Phoenix Central School District—Student Newsletter

MARCH 2017

MARCH Calendar

March 3 —

5-week cutoff date!

March 9-11 —

Les Miserables presented

by JCB students!!

SEE PAGES 8 + 9 FOR

MORE INFORMATION!

March 17 —

Staff Day (No School )

March 20—24 —

Spirit Week!

FOR MORE INFORMATION

LOOK TO THE LEFT!

APRIL Calendar

April 7—3rd quarter

report card cut off date

April 14—

Good Friday (No School)

April 17—21 —

Spring Break (No School)

JCB HIGH SCHOOL!!! SPIRIT WEEK is Monday,

March 20th through Friday, March 24th. It

ends with the Battle of the Classes. Does your

class have what it takes to reign supreme???

~‘Merica Monday! Red, white and blue!

~Superhero Tuesday!

~Hawaiian Wednesday! Shirts, leis, and shorts!

It might be -20 degrees outside,

but inside we’ll be in paradise!

~Throwback Thursday - Favorite era of fashion: 70’s

tie dye, 80’s neon, 90’s grunge…

AND Mr. Phoenix in the JCB Auditorium from 7-9

PM

~Class Color Day and Battle of the

Classes

Points so far: Seniors - 26, Juniors - 14,

Sophomores - 15, Freshmen - 10

Faculty who contributed to this newspaper: Ms. Dufour, Ms. Grethel, Mr. Hurlbutt, Mrs. McKinley, Mrs. McLaughlin, Coach Mills, Mr. Musso, and Mrs. Spereno

Students who contributed to this newspaper: Liz Dona, Alyssa Goudy, Jena Klimaszewski, Thomas McCarthy, Marissa Moore, and Sean Sievers

Here is a handy list of important JCB websites! *STUDENT COUNCIL PAGE http://jcbstudentcouncil.weebly.com *Softball http://phoenixfirebirdssoftball.weebly.com/ *Football www.phoenixfirebirds.net *Wrestling- http://phoenixwrestling.weebly.com/

*JCB Yearbook Jcbyearbook.weebly.com

*Girls/Boys Tennis – http://jcbtennis.weebly.com/

*Girls Basketball http://jcbgirlsbasketball.weebly.com/ *National Honor Society http://jcbnhs.weebly.com/ *JCB Physical Education http://jcbphysed.weebly.com/ *JCB Library http://jcblibrary.weebly.com/ *JCB computer labs website: http://jcblabs.weebly.com/ *JCB Guidance Office http://www.phoenixcsd.org/Schools/John-C-Birdlebough-High-School/Guidance-Office *Schooltool https://phoenix.schooltool.cnyric.org/SchoolToolWeb/Default.aspx *Castle Learning http://corp.castlelearning.com/ College Info—*https://www.hesc.ny.gov/ Career Exploration — *http://public.careercruising.com (Students needs username and password from guidance)

Congratulations to all that competed at the DECA Competition in

January. The following students took awards:

Josh Margrey and Noah Neverette took 1st in Travel and Tourism

Garrett Watkins took 2nd in Principles of Business Management

Bailey Otter took 1st in Business Finance

Cade Reed took 3rd in Public Speaking

Jordon Cole took 3rd in Retail Merchandising

DECA News Submitted by Ms. Dufour

JCB’s senior, Joshua Margrey has been chosen to go on to the next level in the

Coca-Cola Scholarship Program

The Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation will have provided more than 5,700 Scholars

nationwide with over $66 million in scholarships.

Joshua ranks with approximately 1,900 high school seniors who are in the running for 150

college scholarships worth $20,000 each.

Congrats! Submitted by Mr. Hurlbutt

Octopus by

Ammarae Eusepi

Mugs by

Ciara Bell

NHS News Submitted by Ms. Neiss

The National Honor Society is having a blood drive on March 21st in the gymnasium. Please

consider giving blood.

The next senior trip $100 deposit will be

due by March 15th. The cost per student is

$355. If you have not already paid the first

$100 in deposits back in October and

November, please include the remainder in

this deposit. We expect to have earned $66

per student to offset costs. This may not

seem like a lot, but it represents over $6000

in support and fundraisers that have come

in to help out the class. We need to equally

divide the support per student. We are also

waiting to see if we get approved for any

Arts In Education grants.

Without any future aid, we will be collecting

a final payment of $89 (or less) on Friday,

April 28.

Upcoming senior fundraisers

Chipotle’s – Wednesday, March 15th

Car Wash – Sunday, April 23rd

Senior news Submitted by Mrs. Spereno

SENIOR TRIP itinerary

Sunday, June 12th

Leave JCB at 7 AM.

