Students off to India,

Pennsylvania, and New Jersey

By Sophiana CarrellStaff Writer

Deciding where you’ll be for the next four years of your life is not a simple or impetuous resolution to come to. This past year, this decision has consumed the thoughts of many seniors, causing much anxiety and sleepless nights. Finally, May 1 came around and, whether they were ready or not, students were forced to declare where they will spend their future. For some though, they will be further away from their homes in Castro Valley than others.

Tanya Poovaiah will attend the Manipal Institute of Media and Entertainment in India earning a specialized animation degree.

“I’ve always wanted to do animation,” says Poovaiah. “And this is my chance.”

She added that the main differ-ence between American colleges and her college in India is that they don’t have as much mascot paraphernalia.

“The school is reputable and close to my family,” Poovaiah said. “Plus, I don’t want to waste two years doing general education.”

Another CVHS senior Mad-elyn Keyser, who will attend the University of Pennsylvania next year, said, “I’m leaving every-thing I know like the back of my hand behind, and moving on to a whole new experience.”

Having lived in Castro Val-ley her entire life, she will now be surrounded by unfamiliar things.

“It’s scary and exciting all at the same time, ” said Keyser. “I’m looking forward to meeting new people and [am] glad that I will still be able to come and visit Castro Valley.”

Ariel Navarro will be at Rut-gers University in New Jersey next year. She claims she first heard about the university from the movie, Garden State, and “If it’s good enough for ‘Tetembe’ then it’s good enough for me.”

Ariel decided to go to Rutgers for the sole reason that it is an out-of-state school.

“I find Californians idiotic, small-minded, and dull,” says Navarro. “Rutgers is the second most diverse campus in the U.S. and no one from CVHS is going there, so that makes me a little bit more happy on the inside.”

Though they may be homesick at first, going to a school out of the comfort zone of California takes courage.

“I’ll miss the American life-style, but it will be amazing to experience a new one,” says Poovaiah.

Seniors ready for college life outside of California

By Eva PoonNeWS editor

Look how far we’ve come:Timeline of major events

Advice for underclass-

men

Before the class of ’09 peaces out for good, we’d like to share some words of wisdom we’ve accumulated through our years of high school.

1. Make sure to be nice to a few teachers (you’ll need them for letters of recommendation later).2. A little sun does not mean show a lot of skin.3. If you plan to park where you shouldn’t, be sure to buy adhe-sive remover for those lovely warning stickers.4. Unless it’s an emergency, it’s better to it to trek it to the 900 hall bathrooms than settle for 200 hall bathrooms.5. Senior cut day is a must.6. Work hard third quarter of senior year so you can coast fourth quarter.7. Remember that freshmen are people too. Kind of.8. Do not get senioritis your junior year.9. Be involved and make it fun.10. Don’t forge progress reports (it will nip you in the butt later).11. Don’t forge anything (Ms. Frasca will catch you).12. Be safe. With your friends, with your cars, with your lives.13. Dances are fun when EV-ERYONE goes. Go to the danc-es.14. Do not do your entire LAP the night before.15. Be kind, be courteous, and ALWAYS read The Olympian, or else you will FAIL AT LIFE.

Disclaimer: Obviously some of these are silly, but others we really mean. Most importantly we wish you an amazing high school experience and hope you continue to learn, grow, and take care of each other. Much love from the class of ’09.

By Lisa CarmackStaff Writer

Seniors share their favorite CVHS memories

Freshman year 05-06• Our class was the first to enjoy Japanese class at CVHS added to the foreign language depart-ment.• Measure B provided for the second gym, the Center for the Arts, and the new library. • Cross-country runners decided to get drunk and run a mile at Canyon at night.• Students arguing about Mexi-can and American flags on Cinco de Mayo brought unwelcome media attention to the school and lead to a period of racial tension on campus.

