Redhawk Report

Vol. 7, Issue 3 (Winter Recap) A chronicle of the excellence at

Hello RedHawks, The nice thing about a snow day is that you can knock out the entire Redhawk Report in one day (after shoveling). It seems like this newsletter keeps getting longer; that is probably because our students and teachers are doing such an awesome job. As you will see, they have been up to impressive stuff, including winning another State Championships for ACDEC, claiming a wrestling district title, attaining glory through musical skills, and various other academic and extracurricular successes. As always, thanks for taking the time to read this…. Dr. Mulroony

March 30-31 - Spring Musical April 1- Spring Musical cont’d 10 - 14 - Spring Break (No School) 20 – Professional Day (No School IN THIS ISSUE: for Students) Page 2 Wrestling District 21 – Anime Con Champs 21- SPIKE Tourney Page 3 Winter Track Update 27 - World Language Honor Society Page 4 Marks bowls to 2nd title Induction 7:00 Page 5 Alzubu NJASC Treasurer 28 – AAC Movie Matinee Page 6 Hall of Fame Inductions 28 - Dodgeball Tournament? Page 7 Band/Choir News May 2 – PTSA Meeting 7:15 Page 10 Robotics Team debuts 3 - Jazz Café 7:30 Page 11 National Merit Scholars 5 - Junior Dinner Page 10 Girls Soccer/Env. Club 11 - Mr. PHS 7:00 17 – ERASE Diversity Night The Parsippany High School Academic Decathlon (AcDec) Team recently th 19 - Spring Band Concert & 60 participated in the State Competition. The competition was held at Anniversary Celebration Ramapo High School in Franklin Lakes on Saturday, March 4. Parsippany High 23 – NHS Induction Ceremony School’s team placed first in the state and won the Super Quiz. As State 24 – Choir Cabaret Champions, Parsippany High School will advance to the National Competition 25 – Drunk Driving Assembly (Rain Date 26th) April 20-22 in Madison, Wisconsin. This is their 5th State Championship. 25 – GCC Stand Up for Culture 26 - AAC Sushi Tea Dance Nine team members and six alternates competed on Saturday, Team members who 29 – Memorial Day (No School) participated were: Will Chen, Miki Hansen, Rohan Khajuria, Daniel Kuo, Hugh June Kwong, Alice Limanova Katherine Yang, Adam Ye and Ellie Xu, Overall, the 1 – Senior Prom Parsippany High School team took home more than 70 awards and honors for the 5 – Student Council Elections regional competition. 6 –No School for Students 8 - Senior Awards Night 9 – ICC Show Academic Decathlon is a 10-event scholastic competition for high school students. 10 – Redstock/Powder Puff The events include Math, Science, Social Science, Literature, Economics, Art, 12 - Small Ensemble Concert 7:00 Music, Speech, Essay and Interview. This year’s theme is World War II. Team 22 - Graduation 9:30 am coaches are Nancy Lennon and Stacy Cozin. 22 - Project Grad- 10 pm-6 am

