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THE TALON M AY GO NAVY BEAT ARMY Seniors who have committed to attend the Naval Academy. VAN GOGHING TO COLLEGE Senior artists and where they are headed in the fall. SENIOR DESTINATIONS The class of 2021 shares their plans for next year. Volume 61 | Issue 2 | Severna Park High School | 60 Robinson Road | Severna Park, Maryland | SPTALON.COM STAFF EDITORS-IN-CHIEF Nick Carparelli, Sydney PAGE 3 Seniors in College Gear Herz, Sophie Krejci PAGE 4 A Shift in Graduation Plans PAGE 5 Go Navy, Beat Army! VIDEOGRAPHER Flynn Prengaman PAGE 6 Class of 202X GRAPHICS CONTRIBUTER Maggie Krejci PAGE 7 Jobs With Vaccination Benefits PAGE 8 STAFF WRITERS Isabella Boettinger, Rachel Van Goghing To College Ghahhari, Anastasia Gobot, Graham Haynie, PAGE 9 Talon Seniors Leave the Nest Zach McGrath, Zoey Nichols, Julia Owens PAGE 10 Senior Destinations ADVISER Valerie Earhart PAGE 11 Senior Destinations, Cont. PAGE 12 Senior Destinations, Cont. PAGE 13 Senior Shoutouts WHO WE ARE The Talon is the principle news publication and public forum of Severna Park High School, which is located on 60 Robinson Road, PAGE 14 Senior Shoutouts, Cont. Severna Park, Maryland 21146. Phone: 410-544-0900 ASSOCIATIONS The Talon is a member of the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and “What Should I Bring? Quill & Scroll International Journalism Association. It has won Gold and Necessities for Your Dorms Silver Medals from CSPA. DISTRIBUTION Staff members typically dis- tribute 400 papers to the student body. Magazines are available to pick up PAGE 15 Class of 2021: The Class of in the hallways, the main office and throughout the English department. Resilience Subscribers may pay $50 to have the publication mailed to their home. PDF copies of The Talon are found under Past Print at www.sptalon.com. OPIN- PAGE 16 Fly On Falcons! IONS Views expressed in The Talon do not reflect those of the Severna PAGE 17 COVID Affected The Senior Year Park High School administration or the Anne Arundel County Public School Board of Education. Signed columns or reviews represent only the opinion Experience of the author. EDITORIALS The Talon’s editorials will reflect a consensus PAGE 18 Senior Sports Commits of the members of the student editorial board. The subjects of the editori- als will be determined by the editorial board. The editorial board, which PAGE 19 SPHS Senior Females that are consists of the staff’s student editors, will determine the content, including College Bound all unsigned editorials. Editorial ideas may be submitted to the editorial board by all members of the staff. Editorials should be sent to thesptalon@ gmail.com or dropped off in the publication lab, 245, during school hours. 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The publication reserves the right to refuse any ad that is COVER PHOTO libelous, illegal, obscene, irresponsible, inappropriate or in poor taste. The Senior Maggie Krejci celebrates the ending of four years by deco- publication also reserves the right to edit any ad before publication to en- rating a graduation cap. Taken in the front of Severna Park High sure the standards and quality of the product. The publication may limit the School, some seniors did not come in person this school year, but number of type styles offered to ad customers and set guidelines for format decided to remain virtual. “I’m excited to start the the next chap- and style. The publication reserves the right to edit all submitted copy or ter in my book of life” Krejci said. Photo by Sophie Krejci photographs. BYLINES All articles, graphics, photos, art, columns, pages, reviews, and other material creatively conceived, with the exception of staff editorials, mug shots and cut-outs will be bylined with the producer’s name. All bylined writers will be held accountable for their work. When more than one person has contributed creatively to a piece of work, any person who has contributed to the work must be bylined as a producer. 2 THE SENIOR ISSUE 3 NEWS A SHIFT IN GRADUATION PLANS Seniors’ feelings about traditional graduation gatherings and events that have changed due to COVID-19. Graham Haynie | Staff Writer ith this must either be canceled graduating seniors, who just in a limited capacity. school year or put on hold. Plans like have persevered through “Graduation for slowly Brant’s are far too risky to a year unlike any other,” SPHS Class of 2021 is Wcreeping to be held at the moment. Dr. Arlotto wrote in a let- Wednesday, June 9 at 10 an end, students can final- However, with vac- ter sent to families of high a.m.-11:30 a.m. at Crofton ly relax a little knowing cines being rolled out, school seniors.. “As I have High School stadium,” that they will be finished life is slowly returning to said for many months, our Principal Bathras shared with school work and will normal. That is no reason team has been committed with senior parents in a have the summer to re- to hold events or gather- to providing an in-person email home the week of lax. But for seniors, their ings with family and or ceremony to salute our April 26. plans have been altered friends, but we can hope graduating seniors in the Seniors will be due to the pandemic and that during the summer best way we can. We be- limited to two tickets and their old graduation plans things will return back to lieve this plan offers us the one parking ticket, as the will have to be changed normal, so we can hold opportunity to do that, and parking is limited. Weath- to accommodate the events or do things that I look forward to helping er might be a factor be- new world we all live in. have been made safe to salute our graduates in cause it will be a outside For most seniors their under COVID-19 reg- June.” event, so the county has graduation would have ulations. “My plans for Last year, seniors slated Friday, June 11 been a time for celebra- graduation now are to go participated in a drive up and Saturday, June 12 as tion, similar to what senior to Disney World with my graduation ceremony, this potential make up days if student Stephen Brant had father,” Brant said. year it will take place in there is inclement weath- in mind. The county has also a venue and faculty and er for the original June 9 “My plans origi- changed graduation plans, staff will be in attendance, date. nally were to have a party with the venue changing. with friends and family,” “Class of 2021 A graduation photo taken a year ago during the lock down, Brant said. Ideas need commencement exer- where getting a high school diploma had to be done in a drive by to be more restricted, es- cises for Anne Arundel one person at a time instead of the usual event that would take pecially when they had County Public Schools’ place, all due to Covid-19. Photo Credit: Graham Haynie originally involved large 12 comprehensive high gatherings of friends and schools with graduating family. This of course is seniors will all take place to help not accidentally in the newly constructed spread COVID-19 to peo- stadium at Crofton High ple. School,” according to an “I feel that it’s im- announcement made April portant to change my plans 21 by Superintendent because the party was go- George Arlotto at a Board ing to have my grandpar- of Education meeting. ents and some older peo- “This has not been ple at risk which would be in any way the kind of bad,” Brant said. Similar school year any of us en- to weddings, most events visioned or wanted for our 4 GO N AV Y, BEAT ARMY! A few SPHS students who plan to attend the Naval Academy for the next four years. Sydney Herz | Editor in Chief Serving one’s “Ever since I was three “I come from a military emy. But these students country is a passion many years old, I have dreamt family, however I want to recognized all the other people possess and com- of serving in the United establish my own legacy benefits the Naval Acade- mit to throughout their States military,” Shadow- by being the first to enter my had to offer. lives. Four SPHS seniors ens said. “I grew up idol- the service through the “To be a part of the tight in particular have the pas- izing my father and I’ve Naval Academy,” Urrea knit military community, sion and hope to act on always been proud of his said. “As of right now, I surrounded by good peo- it by attending the U.S. nine years of serving in hope to go to Pensacola, ple is something that is Naval Academy in the the United States Army.” Florida to become a Na- important to me,” Kriel fall.