TROY INVOICE june 14, 2009 AUBURN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL V OLUME 40, ISSUE 6 Auburn High’s Student Voice Since 1969 253.931.4880 │[email protected]Serving the 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 700, 800 and 900 halls The Auburn High School In late August of last year, my outgoing newspaper advisor commented my Facebook wall. “Your new adviser is 23 and just defended his Master’s thesis last week. He seems pretty excited.” I was terrified. I had waited all of high school to be editor of the paper, and I was not going to have my dream shattered by an eager novice fresh out of grad school. Sure, I was good at interviewing, writing and editing, but I needed an adviser who would help me manage the staff and have my back amidst controversy – because I was planning on stirring some up. Along with this anxiety, I was fairly certain my staff would blast the charts at roughly four. They were all competent, talented writers to be sure, but I knew it would be impossible to build and maintain a successful, informative paper with such a small staff. Concern and apprehension can often stir positive action. In other cases, however, this kind of stress is a catalyst for unwarranted judgment. Though our new advisor had no experience, he put in the effort to learn and caught on quickly. My class projection set the numbers far lower than reality: first semester, we had 17 students enrolled. The returning staffers soaked up new knowledge, understanding the nuances of effective interviews, committing the AP Style Guide to memory and ultimately surpassing my skill in laying out the paper. As they learned the ins and outs of journalism, I learned how to manage a staff of smart, independent people. I wanted everyone’s involvement, yet I still had to maintain a polished, cohesive publication. I set deadlines, decorating the newsroom with sheets of orange paper heralding reminders and expectations. Leading such a diverse group was difficult, but it forced me to be responsible for myself and others. Of course I am proud of the Troy InVoice, and how far it’s come in the 69 years it has been in print. But looking on at the progress these editors and staffers have made is a deeper, more worthy advancement. They all joined newspaper wary and unsure, and have blossomed into the journalists and leaders of the future. The next few years of the Troy InVoice are guaranteed to outshine the success we have established this year. It’s hard to say goodbye to what has held such a valuable role in my life, but it makes leaving easier to know the greatness that is to come. By REBECCA NELSON EDITOR IN CHIEF Editor confident in future AHS suffers two tragic losses This past year Auburn High lost two of its own. Seniors Andrew Bonwell and Chanel Bunce were beloved by both teachers and peers. Bonwell transferred to AHS during his sophomore year. He turned out for football and quickly became an influential member of the team. “We could tell he was serious about football,” head football coach Gordon Elliot said. “He was a good teammate and team player.” His teammates admired his honest, outgoing nature. Junior Jeff Bukowski enjoyed Bonwell’s friendship, often hanging out with him after football practices and games. “He was open and real about everything. He was not gonna hide his true self,” Bukowski said. Bonwell was killed May 19 in a head- on collision. He is survived by his parents and his sister, freshman Ali Bonwell. Bunce also transferred here her sophomore year. Even though she walked last June at graduation, the structured learning program allowed her to come back to AHS. “Her real wish was to be treated like everyone else,” structured learning teacher Barbara Knapp said. “She liked the social scene and wanted everyone to like her.” Bunce’s outgoing personality often drew her peers out of their shells. She helped nonverbal students to talk and hold conversations with her. “She was really good at helping the kids who were lower functioning than her,” Knapp said. “She had a lot of enthusiasm.” After Mid-Winter Break, Knapp got a call that Bunce was on life support due to a serious blood infection. She died the first week of March. In the new structured learning facility, there will be a bench in her memory. By REBECCA NELSON EDITOR IN CHIEF When I started out high school freshman year I was small and skinny and had completely straight hair all the time. Now, I’m taller, bigger and my hair is straight and curly. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that I’m probably the goofiest kid you will meet. Freshman year, I was like everyone else in my grade, eager to find out what it was going to be like. Turns out, it was just like middle school, except we were to be more responsible for our work. However, I wasn’t ready for it. I just came out of middle school, where I had it pretty easy. I wasn’t used to the more strict teachers and I didn’t want to do most of my work because I was lazy. High school wasn’t anything I expected it to be. I really thought high school was dumb my first two years. I didn’t really try in anything; I just barely skimmed by. My junior year rolled through and I realized what I wanted to be. That’s when it clicked for me and everything changed. I want to be a high school biology teacher. I started to work more in all my classes and started getting better grades and paying more attention in class. I started more extracurricular activities. I changed from someone who didn’t really care and was just going to blow by school and looked like I was going to be a loser the rest of my life to someone that has a purpose and actually has a future. I show how much I care openly now by helping out with Relay for By JOSH HERRMANN STAFF REPORTER Reporter leaves a changed man SEE REPORTER PAGE 4 Photo by Charles Fitzgerald
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TROY INVOICEjune 14, 2009
Auburn Senior HigH ScHool Volume 40, iSSue 6 Auburn High’s Student Voice Since 1969 253.931.4880 │[email protected] the 100, 200, 300,
400, 500, 700, 800 and 900 halls
The Auburn High School
In late August of last year, my outgoing newspaper advisor commented my Facebook wall.