Sophomore year 06-07• It was the last year of tutorial, which was half an hour every week for students to catch up on work, before the administration took it away after discovering many students using it as time to hang out.• The entire campus went into a three hour-lockdown due to rumors that a student brought a gun to school. Students and teachers were stuck in their class-rooms, forced to resort to creative methods of passing the time and relieving themselves.• A.P. Chemistry kids were caught trying to cheat on their final by saving answers on their calculators.• Exit exam mosh pit occurred as students got out of control in

a mad rush for muffins. • After months of false fire alarms, the administration finally caught the alarm-pulling culprit.• A few students walked out in ill-organized protest against tad-ding minutes to the school day.

Junior year 07-08• Security cameras were first installed, evoking scorn and con-cerns of privacy over security.• Massive homecoming fights broke out between seniors and juniors. Vandalism involved sauerkraut on car fenders and egging. Seniors and sophomores banded together against fresh-man and juniors with the S.S. Express. • The ASB president and vice-president are removed from of-fice after participating in “ghost-riding” and streaking during a football game, respectively.

Senior year 08-09• Our class lost senior Sarah Stre-icher and CVHS alumnus Clark Wright, who both died in a tragic car accident.• Prop. 8 divided Californians, who ultimately voted to ban gay marriage. • The district announced the first of a series of budget cuts due to the economic recession.• The death of senior Alex Ro-manov, who battled cancer for years, shocked the entire class who will remember him for his sense of humor, kindness, and unending faith.

“The lockdown sucked! But besides that I’ve got to say I’ll remember all the ridiculous stuff my friends and I got away with at school...Everyone I’ve met has impacted me in amaz-ing ways. I complain about CVHS so much, but I secretly LOVED high school!” ~ Sarah Giambruno

“I will always remember the people I met, grew up with and learned to love. I will never for-get the laughs, adventures, ex-periences, and people that made a huge effect on my life.”

~Allie Levy

“Over the past four years, I have learned so much. Everything that has happened to me, and all of us, has prepared us for what we face in the future. We have all grown so much, and I will never forget how strong high school has made us all and how it braced us for the real world.”

~Matt Kerner

“What I’ll remember most about high school will be Eric Horton. Throughout my years I never had any problems with him, until I actually got a car. He gives all of us those stupid, little stickers that are super hard to get off, but I’m sure everyone will remember

him.” ~Dominic Shortridge

“High school really shapes ev-eryone in their own bizarre, unique way. As depressing, ridiculous, and frustrating high school was, it was an important thing that everyone can relate to. It’s a momentous experience. I am ready to leave, like mostly everyone. It’s time to cross the line. Good luck.” ~Matt Casani

“I made millions of memories running with my two best friends, Sam Owyang and Bethany Chan. We were the craziest freshmen running backwards around that

old dirt track with nothing to hold us back. Groody’s seventh period American Lit. class con-tained some of the most amazing, well-spoken, intelligent people I have ever met. I can never forget the amazing discussions, fishbowls, and pieces of writing that came out of that room, 511. To name a few: Sophie and Lisa’s poetry, Maddie’s Vienna, and Vicki’s letter to McDonalds. It brought me to Sarah, who could think and raise her point faster than I could raise my hand. Enjoy the ride while it lasts, because it’s over much too fast.” ~Megan Lee

Life after C V HS...

Gee, Chelsea Kern, Megan Kwang, Timothy Lee, Freddie Ng, Alissa Orcutt, Kevin Phillips, Kimiko Takahashi, Erik Tran, Andrew Vil-lamor, Kenneth Zelaya

Cal State Northridge: Ariana Mesa

Central Texas College: Amanda Hawk

Chabot: Anna Alinea, Rebecca Ayala, Tony Barrera, Thomas Belfiore, Lenisha Bhukhan, Mi-chael Botelho, Alexander Boucher, Amber Bowman, Robert Bradford, Jennica Bull, Gilbert Castro, Can-dace Christiansen, Arielle Clarke, Michael Conley, Christian Cor-nelius, Victor Cortez, Raymond Dang, Dan Alexandru Decuseara, Andres Diosdado Padilla, Wyatt

