RICHBORO REPORTER

R I C H B O R O M I D D L E S C H O O L

C O U N C I L R O C K S C H O O L D I S T R I C T

June 2017

Recycling Project By Griffin Burt and Jake Schwartz

It all started when Mr.Sanko made a visit to Mr.Papazian’s music class.

Prior to his appearance, RMS student Jake Schwartz ask the infamous

question “Why don’t we recycle here at RMS?” And that is when it started.

Over the course of a couple weeks we met with Mr. Sanko to decide on a

plan to help improve our recycling. When meeting with Mr. Sanko we

reached out to other schools to find out what they did. From there we came

to the conclusion that multiple locations in the building were in need of a

recycling bin. We charted the school and mapped which rooms needed

them. We gave our findings to Mr. Sanko, and then made the move to purchase new bins.

Once the recycling bins arrived, we distributed them to the teachers. They were overjoyed at the fact that we

would be productively recycling in RMS. Our hard work will benefit our school and the community.

As many of you know Richboro Middle School is set to have its last school year next year. Many plans and activities are being discussed to celebrate the over 50 years of impacting students in the Council Rock com-

munity here at Richboro. To celebrate the school the Richboro community is creating a Legacy Committee to promote the impact the time at Richboro had on its alumni. The newspaper would like to wish the students a safe and happy summer. Be on the alert for more on RICHBORO’S LEGACY.

NORTHAMPTON POLICE EDUCATE ON THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND ELECTRONICS

At Richboro MS the students’ safety is of the utmost importance. As is educating young adults to become re-

sponsible citizens. To help in that education Richboro Middle School had Northampton Detective-Sergeant Charles Pinkerton come in to speak to students about the dangers of social media and electronic devices. Students were warned about how a few moments can be on the internet forever. One student left the assembly learning that “I didn’t know that my home computer or parent’s phones could be taken if I did something on the internet.” With technology becoming more and more a part of our culture parents and students need to understand the actions that some are using their phones for can have long lasting impacts on others.

AAUW Honorees for 2016-2017

The American Association of University Women honors 7th grade girls for their achievement in the areas of math and science. Each middle school may nominate students for this honor, and those students are celebrated at a reception, attended by their families and AAUW members. Honored this year, for outstanding math and science achievement at Richboro Middle School were Shivani Kumar and Isabella Francisco for science and Rose Morgan and Kelly Foy for math.

Way to go, ladies!

STUDENT COUNCIL ELECTIONS: Every May students in the 7th grade students interested in taking on a larger role in student activities have to

decide whether or not they want to run for Richboro’s student council executive board. Many students have

the interest, but not all go through the process to be elected. The process begins with getting recommendations

from teachers to show that a perspective candidate would be a good elected official. The process then has can-

didates creating advertising posters, which are usually funny and often involve a rhyme. The candidates then

have to prepare a speech that is proofread by Mr. Hoerger, the student council moderator. And at the very end

the candidates have to deliver their speeches in front of the entire 7th grade. This year only 6 candidates ran

for the four executive board positions of president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. As a result two po-

sitions went uncontested. All of those who ran this year though spoke of improving Richboro and their goals

to make a great school even greater. Next year’s student council executive board is:

Elected President: Vice President: Treasurer: Secretary: Logan Sackett Katie Dina Jake Gregory Isabella Francisco

READING OLYMPICS

Throughout the whole year, the Reading Olympics team was practicing, reading books, writing questions on notecards, and practicing for the big event in April. The main goal was to read the most books you can, have fun and get first place in the competition. This year, there were many start-ed out on the team, but as time went on, only the more hardcore readers stayed. The five members this year: Logan McCurry, Lucas Nunez, Danny Doyle, Derek Cleffi and Shane Bell covered almost every book on the 45 book reading list. Things were looking good. Then there was a brief period when nobody was in charge of the team as Mrs. Schwartz took a leave. The uncertainty stopped when Ms. Curran stepped up to lead the Olympi-ans and planned the transportation to the event and even the end of year the pizza party. A big thanks goes out to her. The Reading Olympics team took a second place ribbon and had lots of fun.

By Derek Cleffi

STUDENTS Of The MONTH

Every month students at Richboro Middle School are recognized for

their efforts by their teachers. These students have displayed qualities

like academic excellence, leadership, and citizenship that have earned

them to be recognized as “STUDENTS OF THE MONTH.” As the last edition for

the school year the Richboro Reporter would like to recognize these

students one last time.

