ST. MARK’S SCHOOL OF TEXAS DALLAS, TEXAS 75230 FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 2015 VOLUME 61 ISSUE 5
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RETURN OF A GIANT
THE REMARKER
LIFE
A SONG FOR THEIR TROUBLES
Class of 2015 leaders chose Sam Acho ’07 as their commencement speaker. Acho will address the graduating seniors May 22.
With the power of music, junior Eric Li provides comfort for patients at Baylor Medical Center.
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FINDING FATHER RIGHT
Encouraging administrators to further improve student involvement in the search for chaplain candidates.
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WHEN THEY’RE AWAY Performing their various out of school activities, Amy Pool, Emmett Gilles, Lynne Weber and Mark Adame find balance in their lives.
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We see them every day, but no one really knows what goes on when they aren’t at school. So we spent the day with a few teachers to find out who they really are.
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y 6 p.m. every day, most teachers have left school. But where they go after hours is another story altogether. Sure, some teachers share humorous stories from their weekends or talk about their favorite hobbies, but what is life really like for them ouside when their daytime hours at 10600 Preston Road are done? To find out, we followed Amy Pool, Emmett Gilles, Lynn Weber and Mark Adame and discovered their home lives, hobbies and interests to be just as rich as the subjects they teach.
STORY MATTHEW CONLEY, WILL CLARK, PHILIP SMART, AVERY POWELL PHOTOS MATTHEW CONLEY, WILL CLARK, PHILIP SMART, ALDEN JAMES
Arrest leads to further developments in Christina Morris case
Develoment Office coordinator remains hopeful after a more-than five-month investigation By Anvit Reddy he sits at the breakfast table, peering over the coffee beside her. The house is silent as Development Office coordinator Anna Morris and her husband Mark quietly eat their breakfast. Suddenly, the shrill ring of the phone breaks the silence. Morris picks up the phone. What she hears next will reignite her hope. Her hope that her daughter, Christina Morris, will finally come home after being reported missing Aug. 30, 2014. “We got a call that there was police activity at the Arochi family home, which is a couple miles from my home,” Morris said. “My husband started to head that way when the police detective in charge of the case actually called him and said, ‘I’m on my way to you.’ They came over to the house and they outlined what they were able to get: the arrest warrant and search warrant of the house.” Enrique Arochi was arrested at the Arochi household for the disappearance of Christina Morris. His arrest marks one of the most significant developments in the search
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for Christina, especially as it occurred because of the type of evidence. “Several things led to his arrest,” Morris said, “but the biggest thing was Christina’s DNA was found in the trunk of his car. In the police interviews, from the very beginning when they interviewed him, there was just lie after lie basically. Cell phone records helped the search. “They were able to establish that Christina’s cellphone and his cellphone were together for more than a couple of hours after she disappeared,” Morris said. “He maintains she has never been in his car, but her DNA was found in multiple locations of his car.” Morris hopes that, due to his arrest, Arochi will provide valuable information that will lead police to Christina. “We pray, we hope and that’s all we can do,” Morris said. “We’re doing everything that we can do to encourage him and encourage his family to tell him to just tell us what happened to Christina.” Even though Arochi has not provided any information concerning Christina, the
police and the community are making concerted efforts to continue searching for Morris’s daughter. “Plano Police Department is still spending a lot of resources and manpower physically searching for Christina,” Morris said. “We have volunteers who are working with us, and they do organized searches every weekend to try to locate information on Christina.” Morris is thankful for the community that has supported the search for Christina. “We are surrounded by a whole lot of wonderful people who’ve never met Christina and never met us before this happened,” she said. “They have a group of people who search every weekend without a fail. Also, the news media is great. They keep coming out and talking to us, and they keep finding reason to put her face on TV.” Morris and the volunteer group are also using social media to raise awareness and continue to keep Christina’s story in the public eye. “We also have a Facebook page that’s pretty much dedicated to events and news
stories that come up called Find Christina Morris,” Morris said. More than 11,000 people following the invesitgation through social media. “We have over 11,000 people that follow it,” Morris said. “On Twitter, and any of the social media, if you hashtag #FindChristina, there is just a ton of information out there. We did a documentary in the early days of her disappearance, and they [social media volunteers] air that quite a bit.” With the arrest of Arochi and the supportive community behind her, Morris continues to hope and fight for the safe return of her daughter. “We do not have proof right now that she is not alive,” Morris said. “Until we have that proof, we are looking for her as if she is waiting to be found. There have been a more than a handful of occurrences when people have been missing and they were found alive against all odds. That’s what we’re holding out for, and Christina is a feisty, strong-willed person and I’ve got a feeling that if anyone can survive what’s happened, she’ll be the one.”