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About Rising Stars n BaRNSTaBLE hIGh SChOOLn By GWENN FRISS the letters each year. nominated each other, have Jeni landers, an attor- [email protected] For 19 years, Dennis- been chosen over the years ney at Wynn & Wynn can’t tell you how glad Yarmouth Regional High by different judges. PC in Hyannis, was born I am to be the editor of School guidance counselor As I read the nominations and raised in Dennis. She Dylan the Rising Stars annual Annette Bowes has faith- each year, I wish they could is a dedicated volunteer, RISING Isupplement and not one of fully nominated students all be Rising Stars. But then including serving on the the judges. every year. But this year, I realize, they are. Be sure board of directors of Cape While we all get to read she also was a mother nomi- to check out not only the 20 Cod Young Professionals, STARS and enjoy the nominations nating her daughter, Eliza profiles but also the list of providing pro bono legal Banks – 108 of them this year – the Bowes, who started Scottish nominees at the end to find services to WE CAN for judges then have to rank Highland Dancing at age 5, names of graduating seniors women in transition and EDITOR their top 20 choices. Those Breton Step Dancing at 7 whom you may be fortunate helping out the Girl Scouts gwenn Friss On the future: “I’m hoping to go into pre-med three independent rankings, and fiddle at 8. She has been enough to know. of Eastern Massachusetts. combined through the magic the under-18 New England But first, thank you to our Jeni lives in Dennis with DESIGN next year and hopefully become a doctor.” of math, produce a list of the Scottish Fiddle Champion for judges, community members her husband, Chris Graser, nora De Vita young people whom you’ll the past two years and often who do yeoman’s work: and their 2-year-old son, During an interview at his ON THE COVER By PATRICK CASSIDy find profiled in these pages. volunteers at events includ- richard G. brothers Jacob. [email protected] family’s Marstons Mills home The volunteer judges ing the Barnstable Senior recently retired as president robin smith-Johnson Ceara tavares ylan Banks knows Dylan’s mother, Donna, says change from year to year, Center St. Patrick’s Day of Cape and Islands United works as the newsroom she has never needed to tell PHOTO By balance. but I consistently hear two dinner. Way, a full-time post he held librarian at the Cape Cod Between main- him to do his homework. things: “This is so hard!” and In Provincetown, a teacher for 14 years. In all, Brothers Times, as well as teaching Christine Hochkeppel taining a sky-high The second of three boys “Thank you for asking me.” nominated the entire senior has spent 28 years with in Cape Cod Community D – including an older brother www.capecodonline.com grade point average, leading I understand both of those class – all five girls who United Way and will con- College’s language and Barnstable High School’s who is a professional snow feelings. But it’s kind of nice opted to finish their educa- tinue to help out even though literature department. She /risingstars chapter of the Best Buddies boarder and a younger broth- that it’s difficult because it tion in the high school which he is now, he says, “in semi- is the author of a blog on program and surfing, he had er who fences – Dylan has shows what a great group of closes next year. retirement.” Originally from Cape history called “Cape better. always stayed true to himself, teens you – parents, teachers, Ceara Tavares, shown Roxbury, Brothers and his Rewind.” Her book of poet- The California-born trans- she says. employers, siblings – nomi- dancing on the cover, is the wife, Ellen, have lived in ry, “Dream of the Antique plant who came to Cape Cod “Dylan was born kind nate. youngest of three daugh- Chatham for more than 25 Dealer’s Daughter,” is forth- via Florida is also just about and caring,” she says, noting It’s also fun for me to read ters. All of the siblings, who years. coming from Word Press. the nicest person you’ll ever that Dylan didn’t join Best meet, according to his family Buddies so he could put it on and friends. a resume or college applica- Wendy Pennini first met tion . “To me that’s the success Dylan at the beginning of the – when you do things that are school year after he became from your heart,” she says. friends with her son Stephen, Sitting beside his mother, a fellow student who has Dylan waits quietly until come enjoy spring. Down Syndrome. questions come his way. “There’s so much about Stephen Pennini inspired him that’s just so giving,” his involvement in Best Pennini says about why she Buddies, he says. nominated Dylan to be a “We just got along really Rising Star. well I guess,” he says. “He just Dylan often drives Stephen made me laugh and I made home after Best Buddies him laugh.” meetings, Pennini says , add- It was the dissection of a ing that the pair also talk on cat at school that convinced the telephone most nights. Dylan to go into medicine, he Best Buddies is an interna- says. He has always liked sci- tional organization founded ence and plans to enter pre- in 1989 to give people with med in college, he sa ys. intellectual disabilities more It doesn’t take long for the chances to socialize and learn conversation to turn toward marketable skills. Dylan is Dylan’s passion: surfing. president of the program’s When he saw his older Barnstable High School chap- brother surf, Dylan thought it I love collecting shells and ter. was “the coolest thing in the His dedication to Best world.” enjoying the Cape beaches before Buddies and her son is even Surfing has even played more impressive given every- a role in his choice of col- the summer crowds arrive. thing else Dylan has on his leges, which Dylan had nar- plate, Penninisays. rowed down to two coastal Dylan has a laid-back surf- schools: University of Florida er mentality but still takes his and University of San Diego –Robin S. schoolwork seriously, Dylan’s before, recently, choosing the “ high school counselor Jim West Coast. Buckman says. “I couldn’t imagine not “He’s able to keep things in being able to surf,” he says. steve Heaslip/Cape Cod times perspective,” Buckman says . “I’d probably go crazy. Plus “He can really go anywhere with organic chemistry I Dylan Banks at Coast Guard Beach, where he sometimes goes before school to indulge his passion for Plan your stay and be anything he wants to don’t know how I’d relieve surfi ng. He will attend the University of San Diego, having chosen a school on a coast partly because ” be.” stress without surfing.” of the stress relief he fi nds in riding the waves. Beautiful Beaches | Golf | Museums | Shopping | Dining 4 RISING STARS 5/14 5 RISING STARS 5/14
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steve Heaslip/Cape Cod times Matthew Perocchi, in the kitchen at Cape Cod Regional Technical High School, loves feeding people and hopes to have his own restaurant one day.
Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod times Christie Macomber is the news editor of Chatham High School’s newspaper, the Devils’ Advocate. Matthew Perocchi Christie Macomber Advice to incoming freshmen: “Come in with an open mind. Try everything and don’t pass any opportunities by.” By LAURIE HIGGINS “He’s always been very helpful, not for members of the public who come mean to him. One of Bachand’s most CONTRIBUTING WRITER only to me and the other instructors, into The Hidden Cove Restaurant at memorable moments observing his How friends would describe her: “That I’m willing to help others. I’m not judgmental of others.” hen Barnstable resident but to other students,” Bachand says. the school. star chef pupil was after one of his Matthew Perocchi first ar- “Many of his peers and underclass- “The most important thing I’ve last football games. Matthew was rived at Cape Cod Regional men look up to him to assist them learned at Tech is communication and sweating and his uniform was cov- magazine. It is this attitude Christie has will keep an open mind. WTechnical High School in with their own assignments and for teamwork in the kitchen,” Matthew ered with grass stains, but he was By JASON COOK Elaine Aschettino, Christie’s advi- applied to nearly every aspect of Attending a small school like Harwich four years ago, he was not advice.” says. “Without that, you don’t really surrounded by family members and [email protected] sor for the newspaper and teacher her high school career. Be it the Chatham High (with 246 graduates sure which trade he would pursue. But Matthew says that leadership plays have an organized kitchen. It falls holding his baby nephew with the can express everything on pa- of many honors English courses, Young Women’s Club (“I’ve always last year) elicits mixed feelings from as soon as he explored the culinary arts a big role in a lot of things he does apart and your food doesn’t end up biggest smile on his face. Bachand per, thinking about my words,” describes her as a student who been interested in women’s rights”) Christie. department, he knew he had found his and he enjoys helping out younger coming out as it should be.” says the image could have graced the Christie Macomber says, as might pass through once every four to the Animal Welfare Club (“It “I like how homey it feels. But I perfect match. Once he started cooking, students with techniques and skills When he’s not cooking, Matthew cover of “Sports Illustrated.” “Ishe explains why she has or five years. “She has been doing just seemed so different than other think you can find people you can he found it really enjoyable and he has they don’t know because they enjoys spending time with friends “It’s just part of the whole package excelled in English – notching a rare college-level work for years now,” clubs”), Christie takes on all activi- identify more closely with in a big- thrown himself into it ever since. haven’t experienced them yet. For and playing sports. He has played of who he is and what he’s about,” perfect score on the English/Language she says. ties with equal fervor – not just ger school.” “My favorite part of it is to have the last two years he has worked at varsity basketball all four years of Bachand says. “He truly is a great Arts portion of the Massachusetts Excellence is something with extracurricular, but academic as So while she is tentative about people be happy after eating good The Regatta in Cotuit, where he has high school and football for his last kid.” Comprehensive Assessment System which Christie is very familiar. But well. Christie will graduate as salu- jumping to a school with thousands food I prepare,” Matthew says. learned techniques for sauces and three years. He’s currently on the Matthew has been accepted at (MCAS) test. it was struggle she pointed to when tatorian of her class. of students, she is excited at the His dedication to the fine art of stocks not taught at the school. lacrosse team. Johnson & Wales University in She speaks quietly, thinking care- speaking about what shaped her. “I “Whatever she does, she’ll excel prospect. cooking has earned him the respect He started at the restaurant as a Sports are fun, but when asked Providence and has already paid his fully about her words. It makes don’t like doing stuff I’m not good at,” says Aschettino of Christie’s col- “Just growing up in general,” she of head chef and instructor Domenic prep cook, but now has moved up to the most important thing in life, he registration fee. sense – Christie is news editor for at,” she says of her shot at tennis in lege future, which includes attend- lists as one of the things she is look- Bachand, who says that Matthew is in the garde manger station, making says that, without a doubt, family “I want to eventually open my the Devils’ Advocate, Chatham High her sophomore year, “but I’m glad ing Salve Regina University in ing forward to in the near future. the top of his class in not only knowl- salads. His favorite position is the is the most important thing to him. own restaurant,” Matthew says. “That School’s newspaper, and is involved I stuck with it.” Christie now plays Rhode Island. Christie is set to pur- “You discover things about yourself. edge and skills but also behavior and sauté station and he enjoys cooking Bachand says Matthew often talks would be my dream goal for my with Sandscript, the school’s literary third singles on the Chatham team. sue English, but, as she always has, You find your adult personality.” attitude. lunch for teachers at the school and about his family and how much they career.” 6 RISING STARS 5/14 7 RISING STARS 5/14
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n haRWICh hIGh SChOOLn n SaNDWICh hIGh SChOOL n Ceara Tavares Advice: “Don’t let others tell you that your dream is too big. If it’s what you want to do, then you can do it.”
By NEIL JOHNSON Tavares. “She asked them if CONTRIBUTING WRITER it was possible if she could eara Tavares has loved start a small dance group to dance as long as and they jumped at it.” she can remember. Under Ceara’s supervi- C Her two older sion, the Riverview Dance sisters, both Rising Stars Ensemble meets every nominees in past years, have Saturday morning, working spent the majority of their primarily on jazz dance rou- lives dancing, as well. It is a tines. The troupe showcased passion that truly runs in the their progress last holiday Merrily Cassidy/ family. season and will continue to Cape Cod times “Erica started at 5, Adria work toward another dance Kevin Ligonde started at 4 and I started performance June 8 for says students at 3,” she says. “My mom Riverview’s spring concert. would com- always talks about me sit- Her experience working pete for the ting in the audience while as a dance instructor has top spot at the they got to dance. I didn’t inspired Ceara to pursue a Catholic school want to be in the audience. career working as a special he attended in I wanted to be up there needs teacher. his native Haiti. with them, but that’s how it “I think that would be He credits that always was. Swimming les- a really fulfilling job, experience sons, soccer, dance ... I was especially now work- with helping always the last one to do it ing with these kids at the him develop but was always the youngest Riverview school. It’s nice a strong work age to start.” to help.” She plans to attend ethic. In addition to training at the University of New her dance studio five days a Hampshire in the fall, but week, Ceara always makes for now Ceara has a very sure that she has time to busy schedule. With a soft volunteer. For years, she has smile and firm posture, been involved in community she carries herself with the Kevin Ligonde service activities: volunteer- same confidence and effi- ing at the Massachusetts ciency that pours into her Advice to incoming freshmen: “It’s not as hard as it seems, Special Olympics; making day-to-day life. deliveries for the Bourne “I don’t work well with but the most important thing is to not procrastinate. That’s a killer.” Food Pantry; serving as a downtime,” Ceara says, Eucharistic minister at her explaining her philosophy and along the years I picked up a few reports and you know who is top of Guidance counselor Jonathan church; and sending care of coping with juggling By LAURIE HIGGINS words,” he says. “But the big change the class or not, and that pushed stu- Bennett says Kevin is one of the CONTRIBUTING WRITER packages to support the from French Creole to only English dents to want to get that first spot,” he most impressive students he has school and all her extra- ardy Kevin Ligonde, who goes troops overseas. 24/7 was a little bit challenging at says. “Every week my classmates and encountered in more than 15 years curricular activities. “It is by Kevin, grew up in Port-au- Last year, however, she first. It took me a while to get my I would work hard just to earn that working in the school counseling definitely time management, Prince, Haiti. When he moved was able to blend her love homework done.” top spot. I attended that school for field. but I just work better with to Jacksonville, Fla., and began for dance with her passion a busy schedule. Especially G His hard work has earned him eight or nine years and that attitude “I still remember the first time going to an American high school at for volunteer work. Ceara excellent grades and multiple to always want to push myself to get meeting him and just how impressive growing up with this family; the age of 15, French Creole was his approached residential awards for academic excellence good grades and try to be up there he was as a young man,” Bennett we’re always busy. If you first language. supervisor Greg Simpson including the James Otis Scholar with others became part of my per- says. “This was before I even knew want to keep doing every- His family moved to Harwich at and activities coordinator Award in 2011. He was also select- sonality.” how brilliant he is. He has such a thing, you find time to get it the end of his sophomore year and Jennifer Cavanagh at the ed for the International Student Kevin especially loves the chal- quiet self-confidence about him. done.” he immediately began impressing the Riverview School, a resi- Leadership Institute at University of lenge of higher math and physics. He’s soft-spoken, but he chooses his And Ceara doesn’t plan to staff at Harwich High School with his dential school in Sandwich Massachusetts Dartmouth, which he When his prior math sequence of words very carefully and you can tell stop dancing anytime soon. endearing personality and incredible for young adults and adoles- says was a lot of fun. When asked classes precluded him from taking that motor is always running in his “There are a lot of kids intellect. They say his transition to cents with learning disabili- what influences helped make him the AP level he aspired to, the math head. He’s just such a thinker.” who dance all their life and the English language and culture has ties, to propose a new pro- such an achiever, he credits the pri- department allowed him to do an Kevin has been accepted into Tufts stop because they can’t find been amazing, but Kevin himself is CHristine HoCHkeppel/Cape Cod times gram. “They always wanted vate Catholic school he attended in independent study of Honors Pre- University in the fall, where he plans a way to continue,” Ceara modest about his accomplishments. to expand their performing Haiti with instilling a good work Calculus on his own after school. to study engineering like his father. Ceara Tavares demonstrates a ballet pose at Cape Cod Dance Center, where she works as a dance says. “But if it’s something “Speaking wasn’t really a chal- arts and Ceara knew,” says ethic. On the final exam, he ended up out- “My main goal with that degree is instructor. This season she will dance the lead role of Swanhilde in the comic ballet “Coppélia.” that you truly love, you will lenge to me because I used to come Ceara’s mother Joanne “The system down there is that scoring students who had taken the to go back to Haiti and help in some find a way.” to the United States every summer every week they give out progress actual class. way,” he says. 8 RISING STARS 5/14 9 RISING STARS 5/14
8 Rising s taR s May 14, 2012 9 n FaLmOUTh hIGh SChOOLn n n Sarah BaRNSTaBLE hIGh SChOOL Bouchie Philosophy: “Whether you find a career that makes you a lot of money or you find a career that satisfies you, I think you have to be satisfied so that you enjoy life. And personally, for me, giving back to the community is really important. You hope to balance what you do for yourself with what you can do for the community and everyone around you.”
