Volume 55, No. 5 The Student Newspaper of Cinnaminson High School1197 Riverton Road, Cinnaminson NJ 08077

June 2014

What’s Inside...

Ship’s Log Going Digital in

2014-2015

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Tommy Marris Thrives as True Self

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Brittany Runyen Earns 12 Varsity Letters at CHS

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Masi and Blinn Retire After Decades of Teaching

Madison Parry and Harry Ball Excel As Top Seniors

by Sean Gallagher ‘14Features Editor

As summer draws nearer and nearer with ev-ery passing day, it is time for all of us to say goodbye to CHS.

For underclassmen, they are only leaving for the summer. The seniors, on the other hand, are going on to college or wherever their futures take them, leaving CHS for good.

This year, CHS is not only bidding a fond farewell to its senior class, but to two beloved edu-cators, Mr. Masi and Ms. Blinn, two fine educators

who have graced the halls

of CHS for forty and twen-ty-four years, respectively.

Looking back on his high school career as a stu-

dent at Cinnaminson High

School, Mr. Masi admits that he was an “average stu-dent” who was “more con-cerned about athletics than

academics.” Masi, who was only sixteen through Janu-ary of his senior year, was a 4’10”, 96 lb freshman in 1962. Fifty years later, Masi is still walking the halls of CHS, but this time a bit wis-er and certainly taller.

“I’m ashamed to say I didn’t apply myself until senior year,” he says. Ac-cording to Masi, with the benefits of age on his side, “I deeply appreciate hard work, effort and dedication from academics,” because “it’s so much more impor-tant to where we’re all go-ing.” It’s hard to imagine do-ing anything for forty years, let alone being a teacher.

Nevertheless, Masi insists, “this is the greatest job. Ev-ery day is fun and it’s kept me young.” In Masi’s case, the old saying is true: if you love what you do, you never work a day in your life.

Ms. Blinn, known for teaching foreign languages at CHS, looks back fondly on her twenty-five years of education. “It’s been great,” says Blinn, adding that CHS has been “a wonderful place to work.” Over the years, Blinn has relished the op-portunity to teach young people a new language, a prospect that has fascinated her since childhood.

photo courtesy of the BuccaneerMr. Masi and Ms. Blinn both leave behind a legacy at CHS.

by Jake Barnes ‘14Copy Editor

Every year the two academic “MVPs” of the graduating class are honored with the titles of valedictorian and salutato-rian, indicating the first and second-highest ranked stu-dents in the class. This year, Madison Parry and Harri-son Ball were named Vale-dictorian and Salutatorian, respectively, for the class of 2014. No one knew what to expect when Madison Parry arrived to Cinnaminson High School. Madison, had come from the small West-field Friends School in Cin-naminson and didn’t know many people here to begin with. She had to try and find her place in CHS.

It took very little time for everyone to real-ize that Madison was a top-notch student who worked tirelessly on maintaining excellent grades. She stud-ied for hours on end in or-der to ensure her success as a student. Outside of a suc-cessful academic life, Madi-son was on the swim team, and also ran cross-country and track. Later in her career at CHS she joined Cinna-mentors, NHS and attended the prestigious Governor’s School. While at CHS, Mad-ison achieved some remark-able things, such as earning a perfect score on the SAT II in both Chemistry and Math II, as well as being one of Burlington County’s top students.

Madison will be at-tending Princeton Univer-sity in the fall, studying Bio/Chemical Engineering, becoming the third CHS student in the last four years to make the jump to an Ivy League college. As Madison’s time at CHS winds down, she reflected on the good times spent in the building, such as becoming one with the art room and constantly ranting with Mrs. DiPietro. She thanked her parents for encouraging her to apply herself and pursue her aca-demic dreams. Salutatorian Harri-son Ball had his own jour-ney through Cinnaminson. Unlike Madison, Harry has been going to Cinnamin-son public schools since kindergarten. While he’s

always had friends, Harry was picked on and harassed early in his high school ca-

reer just for being himself. “It was hard be-ing called gay just because I was involved with mu-sic and drama,” explains Harry. Harry was a member of Chamber Choir as well

as being one of the lead-ing male cast members in school plays year after year.

At the end of his sophomore year he chose to ignore the bullying and just be the man he wanted to be. Ball of-fers advice to underclass-men, “Be yourself, don’t let

photo courtesy of the BuccaneerMadison and Harrison are ranked highest in the class of 2014.

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Every Day Will Soon Captivate Summer Readersby Megan Morris ‘15Editor-in-Chief

For the second year in a row, Cinnaminson High School is participating in “United We Read,” the new policy that advocates the one book, one school pro-gram. Supervisor Mr. Kind and his fellow colleagues in the English Depart-ment made the decision to switch the summer reading program last year. “United We Read” has been used in “many schools in the South Jersey region,” which is where Mr. Kind and his col-leagues found the idea. The goal of the program is “to bridge the gap between in-coming freshmen and those who are already students of Cinnaminson High School,” according to Kind.

The committee that helped choose the book this year consisted of the

entire English department: Mrs. Damiri, Mr. Beirao, Mrs. Regan, Mrs. Luxem-burg, Mr. Gorman, Laura Fitzwalter (a member of

the board), and two home and school members. There were three books up for consideration this year: The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, I Am Ma-lala, and Every Day. The

committee’s consensus was that Every Day, by David Levithan, would be the best fit for the summer reading program.

Every Day follows the life of A, a teenager who wakes up in a different body every morning. The body that A wakes up in is completely random, how-ever, all the bodies that A borrows for the day are his age—16. A has accepted his fate of living a life where he cannot get attached to any-one for more than a day. He tries to keep the host’s life as normal as possible for the day. Nothing has inter-rupted this routine for 16 years, but that all changes when love comes into A’s twisted life in the form of a beautiful girl named Rhian-non. A and Rhiannon face the challenge of trying to be in a relationship, even while A is changing bodies every

day. One day he wakes up 3 hours away, so they can-not see each other. The next day he is right next door, but weighs 300 pounds, which bothers Rhiannon. The book chronicles the struggle of trying to make the rela-tionship work or moving on and accepting the unfortu-nate fate of A.

Many people were fond of the new system last year. The only problem last year, however, was the book. Many people were disappointed, and even an-gered, by the ending of Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger. The commit-tee took that into consider-ation and tried to pick the book that would have the most appeal for everyone and be the most appropri-ate. Of course, not everyone will enjoy Every Day, but at the very least they won’t be cheated by a cop-out end-

ing. Every Day is a

highly original novel and it tells a story that is touching without being corny or sen-timental. On the whole, the book is full of questions and ambiguity, but it’s never frustrating. David Levithan manages to make you care about each body A wakes up inside, which is quite an accomplishment consid-ering how many chapters are in the book. Every Day asks readers to examine stereotypes of all kind and embrace their own indi-viduality. The book tackles poverty, obesity, homo-sexuality, suicide, depres-sion, and all sorts of ten-der, important issues within the confines of a well-told, earnest love story. With all of this in mind, Every Day should not only be a great read, but an informative and thought-provoking one.

Ms. Blinn Recalls Her Time at CHS and Fond MemoriesTeaching students to

learn French and German at CHS was a joy, according to Mrs. Blinn. Mrs. Blinn had the opportunity to run German Connection, a club which CHS had for eighteen years. In 2011, Blinn and her French class went on an unforgettable trip that took

students from Paris to the French Riviera.

“France, of course, is gorgeous, not just Paris,” Blinn says, adding, “There are so many cool places.” Her travels have also tak-en her to the mountains of Austria and Switzerland, which she describes as “just beautiful.” While she has

traveled to many different parts of the world over the years, Blinn still feels right at home at CHS.

She praises her stu-dents as being “respectful” and “lots of fun” on all lev-els, but appreciated the up-per level students who “can converse more” and have stronger enthusiasm for the

language. Reflecting on her time at CHS, Blinn states, “The bottom line is students and staff really treat each other well. We go out of our way to help each other out.” Blinn goes on to thank her students for being “super caring,” stating, “they have helped me through hard times.”

Ms. Blinn is an hon-est woman who lives by the words, “La vie est belle” or “Life is beautiful.”

