Students Relive Exploration By Patricia Brhel seals, fatty and fishy, that they the difference in their struggle to Third Officer , Zoe hunted and ate when food and sup- survive. Several mentioned never Congdon as Chief Engineer Louis If you squinted a little and their plies for the humans ran out. wanting to see the cold again. Rickinson, Aidan Setlock as Second voices had been a bit deeper, you’d They skillfully answered ques- When they returned from this Engineer A.J. Kerr, EamonColbert have thought that it was the crew of tions about friendship, about Percy expedition most of the men became –Auble as Surgeon Dr. James the that had formed a Blackburrows initial status as a caught up in World War I and never McIlroy,Kyle Fearon as Surgeon Dr. panel to answer questions and dis- stowaway. They described saw each other again. Shackleton , Morgan cuss their time, from 1914 to 1916, Shackletons attempts to keep up died of a heart attack in 1921. The Thayer as Biologist , stranded in along with group moral with games such as students also noted that no one has Garrett Breen as Meteorologist their commander, Sir Ernest hockey and football, music, dog ever found a trace of the , Mikayla Shackleton. races and assigned chores before he Endurance. It still lies on the ocean McMahon as Physicist Reginald Thanks to some vintage clothing took off to look for help. The group floor just off the coast of James, Jacob Engle as Motor and props, and coaching by talked about a number of times Antarctica. Expert Thomas Orde-Lees, Darby Antarctic historian, amateur natu- they moved camp, from the time Shackleton had made a previous Waller as Photographer Frank ralist, explorer and kayak guide that the Endurance originally attempt to reach the pole Hurley, Nicco Albertsman as car- Louise Adie (Vesla), Cara became stuck in the pack ice after from the Ross Sea with his penter Harry McNeish, Gabrielle Salibrici’s sixth-grade enrichment entering it on Dec. 11, 1914. The “Furthest South” expedition in Hagen as Cook , class at Boynton Middle School was ship became trapped on Jan. 19, January 1909, but fell short. He was Reilly Diemond as Steward Percy not only convincingly attired, but 1915, and was crushed on Oct. 27 followed by Amundsen, who suc- Blackborrow, Jade Gonzalez as remarkably well rehearsed. They that year. It finally sank on Nov. 21, ceeded in 1911 and Scott, who Able Seaman and stayed in character while answer- 1915. reached the pole in 1912. Lilian Gunderson as Able Seaman ing questions, a difficult thing for Boats were launched to seek a The students in the cast included Thomas McLeod. anyone to do. rescue on April 9, 1916, and landed Olivia Ambrosetti and Kagan The program was funded with an The students worked hard for on , a small island Dougherty as Second in Command Ithaca Public Education Initiative several months to pull together the just off the coast of Antarctica, on , Maren Dilliplane as (IPEI) grant and the Charles W. program. After reading about the April 16. Shackleton and a few Navigating Officer , Brodhead Fund. It was the first of expedition, each student research- other men then left in a small boat Maddison Huddle as First Officer several grants awarded this year to ed the crew member that he or she that reached their original starting Lionel Greenstreet, Emilia classes and one of two Red and was representing and created jour- point, South Georgia Island, on Stockwell as Second Officer Gold grants throughout Tompkins nals with writing and drawings May 10, about 18 months after their Thomas Crean, Camerion Boda as County. describing their experiences while departure from that location. stranded, but they were also very All of the students agreed that Child Abuse Prevention Program creative when describing what they they had learned the importance of ate and what it felt like to be strand- team work and the need to perse- The First Unitarian Society of Pinwheels serve as symbols to ed. vere, even under difficult condi- Ithaca, in conjunction with the remind us all children deserve a Their voices caught with emo- tions. They learned that strength Advocacy Center of Tompkins healthy, happy, safe childhood. tion when they described having to lies in unity and that following a County, will bring the “Pinwheels Visit the corner of Buffalo and kill the sled dogs that they’d taken dream can be hard. Several were for Prevention” movement to life in Aurora streets to see the Pinwheel along as working dogs, but had impressed with what had to be Ithaca. garden planted by members of the made pets of “carrying the puppies given up in order to lighten their April is Child Abuse Awareness First Unitarian Society of Ithaca. in our pockets” to prevent the dogs load as they moved about the ice Prevention Month. Thousands of For more information about how to suffering from starvation when the floes. Shackleton set an example by pinwheels have been distributed prevent child abuse and neglect, or food for them became scarce. They giving up his much prized gold cig- statewide by Prevent Child Abuse to schedule an Enough Abuse also made faces when comparing arette case, Hurley had to give up New York as a demonstration that Campaign training contact the the taste and texture of penguins, his photos as even a small amount we can prevent—not just inter- Advocacy Center of Tompkins dry and tough versus that of the of extra weight might have made vene—in child abuse and neglect. County at 277-3203.

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