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Winterfest Break Jan. 31—Feb. 4

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Editor: Nicole Sintetos

Copy Editor: Donna Stone Anne Mackey

Photos: Anne Mackey

Nicole Sintetos Donna Stone

January 27, 2015

Strongest Year Yet for Scholastic Art Awards Submissions

The visual arts at Dublin School has a history of making waves, but this year it was a veritable tsunami. For a school with fewer than 150 students, Dublin won the fourth most Scholastic Art Awards in the state, beating out schools with ten times its population. Art teacher and encaustic painter Earl Schofield was quite pleased indeed. The number of awards won was a milestone in itself, and was made ever more substantial by senior Che Ryeong Jung who won, in addition to six gold keys and a gold key portfolio, an American Visions Best in Show Award and a thousand dollar

scholarship to any school she chooses! Ms. Jung singlehandedly won more awards than fifteen individual schools in New Hampshire, making her an institution unto herself! The American Visions Best in Show Award is a first for Dublin School and marks Ms. Jung as one of the best young artist in the state. So, move over Exeter; there’s a new art boss in town. Please continue to page 11 for a full list of winners. Their

work is showcased throughout the newsletter and will be on display in the spring following the national competition. (continue to page 11)

Nelson Mandela by Che Ryeong Jung

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3. Mr. Bates announces Snow Day !!!!!!!!!

2 . MLK Day Celebration Seventeen students performed Dr. King’s

speech, “A Realistic Look at the Question

of Progress in the Area of Race Relations,”

an address delivered at a 1957 Freedom

Rally in Saint Louis, Missouri. You can

read the full transcript here.

The Week in Review

1. Over 40 students submitted to the Scholastic Writing Awards Thanks to Alicia Hammond, English Department Chair, for organizing this growing gaggle of writ-ers. Results will be released next month.

4. Sophomore Calvin Bates wins New Hampshire Coach-es Freestyle 5k Race! Which,

more or less, makes him the fastest boy in

the state. See page 5 for more Nordic

skiing news.

“It was historic. It was snowy. It was filled with pancakes, movies, and books. It was excellent,” said every Dublin student.

Students throw themselves into a snowbank before making snow angels as part of the Winter Warrior Challenge.

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Among the many moving systems contained within the robot, the sliding box pick-up mechanism is one of the most im-portant. However, for it to function, it must move up and down a set of frames. The boxes that attach to both the robot’s frame and the pick-up mechanism are referred to as the slider assem-bly, and it is their design which facilitates winch-controlled movement of the pick-up device. The slider assembly itself was designed and assembled by various members of the robotics team.

The slider assembly starts with the creation of two metal plates using pencil schematics and the milling machine. For this pro-ject, Matthew Levin-Nussbaum took the helm on the creation of these plates. Although he is still developing his milling skills, these plates were both a test of his accumulated knowledge, and a demonstration of his abilities. After a small amount of experi-mentation and guidance from Mr. Cox, Matthew was able to create these plates completely independently. Once the milling machine had been used to create the plates, Matthew, assisted by Mr. Cox, began to combine the plates with the screws and

bearings needed to create the final product. Soon the first of the four boxes of the final slider assembly system was completed.

As Matthew resumed the creation of plates, James Speaks be-

gan to design a computer model of the physical boxes that had

been created. After careful measurements of the existing piece

of the slider assembly, James entered all of the scale values into

the model he had created. This model will now be added to the

master model of the robot so that all elements of the design can

be seen together before the robot is completed. With some help

from Myles Spencer, James successfully integrated the slider

assembly into the full model. Now that both physical and digital

versions of the slider assembly exist, the team can move on to

other parts of the robot. Part engineering, part computer science,

and part math, this was just your typical day in the life of a ro-

botics team member.