Team Discovery

Team EAGLES

Team Freedom Team Liberty

Shane Cohen—September Nolan Rosenberger—October Isabella Francisco—November

Logan Sackett—December Dom Ditri—January Ava Pepe—February

Mason Shores—March Saphala John—April

Brendan Malone—May Kelly Foy—June

Kayleigh Doak— September

Ava Camarero—October

Sean Wilson—November

Nathan Fligelman—December

Rachel Scanlan—January

Autumn Cohen—February

Shannon Wallace—March

Chloe Tu—April

Grace Gudknecht—September Paul Velter—October

Brianna Rubarkh —November Reno Hirst—December

Vicki Hermann—January Ryan Carroll—February

Claudia Lee—March Kenny Duffield—April Kylie Gregory—May

Katelyn Burke & Derek Cleffi— September

Michael Elia & Carley Irvin—October

Davina Albaladejo & Anthony Pera—November

Smit Bajaj & Maya Joseph—December

Avery Evans & Blake Fiadino —January

Dominick Conte & Camille D’Amico—February

Emily Gutekunst & Eric Minsky—March

Brennen Baiamonte & Kirsti Mendez—April

Griffin Mentzer and Courtney Korn —May

GIRLS Soccer

RMS Varsity soccer team had a great season

with amazing players. Karly Wunder, Brianna Hon-

dros, Aubrey Hondros, Sara Cabelly, Lexi Demestri,

Sydney Mandel, Claire Getz, Maddie Deal, Alexis Fil-

ippov, Kennedy Kuechler, Ally Shimer, Megan Hick-

ey, Kiersten Whalen, Taryn Jones, Marissa Jones, and

Sophia Raneri.

The team's record was 4 wins, 6 losses, and 1 tie. The goalie on the RMS Varsity team was Sydney

Mandel. Claire, Kiersten, Alexis, Kennedy and Ally all played a wonderful season of great defense. Brianna,

Aubrey, Sara, Lexi, Maddie, Megan, Taryn, and Marissa all played midfield and worked the ball around the

field very well. Karly and Sophia were the strikers and scored many goals for the team.

The varsity soccer team may not have won every game, but they had fun and enjoyed playing with the

team. Everyone enjoyed the practices after school and had fun while playing the games. Mr. Chambers was an

amazing coach and always had a positive attitude towards the players. RMS

Varsity Soccer team had a great season and look forward to next year!

By Maddie Deal

JV SOCCER

This year Richboro Middle School JV soccer had a total of 3 wins, 3

ties, and 2 losses. Led by the coaching of Ms. Fetters we finished the year strong by tying Holland Middle

School. Our team was very dedicated by coming to practice mostly every day of the week. We are sad to see

some of our outstanding 8Th graders go including Malia Frank, Carley Irvin, Sally Kongwong, Devin Metague,

Kayleigh Doak, Rihanna Shields, Shannon Ritts, and goalie Kourtney Korn. We hope to see the 7th grades back

next year so we can have another amazing soccer season.

By Delaney Moore

7th Grade Baseball

The seventh grade boy’s baseball team had an awesome season this year, losing only one game. The team fin-

ished with a record of 7-1, some games were rained out and not made up. Coached by eighth grade science

teacher, Mr. Qualli, the team was an unstoppable force crushing both inter-district rivals, Newtown and Hol-

land. Congratulations go out to Sean Slowinski for having the hit of the season. Sean hit a rocket to left field

which turned into a three-run homerun. Everyone on the team showed how hard work, discipline, and deter-

mination can pay off. Congratulations on an outstanding season.

By Shane Dawson

TRACK

This year the track team had an exceptional season.

From the start there were many new runners joining in the

team. After time trials the eight fastest runner qualified for

the Penn Relays. This year’s Penn Relay teams consisted of

Gabi Drobot, Tara Boyd, Mackenzie Blatz, Siniru Ihomea,

Nick Gordon, Chandler Turner, Nathan Fligelman and Ed-

dy Liang. This year our team beat out both Holland and

Newtown in the district meet. The track team had over 100

kids participating this year. The coaches this year were Mr. Hoerger, Mr. Kochler, and Mr. Robins. A special

thanks to them for the help and guidance and for a great season.

By Mackenzie Blatz

SOFTBALL

The softball team had a winning record this 2017 season. Alt-

hough the team lacked a domi-nating pitcher, our defense was able to back up the balls put in play and offensively we were a

powerhouse. The team consisted of Kirsti Mendez, Alli Kitson, Kayla Patricelli, Kerri DeSpirito, Annalyse Mills, Gianna Ca-sey, Maddie Wismer, Emma Franchini, Lauren Paulk, Hailey

Dreyer, Amanda Allan, and Chloe Tu. All the players contribut-ed to a great season. Mrs. Gordon was an amazing coach and

made our experience even better! Our only losses were to Klinger, Tamanend, and Holland. We also made

some great memories as a team, such as the pizza party we had at the end of the season, and we had a lot of laughs along the way, like when Annalyse ran around the bases during a game and then threw up in the woods. Some of our games were really intense and in a few games we rallied back after being down a couple of runs.

Overall, it was a great season and a lot of fun! By Chloe Tu

8th GRADE BASEBALL

With spring, comes baseball. Last year, the seventh grade team had an average season, going 4-3-1. This year, most guys came out again looking to do better. The leaders of this year,

Ryan Wheet, Jack O’Neil, Jon Pinchotti, and Chris Nowmos all had great hits, pitched innings, and they all lead the bench. The other members of the team including Andrew Roberto, Bo Hoff-

man, Damon Andreoli, Kyle Omlor, Cole Metrick, Smit Bajaj, Kelen Vaughn, Blake Waltrick, Derek Cleffi, Shane Fein, and Brennen Wright had their moments too. From Kyle Omlor’s bunt that turned into a home run, to Cole’s phe-

nomenal first base play to get the runner out. There were also many great moments inside the dugout as well, when we found a meteorite in the hair of Cole after thinking it was a tick. With lots of great games, and great laughs as well, the 8th grade team finished 5-5 an improvement from last year.

By Derek Cleffi

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