By DICK TRUST is ranked No. 7 in her class, CONTRIBUTING WRITER has a 3.83 GPA out of 4.0 and arah Bouchie must live is a member of the National by a different clock. Honor Society. How else to explain How does she do it and Sthe volume of activities still manage to sleep? the Falmouth High School “I’m a really organized honoree manages to squeeze person,” Sarahsays. “I make into a 24-hour day? She sure that I keep all my sched- plows through it all as if her ules in order. All my friends days contained 42 hours. always ask me what the next She participates in the meeting is and I have all my Volunteer in Public Schools lists. I try to fit it all in there. (VIPS) program that raises Somehow I figure it out.” money for mentoring and When Sarah sailed for the other educational projects. Falmouth team, she was a steve Heaslip/Cape Cod times She volunteers an hour captain and league all-star. each week as a fourth-grade Aaron Kanzer’s adventurous spirit has led him to work in broadcasting at Barnstable High School’s TV studio, visit Greece to explore his interest in the ancient She has extended her love language and volunteer with Red Sox Kid Nation. saxophone teacher at North of sailing into a summer Falmouth Elementary School. job as sailing instructor at She’s president of the Bourne Community Boating, French Club. Monument Beach. She’s a member of The Sarah’s next rung up Gifford Street Writers, the learning ladder will be Falmouth High’s creative Bentley University, where writers’ club, and a senior Aaron Kanzer she will enter this fall in editor of The Shoal, the pursuit of a business degree. club’s literary and art jour- “I’m not sure what kind of How would your friends describe you? “They would say I am very goofy, humorous. nal. business I’m looking for, pos- She’s a member of student sibly finance because math They would also say that I am very enthusiastic.” government on the school has always been my favorite council. subject,” shesays. “I got a lot out of that,” he says. a young man with bone cancer who If there is a common thread run- She plays sax in the By SARAH SHEMKUS Falmouth High English CONTRIBUTING WRITER “That was really important and was died while attempting to run across ning through Aaron’s diverse pur- school’s symphony band and teacher Barbara Stephens aron Kanzer had a strategy memorable.” Canada. suits, it is his consistent enthusiasm. wind ensemble. is proud to have nominated for getting the most out of his For a while he was “obsessed” Aaron’s passion for journalism “I think that’s very important,” She was on the cross- Sarah as a Rising Star. four years at Barnstable High with journalism, he says, and pur- eventually faded, but he was then he says. “If you fail at something, it country, basketball and sail- “I have taught AP students School: Try everything. sued opportunities in that field. struck by an interest in Ancient makes it easier – you have a smile ing teams as a freshman but for many years,” Stephens A As a writer for the selective Junior Greek. So he arranged an indepen- on your face, even if you end up fail- “Over the course of high school gradually gave up all sports writes, “and every once in I have tried to experience as many Scholastic Kids Press Corps, he dent study program to learn the lan- ing.” to focus more on her academ- a while I get a student who things as possible,” Aaron says. interviewed a range of accom- guage. He capped off that experience Now, as Aaron heads off to ics. understands this statement And if his list of activities and plished people, including scientists with a study-abroad trip to Greece Northeastern University in Boston, She serves as a Eucharistic by (American author) Ursula achievements is any indication, he from Woods Hole Oceanographic last summer, a journey Aaron calls he is following his interests in yet minister at St. Elizabeth ron sCHloerb/Cape Cod times K. LeGuin: ‘It is good to have certainly succeeded. He has played Institution and U.S. Labor Secretary “incredible” and one of the high- another direction, one that takes Seton in North Falmouth. an end to journey towards, varsity tennis and been a drummer Hilda Solis. He published stories in lights of his high school years. advantage of his love of talking to Sarah Bouchie, in her North Falmouth home, practices the saxophone that is one of nearly a dozen All of that doesn’t even but it is the journey that in the school’s jazz band. Early on the Barnstable Patriot, wrote for the “Basically, anything that really new people. activities she fits into her life. Sarah says she is “a really organized person.” include her studies; she has matters in the end.’ Sarah in high school, he coordinated com- Cotuit Kettleers newsletter and, as interested me I tried it out,” Aaron “ I am leaning more toward politi- taken six AP classes, consis- Bouchie not only under- munity service events as an official a junior, won the Will McDonough says. “I have a really hard time pick- cal science,” he says. “ I just sort of tently is on high honor roll, stands it, she embraces it.” captain of Red Sox Kid Nation. Writing Contest with an essay about ing just one thing I like.” want to try other things.” 10 RISING STARS 5/14 11 RISING STARS 5/14
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n haRWICh hIGh SChOOLn n STURGIS ChaRTER PUBLIC SChOOL n Anna Lieberman Proudest accomplishment: “I’m really proud that the Gay-Straight Alliance has blossomed the way it has. But it’s really the kids who’ve become involved that have furthered it.”
