Bloomfield Tech Yearbook 2008
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S COUNTY AL AN° TECHNICAl SCHOOL School 1 Essex County Vocatio 0808080808 2 nal Technical Schools Bloomfield Tech !EN/OR! Grade: 1 2 Class Of: 2008 Valid for School Year 07-08 3 "Congratulation to the cla of 20 on a job well done. You arc the fir~t graduating clas that I have had the plea ure of being your principal for all four year of your high ch ol experience. You have truly been a remarkable group of young men and women. I feel that all of you have the potential for greatne and will go on to wonderful thing . I wi h you the be t and keep Bloomfield Tech. in your heart.. Go mighty Spartan !" "I wi h our enior cla the be t that life ha to of fer! I hope you remember your year at Bloomfield Tech fondly and have gained information to help you in life. Try to make a itive difference in y ur community, with your familie and friend ! May god be with you al way ." ----- _________ , 9 I I I arpe11try -- 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 PHOTO NOT AVA LABLI: 26 27 28 29 30 31 • r 1 e s r v n r • p t e a 1 g s e s 0 c y n t s 32 ye unes. 0 'aldo .lasmi n \ '<'H'tln. L, twllt' Con:~:·tle~:. 1\.amirt~ • Ern~ to I o•>t•n:t.o, Juan .lf·nnift: J' Oh•t·o. Lau1·a Uohlt·s o~oa. Or·lando Conzale:~:. (.lorrn~l Vf'na, Calwit•l er1•ano. «l\ ier ( ;on1al~z. uria Suazo, \lanu,•l 1\amir·t·s... l.fliTiu \\hit~. Stt-H·n 1\amns, Colin pence, J(·nnif•·r \lat·tinc7. (.ina C.t'roninlu K.elh I eseauD. 1\.atlwriJ \lartin ~, DECA CLUB Student Council ... ~ i\l:u·lint· Ht•galado. Tani~ha K.(•al, Collt'liH'\ .lohuson. Shanh·ea EutH'IW \I('Ct·m·\.. c,. d 11('\. Jackson. ~loot't'. Z:u·i Pop('. \mirah )anct·.'· I .a To.' a 11<-ndricks. Heg-i JH't' Po" t'll, ( :hantt·l Bt·o" n. \ul hon\ Bush. S ha nl et·a ~lour(•. ... n sta I \I u no:t.. f•c•nw Daniels. alai.' Bc•njamin. Joana Hamit·c•,, .Janwma \kgiii.T:un:tr·a l>t'!-i .l:tnlins. Eli1.alwth Bat·t·c--lo. 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Pc r·ez and A\ C I'IVITI ES Alias:A hard-wor~lng student Mission: TO HlVE RUN!!! 40 on 41 •••••• • • • • • • • ---- - I would like to thank the team for this year' effort , including all the senior for their hard work and dedication. The team's be t wi he will be with them a they move on to thier future endeavour . -Rudy We had a very ucce ful ea on and I am proud of the effort that each player put forth. I wish all the enior the be t of luck and hope that they continue to pur ue thier pa ion for thi great port. -Menadier .. --~:~~~ "'~·~~~ ~ ~.~· .~ 55 s E N • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 62 63 / I I 64 DHERFF JONES. More than 90 mtlhon votes were cast when the world was asked to name the "New Seven Wonders of the Wo The man-made s1tes selected mclude the Cohseum in Rome, Mextco's Chtchen Itza, Petra m Jordan, Peru's Ma Picchu, the Taj Mahal m India, Chnst the Redeemer Statue in Brazil, and The Great Wall of China. team of 30 physiCians worked 24 The bald eagle was removed The first Baby Boomers became eligible Steve Jobs mtroduces the MacBook to remove extra limbs from a two from the endangered spec1es to apply for Soc1al Secunty benefits, An, the world's thinnest notebook old born w1th eight limbs. list after 30 years. begmnmg a stress on the system. computer at January's Macworld. Researchers m South Korea cloned a cat and modified 1ts genes so that 1t glows red in ultraviolet hght. wlldfires, which forced evacuation of nearly 1 million people, burned more than 600 square miles and destroyed The space shuttle Endeavor landed s many as 1,500 homes over 19 days in Southern California. Santa Ana wmds and extreme drought worsened the safely in August desp1te extenor of the fires; rune people were killed and 85 others - includmg at least 61 firefighters - were injured. damage that had worried NASA John McCam emerged from "Super Tuesday" as a strong favonte among Even after "Super Tuesday" and the Potomac