The Picador Volume 9, Issue 8
A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS FOR THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY
February 21, 2014
Committed to Communicating: New Student Workers By Celeste Holland ’14
jobs.
Need a new photograph for your Facebook page or a snapshot to send to your parents? There's a new team in town that can help.
What drew you to the job?
Since the fall, So Min Park, Minh Tran, Taylor Mavroudis, and Liesl Magnus have been working with Ms. Williamson to bring a student perspective to the Communications Office. This task requires a lot of different angles and unique talent. of endurance. You have to stand in the cold, or in a busy “It's extremely difficult to take gym, or in a dark aisle for a good photo that can be used hours waiting for the right in an official publication,” angle. And when you're photosays Ms. Williamson. “You graphing people, you have to need good equipment, a good be confident so they can feel eye, and you have to have a lot relaxed—which is difficult.”
TM: I was actually “recruited” by Minh after he noticed my interest in photography and filmmaking. They needed a junior on the crew and I was happy to help! LM: I’ve always been interested in photography and writing, and this was a job that let me practice in a non-class environment—which was nice. Each of these students brings unique talent to the job. Since September, they've produced some great photographs, a new blog, and a great Instagram contest! This week we caught up with them and found out a little more about their new
SMP: Gossip Girl inspired me to spread the news to my own community. I also needed photos to prove my “Spotted” victims, but sometimes photos aren’t enough—hence the videos. (JK. I don’t know, I’ve (Continued on page 2)
Special Programs: More Than Just a Bonding Experience By Lea Rice ’14 Each year, Holderness prepares as a school for Special Programs, a part of our curriculum in which ideally each and every member of the community participates. Given the annual nature of the programs and the customary stratifica-
tion of grades into separate activities, almost everyone on our campus can spend their year anticipating what the first few weeks of March will hold.
most high school kids would not accept the challenges that Special Programs presents as the customary trials and tribulations of secondary education.
intuitively, those who have not taken part. They, unlike returning students, do not take each grade’s assigned program as a given part of any year.
It is easy for a Holderness student to forget, then, that Special Programs is actually a really unique event, and that
The people on campus with some of the best insights into how unusual Special Programs really are, somewhat counter
Racheal Erhard, for example, missed her first two years of Special Programs to attend championship ski races and