Anyone who knows Ms. Blinn can see the sin-cerity and joie de vivre in her eyes. CHS will be say-ing goodbye to a wonder-fully kind spirit at the end of the year.

Concerts in the Summer Draw Major Teen Crowds

photo courtesy of goodreads.comCover of the novel Every Day.

by Andrew DeStefano ‘14Staff Writer

Every year, students become more and more anxious as the school year comes to an end. The sum-mer has become less of a sea-son and more of a safe haven for hard-working students.

Summer is also a time when many students leave Cinnaminson and make their way to concerts up and down the coast. Ev-ery summer, famous music artists make an appearance on the East Coast, predomi-nantly in Philadelphia and the Camden waterfront.

There are a vast va-riety of concerts a student can choose from, depend-ing of their own personal music taste. However, since the summer usually brings a hot “feel good” atmo-sphere, country music tail-gates and concerts draw in

students as a prelude to the rest of the summer concert season. The country music season usually starts off with the 92.5 XTU con-cert in Camden on May 31st. Most people believe this concert sets the mood for the rest of the summer concerts, but Junior Pete Selnek thinks otherwise.

“Usually a lot of people get in trouble at XTU and do reckless things,” says Selnek. On most oc-casions, the XTU concerts bring with it scattered fights throughout the day, as there is an overall theme of row-diness. Although it makes for a fun time, things usu-ally tend to go too far.

Shortly after the XTU concert there is an-other country music concert rounding the corner. The Zac Brown Band (ZBB) is making its way to Camden on June 19th and 20th. Stu-

dents at CHS are particular-ly excited for this concert, as the Zac Brown Band has become increasingly popu-lar over the past few years.

Senior Mike Jones is one of the many CHS stu-dents who enjoys the ZBB concerts. “I just enjoy the atmosphere of the concert. It’s always a great time,” says senior Mike Jones.

Though country mu-sic is always popular in the summer, there are always concerts for every genre that music students enjoy.

For those students who enjoy alternative, punk rock and metal bands, on July 11th Warped Tour finds its way to the Cam-den Waterfront. This year the popular Vans Warped Tour will include bands such as, All Time Low, Of Mice and Men, We the Kings, Yellowcard, An-berlin and at least twenty

more. A few of these bands are typically found on the radio station 104.5. How-ever there are a few “un-knowns” who haven’t made their debut on radio yet.

Since rap music is always a favorite for stu-dents at CHS, there are equally great opportunities to see famous rappers lo-cally. On Friday July 25th, the Under the Influence tour is making its way to the Susquehanna Bank center. This tour includes student favorites like Wiz Khalifa and the fast rapping Tyga.

Even for those who don’t particularly enjoy rap, the concerts still offer a great atmosphere to get hyped up with, “I really like the Wiz Khalifa concerts. A few years ago Wiz and Mac Miller came to Camden and it was really fun,” says frequent concert attendee Carley Oldfield. “I’m not a

diehard Wiz fan but I enjoy his music and all my friends tend to go,” she adds.

As hoped and ex-pected, the grouping of concerts available this year appear to be very en-joyable. “I’m very eager to see Of Monsters and Men,” says senior Andrew Fenama, “I’ve always en-joyed their music,” he adds.

Another popular tour will be the June 27 Fall Out Boy and Paramore Show that will hit the Susquehan-na Bank Center. The “Mon-umentour” will bring two of the top rock artists together this summer.

Purchasing tickets earlier would be wise, be-cause they can increase on the secondary market. A concert is a chance to make memories while also listen-ing to some great bands. This summer is great chance to make those memories.

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Surviving and Thriving as a Gay Student at CHS

This Summer at the Movies Will Be Action-PackedBy Sean Gallagher ‘14Features Editor

Not to mince words—this summer at the movies looks pretty hor-rendous. Granted, there are a few flicks I’m looking forward to that I think have some potential, but that’s not nearly good enough. Over the years, the summer movie season has become increasingly overstuffed with superhero sequels and bloated, big-budget action-ers. For every Avengers we moviegoers get, there’s a slew of unnecessary follow-ups thrown our way. Even though my expectations are low for summer 2014, I’m still very excited for a num-ber of films coming soon. June 13 - How to Train Your Dragon 2 The young hero Hic-cup (Jay Baruchel) is grow-ing up. With the help of his dragon Toothless, Hiccup must battle a new breed of wild dragons that threaten the hard-won peace be-

tween dragons and Vikings. I didn’t see the first one, but fans of that film will likely be impressed with this one, which clearly has raised the stakes and greatly improved the animation. June 13- 22 Jump Street I loved the first one, but I smell a cash grab here. Beware the comedy se-quel. In rare instances, like Anchorman 2, a comedy sequel can actually work. However, one need only look at The Hangover Part II as proof that most com-edy sequels are stale re-hashes of the original that try and fail to up the ante. There’s an outside chance that this might be funny, but I wouldn’t count on it. June 27 - Transform-ers: Age of Extinction Ugh. The fourth in-stallment in this headache-inducing franchise is chock full of explosions, slo-mo action and supermodels who can’t act. Leading the film is Mark Wahlberg, who should be ashamed of sign-

ing on to such a project. Mi-chael Bay, one of the worst directors in Hollywood, re-turns to helm this sequel. If you like your movies nice and ‘Merican and you like your dialogue real dumb, this one’s for you.

July 11 - Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

War is brewing be-tween the genetically modi-fied apes and the human survivors in this highly anticipated follow-up to 2011’s Rise of the Planet of the Apes. This is the movie I’m most psyched to see this summer, simply be-cause I love Andy Serkis (who plays the main ape in a motion-capture suit) and I love this series. I’ve seen every single Apes film, go-ing all the way back to the original 1968 classic with Charlton Heston. Rise was a fresh surprise and I sincere-ly hope Dawn delivers the goods. Providing it mixes in both allegory and action, I’m sure this movie will be a success.

July 18 - Jupiter Ascending A wonky sci-fi con-coction from the increas-ingly bizarre Wachowskis, who brought us The Matrix and Cloud Atlas, the latter of which baffled audiences. Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum star in a film that seems simultaneously over-complicated and too simple. I can’t even discern a plot from the trailer, other than perhaps, Channing Tatum must rescue a warrior hu-man with special powers in the future. Yeah, this movie looks a bit insane and not necessarily in a good way.

July 25 - Hercules If seeing The Rock play Hercules is on your bucket list (NOT mine!) then get ready to have your cinematic dreams come true. In all honesty, this film looks disastrous. First of all, it looks cheap despite a siz-able budget. To make mat-ters worse, it’s directed by Brett Ratner, a Hollywood hack known for Rush Hour

3, Movie 43 and X-Men: The Last Stand. The plot seems to be: Hercules fights bad guys. Be very afraid.August 1 - Guardians of

the Galaxy It’s the gleefully bonkers Marvel offering that just might save the sum-mer. Even though Apes and Maleficent will probably be better movies, Guardians of the Galaxy just might hit that Marvel sweet spot for audiences and kick off a new series. Judging by the trailer alone, Guard-ians is embracing its out-landish heroes (a raccoon, tree, green alien, etc.) with a winning tongue-in-cheek attitude. The movie seems to be very self-aware, but also won’t skimp on large scale, colorful action that Marvel always supplies. Chris Pratt, of TV’s Parks and Recreation, has bulked up considerably for his role. Overall, the sum-mer movie season has a few promising offerings amongst a slew of sequels.

by Callie Gallagher ‘17Staff Writer The acronym LG-BTQIA+ has been adapt-ed from the original term LGBT. The new acronym covers a variety of other sexualities and gender iden-tities. The LGBTQIA+ community has been mak-ing strides over the years in combatting hate and preju-dice and fighting to gain equal rights for the gay community. LGBTQIA+ stands for lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual. The plus symbolizes all the sex-ual identities that are not mentioned in the acronym. It also symbolizes allies, any people who accept and support other people’s sexu-alities. Being a part of the LGBTQIA+ community is

something that can be very difficult for teen-agers. But there are a few brave students at CHS who have stood up and expressed them-selves. One of these stu-dents is senior Tommy Marris. Tommy identi-fies himself as “a gay male with pretty ten-dencies.” While he has struggled in the past with embracing his sexu-ality, he feels comfortable now and does not have any trouble expressing himself. “I do a lot with makeup,” he says, “mainly drag makeup, but I’m bad at doing heavy theatric stuff. It’s like I can only do real-girl makeup.” Although he is con-fident now, it hasn’t always been this way. For him, coming out had “started a long chain of depression