ROBOTICS

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Girls Varsity Basketball January 21, 2015

In an RVAL matchup the Dublin varsity girls defeated Char-lemont 45-10. Guards Sabrina Hayden and Bette Imhoff sparked the early offensive run ending the game with 7 and 10 points respectively. Senior co-captains Tymira Holman and Mekenzie Mattheson lead their team with their strong defense. Holman ended the game with 7 steals and Mattheson with 6 rebounds, 1 blocked shot, and leading all scorers with 11 points, shooting 3 for 4 from the free throw line

Girls JV Basketball vs Eagle Hill January 21, 2015

Dublin's JV girls cruised to victory on Wednesday af-ternoon, January 21st. Capitalizing on a quick and effective passing game, Dublin scored early and often, opening up a convincing halftime lead. Mia Brady '18 (Hancock, NH) led all scorers with 14, supported by Shaneil Wynter '17, who added 12, and dominated the boards. Adunni Abrams '18 added 6, providing spark off the bench. The girls continue to gel as a team, gaining in confidence and ability with each game.

Boys Varsity Basketball

January 23, 2015

Dublin Varsity Boys Basketball claimed a win on the road on Friday in Greenfield, MA, defeating Four Riv-ers 39-33. Scrappy defenses on both sides put a premi-um on offensive execution and hustle. 12 rebounds from Jordan Ferreras '16 and 9 from Yi Chen Jiang '15 helped give Dublin many second-shot opportunities. A balanced scoring effort was led by Hunter Bachman '16 with 11 points, Nick Lemieux '16 with 7, and Danny Figueroa '16 and Yi Chen Jiang with 6 apiece. The win moves Dublin to 5-7 on the season (3-2 RVAL), as they prepare for a visit from Vermont Academy on Jan. 30, (3:30 p.m.).

January 21, 2015

Dublin traveled south to play Charlemont on Wednes-day, returning with a lopsided 78-19 victory. Char-lemont jumped out to an early 13-10 lead, but they were no match for the Wildcats, whose defense collected 30 steals on the night, many leading to fast-break buckets. On a night when all nine Dublin players scored, four of them in double-digits, sophomore guard Dylan Sav-age '17 led the way with 19 points on 9-15 shooting. Yi Chen Jiang '15 collected 10 rebounds, and junior cap-tain Danny Figueroa '16 added 8 steals and 3 assists.

BASKETBALL

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While it was touch and go for a while if the Dublin Nordic skiers were going to get to race due to a

winter weather advisory in effect, in the end, in the wee hours of the morning, Coach Silitch and

six Dublin Nordic skiers headed to the far north of New Hampshire to Whitefield, NH (almost to

the border of Canada!) Coach Lindsey joined the team onsite. The day was buzzing with Nordic

energy from high school teams all across New Hampshire. This was a gathering of the top Nordic

high school skiers in the State of New Hampshire. There were four races held. A boys' A and B race

and a girls A and B race. The results included a first place finish by Calvin Bates and some career

bests for our younger skiers!

Highlights of the day:

10th grader, Calvin Bates takes the overall win in the boys 5km skate against some of the best high school skiers in New Hampshire.

George Henry Werowinski placed 21st overall in the A race. This is his 2nd year Nordic skiing and a career best for the 10th grader.

Other A race Dublin skiers were 10th grader Ryan Hyde, 34th & 11th grader, Hyelom Love, 61th out of 146 racers. Well done!

Jared Lewis placed 16th in the B race. This is Jared's 2nd year nordic skiing and this is a top result in his career!

Tatum Wilson, a Dublin 11th grader, raced in the girls 5km A race with a strong finish of 22nd place.

The Dublin School Nordic Center opened in January 2014. The 7 km trail system, designed by John Morton of Morton Trails, provides the school with a state of the art training and racing facility to complement its long-existing 20km trail system. The trails are designed to be challenging and fun, with lots of twists and turns to keep young people entertained while developing important skills and balance for the sport. The Nordic Center is free and open to the public when not being used for school and regional events, and when conditions are safe for skiing.

Nordic Skiing By Nina Silitch

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The Dublin School alpine ski team traveled to their training grounds at Crotched Mountain in Bennington, NH to compete in the second Lakes Region GS qualifying race. Among the attending schools were Brewster Academy, St. Paul’s School, Proctor Academy, and Vermont Academy. It is worth noting that this was Dublin’s first home al-pine race in recent memory, and the first time it had ever hosted a race at Crotched Mountain.

