The Picador

Volume 8, Issue 12 May 10, 2013

A PUBLICATION BY HOLDERNESS STUDENTS

FOR

THE HOLDERNESS SCHOOL COMMUNITY

By Dylan Arthaud ’13

Congratulations!

Here are the faces of the Pica-

dor editors for the 2013-2014

school year. Congratulations

to Celeste Holland and Zihan

Guo, both of whom will join

Lea Rice and Sarah Michel as

Senior Editors. Congratula-

tions also to Parker Densmore

and Charles Harker, who will

join the team as Junior Editors.

Competition was stiff among

the applicants, with a 33%

acceptance rate. This year’s

student editors and Ms. Mag-

nus had to make tough deci-

sions while trying to determine

the perfect mix of students.

The Picador staff needs to

have a mix of juniors and sen-

iors, and a mix of males and

females. Editors also need to

be responsible, organized, and

good at communicating. While

it is helpful when the student

editors are good writers, previ-

ous involvement with The

Picador also plays a role in

determining who is selected.

Lastly, the present editors

wanted to make sure multiple

groups on campus were repre-

sented on the staff.

“People who are enthusiastic

and are not afraid to conduct

interviews or ask others to

write stories make great edi-

tors,” explained Ms. Magnus.

“Students who are organized

and do what they say they are

going to do and who have

new, exciting ideas to bring to

the newspaper are also valu-

able.”

So what makes these students

stand above the rest? In their

own words from their letters of

interest, here are their answers.

Zihan Guo ’14, who has been

a very reliable contributor to

The Picador for two years,

thinks that being an editor will

be a good way to get to know

more people in the commu-

(Continued on page 2)

Announcing the New Faces of The Picador for 2013-14

By Emily Soderberg ’13

Back this winter on February

12th, Ms. Cirone proposed one

of the first books for this year's

All-School Summer Read.

Others followed like nonfic-

tion books Into the Wild by

Jon Krakauer and The Boy

Who Harnessed the Wind by

William Kamkwamba. Other

members of the community

proposed classics like Ishmael

by Daniel Quinn and The

Monkey Wrench Gang by Ed-

ward Abbey. Still others rec-

ommended memoirs like A

Chant to Soothe Wild Ele-

phants by Jaed Coffin and If I

Die in a Combat Zone......Box

Me Up and Ship Me Home by

Tim O'Brien. All the books

deserve to be read, but alas,

only one could be the All-

School Summer Read.

After receiving the rest of the

submissions throughout the

winter and spring, the Secret

and August Committee met in

April to select the 2013-14 All

-School Summer Read. Ulti-

mately, after much delibera-

tion, they chose Ms. Cirone’s

proposal: The Art of Fielding

by Chad Harbach.

This summer the community

will be immersed in the pas-

sion of baseball and in the les-

sons of the Human Condition.

(Continued on page 10)

Secret and August Committee Makes a Decision

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nity. In his application Zihan

wrote, “I am excited about

asking students questions at

Holderness for I will then

know them better.” He also

applied with the hope that he

could “write more current

events for The Picador be-

cause there are so many things

going on in the world, and

many of these things are com-

pletely ignored by us.”

Celeste Holland ’14 has other

ideas to contribute, but began

her application with praise for

The Picador: “Over the past

three years The Picador has

been able to balance the new

features and classic faculty

questions with both humorous

and serious articles…[The

editors] do a great job working

together on The Picador!” She

continued by saying, “One

column that I personally

would like to help get going

would include news from dif-

ferent clubs around campus, in

order to inspire other people to

join, or at least read about

what other students are doing.”

Parker Densmore ’15, who

also likes reading The Picador,

believes that he is “a good

match for the job because I

enjoy everything relevant to

newspapers…and as an editor

I would make sure the content

next year would be just as en-

joyable to the community as it

has been for me this year.”

For Charles Harker ’15, his

interest in newspapers began

long before he enrolled at Hol-

derness and started reading

The Picador on Fridays at

lunch: “Ever since I was a lit-

tle kid, I’ve loved to read the

newspaper… When I first

came to Holderness, I was

excited to hear that the school

had a paper and it was run by

the students.” He went on to

say that he would “help make

it a fun read for everyone.”

