COMET CHRONICLES

Thank you, and congratulations!

Vol 3 Issue 3

Comet Chronicles

In addition to our many talented artists, ath-letes, and writers, this addition is filled with many students who deserve our thanks and CONGRATU-LATIONS! From the students who organized our blood drives this year, to the award winning poster contest participants, to the annual scholarship re-cipients, we say WAY TO GO! You deserve our congratulations and thanks for all of the hard ef-fort you have given to your school and community. As the 2014-2015 school year draws to a close, we want to wish the Class of 2015 success and happiness in all your future endeavors! We hope that you enjoy the last edition of the year that we have put together for you. We would love to hear from you about what you would like to see in your paper! You can get in touch with any Chronicles student staff member listed below or by e-mailing the paper’s advisor: LMoriarty@fallsburgcsd.net. If you attend a school event and take pictures, why not send them to us to review for publication? Want us to cover an upcoming dance, fundraiser, or other event? Just let us know! Thank you for supporting the Fallsburg Jr./Sr. High School’s paper, the Comet Chronicles!

Comet Chronicles Team

Johnni Brown Brendon Sapolsky Dawn Ruhren Alyssa Sacadura Olivia Vales Natalie Pazona Lamera Palmer Lesvi Fuentes Hernandez Advisor-L. Moriarty

Special Thanks to Winnie Fortsch and Larry Schafman for letting us use some of their great photos!

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Inside this issue

About our paper 2

Student pics 3

Design & Draw Class 4

National Honor Society 5

Spring Concert 6-9

Blood Drive 10-11

Extended Day 12-16

Little Shop of Horrors 17-19

Spring Pep Rally 20-21

Girls Golf Team 22-23

TSTT 24-25

Scholarship Luncheon 26-27

Poster Contest Awards 28-29

Artists 30-32

Cheerleaders 33

Poetry 34

Golf Teams 35

Anime 36

Student Projects 37

Clearwater Sloop Trip 38

Music & Art 39

Back Cover Artist 40

Front Cover Artist- Karryn Smith

Back Cover Artist - Ayanna Princival

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Fallsburg’s very own mascot! Picture by comet chronicle reporter Natalie Pazona!

A, B, or C? You choose! A) Our new Dean of Stu-dents B) What the mouse does when the cat’s away C) Just Jose being Jose

Students working on Green Technology -

Sustainable Design Projects.

High School Technology Design and Draw Class

Artist - Shamus Murray Artist - Jose Fuentes

Artist - Mya Doolittle

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National

Honor

Society

Arianna McDonald Isabel Morales

Mekayla Perneszi Alexandria Porter Destinee Ramos

Aliza Santos Grace Strauss Andres Tamayo Jeramyia Waitley

Markos Zelaya

Rebecca Budrock Merime Cenovic

David Fuller Mizra Javed

Mary Kellerman Brittany Leventoff

Johanna Lemus Brittany Mackiel

Pu (Sam) Zheng

It is our great pleasure to announce that the following stu-dents will be inducted into the National Honor Society dur-ing our annual Induction Ceremony on June 2 at 6:00 pm in the high school auditorium. We invite all faculty and staff members to attend. - Ms. Esposito and Ms. Conrow

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Spring Concert!

Effort = Excellence! Students perform at the winter concert for family, friends, and mem-

bers of the community.

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Spring Concert!

Spring Concert!

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Spring Concert!

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Perna Power! Stephanie and Samantha

Rebecca Hallenbeck, Rasheem Armstead, Larissa Fraser, Candhace Forrest, Diana Prokopenko, Kenny Presti, Josh Hazelnis, Giselle Caballero, Johnni Brown, Ida Dum-buya, Juver Agueta, Cheyanne Banks, Jennifer Barrea, Ron Shea, Alan Sierra, Bren-dan Sapolsky, Carly Leventoff, Oscar Beltran, Bintou Dumbuya, Yamil Conde, Wendy Fuentes, Joseph Aitken, Jonathan Peralta, and Alex Garcia Thank you again for your support! Mr. Thomas - FTA Blood Drive Coordinator Ms. Stephanie Perna - Student Donor Coordinator Mr. Brendan Sapolsky - Student Volunteer Worker Coordinator Page 10

Students and the community— Working together!

