One might ask, “What is school spirit?” or “Do I have any school spirit?” School Spirit is the proud and supportive attitude that students and teachers have toward their school. Yes! When you wear school colors, join clubs, and at-tend school activities and games, that means you have school spirit. Here at George White, with the collaboration of Mr. Bow-er, Mrs. Sweeny, Mrs. Ives and a few other teachers they decided that it would be a great idea to boost school spirit by having all of the grades participate in different activities to com-

pete for spirit points and win the ultimate prize: a trip to the Palisade’s mall. Original-ly, the idea of having such a contest came from Mr. Bow-er, Videography teacher the school’s AV Club. According to Mr. Bower, when Mr. Ber-gamini came to this school as the new principal, he noticed that there were no school col-ors or anything that screamed “George White”. Everything was just generic. “I noticed that when I was in middle school, we were very enthusi-astic about school spirit. There was a friendly contest to engage the students in school affairs.”

With the support of the Stu-dent Council, Mr. Bergam-ini, and Board members, this idea evolved into some-thing much greater. Every month on a Friday, students wear George White’s school colors, green and white. We began the year

with a Pep Rally and this friend-ly compe-titions

have raised awareness for school spirit, as well as showing the students what school pride really means.

By: Ashley Shaaf and Mary Savelyev

The True Meaning of School Spirit

Student Counsel This year we held our Food Drive for the veter-ans, which turned out to be an excellent success! With every class participating, we collected about 2,200 non-perishable foods! We are sure every veteran will have enough food for the tough winter, with this much non-perishable food items.

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December 23, 2015

American Legion Winter Drive

Organized by the Student Counsel we had our yearly Winter Drive collection where thanks to the kind and thoughtful donations we were able to collect an amazing amount of back-packs, clothes, and personal items for both veteran men, and women. This year’s

was held from December 4, 2015 to December 16, 2015. We are sure that the home-less veterans from the bottom of your hearts appreciate your help!

Our 2015 Annual P.B.A. Toy Drive was as always a great success! The boxes for the collections were filling up every day, and every time we passed by, we were certain that one more child would have a happier holiday. At the end, we could not believe how much we had collected, it was simply AMAZING!!!!

We interviewed the new

Assistant Principal Mr.

Giordano and this is what he had to say...

-Why did you want to become As. Principal?

I became Asst. Principal to take new steps, and I love teaching.

-What was your favorite subject in school?

My favorite subject is math.

-What grade was your favorite?

My favorite grade was 8th.

-What do you think of our school?

I think that the teachers, the stu-dents, and faculty are great

By Jen Malochia and Leah

Ms. Trahanas went to Rowan Journal and then to William Paterson University. She began as a teacher’s aide in 2013 and started teaching in 2014. When she was younger she wanted to be a journalist. She always loved to read, and one of her favorite series was The Babysitters Club, and the Harry Potter series. Her favorite subject to teach is math. When she was younger, she had trouble with math, and

the more she had to study math, the more she realized that mistakes are a part of learning. As a teacher, she al-

ways say, “Mistakes are good! Mistakes are learning! If you don’t make mistakes, you will never learn anything.”

By Madison Sgroi and Kelly Donlan.

Mr. Tabrys: How long have you been teaching?

-I have been teaching for 4 years. In all, I have been working in schools a total of 10 years.

What was your favorite subject in school?

-It was a tie between history and math.

What college did you go to?

-I went to Rutgers University.

How do you cele-brate your holi-days?

I celebrate it with my family.

By: Sonya Savelyev

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Our support teachers and aides

Meet our new staff at George G. White

HAWKS TALKS

This is what some of our support and teacher’s aides said about what hey loved the most about working here at George G. White:

- How nice and helpful everyone is. Ms. Bolland

- To see how nice and how hard they all the students work. Mrs. DeLuise

Mrs. Lupfer returned to George G. White after being out for 1 year on maternity leave. She wen to NYU College. Her favorite subject in school was Language Arts, and she is also the director at PVH. Mrs. Lupfer enjoys spending time with her family when she is not teaching or work-ing with students.

By: Mia Woessner and Caitlyn DeGise.

Ms Conroy came back to George G White after having taught at Smith. Her favorite subject to teach is math. She went to Montclair State University, and her hobby is painting. What she likes more about teaching is when kids learn things that they didn`t know before. She also enjoys working on projects with her students.

By: Sarah Shapiro and Abby Shapiro

- How nice everyone is. Mrs. Misa.

- The friendly teachers and students. Mrs. Levinsohn

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by her own experience at IHA. Part

of her experience was how a big

sister or brother would follow them

around. Mrs. Reese decided it

would be a great idea to bring the

school together instead of 5th vs 6th

vs 7th vs 8th.

By: Mary Savelyev

Our wonderful guidance counselors Ms.

Pizzo and Mrs. Reese came up with the

idea of creating a program where 7th and

8th graders (the Bigs) mentor and help 6th

and 5th graders (the Littles) by fun activi-

ties and games. After interviewing Mrs.

Reese, she told us that she was inspired

In the beginning of the school year we had a Pep Rally to start off a great sports season. Some activi-ties were whiffle ball, knock out and volley-

ball. Our boy’s soccer team went undefeated for the main season and in the playoffs their good luck spree sadly ran out they lost 2-1.