By JANICE RANDALL ROHLF heartening. When the group CONTRIBUTING WRITER fell apart, she and a friend he summer before her decided to revamp it. Thirty junior year in high students, about 8 percent of school, Anna Lieber- the student body, showed up man went with 39 other for the first meeting. “I think T it’s important to have that Jewish teenagers to Israel for a month with the North Ameri- safe space at school,” says can Federation for Temple Anna. “I’ve seen how hard it Youth. When asked to choose a can be.” “Three-Day Adventure” activity, “(Advancing) social justice she eliminated touring, hiking has never been a question for me,” says Anna, whose father, and going on an archeological Merrily Cassidy/Cape dig. Instead, the bookish, self- Rabbi Elias Lieberman, Cod times proclaimed, non-athlete opted encouraged her to volunteer Colin Hamilton, to enlist in the Israeli Defense at the Cape and Islands Gay photographed at Force. and Straight Youth Alliance Eastward Ho! golf “I was terrified,” she says. (CIGSYA). There, she has course in Chatham, “But I wanted to prove to been an active force in the is a member of myself that I could do it. I like Youth Action Committee the Harwich High to put myself in situations for three years and has also School golf team that I don’t understand.” served as the director of pub- and says the sport Not all of Anna’s forays lic relations. is a good metaphor out of her comfort zone Given Anna’s preternatural for life. involve target practice with drive, it comes as little sur- an M16, but there is no ques- prise that, not yet in college, tion that she is always up she’s already made a deci- for a challenge. She is a can- sion about graduate school. “I didate for an International want to focus on transgender Baccalaureate diploma, a teens,” says the Vassar-bound Colin Hamilton rigorous curriculum in which 18-year old who self-identifies she “excels in all areas of as straight. study,” writes her school “On many occasions over Advice: “Life is what you make of it. Things are only bad if you perceive them to be bad. counselor, Susan Whalley, in the years she has spoken for Anna’s Rising Star nomina- the minority viewpoint,” says If something doesn’t go right, make the most of it and you’ll be a much happier person.” tion. “Our most demanding Whalley, “educating others teachers regard her as one of in the most compassionate, By DOUG FRASER chance to make it back to the hole.” really dance.” a country to kill her own people,” the most intellectually gifted never egotistical way.” [email protected] Harwich High School golf team But he danced well enough to Colin says. students they have taught.” Anna’s commitment to ypical of a student/athlete/ captain, member of the sailing team, perform this year in one of his favor- Perhaps his proudest moment It’s how Anna spends her empowering her peers still performer who does well at No. 1 in his class academically, Colin ite musicals “How To Succeed in came in his sophomore year, he time away from her studies, leaves alone time. She plays practically anything he tries, has been wait-listed at Harvard, and Business Without Really Trying.” recalls. Sailing against a Martha’s however, that sets her apart. the guitar and sings – often TColin Hamilton’s enjoyment of believes he will be attending Tufts In real life, success didn’t come Vineyard High School team that had From Model United Nations, songs she has written her- golf crosses over into several different University next year majoring in without trying or without trials. In taken the first two races on a windy, where she recently garnered self. A voracious reader, she planes of his existence. physics or mathematics. A career in nominating Colin, guidance counsel- rainy day, Colin was terrified – of the the role of representing Israel is currently ticking off titles “I like the individual aspect, not academia, as a professor or research- or Margaret Callagy described him course conditions and of letting his at a simulated conference, to from the Modern Library’s depending on anyone else. Your mis- er, is what he sees in his future, but as intellectually gifted, blessed with varsity teammates down. The team writing, directing and casting list of 100 Best Novels of the takes are your own, and so are your past achievements in varied fields a love of learning and curiosity to won the next three races in a row, a show of teenagers’ mono- 20th Century. “I’m a fan of the successes,” he says. open up at least the possibility that pursue the most rigorous academic with Colin and his partner taking logues on love, Anna lets her classics,” she says, “and books When his father, who manages a he could succeed at almost anything. course of study the school could two of them, to emerge victorious passions guide her choices. I believe will become classics.” golf course, brought him to a golf Colin started in theater in middle offer. in the match. His was one of only Nowhere is this more Anna’s own No. 1 fan, her camp in Boston to teach the sport school, acting in plays with Harwich That inquisitiveness led him into two boats all day that didn’t capsize. apparent than in her advo- mother, will feel a void when to inner city youths, Colin realized JuniorTheatre. In high school, he areas outside the classroom as he Neither he nor his teammate are cacy of gay-straight issues. her daughter goes to col- something else he liked about it. continued with drama but added joined a group focused on raising very big, he says, and it took all their ron sCHloerb/Cape Cod times During her first three years lege. “I’ll miss talking, the “It’s a metaphor for life,” he says. singing and dancing. awareness of the ongoing genocide skill to remain upright and perse- Anna Lieberman, who spends many hours volunteering, relaxes with reading. “I’m a fan of the clas- at Sturgis, Anna found the exchange of ideas,” says Lori “It teaches you honesty. You have to “I didn’t expect to be able to sing, in the Sudan. vere. sics,” she says, “and books I believe will become classics.” lack of interest in the school’s Lieberman. “We’ll just have to tell the truth. And perseverance. You but I was able to pull it off,” he says. “People should care because it’s a “I had to use all of my strength,” Gay-Straight Alliance dis- do it by Skype.” screw up a shot and you still have a “Before freshman year, I couldn’t horrible atrocity. We shouldn’t allow he says. 12 RISING STARS 5/14 13 RISING STARS 5/14
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Merrily Cassidy/Cape Cod times steve Heaslip/Cape Cod times Robert “Cole” Arvidson, photographed at the piano in the Chatham High School auditorium, hopes to pursue medicine, but music and other arts will always Hazel Fargher, photographed in her math classroom, learned her love of math from her father and her love of languages from her mother. Her fondness for the remain a passion. chemistry she plans to study in college? That’s all her. Hazel Fargher Robert ‘Cole’ Arvidson Advice to high school students: “As corny as it sounds, be yourself. That’s the biggest thing for me. “I get really excited about things I’m learning about, which obviously helps when I have to memorize something ... Find happiness with yourself.” you have to get passionate about something if you really like it.” camp (“not strictly for Mormons, but weren’t going to change each other’s ahead of so many,” shesays. “He By JON OFFREDO those principles to manipulate nature I learned (in school) to help other That, too, rubbed off on Hazel. By JASON COOK it ends up that way”) for teenagers. minds, we decided to learn from one reads between the lines so well. He [email protected] around us.” people – that would be the most If it’s not quotients and atoms, it’s [email protected] “I came back a different person. I another. That was a big thing for me, gets everything about the written azel Fargher is a deep think- Teachers say that deep outlook obvious way with chemistry,” conjugations and tenses. ike a lot of teenagers, Rob- figured out who I was. I was happy to listen and learn.” word.” ing, detail-oriented person – toward all things drives her to suc- shesays. “It’s interesting how the For the past six years, Hazel has ert Cole Arvidson – Cole to with myself.” After missionary work, Cole Forte-Doyle, who nominated him someone who looks at things cess. She has a 4.23 GPA and ranked human body, how the medicine studied Spanish. pretty much everyone – didn’t Early in high school, Cole had to plans on attending Brigham Young for Rising Stars, says young people on even the tiniest of scales in the top 10th of her class. She has would interact with that.” Two years ago, she started a sign know who he was heading into explain his faith to his friends, who University in Utah, followed, he like Cole are what makes teaching H been named a commended scholar Since she was little, Hazel says, language club with a friend. L and appreciates their wonder and Chatham High School. often asked why he wasn’t coming hopes, by graduate school at Stanford worthwhile. “Watching the progres- magnificence. by the National Merit Scholarship she’s always been interested in Like the tiniest of atoms bounc- His middle school experience was to this party or that one. With many – in his home state of California. “I’ve sion from start to