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MARCH 2013 SCHOOL BANDS Bands are a massive hit at BMR High School. BY MICHAELA DUQUENOY AND VICTORIA SZCZEPANEK Editor-in-Chief and Editor he 6th Annual Band-Aid event is taking SPORTS place March 28th in the BMR auditori- Tum. This was originally an idea by Mr. BMR students Porter and Mr. Ducharme. It has been a huge Photos by Valerie Nietsche try their best success since it started. It is hosted this year Above are Sam Boxold and Anthony See BANDS - Page 3 Cullerton performing from last year. this winter season. PAGE 6-7 BOOK REVIEW John Green is a popular young adult writer. PAGE 3 Photo by Valerie Nietsche Above is an aerial view of the dance floor. The dance was a success and the students all had a fun time. For more pictures of the night TURN TO PAGE 6. Robertson is a big part of BMR BY MICHAELA DUQUENOY all the supplies used to make Editor and design the bowls. Also Mrs. Robertson dedicated her n Tuesday February 12, Wednesdays and Fridays to WINTER GUARD the NHS hosted the help students construct and OEmpty Bowl dinner, a decorate their bowls, enjoying The team works yearly event that helps raise the opportunity to help. hard to achieve money for the food pantry. “I get to know students that During the course of the din- might not get a chance to take their goals. ner, bowls that the NHS mem- an art class,” said Robertson. Submitted Photo bers made were raffled off. Above is Mrs. Robertson. PAGE 6 The art department donated See ART - Page 4 PAGE 2 PAGE TWO MARCH 2013 THE STAFF Lane teaches how to cook BY NICOLE SZCZEPANEK to the Reporter school in the ovember’s Teacher of the Month spring. award goes to one of the most hard She Nworking, nicest, loving teacher here at was Victoria Michaela BMR; Mrs. Lane. She majored in cooking aston- Szczepanek Duquenoy and kitchen ed. in Framingham State. She is ished by Editor- Editor passionate about cooking classroom C105. this in-Chief Mrs. Lane is dedicated to her work and loves mean- to be surprised by her students creations. ingful Mrs. Lane chose this subject because it's a award great way to learn little techniques about and cooking, hoping students will expand and wanted become passionate about cooking like she to thank did. all staff, Mrs. Lane loves to go wandering around stu- Matt the beach, cook, and relax in the sun with dents, Photo by Matt Doiron Doiron some lemonade by her side. Some of her Mr. Above is Mrs. Lane. Layout favorite events of BMR are Pep Rally, and Ducharme, Mr. Dudek, and Ms. Shaver- Editor the opportunities to have famous cooks come Hood for this award. Tessier is here to help when in need BY SAMI GONZAGA This sent her onto Assistant Editor the career path she Addi Sam is still on today. Catarina Gonzaga he Teacher of the Month, for the month Mrs. Tessier has Assistant Assistant of February, is Maureen Tessier. Mrs. a great love for Editor TTessier is one of our school’s guidance music. “Every Editor counselors. However, Mrs. Tessier had not morning I motivate always wanted to go into guidance counsel- myself by singing Staff ing. During her college years, she had spent a as loud as I can in includes: lot of her spare time skiing. She wanted to my head,” she Brittany become a professional skier, at first, and ski explained. Each Ames, the slopes of Colorado. At the end of her col- song brings her Allie Photo by Matt Doiron lege career, she had a double major of closer to her office Above is Mrs. Tessier Gonzaga, Elementary Education, and Special and a student in seen in her office. She is Valerie Education with a concentration in need of help. a guidance counselor. Nietsche, Emotionally Disturbed. Mrs. Tessier has Along with music, Nicole been in education for over forty years now. a sense of humor, loyalty, consistency, and Szczepanek The first sixteen years of her career were respect for faculty and students have been spent teaching in Special Education and sixth Mrs. Tessiers keys to success. They have cer- grade. Mrs. Tessier was determined to get a tainly helped her become successful and CONTACT degree in counseling after she met a guidance become Teacher of the Month. As a school newspaper, we counselor who could not advocate very well. are dedicated to providing a place to advertise school activities, give you the Students background on individuals in school, and allow stu- dents to express them- selves. If you have a story of the or want a date of an event to appear in the newspa- per, send it to the e-mail address below. Poetry, short stories and other writ- Month ings may also be submitted