Grace Davis High School Modesto, CA Volume 47, Issue 4 20 February 2009 ORINTHIAN

THE GRACE DAVIS HIGH SCHOOLC

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Davis students, teacher witness historical event

By MONICA JOHNSONCorinthian Staff

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unior Rebecca Ott and Sophomore Robert Butcher are the typical high school couple, she was a cheerleader and he was a football player and they

have now been dating for a little over a year.But last year, in June, Ott and Butcher

learned that she was two months pregnant. At the time they had only been dating for about four months.

“I’m the ‘goody goody’ that no one would ever expect this from,” said Ott.

Ott and Butcher had a feeling that she was pregnant before her stepmom made her take a pregnancy test.

“When I saw the test was positive, I was shaking and crying because I was afraid,” said Ott.

She told her parents immediately and they were very supportive, giving her options as to what she could do, one of which was keeping the baby.

“Initially we (Butcher and her) were leaning towards keeping the baby because

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TAKING IT ALL IN Davis students and history teacher Chuck Jostad stand before the Capital building in Washington D.C. during the week of the inauguration.

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Photo Courtesy of Christopher Beach

istory teacher Chuck Jostad gave a once in a lifetime chance to students at Davis to travel with him to the

inauguration this year. Six Davis students joined him on

the trip to Washington D.C., along with 2.2 million people, to witness the inauguration speech while touring Washington D.C.

“There I was,” said sophomore Jacob Reed, “with hundreds of people sleeping in the museums waiting upon the arrival of the Presidents of the United States.”

Reed was joined by Seniors Emelia Abad and Christopher Beach, Juniors Chelsi Foreman and Jarred Myers and Sophomore Kevin Bernandino in witnessing the historic moment.

Jostad had meetings with students at his house to make sure everything went as planned, but some things were out of his hands.

“Sometimes things didn’t go as planned,” said Jostad. “Roads, museums, and buildings were all closed down.”

He has even had one of the World Strides representatives come to his house to reassure students and mostly parents that their kids’ safety was in good hands and this is a huge

we didn’t want the baby to grow up in a bad household,” said Ott.

A little over a month later Ott was presented with a new idea with what she could do.

“My aunt asked my dad to ask me if I would let her adopt the baby,” said Ott. “I had never thought of the idea.”

Her aunt Shelly had a child who is nine but she is unable to conceive any longer. After her dad told her the idea, she thought it over for about a week before agreeing to the adoption.

“I wouldn’t have put her up for adoption if it weren’t for my aunt,” said Ott, “my parents always wanted me to go with adoption because they didn’t want me to have the stress on my life.”

After that Ott’s aunt went to all of the doctor’s appointments with Ott and Butcher.

“It was a lot easier to adopt because they were my family, we went to therapy sessions together,” said Ott.

As the new school year began Ott and

opportunity for them to take. World Strides is the main organization that follows each presidential swearing.

He encouraged all his students to bring cameras to take pictures at one of the most historical moments of their life.

In D.C., they visited one of the most historical places in America, the Lincoln Memorial, where Martin Luther King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in

Corinthian goes onlineBy William Rutherford

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All in the familyAfter learning she was pregnant, junior Rebecca Ott weighed all of the options until her aunt made her an offer she couldn’t refuse

By STEPHEN MACKOEditor-in-chief

KNOW YOUR CAMPOLavina Lockamy

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he Corinthian has gone online! Since the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, two web designers have

been working to develop a Corinthian website. The two designers are fellow Spartans: Luis Urbano and Anthony Jimenez.

The site (www.corinthiannews.com) is simultaneously being released with the forth issue of The Corinthian and is going to offer more than what’s included on the paper issue.

Corinthian Television, one of the

new additions to The Corinthian, is also being released with the forth issue. It will be a bi-weekly program filmed and edited by the CTV team, comprised of Davis students.

“It is the beginning of something that’s never been done before at Davis,” said junior Connor Johnson. “CTV is a video version of the newspaper and announcements.”

The CTV team even has a green screen in a classroom where they will be doing a majority of their interviewing. Besides that, Davis campus will be the main studio for the reporting. CTV is currently running under the management of Jim McCarthy.