The girl’s soccer team played hard but still lost a couple of games and

our girl’s volleyball team also had an amazing season. In the winter we also have a boy’s basketball team and a girl’s basketball team and their season starts on December. On the 25 of November we also had

teachers vs. students volleyball game. The students won the first match against the teachers but sadly

lost the last two. In my opinion it was a great game.

By: Dylan Minneker

“I eat a lot of food and bring a festive spirt to all encounters.” Mr.Bergamini, Princi-pal.

“I decorate my Christmas tree, go to Christmas parties, bake Greek cook-ies, and go to Christmas Eve ser-vice.” Mrs. Fanelli, School Nurse.

“I celebrate the holidays by celebrating that I am off from work.” Crossing church

“I celebrate by having dinner with my family.” Mrs. Vaile, Spanish Teacher.

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Sports

“I celebrate Christmas by decorating and going to the beach.” Hina Tazaki, 7th grade student.

“I decorate and friends come to my house for Christmas.” Aishwarya Pathri, 7th grade student.

“I celebrate by spending time with my family. Dottie, Crossing Guard

“I eat seven different fish on Christ-mas Eve and have a family party. ”Mrs. Horning, Italian Teacher.

“My family and I are going to Manhattan to a restaurant to celebrate the holidays. “ Ms. Drees, 5th Grade Teacher.

“I cook traditional food and celebrate with my family.” Ms. Canella, Science Teacher.

“I spend time with my family.” Ms. Swietlicki, Support Teacher.

“I celebrate by spending time with family.” Ross, Custodial Staff.

“I celebrate by going to Christmas Eve service” Lisa D, 5th grade student .

How we celebrate the holidays

Bigs and Littles

On Pink out Day, students (5th-8th) all over the school wore pink to support breast cancer awareness. The school took a visual stand against breast cancer. Spirit points were awarded to the homeroom with the most students wearing pink. Thanks to all the stu-dents who wore pink. You helped raise breast cancer awareness.

By: Kate Ng

to vote on their favorite cake designs. All of the cakes had their own unique and creative style—and each student that participated deserved to receive votes for their hard work. Everyone in the class had a lot of fun making their cakes. Bet-ter yet, each student was able to take their creation home!

By: Erin Hollar

During this past marking period, Mrs. Sa-kalosky’s 8th grade cooking class held a cake decorating contest. Every student in the cycle baked a cake of their own with the help of a partner. Each cake was then deco-rated by a theme of the student’s choice. Some involved the fall season or Hallow-een, and others simply used frosting pat-terns and candy decorations. Both teachers and students throughout the school helped

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Robotics

Pink out DAY

8th grade Cake Contest

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Robotics is a competitive club where students from all grades can join even if they don’t know how to build robots. One thing all the teams need to do is to show respect for the other students as well as for the teams that participate during the competition. The robots were that we build were based off a brick called Mindstorms EV3 the brick is compatible with a computer so you can make programs. This year the three George White robotics teams had a great season, the Lucky Charms made up of mostly Fifth graders, at the competition they placed 20th place out of 26 teams and the other teams came in 16th and 19th. The teams had their end of the season pizza party to celebrate the amazing season. As you can see the Robotics Club is a fun club to join, so next time think about becoming part of our school team!!!

By, Dylan Minneker & Manoj Ramrup

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Autumn acrostic

Always leaves swirling in the air.

Ultimate beauty in fall.

Thanksgiving and Halloween are holidays in fall.

Unable to control my love for fall.

Many different colored leaves.

No other season is like this.

By Mia Woessner and Caitlin DeGise

Pumpkin Bread Recipe

Dry ingredients:

3 ½ cups flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp ground cinnamon

1 tsp ground nutmeg

1 tsp salt

1 tsp baking soda

1 ⅓ up raw sugar or sugar

Wet ingredients:

¾ cup milk

1⅓ cup canola oil

2 large eggs 1 15 oz. can pumpkin puree..

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350 degrees.

In one bowl, combine dry ingredients.

Happy New Year! Felice Anno Nuovo

¡Feliz Año Nuevo!

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Recipes

Combine wet and dry ingredients.

Coat baking dish with cooking spray and pour batter into dish.

Cook for approximately 1 hour and then cool for 10 minutes on a wire rack.

Abby and Sarah Shapiro

A Mess in the Kitchen (Homemade Pasta)

Makes one pound of pasta that is 4 serv-ings

Ingredients:

3 ½ cups unbleached all pur pose flour. 4 extra-large eggs.

Directions:

Pour the flour on a flat surface.

Make a hole in the middle of the flour

Add the eggs into the hole.

Beat the eggs like you are having a tem-per tantrum.

Combine the flour and eggs

Knead dough until the smooth and elastic isn’t sticky. Use your muscles

Wrap the dough in plastic wrap and let it sit for 20 minutes.

Cut it into 4 sections.

Run each section through the pasta roller. Keep moving to the thinnest setting.

Cut to desired shape.

Boil for 3 minutes in salted water

ENJOY! Kelly Donlan

Poems and jokes

What do you call an alligator in a vest?

A: An Investigator.

Q: Did you hear about the race between the lettuce and the tomato?

A: The lettuce was a ‘’Head’’ and the tomato was trying to ‘’ketchup’!!!

Q: What do you call a sleeping bull?

A: A Bulldozer!

By: Dylan Minneker