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Each year, on the Monday morning o Red/White

Week, yard ater yard o balloons and sign ater

hand-painted sign appeared mysteriously, draping

every inch o every foors hallways. And each year,

students marveled at the foor-to-ceiling decorations

as they trudged in rom the cool darkness o an

October morning.

In act, the spirited Red/White decor was the

product o a Friday evening work night the week

beore. Dozens o students stayed ater school until

9:00 p.m. eating M&Ms and Cheetos, talking, lling

the hallways with blown-up balloons and balloon

machines, climbing to the top o ladders and stretching

on tiptoes to hang painted signs.

For some students, the night produced service hours

or Key Club or NHS; or others, it was just a way to

show spirit. Even teachers participated, helping direct

people and equipment. By the time the night was over,

the school was transormed.

Leading up to Friday night decoration, Executive

Council and Steering Committee members stayed

ater school to decorate the signs they would be

taping to the walls.

Usually every Wednesday we would have to

paint a ton o signs, Logan Stearman (10) said o the

sophomore class hallway. We would have a dierent

goal each week or the amount we were expected

to paint. We wanted to be the best, and we were,

cause we won the hallway sign contest.

Such a enormous undertaking resulted in an equally

enormous mess. I remember one time, someone

fipped a paintbrush and I sat on it, Stearman said.

Class sponsors were in charge o supervising the

chaos o decoration day to keep it relatively in order.

We had glitter on our signs, so we had a lot

o glitter just alling on everything, said Ms. Alesia

Williams (English), a sophomore class sponsor. But

other than that, it went pretty smoothly or us. It gives

students real ownership o the spirit o the school,

instead o just saying, Yeah, were going to have a

pep rally, and thats it. It really makes students eel like

the school is theirs.

Students and teachers put in extra hours of preparation for Red/White Week.

Words by Zoe Schaver and Sarah Rohleder Design by Eli Fosl, Erin Bridges, Miranda Thompson, Christa Iwu & Virginia Johnson

1. BLOWIN UP Volunteering or Executive Council, students

arrange and ll balloons. Ms. Laura Spiegelhalter (Lie Skills)

assigned the students to each foor to decorate the halls. Friday

aternoon, we stayed ater until like 8:30 to hang the signs,

Harper said. Photo by Darby Brown. 2. GRIN AND BEAR IT

Peter Nguyen begins to eel the pain while decorating or Red/

White Week. My ngers got numb rom blowing up balloons,

Peter Nguyen (12) said. Photo by Christa Iwu 3. POWER

HOURS Playing the waiting game became common or

Aarthi Vadhanam (10) and the rest o the members o Executive

Council as they prepared the halls or Red/White Week. Thegroup had to wait on numerous materials in order to ully prepare

the school. We didnt have enough signs or the halls or some

reason, Vadhanam said, so we had to end up spacing them

apart so they wouldnt l ook awkward.Photo by Yazmin Martinez4. COORDINATION FRUSTRATION Ater hanging up

countless signs, Jasmyn Hamilton (11), Tia Harper (11) and

Michael Brown (12) receive orders to change them. Mr. Wilson

told Tia and me to color-coordinate them and we literally had

just done them, Hamilton said. We had to redo them because

the colors were too close together, there were too many o the

same color, and you cant hang them above the door, so it was

rustrating.Photo by Darby Brown

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