Again, congratulations to the

new bunch of editors. We old

editors wish them well in their

future with The Picador.

2013-14 Editors (Continued from page 1)

Senior Editors

Jake Barton

Jeff Hauser

Emily Soderberg

Dylan Arthaud

Junior Editors

Lea Rice

Sarah Michel

Faculty Advisors

Ms. Magnus

Mr. Solberg

Mr. Carey

Contributing Writers

Morgan Bayreuther

Allie Solms

Kelly DiNapoli

Fabián Štoček

Zihan Guo

Chance Wright

Max Sturges

Axi Berman

Contact Information

Holderness School

Chapel Lane

P.O. Box 1789

Plymouth, NH 03245

Phone Number:

603.536.1257

Fax: 603.536.1267

Email: info@holderness.org

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Volume 8, Issue 12

A Photo Essay: The Senior Class Goes to Boston

By Jake Barton ’13 and Emily Soderberg ’13

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The Picador

On March 19, the New York

Times reported that, “The

stricken Fukushima Daiichi

nuclear plant this week experi-

enced its worst power failure

since the disaster there in

2011, and though the plant’s

operator said all electricity

was restored by early Wednes-

day, the problem underlined its

continuing vulnerability.”

On May 1, 2013, a month and

a half later, Time magazine

commented that “Fukushima’s

nuclear cleanup is faltering.”

According to the magazine,

“TEPCO (Tokyo Electric

Power Co), the owner of the

Fukushima nuclear plant, can’t

simply dump the irradiated

groundwater into the nearby

sea — the public outcry would

be too great — so the com-

pany has been forced to jury-

rig yet another temporary solu-

tion, building hundreds of

tanks, each able to hold 112

Olympic-sized pools worth of

liquid, to hold the groundwa-

ter.

“So TEPCO finds itself in a

race: Can its workers build

enough tanks and clear enough

nearby space to store the irra-

diated water — water that

keeps pouring into the reactor

at the rate of some 75 gallons a

minute? More than two years

after the tsunami. TEPCO is

still racing against time — and

is just barely staying ahead.”

Paul Carroll, a former officer

of the Congressional Office of

Technology Assessment, the

U.S. Department of Energy,

and the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, com-

mented, “The damage and

risks from Fukushima are sig-

nificant and complex. Current

plans estimate costs north of

$100 billion to clean up the

mess and will take years at the

least but more likely decades

(Continued on page 5)

World News

Compiled by Fabián Štoček ’13 and Zihan Guo ’14

Fukushima Cleanup Will Take Decades and Will Cost Billions

More than 900 bodies have

been pulled from the rubble of

a Bangladeshi clothing factory

complex that collapsed April

24, police say.

Bangladesh's worst industrial

disaster has sparked nation-

wide anger and mass protests,

as many garment workers al-

lege they were forced to work

by the owners despite huge

cracks appearing in the build-

ing.

The authorities say about

2,500 people were injured in

the accident and 2,437 people

were rescued.

A preliminary government

investigation said this week

vibrations from four genera-

tors on the upper floors trig-

gered the collapse.

Main Uddin Khandaker, head

of a government inquiry team,

said the generators started up

after a power cut, sending

powerful vibrations through-

out the building, which—

together with the vibration of

thousands of sewing machines

— triggered the collapse.

The building had been con-

structed with weak materials,

such as sub-standard steel

rods, Mr Khandaker added,

which meant it could not with-

stand the vibrations.

The architect of the building

has said it was designed to

house shops and offices rather

than factories or industrial

(Continued on page 5)

B a n g l a d e s h i C l o t h i ng F a c t o r y Co l l a p s e s , K i l l i n g 9 0 0

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to complete. Let that sink in a

bit – decades.

“Fukushima is only the most

recent and stark instance of a

more pervasive yet under-

appreciated fact: every nuclear

reactor, reprocessing facility,

waste site and materials han-

dling location represents

health and safety risks that will

last literally for millennia. The

dangers we created since the

dawn of the Nuclear Age have

no known solution, and unlike

biodegradable packaging,

won’t go away anytime soon.”

