June 2, 2010

June 2, 2010 Washington High School 38442 Fremont Blvd. Fremont, CA 94536 Vol. 91 Issue 8

The HatchetHusky award winners

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Staff Reporter

Hnin Ookhin was announced as the LAM scholarship winner during the Senior Awards night.

Ookhin didn’t expect the scholarship because the organization chooses only one person from WHS.

Along with her transcript, general information and teacher recommendations Ookhin had to write an essay to apply for the scholarship. In the essay she wrote about obstacles regarding her move to America from Burma in the eighth grade. She wrote about how she needed to adapt to a new environment, as well as her experiences in Speech and Debate and Key Club.

The scholarship grants Ookhin $4,000 for college funds. Each year she receives $1,000 for maintaining a 3.0 GPA throughout her four years of college.

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Husky Awards are given to students who show commitment to the school in a range of activities throughout high school.

What are some rewards of being involved in WHS?

Sean Chadha: It is rewarding when people throughout the school recognize you for talents which are generally overlooked.

Kim Chatterjee: The Husky Award has rewarded me with a feeling of accomplishment and purpose as I look back on my time at Washington.

Cindy Chen: The reward is that you get recognized for y o u r

hard w o r k that you put in for the past years, and it’s honorable to always be remembered as a husky.

Nicole Doan: High school is more enjoyable when you are involved in school activities.

Kellie Ishisaki: To me my reward is knowing that I was able to help make high school that much more enjoyable for someone else. It’s a reward within itself to know all the hours you put into something actually mattered.

Emily Khuc: Being involved is personally rewarding for me, because it allows me to contribute back to the school community that gave me the opportunities to achieve excellence. Volunteering my leadership skills or expertise in other areas help keep the rich activity and

culture of Washing-ton alive.

Seth Neumann: I feel like I have learned so many life lessons that will prepare me for the rest of my life.

My proudest accomplishment in high school was building the math club with Hnin. It’s the most proactive thing I’ve done.

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Darren Tan

Starting and maintaining volleyball... was a way for me to relieve stress. I couldn’t have done as well [in school]without it.

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Shreya Dhingra

I’m really excited that I was able to make it this far without giving up and it took a lot of motivation on my part.

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More than one factor contributed to my success... The most important thing is to learn and grow from the experiences in high school.

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Athletic award winners

Sports, pages 2-3

Seniordestinations

Destinations, pages 4-5

I would definitely say hard work and perseverance ...contributed to my success....Being determined to not give up brought me to where I am today.

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Chris McIntyre

Interviews by nicole doAn And Judy Wu

^_^>.<Anxiety vs.

excitementSeniors share their feelings about their

post-high school plans.Features, page 10

Valedictorian Shreya Dhingra, salutatorians Hnin Ookhin and Chris McIntyre, valedictorians Nicole Pham and Darren Tan receive their awards during Senior Award Night. Although all of them excelled in their classes, they had the most trouble with honors physics. However, they say that class was also the most valuable.

Photo byBriAn Jeon

SPORTSThe HatchetJUNE 2, 20102

MOWRY & PASEO PADRE PKWY

FUEL UP WITH PREMIUM.

Two athletic Huskies sweat for White Sweater

Seniors Kaley Marden and Cedric Lousi won the White Sweater award. To be eligible for the award, a student must letter in at least eight varsity sport seasons between their sophomore and senior years.

“Receiving the White Sweater is amazing. This is something that I have strived for all of my high school career,” Marden said.

Marden participated in water polo, basketball and softball for a combined total of nine varsity letters. Yet out of the three sports, Marden admits softball is her favorite. As a senior, Marden has helped contribute and bring all three of her sports teams to qualify for North Coast Sectionals (NCS).

“Sports motivate me to stay organized and on top of my time,” Marden said. “It teaches me how

to do all my homework as soon as I can and to be time efficient.”

