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Bringing The SHS Mission Statement To Life: Witches Brew
Bringing The SHS Mission Statement To Life: Witches Brew
Bringing The SHS Mission Statement To Life: Witches Brew
Angeramo’s “Mission”
Bringing the SHS Mission Statement to Life
By Erin Burke opportunity to get involved and
use their powerful voices.
As Salem High School As for some goals that have
settles into the school year, been set into our sights this year,
Principal Mr. David Angeramo we have our mission statement.
said he thought our busy Angeramo is aiming for a “mission
September was a positive and statement that will be real and help
smooth start to the year. Students to drive the school.” The statement
seem to be taking things more itself is more concrete this year
seriously and the attendance was and a lot of work has been put
really impressive this first month in to establishing the essential
of school. As always there are objectives that students, faculty
going to be the challenges that the and administrators have come
budget presents, however, we will together on. Those key points
just need to be careful and creative. that the mission focuses on are
Some changes that we will having a safe environment to build
see this year are teachers utilizing positive relationships and training Angeramo discusses goals for this coming school year
the new technology much more.
In The Brew
the school by Dr. Albright, who is in
charge of awarding the money for
the Read Trust Foundation.
Marcoux has developed a
So, What Exactly Is the Mission way to involve the students in the
Statement?....pg. 2 upkeep of these labs, as it can be a
lot for just two people. “I feel that
students will learn a whole lot more
Maternity Subs Step In.....pg. 2 when they take ownership of their The 14 interns pose in
education,” says Marcoux, who the new aquaculture lab.
Wait...
Maternity Subs Step In
by Zaneta Stepien
Hey Seniors!
Yum!
drive down the street.
Capricorn December 22- January
Cancer June 22- July 22: Say hi to 19: Are you constantly out of
the police officer outside on your breath from running to your classes
way into school, then say hi to Ms. from your assigned locker in the
What’s in store this year? Garrett at your hour long detention. boonies? Look on the bright side-
wind blown hair is in.
Is Distracted Driving A
By Michelle Stanley & Darcy Dance. Students would be asked
Theriault to wear white t-shirts and jeans
and to write on the shirts with
Dangerous Obsession?
Senior year is looking good! highlighters, which could glow
More dances with more involvement in the dark during the dance.
from the other classes is only one of Uncertainty about the future
the many things to look forward to. of Six Flags is causing the Class driving,” such as texting, eating,
“We will be working with By: Maciel Brea
of ‘10 to think of alternatives drinking, talking on the cell phone,
other officers to plan more functions to that Senior Week activity. A
to get people involved,” says senior An attempt to keep us reading the newspaper, and fussing
Red Sox game or a trip to Water
Treasurer Michael Collins. He safe? Or another way for the with a toddler in the backseat,
Country are two possiblities
also said that the plan is to “have a government to control our lives? can take a driver’s attention off
the officers are considering.
productive year with all the classes “Distracted Driving” is a term the road and cause an accident.
Class tee-shirts will get a new
and to successfully unite the school.” that has been featured in a number Life as we all know it is
look as well. In an attempt to show full of distractions, inside and
The senior class can look of newspapers and in online
school unity, the Junior , Senior, and
forward to the prom on May 14 at the articles about concerned parents outside the car. After spending
Freshman class shirts will all feature
Crown Plaza (formerly the Sheraton worrying that their sixteen-year- nearly a thousand dollars paying
the same matching fronts with
Ferncroft) and the annual Senior old teenagers are too distracted by for driving school, driving lessons,
class-specific designs on the back.
Show. Collins is “spearheading” the texting to pay attention to the road. the road test, license, and spending
The seniors also want to keep
brainstorming for the show to get The U.S Department of endless hours being screamed at
up the same spirit they had last year
a head start on ideas for the skits. Transportation is taking a stand on by paranoid parents, have we teen
in order to win two years straight, and
Class officers also want to the issue. A variety of activities drivers not endured enough?
class president Zac Broughton feels
bring back Dancing with the Staff linked to so-called “distracted continued on back page
optimistic about a repeat victory.
and the Mr. SHS Competition, “I believe that this is a chance for
and hope to reinvent the Black Seniors to show that they can win,
and White Dance as a Highlighter not that they should win,” he said.
Aquaculture Lab
Continued from front about. Creating this program has given
a place for them to do so. “We students the opportunity to love science
don’t really have one particular as much as he does. The Aqualab is
thing we have to learn here. We an on-going project that will open
have more freedom to explore many new doors to students at SHS.
McLaughlin
things we are actually interested
in,” says Connor Dooley, a
senior who is participating in Continued from front
the science research internship.
The students in this class son anticipating his safe return. Connor Dooley gives a thumbs up to the Aqualab
are learning a lot of skills, from He returned home and to
researching topics to conducting SHS for about 2 years just before
experiments in the new labs. McLaughlin was once again called for
Also, they are learning how his second military leave, this time to
to effectively communicate North Carolina in 2007. McLaughlin
science topics, which will felt that in North Carolina soliders
be lessons for other science were being trained better than they
classes in the high school and were in Iraq because there was a
throughout the middle school better connection among the soliders.
and elementary schools in Salem. He had to stay there for 20 months
Marcoux is very and returned to teaching history this
passionate about science. “The September once his assignment was up.
students are given the A teacher at Salem High for 8
opportunity to ask questions and years, McLaughlin had his moments
seek out the answers through of finding it difficult to adjust again
research and experimentation. I to teaching after his military leaves.
personally love the exploration His own experiences influence his
and discovery aspects of science classroom, as students are able to obtain
and I have always hoped that I first hand perceptions of what life was
could pass this on to students at like for people in wars. McLaughlin
a young age,” he said. admits that it feels “unique to tell
When it comes down students what it’s like on the grounds
to it, Marcoux really just of a hostile environment during war.”
loves science and has found Welcome back to SHS,
McLaughlin. A military hero! McLaughlin is back at SHS after two military assignments
something he is passionate