, Kowalskis character development is well done. -RENT
Lets be honest, we have all lost count of how many Friday the
13th movies have been made. With the exception of the rst lm, none
of them has been any good, and the recent iteration isnt much
better. The movie starts with teens searching for a mysterious eld
of marijuana in the woods, where they end up running into Jason the
hockey-masked slasher. The movie then runs the course of teens
drinking and doing drugs while Jason kills them in grotesque ways.
There are no redeeming qualities in this movie; it follows the same
formu-la as all of its predecessors, and it doesnt do it nearly as
well.
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Around the Town ...
According to a study done by Loma Linda University in
Califor-nia, you increase the amount of disease ghting cells to
strength-en your immune system by laugh-ing. Laughing also reduces
stress hormones, improves circulation, strengthens your bones and
helps you release your emotions.
Say you laughed 100 times to-dayWell, congratulations, thats the
equivalent of a 10-minute workout on a rowing machine. Bet you
didnt know that.
The thing is, its not that hard to laugh, especially when
laugh-ter costs nothing and helps ex-press yourself in a positive
way. What have you got to lose?
As e.e. Cummings once said, The most wasted of all days is one
without laughter.
So make it a goal to laugh morelighten up, see the humor in
certain situationsand along the way, you might just relieve some of
that stress.
DJaidah Wynn
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sports Friday, Sept. 18, 200914 Newtonite, Newton North
BY MEREDITH ABRAMSReplacing Brian Rooney as
girls soccer coach, James Ham-blin said he wants to make sure
the team enjoys itself and has fun, while learning and develop-ing
skills.
In moving forward we have to work hard and communicate and play
as a team a little more, he said.
Hamblin grew up in England, where he has been playing soccer
since age four, and he has been coaching soccer for about 11 years,
he said.
Soccer isnt really a job, Hamblin said. I played at a decent
level back home, and enjoyed playing it. I nd it enjoy-able to work
with young players and help them develop the game I grew up
with.
In England, Hamblin played with a club team from ages six to 15,
then for a mens league until
BY MEREDITH ABRAMSWith a relatively inexperi-
enced team, boys soccer coach Brian Rooney said he sees the
potential to improve every day.
Ive enjoyed working with them a lot, he said. They have good
enthusiasm for the game. They enjoy being with each other, and they
enjoy playing soccer.
They give the coaches a lot of joy to be working with them, he
added. Its going to be a fun year because with this team, they come
to play every day.
Rooney said the teams strength is defense rather then offense,
because its harder to score.
Were going to have to get better at offense. So, were do-ing a
lot of work on crossing and nishing.
He said goals of the team are to come out focused every day, and
adjust mistakes at practice.
Commenting on upcoming games, Rooney said, Having not coached
this team before, Im not overly familiar with the teams.
However, the strengths of our league are always in our
divisionNeedham, Brookline, Weymouth, Framinghamevery team is
extremely talented.
In some other games we have a little better chance, like against
Walpole or Milton.
The Tigers visit Walpole today and Weymouth Monday, and host
Milton Wednesday. Friday they visit Brookline and Tuesday they host
Needham.
Junior Gianluca Viscomi, a captain with senior Gabe Paul, said
he would like to make the State Tournament, and hopefully win
it.
We have a lot of potential, he said. If we work together we can
make our goal and have fun while we do it.
Braintree defeated the Tigers 2-0 at home Wednesday.
We started out strong and
BY MEREDITH ABRAMSLooking to build a strong
program is the long-term goal of girls soccer, coach James
Ham-blin said.
In the short term he is looking to, get to know the players and
their positions, strengths and weaknesses, and how to improve and
develop them.
We have a very well orga-nized group of players who are very
committed, he said. We just need to get on the same page a little
more and work on training.
Obviously, we want to make the State Tournament, and we want to
make sure every indi-vidual works together to build a team thats
hard to break down, Hamblin said.
Senior Kim Gillies, a captain with seniors Camilla Jackson and
Lee Ford, said the 0-1-1 team needs to get back into the swing of
things and make the transition from pre-season to school smoothly
so we can play as a team as well as we can individually.
Our strengths are the drive and desire we have. But, its early
in the season, so were learning how we each play and how to play
together, Gillies said.
Boys soccer looks to build strong offense
Teddy Wenneker
Battle for possession: Senior Guillame Kugener races to the
ball. The Tigers, 1-1, lost to Braintree 2-0 at home Wednesday.
Girls soccer to host Walpole
moved the ball around well in the beginning, Viscomi said. But
we lost our nish in the nal third, and we didnt capitalize on
chances.
Thursday, Sept. 10, the Tigers beat Norwood 1-0 in Norwood.
We just dominated the whole game, and nally at the end we nished
and got a goal, Viscomi said.
Rooney also said he is not try-ing to ll the late Ucal McKenzies
shoes.
He coached really well, and he had a really good relation-ship
with the team, he said. We talked as a group about what Ucal
brought to the teamenergy, enthusiasm, and a passion for the
game.
Thats what we want to bring to our games. Our practice shirts
say Continue the Legacy, be-cause we want to continue what he
startedenergy, enthusi-asmthats what I want to bring to the
team.
New girls coachexcited to teachthe game he loves
he was 18. He also played for three years at the University of
Wales Institute of Cardiss.
In addition to coaching at Newton North, Hamblin has coached the
Boston Renegades in the 14s, 18s, and womens league divisions, as
well as the professional womens Boston Renegades.
He is also a director at Mass. Premier Soccer, a soccer club
that has teams for players four years old to players in
college.