Marden intends to play softball for Cal State Fullerton as a walk-on. A walk-on athlete isn’t given a scholarship to attend the school to represent it in a sport.

Lousi, on the other hand, played football, basketball and volleyball. He played football and volleyball since freshman year and basketball since junior year.

Time management was not hard for Lousi. “I usually finish most of my homework in class,” Lousi said.

Winning this award was a big accomplishment for him.

“I was really happy. It was one of my high school goals. Looking

Photo by Kaylee Miu

Seniors Kaley Marden and Cedric Lousi display the White Sweaters. The winners completed at least eight seasons in varsity sports.

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at the past recipients, I realized that the recent ones were mostly girls. I was looking to break that streak and win it,” Lousi said.

Lousi will attend San Jose

State and play football on a full-ride scholarship in the fall.

Both Marden and Lousi were also named the 2009-2010 WHS Athletes of the Year.

SPORTS The HatchetJUNE 2, 2010 3

B A L L I N ’The “Norm Stelle” Boosters Scholarship is awarded to five WHS Booster members based on athletic acomplishments, community service, academic achievements, good citizenship and outside activities. The five senior recipients awarded (left to right): Jocelyne Yamaguchi (waterpolo, swim), John Songpannopachon (basketball), Kaley Marden (waterpolo, basketball, softball), Jack Veronin (basketball, baseball), and Lauren Floro (soccer, track).

Scholar Athletes

The WHS Scholar Athlete award is presented to senior students who represent Washington. The athletes play multiple sports and are academically in the top 10 percent of their class. These students are the ideal high school atheltes, excelling in both academics and athletics.

Photo by Kaylee Miu

WHS Scholar Athlete recipients Ben Rich and Cody Bates wear their nerdy glasses to

represent their accomplishments in academics and sports. Rich participated in sports such as

cross country, while Bates did volleyball.

Athletes of the Year

Photo by Kaylee Miu

WHS Athletes of the Year recipients Kaley Marden and Cedric Lousi jump for joy.

The 2010 Athlete of the Year award is presented to WHS athletes who represent the school in multiple sports and strive for overall excellence in sports. The recipients are considered to have gone beyond what is expected of an average athlete, demonstrating l e a d e r s h i p , determination and perseverance. There is no set number of recipients for this award, and it varies every year depending on the number of well qualified students.

“Both Kaley and Cedric were major contributers in leading Washington into NCS. They just also happen to be our White Sweater Award recipients,” Career councelor Michelene Whittmer said.

The Marines Distinguished Athlete award was awarded to senior Cedric Lousi. The Marines believe that Lousi truly represents of their core values: leadership, persevering attitude, integrity and determination.

The award is not necessarily awarded to a school MVP or all star athlete. Rather, it goes to athletes who represent the core values of the U.S. Marines. The school’s athletic director ultimately selects the student to receive the award, but the Marines are the ones who present the accolade.

U.S. Marine Corps Distinguished Athlete

2009-2010 WHS Sports

Numbers

355Varsity Athletes

81Days until 2010 fall

sports practice begin

63All-League

athletes

22Sports teams

15Teams that

went to NCS

9“Argus of the

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4Teams that won MVAL

titles

22010 White

sweater recipients

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I was really happy that playing sports can get you a scholarship. I was really proud of myself. I stayed out of trouble my whole high school career. It gave me a reason to keep my grades up to play the sports.

Jack Veronin

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Social Science

High Honors-Shreya Dhingra, Highest H

onors-

Alfonso Bonilla (not shown)

SENIOR AWARDSThe HatchetJUNE 2, 20106

In 1997 we begun

Chinese

High Honors- Eint Paing

French

Transitional Achievement

Highest Honors-Elizabeth Brooks (not shown)

and Antonio Watson

Music

High Honors- Emily Khuc (not shown), H

ighest

Honors- Christopher Valdez

Art/Ceramics

Honors-Nikita Gurnani, High Honors-Max

Landon, Highest Honors-Kelly McGinnis

Drama

Mathematics

Honors-Alexander Kerelsky (not shown), High

Honors-Christopher McIntyre, Highest Honors-

Xuan Phien “Nicole” Pham (not shown)

Yearbook

Spanish

Honors-Eric Rodriguez, High Honors-Eduardo

Vazquez, Highest Honors-Julia Szymanski (not

shown)

Assistant Principal Anette Raichbart, awards Shreya

Dhingra the Social Science High Honor award.