The PHS Wrestling Team took home the District 6 Wrestling Title becoming the first PHS team since1999 to win districts since 1999. They had 10 of 14 wrestlers qualify for the Regions with PJ Gohn (132), Michael Ilic (182, in his 100th career win), Sean Gentile (126) and Naseem Sarwalhi (145) all winning 1st place. Also advancing were Jared Bazaral (3rd - 106), Richie DeMary (3rd - 113), Dom DeIntinis (3rd - 138), Jeff Wear (3rd - 160), Kyle Braen (2nd - 220) and Jon Krevis (2nd - HWT). At the Regions, both Michael Ilic and PJ Gohn were named Region Champions and earned the right to wrestle at the State Championships in Atlantic City. PJ ultimately finished 6th, completing one of the greatest individual seasons in PHS history. Michael won multiple matches to finish his illustrious career in the top 12. The team also qualified for the State Sectionals, beating a tough Garfield team before bowing out to Caldwell in the semifinals. They were led by seniors Michael Ilic, PJ Gohn, Kyle Braen and Jeff Wear in addition to several talented underclassmen. Individual performances include: 106- Jared Bazaal: 3rd District 6, 5th Parsippany Tourney 113- Richie DeMary: 3rd District 6; 2nd Elizabeth Tourney 126- Sean Gentile: 1st District 6; 3rd Elizabeth Tourney 132- PJ Gohn: 6th State, 1st Region 2, 1st, District 6, 1st Morris County 138- Dom DeIntinis: 3rd District 6; 4th Elizabeth Tourney, 5th Parsippany Tourney 145- Naseem Sarwalhi: 1st District 6 160- Jeff Wear: 3rd District 6 182- Michael Ilic: Top 12 in State, 1st Region 2, 1st District 6, 2nd Morris County; 2nd Elizabeth Tourney, 1st Parsippany Tourney 195- Ahmed Homsi: 4th Elizabeth Tourney, 4th Parsippany Tourney 220- Kyle Braen: 2nd District 6, 4th Morris County; 2nd Elizabeth Tourney, 3rd Parsippany Tourney HWT- Jon Krevis: 2nd District 6, 5th Morris County

SOPHOMORE LOCK-IN ANOTHER SUCCESS PHS held their annual Sophomore Lock-In in February, hosting over a hundred sophomores for a night of games, sports, food, music and hanging out. The all-nighter is a fundraiser designed to raise future Prom funds for the 10th grade. Thanks to Mrs. Wong and Mrs. Riley-Lazzari for coordinating the events; thanks to the senior helpers for facilitating the games; thanks to Mr. Bush, Mrs. Garofalo, Mr. Rizk and Det. Lenahan for helping to chaperone.

WINTER TRACK CONTINUES SUCCESS; BURK PLACES 4TH AT MEET OF CHAMPIONS!

The Winter Track & Field team had a successful season. They placed 2nd overall in the State Sectional meet for the third year in a row. The following 7 individuals placed at the State Sectional meet to advance to the state group meet: Kwaku Agyemang, John Burk, Vincent Colantoni, Anthony Colasuonno, Chris Lupo, Hamza Qureshi, and Eric Schlosser. Kwaku Agyemang was an individual Sectional Champion in the 400m dash and the 55m dash. He advanced all the way to the Meet of Champions, where he finished 13th in the state in the 55m dash. John Burk was an individual champion in the shot put. He was also the Morris County Champion in the shot put and finished 4th overall at the Meet of Champions. We had several school records broken. Chris Lupo set a new school record in the 1000m. Eric Schlosser broke the 1600m record. John Burk broke his own shot put record (several times). Kwaku Agyemang broke his own record in the 300m dash. The boys DMR team of Vincent Colantoni, Nana Agyemang, Chris Lupo and Eric Schlosser set a new school record as well. On the girls end, we had the following 5 girls advance to the State Group Meet: Christina Fernandez, Nathalia Giraldo, Olivia Leon, Amanda Ribeiro, and Olivia Shoshan. The team looks forward to a great Spring Track & Field Season.

PHS BOOK CLUB SKYPES WITH AUTHOR The PHS Book Club recently read the book Croak by Gina Damico. After reading the book individually, the group met in the library to eat some ice cream and to discuss the novel. To make things even cooler, Mr. Bush (who went to BC with Damico) set up a skype session with the author. Book club members got to ask Gina Damico about Croak and her other books and got a chance to hear about her writing process and experience. It was an awesome (and delicious) experience. AAC CLUB BIG SHOW

The PHS Asian-American Club would like to thank all parents, students, and staff who attended our 6th Annual BIG SHOW. Thanks to your support, we were able to donate an unprecedented amount (over $650) to Operation Smile! We invite all students to join in our bi- weekly meetings for the rest of the year where we will be learning new K-Pop Dances. We have a Movie Night coming up on March 24 and a Game Night scheduled for May 12. Our Sushi-Tea Dance will be May 26. Please join us if you are interested--all are welcome!