I’ve only recently broken out of.” Doing something as bold as coming out can spark a lot of discussion amongst others, who he be-lieves treat him differently. “I think people do treat me differently once they know, whether they are conscious-ly aware of it or not. They’re more worried about offend-ing me, but I’m not easily offended.” He believes strongly against hate towards the LG-

BTQIA+ community. “I think hate against the LGBT community, es-pecially in the U.S., has come to an all-time low. There are still countries like Russia that are still convinced that we are in the Stone Age, but for the most part, de-veloped countries are pretty safe.” For some people in the community, every day is a struggle to get

through, but Tommy has ways to combat hate. “With some verbal harassment I’ve faced, I’ve found it effective to exag-gerate the stereotypes into which they categorize me in order to really expose their fears, since their fears are what caused their hate any-way.” Another member of the LGBTQIA+ communi-ty, who identifies as homo-

sexual, stepped up to dis-cuss experiences and views. This person feels comfort-able and fortunately, this person isn’t treated differ-ently today. However, “Early on, from about eight grade to late ninth, I was bullied a bit for it. But hey, everyone matured so it’s all good for me,” says the person. The student feels just as strongly about hate as Tommy does. “I think anyone who hates the LGBT community is a waste of not only mine, but everyone’s time. In the nicest possible way, they are holding the general popula-tion back from advancing,” says the anonymous source. While there is still a long way to go before we can establish equal rights for all, the brave students and staff at CHS are fighting to give everyone a voice.

Photo courtesy of Tommy Marris’Tommy Marris--comfortable in his own skin

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The Ship’s Log is Going Digital Come Next Yearby Sean Gallagher ‘14Features Editor

The times have changed. The way we view news has evolved and grown with the rise of social media as a news platform.

The best newspa-pers change and adapt with the times, in order to remain fresh and relevant. For this reason, the Ship’s Log is go-ing to undergo some radi-cal changes starting next year. It’s no secret that print newspapers are increasingly a thing of the past. In some circles, they are dead.

Beginning next year, the Ship’s Log newspaper is going digital. Rest assured, there will still be physical issues of the newspaper re-

leased and handed out three times a year. For the most part, however, our stories will be moved to a website we’ll be designing that has some exciting new features. Essentially, the new look will be similar to a blog, but much more polished and slick. For examples, look up “School Newspaper On-line” and look at some of the examples of New Jersey high school papers.

We will start out by publishing at least two newspaper articles a week on our new website. The website will be designed using a WordPress tem-plate, a common and easy to use service that many prominent bloggers utilize. Switching to a website will

allow for our content to be more up-to-date and fresh. Our new location will also give readers easier and more convenient access to the newspaper (such as mo-bile and tablet connection). Technology is on our side here. Under the right cir-cumstances, The Ship’s Log could be live-tweeting Cin-naminson sports events and recording live interviews after the big game with coaches and athletes.

Depending on the package, our website could feature late-breaking sports scores and video content. Also, the presentation of our website will be far bet-ter than the current physi-cal copies of the newspa-per starting with something

very basic but essential: color photographs. It’s a no-brainer for big-time news-papers and it’s especially a no-brainer for us! Believe it or not, it’s way more eco-nomically viable to create an impressive looking, tech-nologically modern website than to continue making the newspaper in our standard format.

The main chal-lenge we face right now is switching the focus of CHS students away from our physical newspapers and in the direction of our in-development website. In other words, we want to make sure people are actu-ally checking this site out after a certain point. We will be able to craft a website for

the Ship’s Log that is visual-ly appealing, but we need to reach out everyone at CHS in order for this to succeed.

It’s no small step, but it’s a necessary and inevitable one. We have unanimously agreed on the Ship’s Log that moving the newspaper to the digital age is the right way to go. The possibilities are really end-less. The shift will be grad-ual but noticeable.

With the amount of the time we editors put into the newspaper for every is-sue, and the amount of grief we deal with, it’s time we transform the dusty old pa-per copy of the CHS Ship’s Log into a flourishing new online outlet that actively follows CHS life.

someone else stop you from being who you are.” In addition to being musically talented, Harry is a well-known athlete. As a four-year varsity swimmer and a two-year varsity cross country and track runner, he put his determination and athleticism on display. On top of all that, Harry par-ticipated in mock trial and won Mr. Cinnaminson this year. The most impressive

thing about Harry’s success is that he was able to battle through struggles in his per-sonal life: cancer. That word that makes people cringe, cry and become distraught. Virtually everyone knows someone who suffers from it, but for Harry it is his own mother. Harry’s experience with his mother’s cancer has overall, made him stronger as he realizes that the expe-rience has matured him. He had to do things on his own because his mother couldn’t

be there all the time for him anymore. Through the ex-perience Harry has always shown perseverance and strength with his smile and benevolent demeanor. In a few days, Har-ry’s Cinnaminson experi-ence will culminate. Near-ing the end of his high school career, he reflected on his time he has spent with Mrs. Carroll, his favor-ite teacher whom he consid-ers to be a second mother to him and being a part of the

CHS community. Looking back, he realizes his con-fidence was the key to his success and also his parents’ support made him who he is. Harrison looks to contin-ue his studies in Chemical Engineering at the Univ. of Delaware in the fall. Everyone who goes through life wishes to be re-membered and earning these prestigious academic honors ensures that both Madison and Harry will cement their legacies in CHS’s memory.

Their journeys are far from over however. In twenty years Madison sees herself working in the Pharmaceuti-cal industry whilst traveling the world, while Harry en-visions himself being CEO of his chemical engineering firm. While these tasks may seem hard to attain, with the same hard work and de-termination both Madison and Harry have showed in High School nearly any-thing they set their minds to could become a reality.

CHS Art Club Advances in Vans Custom Competition

photo courtesy of cinnaminsonpatch.comCHS Art department shoe designs win regional contest.

Harry and Madison Have Ambitious, Promising Futures

by JJ Walsh ‘14Staff Writer

The Vans Custom Culture art competition pits schools across the na-tion against each other to create the best design for a set of Custom Vans shoes. The first 2,000 schools to register for the competition are sent four pairs of blank shoes to customize for the contest. Each pair of shoes must adhere to one of the four specific themes: Sports (bike and board), music, art, and local flavor. Once each pair of shoes was completed, pictures of each pair were submitted to the Vans Cus-tom Culture website. Then, from the 2,000 schools the Vans staff narrowed down the submissions to the top 50 semi-finalists. And from there, those 50 schools were subjected to a public vote hosted by the Vans Custom

Culture website for 18 days. Of those 50 schools, 1 final-ist was chosen from each of the five regions of the US: Carlsbad High School, Parker High School, Rio Rancho High School, Eastern High School and Cinnaminson High School.

Mrs. DePi-etro, the art teacher at CHS, directed the competition here and has al-ready garnered the art department a prize of $4,000 for placing in the top five. The four shoe designs that were submitted to the competition were created by senior Courtney Macha-mer, sophomore Brianna Ballinghoff, junior Marisa Sozio and sophomore Bran-dy Tolan. The excitement

felt by these students is im-mense. According to Ma-chamer, “This contest is a great opportunity to show off the ability of our art students and is an amazing

way to end my high school career.”

These students, along with a number of other students in the ad-vanced art class, will be go-

ing to New York City from June 10 to June 13 on an all-expenses-paid trip to the contest’s final event. The final event will be held on June 10 and will reportedly

be “star-studded.” Here, the folks at Vans Custom Cul-ture will crown the winning school, which comes with a $50,000 prize for the winning school’s art depart-ment. The shoes from the five fi-nalist schools will be displayed in a public venue cho-sen by Vans. A partner of the Vans competition, Jour-

ney’s, will be awarding the school with the best local flavor styled shoe, a prize of $10,000. The judges of the contest are skateboarder Steve Caballero, stylist Ke-

mal Harris, Cage the El-ephant Singer Matt Shultz, Global Fashion Designers Mary Eley and Wakako Kishimoto and musical duo MKTO.

