Senior Salute 2013 by The Little Hawk

Senior Salute 2013

May 21, 2013

THE SENIOR LH STAFF

SENIOR THOUGHTS & PERSPECTIVES

OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO!

Senior LH staffers reveal their future plans and favorite newslab memories, as they prepare to leave the familiar lab behind.

Seniors offer opinions and reflections of their time during high school, their future plans, and anything else they’ve observed along the way.

Whether travelling across the country or staying closer to home, all seniors are going somewhere. Here is a lost of future destinations.

PHOTOS OF THE YEAR

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SENIOR SUPERLATIVES

TRANSFORMATION TUESDAY

From most likely to become president to best smile, seniors have received a number of “superlatives” determined by their classmates. Issue By Jason Arnold, Nora Holman, Cassie Wassink, Renata Stewart, Sabrina Rodgers, and Emma Gier

High school is a time of change and growth. Here is a look at some dramatically contrasting freshman-senior portraits.

Take a look at the best photos of the year, featuring seniors participating in City High events.

SENIORS OF THE LITTLE HAWK A lot goes on behind the scenes in room 2109. The senior Little Hawk Staff has endured alot during the past four years. While their accomplishments can be seen in the many awards they have won, take a look at some of their favorite memories and their future plans after City High.

NAT ALDER

JASON ARNOLD

GABE BASILE Reporter

Co-Features Editor

Future Plans: Colombia College Chicago, Film

Future Plans: New York University, Theatre Production & Design

Future Plans: Gap year to find himself

Future Plans: Olberlin University, Undecided

Favorite Newspaper Memory: I loved those work nights. Staying up late with my peers, eating junk food, flirting with Nora, being Jack Rogers’ interim father, maybe do a little work, it was all too much fun. One of my favorite specific moments was when Max, Jon, Jake, Gabe and I went to visit the Hawkeye Carver arena and Rogers took us around the entrance four times, claiming the entrance we were supposed to be at was “somewhere in here”. We climbed up(and fell down) a mud hill trying to get through a locked emergency exit.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: Working on the Little Hawk staff can really suck sometimes. Oh wait... this is supposed to be a GOOD memory? Ok. Well, my favorite memory is from junior year, when we used to sit in the classroom together to come up with ideas for next issue. It would start out with so much optimism, and eventually lead to everyone screaming at each other over their ideas. It always showed how much people care about this little thing called The Little Hawk. We’re such a dysfunctional family... and I love it!

Favorite Newspaper Memory: My favorite memory from working on The Little Hawk is siding with both Jason and Kieran in the endless music debates. On one hand, there’s Kieran playing some awesome wub-wubs, but on the other, I get to yell at Kieran. There’s also the Minneapolis trip with Jake, John, Nat, and Max last year when we met another group of girls that we eventually sabotaged, and the Seattle trip with Jake, John, Nat (and Max in spirit), where Rogers demanded we rent out the duck bus. Because everyone wants to ride in a bus with a giant cartoon duck on it.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: Working with such and amazing team of writers and designers has been the highlight of my experience on the little hawk staff. Being a features wrinter opened my eyes to new ways of thinking because I was able to meet so many new people I otherwise wouldn’t have had the privilege to meet. While that was fun and all, I think we can all agree that my FAVORITE memory has nothing to do with writing. My one true love is food and I have eaten a lot in room 2109. Especially chicken.