Although WHO estimated the

impacts of long term radiation

to be “extremely small, and

chiefly limited to those living

closest to the plant...The

greater threat to the health of

those who lived around the

plant may be psychological, as

they struggle with the both the

upheaval of evacuation and the

social taint of living near a

meltdown,” said by Times

magazine.

Fukushima (Continued from page 4)

equipment, and that three

floors had been illegally added

to the original building.

Bangladesh has one of the

largest garment industries in

the world, with factories sup-

plying Western retailers such

as Primark in the UK and It-

aly's United Colours of Benet-

ton.

The EU has said it is consider-

ing “appropriate action” to

encourage an improvement in

working conditions in Bangla-

desh's factories, including the

use of its trade preference sys-

tem, which gives Bangladesh

duty- and quota-free access to

markets in member states.

Rescuers say they are planning

to wrap up their work on Fri-

day, and the rubble will then

be shifted by bulldozers.

Source: BBC News

Factory Collapse (Continued from page 4)

(CNN) -- As our graphic illustrates, there are stark contrasts in the cost of making clothes in

Bangladesh, compared to the U.S. The garment industry accounts for 77% of Bangladesh's ex-

ports -- a $20 billion industry for the nation.

The European Union, Bangladesh's largest trade partner, said Tuesday that it was considering

trade action against Bangladesh. U.S. State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell said busi-

nesses that operated in the collapsed building “appear to have links to numerous companies in

the U.S. and Europe.” He added they would work with U.S. companies on “improving working

conditions, including in Bangladesh.”

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The Picador

By Chance Wright ’14

On May 11th, at the Owl's

Nest Golf Club, Holderness

School will hold an event

known to cause heightened

stress among teens: prom.

The prom is known across

America as a time when high

school students celebrate the

end of the year with a formal

dinner/dance type gathering.

For some, this is the most

stressful event of their high

school careers.

Dates are the main cause of

stress. Of all the juniors and

seniors recently surveyed at

Holderness School, 64 percent

said that their prom date mat-

ters to them; but strangely

when asked if they feel pres-

sure from other couples or

dates to get a date, 58 percent

answered no, while a mere 11

percent answered that they

didn’t care about a date.

But Holderness students are

not the only ones who are ex-

periencing these pressures and

stresses. In a New Jersey

newspaper that reported on

LGBT students, they received

a quote from a gay male cou-

ple that attended prom to-

gether: “There’s no time of the

year that causes more anxiety

for LGBT students than prom

season.”

The article went on to tell

about how the gay couple had

an extremely stressful time

before their prom wondering if

they would be accepted.

Even the straight students have

major stress issues. In a post

submitted to Wiki-Answers, a

person describes a traumatic

state of mind many heterosex-

ual male teens experience:

“For many teenagers, the prom

is the most stressful event of

their lives. It intensifies peer

pressure over issues of inclu-

sion and exclusion. Some

common stresses include, Will

I get a date? Will my choice of

a date change my reputation?

Who will be excluded from the

prom, and why?”

But in a Holderness poll for

upperclassmen, the date isn’t

the only thing on students’

minds; the way that they ask

their dates is quite important

as well. The polls showed that

about 40 percent of the re-

sponders (70 in all) will try to

ask their dates in a special

way; this leaves a solid 60

percent who will not ask their

dates in a special way. None-

theless, they have thought

about it.

Prom hasn’t always been like

this though; a Holderness

School faculty member who

went to Exeter said that prom

wasn't a big deal. He did have

a date, who was his girlfriend,

so that wasn’t a factor, yet he

did say that not everyone had a

date and that “it wasn’t a huge

deal; you could go with some

buddies or even by yourself.”

So whether the prom causes

your pulse to quicken and your

palms to sweat or makes you

want to yawn and turn on an-

other episode of the Kar-

dashians, it only comes once a

year. The food is good, the bus

ride away from campus is lib-

erating, and the photographs

will last a lifetime. So come

hang out at Owl's Nest on Sat-

urday night, with a date or

alone, and dance your stress

away!

