Spaulding Staff Bulletin
October 2, 2015
Assemblies & Spaulding TV
Coming up on October 9, we will have our annual pep rally. Last year's was the best I had ever experienced, so I know that student council has their work cut out for them in topping that! We are also working on a student-led assembly for October and December. The dates for these have yet to be determined. On November 17, we have a presenter, Calvin Terrell. The SADD group is sponsoring Mr. Terrell's presentation and more information will be coming.
On another front, we are trying to revitalize a student-led broadcast. For those of you who remember the Friday Show, we are hoping to bring back something similar to that. This would be a student production that we could view during advisory. We are hoping that the students can come up with a snappy title for this production.
If you are interested in helping with either the assemblies or the broadcasts, please contact Brian Hoover, as he is going to be organizing these events. Also, please feel free to talk to students that you think might be interested and have them contact Brian, or pass their name(s) along to Brian. The more students we can get involved in these events, the better!
Gail Cooper
Gail enjoys spending time with her grandchildren, ages six through fourteen, and sews for them whenever she gets the chance. She also enjoys arts & crafts and even painted folk art when her children were younger. Gail is an avid reader - as she noted, she was on the third book of that week and just loves to read!
Looking to the future, Gail is interested in traveling, especially to England. She is a British history buff and has relatives in England. She visited when she was sixteen and really would like to return to England, as well as visit other European countries. If she isn't traveling, Gail does hope to finish some of her sewing projects. She has stashes of material and other arts & crafts supplies just waiting to be whipped into something wonderful.
Sue Chickering
Sue enjoys the outdoors and specifically running and hiking. Typically, she runs or walks five miles a day, and says she has the record for the longest amount of time to complete the Long Trail - which was eight years. However, when she was 55, she made the goal to hike the Appalachian Trail (ME, NH & VT section, which is 465 miles) and accomplished that goal one and a half years early. Continuing on, Sue has decided to work her way south on the Appalachian Trail, and this past summer was extra special as she got to spend quality time with her sister on the trail.
A couple of tidbits about Sue...she speaks Swedish (she lived in Sweden for a few years!) and she had a monkey when she was sixteen years old. The monkey, Yosarian, was "rescued" from some medical students. During a tennis match, Sue overheard the students talking about what they were going to do with this monkey and Sue convinced her parents to let her have the monkey. She has some very fond memories of Yosarian!
Ken Fritjofson
Prior to teaching, Ken was a Merchant Marine Officer for ten years. While in the Merchant Marines, Ken saw many interesting places (from Borneo to Saudia Arabia to the Panama Canal) and had some incredible experiences - including being adrift at see for a week and being on deck when his ship, containing 50,000 gallons of gasoline, collided with another ship. Another notable experience Ken mentioned was that in 1982-1983, he went around the world in 100 days!
Ken is a grandfather to Nora, and he aims to be the best grandfather he can be and spoil her rotten! He also plans to build a boat someday, but is preparing by currently building the shed that he will use for the boat.
When asked about an interesting tidbit...Ken explained how he managed to shoot two deer with one bullet! According to Ken, the buck was chasing the doe and when he shot the buck, the bullet passed through and entered the head of the doe. This amazing feat wasn't without some drawbacks...there was an investigation by the game warden and Ken didn't get to keep the doe.
Kudos!
The International Thespian Society, the honor society of secondary school theatre students, would like to announce six inductees from Spaulding HS - Emily Benoit, Shannon Brodie, Carli Harris, Julia Jaminet, Rose Meriam and Christopher Toborg. To be inducted, the thespians each complete over one hundred hours of excellent work in theatre arts and related disciplines. In doing so, they have acquired essential twenty-first century life and career skills that include creativity and innovation, critical thinking, problem solving, teamwork, and effective communication. Congratulations to our recent inductees and their troupe director, Sue Brennan, for this achievement!