The day’s racing began with the varsity girls, with Phoebe Glaude (’17), Kate Barrett (’16), and Taya Kerwin (’18). Glaude continued to improve this week, with vast improvement in her technical skiing and race confidence. Over her two runs, she posted a combined time of 1:40.82, taking 13th of 19 overall. This was Barrett’s first appearance ski racing, just having joined the team after a hiatus from skiing. She had a great couple of runs, with a combined time of 2:01.3, and placed 17th of 19. This was also Kerwin’s first time competing for Dublin, though she is no stranger to the alpine circuit. She raced the course very well, posted a time of 1:31.23, and took the top Dublin placement as well as 11th overall!

Next up were the varsity boys, and racing for the wildcats were Silas Howe (’18), Joey Hynes (’17), Nick Runyon (’18), Sean Brown (’18), John Scriven (’16), and Peter Spang (’18). Howe had a tough first run, falling on course, but recovering to finish. His second run went much smoother, and he posted a combined time of 1:39.17 to take 20th of 30. Runyon (1:35.16) had two solid runs and placed 15th of 30, and was just behind Brown (1:32.23), who also raced very well and secured

Dublin’s top placement, finishing 13th of 30! Com-ing in just behind Runyon and Brown was Scriven (1:35.26) who took 16th of 30. In his first alpine ski competition, Spang raced competently, taking a time of 1:44.85 and 23rd place overall. Unfortu-nately, Hynes blew out of the course on his first run and received a DNF .

Finishing up the day’s events were the JV boys, and competing for the Dublin School were Yoshi Chiba (’15), Ma Bo Ning (’16), Yifu Zhang (’18), and Imanol Ochoa-Mendez (’16). Chiba took the top placement for Dublin, racing the course in a combined 1:43.30 and taking 4th of 14 overall! Next was Ochoa-Mendez (1:50.75) who placed 6thof 14, and Bo Ning (1:54.56) who finished 9th of 14 overall. Zhang blew out of the course on his first run and received a DNF.

It was a great day for the Dublin School alpine team, in regards to racing as well as being able to finally host another Lakes Region competition.

Alpine Skiing Lakes Region GS Qualifier at Crotched Mountain

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In practice, resolutions are always easier to make than to keep. Books are bought and placed on shelves, untouched. Gym memberships are used a grand total of twice and then hastily forgotten. It’s always easier to say than to do. Easy is good. I like easy. Lately, it seems like all anyone ever wants to talk about is what’s next. Where am I going, what do I plan on doing, what do I want to accomplish? In the next ten years, where do I see myself? Like I said, saying is easy. I can do easy.

In ten years from now, I would like to have done a lot of things. I’d like to grad-uate from college, get a job, and finally leave New Hampshire for more than just a couple weeks. Most importantly, I’d like to be financially stable enough to own a cat. I’ve found that the key to success is to set the bar pretty low. So in the next ten years, I don’t want to have changed the world, rocketed off into deep space, or cured any kind of deadly disease. I want a cat, a dishwasher that works, and maybe some curtains. I want ear buds that I don’t have to replace every couple of months, a car where all the doors lock, and I want to have Sunday mornings off, so I can sleep in and then have pancakes for lunch, and din-ner probably, since in ten years I will be 27, and can do whatever I want. Those are my resolutions for the next ten years. I’m feel-ing fairly confident that I can finish those up pretty neatly in the next decade. I’ve noticed that resolutions are also almost always about finishing. Life, gener-ally, is also almost always about finishing. Collectively, we throw a party practically every time anyone finishes anything. Grad-uations for finishing school, birthdays for finishing another year of life, and while fu-nerals aren’t technically a party, you still

get free food for showing up. Finishing is an important part of what we all do- but most times, when you finish something, you’re left with a big wad of nothing. It’s pretty much exactly like running a mara-thon. When you cross the finish line, it’s exhilarating, relieving. After all, you finally get to stop running. You walk around after-wards in a cloud of euphoria, but eventual-ly, it dissipates, and you’re left with noth-ing. So what do you do? You tie your shoes, head out the door, and start training for the next race. Remember that bar that I set? The really, really low one? I’m not saying we need to do away with it- after all, I’m still a huge fan of easy, but maybe it’s better to set another bar; a slightly higher one. On this bar, maybe I can put some less mun-dane dreams- branch out from cats and curtains and reach a little higher.