SCIENCE OLYMPIAD TEAM RESULTS

Our Science Olympiad Team, under the direction of Ms. D’Arienzo, earned the following achievements at their two competitions this winter: 2nd Electric Vehicle, 5th Optics, Team Spirit Award; 4th Experimental Design, 5th Robot Arm, 6th Wind Power. At their final competition they finished 9th overall out of 20 teams.

SWIM TEAM RECAP (BERNAUER MAKES MEET OF CHAMPIONS)

Hard to believe that the Redhawks Swim Team season has come to a close. Another fun, exciting and growing season for the Redhawks. With Lauryn Patracuolla and Alice Limanova as the girls captains and Donald Pham and Sriram Rao as the boys captains, the team was lead by leaders with sportsmanship, positivity and hard work ethic. While neither the boys or girls side didn't have a win this season, they had one of our teammates head to the Meet of Champions for the second year in a row. Kate Bernauer is a hard worker who inspires her teammates to work even harder. It was a wonderful season with laughs, progress, hard work and continued sportsmanship and respect for themselves and others. They wish their seniors, Donald Pham, Spencer Huang, and Mohit Pathak the best of luck with the next stage in their lives. All County Honorable Mentions on the girls and boys side were received by Kate Bernauer, Lauryn Patracuolla, Spencer Huang and Mohit Pathak. At our County Championship meet Kate Bernauer and Mohit Pathak were 4th in the 100 Fly in our section. Another successful year! Coach Najjar-Keith is sure that 2017-2018 will be the best one yet. PAR HIGH 60TH ROLLS ON…. As part of Parsippany High School’s 60h Anniversary, we have continued to do some things to commemorate all of the good and interesting parts of our school’s history. There is a new “60” display featuring pictures of students from every graduating class, information on the website listing achievements from 1958 to present (valedictorian, salutatorian, Student Council President, etc..), and we are currently gathering information on PHS grads who competed in college athletics…

MARKS REPEATS AS BOWLING CHAMPION! Congrats to PHS's Lauren Marks for defending her Morris County Girls Bowling title!! She had the high series of 581 bowled the highest game with 249 (a new county record). Lauren later advanced to the Regional Championships and just missed the cut-off to the States.

GIRLS HOOPS HANGS TOUGH AND ENDS STRONG

The Girls Team, under the coaching of Bryan DiMaulo, finished on a high note winning three out of their last five games including a huge win over Pequannock. Congratulations to the graduating seniors who provided leadership, maturity, and guidance for the team throughout the season. Senior captain Salena LeDonne (7.4 ppg) earned Second Team All-Conference and senior captain Alexis Smith (6.6 ppg) earned Honorable Mention.

Congrats to the PHS Math Department for winning STARS CLUB SENDS POSITIVE MESSAGE the 3rd Annual Faculty Trivia Challenge, breaking the two-year winning streak of the Science Thanks to our STARS Club for covering up PHS and our Teachers! Here they are posing with the toaster lockers with these positive messages and statistics about trophy. unhealthy relationships.

ALZUBI NAMED TREASURER OF NEW JERSEY STATE STUDENT COUNCIL Congrats to PHS junior Khalid Alzubi who was named Treasurer of the New Jersey Association of Student Councils at a recent election. As part of his duties, Khalid will attend the National Student Council Conference in June and will be a counselor at Leadership Training Camp in July. Khalid delivered an entertaining speech in front of about a thousands NJ delegates to earn the position. Big thanks to the PHS student council who campaigned so hard for him at the Winter Meeting.

SERVICE NIGHTS CONTINUE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE At the December, January and February Service Nights students and teachers completed the following amazing service projects: - Stuffing envelopes for Parsippany Township - Making bracelets for mental health an outpatient center (Thanks to Grace Santangelo) - Wrapping pajamas for homeless children (thanks to CMS students) - Wrote letters to veterans - Made birthday cards as part of an autistic boy’s wish -

Parsippany High School inducted their 2017 Hall of Fame Class on Tuesday, February 7, 2017 at 5:00 in the Media Center following with a brief ceremony at the start of the Boys Basketball game at 7:00.

