HOMESTEAD HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR MAGAZINE
our first draft
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letter to our senior class
student section
senior spotify top picks & senior statistics
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then and now: saying goodbye to friends
middle school years
senior features
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senior year pictures
classroom memories
curtain call
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letters to teachers and friends
where we are all headed
senior timeline
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As our senior year draws to a close, the urge to completely bawl our eyes out is overwhelming, but before we completely break down over leaving these magnificent four years behind, let’s take a quick trip down memory lane and reminisce on our best moments as Homestead students. As we all started our first day of high school wearing jean skirts and tank tops as well as Adidas and Nike drip, little did we know we would be the most iconic senior class to ever bless Homestead’s halls. We think it is safe to say that we have all had some good laughs throughout our very last year as the mightiest Highlanders Homestead has ever seen. I mean, Mr. Richter literally set a backpack on fire in sophomore year chemistry, and the Valentine’s Day fight freshman year? ICONIC. Also, who can forget the seniors absolutely obliterating the juniors (on and off the field) in Homestead’s finest powderpuff game to ever have been played, with Gabby Magee’s flawless touchdown and Emily Grant’s perfectly accurate field goal, leaving the juniors wishing they had never talked all that smack before the game. Although our very dear football boys did not take the same victory in their state game against Waunakee, we think it is safe to say that Sam Walton’s Moses costume brought most of us to tears as we celebrated the opportunity to attend our very last Homestead football game at the great Camp Randall. Cold weather in Wisconsin not only brings miserable snow storms, but also brings Homestead basketball. Wintertime brought forth an unforgettable season for both our girls and boys varsity basketball teams, both teams ending their remarkable seasons with the conference champion title. The snowstorms aren’t hated by all though; the Homestead varsity ski team (yes, Homestead HAS a ski team) had the honor of sending two seniors to La Crosse for the 2022 Ski State Championship Race. Like seriously, no one can tell us we aren’t the greatest senior class to ever walk the halls of Homestead. The spring season of 2022 did not in fact bring any warm weather, but it did bring great success for the Drama Department, with the seniors completing their very last play on the Homestead stage in the production of “Secret in the Wings,” sparking storybook nostalgia in the devoted audience. We as a Publications staff also stood in utter shock as we watched our very own seniors Ethan Wang, Adam Garsha, Jacob Schmidman and Eric Wan take home a $20,000 prize for winning the International M3 Mathworks Math Modeling Challenge out of 612 other participants - WOW. On a more serious note, looking back at all we have accomplished as Mighty Highlanders this year, we as a staff could not be more honored to be there for every moment of this unforgettable year; from the disco attire at Homecoming to the funky suits at prom, we have enjoyed capturing every moment of this years best memories, which there are too many to count. It is our utmost pleasure to provide the senior class with this year’s Senior Magazine, in the hopes you all have the opportunity to see this year through a multitude of different eyes, bringing our shared senior year into a whole new light. Enjoy turning the last pages of our chapter at Homestead, and never forget - we will ALWAYS be Mighty Highlanders. Sincerely, Publications Seniors 2
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LIGHTS Student section leaders reflect on our final shouts from the stands
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Student Section
Student Feature Section #2
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our favorite songs from our time in high school
Driver’s License by Olivia Rodrigo
Circles by Post Malone
Mo Bamba by Sheck Wes
EARFQUAKE by Tyler, the Creator Come a Little Closer by Cage the Elephant All of the Lights by Kanye West
22 by Taylor Swift
After the Storm by Kali Uchis & Tyler, the Creator
Levitating by Dua Lipa
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Waves by Kanye West
Blinding Lights by The Weeknd
Mr. Rager by Kid Cudi
"Ben and I have been very close friends since 5K and I am very glad we get to go to Iowa next year together." - Sam Lococo
THEN & NOW lifelong senior friendships
"Mac and I did everything together, I can't imagine what life is gonna be like next year being 574 miles apart instead of 20 feet." - Livi Patel
Ben Handal and Sam Lococo 13 years "Evan and I have been friends and neighbors all of our lives, it is so sad to think that he won't be a bike ride away anymore." Rachel Starsky
Livi Patel and Mac Lawless 15 years "Jakey and I have shared countless adventures and all-nighter conversations since our summer camp days. Those aren't gonna end anytime soon, even though he'll be half a country away from me." - Ben Usatinsky
Rachel Starsky and Evan Endres 17 years "I've known Kendall since before she had eyebrows, and she's known me since before I dropped a bag on teeth. So basically, we've been through it all together. Expect many surprise visits <3." - Alexandra Grosso
Kendall Coburn and Alex Grosso 8 years
Ben Usatinsky and Jake Schmidman 13 years "Zoe coming over every day for the past 13 years earned her a spot in my family group chat... We're so excited to continue to spend every day together for the next four years too!!" - Claudia Sullivan
Zoe David and Claudia Sullivan 13 years 6
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As Colleen Klocko joined our interview Zoom call, she couldn't help but smile as she shared her plans for the next few months. We agreed it would be best to play it safe in terms of spreading any potential illnesses, because she works closely with medical patients on a day to day basis. “Every day is different… there’s always a lot going at once. It’s exciting though, I like the chaos,” she said of her Certified Nursing Assistant job at Advocate Aurora Health in Grafton. 9
"Every day is different; there's always a lot going on at once. It's exciting though; I like the chaos."