Truth, another part-ner of Vans, is allowing the top 50 school finalists to design a skate deck exhibit-ing their reaction to the ugly truth about the dangers of smoking. Junior Charlotte Day-Smith’s skate deck de-sign was submitted to this contest, which could win the art department an additional $10,000 in prize money.

With the guarantee of at least $4,000 for our schools art department and a chance to win a grand prize of $50,000, the pride felt for our school is evident. This is a major accomplishment and hopefully the students have made not only CHS proud, but the whole com-munity.

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The Jersey Shore Attracts Teens Looking for Jobs

Leadership Opportunities Are Abundant for Students

by Michael Zelinka ‘16News Editor

The summer for kids usually means chasing down ice cream trucks, slip and slides in the back yard, and water balloon fights 24/7. However, during the high school years, many of those fun activities are abandoned and replaced with tempo-rary/annual summer jobs. Students such as, junior Val Iovine, have jobs down the shore this sum-mer working a section of the boardwalk games. This will be Val’s second sum-mer returning to the Pier as a worker, “I’m there all the time in the summer and I thought it would be some-thing fun,” Val has had fun working at the pier, and has gained social experience dealing with the public, “It has taught me that even when people are rude, you need to be nice to them and they’ll get over themselves.” Kimmy Stefanelli, whose parents own a house in North Wildwood, is stay-ing at the shore to work at Samuel’s Pancake House this summer. She is not

the only one who is work-ing in Wildwood, how-ever. Sophomores Alexa Parrish, Jenna Mullin, and Casey Joyce will be enjoy-ing Wildwood all summer too while working at Little Nicky’s Pizza shop on the boardwalk. Staying at the shore is a great experience as a high school student, and making money while enjoying the nice getaway is the icing on the cake. The summer is usu-ally a time for fun, and some students believe it should stay that way. How-ever Val supports the idea of a summer job because, “You need to start to get experience at one point,” Senior Heather Semola also supports the idea of getting a summer job, by pointing out that with a summer job, “You have money. You’re not asking your parents for money, and it’s not like you’re hanging out with your friends every min-ute of everyday anyway.” Many people be-lieve in getting summer jobs, but literally only sea-sonal summer jobs. Se-nior Courtney Machamer

(who works at SaladWorks year round), admitted that, “Originally I got it [the job] in the summer, because I re-alized I needed to go to col-lege,” after joining the Sal-adWorks staff year round, Machamer realized the surge of employees which appeared in the summer. “It’s more popular in the summer than in the winter,” Because of the decrease in demand for workers, “We have to fire people in the winter,” she concluded. Many students have been drawn towards the newest indoor trampoline park, Sky Zone, as their tem-porary summer job. After hearing about the job from a family member that cur-rently works at Sky Zone, junior Summer Rivera was excited to work there. “It’s definitely going to help me socially. I’m learning to work and deal with people. This will help me with my future career goal of a fash-ion designer,” Although she enjoys her summer job, Ri-vera’s ideal summer job is a lifeguard. In fact, fellow junior Sabrina Atkinson, will be fulfilling Rivera’s

dream ideal summer job as she will be a lifeguard this summer at L.C.C.C. However, most people are following in Summer’s footsteps. Out of the 140 people that Sky Zone hired, 40 of them are from CHS. Juniors Shannon Forbes and Amanda Adams will be staying employed this summer as they will work at the Pomona snack bar. Adams’s mother is the current manager at the bar. This is one of the reasons why Forbes will be return-ing for a third time, “It was an easy first job, I knew the manager and it was a good fit. It was [a good fit] because

I like working with people and preparing food is some-thing easy,” she told. This summer job, for Forbes, is the definition of a summer job: a way to make money and get experience for the time being. Forbes explains that, “I’ll work there as long as I can every sum-mer until I find a real job. Like the summers between college years, and after.” Summer jobs may be a way to gain experi-ence for other jobs, get hands on experience in pur-suing a career, or simply to get money for the time being. Either or, they are a onetime seasonal habit.

Megan Morris ‘15Editor-in-Chief

This is the time of year when kids are anx-iously waiting for the end of school and the start of summer. Many of the stu-dents that attend Cinnamin-son High School will spend the summer, sun bathing at the Jersey Shore or relaxing in the comfort of their own home.

Although most of the students will follow this path of relaxation, there are some that will spend their summer in leadership work-shops bettering their future.

There are multiple leadership programs held in the summer that people at Cinnaminson High School participate in to stand out when it comes time to apply for college or jobs.

Girls’ State and Boys’ State start right af-ter school ends. The eight girls and six boys leaving for these honored programs will depart on June 22nd and spend six days at Georgian Court University (for the

girls) or Rider University (for the boys). There are a couple ways to become a delegate for Girls’/Boys’ State. According to Mrs. Al-ven, “a teacher can recom-mend a student, a student can sing up, or the guidance

counselors look for those who are actively involved in other programs.”

Both girls’ state and boys’ state are focused on actively involving the youth population in government, developing leadership skills and learning how to become a sufficient public speaker. For the week that they are there, not one Cinnaminson student will be paired with another Cinnaminson stu-dent. This gives the students not only a chance to learn

about leadership and gov-ernment but also a chance to work with strangers, which is also a great life lesson to learn while still young.

There will be a simulated election where students will have the op-

portunity to run for office positions. They can cam-paign however they choose in hopes of winning the election. One CHS student who is eager to campaign and has hopes of winning, junior Jenny Le, claims that “she has already thought of ways to campaign.”

Another summer leadership program that students from Cinnaminson high school participate in is Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA). RYLA

is run by the Interact club. The Interact officers pick the people who will attend RYLA. Last year there were three juniors picked to attend RYLA: Morgan Gares, Carolyn Bresnahan, and Wyatt Holl. This year, those three people will be attending RYLA again, but with three more Cinnamin-son juniors: Adam Bere-nato, Valerie Iovine, and Andi Odjemski. Morgan and Wyatt rave about the leadership program, saying “they learned a lot about leadership but the best part of the week was meeting new people and interact-ing with them for a week.” At RYLA, the students are placed into groups with ran-dom people, just like Girls’ and Boys’ State, which forc-es them to leave their com-fort zone. RYLA is a held at Monmouth University dur-ing the first week in July. At RYLA, students learn leadership skills that will stick with them for the rest of their lives.

The final leadership opportunity offered through

Cinnaminson High School is the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership (HOBY) op-portunity. This leadership option is very selective, because only one sopho-more is chosen to go each year. According to Mrs. Alven, the guidance depart-ment gets feedback from the sophomore class advi-sors since they “know who their strong leaders are.” This year’s delegate it is Katie O’Connor. According the HOBY website, HOBY programs focus on “unique leadership training, service-learning and motivation-building experiences.”

To say the least, there are many opportuni-ties for students to plan for their future this summer. These leadership opportu-nities are just the ones of-fered by Cinnaminson High School; there are many more that will help with your future. Leadership is a skill that will follow ev-eryone throughout their life, and these programs will help them become a strong leader.

photo courtesy of www.missiontrailrotary.comRYLA is one of the leadership opportunities offered by CHS.

photo courtesy of wellsconstruction.comMany CHS students will be working at Skyzone over the summer.

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Senior Pirate PollQuestions and Photos by Ship’s Log Staff

How do you think your-Jake McDevitt- -Jackson Merget- -Shane McDevitt-

“For our athletic accomplishments” “We have good discipline. We’re well behaved and respectful.”

“By all the little things, as Coach Zagorski told us.”

-Austin Emery- -Jess Deeney-

“Take chances because in the end you’ll change anyway.”

“To not stress out about school.”

-Norman Berry- -Anthony Roberts-

“Get involved as much as you can and don’t get involved in stupid drama.”

“Freshmen, don’t say happy birthday to Mrs. Loza!

What advice would you give to underclassmen?

“Be a part of your class. Don’t hide in your house all day.”

-Stacy Fletcher-

“Have fun. Savor the memories.”