New England Sports By Axi Berman ’13

This week in Boston sports marked the end of one era and the beginning of another. The Celtics, in what could be their

final run with their current group of players, were eliminated by the Knicks in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Mean-

while, the revitalized Red Sox are 21 and 11 as of Tuesday. Hopefully they will maintain their dominance in the coming

months. And in hockey, the Bruins are up 3-1 in their first-round series against the Toronto Maple Leafs. Will they again

have the opportunity to play for the Stanley Cup? Go Sox! Go Pats! Go Bruins! Go Celtics! Go Revolution?

The P ro m : The M o s t St re s s f u l Ev ent i n H i g h Sc ho o l

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Volume 8, Issue 12

By Sarah Michel '14

While all the sports are con-

tinuing to do well this spring,

the Holderness Dance Team is

shining!

With the initiative of several

students and a lot of help from

Ms. Devine, the Dance Team

was formed last year. Now in

their second year, the up-and-

coming team went to a couple

of competitions to show off

their moves.

The first competition that the

ladies went to was in Man-

chester called the “I Love

Dance” competition. The la-

dies had two dances, one jazz

dance and one lyrical dance.

The team wowed the judges

and earned first place for both

dances!

The next competition the girls

entered was in Exeter, NH

called the “Step Up 2 Dance”

competition. The girls did

awesome in this competition

also, earning a high gold for

both numbers!

The team consists of seven

talented dancers: So Min Park,

Elizabeth Powell, Tess

O’Brien, Christina Raichle,

Lily Hamblin, Emily Clifford,

and Carson Holmes. All of the

girls have positive things to

say about their experiences on

the team.

“I loved going to competitions

because it exposed us to a dif-

ferent environment that helped

us bond mentally and help

each other physically,” ex-

plained So Min Park.

The ladies are done for this

school year, but with the help

of their coach, Megan Francis,

they hope to create an even

stronger competition team for

next year! Congratulations to

the members of the Holderness

Dance Team for their hard

work and amazing pay off!

Holderness Dance Team Shines a t S ta te Compet i t ions

Holderness Family Day Saturday, May 11, 2013

10:30—11:30 AM College Admission Representative Q&A Panel in East Wing of

Weld Hall

11:00 AM—12:30 PM Cookout Lunch outside Weld Hall

1:30—5:00 PM Athletic Events

Please visit www.holderness.org for a complete list of game times and locations

4:30—6:00 PM Parent Reception in East Wing of Weld Hall

Coffee and tea provided

6:00 PM Reception at the Common Man Inn

Families and their students are invited to attend a pre-dinner reception at the Common Man Inn

6:30 PM Junior and Seniors Depart for the Formal outside of Weld Hall

7:00 PM Dinner at the Common Man Inn

Everyone is invited

Questions? Call Amy Woods at (603)779-5225 or awoods@holderness.org

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The Picador

Opinion

By Max Sturges ’13

No matter if you are attending

a public school, a private

school, or a boarding school,

having traditions within your

educational institution is key

to maintaining a close-knit

community. Whether the tradi-

tion involves a senior prank, a

senior skip day, or an object

that has been passed down for

generations, they are always

important.

Here at Holderness School, we

have many traditions that are

still alive, as well as many

traditions that have long been

forgotten. There is one tradi-

tion that has always aroused

my interest: seniors bringing

rocks to their last outdoor

chapel at Holderness School.

Never before Holderness have

I seen a tradition like this, and

I was intrigued to delve deep

into the community to figure

out the roots of this relatively

new tradition. I wanted to

know who brought the tradi-

tion to the school, why it was

brought, and most importantly,

how it has been received by

the Holderness community.

I vividly remember the final

outdoor chapel of the 2011-12

school year. I was walking the

path with the infamous Alex

Trujillo, dodging puddles of

mud as it had rained the night

before. I remembered that it

was the chapel where the sen-

iors were supposed to bring

rocks, and I asked Alex if he

had his rock in his pocket. He

stopped and proceeded to utter

a few unpleasant words, stat-

ing that he had completely

forgotten. This made me won-

der just how important the

tradition was to the senior

class.