“Your new adviser is 23 and just defended his Master’s thesis last week. He seems pretty excited.”
I was terrified. I had waited all of high school
to be editor of the paper, and I was not going to have my dream shattered by an eager novice fresh out of grad school. Sure, I was good at interviewing, writing and editing, but I needed an adviser who would help me manage the staff and have my back amidst controversy – because I was planning on stirring some up.
Along with this anxiety, I was fairly certain my staff would blast the charts at roughly four. They were all competent, talented writers to be sure, but I knew it would be impossible to build and maintain a successful, informative paper with such a small staff.
Concern and apprehension can often stir positive action. In other cases, however, this kind of stress is a catalyst for unwarranted judgment. Though our new advisor had no experience, he put in the effort to learn and caught on quickly. My class projection set the numbers far lower than reality: first semester, we had 17 students enrolled. The returning staffers soaked up new knowledge, understanding the nuances of effective interviews, committing the AP
Style Guide to memory and ultimately surpassing my skill in laying out the paper.
As they learned the ins and outs of journalism, I learned how to manage a staff of smart, independent people. I wanted everyone’s involvement, yet I still had to maintain a polished, cohesive publication. I set deadlines, decorating the newsroom with sheets of orange paper heralding reminders and expectations. Leading such a diverse group was difficult, but it forced me to be responsible for myself and others.
Of course I am proud of the Troy InVoice, and
how far it’s come in the 69 years it has been in print. But looking on at the progress these editors and staffers have made is a deeper, more worthy advancement. They all joined newspaper wary and unsure, and have blossomed into the journalists and leaders of the future. The next few years of the Troy InVoice are guaranteed to outshine the success we have established this year. It’s hard to say goodbye to what has held such a valuable role in my life, but it makes leaving easier to know the greatness that is to come.
By REBECCA NELSONEDITOR IN CHIEF
Editor confident in future
AHS suffers two tragic lossesThis past year Auburn High lost two
of its own. Seniors Andrew Bonwell and Chanel Bunce were beloved by both teachers and peers.
Bonwell transferred to AHS during his sophomore year. He turned out for football and quickly became an influential member of the team.
“We could tell he was serious about football,” head football coach Gordon Elliot said. “He was a good teammate and team player.”
His teammates admired his honest, outgoing nature. Junior Jeff Bukowski enjoyed Bonwell’s friendship, often hanging out with him after football practices and games.
“He was open and real about everything. He was not gonna hide his true self,” Bukowski said.
Bonwell was killed May 19 in a head-on collision. He is survived by his parents
and his sister, freshman Ali Bonwell. Bunce also transferred here her
sophomore year. Even though she walked last June at graduation, the structured learning program allowed her to come back to AHS.
“Her real wish was to be treated like everyone else,” structured learning teacher Barbara Knapp said. “She liked the social scene and wanted everyone to like her.”
Bunce’s outgoing personality often drew her peers out of their shells. She helped nonverbal students to talk and hold conversations with her.
“She was really good at helping the kids who were lower functioning than her,” Knapp said. “She had a lot of enthusiasm.”
After Mid-Winter Break, Knapp got a call that Bunce was on life support due to a serious blood infection. She died the first week of March.
In the new structured learning facility, there will be a bench in her memory.
By REBECCA NELSONEDITOR IN CHIEF
When I started out high school freshman year I was small and skinny and had completely straight hair all the time. Now, I’m taller, bigger and my hair is straight and curly. The one thing that hasn’t changed is that I’m probably the goofiest kid you will meet.
Freshman year, I was like everyone else in my grade, eager to find out what it was going to be like. Turns out, it was just like middle school, except we were to be more responsible for our work. However, I wasn’t ready for it. I just came out of middle school, where I had it pretty easy. I wasn’t used to the more strict teachers and I didn’t want to do most of my work because I was lazy. High school wasn’t anything I expected it to be. I really thought high school was dumb my first two years. I didn’t really try in anything; I just barely skimmed by. My junior year rolled through and I realized what I wanted to be. That’s when it clicked for me and everything changed. I want to be a high school biology teacher.
I started to work more in all my classes and started getting better grades and paying more attention in class. I started more extracurricular activities. I changed from someone who didn’t really care and was just going to blow by school and looked like I was going to be a loser the rest of my life to someone that has a purpose and actually has a future.