Arrive at the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame around 2:00 pm.

Dinner at the House of Blues.

Arrive at the Kalahari Resort at 7:30 pm.

Monday, June 13th

Breakfast

Cedar Point until 6:30 pm.

Arrive back at JCB before midnight.

Please email

Lspereno@phoenixcsd.org if you have

questions about the senior trip.

Music News Submitted by Ms. Grethel

The Phoenix Indoor Percussion

Ensemble is working diligently to

put together their 2017 program

entitled "Rebuild." The reason

behind the name is because this is a

"Rebuilding" year for the program—

meaning the ensemble has a lot of

new members. If you are interested

in supporting the ensemble, you can

DRUMLINE UPDATE By: Sean Sievers

see them at ESM on March 18th and on

April 2nd at the SRC arena at OCC.

On January 10 JCB students represented

our high school at this year’s Sr. High All

County Band Festival held at Hannibal

High School. Students auditioned in

December for the honor and were accepted

based on their preparation of scales, sight

reading, and two prepared pieces.

Congra tu la t e to th e fo l l owi ng

students:

9th graders Violet Ameele, Skyler Patnode,

Hailey Goudy, and Sarah Thorn

10th grader Olivia Ripley

11th grader Sean Sievers, Dixon Ameele,

and Emily Roberts

12th grader Brian Breen and Daniel

Knowlton

Additionally, Brian Breen took 2nd place in

the OCMEA Scholarship Competition,

which earned him a $600 prize!

Our Cheerleading team won the Class B Section 3 title and will be competing

in the State Championships on Saturday, March 4th at the SRC Arena (OCC

Campus)! CONGRATS, JCB CHEERLEADERS!!!

Cheerleader News

The weekend of February 25th and 26th found

Sophomores “Killer” Cahal Donovan and Ross

“Da Boss” McFarland competing at the Times

Union Arena for the NYSPHSAA NY State

Championships.

Cahal Donovan dominated his first 2

opponents 15-1 and 15-0 before losing to

2X NY State Champion and National Runner

up Orion Anderson of Schuylerville 8-4.

In the consolations, Cahal won 4-2 and then

lost a close 3-2 decision to last years 113 lb.

State Champion to place 4th.

Ross “Da Boss” won 4-1, 12-0 and 11-1 to get

into the finals against 3 time NY State

Champion Hunter Richard of Holland Patent.

Ross lost in the finals of the Class B, Division 2

Sectionals and States last year and was

hoping to get revenge. Ross aggressively

Wrestling News Submitted by Coach Mills

attacked Hunter for 6 long minutes. It

looked like Ross was pushing the pace so

hard that the returning Champion was

ready to fold. Ross got scored on in the

last 15 seconds of the 3rd

period and lost

a tough match. Ross repeated at the NY

State Runner up to Hunter Richard again

who is committed to attend Cornell

University next year.

Both these young men worked harder in

one year than most people do in a lifetime

to achieve their goals. They both fell short

of their goals to win a State title, but

believe it will be in the cards for these 2

hard working young men to win it their

last 2 years each. Congrats to Cahal and

da Boss!

Girls’ basketball

JV

Varsity

Based on the novel by Victor Hugo, Les Misérables follows the

life of prisoner-on-parole, Jean Valjean, as he runs from the

ruthless Inspector Javert. Meanwhile, the life of a working class

girl with a child is shattered as she turns to prostitution to pay the

vile innkeeper and his wife for continued care of her daughter,

Cosette. Valjean promises to take care of the child, eventually

following the duo’s lives ten years later into the barricades and in

the midst of a rebellion.

The staff and students involved with this year’s musical have been

eagerly working away since late December. If you have caught any

of the local news articles, Mr. Logee (director) was interviewed for

the creation of a turntable s tyle s tage that

rotates mid-scene. "’Les Mis on Broadway had a rotating stage,’"

Mr. Logee mentioned during his interview. "’That's the artistry of

it. The stage changes the whole way the scenes are portrayed.

There are no breaks in the music, so with the rotating stage,

the action never stops’" (Brenda Duncan, Phoenix students to

perform 'Les Miserables' on rotating stage).

As a personal witness, I can say that all of the staff and

students involved have put in a tremendous amount of effort and

energy to create the story of Les Misérables right in our very own

high school. Support the drama club by coming to hear the

people sing March 9th at 4:30, March 10th at 7:30, and

March 11th at 2:00 pm and 7:30 pm. Tickets are $7 for

students and senior citizens and $10 for adults.