Co- Online Editor

Designer

EMMA BAXTER

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MIKIEL CURTIS

MALIN CRAIG

MAX FRIEDMAN

EMMA GIER

Ads Manager Future Plans: Iowa State University, Marketing & Public Relations

Reporter Future Plans: University of Northern Iowa, Undecided

Co-Online Editor Future Plans: Universoty of Texas at Austin, English

Favorite Newspaper Memory: I’ve never done much work. Writing articles and stories was too stressful. Designing was too difficult. But selling ads was just right. All I ever had to do was make a few phone calls, send a few emails, and place a few on pages here and there.I must admit that this newslab has been a lot more than a boring classroom to me. It’s been a locker, a hangout, and even a second home....... or a cheap mediocre apartment. But all sappiness aside, I’m gonna miss it.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: My newspaper career was brief, but enjoyable. I had fun learning how to really write something that an audience will read. The satisfaction of writing a piece for the paper is a much better feeling than getting a good grade on an essay. My favorite memory about newspaper was writing the Michael Jordan and LeBron James article. It was fun to research and was a topic that was interesting for me. The best part about newspaper is writing something for an audience.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: I loved wandering through Minneapolis with Nat, Gabe, Jon and Jake last year. Also, when we went to Kansas City sophomore year Ellen Kealey dyed her hair orange in the bathtub at our hotel, so that was a thing. The pumpkin-carving contest sophomore year was also great, just chillin with Carl Sessions and Mikey Hunter in general. I’ve had some great times neglecting work in the newslab over the years.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: My favorite memory on staff would definitely be junior year in general. We had so many awesome moments on our work nights and on our trip to Minneapolis. Although there’s been ups and downs, we’ve created something incredible together and I couldn’t be more proud of everyone and am so excited to see where everyone goes in the future.

KIEREN GREEN

NORA HOLMAN

LILY HOWARD

WILL LUBAROFF

Future Plans: Tufts University, International Relations

Future Plans: Iowa State University, Industrial Design

Future Plans: University of Virginia, Undecided

Future Plans: University of Northern Iowa, Music

Favorite Newspaper Memory: Some of my favorite newslab memories have actually been the arguments that I’ve had with my fellow editors. A lot of lasting friendships have come out of those “discussions” (Ren, Cassie, Jason, I’m looking at you guys). Strange as it is to say it, I’m glad that we don’t always get along. It made for a better paper, and a deeper sense of camaraderie.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: Being a part of The Little Hawk staff was an experience I will never forget. The thing I’ll remember most is transforming a dinky 16-page tabloid into the 50-page award winning beast The LH is today. I love my amazing, dysfunctional family more than Emma Baxter loves chicken! Aslo, roller-blading through the halls at midnight was super fun too... but don’t tell Mr.Bacon ;)

Favorite Newspaper Memory: My favorite Little Hawk Newspaper memory? You want to hear about my favorite memory? The time that will warm my heart in years to come? Let me get this straight, you want to hear about my favorite newspaper memory? Well... it was a dark and stormy night... Mr. Rogers was pacing the floor, pages were flying off the printing press in the corner... I’m totally kidding I can’t think of one. I guess I kinda liked hanging out with all my fwends...

Favorite Newspaper Memory: My favorite part of newslab was the various work nights that were spent eating pizza and generally not doing work. I had a lot of fun driving to Little Caesar’s with Mikiel Curtis, a car ride full of screaming, swearing and making fun of Nora’s car. Though my time on the Little Hawk staff was short, I really feel like I became part of a team.

Opinion Editor

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Designer

Copy Editor

Designer

Future Plans: DePaul University, Elementary Education

Reporter

ALEX PEREZ

RENATA STEWART

Future Plans: University of Iowa, Theatre & Journalism Favorite Newspaper Memory: Working with Emma was definitely my favorite part, especially on work nights when we would draw on each others faces to keep each other motivated and working or when we decided to cover ourselves with Rugrats tattoos and they didn’t come off for a long time. Also, when we bought the chicken and ate it. All the drama and arguments the staff had were all worth it, I’m so proud to have been part of such a great group of people.

Co-Features Editor

CASSIE WASSINK

RYAN YOUNG

Future Plans: Georgetown University, International Relations

Future Plans: Northwestern University, Chemistry & English

Future Plans: Iowa State University, Business

Favorite Newspaper Memory: Being Co-Executive editor of The Little Hawk for two years has been a very rewarding experience. My favorite memory has to be at the San Antonio national conference where we won the Pacemaker and Best of Show. Aside from the joy of watching Cassie’s face turn purple, it really made all the long, sometimes painful worknights worth it. I’m really going to miss room 2109. LOVE YOU BOO BOOS!

Favorite Newspaper Memory: One time I actually swore in the newslab and everyone freaked out. I also really enjoyed the friendly bickering that occurred during worknights, and the sense of camaraderie that came out of it all. Co-editing with Renata was pretty great, too, and having to take our picture five times for every Letter From the Editors. And, being in San Antonio to receive the Pacemaker and Best in Show was an amazing experience! I’m told I turned purple.

