The Picador Volume 8, Issue 12
A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
May 10, 2013
Announcing the New Faces of The Picador for 2013-14 the applicants, with a 33% acceptance rate. This year’s Congratulations! student editors and Ms. MagHere are the faces of the Pica- nus had to make tough decidor editors for the 2013-2014 sions while trying to determine the perfect mix of students. school year. Congratulations to Celeste Holland and Zihan The Picador staff needs to have a mix of juniors and senGuo, both of whom will join Lea Rice and Sarah Michel as iors, and a mix of males and females. Editors also need to Senior Editors. Congratulations also to Parker Densmore be responsible, organized, and and Charles Harker, who will good at communicating. While join the team as Junior Editors. it is helpful when the student editors are good writers, previCompetition was stiff among ous involvement with The By Dylan Arthaud ’13
Picador also plays a role in determining who is selected. Lastly, the present editors wanted to make sure multiple groups on campus were represented on the staff. “People who are enthusiastic and are not afraid to conduct interviews or ask others to write stories make great editors,” explained Ms. Magnus. “Students who are organized and do what they say they are going to do and who have
Secret and August Committee Makes a Decision Monkey Wrench Gang by Edward Abbey. Still others recBack this winter on February ommended memoirs like A 12th, Ms. Cirone proposed one Chant to Soothe Wild Eleof the first books for this year's phants by Jaed Coffin and If I All-School Summer Read. Die in a Combat Zone......Box Others followed like nonficMe Up and Ship Me Home by tion books Into the Wild by Tim O'Brien. All the books Jon Krakauer and The Boy deserve to be read, but alas, Who Harnessed the Wind by only one could be the AllWilliam Kamkwamba. Other School Summer Read. members of the community proposed classics like Ishmael After receiving the rest of the by Daniel Quinn and The submissions throughout the By Emily Soderberg ’13
winter and spring, the Secret and August Committee met in April to select the 2013-14 All -School Summer Read. Ultimately, after much deliberation, they chose Ms. Cirone’s proposal: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach. This summer the community will be immersed in the passion of baseball and in the lessons of the Human Condition. (Continued on page 10)
new, exciting ideas to bring to the newspaper are also valuable.” So what makes these students stand above the rest? In their own words from their letters of interest, here are their answers. Zihan Guo ’14, who has been a very reliable contributor to The Picador for two years, thinks that being an editor will be a good way to get to know more people in the commu(Continued on page 2)