The 1977 PHS Football Team The 1977 Football Team is widely regarded as the best football team in PHS history. Coming off a 2-7 season the previous season, expectations were not high for this group. Fortunately, they worked hard and banded together to finish their regular season with an title and a perfect 9-0 record. They won their first state playoff game versus Westfield to advance to the Group 3, Section 2 State Finals at home versus state powerhouse Phillipsburg. In front of the largest crowd in PHS history, they lost a tough game but left their mark on the school and community.

Fei-Fei Li (’95) When Fei-Fei Li moved to New Jersey from China when Bob Sabella (Teacher) she was 16 years old, and she couldn’t speak a word of Bob Sabella was a Mathematics teacher in the English. However, despite this disadvantage, and through an Parsippany Troy Hills School District for 31 years; he incredible amount of diligence, she graduated sixth in her taught at Parsippany High School for 23 of those years class gained acceptance to Princeton University where she serving as Lead Teacher of the Math Department for all received a BA in Physics. She then earned her MS and her of them. An accomplished teacher and leader in the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute District, Bob held numerous positions and won of Technology. In March of 2015, Fei-Fei gave a TED talk numerous awards over the years, including the describing the way we teach computers to understand Distinguished Faculty Award in 2001, Vice President of pictures as humans do; this video has been viewed over 1.7 the Parsippany-Troy Hills Education Association, Co- million times. She was recently named one of our country’s Director of the Iron Hills Conference Math League. Bob 2016 Great Immigrants by the Carnegie Corporation, and was also a published writer, with numerous articles in she was interviewed by CNN about her life story. Fei-Fei the New Jersey Mathematics Teacher, Who Shaped has given dozens of keynote speeches, talks and seminars Science Fiction and co-edited Nanking 1937: Memory around the world. and Healing. But where Bob really stood out was in his love and advocacy for his students. Despite the fact that LeRoy William Collins, Jr. (’78) his standards and expectations for his students were Roy graduated from PHS with academic honors as a extremely high (his students’ AP scores can attest to member of the National Honor Society, earned seven that), he was beloved by the students he taught and/or Varsity Letters and held leadership positions in several after mentored. school activities, including INTERACT, Institute for Political and Legal Education (IPLE), and Student Joe Bernabe (Teacher) Council. Upon graduation, he reported to the US Coast Joe Bernabe served as the PHS Band Director for thirty- Guard Academy in New London, CT, where he earned a BS one years (1977-2008), instilling a love of music in degree in Ocean Engineering and was commissioned an thousands of students and inspiring dozens to pursue Ensign. During his ten-year Coast Guard career, he received careers as professional musicians or music teachers. As several personal and unit awards; at the age of 24, was one Band Director, he prepared and conducted over 150 of the youngest sea service officers to assume command concerts with his students. He also served as coach of afloat; and was selected to serve as a military Aide to the Team for many years. In his retirement, he has Presidents Reagan and Bush. He subsequently transitioned managed to keep in touch with PHS, attending every to private industry where he has assumed executive concert and Hall of Fame ceremony and continuing to leadership positions in the defense/aerospace industry, mentor and assist the Music Department in any way that pioneered the delivery of internet services via satellite, he can including the school's 60th Anniversary. and earned an MBA.

HOCKEY TEAM CHARETTE DIVISION CHAMPS! Parsippany Regional Hockey finished with a record of 12-8-2, earned a spot in the NJSIAA State Tournament, competed in the Semi-Finals in the HAAS Cup, and finished as Co-Champions of the Charette Division (6-1- 1 on the year). The team was led statistically by Alex Cavaluzzo (31 goals/30 assists), Christos Caminis (28 g/28 a), Jaydon Hoyt (14 g/17 a), Anthony Caccavale (9 g/17 a), Christian Riedinger (2 g/4 a) and Patrick Lanigan on defense (2 g/4 a). Freshman Justin Wellman did a great job in goal all year. There were many questions to be answered before the 2016-2017 season began. The team had graduated 7 seniors, many of whom were big SHEN EARNS KEY CLUB contributors to their success in the season before. When beginning their HONOR season in early November, they discussed team goals and the direction in which they wanted the program to go. As the season went underway, they Congrats to PHS junior Stephanie dealt with many highs and lows as most teams do, but the mindset was to Shen (on right), the newly elected always take the next step as a program, and to not be satisfied with what Lieutenant Governor for Division was done in the past. Whether that was on the ice, in the classroom, or in 20 of NJ Key Club. Way to go Steph! the real-world, they wanted to continue to grow as young men and women. They can successfully say that each student-athlete fought every step of the way, surpassed our character goals and they came up just short of some team goals. Coach Egidio would like to thank the seniors for their hard work and leadership throughout the season. As every high school season ends, a new one begins soon after, and it is now the responsibility of the underclassmen to take the reigns of the program, outwork the competition in the offseason, and ensure success for the 2017-2018 season.