Colleen Klocko “My favorite part, honestly, about what I do is having those little conversations with patients that make them forget that they’re in the hospital,” she added.
“Being a CNA, there were a few times when there were surges of COVID patients and you're wearing a N-95 all day, having to gown up going to every room,” she said.
Before Klocko cared for her first patient, she was merely curious about what the field had to offer. Little did she know that she would get some of the most jarring first hand experience: working during a pandemic.
Klocko was not assigned to work in the Intensive Care Unit where the most severe cases were treated, but she still got up close and personal with the virus.
“Doing something meaningful was really important to me, " Klocko said. I’ve had jobs in the past and I always love the human interaction, getting to know people, and I knew I wanted to continue doing that.”
Pursuing a career in the medical and emergency response fields is a family matter for Klocko. She comes from three generations of emergency responders on her father’s side. It wasn’t scrubs at first sight, though. Klocko shared a common childhood career aspiration that quickly came and went for many others of our generation. She laughed as she said, “I used to want to be a veterinarian…c’mon, who didn’t?” Later on, she realized that being a nurse was more her speed.
“I saw what my family was doing and thought that was pretty cool, and I wanted to look into that. Then I started doing research about being a nurse… and I was like, ‘You know what? Let’s try it! Let’s go for it!’ so I got a food service job at Aurora when I was sixteen, right during COVID,” she said. She continued to describe what it was like working in such intense conditions at a young age. “It was pretty crazy. You can kind of tell when everyone is stressed, and everyone is running around,” Klocko said. “I remember times when they had to open up the emergency department for holding patients… they were opening up extra units.” As she was promoted from food service worker to certified nurse assistant after taking the required course, she continued to see COVID take a toll before her very eyes.
“I have talked to like CNAs too who worked in the ICU… people coming in with COVID in their fifties, perfectly healthy, but then they’re dying, they’re on ventilators. So that was hard to hear about, because I was like, ‘that’s what’s going on upstairs,’” she said. As Klocko reflected on that phase of her life, she found her takeaway to be a simple one. “I hope there’s not another pandemic… or anything like that again,” she said. Klocko made sure to note that Homestead is partially to thank for her journey into the medical field thus far. She grinned as I asked her if any teachers in particular were helpful along the way. The first name that came to her mind was her Spanish teacher, Señora Lauber De Garza. “She was just such an engaging teacher and she would always support me. She told me I would be such a great nurse, and that was so nice.” She added that learning the language proved useful for her at Aurora. “There’s actually a few times where I've had Spanish speaking patients… That’s always super cool.” She also expressed gratitude for the science department at Homestead as a whole. “All of [them] did a great job teaching their respective subjects,” she said. When asked to specify a class, she immediately said, “I really enjoyed anatomy with Mr. Davies and Ms. Piechura, I loved that class so much,” she continued. Through classes and immersive experiences alike, Klocko is more than ready to become a bonafide nurse. Her advice to her younger self, someone who was merely interested in the medical field: “Stay curious!”