Favorite Newspaper Memory: One of the best parts of working on The Little Hawk was those long and tiring work nights. Even though they were not that long, since the sports team was ALWAYS done first. Being able to go to City sporting events and being close to the action was a lot of fun too. The State Volleyball Tournament and The Drake Relays definitely stand out as some of my favorite times working for The Little Hawk. I learned a lot in my short time on staff, and am so proud to be apart of it.

Co-Executive Editor

Sports Editor

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Seeing The World From Outside ryan o’malley Usually these articles every year are about the same thing: a senior writes a story about their time as a K-12 student in Iowa City and/ or attempts to give some “wise guy “ advice to the underclassmen. My column is slightly different from the norm. These days, I find myself simultaneously envisioning the outside world and looking back at my time as a student at City High growing up in Iowa City. Then, I think back to the time when I had the opportunity to look in from the outside at my life as a City High student and see the world from a different perspective. My junior year I was known as the kid that went to China for a semester. While in Beijing, China, I felt like an “outsider” to my own home. I noticed that my life in Beijing made me reenvision Iowa as a small part of the vast world rather than as the only home I ever knew. I could see time at home passing by from emails, Skype chats, and newspaper snippets my grandfather mailed me. I was missing normal classes with my friends, family activities, orchestra concerts, cross-country meets and other fall events. These things had been part of my life for the past several years; now they seemed like

part of a prior life I no longer lived. Weekly, ferently. I browsed the Iowa and American headlines; In reality, there is no need to go live abroad “Russia, China veto Iranian Sanctions”, “Oc- or even leave Iowa City for our lives and percupy Protests Take to the Streets”, “Steve Jobs spectives on the world to change. As myself Dead”, “Bruggers Downtown Burns Down.” along with the rest of the class of 2013 preReading these felt weird bepares to leave City High, I cause I was residing outside am sure I am not the only of the Iowa City environment, one that ponders what my These days, I find disconnected from the stanlife will be like permanently myself envisioning dard Iowa Cityan/American outside of being a student viewpoint. at this school. Some of us the outside world In China, I was exposed to including myself are leaving and looking back a more globalized environment Iowa City, but even for the at my time as a and many other perspectives. those that plan to stay close student at City I lived amongst and attended to home will still have their High growing up in school with students from five perspective of the world different continents. During around them change beIowa City. the weekends I lived with a host cause our lives as students family, giving me a glimpse of at City High will no longer typical Chinese life. These exbe the centerpiece. Our periences interacting with these people made new varied experiences will shape us all. Last me see things differently than I had previously. time, I was only away from City High for a brief In addition to gaining a new perspective, I was four months. This time, it will not be just me, learning a new language and how to live in not but the whole class of 2013 permanently leavonly a new place, but a new culture for that se- ing City High to go off into the outside world. mester. When I got home, I saw everything dif-

I’ll Stop the World and Melt with Nat max friedman It isn’t until someone sees you for who you We’d play Call of Duty online together and truly are, that you can begin to be yourself. I rave about the girls we liked through our was too concerned with other people’s opin- headsets. We understood each other immeions; some people thought diately, which is someI was a hopeless idiot, while thing that I’ve never some thought I was a conreally been able to ceited prick. It wasn’t until I achieve with another I know that our found Nat Alder, or rather he person. He helped me friendship will found me, that I began to see realize that the people never be as who I really was. who thought I was an There was an instant conidiot just didn’t uncarefree and easy nection; we both had lusderstand my sense of as it is now, but cious jewish hair, a sense of humor, and that people that it will remain humor, and thyroid-related who thought I was arglandular problems. (Okay rogant just confused in some shape or he doesn’t have that last part arrogance for selfform. but I do so don’t joke about confidence. Because of it.) He invited me and some that understanding, we other friends to come see a could tell each other movie, and soon after that we anything. When I made became best friends. We’d go get candy bars an awful mistake, he helped me through it, together and talk about our favorite movies. and never turned his back on me for a second. 6 SENIOR SALUTE