Atlantic Emily Bascom

Gold Key Portfolio– Photography

On Resolutions Emily Bascom’s Senior Presentation

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In ten years, I’d like to have read enough books that if I have a room that I call my “library” it isn’t just a couple of milk crates stacked with paperbacks. It’s an ac-tual room, with one of those weird sliding ladders you can move along the bookcases. I’d like to have sailed across an ocean. Not by myself, since the ocean is terrifying, but on a boat with a crew who actually know what they’re doing. Flying over the ocean isn’t really the same as sailing across it. I want to experience sea legs, I want to see a dolphin outside of an aquarium, but mostly, I’d like to be scared out of my mind for a couple of days. Because again, the ocean is terrify-ing. It’s also pretty cool. I’d like to learn another lan-guage. English isn’t everything, not by a long shot, and if I’m sailing across the ocean, I’m probably not landing some-where where it’s the mother tongue. Also, I feel like it’d be surreal to be able to read all the text on the back of my shampoo bottle. I can assume that it’s the same as what I’m reading in English, but I can’t really know, can I? Maybe the Spanish speaking world doesn’t need to rinse and repeat. The possi-bilities are endless. This bar that I’ve set for myself is nice. I like it. It’s above rock bottom, but if

I fell off of it, I wouldn’t die. I might sprain my ankle, but I would definitely live. Two bars, though. That’s kind of an odd pair. Two bars are too few to do anything useful other than just sit there. Two bars are weird, because they don’t serve any pur-pose. They might boost you up a little, but in the end, it’s pretty easy to slide back

down to the ground. But that doesn’t mean I need to do anything about it. To be honest, adding another bar just seems like a lot of work. These two bars down here are just fine, even if they don’t do anything help-ful. What good is a third bar? For starters, three bars is a lad-der. And with a ladder, you can get to

things that were out of your reach before. So what do I have up on the third bar? What am I reaching for? In ten years, I’d like to have a home. Not to say that right now, I don’t, but in ten years, I want my definition of home to be my own. I want it to be something I found and cultivated for myself. When I think of home, I don’t want to think of hilly forests and driving for an hour to get any-where. I want home to be mine. I want

When their Eyes were Watching Her Patricia Sullivan

Gold Key– Photography

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it to be something I made for myself. I want a savings account that I don’t have to dip in-to for gas money. I want to get up for work without feeling like what I do is sucking away at my vitality. I want to be able to leave at the end of the day assured that I am exact-ly where I want to be. If resolutions are all about finishing, then they have to all be about starting too. If you have a ladder, at some point, you would have to have built it. Bars don’t materialize out of thin air- you have to make them for yourself. Resolutions, while they can be ge-neric, can’t be bought in a store. Your ladder might look like someone else’s, but when you look closer, get down to the grain, it’s easy to see that each one is unique. It’s like that because everyone’s aspirations are par-ticular to them. The bars of their ladder are built continuously on top of themselves. It would be impossible to have the after, the fourth, fifth, sixth bar, if you didn’t already

have the before, the first three bars to stand on. I don’t know what the rest of my lad-der looks like. I haven’t built it yet. I have a vague idea of what it’s going to end up as, an inclination as to what’s a few bars up. I don’t know how tall it is. I don’t know how long it’s going to take me to climb it, what I’ll see when I look down. I definitely have no idea what’s going to stare back at me when I look up. I don’t know what I’ll use to build the rest of it, seeing as right now all I’m armed with is a pencil, and the ability to think on my feet. My ladder, my ten years, my resolu-tions. I haven’t quite made them yet. But standing here on the ground, with a few bars and all the time in the world, I feel like I can make something. So, where do I want to be in ten years? In ten years, I’d like a lot of things. Mostly, I’d like to be happy.