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The world of medicine is not for everyone. The work is famously hard, the hours are long and every day is a new challenge. Physicians require stamina of mind and spirit, a quickness on their feet and a perseverance to problem-solve in the face of unpredictable circumstances. The world of medicine is not for everyone, but if it is for anyone, it is for Rayan Djelmami-Hani. His face lights up when he talks about his future, as if he were a child just asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. However, he discusses the path in front of him not with the idealism of the rockstar or astronaut-hopefuls, but with the calm eloquence of someone who has considered that famously hard work and chosen to push forward, undeterred, toward his passion.
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Rayan Djelmami -Hani “[My biggest passion is] helping people, relieving people of their medical problems or medical issues,” DjelmamiHani said. For Djelmami-Hani, this plan has been years in the making.
“A lot of my science courses got me really interested in the medical field and how the body works, which made me really interested in pursuing a career in medicine,” he explained. In addition to science classes, Djelmami-Hani has participated in various internships, shadowing opportunities and even opted to volunteer with Advocate Aurora Health, the tenth largest integrated hospital system in the country. In those day-to-day physicianadjacent experiences, he discovered more about the “care” side of practicing medicine. “You get that patient-to-patient connection, to see how [physicians] communicate with different physicians, nurses and their staff, as well as patients. And then you also just help serve.”
The concept of service is at the forefront of DjelmamiHani’s mind, intertwined with his early love for science. Careers pertaining to scientific disciplines are many, but as a physician, Djelmami-Hani sees himself as a caregiver as much as a technician.
“I feel like [medicine] is the perfect combination of both science and service,” he said. “It’s not just research, where you’re dealing with solely science stuff; you get to build that patient connection. That makes it a lot more appealing to me, because you can actually watch people go through a whole process of healing while being able to treat them and being a part of that process.”
Looking toward the future, Djelmami-Hani has committed to studying at Boston University, where he’ll take part in the school’s highly rigorous and selective Accelerated Medical Program, a unique approach to earning a doctorate degree in medicine (MD) that accepts only about 40 students every year.
Through the program, Djelmami-Hani will spend seven years at Boston University, earning both a bachelor’s degree and the MD required to practice medicine. After graduation, he hopes to become an cardiologist or an electrophysiologist, like his father. I had a decent amount of mentors, but most especially my dad,” Djelmami-Hani said. “He resembles what I want to be as a physician.”
When looking back at his time at Homestead, the senior appreciates the unique experiences he received from his teachers.
“[I’ll remember best the] intellectual and social growth from my freshman year to senior year and being able to work with the best teachers who helped me find my passion,” Djelmami-Hani reflected. “I learned a lot from them: more than just taking down notes, I was able to create a connection with my teachers.” As for the next generation of Highlanders hoping to follow a similar path as he, Djelmami-Hani offered advice about what it takes to foster a love of medicine.
“Get involved in as many medical opportunities as you can, whether it be volunteering or different programs, because medicine is a big commitment, especially if you want to be a physician,” he encouraged. “Once you commit to it, you want to make sure that you stick to your passion and that you don’t let anything stop it.” Rayan Djelmami-Hani operates under no starry-eyed, television-drama illusions about the world of medicine. He knows of the hard work, the long hours, the unpredictability. The world of medicine is not for everyone, but if it is for anyone, it is for the senior who lights up when he talks about both science and service, the student who is wholly devoted to medicine for one big reason: impact. “I want to do more than just become a physician,” Djelmami-Hani concluded. “I wonder, can I extend my outreach more than just my local community, toward something global?”
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Zach Miller Pins, needles. fabric and thread: those are the items that fill Zach Miller's afternoons as he gets ready for a show. Integrating creativity into every aspect of his life has been Zach Miller’s goal since early days. “I grew up with a really creative family,” Miller remarked. “My mom was a knitter, and my dad was creative in workshop type stuff.”
