Globe Newsmagazine, August 2020, Issue 9, Vol. 91

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. VOLUME 91 . ISSUE 9 .

CLAYTON HIGH SCHOOL. CLAYTON, MO. AUGUST. 2020.

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PANDEMIC PATRONS Mark and Krista Sucher Julie Taylor Anneliese Schaefer Michael Reed Kimberly Carroll David Lotsoff Jannette Rusch Katie and Mark Sanquist Eudora Olsen

Ying Ma Kathy and Jeff Wilkerson Sultan Meghji Matthew Bower Layla Guillen Erin Sucher-O’Grady Peggy Guest Jessica Millner Patrick and Chris Win

Raihana Omri Dave Zahniser Mary Modzelewski Radha Krishnaswamy Qinghong Wang Olivia Marcucci Tim Erlin James Zahniser Laura Pierson

Sriram Venugopalan Ann Zahniser Elizabeth Cuneo Chris Meisl Matt Erlin Susana Erlin Katie and Mark Sandquist The Bruegenhemkes Will Murphy

Izzy Greenblatt Kelly Weygandt Marisa Johnson Linda Pieczynski Rachel Zahniser Aimee and Matt Snelling

ISSUE SPONSORS ($2000 Level)

Gail Workman

GOLDEN GREYHOUND SPONSORS ($200+ Level) DTLS Landscape Architecture Dale Avenue Pediatrics Windsor Madonna O Cotlar Dave Stine Woodworking Yeung Realtors Melissa Clark

Clayton Pilates Studio The Thompson Richardson Team St. Louis Suit Company Clayton All in Coalition Van’t Hof Family Cobblestone Quality Shoe Repair The Retina Institute

WORLD TRAVELER SPONSORS ($100+ Level) The LaGesse Stanton Family The Sturmoski Family The Abburi Family Jane Cross Eugene Cross Bob and Betsy Cuneo The Stemmler Family Charlotte de Sauvage Nolting Sangeeta Khanna and Aseem Sharma The Chung Family Washington University Physicians Allergy & Immunology Clinics Mary and Dick Anthony Robin and Neil Snelling Maya Jerath and Sanjoy Baruah Venkatesh Narayan and

Gita Krishnaswamy Christy Hager DDS Ann Sachar Angela and Troy Quinn Chandrakant and Aruna Tailor Protzel’s Delicatessen Celsius Cryo-Therapy The Erlin Family Debbie and Andy Schwartz Chandrakant Tailor The Choo-Kang Family The Family of Lary Baker Go Inc. Kay Quinn Malone Geoffrey Espe David LaGesse and Laura Stanton

Mindy Keller Jill Moran The Chatterjee Family The Palamand Family The Fisher Family Sharon and Riley Gordon Christine Auston The Melinger Family Antonie and Makedonka Mitrev The Kerr Family Mindy Knows Katy Morris and How Sweet Is This Marisa and Josip Kos David Anston Kim and Tom Coorigan Karen Prechtt

This year’s Commencement Ceremony looked very dierent from years prior.

The Class of 2020 graduated socially distanced at the St. Louis POWERplex.

CONTRIBUTORS EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Grace Snelling SoďŹ a Erlin Shane Lagesse

CHIEF DIGITAL EDITOR Siddhi Narayan

SENIOR MANAGING EDITORS Kaitlyn Tran Angela Xiao Yiyun Xu

COPY EDITORS Vivian Chen Margy Mooney

SECTION EDITORS Ivy Reed, OPINION

PAGE EDITORS Tiancheng Fan

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ANGELA XIAO SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

VIVIAN CHEN | COPY EDITOR

TOM FOX THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS

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ANTONIO PEREZ CHICAGO TRIBUNE

Left: A COVID-19 tester retrieves mouth swab samples from people at a free testing event in Chicago.

Top: Matt Burnside of Dallas donates Plasma. He contracted COVID-19 in early March.

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VICTORIA FAN | PAGE EDITOR SIDDHI NARAYAN | CHIEF DIGITAL EDITOR ANGELA XIAO | SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

schools

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ELI MILLNER | PHOTOGRAPHER victoria fan | reporter

The School District of Clayton’s Return to Learn Plan details the Responsive Learning option (School District of Clayton website).

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QUEVEN | PHOTOGRPAHER

ANGELA XIAO | SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR + SHANE LAGESSE | EDITOR IN CHIEF

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“Trying to suppress votes is nothing new in Missouri.”

IVY REED | REPORTER

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KAITYLN TRAN SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

This map (Wikimedia Commons) illustrates the severity of COVID-19 in each state. Gray and light blue represent few cases of

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SHEALAH CRAIGHEADA President Donald J. Trump joins Xi Jinping, President of the People’s Republic of China, at the start of their bilateral meeting Saturday, June 29, 2019, at the G20 Japan Summit in Osaka, Japan.

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KAITYLN TRAN | SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

WIKIMEDIA COMMONS

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Mark Mantovani and his wife, Patricia at their home in Ladue (Cristina M. Fletes/St. Louis Post-Dispatch).

Jill Schupp surrounded by a group of her supporters. (Jill Schupp for U.S. Congress Website).

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MARGY MOONEY | COPY EDITOR

LAURIE SKRIVAN & JOHHNY SILVERCLOUD | PHOTOGRAPHERS

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IVY REED | OPINION SECTION EDITOR SOFIA ERLIN | EDITOR IN CHIEF

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*all graphs from the Marshall Project

“Who do we, as a society, think is worth saving? And who do we not?�

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LANA XU | SENIOR MANAGING EDITOR

READING TOM | PHOTOGRAPHER

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GRACE SNELLING | EDITOR IN CHIEF