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The end of a highschool era tilsenmulalley senioreditor
Here we stand, perched on the cusp of adulthood, ready to head out of these high school halls to tackle the real world. Most of us—me included—can’t wait. But before we get so anxious to leave, I ask you to remember exactly what it is you are leaving. We leave behind us a special time in our lives; the final chapter of our childhoods is closing. We are letting go of the time that people make movies about, the time that countless songs have been penned to express. These films and ballads have captured our attention because we can relate, because we have lived through the situations they speak of. We leave behind the era of first loves, when your heartstrings are tentatively pulled for the first time, and first heartbreaks, when we learn that we can and will become strong again. We’re leaving behind the feeling of freedom when we first slip behind the wheel, those summer night drives with friends, where the only light comes from the stars and the headlamps. The carefree era of being teenager, the freedom and protection of being almost-but-notquite an adult, is ending. Is this the end of the best time of your life? Hardly. Ask anyone; high school sucks for more reasons than one, and you’ll have many more adventures along the way in life. I’m
not asking you to remember high school in and of itself, so much as I’m just asking that you remember the good times of teenagerdom, the moments we will never get back. Try as you might later in life, you will never replicate the flood of emotions felt in a first kiss, the feeling of the summer wind on your face as you sit in the bed of a pick-up rumbling down the road. You’ll never capture the magic of the stars overhead as you sit in the woods, surrounded by friends and no one else, because your parents finally let you go with just your buddies. The natural high of being a teenager, when every thought and idea is jam-packed with some of the most intense and wonderful feelings and emotions you have ever felt is nearly finished, and it will never be given back to you. So, to the graduates, remember what you are reaching the end of and leaving behind. Remember and cherish the little time you have left. As for the underclassmen that may have picked this up, I give you the same advice. Live, love, pursue your happiness. Don’t isolate yourself, surround yourself with those you care about. Go on an adventure, break a few rules, because you will look back one day and kick yourself for it. Don’t be one of those people.
Graduate’s advice to success angelyncox managingeditor
Robert Orben once said “A Graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that ‘individuality’ is the key to success.” Many of us may say, “Yay! We’re done. It’s the end when graduation comes.” But it’s only the beginning. We leave these halls that made our identity and we bring what we’ve learned into the real world. Individuality is key when being shoved into the world. It’s one of the things that will help us get a job, complete college projects and bring you closer to your soul mate. Don’t forget who you are or who you strive to be. Don’t try to be someone else; instead, be true to yourself and others.
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A nonchalant goodbye mckennaanderson editorinchief
I am honestly pulling this out of thin air because I don’t know what to write for a farewell column to a class where half of you think I am an idiot and the other half could not care less. I’ve published some really fun opinion pieces this year, ones that have made a lot of people mad. Do I regret a single word I wrote? NOPE. My goal this year was to get the students and teachers at LHS talking and I think I did a pretty swell job in that department. Not as many people responded as I would have hoped, but I just want all of you to know that you a voice, you are heard, even if nobody responds. If you want to change the world, CHANGE IT. What’s holding you back? Oh, you’re from a small town? Move to a bigger one. Don’t have any money? Get a job and start saving. Anything is possible and excuses mean nothing, the only thing stopping you is yourself and your laziness. Your going to get this whole “Life is what you make it” speech a lot, but before you tune me out I have REAL advice for the class of 2015. Take it or leave it. Pull your heads out of the sand and start making a difference. Keep an
open mind. Keep an open mind. KEEP AN OPEN MIND. Don’t just have one view of the world and definitely do not let that view be from your parents or someone else. Make your own opinions, don’t shut yourself off to everything that you can learn. The school system has corrupted what learning is actually about. You should be learning the things that you want to learn about, things that interest you. Take a year off, go backpacking, live in the woods for a month, move to the city… but whatever you do, make sure you have a solid grip on who you think are or who you know you can be before you start that “journey to the rest of your life”. So here it is, we’re done. We’ve made it through heartbreak and scandal, best friends who turned out to be enemies, stupid rumors and ugly truths, not being able to keep a secret and always being shut down. The truth is, I won’t miss a lot of you. I am happy to move on with my life and out of these walls; I’m sure you are too. Now we can go crazy and live our lives for ourselves and learn what we want to learn. Don’t let anyone make you. Make yourself.
4 Sophomore Year
THE BENGAL’S PURR Remembering our first year at Lewiston High School Austin invited to join All-Northwest Choir e s p y l a c o p A : n sio
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faithevans reporter Singing her way to Portland, Ore., Sunday Feb. 17, sophomore Hannah Austin, alto, performed with the All-Northwest Choir at the Oregon Convention Center. The judges selected Austin as one of 150 girls to take part in the Girls’ All-Northwest Choir. Austin said, “It took several takes [of my recorded audition tape] until I got the perfect recording to send in.” Austin spent the weekend in Portland, rehearsing and performing and bonding with her choir. She stated that her experience in Portland consisted of hanging out and bonding with the girls in her choir. Second semester, Austin participated in Treble Choir, as well as Gold Voices, and also received honorable mention for her three solo songs at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival for her “cool jazz tone,” according to the Jazz Festival judges.
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Staff Commentary
McKenna Anderson, Editor in Chief: Sophomore year was weird. I really thought I was cool for being in high school. Definitely a let down because I am still not cool to this day. Tilsen Mulalley, Senior Editor: My sophomore year was awkward. It was my first year at the high school, of course, and I was just getting used to how big and overwhelming it was. I was scared to join anything, which I regret heavily. I was even scared of lunch because I didn’t know where any of my friends were! Angelyn Cox, Managing and Graphics Editor: Everything was new and exciting to me. I took every moment with a positive attitude and excitement. To be honest, I thought for the longest time (highschool) would have been like high school musical. The only thing close to being related to HSM was the cliques, I was one of the awkward few.