The Fallsburg Student Government Association and Teacher’s Association would like to thank all of the donors and volunteers who made the May 7th blood drive such a success. Ms. Stephanie Perna and Mr. Brendon Sapolsky did another excellent job as student coordinators, with the final total of 34 whole blood units and 5 double red cell units. In total, these donations can be used to help up to 112 patients. Our last blood drive was significantly helped by the parents, former teachers, and even former students who came in to donate or do volunteer service. Spring and fall tend to be critical collection times, as many regular donors do not donate during the summer months. Unfortunately we are going into the summer season with critically low levels of all blood types. If you were unable to donate at our last collection, but still want to, please visit www.redcross.org to schedule a donation at another site. Our next collection will be in October of 2015. The exact date will be announced in September. We will gladly accept any com-munity members who wish to contribute. Have a safe and healthy summer! Mr. Thomas - FTA Blood Drive Coordinator

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Memberd of the community, students, and staff giving blood—saving lives!

Look what’s happening in extended day… Cooking and Baking!

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Look what’s happening in extended day… Cooking and Baking!

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Look what’s happening in extended day...

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Look what’s happening in extended day...

Skating!

Look what’s happening in extended day... Page 16

Fallsburg High School pulled out all the stops with the recent pro-duction of Little Shop of Horrors! We have so many people that par-ticipated and contributed. So much goes on behind the scenes and we thank everyone who helped make it a great success. Thank you - ac-tors, directors, musicians, lighting experts, the band, custodial staff, maintenance… We hope everyone had a great time!

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PEP RALLY!

GO COMETS!

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The Girls Golf team has had

quite a year! This was the teams 6th year in a row as O.C.I.A.A Division III Champions! The team had an impressive 11-2 overall record NYSPHSAA Team Scholar Athlete recipient (requires a team GPA of 90 or

above) Two Players qualified for the Section IX Girls Golf Tournament held at Apple

Greens golf course in New Paltz, N,Y. (Madison Levine-12th Grade and Hayley Weiner 8th-Grade)

Madison Levine advanced for the third year in a row to the NYSPHSAA Girls Golf Championship June 13-14 at Delhi College Golf Course.

This year the team also took a field trip to visit the personal Memorabilia room of retired LPGA professional Sherri Steinhauer. Ms. Steinhauer was a scholarship golfer at the University of Texas and played on the LPGA tour for 26 years. She won two Major championships while competing on the tour, played in 21 U.S. Opens, competed for the United States team in four Solheim Cups and is cur-rently competing on the Legends professional golf tour. Ms. Steinhauer gave the team a personal tour of her memorabilia room which showcases her personal golf-ing career from age 12 to present. She was nice enough to give the students some inspiring words that will last a lifetime, and she also autographed some golf balls for the kids to take home. Thanks to all the athletes

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TSTT

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Today’s Students Tomorrow’s Teachers!

These students attended a field trip on Tuesday, March 24th. They made a

college visit to Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut. They had a wonderful visit and took pride in representing Fallsburg!

Stacy Aguilar Jennifer Barrera Giselle Caballero Sadie Caballero Ida Dumbuya

Neida Flores-Ramirez Tyler Fore

Lesvi Fuentes David Fuller

Nyasia Harris Alexis Hart

Mary Elizabeth Kellerman Johanna Lemus Odette Lemus

Brittany Leventoff Liliana Moody

Ciana Patterson-DaCosta Keilyn Portillo Kaday Sesay

A special thank you goes out

to all those on the scholar-

ship luncheon commit-

tee. As usual, you made

this event one the students

and their families will re-

2015 Scholarship Awards Luncheon - CONGRATULATIONS!

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Congratulations to all of the winners of the 2015 Samuel Beytin Community Scholarships!