However, as Alex continued

up the path, he picked up the

biggest rock he could find and

carried it the rest of the way up

the hill; he also grabbed two

other rocks for his two lost

buddies and two of my closest

friends at the school, Dickson

Smith and Austin Baum. It

meant a lot to me, and I later

told them both about Alex’s

thoughtful act of kindness and

respect.

But getting back to my re-

search. First, I was directed to

Father Weymouth, as he was

the individual who brought

this tradition to Holderness.

“I had never seen this tradition

anywhere else prior to coming

to Holderness,” explained Fa-

ther Weymouth. “I actually

came up with the idea from a

verse in the bible. It’s a quiet,

gentle service allowing the

community to realize that this

is one of the last times that

they will be with this group of

seniors for the rest of their

lives.” I found this to be an

interesting point. Being an

Episcopalian school, it is im-

portant to have traditions that

reflect the religious roots of

the school.

“It’s important because seniors

are the foundation of our

school; the rocks represents

this,” Father Weymouth went

on to say. The tradition has

been alive for over 10 years,

and he believes that it is a nice

way to begin the goodbyes to

the seniors.

Father Weymouth does not

deny that some individuals see

the whole idea “as a joke,” but

recognizes that it comes with

the territory; “It’s okay; some

people out-grow the school,”

Mr. Weymouth stated after a

long pause.

I proceeded to ask Mr. Barton

on his view of the tradition as

well, as he is also a big part of

the chapel program here at

Holderness.

“The Stones Chapel gets about

a 50% reading on the student

meter, in my opinion,” Mr.

Barton explained. “The wall is

not well formed up there, and

so it lacks the full buy-in by

students. In other words, I

think that students say, ‘The

wall is a joke to look at, so

why should I care at all about

my stone?’”

Mr. Barton also believes that if

the community wants to main-

tain this tradition in the future

it “needs some refining.” He

suggests that the wall of rocks

be constructed in a more pro-

fessional manner, in affect

granting the tradition more

importance and meaning to the

community.

The chief importance of tradi-

tion lies in the fact that it’s

about a certain group; Mr.

Barton stated, “It involves just

the seniors and is suppose to

be about legacy and long-term

stuff.”

It appears that the tradition

that was brought to this school

by Mr. Weymouth 10-15 years

ago, may have its flaws but is

an important part of our rites

of passage. The act of placing

a stone on the wall signifies

that the student is ready to

depart, cut the umbilical cord,

and leave Holderness; for the

underclassman, they watch,

knowing that like the present

seniors, they too will soon be

ready to leave this community.

Senior Stone Chapel: A Tradit ion or a Nuisance?

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Jake: If you could repaint the

White House, what color

would it be?

Hedi: Blue.

Jake: Do you wish you came

to Holderness earlier? Or was

the timing just right?

Hedi: I think the timing was

just right for my situation,

and I enjoyed spending a year

in public high school.

Jake: What's been your fa-

vorite weekend activity?

Hedi: Sunset hikes up Rattle-

snake. It’s nice and easy, with an awesome view.

Jake: Who’s your faculty mentor?

Hedi: Mr. Flinders. He helped me through my first year here,

and I can always go to him with anything.

Jake: Breakfast, lunch, or

dinner?

Hedi: Definitely brunch.

Food + timing are a good

combo.

Jake: What do you enjoy

most about Holderness?

Hedi: I enjoy the spring the

most, because everyone is

always outside and in a good

mood.

Jake: What will you miss

most during the summer?

Hedi: I'll miss being with

friends who I don't live close to.

Jake: Favorite class?

Hedi: My favorite class I've taken so far at Holderness is Re-

search Methods.

In:

Fenway Park

Senior Honors Thesis

Shorts and Sandals

Kan-jam on the Quad

Hedi and Eliana

Freshly cut grass

Prom Dresses

Hanging on the Quad

Picador Senior Superlatives

Out:

AP Spanish Exam

Senior Colloquium

Sport Coats and Pants

Dog poop on the Quad

Jake and Jesse

Sleeping In

Prom Asks

Hanging in the Student Lounge

Yearbook Senior Superlatives

In and Out

By Kelly DiNapoli ’13 and Emily Soderberg ’13

1:277 By Jake Barton ’13

There are currently about 277 students enrolled at Holderness School. Each one has a story to tell. This week President of the

School Jake Barton sat down with President-Elect Hedi Droste. Thanks for sharing, Hedi!