-Chris Pawlikowski-

The Ship’s Log June 2014

Senior Pirate PollPhotos and Questions by Ship’s Log Staff

What teacher influenced you the most and why?-Kelly Murphy- -Lindsay Marter-

“Mr. Moore because he always pushed me to do my best in and out of school.”

“Ms. DiPietro because she looked out for me and helped me get into college.”

“Mr. Wilson because he’s awesome and passionate about what he does.”

-Jess Staub-

“Mr. MacNamara because he helped me through the college process.”

-Ryan Small-

“Mrs. Quinn because she was ther for us after we lost Mr. Phillips and she’s

always been my favorite teacher.”

-Dan Scheeler-

“Mr. Jenkins because I can relate to him.”

class will be remembered?-Heather Semola-

“We’re the first class to have Pride Day all four years.”

-Shanna Kilroy-

“When it comes to Spirit Week, we all go out and act crazy.”

-Holly Brown-

“We’re very diverse. We have a lot of smart, athletic and artistic people.

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-Courtney Machamer-

OPINIONSPage 8 The Ship’s Log June 2014

by Sean Gallagher ‘14Features Editor

By and large, my time at Cinnaminson High School has been enjoyable. As with all things in life, my experience cannot be easily described or placed in a con-venient box. Simple terms do not seem appropriate for writing about the place in which I spent most of my teenage years. As for my freshman year, I remember very little. I was happy that CHS gave me more free-dom than the middle school. No more cleaning my own lunch table or getting called to eat by row. These little changes may seem inconse-quential now, but they were a big deal to me when I first got here. I can say with con-fidence that present day me would be embarrassed at some of my behavior and attitudes as a freshman, but I think everyone feels that way about themselves on some level. The single best decision I made as a fresh-man was joining the boy’s track team in the spring. I don’t even remember why I signed up, I certainly was no athlete.

Despite this, I con-tinued to participate in spring track for all four years of my high school career. Thank God for that. Distance running not only got me into the best shape of my life, but it also intro-duced me to some amaz-ing coaches and athletes. Coach Fourney has been a greatly influential figure for me during my time at Cin-

naminson High School. Be-sides knowing more about track than anyone else I’ve met, Fourney also has the ability to make just about any of his runners laugh--or cower in fear. I’m not exaggerating in the slight-est when I say this. Maybe that’s why we always tried to run our best for him: be-cause we knew that Fourney was not a man to rile. Over the years, I grew to learn (and love) his often hilari-ous mannerisms.

During my sopho-more year, I started to branch out a bit more and get a little more comfortable in my own skin. Of course, I was still an awkward, hy-peractive weirdo that didn’t know when to shut up—but at least I wasn’t a freshman. Thankfully, I was surround-ed by good people and good friends from the beginning. I want to thank Kevin Mc-Gill and Evan Fleming in particular for treating me like an equal from day one, even when I was the new kid in 7th grade. They are two of the kindest, funniest and most talented people I have ever known and with-out them, I would not be as confident or comfortable in Cinnaminson as I am today.

Another major turn-ing point for me: joining the Ship’s Log staff as a sopho-more. It was here I got to meet Mike Atkinson, one of the most polite and friendli-est guys I have ever known, along with a good buddy of mine named Dylan Gabel. I got to know Mr. Kind, who I had already seen at track practice, but never really interacted with too much. Luckily, Mr. Kind and I hit it off and I am proud to call him not only a teacher, but a friend. Looking back on my sophomore year with the Ship’s Log, I really spent most of my time talking with Dylan about Board-walk Empire, rather than contributing much to the paper. Even so, I don’t feel I wasted a single moment. Others on the Ship’s Log

staff would disagree with me.

As a junior, I finally participated in cross coun-try, something I should’ve done earlier. Sure, the sum-mer training was at times a chore and the races were grueling, but it was all worth it in the end. I am still laughing at some of the things we said during cross country.

That same year, I was bumped up to the Fea-tures Editor position on the Ship’s Log. As an editor, I had to come up with story ideas, juggle multiple piec-es, and stay after school to proofread stories and layout the newspaper.

I didn’t just focus on sports and clubs. I decided to interview for Cinnamen-tors, which paid off big time. I’ve always loved talking to people, so helping freshmen or transfer students adapt to life at CHS was a no-brainer. Mrs. Schweitzer, along with other Cinnamen-tors like Matt Geib and Matt Valentine, had an infectious kindness about them that I was glad to spread.

For three years, a lot of people kept insisting that I join the drama club. I always ignored them…that is until Mrs. Schweitzer talked me into auditioning for High School Musical. I never thought of myself as much of a singer, so audi-tioning wasn’t easy. In the end, going out of my com-fort zone paid off and I got a part in the show.

I was nervous about singing with others, though I tried not to show it. How-ever, these fears eventu-ally melted away with time and practice. After a few weeks, I looked forward to singing with everyone after school. Fortunately for me, my character didn’t have all that much singing, mostly just public speaking, which I’ve always been good at. Memorizing all the dialogue was actually more difficult than projecting my voice or running the show with an

Ship’s Log Editors: My Cinnaminson Experienceaudience.

Nothing boosted my confidence like a standing ovation from the crowd on closing night. It warmed my heart to see the little kids in the audience laughing and cheering. I realized too late that I should’ve done drama earlier, but you live and you learn. At least I got to do it once with an energetic, en-thusiastic cast and crew.

After the play wrapped up, I barely had anything to look forward to, with one major exception: senior trip. We’ve already written at length about se-nior trip in The Ship’s Log, but needless to say it was a peaceful, freeing and un-forgettable trip. We didn’t realize while we were on senior trip just how many memories we’d have from it when we got back to Jersey. It’s tied with Gettysburg for my favorite CHS trip of all time.

Looking back on my four years, I can’t believe

Amanda McAneney ‘14Sports Editor

To finally be writing My Cinnaminson Experi-ence for The Ship’s Log feels unreal. I remember my past years in journalism, when I was just a staff writer. I re-member hearing Mr. Kind tell our previous editors that this would be the most dif-ficult story they would ever have to write for the news-paper. I didn’t believe him then, but I believe it now.

High school was not even close to being easy. It was a tough transi- continued on page 9

photo courtesy of The Buccaneer

photo courtesy of The Buccaneer

it’s all coming to an end. Don’t get me wrong—I’m glad to be getting out of here and going to college, but I will miss a lot of peo-ple. I’ll never forget the fun times I had with the track and cross country teams over the years. I’m going to miss my teammates who are still at CHS and I’ll miss seeing Coach Fourney. The students and staff at CHS are really remarkable peo-ple. I challenge you to find a more dedicated and hands-on staff in the area that is so willing to flaunt their school spirit, even if that means making themselves look like idiots.

Now, college is on the horizon. I’m heading to the University of Pittsburgh. I am greatly excited by the prospect of college life, but I realize it won’t all be easy. Even so, it’s time for me to move on. I had a fantastic time here and I can’t wait to come back and visit in the years to come. tion but one that was much needed in my case. When I look back on my cherished memories of high school, they are mostly from junior and senior year. Freshman and sophomore year were hard on me as I tried to find my place. I was awkward and didn’t speak up when I didn’t feel comfortable. I never put myself out there. I would constantly let peo-ple walk all over me and do nothing about it. It wasn’t until later in high school that I realized not everyone’s opinion of me mattered.

The second I let go of those cares is when high school finally started getting good. I found my friends. I know some of them will fade away with time, but I do know there are others who will stick around no matter where I go.

In high school, I was not a straight A student. I did well in some subjects and did poorly in others. I was not the most popular kid in school but I was liked by the

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photo courtesy of The Buccaneerby Jake Barnes ‘14Copy Editor

If I were to go back to September 2010 and talk to Jake Barnes then, as my present self, I am sure that 14-year old me, wide-eyed and innocent, would not be-lieve a word I said. I could just imagine myself walk-ing up to number 68 after a football practice during his freshman year and say-ing: “Hey, do you even like playing football? Why are you playing?” And that freshman kid would prob-ably reply back, “I don’t know, it’s just what I do, I kind of can’t live without it.” Then I’d say to him, “You realize you totally suck right?” And I’d see the kid’s depressed frown on his face realizing what I said was true. I would comfort him by asking: “You ever hear of cross country?”

