What happened during advisory on Tuesday, April 30, wasn’t everything. But it was something. And we were there.
Over the weekend, Newton Public Schools hosted its first alumni celebration, inviting past students from Newton South and Newton North. It was hosted at Newton South and restaurants such as Legal Seafood’s, Cabot’s, and Capital Grill donated food for all those that attended. Past alumni include Geeta Gandbhir of NSHS, now an Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and Matt Malone of NNHS, the Massachusetts’s current Secretary of Education. Entrance to the VIP reception in the library cost $250 while entrance to the main event cost only $100. Vice Principal Mary Scott wasn’t expecting a lot of people to come for the first time, but 200 surprisingly showed up. At the event, Ernie Peltier, custodian at Newton South since 1960 when it opened, was honored with a lifetime service award.
— Leda Olia
A Lexington Metco bus was involved in an accident on route 9 this morning: http://www.wickedlocal.com/newton/news/x1506803020/Students-injured-in-Newton-school-bus-accident#axzz2RxOqHEjk
— Adam Frank
Jack Lovett speaks to Gene Stein’s advisory about running for class office and South Senate.
— Leda Olia
The Breakdancing Club is looking for new members and meets during J Block by the stairwell between the math and science departments on the second floor.
–Abby Patkin
Martha Heller, costumer, on the progress of the costumes in A Midsummer Night’??s Dream next Thursday, Friday and Saturday (May 9, 10 and 11):
The world of the fairies is 70s-inspired.
The director wants the royal community ’60s-inspired, and then when you go into the fairy world, you get the advance of tight ’60s, and the revolution of the ’60s, and then the ’70s is freedom and openness.
So if you look at the royals, they are ’60s-inspired. [Theseus’s??] queen is inspired by Jackie Kennedy and he is inspired by Omasus, which, they get together, later, but, it’s the idea.And then the noblemen are suited narrow ties just like the ’60s.
[The director] has some really interesting ideas about [the decade choices], because he sees the play–you remember the beginning of the play when Egeus doesn’t want his daughter to marry her lover? So itâ?’s women’??s rights that she wants to marry who she loves; it’s kind of a rebellion, and he’??s portraying Titania in the same way. She’??s not this subservient female fairy to Oberon; she’??s feisty. It’??s a little counterculturey, so he sees that, he saw the kernel of that, in the themes of the play. And his own personal history reflects some of that–he remembers his parents vacationing in Greece in the ’60s.
I am painting the wall. That’??s the wall in the play within a play so the players are high sixties: they’??re not early 60s. Remember the play, the players kind of bridge both these worlds. They bridge the two worlds stylistically so we put them in the high ’60s, which is the late ’60s. They’??ll be Gogo girls, and theyâ??re going to have their white boots and their dresses and she;??ll wear the wall.
— Astha Agarwal and Melanie Erspamer
More than 1,000 student and parent volunteers cleaned the front of the school and planted annual and perennial flowers on Sunday, April 28, as part of NewtonSERVES. “We had so many people helping out…and we got a tremendous amount of work done, ” Cutler Housemaster Donna Gordon said.
–Alex Verbitsky
Video: Is Advisory Necessary — Kayla Freedman
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