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The Picador

By Ms. Cirone

As hints of spring air intermittently waft through our campus

amid Nor’easters and mid-winter melts, it is impossible to

ignore the Red Sox Nation’s hopes that the newly hired man-

ager, John Farrell, will be able to revive his squad and create

a bit more peace on Earth in New England next summer.

What better time for us all to reconnect with our “inner boy”

and read a handsomely-composed, fictional novel about the

great American pastime of baseball? Let us please consider

reading Chad Harbach’s The Art of Fielding.

For a school like Holderness that encourages students to be-

come lifelong athletes, it is appropriate to read about a Divi-

sion III college baseball team from Wisconsin, where the

love of the game is still pure: no scholarships, no press, low

funding, and very few fans. Quite honestly, I have only re-

cently begun to develop an appreciation for baseball and ad-

mit to jumping on the Red Sox bandwagon in ’04; I prefer the

quick pace of hockey, which swallows mistakes in its speed

and gives us all a second chance. In contrast, a ballplayer

must become adept at facing a looming “Error” statistic on

the scoreboard but somehow rally for the next play and resist

crawling face-first into the dugout. There’s something we can

all learn from that.

But in addition, Harbach’s story of these characters at the

fictional Westish College experience realistic, life-changing,

academic “Aha Moments” that are within every Holderness

student’s reach. When Guert Affenlight is on the clock for his

(Continued on page 11)

By Gregory Cowles

To defenders of baseball and literary fiction, the charges

against each are familiar, and overlapping: too slow, too

precious, not enough action. The only realistic response is a

resigned shrug. Guilty, and so what? You may as well com-

plain that lemons are too yellow. The indictment amounts to

a kind of category error; detractors went looking for enter-

tainment, and found art instead. Chad Harbach makes the

case for baseball, thrillingly, in his slow, precious and alto-

gether excellent first novel, The Art of Fielding.

“You loved it,” he writes of the game, “because you consid-

ered it an art: an apparently pointless affair, undertaken by

people with a special aptitude, which sidestepped attempts

to paraphrase its value yet somehow seemed to communi-

cate something true or even crucial about the human condi-

tion. The human condition being, basically, that we’re alive

and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but

will someday be dead and will not. If it seems a stretch for a

baseball novel to hold truth and beauty and the entire human

condition in its mitt, well, The Art of Fielding isn’t really a

baseball novel at all, or not only. It’s also a campus novel

and a bromance (and for that matter a full-fledged gay ro-

mance), a comedy of manners, and a tragicomedy of errors

— the baseball kind as well as the other kind, which as

Alexander Pope pointed out also has something to do with

the human condition.

According to Amazon.com,

this novel takes place “At

Westish College, where base-

ball star Henry Skrimshander

seems destined for big league

until a routine throw goes dis-

astrously off course. In the

aftermath of his error, the fates

of five people are upended.

Henry’s fight against self-

doubt threatens to ruin his fu-

ture. College president Guert

Affenlight has fallen unexpect-

edly and helplessly in love.

Owen Dunne becomes caught

up in a dangerous affair. Mike

Schwartz realizes he has

guided Henry's career at the

expense of his own. And Pella

Affenlight returns to Westish

after escaping an ill-fated mar-

riage, determined to start a

new life. As the season counts

down to its climactic final

game, these five are forced to

confront their deepest hopes,

anxieties, and secrets.”

A student who has recently

read this book, Raquel

Shrestha, loved the book so

much she went down to Bos-

ton on Senior Skip Day with

the sole intention of learning

what a shortstop does in order

to understand the protagonist

of the story even more.

Raquel says she anticipates

there will be similar reactions

to some of the controversial

topics in this book as there

were last summer to scenes in

A Visit from the Goon Squad.