The kid would reply, “Of course, they’re those crazy guys who run count-less miles shirtless down Riverton Road.”

“Well one day, your

people who I want-ed to be associated with so that’s all that really mat-tered. I had to rid myself of the people who brought me down. I was not a twelve season varsity athlete with tons of college coaches scouting me every game, but I was a teammate.

In fact, that was the best part about high school for me: my sports teams.

In soccer and bas-ketball, I was not the most skilled player and usually had my own reserved seat on the bench. I was not a person who got upset when I didn’t get field time. I knew that if I was being sat, it was for the good of the team. I helped the team out in different ways: being the

loudest person on the team cheering for my friends, be-ing Brittany Runyen’s eyes on the basketball court and telling her where she was open, or calming Sabrina Axelrod down when she was getting frustrated or an-gry. I knew that I couldn’t always be the star player in basketball or soccer, but la-crosse was my time to shine.

I’ll never forget my freshman year of lacrosse when I was moved up to JV. Most people would be thrilled to move up a level in a sport, but I couldn’t have been more scared at the time. I only knew a few JV girls and all of my good friends were still on Mr. Perekupka’s freshman team. I asked Perekupka if he could talk to my JV coach,

Laura Rickus, so I could get moved back down. He advised me to stay where I was because he thought moving me up would im-prove me and challenge me. And so I stayed.

I learned that be-ing comfortable doesn’t get you anywhere. You have to step outside of your comfort zone and challenge your-self. I don’t know what kind of lacrosse player I would have been if I hadn’t moved up. If I had stayed comfort-able, I’d probably never have been chosen as team captain this year. Although our record was not the best for my final year on the team, I had improved dra-matically on the field since my days as a scared, little freshman.

Of course, not all my memories of CHS are about sports. There are so many other things that just made my high school the best one I could ask for.

I will desperately miss eating those choco-late cookies at lunch that I’ve been addicted to since freshman year. As weird as it sounds I will miss the leaks in the building and all the little glitches that make Cinnaminson the place I know and love.

In a couple of months, when people ask me where I attend school, I will no longer be able to say Cinnaminson High School. Although I only moved here when I was in fifth grade, Cinnaminson is truly my home. Pretty soon, I will be

20 hours away from home. It’s a bittersweet feeling that every senior gets as we near graduation.

I knew half way through high school that I did not want to stay here. I did not hate it here, but I wasn’t trying to become a so-called “super senior”. I’ve had my chance to ex-perience Cinnaminson, but unfortunately my time is up. I need to leave and make room for new awkward freshmen to come in and make their own memories.

As great as Cin-naminson is, there is so much more for me to see and do with my life that I cannot accomplish if I con-tinue to hang around here. With that I say, goodbye CHS, it’s been fun.

junior year, you’re gonna make the bold choice to leave football and join the team during your junior year.”

If the kid didn’t walk away or slap me in the face he would have said I was in-sane. Then when I described the details he would deny every single word I’d say.

“You’re gonna be pretty good, varsity and top five on the team both years.”

“I’m really not that conditioned.”

“And you’re gonna go to college and run cross country and track for a great team.”

That’s when the kid would run away, thinking he had gone crazy. He would run for miles and miles to gain his sanity, only to re-alize his insanity--that he enjoys torturing himself by running as fast as he possi-bly can. I’d then like to visit myself at the start of my sophomore year. I’d see my-self as the lonely, depressed kid that I was at the time, struggling to find my iden-tity and fit in. I was clouded by uncertainty and torn by doubt. I would go to him because I sympathized with him, I empathized with his pain. “Hey things are gonna get better,” I would say.

The kid would look back, tears in his eyes, then continue to hang his head. “Life’s precious.” I would tell that 15-year-old. “Don’t let the little things get you down because ev-erything happens for a rea-son.”

I would leave him

alone and know that he’d feel better soon, because his peers would be there for him. I would pop in on myself a couple times dur-ing my junior year, tell my-self not to get too tied up in Honors Physics, because it’s only one tough class in a long, high school career. I would tell my junior year self that the SATs are just a stupid test that try to get you to crack. You’re a good enough student to make it wherever you go. I would tell that kid to get over whatever small problems he faced, because in the long run they were only small blips on the radar. An amaz-ing senior year was ahead. Finally I would go to early senior year Jake and give him the biggest shock of all. As he walked down the halls, confident about his future, sporting a black and blue TCNJ jacket, I would rip it off of him and tell him that fate had other plans for him. I would remind him of a place with a much nicer campus, in a better location that was more financially realistic. This is the same place that would let me run for their school. That place is Stockton. It would shock him for sure, but the bene-fits would outweigh his ini-tial surprise. Looking back, the main thing I learned from high school, wasn’t the Py-thagorean Theorem, how to read the Periodic Table of Elements or the Napo-leonic Wars. The most im-portant thing I learned was life changes dramatically, but that can only be a good

thing. These changes made me a much happier, wiser and stronger person. I went through many changes in high school, but I’m hap-py I discovered who I am through these changes. I’d like to thank a lot of people who made me who I am. My male friends: Ryan Small, Kevin McGill, Aaron Hae-gele, Tyler Wood, Akshay Patel, Ethan Burns, Eric Baumhaeur and Sean Gal-lagher, for being absolutely great friends and giving me some amazing memories.

Also, I’d like to thank the top five coolest teachers at Cinnaminson High School (in no particu-lar order): Mrs. Schweitzer, Mr. Matz, Mr. Mike Perek-upka, Mrs Carroll and Mr. Kind, who made learning so much fun and inspired me

to reach my full potential. These teachers truly made coming to school every day a blast, even when I didn’t want to be there.

Each one of them challenged me, respected me and taught me more than I can explain in words. The best kind of teachers are the ones who don’t just teach you the material, but about life.

But most of all, I’d like to thank my family, for always being there and for the countless dollars and hours they sacrificed in raising me. It’s truly ex-traordinary and at the end of the day I hope I made them proud.

I couldn’t have asked for a better Cinnamin-son experience.

Editor-in Chief: Megan Morris‘15 News Editor: Michael Zelinka ‘16 Features Editor: Sean Gallagher ‘14 Sports Editor: Amanda McAneney ‘14 Copy Editor: Jake Barnes ‘14 Advisor: Mr. Kind The Ship’s Log, the Cinnaminson High School newspaper, is designed to function as a voice for the school community. Its objectives are: 1. To give a full account of current ideas, events, and problems affecting CHS. 2. To present a truthful, comprehensive, and intelligent ac-count of the school’s events in a context that gives them meaning. 3. To project a representative picture of the groups that make up the school. The Ship’s Log reserves the right to edit letters for length and to reject letters if they are libelous or do not conform to standards of good taste. The Ship’s Log cannot guarantee publication of all letters it receives. All letters received become the property of The Ship’s Log. Opinions expressed in letters or guest editorials do not neces-sarily reflect the opinion of The Ship’s Log. All letters and guest editori-als should be submitted to Mr. Kind’s email at kindc@cinnaminson.com or to his mailbox in the main office, or even to an English teacher who will submit them to Mr. Kind. Many thanks to Mr. Iacono for his assistance with many pho-tos and timely support to the editors and staff.