BAND UPDATE

The PHS Band has had a lot to be proud of over the last couple months. In addition to performing two outstanding concerts with the PHS Choir (December and March), several of our students successfully auditioned into the Area Band, Region Band & Orchestra, and All-State Band (see full list below). Also, Miki Hansen (Senior Trumpet Player & Drum Major) was honored by the Mayo Performing Arts Center on February 17 as one of their Music Students of the Month. FBLA STATE Most recently, the PHS Jazz Ensemble competed in their first ever New Jersey QUALIFIERS Association for Jazz Education (NJAJE) State Festival Prelims at Newark Academy Congrats to our FBLA on March 10. They received a Bronze rating and were selected to compete in the State Qualifiers: State Finals. Congrats PHS Band members! Dev Shah Tulsi Shah North Jersey Area Band: Cinthia Brown (oboe), Victoria Dobkowski (clarinet), Rohan Khajuri Vivian Kwong Nic Colella (alto sax), Ethan Kaplan (tenor sax), Miki Hansen (trumpet), Adam Ye Salman Rizvi Yash Patel (trumpet), Stephen Giercyk (trombone), Eric Lai (mallets) Disha Patel Priya Lad Region Band & Orchestra: Ethan Kaplan (tenor sax), Miki Hansen (trumpet), Anjali Shah Sahil Patel Amanda Chen (violin) Anjali Ramesh Mohit Ahuja All-State Band: Daniel Wang (flute)

PHS PLACES 11 IN HONORS CHOIR Here is the list of students who were accepted into the North Jersey Region I Honors Choir for 2017: Amanda Chen-Soprano I Lillian Ye-Soprano I Raquelle Rocco-Soprano 2 (Ranked third for her voice part) Juliana Smith-Soprano 2 Maya Ng’Oche-Soprano 2 Jazmin Lee-Soprano 2 Cassandra Cogan-Alto I (ranked 7th for her voice part) Stephanie Hernandez-Alto I Kathryn Berrios-Alto I Richa Iyer-Alto 2 (ranked 7th for her voice part) Karen Shih-Alto 2 GLAMMIES A SUCCESS Thanks to our Student Council for hosting another terrific Glammies night. We gathered to help honor the seniors by announcing all of the nominees and winners for the Senior Superlatives. Thanks to the performers for sharing their talents (Malcom Green, James Osea, Pavlo Busko, Talia Wynzel, Noel Chambers, Isidra Labady, Veronica Mendoza, Cat Chiarolanza, and Raquelle Rocco); to Divij Malkani and Jarrett Kuhn for preparing all of the videos; to Olivia Leon, Aahna Ghosh and Sarah DiPippa for coordinating the event; to Ali Ozdemir and Alexa Weissberg for hosting; and to Mr. Nicholes, Mr. Gilgur, Mrs. Van Wingerden.