High Honors-Taylor Harmon (right), H

ighest

Honors-Stephanie Benzel (left) and Heather Lardie

(not shown)

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Photos by Harris Afridi, Raphael Ghiew Sien, and Brian Jeon

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(not shown), Highest H

onors-Kimberly Chatter-

jee (not shown)

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Honors-Kimberly Chatterjee

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When the class of 2010 walks its graduation procession on June 17, senior Utkarsh Patel will be 17 years, three months and 16 days old. Born March 1, 1993, Patel is the youngest class member. He likes to boast about his age, but often gets comments that he “looks too big to be young,” according to Patel.

Senior Emily Khuc bought him a lottery ticket for his seventeenth birthday, mistakenly thinking that he was turning 18 years old. Upon discovering his true age, Khuc kept the ticket and later won five dollars. This Patel found as one of the few disadvantages to his youth. He expects to be celebrating his actual eighteenth birthday during finals week at New York University next year.

“I’m really happy to be the youngest person graduating,” Patel said.

Walking with shoe size 15 feet may cause stumbles in life for most, but senior Chase Glenister is “extremely proud of them.” Before he was eight years old, Glenister had normal-sized feet compared to his peers. But by the age of ten, his feet were already size ten and have been growing ever since. He stands currently with feet that measure approximately 12 to 13 inches long. This length may compare to twenty percent of the height of students of his graduating class.

Glenister’s setbacks include having to pay for more expensive shoes, tripping over his own feet and accidentally stepping on other feet several times a day. He is the only member of his family endowed with big feet, so there is no one to compete with for big socks.

Senior Karla Diaz walks with shoe size three feet that are the smallest feet of the class of 2010. Though difficulties may be expected of small feet, she has no problems with finding fitting shoes. Similar to senior Chase Glenister, holder of the biggest feet of the class, Diaz has exclusive rights to her shoes. She shares her shoes with no one.

“I love being tall,” senior Jack Veronin said.

Clocking in at a towering height of six foot five inches, Veronin is decidedly the tallest student in the class of 2010. He has always been the tallest among his peers, his impressive growth spurting in the sixth grade. He grew four inches in one school year. He then grew three inches from sixth to eighth grade. Since, he has sprouted four inches to his current height. Veronin believes that he has finally stopped growing. He finds no disadvantages with his height.

When asked where his height has taken him, Veronin simply answered “above the rim.”

Illustrations by Brian Jeon

Photo by nicole Pham

Tallest height


Biggest feet


Youngest

Brian Jeon

Staff Reporternicole Pham

Online Editor-in-Chief

Senior Ana Espino takes the crown as the shortest senior of 2010. Standing tall at four feet and nine inches, Espino laughs at how she has to look up to talk to her friends. She doesn’t feel too alone with her height as she refers to senior Majelet Linsao as another vertically challenged class mate.

Already, her 13-year-old brother is surpassing her in height.

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FEATURESThe HatchetJUNE 2, 201010

After June 17, there is no more high school for seniors and they will begin to focus on the next steps oftheir lives.

Summer is just a small break for many in our senior class as they head to college in the fall.

“I am excited for a new challenge, to go away from home, do something I’ve never done before, and meet new people,” senior Kristen Valentine said.

Valentine will attend UC Merced in the fall.In some households, going directly into a four year

college is important, while in other households, it is necessary to go to a community college for two years to get used to the responsibilities of being an adult while saving money through part-time work.