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Whenever I had to make an important decision, he was happy to coach me through it. I love that guy for all those reasons, and I know that I wouldn’t have had nearly as much fun in high school as I did without him. My advice to all students would be this; find a best friend, someone that truly understands you and don’t screw it up. I honestly believe that Nat and I will continue to be friends forever, even though I’m moving 1000 miles away for college. We may never be the same hockey team ever again, but that’s okay. I know that our friendship will never be as carefree and easy as it is now, but that it will remain in some shape or form. More importantly, that he and I will continue reaching out to people with the same warmth that led us to each other in the first place. If you can find a best friend like I did, someone that makes you want to sing -I’ll stop the world and melt with Nat -- then I think that high school will be a breeze.

Thoughts on Travel juju wang Getting to and from school was always dif- cold. I have to park outside and in the winter it’s ficult for me. Not the actual getting from place to freezing every morning. I blast the heat as soon place, but deciding which mode of transporta- as I get into the car, but my dear old car only tion I would use. I had many options, each with begins to warm up once I’m parked and ready their pros and cons, and I’ve come to realize a lot to get out. The second problem is the walk to of thought goes into choosing which path I actu- school itself. I’m not known for my punctualally take. I’d like to share my thoughts with you, ity so generally by the time I get to school, my if you don’t mind. only option is the lower lot. First, getting to school: Not only do I have to walk • Walking- I don’t walk through all that parking lot, One last issue I in the mornings. I roll out I must walk across this giant have while walkof bed and stagger out the lawn (slightly uphill) every house. If I had to walk, I time. Pretty? Yes. Practical? ing is which path to would be 15 minutes late Not so much. Who decided take. I always want to school every day. to put that there? (First world to take the short• Parents- This is my problems, I know.) most common mode of And then of course the est path home, transportation. My parmatter of getting home: which involves cutents drive me to school • Being picked up (by parting through the on most days. It’s not too ents) - I’ve thought about the far out of their way, but I energy efficiency of this quite fields behind the imagine it’s still a hassle to a bit. To drive back and forth school. drive through the parking (from work to school to home lots and drop me off. Since to work again) is more than I’ve gotten my own car, I twice the distance I would have a sneaking suspicion my parents want me have to go driving my own car. However, since to drive myself. They’re too nice to outright de- my parent’s car gets more than twice my Jeep’s mand it, but to encourage me to drive myself, impressive slightly-under-ten-miles-per-gallon, they have become fond of honking at me every it all works out to about the same. The true morning after I get out of their car. (I’m not kid- problem is that it’s an inconvenience to everyding.) Right after I close the door, my dad smiles one. I don’t want to make people come pick me at me and leans on the horn. People start turning up at such an awkward time (that changes every their heads and I pretend I have no idea who the Thursday). Also, what if I have to do something crazy people in the car are. I usually don’t look after school? back, keep my head down, and scuttle into the • Driving- Driving myself is nice, but to be school as fast as possible. I endure this treatment able to drive home, I had to drive myself in the because it still beats… first place. In the summer it gets really hot too. • Driving myself- The first problem is the The AC button in my car is a lie. (My car is as old

as I am; something’s had to stop functioning.) The first time I tried turning on the AC, I turned the fan thing onto high. Air blasted out, but it wasn’t cold. I also got a face full of dried leaf bits, bug exoskeletons, and other wonderful things. • Walking- well, the weather is always an issue. There are a couple other things I consider too. When I have a friend to walk with, it’s fun. I don’t mind it much at all. How much stuff I’m carrying also plays a key factor. Along with that, I consider how much work I have that day. I know the 15 minutes it takes me to get home isn’t much, but I can’t help but feel like I’m wasting time. Often if we have an English reading or something, I try to read that while I’m walking and avoid the judgmental stares I get from people. One last issue I have while walking is which path to take. I always want to take the shortest path home, which involves cutting through the fields behind the school. The hardest decision comes when I get close to the track. I can go through it, or around. Clearly going through is shorter, but it almost seems like an insult to the track - something that was built to facilitate exercise, used as a shortcut. I usually don’t go through it if someone’s running on it to avoid accusing glares. When I do cut through the track, it’s always awkward when I exit through that little gate on the other side. Raising my violin above my head and carefully twisting myself so that my backpack can fit through, and inevitably somehow hitting myself in the face with my lunchbox. Now that this article is longer than my English essay, I will go finish that. (And by “finish” I mean begin.)