finish, that’s why I She remembers the chemistry Corporation and received the mathematics and science. ing about, this was all about the “terrible” and Cole had trouble fitting teens adrift in a sea of hormones and always wanted to go back,” he says of do this.” class she took during her junior year: Dartmouth College Book Award. Her dad is a computer scientist, details as well. in. “I wanted everyone to like me.” peer pressure, Cole’s faith acts as his the state he called home until age 5. Cole says he plans on writing in his The labs and experiments. Hazel admits she really likes aca- currently working with underwater “A few years ago I was at a Good Speaking to Cole now, one would North Star. Although Cole looks to a career in spare time and isn’t ruling out pursu- The tangible feeling of creativity demics, even, she says, if it’s nerdy. vehicles in Falmouth. Friday service. It was a big one, be hard-pressed to find a shy or “I don’t believe in premarital sex, medicine, particularly surgery, after ing his passions down the road. and the appreciation of even the tini- In the fall, she will be going to “Ever since I was little he was so there was a signer on the left unsure bone in his body. “I’m confi- drinking, drugs, smoking – and I am high school, his heart is with the “At times, I’m a dreamer,” he says, est atoms. Worcester Polytechnic Institute talking to me about math,” she hand (side) of the stage, signing dent, more comfortable with who I proud that I haven’t done any of it.” arts. “I would like to pursue being an “and I love music.” “It’s so cool when you do an exper- where she will study chemistry. says. everything the chorus and pastor am,” he says. And while Cole plans on serving a author,” Cole says of his passion for With his combination of drive, iment and you manage to neutralize It’s those tiny details again that Her mom, a French, Spanish and said and sang,” she says. “I dunno, Cole attributes the bolstering of his two-year missionary program after writing, “but I can’t count on it.” charisma and talent, maybe we’ll see an acid because of the protons and push her – to look at drugs and Latin teacher at Trinity Christian I just started watching her. It was self-image to a spiritual experience high school, he doesn’t proselytize Lisa Forte-Doyle, Cole’s English Cole fronting a world-famous musi- neutrons acting on such a tiny level,” medicines and how they work. Academy, was speaking an entirely mesmerizing to watch the spoken that changed his life. Cole – who was to his peers. “One of my best friends teacher, explains how adept he is cal group someday. “That would be she says. “It’s so cool that we can use “I wanted to be able to use what different language. language be turned into a sign.” raised Mormon – attended a summer is an atheist. Once we realized we at digesting literature. “He is so far my dream,” he says. 14 RISING STARS 5/14 15 RISING STARS 5/14
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CHristine HoCHkeppel /Cape Cod times Kristen Isabelle is a CHristine leader in her HoCHkeppel/Cape youth minis- Cod times try at Corpus Drew Forest is Christi Parish a captain and in East Sand- pitcher on his wich. Over the school’s varsity summer, she baseball team. was one of 15 Already working area students part-time survey- from two ing land, he will parishes who attend Western helped cel- New England ebrate World University this youth Day in fall to study civil Madrid. engineering. Kristen Isabelle Drew Forest On networking: “I feel like any way I can get myself out there into the community Kristen’s advice for new students: “Right in the beginning, it seems daunting. it’s going to help me down the road.” But your fears will be behind you very soon.” By HEATHER WySOCKI studies environmental technology. Another of Drew’s non-academic Barnstable County Fairgrounds in That technological prowess extends pursuits pairs him with his grand- Falmouth in June, it will be Drew’s ALICIA BLAISDELL-BANNON “That was pretty scary,” Kristen group’s Facebook page. Bourne Friends Food Pantry, one of [email protected] By to his job at JC Engineering, Inc. mother as a teacher’s aide in her third year as captain of “Team UCT.” CONTRIBUTING WRITER says of the move to Bourne. Kristen, “I am so excited to be a part of the many experiences she character- rew Forest’s family, friends of Wareham, where he does land CCD classes, where young parishio- The team’s name pales in compari- ourth grade was the end of one who says she has “struggled from such a huge event to take place in izes as “so rewarding.” and supporters say the great- surveying and Title V septic system ners at Corpus Christi Parish in East son to some of the creative monikers journey for Kristen Isabelle and anxiety all my life,” admits “I had 2014,” says the young woman who Although she currently plans to est accomplishment of his high inspections. Sandwich prepare for their confir- at the 24-hour walk, Drew admits. the beginning of another. to push myself” to meet people and believes that “helping others is major in psychology at St. Michael’s school career is that he doesn’t D And he’s no slouch on the baseball mations. But despite not having a wacky name She had moved to Bourne play an active role in the school and always a plus.” College, she notes she has been have just one accomplishment. F “He’s just a well-rounded kid. And diamond, either. This year, Drew And when he was looking for vol- for his team, his passion for the from Alaska. As her mother, community. That attitude spurs Kristen’s “really enjoying calculus class with serves as captain of the Rams, his unteer work, it was again his family event has grown every year. Michele, puts it, “every morning, But once she started, there was no involvement with Corpus Christi Mr. Lanctot” this year. he’s got a great character. I think it’s school’s varsity baseball team. that inspired him to become a team “I really love it; it has really grown Kirsten had to convince herself she stopping her. Parish in East Sandwich, where she “He’s awesome,” she says. the underlying basis of why he’s so Drew, who spends every summer captain in the Upper Cape-area on me. It’s just such fun.” could survive the school day.” An Advanced Placement student, is a youth group leader and a master Mary Clare Casey, her AP successful in his various pursuits,” camping with his extended fam- Relay for Life, the American Cancer Drew will head to Western New But what her mother didn’t she is also on the varsity softball of ceremony, serving at the altar. Literature and Composition teacher, says Jennifer McGuire, Drew’s ily, says it’s those relatives who Society fundraiser. England University in Springfield in know is that, en route to Bourne team, has been in the drama club Over the summer, she was one of might say the same about Kristen. school counselor. drive him to achieve so much. “I Both his mother and grandmother the fall. He isn’t sure which activities from Alaska, Kristen had begun to and is vice president of the school’s 15 area students from two parishes “She is not afraid to share her McGuire jokes that to some, think I just get it from my family,” are cancer survivors, Drew says, and he’ll get involved in there. But those change. She had seen a homeless National Honor Society chapter. She who helped celebrate World Youth views, whether they differ from her Drew’s resume probably looks pad- Drew says of his mother, a reg- this was the perfect way to honor who know him believe whatever he man in a laundromat and vowed works at McDonald’s and is the only Day in Madrid. peers or not, and she does so always ded with activities he isn’t really istered nurse; father, a teacher in them. picks, it won’t be done halfway. she’d devote her life to helping oth- teen member of the Cape Cod Canal Kristen, who says she would call in a respectful manner,” she says. invested in – “but it’s just not,” she Barnstable; and brother. “They’re “It meant a lot more to me to have “Whether it’s on a sports team or ers instead of worrying about her- Centennial Celebration Committee, herself “rather reserved” instead Quite a journey for Kristen from says. just really hard-working. And I try to this personal connection,” he says. for a service project,’ McGuire says, self. managing, with her mother, the of shy, has also volunteered at the her fourth-grade self. Drew, who lives in Sandwich, is a whiz in the classroom, where he follow in their footsteps.” When the event comes to the “he gives 100 percent plus.” 16 RISING STARS 5/14 17 RISING STARS 5/14
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Merrily Cassidy/ Cape Cod times Rachael Kiely, who volun- teers daily to help out with Provincetown’s kindergarten class, plans to study education in college. CHristine HoCHkeppel/Cape Cod times Nick Crossman was swim team captain at Sandwich High School for two winning years. This fall he will move on to Worcester Polytechnic Institute to study civil engineering. Rachael Kiely On her kindergarten duties: “Every day I’m in there, it shows me that I’m really enthusiastic to be a teacher. It gives me the drive to work hard to be a teacher. It gives me a sense of the individuality of the kids. Nick Crossman I get to take the time to get to know them.” Advice to shy students: “You have a voice, and people will hear it.”