February March and will be printed upon the editor’s approval. KARYSSA FORGET ANDREW HENRY E-mail: [email protected] Junior Junior MARCH 2013 BMR PAGE 3 Accord, Firedancer, BANDS and more (FROM PAGE 1) small town by the Principal’s Advisory Council which will take care of the bands that ticket sales, and concessions. hope to At the show, the bands that will perform include the October make it big by starting here. “We only get a twenty minute inter- val to play about two songs, and I play drums so I love Photo by Valerie Nietsche playing at Above is Vinny Lennox from last year’s Band- Band-Aid”, Aid. He was performing on the drums. says Firedancer performer Paddy Shaw. “Our band is like a three piece instrumental of psychedelic Sabbath style,” says Paddy’s co-member senior Cian Farmer. Everyone should go to the show, which is the only other Photo by Valerie Nietsche major public event other than Mr. BMR. Go cheer on yet Above is a student rocking out on the stage. another musical aspect of BMR! BOOK REVIEW Green writes books that many teenagers like BY SAMI GONZAGA former bas- Assistant Editor ketball star who had lost ohn Green is a critically acclaimed and award winning his leg to young adult fiction author. His works Looking for Alaska, Osteosarcoma JAn Abundance of Katherines, Paper Towns, and The Fault – a cancerous in Our Stars have become New York Times bestsellers and have bone tumor. been translated into several other languages. One of Green’s Hazel con- most heartbreaking and raw novels is The Fault in Our Stars. vinces Gus to This novel is told read her from the point of favorite book view of a 16-year- An Imperial old Hazel Grace Affliction, Lancaster. Hazel which starts was diagnosed with them on their Thyroid cancer crazy adven- when she was thir- ture. teen, and a year New York later a medical Times called treatment had The Fault in shrunk the tumors Our Stars, “A in her lungs. She blend of has to live her life melancholy, tethered to an oxy- sweet, philo- gen tank and con- sophical, and stantly going under funny. Green This is the cover of the Paper Towns. This was a chemical assault shows us true also written by John Green. to keep the tumors love…and it at bay. During a is far more romantic than any sunset on the beach.” This heart- support group for breakingly beautiful novel will take your breath away; much children with can- like John Green’s other books. Each is masterfully written and cer, Hazel meets captures the reader’s attention. They’re about love, triumph, Above is Looking for Alaska by John Augustus “Gus” mystery, and finding oneself. The Fault in Our Stars is a novel Green. Waters. Gus is a definitely worth reading. PAGE 4 BMR MARCH 2013 comes from a long line of teachers, “My mother, grand- ART mother, two of my aunts and a (FROM PAGE 1) cousin were all teachers. I'm “I love seeing what the students create. It is nice to be able to even married to a teacher! So I help out with such a good cause.” guess it just seemed like a sen- Although she had always loved art, before making it a sible fit. career Mrs. Robertson first considered anthropology and was Mrs. Robertson is expecting interested in working in a museum. However, over the course a baby in April. At home she Photo by Valerie Nietsche of attending Rhode Island College she decided to pursue a has a little boy, almost two Holly Desautels’s bowl is seen career in art. In college she took her first ceramics class, years old. Although she knows above. although she had previous experience in doing some sculpting she is having a little girl, she and her husband have not yet of her own. started to consider names. The school is lucky to have Mrs. For the past 10 years, Mrs. Robertson has been working at Robertson, a hard worker who dedicates her own time to help BMR, first coming as a permanent sub. Interestingly, she in school activities as well as the community to profit. TV REVIEW Bones is a fast paced forensics show BY MATT DOIRON Although Brennan is Layout Editor very intelligent, she also shows an extreme love for f you’re interested in forensic shows, Bones is the program her job and the people in for you. The series stars Emily Deschanel as Dr. her life. This was a huge ITemperance “Bones” Brennan and David Boreanaz as difference from earlier sea- Seeley Booth. The two are joined by forensic artist Angela sons where she was por- Montenegro (Michaela Conlin), entomologist Jack Hodgins trayed as only cold and (T.J Thyne), pathologist Camille Saroyan (Tamara Taylor), and calculating.

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