Academy of Art: Nicholas Choy, Helena Gomez, Lia Noguchi, Dan-iel Scarbrough

Arizona State University: Mias Rutishauser

Armed Forces: Justen JohnsonArt Institute of SF: Brittany

FohlBard College: Paris WatsonBerkeley City College: Chris-

tina de la Vega, Gene Kim, Arturo Medina, Mitra Mogharei, Antanas Ragenas, Khoshal Raz

Berklee School of Music, Bos-ton: Maxwell Billings

Biola: James Ko, Cheryl KrakeBoston University: Kyung Shick

RyuBrigham Young University: Eric

FonnesbeckBryn Mawr College: Candace

ShinBucknell University: Dustin

GrangerCabrillo College: Jessica Batista,

Conor Donnelly, Carlie Liranzo, Arianna VanderWeele

Cal Poly Pomona: Nathan Acebo, Taymoor Mirzadi, Kiet Truong

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo: Aaron Bautista, Joshua Beeston, Sam Chan, Colby Cheung, Kevin

thony Vierra, Brian Vierra, Joshua Wagenseller, Joel Wong, Justin Wong, Kai Hsiang Wong, Darya Zherebnenkov, Karina Zherebnen-kov, Nikolay Zherebnenkov

City College of SF: Ariana Cal-deron, Jacqueline Engler, Benedict Ferreria, Lily Ko, Adam Nikssar-ian

Community college: Michael Amos

Concordia University: Hayden Folks

Cosmetology school: Sharde Moncrease

CSU Chico: Christopher Ham-mond, Rashad Parker, Tyler Waes-pi, Taylor Westeren

CSU East Bay: Stephanie Alar-con, Gabriela Alvarado, Kristin Mae Bales, Jacinda Chen, Brandon Cheng, Robert Conner, Kathleen Devine, Morgan Dufresne, Zoey Eberle, Silvia Espinoza, Ashleigh Francis, Aaron Galaura, David Han, Hawley Healy, Adrienne

rakat, John Barbieri, Moriah Bish-op, Nicholas Blank, Alyssa Boisse, Clinton Candler, Juan Chavez, Paul Chervatin, Dereck Cooper, Colin Corkery, Thomas Crabe, Olivia Davis, Arash Dehdari, Kris-tina Dresen, Jessica Duong, David Erspamer, Jacob Fluetsch, Sophia Fong, Alaura Francis, Anthony Garcia, Christian Garcia, Rebecca Garcia, Vincent Gerochi, Justin Gonzalez, Adam Green, Ryan Gresham, Sean Hall, Jamie Ham-mer, Kathleen Harrington, Soliman Hatef, Ryan Hebert, Daniel Henry, Takeo Hiraki, Vincent Huang, Zhen Huang, Clinton Hui, Megan Hulme, Daniel Jensen, Frank Jesus, Lizbeth Jimenez, Hillary Johnson, Lance Johnson, Gaganjot Kahlon, Joseph Keating, Lauren Keehner, Ryan Kelder, Thomas Kilby, Amy King, Jacob Kreitzer, Camille Kwan, Joanie Kwong, Rebecca LaMarre, Christopher Landon, Natalie Langstaff, Jeremy Las-salle, Matthew Lerschen, Michele Leytem, Terryn Liljedahl, Todd Linda, Kenneth Ling, Joseph Lin-ney, Megan Lo, Jonathan Maglaya, Matthew McAusland, Darren McCann, Sable McCaw, Melissa Merlini, Lisa Moglia, Jonathan Mortara, Megan Mulready, Megan Murphy, Raymond Ng, Megan O’Brien, Brittany Oberle, Anthony Parker, Bhavish Parmar, Nicholas Persinger, Sean Peterson, Spencer Piephoff, Ashley Primrose, Martin Quinn, Nicholas Redmond, James Rose, Dennis Sakiyama, Marcelo Sanchez Heredia, Tearna Sankofa, Verity Sharpe, Brian Sien, Amy Silva, Tejinder Singh, Emmie Jean Staley, Emily Stansbury, Jen-nifer Staysa, Alex Suiter, Conner Supriano, Shelby Thomey, Khalil Totah, Sara Tripp, Kiko Utsumi,