The Ship’s Log2013-2014 Editorial Staff

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Brian Abrams - Rutgers New BrunswickNicholas Allen - Universal TechDean Andrews - BCCChris Ascencio - BCCSabrina Axelrod - BCCHarrison Ball - University of DelawareJake Barnes - Stockton CollegeRachel Bastian - Stockton CollegeEric Baumhaeur - Rowan UniversitySamantha Bernard - Air ForceNorman Berry - Widener University Alyssa Birbeck - BCCShannon Bradley - Rowan UniversityDalton Brauckmann - Air ForceMegan Brennan - Ringling College of Art and DesignHolly Brown - BCCEthan Burns - Rowan UniversityAlexandria Byrem - BCCBrandon Carpenter - Johnson-Wales MiamiDominic Carroll - York College of PAShawn Clark - Camden County Police AcademyChristopher Clouse - UndecidedDelaney Conklin - PB CosmotologyNicollette Convery - UndecidedAlysha Cook - BCCAisling Cullen - BCCMichelle Currie - Rowan UniversityRashone Damon - Wesley cCollegeStephanie Dean - Kutztown UniversityAndrew DeBellis - Rutgers CamdenJessica Deeney - Towson UniversityChristian DeLuca - Univ. of the SciencesLouis DeLuca - Bucknell UniversityAndrew DeStefano - BCCChristopher Devone - BCCAndrew Dorosz - Undecided Jaimie Drumm - BCCKaitlyn Duffy - BCCBryan Dwyer - BCCAustin Emery - Coastal Carolina Univ.Joneale Emmanuel - Penn State Timothy Fedorko - Pennco TechAndrew Fennema - BCCDavid Finnan - BCCDaniel Finney - Widener UniversityKevin Fisher - Widener UniversityEvan Fleming - Montclair State Univ.Stacy Fletcher - Rutgers-CamdenTahszay Ford - Ursinus CollegeAlexander Forte - BCCTiffany Fowles - Ramapo College of N.JJordan Friedrich - University of ScrantonMario Fumo - BCCZachary Galasso - Drexel University

CHS Class of 2014 Moves On...Sean Gallagher - University of PittsburghJessica Gant - Rowan UniversityCasey Gleba - Salisbury UniversityNevin Goebel - BCCKimberly Goins - Drexel UniversityMatthew Gono - Wesley CollegeElizabeth Gural - LaSalle UniversityAaron Haegele - California Univ. (PA)Daniel Hanus - Pennco TechTiffany Hardman - CCCBradford Hawthorne - BCCAdrianna Hering - Widener UniversityKirsten Hess - Rider UniversityDanielle Higbee - Temple UniversityAmanda Hollingsworth - BCCKimberly Horowitz - UndecidedSteven Jiang - Farleigh-Dickinson Univ.Dean Jones - Stockton College Michael Jones - Penn StateJessica Kearns - James Madison Univ.Shanna Kilroy - Culinary SchoolWilliam Klein - BCCMatthew Kramer - BCCBilgenur Kurt - BCCJasmine Lampkin - BCCRyan Lewis - Neumann UniversityRyan Lilley - East Stroudsburg UniversityCindy Liu - Drexel UniversityErin Luaces - Florida State UniversityMegan Lyner - Rowan UniversityCourtney Machamer - Moore College of Art and DesignLesley Machorro - Rowan UniversityCody MacNair - Neumann UniversityColton MacQuaid - BCCThomas Marris - BCCLindsey Marter - BCCDylan Massara - MarinesValerie McAdams - UndecidedAmanda McAneney - Univ. of TampaLindsay McCarthy - Drexel UniversityOlivia McCaw - BCCJacob McDevitt - Neumann UniversityShane McDevitt - GCCMarty McDonald - Stevenson UniversityKevin McGill - St. Joseph’s UniversityLauren McHugh - William Paterson Univ.Michelle McKeown - CCP (Phila.)Onur Memis - Mercer County College Jackson Merget - Stockton CollegeJacqueline Miller - Stockton CollegeJenna Monnoleto - Univ. of DelawareKelly Murphy - GCCKenneth Nestor - BCCAlina Odjemski - Eastern UniversityTochi Ogbonna - Rutgers New BrunswickCarley Oldfield - Holy Family University

Layla Olive - University of ArizonaSara Ostrowski - Stockton CollegeJoseph Paoline - Rider UniversityEmerald Parrish - BCCMadison Parry - Princeton UniversityAkshay Patel - Rutgers New BrunswickBansri Patel - Rutgers CamdenKishan Patel - Rowan UniversityChristopher Pawlikowski - BCCVincent Perino - Temple UniversityElizabeth Petrick - BCCStephanie Pidge - Rizzeri Trade SchoolDaniel Poinsett - Navy Chandler Pons - ArmySteven Portley - Rowan UniversityAbigail Pottieger - Rutgers N.BJamaris Prado - Camden County CollegeAlexa Pritchard - Stockton CollegeNicholas Pritchard - Stockton CollegeMary Rein - BCCAnthony Roberts - Rowan UniversityDaniel Robinson - BCCEvafae Rodriguez - New England School of Circus ArtsPatrick Rosica - Lincoln Tech. InstitutionJonae Roye - BCCAlexander Ruiz - BCCBrittany Runyen - Cabrini CollegeKaty Scafide - BCCDaniel Scheeler - BCCJustin Scott - UndecidedTristan Scott - Rochester Institute of Tech.Alannah Seagraves - Widener UniversityHeather Semola - Holy Family UniversitySteve Shaw - BCCBrett Sigmund - York College of PARyan Small - Rowan University Jessica Staub - BCCSamantha Stepnowski - Loyola UniversityGregory Still - UndecidedAlexander Sztenderowicz - Full Sail Univ.Alisha Tischner - Farleigh Dickinson UniversityNajha Treadwell - Kean UniversityIsaiah Udotong - M.I.T.Ashley Ungvarsky - Towson University J.J. Walsh - BCCDanielle Walters - BCCHannah Webb - Rowan UniversityAlexandra Weitzner - Rutgers N.BAlexandra Wood - Florida Inst. of Tech.Tyler Wood - Temple UniversityMichael Wooden - Central Michigan UniversityJohn Woods - BCCMark Wright - BCCEmily Zimmermann - BCC

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.”

-H. Jackson Brown Jr.’s “P. S. I Love You”

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Senior Brittany Runyen Masters Different Seasonsby Amanda McAneney ‘14Sports Editor

Being an athlete in high school, it’s every player’s goal to be able to make the varsity team. Some players, if skilled, sometimes have the chance of playing all four years as a varsity player. For some they would be lucky enough to have this happen to them in one field of ex-pertise.

Senior Brittany Runyen managed to become a 12-time var-sity letter athlete, playing varsity all four years in every sport she played: soccer, basketball, and softball.

“It was always my goal to do it,” explained Runyen. “If you ask anyone who knew me freshman year, family or friends, I wanted to be on the varsity teams. I’m re-ally competitive. I honestly never expected it to happen but I knew it was what I wanted.”

According to her coaches, Brittany is a hard working athlete who deserved every letter she re-ceived. Coach Digney, the head coach for girls’ soccer, had the hon-or of coaching her all four years. When asked why he believed Brit-tany should be brought up at such an early stage, he said, “She was a

photo courtesy of The Buccaneer Brittany Runyen competing in all three of her varsity sports.

tough and very skilled player. She was competitive enough.”

The coach of the girls’ bas-ketball team, Mr. Jenkins would agree. Although Mr. Jenkins only came into the girls’ basketball pro-gram while Brittany was a junior, he still saw a leader and a g o o d player a n d r e -ward-ed her w i t h t h e role of t e a m c a p -t a i n . “ S h e was a good leader on and off the court and a committed player. She was some-body who was very competitive, very unselfish,” said Jenkins.

The high school coaches are not the only ones who see Brittany Runyen’s talent. The soccer coach at Cabrini College saw this as well and asked her to continue with her soc-

cer career at his school, which Brit-tany happily accepted. Cabrini has a competitive Division III sports pro-gram, and they encourage two sport athletes at their school. The soccer coach knew about Brittany’s athlet-ic past and had another proposition

for her; he asked her if s h e wanted to play softball as well. “I never thought a b o u t playing softball in col-l e g e but the s o c c e r c o a c h

contacted the softball coach and I just ended up agreeing to play.”

Even though Brittany was consumed with sports, that didn’t stop her from participating in other school activities and continue to focus on her school work. “As a freshman I saw high school trans-form my older sister Kelsey from

quiet girl to an outgoing social but-terfly. Everyone knows I’m outgo-ing but I wanted to make the best of it.” While also playing three sports, Brittany also was able to make Prin-cipal List/Honor Roll, was elected into CHS Student Council as trea-surer and homecoming court, be-came a member of NHS and Cinna-mentors, and has recently become a Hall of Fame nominee. Brittany admits that she enjoyed getting in-volved in different clubs because she “learned a lot about [herself], the school and others.”

Brittany could not take all the credit for her success, however. She had to thank the support from her friends and family. “Aside from family as a whole, my biggest sup-porter was always my dad. He al-ways told me that it didn’t matter what sport I play. It only mattered if I was having fun.”