I show how much I care openly now by helping out with Relay for
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Life and Mr. AHS. I also help with other events that no one would ever think to see me at, like the Veteran’s Day parade, where I carried an American flag for the fallen soldiers in the Iraq war.
All in all, I just needed to find out who I want to be and what I want to do and embrace it. If I do not attain my goal of becoming a high school biology teacher and track or wrestling coach I would be so disappointed with how I changed my plan. I now have free reign over my life, so I do what I want.
REPORTERCONTINUED FROM PAGE 1
“Be yourself sweetie,” is a saying I have heard often over the past 17 years of my life.
I never actually thought about what my father meant by those words. I always assumed it meant something about the way I looked or dressed, mostly because I heard it a lot when something had come up about my crazy styles, hair dos or habits.
Over the past few years of high school chaos, confusion and drama I have pondered that saying many times. I have come to the conclusion that when my father said those words he wasn’t ever talking about my dark makeup, constant changing style of clothing or my wild hair dos. He was simply talking
about my heart and personality, who I had always been through all the different phases, looks and labels I have endured.
My father has never pushed me to be anything more or less than what I wanted to be. He’s never put down or shut out anything I truly wanted and set my mind to. He has always been supportive, yet in a way that made it so I always had to make the first step and the final decision. He has forced me to make my own choices whether for good, which resulted in something accomplished, or for the bad, which always ended in me learning some kind of lesson. I have also come to realize it’s not only the good decisions or accomplishments that have lead me to be the person that I am today, but mostly the
bad decisions and lessons that I have learned from.Every senior graduating this year has changed
dramatically since freshman year, whether it is your goals, your look or your friends. Anyone who says they have not changed at all, in some way, has not had a chance to look back and reflect. Don’t be ashamed of the person you have become; be proud of all the steps you have taken whether it was forward or back.
My appearance has changed throughout my high school years, but my personality and heart have stayed the same. I wish everyone in my graduating class the best. Keep changing, learning and growing – after all, isn’t that all life is in the end?
By AMANDA BURYSTAFF REPORTER
Senior understands the value of being yourself in good times and bad
Athletics provide more than just shapely bodsMany people do not understand the value that
athletics bring to students. Over my high school career I have learned many important things from participating in sports, not just how to improve at the certain sport. Playing basketball at Auburn has been more than just throwing an orange ball into a round hole ten feet off the ground, which some of my peers may think.
It has been about taking in life experiences, creating
close bonds and making memories. I have learned a valuable lesson about integrity and it will stick with me forever I can thank Coach Ed Bender for that.
He has been a role model for me over the past four years and I appreciate him greatly. Without him in my life, I would be a different person.
I also learned about how to be a leader and to inspire others on the team as well as in the community. Having a positive attitude and trying my best will get me far in life. Because of athletics I have a stronger work ethic as well.
If I had not tried out for basketball, I would not have the close friends I have today. In order to trust a girl on the court, you have to be able to trust them off the court. I am thankful for the close bonds that were created from joining the team.
No underclassmen should be scared or timid to join a sport. It is important to join into an extracurricular activity; it keeps you involved in school and you will have a more diverse group of friends. You learn a lot as well as have fun.
By JESSICA MORGANSPORTS EDITOR
How far they’ve comeThe seniors this year have all changed dramatically since freshman year. Attitudes about life, goals and maturity go through a shift as four years fly by. However, in other cases students’ appearances are so altered that they can hardly be recognized.
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Students embark on adventures
In the heat of summer people often find themselves at a loss. Without school leaving a dent in their free time they wander around contemplating what to do. As funds are also a problem, it’s common to find former students sprawled out in the sun all summer long. There are many students, however, who have found the means of escape through friends, parents and grandparents.
Junior Nick Hammond is one such student. Hammond will be flying out of state to spend ten days in Mexico with friend Ryan Gifford. His grandparents will be covering the costs.
“I’ve never been out of the country, so I’ve always wanted to go,” Hammond said. “Plus,
I hear there are cute girls in Mexico.”Senior Jennsyn Chaney will be traversing
unknown foreign countries in her trip to Europe. Her grandfather will be paying for this senior graduation present. The location choice however was not hers. Her brother Senior Cameron Chaney, chose Europe.
“Honestly I haven’t [wanted to go to Europe],” Chaney said. “I wanted to go somewhere hot. I know nothing about Europe.”
Junior Marshall Klontz is making his way to Alaska to go fishing about 100 miles west of Dillingham.
“I’ve been going for seven years now, it’s kind of an every year deal,” Klontz said.
His eight day trip will be spent with twenty other people in the bitter cool of the fiftieth state.
A boring summer is not on the agenda for many students at Auburn High, but sunbathing will only get them so far.