Surrounded by creative minds, Miller’s parents inspired him to use that creativity not only in art, but also in his everyday life. As a cub scout, Miller competed annually in pinewood derby competitions, designing and building a car. Unlike most of his peers, his goal was not to have the speediest car, but to create the best car design. “We always went first place for the design of the car because my dad and I would sit and work on it for hours,” Miller recalled. As Miller grew out of his days of pinewood derby races, he began incorporating design in other areas of his life. Upon entering high school, Miller became involved in the costumes department for Homestead’s theater program. For the past three years, he has led the costumes department in nine different shows. “I use my color knowledge to help out with the theater department,” Miller explained. Unlike strictly visual art, his work in the costumes department has stretched his eye for design. “It helps [me] think of other ways to solve problems.” Miller has also been a leader in the visual arts department throughout high school, as a board member of National Art Honor Society since his sophomore year and the president of the society for the past two years. During his time as president, he has worked with the art department to plan and organize gallery night and other fundraising events.
In total, Miller has taken 12 art credits during his time at Homestead, taking five art classes in his second trimester of senior year. He has completed four AP art courses, including media in drawing, painting, digital art and art metals.
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“I just get inspiration from everything I like,” Miller said, explaining how he samples colors from the world around him, “I just see somebody and I'm like, I love that color, and then I use that color in my art.” Instead of a specific passion in two-dimensional design like most artists at Homestead, Miller regarded his favorite projects as three dimensional pieces. “I really like interactive artwork. Stuff that you can touch whether it be paintings that you can touch that are textured, or just [anything] you can interact with,” Miller said. Miller is not only focused on the technical aspects of his art, but also on the impact and meaning behind each of his pieces. “In every single one of my pieces, there's always a story behind it. Whether you know that or whether you don't––I can look at a piece and I know exactly what it is.” In the Advanced Placement scoring for portfolios, they recommend incorporating a theme throughout the collection of pieces. Miller chose a rather autobiographical lense to create his art through. “For my AP portfolio, all of my paintings and metalwork had to do with things throughout my life.” This fall, Miller will be attending Peck School of the Arts at UW-Milwaukee, majoring in jewelry crafting and metal smithing as well as art history. Miller hopes to become a museum art curator once he finishes his degree. “I was inspired by The First Monday in May, which is a documentary about the Met Gala,” a documentary about designer fashion and celebrities that also explores specific art installations and exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art over the years. “I cried at the end [of the documentary] and I went ‘this is what I want to do with my life,” Miller said. One section of the documentary particularly impacted Miller and related to his work in the costumes department of the Homestead’s theater program.
“China: Through the Looking Glass was so great,” Miller said.
Since then, Miller has had a specific career path in mind. “I want to work at an art museum, I really love the Art Institute of Chicago––amazing museum,” Miller explained, “I would just want to work with a big city museum where you get to see people enjoying the work that you've done.”
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This exhibition at the Met opened in 2015 during the Met Gala and was meant to convey Americans’ understanding of Chinese culture. It has since become the most popular costume exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“I cried at the end and went 'this is what I want to do with my life”
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THREE HUNDRED THIRTY-ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED THIRTY-TWO
Listening to Mrs. Cicero's Wisdom Wednesdays Watching the Great Valentine's Day Fight of '19 Playing Ms. Rauch's AP Research Fun Fridays
Cheering on the dragon on Chinese New Year Helping Mr. Richter put out a backpack fire Racing cardboard boats in AP Physics 2 Acting out Romeo and Juliet
Analyzing hockey movies in Freshman Health Strolling in late to Late Starts