“Some Enchanted Evening” jason arnold One Saturday, way back in ‘02, my mom had the idea to go to the City High spring musical, “South Pacific.” Because I always wanted to be like my sporty older brothers, a musical was the last thing I wanted to do. I would much rather be watching ESPN or the World Cup or whatever sporty people watch. Despite our objections, my mom conquered (as all moms do) and our family was on our way to see some grand ol’ musical theatre! Having never seen City High before, I was in awe at how the school kind of looked like a castle and the lady in the front circle looked like the Statue of Liberty (later on, I’d learn it’s actually a replica). And then the show started. I don’t remember much of my early years (other than being the most adorable kid in the world, of course) but I remember most of those

two and half hours. I remember our seats right in front of the tech booth, hearing the huge orchestra in the pit, the scenery flying in and out, and the big love scene in Act II. Something in my brain clicked while sitting there. From then on, I didn’t want to play soccer or baseball anymore. I wanted to make musicals... and I still want to. I never realized back then that I’d spend about 90% of my high school life in that very same theatre (the other 10% would be spent in the newslab). I never realized that I probably walked past my future mentor Doug Lestina in the lobby after the show. And I never realized that one day I’d get to sit in the tech booth and light up the stage. It goes without saying that I got pretty lucky. My brain clicked at a young age, and ever since

then, I’ve known exactly what I want to do with my life. But that never would have happened if my mom hadn’t insisted on taking me to watch something other than a sporting event. My one word of life advice (which I totally shouldn’t be qualified to give), is to keep an open mind. You never know what might make your brain click. If you’re an underclassman, be sure to take advantage of everything City High has to offer. Leave high school as a better person than when you started. If you’re a senior and still have no idea what you’re going to do, be open to new experiences and you’ll find it. Who knows, maybe if I hadn’t surrendered to seeing “South Pacific,” I’d end up as a professional hockey player... and all that sweaty padding seems pretty gross.

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High School Didn’t Suck For Me nat alder I almost didn’t have fun in high school. I could’ve had a bad four years. I could’ve pulled a Leo and succumbed to a crack addiction, but thankfully, something went right(I don’t do crack). I arrived to Iowa in February of 2010, a freshman who crashed the party two trimesters late. I spent a whole year and two months of living vicariously through being a loner, having great nights of hardcore TV watching and Skyping old friends I couldn’t let go of(who are all models now, for some reason). Somewhere down the road, during Sophomore year, I got forced into an English group with four douchebags: Max Friedman, Gabe Basile, Will Lubaroff and Boris Perkhounkov. Max was the free-spirit, forward thinking hipster, long shaggy hair, big aspirations. Gabe was the funny, weird redhead, smart kid with a heart of gold and an affinity for video games. Will was the real funny one of the group, a truly beautiful soul, a kind human being who shared with me an adoration of fried foods. Boris was of course the brains of the quartet, a genuine good guy who also had big aspirations. These four were the foundation of the many friendships(and few enemies) I had with people at City High. It was this group, and the subsequent interaction, that lead to us deciding to go to the movies together, which snowballed into a cavalcade of fun: from us planning double dates together, to us throwing failed rainbow parties together, and eventually to us graduating together. Max and I became best friends, and I’m glad. He made me a better person, and taught me the vir-