Senior Superlative Results: BOYS BASKETBALL ROUND-UP Senior Superlatives Best Hair: Jake Marlowe, Melisa Lozada Class Couple: Kyle Steele, Courtney Calabrese The Boys’ Basketball team, under the coaching of Jeff Couple That Never Was: Spencer Huang, Michelle Inn Principe, completed the season with a record or 6 and Nicest Eyes: Salman Rizvi, Abby Smith 18, but had nice wins over Dover and Pompton Lakes. Girl Next Door/Boy Next Door: Cristina Fernandez, Jackson Wolfe Class Daydreamers: Kyle Braen, Vivian Kwong They were led by Captains: Alan Chapman, Connor Best Buds: Spencer Huang, Michelle Inn Preston Emil Matti, and Bener Uygun. Big congrats to Best Bromance: Eric Schlosser, Zachary Imp Bener and Emil for being named All-Conference Best Gal Pals: Anto Ferrou, Lexie Tymikiw Honorable Mention. With a nice core of players Class Singer: Josh Gonzalez, Rocky Rocco returning and successful season for JV and Freshmen, Talks Most/Says Least: Rebecca Goddard, Bener Uygun the RedHawks look to keep things improving in 2018. Talks Most/Says Least: Toni Moran, Ben Rudolph Best Laugh: Kwaku Agyemang, Lilian Tran Class Musician: Nic Colella, Miki Hansen Most Likey to Succeed: John Burk, Miki Hansen Class Artist: Courtney Calabrese, Eric Lai Actor/Actress: Josh Gonzalez, Carly Pasquale Class Clown: Zach Imp, Maddie Carden Mom & Dad: Cristina Fernandez, Matt Michalik Class Scholar: Ryan Hoeler, Miki Hansen Class Optimist: Cristina Fernandez, Ian Schey Class Flirt: Jennifer Mazo, Kenny Kwaja Life of the Party: Julie Jara, Kenny Kwaja Least Changed: Maria Birth, Mike Sorresse Class Athlete: Salena LeDonne, John Burk PHS CAMPUS CONNECTIONS Best Dressed: Ilir Pilinci, Christina Xu PHS Student Council hosted Campus Connections in Most Changed: Marta Markowski, Pavlo Busko January, bringing back over thirty Par High Alumni to Class Cutie: Jackson Wolfe, Lexie Tymikiw Best Smile: Cristina Fernandez, Emil Matti come back and speak about what they wish they would Class Pessimist: Isidra Labady, Timur Ayaz have known as a PHS freshman; how to tackle the FRENCH CLUB college application process; what it is like to transition NEWS from the halls of PHS to a college campus. They also served as valuable connections for prospective students The PHS French Club to college such as Montclair and Rutgers, all the way up has had a busy few to Buffalo and down to Central Florida, and including months, taking a field trip ivy leagues like Cornell! Thanks to all of our successful to see Paramour on alumni who came back to help out! Broadway and visiting the United Nations in NYC. They also celebrated Marti Gras by having an after-school party and naming a King (Haider Malik) and Queen (@@@).

BALDWIN PIZZA ATHLETES OF THE WEEK

Thanks to Baldwin Pizza for sponsoring our Athlete of the Week program. Each winner receives a t-shirt, a pin and a $5 gift card to Baldwin Pizza!