Kate Katia Dermott Silver Key- Photography

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Mr. Putko presented a poster on his research that he began in college at the recent meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The AAS is the largest organization of professional astronomers in the country, and 2,000 scientific presentations were packed into four days during the meeting. A few hundred of these involved undergraduate students. Shortly after the confer-ence, Mr. Putko received this message from the AAS: “On behalf of AAS President Dr. C. Megan Urry and AAS Executive Officer Dr. Kevin B. Marvel, congratulations! You are one of five undergraduate student medalists

in the Chambliss As-tronomy Achievement Award Student Prize competition for the 225th AAS Meeting.” The AAS website

states that the

Chambliss Astronomy

Achievement Student

Award is given to rec-

ognize exemplary re-

search. Mr. Putko’s

poster was titled

“Expansion of the opti-

cal remnant from Ty-

cho’s supernova.” In

this project, he meas-

ured and analyzed how a star’s explosion is

still racing across space hundreds of years

after the explosion.

The Far Side of the Moon Updates from Perkin Observatory

American Astronomical Society Honors Perkin Observatory Director

NASA image of Tycho’s Supernova Remnant http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090317.html

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Congratulations to our

Scholastic Art Award Winners Emily Bascom: 1 Silver Key, 1 Gold Key, 1 Gold Key Portfolio Katia Dermott: 1 Silver Key Daria Gross: 3 Honorable Mentions, 1 Silver Key, 1 Gold Key, Honorable Mention Portfolio Piper Hewitt: 1 Honorable Mention, 1 Silver Key

Jess Isaacs: 2 Honorable Mentions, 2 Silver Keys, 1 Gold Key, 1 Honorable Mention Portfolio, 1 Gold Key Portfolio

Che Jung: 2 Honorable Mentions, 2 Silver Keys, 6 Gold Keys, 1 Gold Key Portfolio,

1 American Visions Best of Show Award

Kelly Park: 1 Gold Key

Patricia Sullivan: 1 Honorable Mention, 2 Gold Keys, 1 Honorable Mention Portfolio

Erin Tourgee: 1 Silver Key, 1 Gold Key, 1 Silver Key Portfolio, 1 Gold Key Portfolio Juliette Valade: 1 Honorable Mention, 1 Gold Key Hannah Whitesel: 1 Honorable Mention, 1 Silver Key, 1 Honorable Mention Portfolio

White Crow Mother By Che Jung

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From top left to bottom right: Erin Tourgee, “Feet”; Jess Isaacs, “Beauty in Print”; Juliette Valade, “Clare”; Daria Gross, “Tissue Paper and Cellophane”

Feet Erin Tourgee

A Sampling of Scholastic Art Award Winning Works

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A Message from the Parents’ Association

Winterfest Weekend is coming on January 30-31 and we’re looking for parent volunteers to run the Saturday morning games. You will be receiving a registration email from the school soon where you can sign up to volunteer. This is a great way to get to know other parents and help the faculty and staff run a very special Winter Weekend for our children. More details will be pro-vided in upcoming weeks. Another exciting weekend to visit cam-pus will be February 20-22, featuring the upcoming arts production, Into the Woods, with performances on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Click here to Register and Volunteer

to help with the games!

Come Enjoy Winter at Dublin School! Jami Bascom

(603) 547-3813 jamibascom.gbh@gmail.com

Drawing by Daria Gross

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FRIDAY, Jan. 30

3:30pm Boys’ Varsity Basketball vs. Vermont Academy Whitney Gymnasium

5:45pm – 6:30pm Dinner, Lehmann House

8:00pm – 9:00pm Winterfest Lip Sync Contest Louise Shonk Kelly Recital Hall

11:00pm - Student Curfew

SATURDAY, Jan. 31

8:30am – 9:30am Breakfast, Lehmann House 8:50am Parent Volunteers meet at the School House

9:30am Winterfest PEP Rally—TBD 9:45am – 11:30am Winterfest Games Begin Sponsored by: Parents’ Assoc.

11:30am – 1:00pm School Store Open

11:15am – 12:15pm Junior Parents, College Presentation with Holly Macy, Director of College Counseling Evans Library - Project Room

11:45am Winterfest Awards - Gillespie Hall (porch) Noon – 1:00pm Lunch, Lehmann House

12:15pm – 12:45pm Informational Meeting - Europe Trip (March 2015) Evans Library – Library L4

12:15pm – 12:45pm Informational Meeting - Costa Rica Trip (March 2015) Evans Library – Project Room

1:00pm Girls’ Varsity Basketball vs. High Mowing

2:30pm Boys’ Varsity Basketball vs. High Mowing

WINTERFEST SCHEDULE