tues of things like how to use a comb. We had there will always be someone there for you. If beautiful times together. We made gloriously you suppose that you have no friends, do not trashy film fest movies(“SPY”, unfortunately give up. You will find somebody, or somebody funding for “SPY 2” fell through after a certain will find you(not in a serial killer kind of way). If foreign power who shall not be named *cough you are a freshman, or even a sophomore readcough Canada cough cough* got cold feet), and ing this and thinking that you have no friends we even taught each other how to eat healthily and high school is terrible, I just have to tell you and maintain a good workout regimen become that it most certainly will get better. I know it better at the things we loved, writing and film. sounds tacky and cliche, but it’s the truth. It was through Max that I met many great You may not pull a “Perks of Being a Wallpeople: Michael Gloer flower” and befriend and Matt Lee, my high a bunch of seniors school heroes, brilliant and then have a nerand inspiring comedic vous breakdown, We are all simultanegeniuses; Emma Baxter that’s stupid, and and Liliana Coelho, hiyou’re name sure ously releasing everylariously amazing womisn’t Percy Jackson, thing we have known en who were tremenbut you will certainly dous combatants to my find solace in someand sc rambling to hold early shyness, and one thing in your high of whom was asked out school career, wheththe pieces closest to our by yours truly. There was er or not it’s a close hearts even closer. Kara Hartley, Amanda friend, a sport, an Gerard, and Alex Perez, anti-abortion rally, three women that were Korean club, etc. rich in wisdom as well as I just thank Max happiness; and of course and the others for there was Ava Vargason, a shining light in my being my friends when they had the accessibillife, a truly radiant woman to whom I am for- ity not to be, and the fact that, because of them, ever indebted for being lovely and teaching me I had fun in high school. Because of Max and a thing or two about simple human generosity. company, I can freely say that I had an amazing These people(and many, many more) have made four years. my life better. They made me happy. They made I found loving, brilliant people that I am school worth it. I love them. Having a friend honored to call my friends, and so high school like Max made me realize that no matter what, did not suck for me. The ride’s been great.

Farewells and Goodbyes mikiel curtis Bittersweet is what describes the last few days of high school. The last dance, last homeroom, last yearbook. Senior year in high school is a long series of farewells. And as unsettling as it may be to leave our 13-year jobs as students, one of our most wrenching farewells is usually our goodbyes to friends. Whether you’re leaving home for college, the workplace or the military, you know you can always return home to reconnect with family. But those treasured friends who shared their lives and knew you best might never be seen again. And although we swear to each other that we will stay in touch, the mere possibility that this is a final farewell is almost too much to bear. Just understand that your friends may have different ways of saying so long. There are many ways to say goodbye. Some people may choose a more drastic route in which they push their closest friends away in an effort to make the separation easier. 8 SENIOR SALUTE

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Some may start hanging out with another group of people to reassure themselves that they’ll be able to make friends in college. These are the people who don’t see the good in goodbyes. Then there are those who’ll want to complete a bucket list of some sort with their friends or maybe go on a road trip. These are the people who want to savor every last moment of freedom. Every last moment of ignorant bliss. You should want to spend time with you’re friends this summer whether they’re going to the same college or not. Because as much as you may not want to believe it. College changes people. The person you know this summer may be a completely new person next summer. And that’s what we all hate isn’t it? Change. The human race naturally hates change. It scares us to think of something interfering with our daily lives. But change is all around us. Change happens all the time, whether good or bad. All we can do is

learn to cope. Don’t fret about making friends in college. You’ll make tons. And the ones from High school that truly mattered will always remain close to you. Just remember that a phone works both ways. Plus with social networking at its peak, there’s no excuse not to stay in touch. The whole phase of ending high school is very melodramatic. You’re forced not only to look towards the future but also to look back at the past. Look at how much you’ve accomplished. Look at how much you’ve changed. Time will at instances look like your hero and savior. But for most high school seniors, time is the villain now. It’s collapsing in on us. Tuesday is the last day of classes. Graduation is a week from today. How can this be? It was just yesterday that senior year was beginning, that all of high school was beginning. Yet here we are at the home stretch. And you know what? We’ve made it.

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Andrew Hein

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Melanie OMeara

DeAirius Salibi

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Lily Howard

Chris Evans

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Matilda Kuenster

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I’ll Never Forget... jordan mendoza There are some things about high school that I might forget. I want to remember them- it’s just that someday these past four years will naturally fade away. I might not remember my very first day at City High, when I wandered around the halls pretending like I knew where I was going, but actually freaking out because I couldn’t find the cafeteria. Regretfully, I might forget just how beautiful City High looked in the early morning, sitting atop its hill- and how out of breath speed walking up that hill made me the days I was late. Luckily, I might forget those days when I was so stressed about my workload that even looking at my pencil made me burst into tears,

knowing that the second I picked it up, I would be doing homework until midnight. Hopefully, I might forget how stupid I acted around cute boys and how my shyness led me to say things I would later regret. And I might forget the feeling I’ve had for the past month: the feeling that the end of high school is in sight, and right there next to it is my future, waiting for me to just reach out and grab it. I might not remember the things that happened to me at City High, but I will never forget the people that I’ve been lucky enough to meet. I will never forget the wonderful teachers I’ve had the opportunity to learn from. The thing about City High teachers is that they really

The thing about City High teachers is that they really care: they care about us as their students, and our successes are their successes.