Megan Lee Rutgers University: Ariel Na-

varroSacramento State University:

Robert Burke, Chelsea Bush, McK-enzie Finn, Aaron Joseph Gelera, Ayla Granados, Vincent Marchese, Elizabeth Nguyen, Megan O Boyle, Lora Shulenberger, Matthew Val-entine

San Diego State University: Samit Khatri, Katelin Labat, Bran-den Meadows, Yang (Michael) Pei

San Jose State University: Ste-ven Bryan, Alicia Ceniceros, Mi-chael Coleman, Morgan-Ashley Eguia, Andrew Lee, Erica Straub, Sanny Truong, Amanda Wong, Edgar Woo, Bonnie Yip

Santa Clara University: Nathan-iel Tseng

Santa Monica Community Col-lege: Danielle Harris, Rebecca Schneider, Cody Young

Seton Hall University: Natalie DelFavero

SF City College: Dominic Shor-tridge

SF State University: Molly Agraviador, Naia Rose Ardrey, Yiu Chun Au, Emily Austin, Michele Bolstad, Lisa Carmack, Andrew Cathey, Lucas Chang, Jennifer

Kavaler, Colleen Kwong, Patrick Lahey, Eva Poon, Jordan Shilling, Josephine Tang, Jenny Tiet, Con-nie Tsai, Jamie Walbert, Jazmine Wong, Joshua Yang, Esther Yun, Jenny Zhao

UC Irvine: Michael-David Cal-deron, Selina Cao, Jennifer Fong, Hasmukhjit Jawandha, Sincere Lau, Caitlin Lushington, Benja-min Morgan, Joshua Muhlfelder, Samantha Owyang, Kevin Tsuru-moto, Zhu Xiong

UCLA: Stephen Ching, Dimitri Karahalios, Warren Tan, Tsz (An-thony) Wong

UC Merced: Daniel Chinn, Mus-tafa Nawabzada, Daniel Winkler, Areumee Youn

UC Riverside: Christopher Mackey, Victoria Morgan

UC San Diego: Rachel Bayuk, Leonard Bobbitt, Julianne Bur-nette, Ya Ni Cai, Bethany Chan, Kristie Koo, Joanna Lee, Sohyeon Lee, Patrick Liu, Eric Lowe, Megan Ouyang, Christopher So, Emily

Drew, Stephen Fang, Russell Fea-gley, Thomas Fehely, Armando Freitas, Sarah Giambruno, Ryan Gomez, Andre Grady, Jung Hyuk Han, Jerod Harrison, Blake Hei-merl, Felicia Ho, Pengfei Hu, Megan Hussey, Kai Jower, Arunrat Kankrasang, Jason King, Shiona Kusber, Shelby Ledward, Andreina Leon, Alvin Liang, Iliya Mialik, Ashley Mills, Jane Moran, Ariel Murch, Donald Neverov, Hironori Okada, Euriah Ontiveros, Han-nah Ortega, Albert Pak, Seveonno Palizzolo, Justin Parker, Andrea Parkin, David Perry, Dustin Pita, Rebecka Ramirez, Melissa Reclus, Collene Roe, Kenneth Ronningen, Marius Rotaru, Kevin Sarrito, Davida Scott, Chantel Shideler, Pavan Shrestha, Francesca Soares, Jimmy Sunga, Jordan Toro, An-