ALEX CAVULUZZO (11TH) – HOCKEY Alex, a junior captain, has had a fast start to the season. He is currently second in pts and first in assists on the team (6 goals and 11 assists in the first four games). Alex leads by example and continuously works to improve his game. CHRIS LUPO (11TH) TRACK & FIELD Chris, a junior, had an excellent start to the season running a great 600 (8th) and 400 at the Jack O’Leary Lid Lifter Invitational. Chris is a leader for the middle distance team. ALEXIS SMITH (12TH) – BASKETBALL Alexis, a senior captain, had 15 points in a nice win over Hopatcong for the Girls Basketball team. Alexis has been a great leader this season. PHS/BARNES & NOBLE TEAM UP FOR BOOK FAIR TH ANTHONY CACCAVALE (12 ) - HOCKEY On December 9th and 10th, Parsippany High School Anthony, a senior captain, had a huge goal in the opening partnered with Barnes and Noble Morris Plains to hold our game of the Haas Playoffs. He has 9 goals and 15 assists on first ever PHS Charity Holiday Book Fair. The even kicked the season so far. off on Friday the 9th with PHS students and staff donning EUNICE IMAN (10TH) - their Hogwarts finery to attend the Harry Potter Yule Ball. Eunice, a sophomore, has steadily improved her times in the Participants danced, worked the photo booth, and played a butterfly and breaststroke and is a key part of several relays. few hotly contested rounds of Harry Potter Pictionary. The She works hard both in and out of the pool for the Redhawks. Book Fair continued on Saturday the 10th when the TH RedHawks got the opportunity to 'take over' Barnes and EMIL MATTI (12 ) - BASKETBALL Emil, a senior captain, has led the Boys team offensively and Noble for the day. Thanks to our marvelous students and defensively from the point guard position all season long. staff, local children (and their parents) were delighted with LAUREN MARKS (10TH) – BOWLING arts and crafts, book mark making, story time, trivia, games, Lauren, a sophomore, won her 2nd consecutive Morris and even some live-action Shakespeare. The whole event County Girls Bowling Championship with a high series of culminated with a beautiful Holiday-themed performance by 581 and a record-breaking high game of 249. our very own PHS Choir. The RedHawks raised almost ERIC SCHLOSSER (12TH) – TRACK & FIELD $1000 for Student Activities and the family of Noah Eric, a senior captain, ran a 4;27.95 mile at the Morris th Lorencovitz. In addition, the PHS PTSA raised several County Championships to take 6 place. Eric’s blazing time broke Jon Periera’s 17-year old PHS record! hundred dollars through manning the holiday gift wrapping TH station. We're thrilled to have Barnes and Noble as another PJ GOHN (12 ) - WRESTLING PJ, a senior captain, went 4-0 to win the 132 lb. weight class community partner. Stay tuned for our Spring Book Fair at the Morris County Tournament and was named the coming soon (June 17th)! Outstanding Wrestling by the coaches. KWAKU AGYENMANG (12TH) - TRACK Kwaku, a senior, had the best meet of his career at the State Sectionals. he came out of an unseeded heat to win the 400 sectional title. He also won the 55m dash and anchored the 4th place 4x400 team. SEAN GENTILE (11TH) - WRESTLING Sean, a junior, took won his first District Championship with a 7-3 win in the 126 pound finals to advance to Regions. Sean is currently 28-7 on the year. JOHN BURK (12TH) – INDOOR TRACK John, a senior captain, capped off a record-breaking indoor season by placing 4th in the shot put at the Meet of Champions. John was also the Morris County Champion and the State Sectional Champion.

NJAC LEADERSHIP AND ATHLETIC

CONFERENCES

Par High was proud to take part in two NJASC-sponsored conferences in the December. First, we invited fourteen student-athletes from our various sports teams to a Sportsmanship Conference with other school from our conference. The students include: Alan Chapman, Sarah Waffenfeld, Daniel Pico, Nick Garafano, Eric Schlosser, Chris Lupo, Cristinia Fernandez, Alexis Smith, Caitlin Brennan, Salena LeDonne, Mike Ilic, John Burk, Lilian Tran and Matt Michalik. We also attended in a Student Government Leadership Conference at Randolph High School where students got to meet with leaders from other high schools and shared ideas for student activities. The following students represented Par High at the event: Josh Flood, Max Corbel, Adriana Didio, Dominque LaCapra, Gary Tsui, Rachel Wang, Dom Migliazza, Carly Homler, Caitlin Ford, Sachi Walmiki, Maya Ng’Oche, Connor Devens and Alex Cerasiello.

PHS SCHOLARS OF THE MONTH Congratulations to our tremendously intelligent and hard- working Scholars of the Month. Winners will be rewarded with a delicious breakfast in June.