From Conformist to Cool

As a little twelve-year-old, all I could think about was being popular going into seventh grade. My mom told me to “be nice and be yourself and people will like you”. Contrary to her wishes, however, I conformed into the equivalent of a beige wall. Just a year before, I had demanded that I be a light bulb for Halloween, showered only once per week, and wore oversized sweatshirts daily. Now, I wore shirts that said Hollister and Aeropostale for the sole reason that they said Hollister and Aeropostale. The jump between elementary school and junior high was enormous. But once my time at South East had come to a close, another transition began. My freshman year, I started Harry Potter club and joined the Model United Nations team. I also took a debate class and (with some not-so-gentle persuasions from Graham Klemme and Kieran Green) I joined the debate team. I think that’s when I started to become “a nerd”. Sitting in my room reading critical feminist literature and studying up on the sovereignty politics of the South China Sea, debate turned my perception of “cool” on its head. Instead of spending my weekends at home and my Fridays trapped in the prison-like walls of school, I was travelling the country, from Michigan to Texas, Minnesota to Illinois. My research doubled as English assignments, which 20 SENIOR SALUTE

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care: they care about us as their students, and our successes are their successes. I will absolutely never forget Mr. Bacon and his great support for me, as well as all of the students at City High. I’ll never forget his enthusiasm, his warmth, and his ability to make City High the outstanding school it is. And of course, I will never forget my amazing friends: the ones I’ve grown up with, as well as the friends I’ve recently made- the friends that will be standing with me at graduation. With the short amount of time I have left at City High- and ultimately in Iowa City- I’ve been wondering: how will people remember me? While everyone hopes that they leave behind positive memories, it is time for us to stop thinking about the past, and grab our futures. It is time for the Class of 2013 to leave behind our beloved City High, but to never forget the what mattered to us. Memory is a funny thing: sometimes, we have the choice to remember things, or to forget them. Now, it is time for each one of us to ask ourselves the question: what do I want to remember?

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tripled as college essays. As an added benefit, outlook on popularity. I realize now that debate debate opened me up to a group of people that made me cooler than any Hollister t-shirt ever could teach me the inner-workings of Dungeons could. I also realize this column’s quickly turnand Dragons and (before it became financially ing into a giant cliché, but that’s perfectly fine disadvantageous) beat me by me. My experiat Magic: The Gathering. ence in high school If I could go back to gave me an op2007 to tell my twelveportunity to excel year-old self to join the at something that Sitting in my room debate team and partner I love and allowed reading critical femiwith Kieran Green, I know me (to my mother’s preppy, seventh-gradegreat approval) to nist literature and Ava would cringe, flip her just be myself. So studying up on the hair, and walk away. Kiif I could give one eran and I didn’t exactly piece of advice to sovereignty politics get along back then and those of you conof the South China I would think that this tinuing on your plan was the epitome of journey through Sea, debate turned “un-cool”. I wouldn’t dare high school, it’d be my perception of mention Magic or D&D, this: join the debate for fear of snide comments team. And if debate “cool” on its head. and sassy remarks (an exisn’t your thing, planation of what, exactly, do something that Magic and D&D are would makes you feel inbe a prerequisite to either cluded, intrigued, of these). Oddly enough, however, I don’t regret and inspired. That’s what it means to be yourhow I acted in junior high because I don’t think self, even if discovering who you are has to come I’d fully appreciate how awesome it is to embrace first. the meaning of nerd girl without my former