Decorating Mr. Recht's room for Valentine's Day Crowding the commons Evacuating A Lunch
Sleeping through Zoom class
Hearing Mr. Adams give his "I am your host" spiel every day Winning (obviously) all the pep rally games Fighting through finals
Wandering the hallways during three-hour classes Assisting in Mr. E's mouse-catching endeavors
Sporting our best themed outfits for Spirit Week Averting our eyes from the Speedo Run Watching March Madness during lunch
Celebrating both funerals and weddings in Latin Getting way too competitive in Team Sports Spilling it all in the French feelings circle
Baking cakes to celebrate finishing Great Expectations
Running when we hear Mr. Wolf rolling down the hallway
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Marquette University of University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse University Wisconsin-Platteville Christopher Ahmann Courtney Anderson Cullen Boyle Sean Cassidy Tsavci Chang John Crowley Zoe David Ethan Day Elaina DeBord Adam Dolan Alyssa Fitzsimmons Michael Florsheim Claire Foote Isabella Germano Zachary Goldberg Lucy Gonzalez Emily Grant Ari Graupe David Gunn Rebecca Ho Nina Hollingworth Maeve James Hannah Kendzor Noah Kestner Ameer Khan Stella Kim Tyler Kittleson Logan Kluck Michael Kobs Amy Koo Mitchitake Kuwabara Mariam Lubbad Alex LuMaye Jack Mandel Eve Marks Thiago Marques Abigail Moertl Cole Movsessian Kylie O'Hagan Madelyn Oppenheimer Tess Papageorge Ian Patch JJ Perez Abdul Samad Quryshi Natalia Reyes Adam Riese Marcus Rilling Ellie Sprinkmann Anna Strunets Claudia Sullivan Jude Toppe Benjamin Usatinsky Alexander Vlasik Eric Wan Steven Yang Caroline Zuccaro
Kumail Ali Anthony Barbiere Chloe Chowaniak Finn Donahue Amanda Gilbert Margarita Kopshteyn Tyler Miller Saarang Patel Salma Presswala Malik Said Caleb Sondag Rachel Starsky Valerie Tuzhilkov Owen Zeisler
Kaitlin Glaser Jack Kern Madeleine Laferriere Ava Lampert Madeline McDonald Collin McGinley Alexander Perelshtein Aidan Reis Joseph Rossman Sofia Samuel Nixon Smith
Karlee Braun Konrad Matthwig Kaitlyn Richter
Milwaukee School of Engineering Leena Affifi Colby Sehnert
Milwaukee Area Technical College
Joshua Bird Quinn Buczynski Cassie Chang Mason Hopfensberger Colleen Klocko Aden Tamanji Edgardo Torres
University of WisconsinMilwaukee
Hemanth Datta Chinnappa Ryan Giesen Reese Heyden Sophia King Victoria Kraft Mason Krueger Noah Lampert Vasyl Melnyk Emily Meyers Sabrina Miller Zachary Miller Cohen Mleziva Kyle Ohde Sidney Palmer Daniel Salazaar Morgan Valentino Shina Xiong Timothy Zimmerman
Lakeland University University of Wisconsin Eau-Clare Elijah Weinrich
Sally Desmond Jenna Segebrecht
University of Wisconsin Green Bay Northland University of College Wisconsin Steven's Point Trista Hess Terry McCall
Ryenne Julienne
Elliot Nimmer Dennis Wiebe Trinity Otto
University of University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Wisconsin-Stout Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design Grace Edwards Emily Fussell Jania Hall Adian Parks Adam Sulim
Douglas Ramlow
Elise Rickert
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Tennessee
BELMONT UNIVERSITY
Amy Abramavicus
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
Rachel Heitz
Indiana
England
LONDON COLLEGE OF FASHION Bella Magee
UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME
Andrew Baranko Annie Brown Mary Bridget Jones
BUTLER UNIVERSITY
Zachary Brin Michael Pepke
DEPAUW UNIVERSITY
Ireland
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK Chloe Bento Monteiro
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN Sophia Ho
North Carolina
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA Peyton Berryman
Georgia
EMORY UNIVERSITY Caden Bjornstad
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA Whitney Krueger
Kansas
KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY
Brendan Long
Blair Martin
Lucas Ladd
KANSAS UNIVERSITY SPELMAN COLLEGE
Erin Snow
INDIANA UNIVERSITY
Reilly West
Illinois
LOYOLA UNIVERSITY
Alanna Blackwell Kyle Knutson
DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
Daniel Zelevnoskiy
Missouri
UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI
Alice Berezovski
SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY
Sarah Matthews
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
Rebecca Yang
California
ORANGE COAST COLLEGE
Zane Jacobsen
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Sarah Li
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY
Alyssa Wendt
Arizona
ARIZONA STATE
Dhanya Angisetty
NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY
Gabriel Cicero
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Jack Gabriel Ahjullah Harris Max Kuenzi Katie O'Hagan Calista Sims Aniyah Williams 23