Brittany Runyen is the per-fect example of what you can ac-complish in high school. You don’t have to just be an athlete or just be the brains. You can do well in as many things as you want to in high school as long as you work hard in everything you do. “My dad always told me to quit or keep going, but if you know me I could never quit.”

photo courtesy of Mr. WilsonMr. Wilson and the Advanced TV crew pose at the 10 Day Film Challenge event.

by Sean Gallagher ‘14Features Editor

The Advanced TV Class entered the 10 Day Film Chal-lenge with feverish anticipation, submitting their short film “Mixed Messages.” The film is a romantic drama that chronicles a relationship throughout high school and the un-comfortable, unanswered questions that come with graduation. Stars Ashley Ungvarsky and Evan Flem-ing worked tirelessly on the film, along with Brandon Jones, Malisa Eckhardt, Aidan Davi and Alex Sztenderowicz. Kyle McGill also contributed to the video, delivering

the infamous “Does that belong to you?” line, required in the video. “Mixed Messages” earned fifth place at the 10-Day Film Chal-lenge, which qualified the film for the national competition. It also won an award for Best Rack Focus, a cinematic technique that switches the focus from one subject to anoth-er in the same shot. Due to the film placing for nationals, the movie will be screened at the Philadelphia In-ternational Children’s Film Festival, which is a tremendous honor that made Mr. Wilson extremely proud. “Mixed Messages” was considered to be one of the top five short films among nearly 100 submitted films.

photo courtesy of the BuccaneerJrs. Shannon McGinnis and Julia Scott enjoyed the obstacle course on Pride Day.

their Talent Show winners perform again, or for the first time, in the morning and also view some award winning TV production videos. After the morning assembly, students were separated by grade and they were off to their designat-ed areas. The day ended as it did for the past three years, with the teach-er band performing. Not only did the teachers perform, but also some talented CHS students.

by Megan Morris ‘15Editor-in-Chief

Cinnaminson High School students were anxiously waiting for May 30th ever since April 17th, when Pride Day was originally scheduled for but then cancelled due to Mother Nature not cooperat-ing with CHS. Most people would agree that 2014 Pride Day was worth the wait. Students were able to see

Pride Day Successful Again Adv. TV Competes Nationally

SPORTSPage 12 The Ship’s Log June 2014

CHS Spring Sports Teams Win Four Division Titles

Baseball

Girl’s Lacrosse

Boy’s Volleyball

Boy’s Lacrosse

Tennis

Golf

Track

Softball

Last year, the base-ball team made history by winning a state title for Cin-naminson for the first time in 12 years. Going into this year’s season, they knew that after being given such great expectations, it was going to be difficult to live up to them. The Pirates did exceptionally well this sea-son. The boys lost their top pitcher, Johnny Bednarek, and one of their best hitters, Cole Pewor, but still kept talented players like seniors Christian DeLuca, Marty McDonald, Cody McNair and Alex Forte. The team had a record of 16-11 this sea-son. Every game was dif-ferent and the boys had to play their best every time. On their senior night, they played against Palmyra and shut them out, 13-0. For their quarterfinal round of playoffs, the boys had the luxury of having a home game against Monmouth. It was a very close game, but the Pirates held on to win with a score of 3-2. For the semifinal round, the boys were home again and went up against Rumson. The boys fought hard but in the end the final score came out with Rumson winning 9-5. However, after start-ing the season 13-4 and ending the season 16-11, that included a 3-7 final 10 games, the team was left disappointed.

by Amanda McAneney ‘14 Sports Editor

This year was a new start for the softball team. A new coaching staff was brought in with Ms. Bart as the new head varsity coach and Mr. Matt Perekupka as the new jayvee coach. In recent past, soft-ball has not always finished as the top spring sport, but this season was the start for a great improvement. The

photos courtesy of the BuccaneerGolf team relaxes (top) and Dean Jones (bottom) sets the ball.

girls finished off their sea-son with a record of 12-11. They had some solid wins against Maple Shade and rivals Delran. For play-offs, the team traveled to Spotswood as the lower seed, but the girls proved the rankings wrong as they beat Spotswood in an upset with a final score of 5-1. Even though the team lost in the second round against Bordentown 3-0, the satis-faction of beating the odds was a great step forward for the team as it returns a lot of underclassmen to the team for next year.

Once again, he ten-nis team had an outstanding season this year with Coach Mr. Mike Perekupka. Their regular season record was 14-1. The boys were close to having an undefeated season, but unfortunately couldn’t come out against Moorestown. In years past, Moorestown has always been one of the top teams in South Jersey and the state and the Pirates have not beat them - yet! Even with this minor bump in their season, they still managed to become the Freedom Di-vision champions for the fifth year in a row. The boys made it to sectional second round and ended their season with a tough loss against Robbins-ville. Next year, the boys will be losing a few seniors, but under the tutelage of Coach Mike Perekupka and a strong group of under-classmen, they’ll look to add their sixth straight title.

It was the boy’s third year playing at a varsity lev-el after starting the new pro-gram four years ago. It was a tough year for after losing some of their star players like John Caurso and Jake Kemble from last season. They won only one game this year against Winslow

with a score of 13-6. Despite their best efforts, their total record of 1-19 did not allow them to qualify in playoffs. Next year will be hard once again, losing more seniors like captain Mark Wright and their goalie Ryan Lew-is. No matter how tough the next year will be, the boys will have a strong direction given from Coach Angelini.

The Cinnaminson girl’s lacrosse team had an overall tough season. Last year, the team lost almost every one of their starters

due to graduation. It was a tough transition to try and rebuild a whole new team. The girls struggled to try to improve their record. They defeated Maple Shade and Pennsauken twice which were easier wins for the girls. The biggest high-light of the season was the girl’s second game against Holy Cross. The first game the girls came up short, los-ing 8-6. However, The girls came out strong as ever and defeated Holy Cross on their senior day 13-11. Thanks to this upset, the girls moved up to the 13th seed for play-

It was an important season for the golf team this year. Coach Masi, who has been a coach in some capac-ity for the golf team for the past 40 years as head coach and assistant, is unfortunate-ly retiring after this year. The boys knew that they wanted to give Mr. Masi a great season. Together they won the NJ South Sectional

title and ended their sea-son with an impressive re-cord of 9-2. Their sectional title gave them the entrance to compete at states. The boys unfortunately came up short, losing by four strokes. Next year, the team will wait to see who their new coach might be, but with talented players like juniors Matt Haddon and David Gall, and sophomore Timmy Jones, the team will have a lot of talent for Mr. Masi’s replacement.

After last year’s sea-son, the volleyball team lost

offs and ended up traveling out to Shore Regional. The girls unfortunately lost, 16-4. The girls finished their season with a 5-12 record.

After a two-year stint without a division title, the boy’s track team returned the hardware to CHS, posting a 5-0 dual meet record. The team fin-ished fourth at the County Open and sixth at section-als. Seniors Isaiah Udotong, Ryan Lilley and Harry Ball qualified for states along with sophomore Tom Long and the boy’s 4x800 team of Udotong, Ball, Long and sophomore Sampson Abah. However, junior Ryan Addlesberger and se-nior Shane McDevitt con-tinued their outstanding seasons, finishing fourth and second, respectively, at states to be the only quali-fiers for the Meet of Cham-pions for either team. The girl’s team had a good season but were edged out for the division title by Delran. The girls ended the season 4-1 and qualified freshman Prisca Blamon (triple jump), se-nior Sara Ostrowski (3200 run) and the girl’s 4x800 team of Ostrowski, junior Carley Oldfield, sophomore Olivia Rocks and freshman Andrea Torres for states.

five of their key starters. With this big of a loss, most would think this would have been a tough blow for the pirates, but they still man-aged to have a better season then what was expected. The season ended with a 19-10 record, winning their division again. The boys started the Central Jersey play-offs against West Wind-sor Plainsboro South in the first round, a team CHS had beaten 2-1 one week ear-lier. Unfortunately, the boys were not able to play their normal starting lineup for the playoff game and lost the match, 2-0. However, with only a few seniors lost to graduation, the team should return stronger than ever.