Pnmaries, the race betvo Republicans. M1ke Huckabee remamed h1s only challenger for the party Hillary Clmton and Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomma nommat10n after Mitt Romney suspended his campa1gn. was too close to call. Cn stma Fernandez is Argentma's first elected Tesla Motors, a S1hcon Valley start-up, Bntish Prime Mimster Sc1entists in Moscow unveiled the remains of a frozen mammoth found pre-sold all 600 of 1ts $98,000 all-electnc Tony Blau res1gned after S1benan tundra in May. A reindeer herder found the frozen carcass, wh1ch Roadsters set for production m 2008. 13 years in office. been dated back 10,000 years to the end of the last Ice Age. Researchers uncovered two new species Former Pakistani Prime The disputed December re-election Unusual cold plagued Iraq. - a g1ant rat and a tmy possum - m a Mimster Benazir Bhutto of president Mwa1 Kibaki caused remote JUngle m Indonesia m June. was assassinated. unrest and violence m Kenya. Bntam banned smoking m enclosed Nmtendo's profit doubled Meteorologists blame this wmter's bhc spaces m July Individuals caught this year, thanks to sales tornados across the South on La Nu1a 1tatmg the law will be fmed 400. of 20 million Wu dev1ces. (the cooling of Pacific waters). Internet service in Asia, the Middle East and northern Africa was interrupted when an undersea Mediterranean cable failed in January. Many businesses were brought to a standstill, but most Middle East governments had backup satellite systems that minimized the impact. After an eight-year legal battle, a major power company agreed to spend $4.6 billion to reduce chemical emissions blamed for spreading acid rain across the Northeast. Velib', a program that has nearly 20,000 bicycles posted at 750 stations around Paris is Socialist Mayor Bertrand Delanoe's latest effort to make his city more green and bike-friendly. The program allows Parisians and tourists to use the bikes for a minimal fee. Astronaut Daniel Tani experienced something no other American has ever faced when his 90-year-old mother was killed in a Chicago train accident in December while he was in orbit aboard the international space station. The Homeland Security Department announced plans for its REAL ID Act, which is designed to make it harder for con artists, illegal immigrants and terrorists to get government-issued IDs. The plan will increase requirements of people applying for drivers licenses. New words inducted into the English language in 2007 by Merriam-Webster included "ginormous" (a contraction of sorts of gigantic and enormous), "Hollywood," "sudoku" and "speed dating". In all, nearly 100 words were added to the company's collegiate dictionary. entire span of an interstate bndge broke mto sections and collapsed mto the Mississippi River dunng evening rush hour in Minneapolis. The August 2 catastrophe killed 13, in)ured more than 60 and called light deficiencies m many of America's bridges needmg repau. Aftei]ust40yearsmeXlstence, Concern about lead-based pamts Ice storms cnppled the Midwest more than 1.5 million ATM caused world-wide recalls of mlllions freezmg ram coated electncal . machmes simplify hfe. of toys produced m China. causing far·reaching power outag The national debt expanded roughly S1.4 billion a day, nearly S1 million a minute. Economists said that an economic slowdown may be looming and that higher taxes or cuts in government programs are possible. Oil prices hit a new high of $100 a barrel when the markets welcomed 2008. The previous record, $99.29, was set in November, 2007 as the year ended with the decade's largest annual price increase. A falling dollar, violence in Nigeria and bad weather in Mexico were among the causes of the drop in U.S. crude supplies. Medical researchers decoded the DNA of the cat and anticipate new information in the search for treatments to both feline and human diseases. In Spain, a new S179 million telescope became operational in July.