Hollie, Bryan King, Allison Levy, Maggie Li, Anthony Mach, Aman-da Menne, Jonathan Ong, Jessica Ortiz, Jason Roselius, Justin Rossil-lon, Sean Shultz, Mikayla Speegle, Jeffrey Stevens, Sierra Sukalski, Alyssa Wilson, Victor Xie

CSU Fullerton: Jessica James, Erin Lassig, Amanda Sylvia

CSU LA: Amanda ColonCSU Monterey Bay: Ieshia Basa,

Emily Luu, Monique TorresCuesta College: Daniel de-

Lorimier, Leah Richie, Drisana Rodriguez-Martin, Maxwell Sim-mons

Delta City College: Lachelle Nieto

Diablo Valley College: Sean Cardenas, Chantal Clark, Chris-tine DelRosario, Scott Henderson, Alisha Huajardo, Matthew Kerner, Disha Khatri, Lisa Kim, Edwin Lau, Finney Lee, Vincent Leung, Megan Marieiro, Alan Martinez, Ahzeen Masjedi, Liliana Mendoza, Cameron Merriwether, Brooke Pat-terson, Kristin Perrault, Eleni Psa-rakis, James Rice, Renee Richard, Shu Ting Shen, Kaitlyn Sill, Bryant Smith, James Tran, Ryan Wu, Xiao Dan Zhang, Shi Hong Zhou

Feather River College: Ethan Lemmons

FIDM: Taeis Wahab, Dori Gold-water, Mallory Lee

Folsom Lake College: Sholeh Salimi

Foothill College: John BishopFresno State University: Renee

SchantinGeorge Washington University:

Malena BellGolden State College: Nicole

PeixotoHoward University: Cara Aus-

tinHumboldt State University:

Justyn Calestini, Brian Love, Lisa Petty, Nicole Saunders

Indiana University: Alana Shan-non

La Sierra University: Kora Iechad

Laney College: Jeffrey Leung, Ronnie Newt-Irvin

Las Positas: Daniel Alvarez, Narges Amini, Brandon Aufder-mauer, Alma Avila, Samantha Ba-

Danielle Valdespino, Jason Vegas, Kevin Vincent, Tanya Vincent, Joshua Vogt, Brandon Westeren, Wesley White

Manipal Institute of Media & Entertainment: Tanya Poovaiah

Marinello Beauty School: Ra-chel Alter, Lydia Chung, Karen Garcia Pablo, Falisha Watson, Amanda Wharton, Samantha Zima

Marquette University: Chris-tine Matheney

Massachusetts College of Health Sciences: Rebekah Haas

Merritt College: Shanette Fee Mills College: Chelsea Ekholm Morehouse College: Omodele

Adesanya National Health Institute: An-

gela Kurowski Northern Virginia Community

College: Heather Bauman Northridge State: Samantha

Smith Notre Dame de Namur: Kim-

berly Wilhite Ohlone: Thomas McDermott Ohlone College: Rachael Mira-

montez Oregon State University: Geof-

frey Seto Oregon Tech: Bridget Harrison Parsons: SooJee Kim Point Loma Nazarene Univer-

sity: Stacie Redmond Rhodes College, Memphis:

Cribbin, Jerry Cruz, Dana Deras, Andrew Farinha-Peterson, Mat-thew Gippner, Lauren Hebert, Kari Hill, Mason James, Jaspreet Kaur, Cynthia Melendez, Donna Nguyen, Kara Owyoung, Ruby Parra, Stephanie Romo, Christo-pher Sheehan, Aspen Silverberg, Jerry Wingate

Sonoma State University: Leah Aragon, Amanda Nazario

Stanford: Albert WuSt. John’s University: Michael

LonsdaleTechnical school: Nolan Mc-

Donagh, Martin Reese Travel to Europe: Julian Po-

lanco Tuskegee University: Aisha

Martin, Iesha RushUC Berkeley: David Ahn, Polina

Babina, Charlene Braski, Becky Chao, Neil Dave, Rosie Fan, Chris Han, Victor Huang, Julia Joung, Chak-Chuen (David) Law, Dash Oliver, Yash Rusconi-Rodrigues, Regina To, Ingrid Wong, James Woodard, Siu Kit Yu, Gloria Zhu