North Dakota
NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Nora Raasch
South Dakota
SOUTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY Joe Ollman
Pennsylvania
PENN STATE UNIVERSITY Alexandra Grosso
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY Mackenzie Lawless
Canada
RYERSON UNIVERSITY Nyla Haswell
Rhode Island
BROWN UNIVERSITY Jake Schmidman
Ohio
MIAMI UNIVERSITY Livi Patel
CASE WESTERN UNIVERSITY Helena Zhao
Florida
Massachusetts
Minnesota
Grace Bourbonais Cali Miller
William Doerr
Jack Boegel Ariana Cavalco Evan Endres Rayen Pak Brian Rodd Max Smith Jesse Thomas Alexis Timm Sam Walton
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
BOSTON COLLEGE
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
Nevaeh Darby
Rayan Djelmami-Hani Ana Jaquez Zarate Olivia Kleyman
FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
Cole Elsbree
Ethan Wang
South Carolina
UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI Matthew Pokorny
FLORIDA GULF COAST Madilyn Suarez Del-Real
Louisiana
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA Bryce Schneider
LANDER UNIVERSITY Sienna Commare
CLEMSON UNIVERSITY
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Aidan Patten
Alabama
Joshua Braverman Claire Dix
Allison Dulle Peyton Tirro
AUBURN UNIVERSITY Ryan Kennedy
UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN Alexander Cai
WINONA STATE Mark Hartlieb Cambelle Oberndorfer Emma Spitz
Mississippi
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA
Michigan
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
Maryland
Gavin Jensen Aoife Long Gabby Magee Ryan Quinn
UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI ENGINEERING
Kendall Coburn
WESTERN MICHIGAN STEVENSON UNIVERSITY Aidan Esenberg
CALVIN UNIVERSITY Brayden Meyer
New York
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER Jackson Gerew
Margaret Sehnert
Texas
Adam Garsha
Madeline Weber
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY
THAILAND
SWITZERLAND Noelle Zeltner
FRANCE
Suzanne Gey
CHILE
UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY Josie Campbell Kassidy Hill
UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE Will Vierling
Andres Sepulveda Espicel
Iowa
Jana Arie-Standridge
International-AFS Kentucky
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Ellie Capper Benjamin Handal Cate Hering Nicholas Langhoff Sam Lococo Oliver Maleki Michelle Martin Amelia O'Brien
IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY Benjamin Martyn
Colorado
Madeleine Ludwig
TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY
Sophia Ho
Parnreutai Chaiyasat
COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY
TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY
Madison Seymour
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
Clare Kunschke
Olivia Cagle Nathan Gruenwald
Vivian Kolosso-Nadel
ST. JOHN'S
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS
Joe Fricker Olivia Walskog
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Virginia
Mason Beining
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY Amanda Dulle Butchie Elliott Jack Smallwood
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO Jack Slater
Other
HOCKEY
Rocco Cicirello Jack Wojnowski
GAP YEAR
Anne Giersch Madison Suarez Del-Real
MILITARY
Dillan Timm
OTHER
William Gruber Danny Leszcynski Katherine Golden Zen Grant Rocco Kelly
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When discussing what we wanted this magazine to look like, the staff threw out lots of ideas. There were mood boards and miniature focus groups, debates and pitches, and we eventually came to this:
The process of creating the magazine was a lot like our time here as Highlanders: messy, collaborative, and passionate above all else. All of us will keep writing our stories now—we’ll revise and edit, line by line, scribbling, changing, perfecting, until we have the drafts of our lives that even the Homestead English teachers would give a perfect score. But we, the writers, designers, and photographers who created this for you, hope that your beginning is special too. We started our stories here, and together on June 10th, we’ll turn the page as the messy, collaborative and passionate authors we always have been, ready to grow the magic of
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Editors in Chief:
Alexandra Grosso, Rachel Starsky, Annie Brown Assistant Editors: Olivia Cagle, Blair Martin Contributors: Livi Patel, Mary Bridget Jones, Reilly West, Will Doerr Cover Design: Mary Bridget Jones Advisor: Rachel Rauch Principal: Eric Ebert
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