The End of the Beginning francesca lubecki-wilde Senior year is defined for me as a year of play across our eyes before we go to sleep, the reflection. Finally waiting at the edge of the ones that greet us when we are nervous or threshold, prepared to leave my front door alone, or the ones we find ourselves talking swinging behind me about without realizand stride into the real ing it. For the rest of world, I have spent a our lives, we will filter lot of time examinmovies and literature, We are all simultaing the person I am. opinions and new neously releasing In the process I have knowledge, and opcome to a conclusion portunities and disapeverything we have that has lodged itself pointments through known and scrambling in my hip pocket forthe memories we’ve to hold the pieces ever: If a person can made in high school. emerge from adolesMy own memories closest to our hearts cence knowing their are so inextricably eneven closer. convictions and betwined with the faces ing proud of the perof countless City High son they’ve become, a students, with Opspecial place in their stadt, with the smell hearts must always be made for the parents of a hundred stringed instruments, and with and the high school that made them that way. the gentle rustle of a page turning in English As seniors, we have all lived enough life to class, that I am sure that City High School has start to pick and choose the memories we have molded the person I am more than I will ever that truly define us. They’re the memories that be able to understand.

Therefore, some thank yous are in order. Thank you, Mr. Bacon, for bringing a contagious school pride to halls of our school. Thank you to the staff and teachers who welcomed me into City as a freshman and showed me that City High is a family. Thank you Mr. Lestina, Mr. Peters, and Patrick for helping me discover the theatre and realize I never want to leave. Thank you, Mrs. Davis, for showing me my voice and teaching me how to use it. Finally, thank you to my friends for making me laugh uncontrollably, for bringing me cookie dough when I cried, and for being in so many of my happiest memories. The end of the beginning is a daunting place to be. We are all simultaneously releasing everything we have known and scrambling to hold the pieces closest to our hearts even closer. However, with the shifting of a tassel we will soon be at the beginning again, the beginning of the future of our whole lives. I have high hopes that this is a glorious place to be.

High School and Chaos Theory I’d contemplated breaking with tradition and keeping this short, but at this point it doesn’t seem seem like it will work out. Anyway, here we are, graduating at last. It all seems a bit surreal, doesn’t it? Come to think of it “surreal” seems like a pretty accurate way to describe our time here at City High School. As freshman, when we received our introductory address from Mark Hansen, he made a point of saying that “[our high school years] will be some of the important in our lives.” This was true, of course, but what he failed to mention, though, was how weirdly eclectic those four years will be. Put simply, a lot my most treasured friendships, experiences, and memories from high school are the result of random phenomena. Which is basically a convoluted way of saying that a lot of strange sh*t goes down in high school and we usually no idea how it will impact our lives until after it has occurred. The funny thing is, though, a lot of those weird goings-on are only tangentially related to high school itself. However, these small things balloon to enormous proportions, eventually encompassing huge parts of our lives. Take me, for example. As a freshman, I had a conversation with one of the other members of the de-

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bate team who mentioned that he was applying as an adult. Rather, it was a melting pot that alto Tufts University. My curiosity was piqued and lowed my primordial little adult self to emerge so I began to look into Tufts as a prospective and start to flower and bloom (if you’ll forgive school. me for mixing metaphors). Flash forward three and a half years and I’m On a related note, I’d initially thought about heading to Boston as part of the Tufts class of giving shout-outs to all the mentors that helped 2017. That conversame discover my own tion had nothing to do “little big moments.” with high school or high However, I realized Since the magazine school related things, that in order to do designers are fascists but I can say with some that properly I would and won’t let me have degree of certainty that probably have to fill I might never have conup another page or a page to myself, I’m sidered applying to Tufts so with writing (and going to have to be had I not shown up to even that wouldn’t content with saying this: debate practice that day. fully do the project As much as it is a cliche justice). Since the thank you to everyto say it, it’s little things magazine designers body who got me to this like that that make City are fascists and won’t point. High unique. It prolet me have a page to vides an environment in myself, I’m going to which those little things have to be content can maybe affect our lives in ways that aren’t so with saying this: thank you to everybody who little. That’s kind of how I’m going to look back got me to this point. You know who you are. on my experience here at City High. It wasn’t a Thank you, sincerely and from the bottom of my monolithic force that dictated my development heart. I couldn’t have done it without you.

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