Education will continue while freedoms and responsibilities are gained.

Students pursue collegeKeerthiKa ramaKrishnan

Staff Reporter

Graduates are excited...and a little anxious

A majority of the seniors are college-bound, but a small handful are headed straight to the military.

Senior Maverick Hooper will join the navy after high school and work as an aviation mechanic. His responsibilities lie solely in working with aircraft and just about everything else that happens on the runway.

“I’m stoked,” Hooper said. Senior Stephen Hopkins will

serve in the marines this fall. He plans to join security forces and will specialize in defending the government and other facilities outside the United States from terrorist forces.

Hopkins’ older brother, Andrew, who graduated from Washington in 2004, is currently a corporal in the marines and has played a major inspiration for Hopkins.

Senior Robert Schafhirt will also enlist in the marines and will serve as a firefighter. His job will include assisting in the fires of demolished marine vehicles as well as search and rescue operations.

The marines are paying for Schafhirt’s college education and he will also be provided with housing. Schafhirt, along with Hooper, will not be serving in combat.

“Only 10 percent of Marines see combat,” Schafhirt said.

With the training Schafhirt will receive in the marines, he will be able to work as a firefighter after he withdraws from service.

“I’m really looking forward to it,” Schafhirt said.

harris afridi

Staff Reporter

WHS boys join military

Leaving high school and the comfy home nest can be quite a challenge. Typically, one is either leaving the roost to go to a nearby college to stay in the dorms. Out of state colleges are also a usual choice.

Senior Severine Richardson is one such individual. About a month after graduation, Richardson plans to move back to her home country of Germany to pursue an education.

“I’m leaving to try something different, experience life a little,” Richardson said. “The education system is better, anyway.”

So often, burgeoning college students don’t include the possibility of international study. What they fail to realize is that colleges in foreign countries are regularly cheaper.

German voyages

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Staff Reporter

“I have no idea what’s going to happen in the future!”- Maria Viri, Ohlone College

“I’m excited for the future and new opportunities.”- Manaswi Thota, UC Davis

“I’m excited for the freedom that comes in post-high school life. We have full control over our studies, activities, and other lifestyle choices.”- Alfonso Bonilla, UC Berkeley

“I am excited and anxious to be able to explore more subjects so I can find a major that I’m interested in.”- Angela Chu, Ohlone College

“I’m excited to start a new chapter of my life in San Francisco, leaving this one behind.”- Kelly Mcginnis, San Francisco City College

“I’m happy to be able

to be playing college basketball and going to college.”-Le’Shay Wallace, San Mateo College

“I’m excited for everything. Finally getting out of high school, starting everything over, sleeping in a little later; sort of new people, and everything that comes along.”- Alex Bishop, Ohlone College

Trade school students learn useful skills

Senior Gabriel Campos is currently training under PetersenDean Roofing and Solar Systems. He will work for them during the summer.

Campos considers his current training as his education.

“Trades are based on skill and knowledge. College is for book smarts,” Campos said.

In the future, Campos hopes to eventually return to school to learn about business management because he aspires to own his own company someday.

Because of the twenty-first century boom in green, Campos believes he has immersed himself in the right business.

“I have the skills and knowledge that many are acheing to recieve. I’m jumping into a pool of opportunities,” Campos said.

Like Campos, senior Ashley Wheeler will also pursue trades after high school. Wheeler plans to attend Heald College to become a dental assistant.

Heald trains their students in a particular fields, such as medical assitance, and then helps students find jobs.

“It’s an 18-month course, and it starts on July 19,” Wheeler said.

Wheeler plans to finish her course and then start working right afterward.

“I don’t want to go to Ohlone. Instead I want to be a dental assistant so I can improve people’s smiles and make them feel better about themselves,” Wheeler said.

Wheeler is excited about starting Heald and hopes for a good future.

simoneel Czar

marCy shieh

Staff Reporters

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