UC Davis: Monica Ammerman, Jill Beytin, Sophiana Carrell, Annie Chao, Robert Charkowicz, Eric

Chea, Carla DeVore, Katherine Fu-kui, Tania Ivette Gutierrez, Aaron Heredia, Esther Hong, David

Williams, Josephine Wong, Shelby Yeung, Stacey Yip

UC Santa Barbara: Teresa An-drade, Brandon Azevedo, Ma-rissa Cuevas, Austin Moita, Vickie Nguyen, Hannah Pipkins, Jona-than Richards, Timothy Wong

UC Santa Cruz: Ashley Chacon, Christina Cross, Laura Gamez, Julia Kovalchuck, Amber Kury, James Lai, Kimberly Naylor, Kath-erine Ponce, Jeffrey Tang, Darren Tsang

University of Dallas: Cecilia Marie Pilar Hu

University of Hawaii of Manoa: Christine Burrows, Sara Dugan

University of Idaho: Michael Busch

University of Nevada Las Ve-gas: Cara Glaze

University of Pennsylvania: Madelyn Keyser

University of Puget Sound: Michael Szutu

University of San Francisco: Camille Austin, Jillian Davis, Mi-chelle Nguyen, Samuel Rusu

University of Southern Califor-nia: Maurice Valentine

University of the Pacific: Ra-chel Lo

US Air Force: Armando Correa, Amanda Gonzales-LaVenture, Ma-

lia Goulart, Scott TillmanUS Army: Paden Long, Alan

SimmonsUS Coast Guard: Dakota John-

sonUS Marine Corp: Tyler BardUS Navy: Michael CarrollWashington State University:

Mariah CameronWellesley: Maria BustilloWestern Career College: Kath-

ryn WilsonWork: Ian Anderson, John Barry,

Josephine Costanzo, Christopher Davis, Travis Fox

Wyo Tech: Richard Vogel

See where the seniors are headed next year!

Journalism seniors, who constantly strive to produce a quality newspaper, take time out of their busy schedules to pose for a group picture.

Howard wHang / Photo editor

David Ahn has a well-deserved reputation for being consider-ate, thoughtful and most of all, optimistic. His very presence lights up the room in a shower of sparkling rainbows, pink unicorns, cotton candy, puppies, and fluffy flufflliads. He was a child prodigy in the subject of journalism and at the age of five was even hired to work for the New York Times. Unfortunately, David lost all his natural talent after a night of merry making and became a victim of too many falls on his head.

He is a devout member of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and is deeply involved in his community. David plans to attend UC Berkeley in the fall and plans to major in interna-tional studies.

He also joined journalism dur-ing second semester of senior year and enjoyed the challenging nature of the class. Furthermore he enjoys any subjects that are even remotely controversial.

Eva Poon has laughed, cried, cheered, moped, and spoken mostly in adjectives through four years at CVHS. Through the tur-bulent journey, she found sweet friends with whom to share crazy adventures and inside jokes, worked with classmates that made school more bearable, and learned from teachers and coaches who genuinely care. Nothing compares to the toil, heartbreak, and achievement of cross country season. She’d never felt so strong before or eaten as many watermelons. Journalism was the chance to express herself and have a lovely taste of power. Despite what the yearbook says, Eva is not the shy-est in her grade. ¡Ay Dios mios! She had great times in Spanish class and history. Eva will always remember her dear friends who, second to her sisters, understand her more than anyone else. She lives for their adventures: trekking through the woods, watching movies, hanging out at the beach, random journeys through the Village, jumping on trampolines, looking for pirate treasure, and riding in shopping carts. Next year, she will be at UC Davis trying to figure out a major and pondering the mean-ing of life.