By MARy ANN BRAGG a mess at the end of the year.” Rachael says. “We couldn’t be hap- to get. They blow my mind at how state championships. He is, notes gram where seniors help freshmen teered at the Sandwich Community [email protected] Spending time with the kids takes pier.” smart they are.” By ALICIA BLAISDELL-BANNON Sandwich School Committee member make the tough transition into high School, he taught little kids how to achael Kiely collected bugs and Rachael away from any worries she A boy with a learning disability Rachael was born in Malden. Her CONTRIBUTING WRITER Marie Kangas, “the ultimate team school life with group meetings, team swim, he became a lifeguard. And worms as a kid, and refused to may have and reaffirms her choice to getsRachael’s undivided attention, parents divorced when she was 2, and ick Crossman takes this whole player,” who always gives credit to his building – and just being available. this year, his group and community wear dresses. She preferred dirt study education in college. The kids away from the other kids, so he can she has lived on the North Shore and role model thing pretty seri- fellow team members whenever he’s A difficulty with getting involved is activity, as well as his 4.0 grade point Rand Tonka toys, and wouldn’t benefit, too, from Rachael’s patience, get the information he needs. Another in New Hampshire, and, for about six ously. put in the spotlight. something Nick knows all too well. average, earned him a place in the even wear a “skort.” Finally, her mother her tendency to ensure that everyone student, an endearing boy, designs years, in Provincetown. She resides When asked to list his, he But Nick does more than list role Before his sophomore year, he says, “I National Honor Society. gave up. is treated equitably and her ability to math tests and nature walks around with her friend and her friend’s mom. N starts with his parents (“Everyone models: He also models role mod- didn’t raise my hand in class even if I “When I came into high school, I “She said, ‘Dress yourself’,” Rachael bring excitement into the classroom, the classroom, Rachael says. All the As for attire these days, Rachael’s should list their parents first as their els, serving as a mentor to several knew the answer.” was scared,” he says. Now he wants says. says instructor Nancy Flasher. kindergarteners play endlessly, with lip and ear piercings you might notice role models,” he says), then moves students over the past few years. As “I was definitely quiet, even in math the students he works with to know Rachael continues to distinguish “She’s a natural with them,” says Legos, Beyblades, jigsaw puzzles, Hot right away, but her two tattoos less on to his swimming coach, Tony a sophomore, he mentored a fifth- class,” says the soon-to-be engineer- that “there is no reason to be scared.” herself with her attire, but even more school psychologist Margaret Ward Wheels and Matchbox toys. They’ll so. One is a cross on her ankle, for Compton, and to the entire swim grader who was having difficulties ing major at Worcester Polytechnic Get involved, he advises. “You don’t so in her bond with people a third her Donoghue, who is also Rachael’s ask her how she’s feeling and wheth- her grandmother, and the second, an team at Sandwich High School. adjusting socially. He hung out with Institute. have to be a big shot to participate.” If age. Each school day, Rachael spends mentor. er she wants to talk about something, anchor, is on her left rib cage. “They’re my second family,” says him after school, just playing games, Then, at the end of his sophomore you do, says Nick, you’ll meet people. an average of three hours with the One kindergartener was so shy at Rachael says with a laugh. “It represents what I’ve had to Nick, who captains the team, which building Legos, taking walks and year, “I started to branch out,” joining And, he adds, “things will work out school district’s eight kindergarten- the beginning of the year that she’d “I know that if I’m having a bad go through to get where I am now,” has had two undefeated seasons talking. And this year, he was chosen clubs and getting involved in sports better than you think they will.” ers. cry, Rachael says. Now, many months day, I’m counting down the seconds Rachael says. “An anchor holds its and has qualified for sectional and to be a senior mentor in a pilot pro- and in the community. He volun- After all, they did for him. “They’re the only reason I come to later, she’s sometimes too loud. until I can get in that room,” she says. ground. I’ve always had to keep school,” Rachael says. “I’m going to be “She’s come such a long way,” “You never know what you’re going everyone grounded.” 18 RISING STARS 5/14 19 RISING STARS 5/14
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CHristine HoCHkeppel/Cape Cod times Grace Barter, running at Captain Gerald F. DeConto Veterans Memo- rial Stadium on the Sandwich High School campus, says her favorite ron sCHloerb/Cape Cod times event in track is Perry Gans enjoys working with wood and creating furniture in the woodshop at Falmouth High School, where she helped create 100 birdhouse kits for a the two-mile. local Boy Scout troop. Perry Gans Grace Barter On the future: “I’m excited to take chances.” Most important in life? “Live a simple life where you have something that you enjoy doing, and someone you enjoy for it as a level 1 college preparatory Perry’s handiwork also benefited Ruthven says. By SEAN TEEHAN course, but other electives offer credit others in the community when her When applying for colleges, Perry being with to do it, and (don’t) have to worry too much about stresses. Just appreciate what you have.” [email protected] as level 2 courses. The discrepancy shop teacher enlisted her help in only applied to Smith College in urnishing her dorm at Smith Col- lowers shop students’ class rank. building 100 birdhouse kits for a Northampton, because that’s where DICK TRUST and do a good job.” working there.” when her school implemented the lege this fall won’t be a problem By Rather than venting on Facebook local Boy Scout troop. she saw herself, Ruthven says. CONTRIBUTING WRITER Perhaps it will all become clear at Momo’s sells products for cooking program.“That was a great experi- for Perry Gans. or Twitter, Perry wrote letters to local When she’s not sawing wood to At Smith, Perry may pursue race Barter tries to do what’s college. Grace says she is “leaning in different types of cuisines; pre- ence,” she says. “It was a program to F Perry broke gender boundar- newspapers and the Falmouth High construct a dresser or sanding down a degree in education, she says. best for her and for those 95 percent toward attending Ursinus pares sandwiches, salads and soups; help the incoming freshman class, ies her sophomore year when she School Council as well as speaking a new chair, Perry serves as a stu- Coming from a family full of educa- around her. College in Pennsylvania,” pursuing a offers take-home meals; and fea- so it was great to know that our signed up for woodshop class, becom- with Falmouth High School Principal dent representative to the Lawrence tors, Perry sees an opportunity to That’s evident, too, when liberal arts education. tures a bakery where fancy desserts advice helped them to adjust to the ing the only girl there. G Joseph Driscoll and Falmouth School School’s social competency commit- impact society in that field. she offers advice on how to get the Perhaps she will run her own tempt the palate. new atmosphere. You could see that Since then, Perry has built a pleth- Superintendent Marc Dupuis about tee, which is tasked with forming “I really like helping people,” most out of life. business, much along the lines of An honor roll student ranked it was helpful to them.” ora of different home furnishings. the issue. The school is now consider- curricula and classroom activities Perry says. “I feel like there are a “Work really hard toward some- Momo’s Food Emporium, the East ninth in her senior class of 258, Helping others is one of the traits For her latest project, she is building ing eliminating the class ranking sys- for students at the newly-declared lot of things in education that can thing you’re really passionate Sandwich specialty food shop where Grace is proud