But as Ms. Cirone said, the All

-School Summer Read is

meant to spark conversations

beyond the thumbs up or down

initial reactions; the commu-

nity wants to read not only a

great book, but one that lights

up contradicting opinions and

controversy and can bring us

together through intellectual

conversation.

This book sounds like it has a

little something for everyone.

But I guess we will have to

wait until next fall to find out

how everyone feels about this

year's All-School Summer

Reading selection!

All-School Summer Read (Continued from page 1)

Book Reviews of The Art of Fielding

Volume 8, Issue 12

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Shout Outs By Morgan Bayreuther ’14

and Allie Solms ’14

HD: Make the first man proud!

EM: We all know you're smarter than Dick Cheney.

Hunting trip 2013?

CH + DH: Don't let Larry down!

JN + NG: Sorry about the break up.

To find Jeff Nadeau: Look for his new fiancé. Congrats!

TA: Congrats on the draft! Time to put on your big boy

pants, T-baby.

Horoscopes

Masterfully calculated by Jeff Hauser ’13 and Dylan Arthaud ’13

Libra (September 23 – Octo-

ber 22): If you want to avoid a

dental-related crisis, be very

careful in the coming week.

Beware the dentist and beware

of falling on your face.

Scorpio (October 23 – No-

vember 21): You want to get

a haircut, but people are telling

you not to. Why are you taking

their opinions into considera-

tion? Get a haircut.

Sagittarius (November 22 –

December 21): All work and

no play makes Jack a dull boy.

Spend some time playing Kan-

jam on the Quad.

Capricorn (December 22 –

January 19): Try losing the

socks. It’s spring dress! If

you’ve already done this, try

wearing socks for one day.

Then you’ll be able to appreci-

ate the nude foot again.

Aquarius (January 20 – Feb-

ruary 18): Robots will not

take over the world. Worry

about something worthwhile.

Pisces (February 19 – March

20): You will be judged today

by a Capricorn.

Aries (March 21 - April 19):

Your life is like a game of

Pokemon; you must try to

catch them all. What you are

trying to catch though, is up to

you. It could be academic

achievements, future life part-

ners, or just a Frisbee on the

Quad. Be the creator of your

pokeball.

Taurus (April 20th – May

20th): Summer is approaching

quickly; it is best to start plan-

ning or you will waste pre-

cious time thinking about all

the cool things you should

have done. Try and find a job

and make some money for

yourself; or plan trips with

friends and family and try to

do as little schoolwork as pos-

sible, unless you happen to be

a junior and your summer is

hijacked by SAT prep. In that

case, tough it out; it's worth it.

Gemini (May 21st – June

20th): Nineteen days left in

school. You know what that

means? Go find that random

person that you have had a

secret crush on all year and

make a move. If it fails, you

only have to see him/her for a

couple more weeks.

Cancer (June 21st - July 22nd): Finals are coming up

and there's a good chance you

will be a bit stressed. Chances

are you didn’t take notes on

everything said in class, but

you will be just fine. Take a

breath and go play on the

Quad for a bit; it is good for

the brain.

Leo (July 23rd – August

22nd): You are in for a big

hug right now; be prepared for

random hugs for the next few

weeks. If this isn’t happening,

initiate some hugs yourself.

People will love them.

Virgo (August 23rd – Sep-tember 22): You will find true

love here at Holderness. At

your tenth reunion you will get

together with one of your cur-

rent classmates and marry

him/her.

work-study job in the library, “he [finds] a thin sheaf of yel-

lowed paper, tucked between two brittle magazines in the li-

brary’s non-circulating bowels…A visceral charge went

through him when he read…” Folks, these instances of pure joy

through intellectual discovery are why we teachers are teach-

ing.

Harbach’s characters are imperfect and relatable: they are pas-

sionate about American greats like Melville, Dickinson, and

Whitman; they are intensely driven by sport; they stumble awk-

wardly through the nuances of college life and beyond. If a

school-wide read is supposed to spark further conversation

within the community beyond the “loved it” vs. “hated it” dual-

ism, The Art of Fielding is an excellent choice.

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