DECEMBER World Language: Salman Rizvi Social Studies: Gerard Burder Science: Sean Callaghan Physical Education: Dan D’Addario Math: Bener Uygun Language Arts: Asia Tabili Applied Tech: Bener Uygun

JANUARY Math: Remma Patadia REDBOTS BEGIN INAUGURAL SEASON World Languages: Ryan Hoeler In the beginning of the school year, a group of motivated students got Language Arts: Antonio Piccininni together to form Parsippany’s High School’s first own robotics club. As Music: Catherine Chiarolanza a team we draw, build and program a robot to compete in the FIRST Science: Priya Ranade Tech Challenge. While we are only a rookie team, we were able Social Studies: Anjeline Jiju accomplish a lot this year. We have participated in two meets on January PE/Health: Kaitlyn Fang 8th and January 22nd and the NJ League Tournament on February 4th. In one meet, our team advanced to the finals round. Although we were FEBRUARY unable to compete at many events, our team learned a lot this year and Math: Kyle Gaydo hopes to continue designing and creating functional and competitive World Languages: Likitha Mamillapalli robots. Since our competitive season with FIRST Tech Challenge is Language Arts: Furkan Yildirim over, we are currently preparing for next year by rebuilding and TV Production: Kendrick Slaman perfecting our robot. We hope to compete in other local competitions Science: Kendrick Slaman soon and organize some outreach events. We encourage anyone who is Social Studies: Tyler Wyka interested to join and see what robotics is all about! No experience PE/Health: Josh Flood required! Active team members include: Marc Hoeltge, Abhi Sheth, Albert Chen, Neha Deshpande, Miki Hansen, Reema Patadia, Aneesh Kakirde, Aarav Shah, Ivan Deleon, Carolyn Reagan. Special thanks to our coach, Mrs. Effner.

WEDDING SINGER SURE TO THE PATH BETWEEN THE Parsippany High ENTERTAIN 200 & 400 WINGS IS OPEN School (IN CASE YOU DIDN’T KNOW) Parsippany High School gladly

PRESENTS presents "The Wedding Singer", a musical based on the hit Adam Sandler movie. With way too many references to the '80's, this show is hysterical for both high school audiences and older generations as well! With Raquel Rooco starring as Julia Gulia, and Josh Gonzalez March 30th, 31st and April 1st, 2017 starring as Robbie Hart, this show is 7pm PHS AUDITORIUM sure to be a hit! Dates are March 30th, 31st Adults $12 Students/Seniors $10 Parsippany Students are free and April 1st at 7pm. Parsippany students are free!

KAPLAN AND KHULLAR ANNOUNCED AS GOVERNOR’S SCHOOL & NJ SCHOLAR FINALISTS

For the second year in a row, the same two talented students were selected as PHS finalists for both the Governor’s School and the NJ Scholars programs. Last year, the honor belonged to the girls; this year, it’s the boys’ turn. Congratulations to Ethan Kaplan and Udhay Khullar for being selected as finalists from PHS to attend either the Governor’s School program or the NJ Scholars Program next summer. Ethan Kaplan is our finalist for the Governor’s School for Engineering & Technology at Rutgers and Udhay Khullar is our finalist for the Governor’s School in the Sciences at Drew University. If selected, they will be considered Governor’s Scholars and attend the prestigious 3-4 week Governor’s School Program with approximately 90 other students from around the state. Final decisions from both Governors’ Schools and the NJ Scholars Program should be announced in April. Congratulations again to Ethan and Udhay and we look forward to hearing even more good news in the coming months!

KHAJURIA AND WANG ARE NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLAR FINALISTS

Congrats to Rohan Khajuria and Daniel Wang who achieved the incredible honor of being named National Merit Scholar Finalists! Congrats also go to the following students who were named as Commended Students: Will Chen, Victoria Gu, Miki Hansen, Spencer Huang, Vivan Kwong, Salman Rizvi, Param Shukla, Abhinav Sinha, Kevin Tsai and Katherine Yang. It is great to see all of your hard work and dedication paying off!

WORLD LANGUAGE STUDENTS HELP AT TROY HILLS SCHOOL “WORLD TRAVELS DAY”

Thanks to our Mrs. Sylvin, Mr. Cassu and Mrs. Minichiello for coordinating an effort to have our senior World Language students present information on various countries from around the world to the elementary students at Troy Hills School (that was a long sentence). Our seniors were amazing teachers and made “World Travels Day” a little more awesome.