Hamblin said he did not want to change the tradition of winning
at North, but wanted to bring his own coaching style to the
team.
I want to bring my own coach-ing personality and develop the
team under my name while keeping tradition and keeping the team
together. It would be hard to ll Brians shoesI want to make my
own.
Hosting Walpole today, the Tigers will have to come out with
energy and connect passes, and hopefully well have a positive
result, she said. We tied last year, and they have a few girls who
are really tough.
Hopefully well be able to isolate strong players to score goals
early then hold on to the lead, she said of Mondays home match
against Weymouth.
At Milton Wednesday, Gillies said the Tigers have been unlucky
against them.
We want to play with a lot of heart and play together.
Of the match at home against Brookline Friday, Sept. 25,
Gil-lies said their program has been developing a lot.
This year we really need to come out and take control of the
game from the start, and have a hunger for the ball, she said
Wednesday, the Tigers tied Braintree 1-1 at Braintree. We
started off really strong, but then we lost our momentum and
couldnt pick it back up during the second half, Gillies said.
Norwood defeated the Tigers 3-1 at home Friday, Sept. 11, in a
match Gillies said was very close.
It was just like adjusting from school mode to soccer modewe
were asleep the rst half, and we stepped up the intensity but we
couldnt pull it off.
Tigers wantto developnew players
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sportsFriday, Sept. 18, 2009 Newton North, Newtonite 15
Teddy Wenneker
Football tryouts: Senior Troy Peterson, a running back, runs the
ball as senior Maxx Lyman follows and senior Scott Giusti watches.
The Tigers lost their season opener 27-0 at Natick.
Football led byreceivers, defense
Girls swimmingto visit Wellesley
Golf, 3-1, relying on player development
BY JOSH BAKANThree goals for football, 0-1
and 3-8 last season, are to beat Brookline at the end of the
season on Thanksgiving, win each up-coming game and have a winning
season, coach Peter Capodilupo said.
We are inexperienced on some parts of the team, such as our
offensive line and lineback-ers, but we hope to get better as the
year goes on.
Our wide receivers were in-experienced last year, but theyve
become a strength.
Leading the wide receivers are seniors Nate Birnbaum, Ben Kiley,
Faisal Mayanja and Kourt-ney Wornum-Parker, Capodilupo said.
One obstacle will be replacing senior Conor ONeil, the starting
quarterback, while he has a back injury, Capodilupo said.
He has a lot of experience throwing the ball, which we dont have
without him, he said.
Senior Humberto Castillo, a captain with Mayanja, ONeil and
senior Eddie Pang said, Our team is returning most of the tal-ented
players from last year. Our wide receivers and our defense are our
strengths.
Key returning players include the aforementioned receivers,
Pang, a defensive lineman and senior Troy Peterson, a running back,
Castillo said.
In the home opener Sunday, the Tigers host Framingham at Boston
College.
Framingham has a very good offense, Capodilupo said. They play a
spread offense. They have a big running back, and theyre great at
throwing the ball.
Saturday, Sept. 26, the Tigers will visit Walpole, ranked second
in the state in the Boston Globe high school football poll last
year.
They have a tough defense, Capodilupo said. Theyre a tough
opponent, but any team can beat any other team.
Last Friday, Natick, one of the strongest teams in the state
ac-cording to Capodilupo, beat the Tigers 27-0 at Natick.
Its a disappointing way to start the season, but Im not
dis-tressed because were a young team, Capodilupo said.
Peterson had a good game at running back, Capodilupo said.
The Tigers home games will be at Bentley and Boston
Col-lege.
BY JOSH BAKANGirls swimming, 1-1 as of
Wednesday, is more experienced than ever, said senior Zoe
Talkin, a captain with seniors Caeden Brynie and Carissa Chan.
In previous years, weve had girls who didnt know their basic
strokes, and this year, all the girls do, Talkin said. This year,
we can focus on teaching girls to improve technique and increase
endurance.
Our goal is for everyone to be at the caliber where theyre able
to swim individual events. We also want to see a lot of qualiers
for Sectionals and States.
Tuesday, the Tigers visit Wellesley, a really strong team this
year, coach Kirsten Tuohy said.
Theyve had some of the top divers in the state, she said. They
also have great sprint freestylers.
Next Friday, the Tigers visit Natick.
Theyre similar to Welles-ley, Tuohy said. They have a new coach.
Their old coach is at Wellesley.
Tuesday, September 29, the
Tigers host Braintree, a good chance to develop some of our
younger starters, Tuohy said.
Tuesday, the Tigers beat Bos-ton Latin here 95-73.
We havent beaten Boston Latin in about ve years, but we got off
to a great start, Tuohy said.
Sophomore Jackie Comstack nished rst in the 200 freestyle at
2:19.12. In the same event, freshman Nina Kaplan nished second at
2:34.60.
Last Friday, Norwood beat the Tigers here 94-92.
First meets are often a chal-lenge, but we knew they had a lot
of juniors and seniors, but we had a great meet, especially with
out diving.
In the Medley relay the Tigers finished second with 2:07.09,
qualifying for States. The medley relay team includes Talkin,
Com-stock and seniors Allison McCay and Alyssa Wolyniec.
S o p h o m o r e S t e p h a n i e Brown nished rst in diving
at 2.09.13.
The Tigers were to have hosted Acton Boxborough yesterday.
BY MEREDITH ABRAMSDespite a lack of varsity ex-
perience, coach Bob MacDou-gall has high hopes for the golf
team, which has a lot of depth, he said.
Hopefully, midway through the season well be seasoned and able
to take on better teams, MacDougall said. We need to