of her selection as a that inspired Elizabeth Haskell, cubbies out of discarded bookshelves tem, Perry says. innovation school. change around the nation.” about,” she says, “and give every- she works part-time. captain for cross-country and track an assistant principal at Sandwich from the old Falmouth High library. While fighting for equal credits, Perry also maintains a 3.77 grade But one of the great benefits Perry thing you can to make it happen.” “I absolutely love it,” she says. “I teams two years in a row. High, to nominate Grace as a Rising “I just really loved it sophomore Perry stuck with woodshop, know- point average with a class sched- sees in Smith is its limited course Toward that end, she hopes to find would love to own a small business “I really love the girls on the Star. year, and I kept doing it,” Perry says. ing her class rank would likely suf- ule that includes four Advanced requirements, which allow students the career that will best suit her. similar to it someday. It’s been great teams and the sport,” she says. “That “She’s a really well-rounded But, she says, the disparity between fer. Placement courses. to fill their schedules with classes She’s wide-open to any possibility. to learn all the behind-the-scenes was a big part of high school for young lady,” Haskell says. “She has class credits given to shop students as “She’s not getting caught up in Ruthven says Perry’s prowess in that interest them. “I’ll try to find the best way to put sort of things and meet customers. me, being a leader for the teams. It’s a rigorous course schedule, she is a opposed to students taking other elec- that game,” says Lindsay Ruthven, obtaining her goals has been strik- “I’m really interested in exploring my skills and knowledge toward I have a really great boss (owner been fun to help out.” runner and just an all-around kind tives bothered her. Students in all lev- Perry’s guidance counselor. “She’s ing. everything when I’m there,” Perry whatever I do,” she says. “Whatever Neila Neary) who has helped me a Grace was also happy in her role and caring person. It makes her els of shop classes only receive credit just doing what she wants to do.” “She knows what she wants,” says. “I’m excited to take chances.” that turns out to be, I hope I enjoy it ton. I spend a lot of my extra time as a senior mentor this past year stand out.” 20 RISING STARS 5/14 21 RISING STARS 5/14
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n DENNIS-YaRmOUTh REGIONaL hIGh SChOOL n n FaLmOUTh hIGh SChOOL n Emily Botelho Philosophy: “I like the quote ‘Stay strong, keep calm and carry on.’ But I also like the one, ‘Accept that challenge.’ We don’t hold ourselves up to the standards we should. There’s always this fear of failure.” tively on what they’ve done,” By GWENN FRISS [email protected] Emily says. mily Botelho is passion- Emily’s career choice will put ate about volunteering to her in a position to help others: make her community a She will take pre-med classes warmer, more welcoming at Boston University this fall E as the first step toward becom- place. “I personally like to volunteer. ing a doctor. “My mom used I build off of it. It’s great for the to work at a preschool and it community and great for me,” made me interested in adoles- says Emily, who gives her time cent medicine,” Emily says. “I to several groups including the love kids.” Civic Leadership Project, Active Emily’s interest in medi- Community Leaders, Best cine has also been fueled Buddies, Falmouth Prevention by the heart problems she, Partnership and the National her 16-year-old cousin and Honor Society. her grandfather suffered in “Having worked with Emily recent years. Emily is treated through many of these school at Boston Children’s Hospital clubs, I can tell you first hand for bradycardia, a condition that she’s the real deal. When which causes her heart to beat we delivered food, clothing and too slowly. “It’s ironic, because toys to the Falmouth Service we’re all runners,” Emily says of Center this winter, she was her family. greeted as though she were Although her medical issues steve Heaslip/Cape Cod times Norm walking into Cheers,” rarely slow her down, they did writes guidance counselor eventually lead doctors – after Lindsey Brown, pictured on the softball field at Dennis-yarmouth Regional High School, says it is not the competition that draws her to sports, but the camaraderie. Susannah Cronin, one of three she suffered two concussions – people who nominated Emily as to ban her from contact sports. a Rising Star. With soccer and lacrosse in the Emily says she values the past, she took up cross-country people she’s met in volunteer- running because she enjoys being on a team. Lindsey Brown ing, including a classmate in the Best Buddies program In high school, she also found (“I’m a friend to her. We go time to re-ignite a childhood What advice would you give a new high school student? “Take every opportunity that high school or life throws at to Starbucks.”) and an older interest in ceramics. “In my neighbor whose trash she takes freshman year, I got into ceram- you, because you never know when you’re going to get the next one.” out each week through the ics again. I’m no artist but I volunteer effort, Neighborhood love working with clay.” Falmouth. She also loves math and sci- By SARAH SHEMKUS medical school. Though she hasn’t led her volleyball team to a winning great,” she says. “You build a relationship and ence, which, she realizes, is a CONTRIBUTING WRITER made any firm decisions, Lindsey season and an Atlantic Coast League Academic achievement is also make it fun. I look forward to good thing for someone who hen Lindsey Brown was says she is considering an eventual championship. But asked what important to Lindsey. She is cur- volunteering. It’s not a burden.” wants to study medicine. Her in sixth grade, she and a specialty in neuroscience, inspired by appeals to her about sports, Lindsey rently at the top of her class and her As honor society president, 19-year-old brother, Geo (short cousin were riding their her mother’s struggles with fibromy- cites not the competition, but the strong performance in school is one Emily came up with the idea of for George), is the artist. “We’ve Wscooters on the road in algia. camaraderie. of the things she is most proud of, giving out little gifts – “usually always grown up as twins,” front of her Dennis home. Her cousin As might be expected for a girl “It’s the bonds you create through- she says. a Nerf crossbow or a twirl- she says, “We’re passionate but fell and scraped her knee. with such ambitions, Lindsey is a out the seasons,” she says. “It’s not Her friends have noticed her intel- ing baton,” writes Falmouth polar opposites. He goes to Rather than alerting the adults dedicated student. But her activities even about winning or losing – it’s ligence as well. High English teacher Barbara Berklee College of Music.” to the incident, Lindsey decided to are not limited to school, points out the friendships you create. You’re all “I’ve been called a walking, talk- Stephens – to recognize class- Asked why she invested so administer a little independent first Frank Gibson, a Cummaquid resident together in your success rather than ing dictionary,” she says. ron sCHloerb/Cape Cod times mates who have gone above much of high school in helping aid. and Yale University alumnus who it just being personal.” Looking ahead to college, Lindsey Emily Botelho, one of Falmouth High School’s most active leaders, is headed to Boston Uni- and beyond in their volunteer others, Emily pauses before “Before our parents even knew got to know Lindsey when she was Lindsey is also active in commu- says she feels confident about what’s versity to study pre-med. She shows off an octopus she made in the ceramics class she takes efforts. answering. “I like being ‘that what was happening, I had it all ban- applying to his alma mater. nity service. She has volunteered on to come. The process of maturing because she loves working with clay. “It’s the SDS – Super Duty guy.’ I like having people go to daged up,” she says. “She’s just a great girl,” he says. American Red Cross blood drives from an anxious freshman to a grad- Student – award. It’s nice to me as a guide or an outlet. I Now, on the verge of graduating “She does everything: she’s a student, and is working this year on the uating senior has taught her that she reward people. But I would wait like being organized and put- from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional she’s an athlete, she’s a restaurant American Cancer Society’s Relay for can handle another challenge. until someone really stepped ting things together to make it High School and starting college worker, she’s an artist.” Life. “Just knowing that you can take up. I want them to think posi- all happen.” (either Boston College or Boston An enthusiastic athlete, Lindsey “When we all band together for on the next four years of your life University), Lindsey is planning to played softball and volleyball for her support of a good cause and every- – that’s the most exciting thing for major in biology and then go on to school. As a co-captain this year, she one’s really enthusiastic about it, it’s me,” she says. 22 RISING STARS 5/14 23 RISING STARS 5/14