Samuel Beytin: Madison Levine Ashlyn Nardi

Natalie Tejada Charley Gips

Allison Weiner Amber Rundle

Esther Mintz Flannigan/Milton Brizell Candace Forrest

Candy Gold/Blossom Cohen Carly Leventoff

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These students attended the 2015 Recovery Center Poster Contest

Award Ceremony on Friday, April 12th. Congratulations to all of our talented students, their families, and members of the Sullivan County School community!

Congratulations!

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12th Grade Nyasia Harris - 1st Place Kali Seastrand - Honorable Mention Karryn Smith- Honorable Mention

11th Grade Momodou Gai- Honorable Mention Christian Rosales- Honorable Mention

10th Grade Mary Elizabeth Kellerman - Grand Prize Winner Aliza Santos- Honorable Mention Jose Fuentes- Honorable Mention Mercedes Lainez Hernandez- Honorable Mention Abby Langeland- Honorable Mention

9th Grade Victoria Langeland - 3rd Place Chiane Crowley- Honorable Mention Karen Campos- Honorable Mention Jennifer Davila- Honorable Mention

Iris Mancia- Honorable Mention

Grand Prize Winner! Mary Elizabeth Kellerman

1st Place! Nyasia Harris

3rd Place! Victoria Langeland

2015 Recovery Center Poster Contest Award Ceremony!

We support you! Fellow students, our teachers, students’ families, our superinten-dent, and members of the community all show up to support our local artists.

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Dean Scher, Executive Director of Catholic Charities Community Services, Dr. Katz, and Marty Colavito

Fallsburg Contingent at Poster Contest

Grandmother of Mary Elizabeth Kellerman

Amazing Artists!

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Artist - Ayanna Princival

Artist - Daniel Rivera

Artist - Shamiq Williams

Artist - Daivon Batres

Artist - Madison Kaufman

Artist - Elizabeth Kellerman Artist - Marcello Rivas

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Artist - Olivia Vales

Amazing Artists!

Artist - Samantha Perna

Artist - Shane Luczyski

Artist - Taran Payton Artist - Abby Langeland

Artist - Shaina Hurwitz

Artist - Tahyia Fields

Artist - Hayley Weiner

Artist - Maria Fernanda Sosa Lopez

Artist - Ryan halstead

Artist - Kali Seastrand

Artist - Kali Seastrand

Amazing Artists!

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Artist—Mariah McCoy

Artist—Kassi Zuewsky

Artist—Nataslie Tejada

Artist—Melanie Dalman

Artist—Ajani Vernon Desmangles

Artist—Jose Fuentes

Artist—Jessica Martinez

Artist—Karryn Smith

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Fallsburg Cheerleaders!

Poetry Spotlight

The Superhero Interview .Batman is cool Batman is awesome He is the best superhero in the world He fights crime And has a pretty car He's better than superman And better than his side kick The bratty Robin Green Lantern doesn't compare And no one cares about Aqua Man Like who is he A fish that's who Superman just sucks Without his powers he useless You've seen the old superman He's a nerd that can't do anything

That's why Batmans' better -Rachel Collura’s interview with Jose Rojas

My Condolences

Sorry for you man Love is love and there is no stopping it Love at first and last sight Till the end Showing they will go to the ends of the earth for each other But ignorance overrules love

And they will never know

freedom

-Rachel Collura

This space could Showcase

Your talents! Send us your Poetry and

Short stories! -Comet Chronicles

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-When enter-ing our school, people can see numerous ex-hibits and dis-plays proudly set up for fel-low students and members

of the commu-nity to view.

Lobby Exhibits

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ANIME

Anime classes are offered af-ter school from 4 to 6 p.m.

The Anime students are very passionate about this art

form, just ask their instruc-tor, Mr. Daniel Phillips

(pictured below).

Mr. Daniel Phillips

Anime Instructor Page 36

Artist - Mayco Hernandez

Artist - Frank Morrow

Students at work...

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Field Trip! Clearwater Sloop

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Artist—Evan donnelly

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Music!

Various sculptures and art work in Fallsburg!

Artist - Ayanna Princival