Les Miserable By: Alyssa Goudy

Supporting Cast

The casT includes danielle ‘danie’ Merrill, GarreTT Frink, Miranda

Bowersox, Brian Breen, Ned Greenough, Chloe Koegel, Hannah Grabowski, Joseph Brennan,

Evan Logee, and eighth grader Garrett Strang

Adams, Avery

Allen, Isabella

Andrews, Sarah

Backus, Kearra

Besaw, Ashleigh

Bowersox, Haley

Bowersox, Miranda

Bowman, A.C.

Braun, Daniel

Breen, Brian

Brown, Gabriel

Corey, Kea

Dievendorf, Victoria

Dygert, Donovan

Gilbert, Crysania

Goudy, Alyssa

Grabowski, Allison

Grabowski, Hannah

Harrington, Alyssa

Hawthorne, Declan

Jewell, Hunter

Koegel, Zaya

Lange, Mason

Meaker, Shania

Merrill, Alan

Moore, Marissa

Prickett, Caytlyn

Renfrew, Aubrianna

Renfrew, Keaton

Ripley, Olivia

Roberts, Emily

Salotto, Lilly

Semanchuk-Enser, Larissa

Stobart, Crystal

Trinca, Sophia

Van Gorder, Josh

White, Kaitlin

STAGE CREW

Stage Manager: Emily Forget

Co-Stage Manager: Alexa Uttamsingh

Turntable Drivers: Ryan Lange, Aaren Erwin, Tyler

Hammond

Light Board: Jesse Ross

Sound Tech: Zach Neupert

Sound Aides: Josh Smith

Costume Crew/ Makeup/Hair: Dylan Blumer, Kaitlyn

Greer, Septima Stobart, Andre Ambrioti, Breanna

Backus

Display/Artists: Kaitlyn Greer, Septima Stobart

PIT PERSONNEL

French Horn

Zoe Heckert

Trombone

Sean Sievers

Skyler Patnode

Trumpet

Daniel Knowlton

Darren Fischel

Percussion

Bryon Halstead

Flute

Danielle LeFevbre

Clarinet

Gabriella Allen

Hailey Goudy

Alto Saxophone

Dixon Ameele

Bassoon

Micayla MacDougall

(West Genesee student)

Musical website:

http://jcbdramaclub.weebly.com/musical-production.html

2017 Scholastic Art Exhibition

Award Winners!

Submitted by Mr. Barrett

The 2017 annual Scholastic Art Awards Exhibition on display again this

year on the OCC Campus. The Central New York Arts Council is one of the

largest regional affiliate in the National Scholastic Art program. Each year

brings in almost 5,000 pieces of art from about 200 teachers and

between 80 to 100 individual schools. It is a highly competitive exhibition

showcasing wonderful young artists and their diverse talents.

Over 1,300 awards are presented each year, and those winning pieces

and portfolios will be on display throughout the Whitney Applied

Technology Center at Onondaga Community College until March 3. This

exhibit is free and open to the public!

14 JCB students were among the winning selections for the 2017

Scholastic Art Show!

Honorable Mention Awards: Photography — Bronwyn Bishop,

Kaylee Henry, and Nicole Henry; Ceramics — Ciera Bell and

Ammarae Eusepi; Drawing and Illustration — Gianna De-

Roberts; Painting — Kaitlyn Greer

Silver Key Awards: Photography — Miranda Bowersox,; Comic

Art — Chloe Goodnow; Art Portfolio — Ciera Bell; Ceramics and

Glass — Ciera Bell; Painting — Nicole Henry

Gold Key Awards: Photography — Chloe Koegel and Kristine

Rowe; Ceramics — Hans Goodnow

Congratulations to the award winning artists from JCB!

STUDENT ARTWORK!!

Griffin Goodnow

Kearra Backus

STUDENT ARTWORK!!

Molly Thorn

Working on

COIL TOWERS!!

My Ocean By: Marissa Moore

Tears threaten to spill

I blink them away

I can’t cry

I refuse to

But if I did shed them

How much would there be

A teaspoon, a cup,

A whole ocean

An ocean of sadness

The salty tears

The old car

honks and beeps.

The blinkers click,

BOOM!

There go the brakes.

Woof, moo, oink, neigh,

here we go in to the hay.

SPLASH!

Into the lake we go.

Violent violets sway

in the vast valley,

vaguely venting my worries

of the vicious cultures in my mind.

Their venomous vibes making me a visible victim

to their velvet victory

within my very vacant head,

giving me vivid views

of their vice verses,

filling my veins with a virus of dread.

The overwhelming sound

of clanging metal

against metal.

being refined by large hammers,

being wielded

and swung

by large burly men

made me jump

as I walked

through the large

squeaky door

into the clash of sounds

that filled my ears.

Student poetry