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n FaLmOUTh hIGh SChOOLn Madeline Rising Stars nominees George Bent Megan Hostetter Vanessa E. Pires Barnstable High School Michael DeMayo Barnstable High School Cape Cod Regional Technical High Harwich High School School Edgar Courtney M. Bergh Kristin Howard Cape Cod Academy Fallin Dennen Chatham High School Sean Potter Sturgis Charter Public School Barnstable High School On choosing a career: “I have to be able to Dennis Beynor Quinn Howes do what I love for a job. A lot of people are Barnstable High School Shannon Devaney Nauset Regional High School Oliver C. Rogers Bourne High School Cape Cod Academy involved in jobs that allow them to live a Damon Blankenship Jaclyn Humphrey Bourne High School Amber Donalson Barnstable High School Allison Rolfe more luxurious life, but I don’t see why you Barnstable High School Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Brianna Bourque Tyler Kane School would want to live a life like that.” Sandwich High School Bridget Dunbar Harwich High School Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Lichota Seidewand my mom would ask me what Eliza Bowes School Allison Lizotte Nauset Regional High School By GWENN FRISS each one meant.” Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Sandwich High School [email protected] Maddie recalls her mother School Amber Rose Edwards Tatiana Shewchuk t’s hard to imagine finding volunteering for “Arts Alive!” Harwich High School Cristina Loureiro Sandwich High School even a shred of redeem- and helping to teach Mullen Tyler Carlsen Provincetown High School ing value in a knee injury Hall Elementary School stu- Harwich High School Joe Epps Danielly Simao Ithat requires two years of dents about a different artist Bourne High School Colleen Lyons Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High surgery and physical therapy, each time. Learning about Jacob Raymond Clatanoff Brown Sandwich High School School and for months, casts doubt on Michaelangelo comes vividly Sturgis Charter Public School Stephanie Esmond whether the ballet dancer will to mind, she says, because the Sandwich High School Paul McCusker Lexi Smith ever dance again. teacher taped paper under- Brianna Busby Sandwich High School Cape Cod Academy But if Madeline “Maddie” neath desks and had students Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical Katherine Estes Edgar looks beyond the stretch out underneath so School Falmouth High School Robert Emmett Melley Daniel Snyder struggle, she can see the they could experience the art- Boston College High School Sturgis Charter Public School value. ist’s perspective as he painted Meaghan Callahan Seth Etienne “Yeah, I don’t like to admit the Sistine Chapel. In high Harwich High School Barnstable High School Katharyn Miller Devin Soares that,” she says. “But when school, Maddie volunteered Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Falmouth High School you’re working to retrain with the program. Brendan Carl Zachary Fayne School one leg, you learn things Falmouth High teacher Sandwich High School Sturgis Charter Public School Shaine Spencer you never think about when Joanne Holcomb, one of Molly Morris Bourne High School you have two good legs. And the people who nominated Tyler Carlsen Ben Ford Sandwich High School because my left leg is lighter Maddie as a Rising Star, Harwich High School Barnstable High School Catherine Stark (muscle atrophied around the writes about her involve- Tucker Murphy Falmouth High School torn knee), I have a better ment with “This Land is Your Quinn Caswell Katherine Forrester Bourne High School extension on that side.” Land,” a project to compile Cape Cod Academy Falmouth High School Drew Sylvia But most importantly, oral histories, produce art- Aurelio Di Muzio Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical Maddie says, is reminding work (Maddie did beach Kayla Cataloni Avis Lynn Francis Barnstable High School School the 3- to 12-year-old dancers scenes) and produce a docu- Harwich High School Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical in the classes she teaches to mentary to present to those School Olivia Nelson Elizabeth Thompson think about such injuries. interviewed. For another Christina Catanzaro Sandwich High School Harwich High School “Over-rotating your feet project, Maddie helped create Harwich High School Julia A. Fraser just a little bit, as I did, is a the wall mural at Falmouth Chatham High School Danielle Newcombe Maxwell Trask really huge problem,” she High’s entrance. Kellen Comer Sturgis Charter Public School Bourne High School says. “Everybody wants that “Whether Maddie is paint- Sandwich High School Paul David Gannett perfect turnout. But you have ing, playing in the sym- Sandwich High School Reilly O’Connell Meghan VanHoose to rotate your foot, knee and phony band, dancing in ‘The Olivia Costello Sandwich High School Harwich High School hip as a unit. If you go just a Nutcracker,’ or excelling in an Barnstable High School Greer Gilbert little too far with the foot, the honors or AP class, she is giv- Falmouth High School Devin O’Rourke Olivia Vendola knee will snap.” ing her all,” Holcomb writes. Kevin Couto Bourne High School Barnstable High School If this were a movie, “Madeline Edgar is a true Chatham High School Heather Glenny Maddie’s being back on Renaissance young woman.” Sturgis Charter Public School Kevin Ostrom Rachel Walker pointe shoes would be the Maddie will study visual art Tom Cundiff Barnstable High School Sandwich High School happy ending. at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn Sandwich High School Andrew Louis Gorin But, although she has spent this fall where she hopes Barnstable High School Benjamin Pasquarosa Thomas J. Walsh summers attending dance to participate in the kind of Teele Currier Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Nauset Regional High School programs in San Francisco, internships that sometimes Sandwich High School Jon C. Hegarty School Washington, D.C. and New lead to a job in a gallery or a Cape Cod Academy Cory Warren York City, she had decided – museum. No matter what she Dana Davis Vani Patel Sandwich High School even before her injury – that does for work, Maddie says, Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical Kyle Hein Sturgis Charter Public School she wanted to study art in she’ll continue to make her School Sandwich High School Ryan Williamson college. own art. Marielle Peace Chatham High School ron sCHloerb/Cape Cod times “My family has a ton of old And, as always, she’ll Aidan Delaney Kenneth C. Hildebrand Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Madeline “Maddie” Edgar enjoys painting portraits, like these, as part of her diverse artistic life. She videos of me as a kid with dance. Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High Barnstable High School School lists learning to speak confidently in class as one of her biggest high school accomplishments. this huge chalkboard. When “I’ll be so close to the city. School I was 2 or 3, I drew faces of I’ll be able to take classes people with stick bodies. It with the best teachers in New was just a lot of marks but York.” 24 RISING STARS 5/14
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