THE COMMUNICATOR MAGAZINE

About the Cover

By Ella Rosewarne

Following tradition, our last edition for the 2022-2023 school year is our Senior Edition. The cover and back cover include 98 seniors, a bin of props (thanks to CET) and their creativity. We aimed to encapsulate the serious, the silly, the friendships and the spirit of this class on these two 8.5” x 11.5” papers. The edition includes individual quote stories featuring the majority of the CHS Class of 2023, along with their plans for next year, mock awards, their essays and some throwback pictures.

Dear Readers,

We think we may be in denial. After hundreds of pages, dozens of stories and too many photographs to count, we are putting the finishing touches on our senior edition for the 2022-23 school year. After building up this community in the aftermath of a pandemic, we have to say goodbye. We have reached the end of our journey together.

To say that this has been a roller coaster of a year is an understatement. With a changing political climate and a warming planet, the world can feel as though it’s imploding, especially for high school students, who have virtually no say in how our society functions or what it prioritizes. Every day, another disaster graces the front page of the newspaper or blares on the living room TV, jerking us out of our life as students and thrusting into a world that relies on us to fix the mistakes of the generations before us.

On a smaller scale, as well, our world is changing in too many ways to count. College applications reached a record high this year — an increase of 21% since 2020 — resulting in more competitive admissions than ever before. The average number of college applications per student in the U.S. is 6.22, according to the Common App. However, some CHS students applied to a much larger number of schools. The highest known amount of college applications at CHS is 22 for the 2022-23 application cycle. This has significantly raised the stress of what colleges we get into and where we will end up.

As we decide what we are going to do next year, many of us are hit with the realization that adulthood is just around the corner, or has even already arrived. We begin to picture our lives in dorm rooms or apartments, working or taking classes, relying on ourselves. These images are often not what we thought they would be when we entered high school as freshmen. We are different people than we were four years ago. We have survived a pandemic, we have found friends and lost them, we have written papers and taken exams and now we are ready to walk across the stage of Hill Auditorium.

For Communicator seniors, the Senior Edition marks the end of an era. We are forced to say goodbye to chocolate chip cookies, late nights in Room 300 and hours working on a single magazine spread. However, the effect that “The Communicator” has had on us will last a lifetime. We will always remember our time creating meaningful coverage of our time in high school and ensuring that “The Communicator” adds to the community around us.

We hope this edition will serve as a way to celebrate the class of 2023 and show our love for both “The Communicator” and CHS. Some say that life begins when you graduate, that high school is simply a practice, but that is simply not applicable to CHS. We will never say goodbye for good — this publication and this school will always have a place in our hearts.

Your Senior Editors,

PRINT EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

ELLIOT BRAMSON

ISABELLA JACOB

RIA LOWENSCHUSS

SERENA O’BRIEN

ELLA ROSEWARNE

WEB EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

ADDI HINESMAN

RITA IONIDES

ANJALI KAKARLA

SCARLETT LONDON

SOCIAL MEDIA

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF

SAM CAO

ARISTA LUONG

MORGAN MCCLEASE

ART DIRECTORS

ROSIE MELLOR

IVY PROCHASKA

RYAN THOMAS-PALMER

BEE WHALEN

SECTION EDITORS

RAFFI AVEDISSIAN

ABBI BACHMAN

LUCY CASSELL-KELLEY

HENRY CONNOR

KEVIN DUTTON

SAM GIBB-RANDALL

KURT HAUSMAN

AILISH KILBRIDE

EVAN OCHOA

LEWIS PERRY

SANA SCHADEN

RUTH SHIKANOV

CLAIRE STEIGELMAN

STAFF

MARISA ANDONI-SAVAS

MATTHEW CASTILHO

LYDIA COCCIOLONE

LYDIA DEBORD

LEILA DURRIE

NAVI FIELDS

ELLIE FIFE

CLARA FREETH

ELLA GLASS

AIDAN HSIA

VEDHA KAKARLA

BRIDGETTE KELLY

FINA KUTCHER

MAX LAWTON

CLAIRE LEWIS

LAUREN MACNEIL

ISABELLA MALDONADO

SOFI MARANDA

REAGAN MASEK

EDDIE MOBILIO BRECK

LUCIA PAGE SANDER

KAELA REDDING

HANNAH RUBENSTEIN

MAHIR SOOFI

BELLA STEVENS

NINA TINNEY

ANTHONY WANG

ADVISER

TRACY ANDERSON

Columbia Scholastic Press Association

Crown Finalist and Winner 2022-2023

Gold Crown Finalist and Winner 2021-2022, 2020-2021 and 2019-2020

National Scholastic Press Association

Online Pacemaker Finalist and Winner 2022-2023

Magazine Pacemaker Finalist and Winner 2022

Online Pacemaker 2021-2022

Magazine Pacemaker Finalist and Winner 2020

Magazine Pacemaker Finalist and Winner 2019

Michigan Interscholastic Press Association

Spartan Award Winner 2022, 2021, 2020, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2007

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