This is James Rose’s first year in journalism. Within the past year, he has learned the art of the newspaper. As a member of the CVHS journalism team, James has experienced a number of school field trips with his fellow reporters. In February, he visited Sacramento and interviewed pol-iticians including Jerry Brown, Loni Hancock, Mary Hayashi and Debra Bowen. In April, James traveled to Phoenix with several of his classmates to a national high school journalism convention, at which he attended a presentation given by Mary Beth Tinker. In the fall, James hopes to further his studies in the field of journalism at Las Positas College. In his spare time, James loves to ballroom dance, listen to German techno music and watch Family Guy late at night. James’ favorite memories this year were writing columns and drawing cartoons for the opinion page and attending the campout at Lake Chabot last August playing as-sassin with his classmates.

Lisa Carmack is excited to be a member of Castro Valley High School’s 2009 graduating class. Lisa’s high school experi-ence has been full of bittersweet moments, laughter, homework stress, great friends, and a little bit of learning. She thinks most graduating seniors can relate. Lisa joined the journalism class because she enjoys writing, but in being an active journalist in the class, she has met a lot of interesting people and bonded with them over a mutual hate of deadlines. She would not have gotten this far without the help of her great friends and wonder-ful teachers. Lisa plans to attend San Francisco State in the fall as a journalism major.

Malena Bell loves the Class of ’09. Despite all the stress, high school has been a blast and she’s glad to have shared it with so many outstanding people.

The kids in journalism are quite possibly the most fun peo-ple ever. Every year, she’s loved having political, philosophical, and just plain weird discussions with them. Inside jokes about oc-topuses, Gray is God (although that’s no joke), witch hunting, Native American headdresses, and so much more have often put a bright end to her day.

Being “Chief” was stressful and hectic most of the time, but always a lot of fun and worthwhile. She admires all the students that put so much time and effort into the paper.

Next year, Malena will be at The George Washington Univer-sity, chilling with her pals Barack Obama and Anderson Cooper. She will miss The Olympian and all the “Great Ones” in journal-ism, and hopes next year’s jour-nalists have a blast.

Sophiana Carrell is elated to be graduating with the Class of ’09. In her third year of journal-ism, she is grateful for the amaz-ing and talented people she has worked with and experiences she has gained. Next year, she will be attending UC Davis as a dramatic arts major. She will miss the whole “journalism gang” and will always keep Room 113 close to her heart. Peace guys!

Timothy Wong is a non-smok-ing eighteen year old male, whose interests include basket-ball, music, and science. From a young age, Timothy exhibited a certain giftedness for anything he set his mind to. However, his lack of focus has caused this talent to go relatively unnoticed. Despite his faults, Timothy is, by all intentions, a good guy. One influential idol for Timothy is Spiderman, for his unwavering, selflessness intellect. Hoping to make a difference in the world, Timothy looks forward to ma-joring in environmental studies next year at UC Santa Barbara.

David ‘Souter’ Ahn

‘Chief’ Malena Bell

‘Adam ’n’ Eva Poon

Lisa ‘Simpson’Carmack

‘Jesse’ James Rose

‘Sophie’s Choice’ Carrell

‘ T i m i n a t o r ’ Wong

Auf Wiedersehen, Alex Romanov

For four years, we have grown together and have had the plea-sure of getting to know you. There have been many times when you left for treatment and you were out for weeks. It’s hard to know that you are not coming back this time. You had a very positive outlook on life and you always came to class with a bright smile on your face. Your ambitions such as attending Stanford, to become an engineer, and to be ordained as a pastor were never out of your reach due to your commitment and dedication to your goals. While most people would have faltered in the face of adversity, cancer only strengthened your faith. None of us ever saw your cancer; we only saw your strong character. Cancer could never defeat you. We take comfort in knowing that you are now in heaven pain and cancer free!

Your German Class

¡Adios, Señ(i)ors!Introducing your graduating journalists