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Author Archives: Shiori Tomatsu
Apr
14
2012
KONY 2012
“Did you hear about KONY 2012?” Cherry asked me the moment she came through the door of the house. I examined her eyes as she blurted out the story. Being the energetic eighth grader she is, she chatted on and watched for my reaction. Unfortunately, being a sophomore trying to finish two papers in one [...]
Apr
14
2012
Vietnam Day
As the lights came back up and the auditorium flooded with color, Clayton sophomores turned their attention to a man in black walking across the stage. From the moment veteran Barry Romo spoke, the sophomores hung on every word, every sentence, as he painted the horrors of the Vietnam War and his own painful memory [...]
Mar
9
2012
Hitman to Hero
About a year ago, Clayton parents Sarah Bernard and Barbara Madison went to Nicaragua for mission work, only to encounter the unexpected: a former hitman. Little did they know that this meeting with Oscar Cuarezma would lead them to start a film and change their lives forever. Madison, a registered nurse and owner of Right [...]
Feb
14
2012
Mr. Blackmore Retiring
On Dec. 9, Band Director Charles Blackmore stepped on the podium and announced to the CHS Symphonic Band that he was a graduating member of the class of 2012. “I was absolutely shocked when Mr. Blackmore said he would be retiring,” flutist Taylor Kloha said. “I have to confess, I actually started tearing up. It [...]
Dec
16
2011
Hoelscher in Germany
From the tranquil city of Bavaria to the bustling streets of Berlin, History teacher Paul Hoelscher had the rare opportunity to travel across well-known cities of Germany during the summer through the Goethe Institut. “It is a public and private organization that supports scholarship and travel in Germany,” Hoelscher said. “In addition to funding my [...]
On Sept. 28 CHS Senior Jake Bernstein sat quietly eating his lunch in the activities office, one eye on his math homework and the other gazing up at the TV set, anticipating the moment when President Barack Obama would mention his name in the president’s third annual speech on education. “I was really surprised I [...]
Sep
2
2011
Keeping it Peppy
The love-hate relationship between the band students and playing pep band for games has raised the idea of changing pep band traditions to improve the overall game experience.
This year, the annual Physics Day held at the Six Flags Amusement Park was on April 29 and students at CHS who take a Physics course or are in the Physics Club participated in it. “It’s been around longer than I’ve been teaching and at Six Flags parks all over,” Physics teacher Gabriel De La [...]
Apr
13
2011
Newspaper advisor retires
For 15 years, journalism teacher Nancy Freeman has advised the CHS Globe and this year will be her final year at CHS. “I didn’t start teaching until I was 38 years old,” Freeman said. “I was kind of a late bloomer. I had six children before I started teaching. I had originally started college at [...]
Mar
19
2011
Classic sci-fi book still proves pleasing
For those who believe that the Ultimate Answer to Life, Everything, and the Universe is 42, Douglas Adams’ “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” is the perfect book to read. The story is about the journey of Arthur Dent, a human, and his other alien companions in outer space after Earth has been destroyed in [...]