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McKenna Anderson, Editor in Chief: Junior year was the year I bubbled in my name wrong on the PSAT and sealed my fate as Menna. Not a good year. Tilsen Mulalley, Senior Editor: My junior year was probably the most interesting. My first relationship sprouted from it like a flower in the sidewalk. I kind of just went with the flow of things that year, but at the same time I really came into my own. I joined the Bengal’s Purr and moved up quickly, writing one of my best editorials. I also wrote and directed a play for the annual Bengal One-Acts. Angelyn Cox, Managing and Graphics Editor: Through my first year of mascoting as Joe Bengal, I explored a new outlook on life. I branched out of my awkward stage and turned into a mother-like figure for my closeknit friends as I feel closer to who I am now.
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“ ‘Twas very stressful.” What to do Thursday, Friday and Satur Saturday Thursday: • Go to school at 7:55 p.m. • Go to BBQ at 11:00 a.m. • THAT’S IT
Friday: • Graduation practice at 8:30 a.m. at LCSC Activity Center • Senior Luncheon at 11:00 a.m. at Red Lion • Senior Award Ceremony at 1:30 p.m. at LHS Auditorium Saturday: • Wake up and have a lovely breakfast. • Get your purple-gowned bottom dollar to the LCSC Activity Center at 2:30 p.m.
8 Senior Year
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Seniors reminisce over final year angelyncox managingeditor
When the time came to design this year’s senior lot, senior class president Thomas Pearson envisioned a Bengal tiger in a chariot pulled by squawking chickens. Senior artist Ethan Coy brought the idea to fruition and fell to surprise when ASB chose the collaboration from the three options presented to
the senior class at school registrations before the school year started. For Coy, painting the senior lot portrait took from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Sept. 28 while the winners of the lot raffle painted their individual parking spots. “It was really fun being with a bunch of people, having music playing the whole time,” said Coy. “Everyone seemed really connected with school spirit.”
Seniors break record for truancies abbikinnick asst.featureeditor T. Murrill
Senior parking lot painted and signed by winning students of the lot raffle. Main square designed by senior, Ethan Coy.
(Above) Seniors Thomas Pearson and (Right, with prom date) Amy Wren win King and Queen at the Masquerade Prom, May 2, 2015. Photos courtesy of Pearson and Wren.
Staff Commentary
Approximately 115 to 120 senior class members at Lewiston High School chose not to attend an assembly in the high school auditorium, Oct. 15, making it one of the largest senior skip days in school history according to LHS attendance. While juniors and sophomores at LHS took the PSAT, administration scheduled the senior class to attend an informational meeting regarding expectations, attendance and grades with school counselors. Seniors then went to their government classes to hear about their senior projects. Those who attended spent the remaining time getting help and working on senior projects in their English classes as scheduled. The mass truancy came as a “disappointment” to the faculty, according to Kevin Driskill, principal of LHS. “It’s misfortunate. ...It is not something we will repeat in the near future,” he said. Driskill added that he plans to prevent a recurrence by stressing the importance of the information presented and by taking attendance. Mary Ann Funk, LHS librarian and English department chair, said that the faculty members who prepared the presentation were the most shocked. “It was a missed opportuni-
ty for the students,” Funk said. Lance Hansen, assistant superintendent, explained that LHS held authority over the situation, but believed a lack of communication between faculty and students caused the skip. Senior class president Thomas Pearson stated that teachers told students that teachers would not take attendance, implying that seniors didn’t need to come to school. Teachers could have been clearer about the purpose of the meetings, Pearson suggested, but they shouldn’t be at fault. He said he thought that the administration should make sure that the students need to be there and put in place a pro-active punishment to help mass truency from happening again. Many of the senior class members apologized and decided to clean the Jackson Baldwin Memorial Fountain and Ninth Avenue in Lewiston on Saturday, Oct. 25, as a self-decided repercussion, according to Pearson and Driskill. “(It put) a bad image on the senior class,” Pearson said unhappily. He explained that some senior students caused noise and disruption in the community when they skipped school Oct. 15. He added that the mass truancy also provided a bad example for the underclassmen.
McKenna Anderson, Editor in Chief: I learned who my real friends are and that I have bettered myself through strength and integrity. I’ve done more growing this year than in my whole life and I’m ready to move on and get out.
Angelyn Cox, Managing and Operations Editor: This year was the most life changing. I realized who I wanted to be, discovering my true potential. Life is about doing your personal best, being happy and making memories with those you love. Tilsen Mullalley, Senior Editor: As this year ends, I’ve realized how fragile things can be. In one moment, a fraction of a second, the things we hold dear can disappear. But, I’ve also learned that from ashes of the one the new arise. I am leaving high school with this knowledge, and I am sure it will aid me in life more than any of the lessons I have been taught here.
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Wednesday, May 27
Thank You
Greetings for the last time, fellow Bengals. We, the editors of The Bengal’s Purr, would like to offer you our greatest appreciation for your readership this year. We would be nothing without all of you, and that is the highest truth in the news business. For no matter how great the writing and stories presented, a newspaper is nothing without its faithful readers. You have supported us with your input and letters, engaging us in heated debates on topics and helping us help you get your voices heard. Because you have a voice, LHS, you have a duty to yourselves and each other to have it broadcasted. This year we achieved that. So, to all the seniors leaving this year, you’ve done a fine job. And to the juniors and sophomores continuing your education within these hallowed halls next year, I urge you to keep making your voices heard. Respond to stories and articles, give your educated opinions. Keep your voices strong. Thank you, and goodnight. Signed,
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