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The Patriot Washington Township High School, Vol. XVI, Issue 6 529 Hurffville-Cross Keys Road, Sewell, NJ May, 2011 Sibert’s success story Ally Gallo ‘11 When walking through the doors of Washington Township High School on the first day of his freshman year, little did Shane Sibert realize he would be crowned the 2011 Mr. WT his senior year. “First I remember holding hands with everyone waiting for the runner’s up to be called, then getting bum rushed by everyone and not being able to breathe,” said Sibert. “I’ll never forget Meghna’s voice and the exact way she said my name.” Sibert is known for many things here at Washington Township High School. He was voted by his classmates for “Best Smile” back in November, and he is an active member of DECA. You can also catch him on the morning announcements, and some of the most well favored and remembered commercials from this year were made by him. His peers believe he couldn’t have deserved the honor of Mr. WT more. “Shane is probably the most genuine guy I know,” said Mandy Verno ’11. “He is talented, Photo courtesy of LINDA HANFORD ‘11 but modest, and is such a reliable friend to anyone Shane Sibert was crowned the 2011 Mr. Washington Township on April 28. The other who chooses to become his.” Mr. WT boys raise him on their shoulders to celebrate. Sibert was crowned Mr. WT during the night the next Nickelodeon star, in this case the 2011 routines to perform the night of the show. of the Mr. Washington Township show on Mr. Washington Township. “The most ironic part about it all is that I Thursday, April 28. The theme of this year’s “I feel that performing in Mr. WT was a actually don’t know what I’m going to do now show was Nickelodeon. Throughout the night, great experience,” said Ryan Francisco ’11. “My that it’s over,” said Richards. “I never thought the 12 most well rounded boys that the senior favorite part was just being able to share that I’d say this then, but I would do it all over again class of 2011 voted for showed off their night with 11 great guys.” in a second. All in all, love-hate relationship or personalities and dancing skills competing to be The entire show is put on by Student not, it was definitely one of the greatest things Council. Advisors Ms. Elizabeth Longo and Mrs. I’ve experienced in high school.” Francesca Muscelli started planning around the After an opening video to introduce the Dancers December before the show. This year, the boys, the 12 candidates came on stage performing choreographers that were chosen were seniors a large group dance. Following the dance, the boys Alexandra Richards, Nicoleta Sinagridis and Ally were introduced one by one each representing a tell their Gallo. They worked with the boys for 2-3 nights different month of the year, where they then were story a week since February, teaching them dance See MR. WT page 3 The Arts - Page 14 Inside... News - pages 1-3 Books - p. 10 Entertainment - p. 18 Features - p.4 Lifestyles - p. 12 Opinions: National Sports - p. 21 Commentary - p. 6 The Arts - p. 14 Odds and Ends - p. 9 Tech Talk - p. 17 Twp. Sports - p. 24 2 - News The Patriot - W.T.H.S. May, 2011 Interact buddies up Amy Dennis ‘12 This is a community event and despite learn that everybody is different, not just the rain outside that day, it was filled with at wths but in the real world. Hopefully it many sunny faces. On Saturday, April 16, gives everyone the chance to become the Rotary Interact club held its annual friends with somebody they wouldn’t Festival of Friends. Throughout the day, normally meet without this event,” said mentally challenged people from assisted Mrs. Renzetti, the adviser for Interact club. living homes and special schools came to Festival of friends benefits all by giving the WTHS 9/10 gym to spend the day students a rewarding day of community playing games, snacking and winning service and creating better character as they prizes. build values like acceptance and “My favorite part was definitely understanding of others. playing games with the people and their “I think it’s important that students buddies,” said Nicole Ryan ’13 “They and staff work with the community to always look so happy.” ELISA OBEDOZA ‘12 make new friends and build relationships, All students who volunteered for it’s a genuine service that is donated,” said festival of friends were able to do something WTHS students spent their day as “buddies” to Michael Rettano ‘11. productive. Some students worked in the members of local assisted living homes and As the festival came to an end in the 9/10 cafeteria helping out with the food and special schools. late afternoon, the Interact club and student others worked at the fun stations in the volunteers work together to clean up the gym. But one of the most involved and important “Hoops” game. Buddies and their partners could gym and prepare for their next big event. jobs a student can have is being a buddy. come and toss a beach ball into one of three hula Everyone who attended received a complimentary “I learned a lot from being a buddy,” said hoops and every time, somebody won a prize. Festival of Friends T-shirt to be worn on the Matt Andreas, “It takes patience at first, but Most prizes included key chains, stickers, bead Monday afterward. once I got to know Dorothy I saw that she was a jewelry and even balloons. “I feel it was a great accomplishment this really cool person and we had a lot of fun “Personally, I think Festival of Friends is year,” said Kaitlin Hampshire ’11. “A lot of together.” an opportunity for the students of Washington people showed up to help out and it ran really One popular activity of the day was the Township to help out in the community and to smoothly.” Donors dominate WTHS WTHS Interact collected 177 Every student who donated pints of blood at the Spring got one pint of blood taken. Blood Drive held in the 11th grade Gym Friday, April 29. Joe Brown ‘11 Kyle Linderman ‘12 Due to a Blood Drive Training Session, there was a shortage of Red Cross Volunteers. Although WTHS donated 177 pints of blood, over 300 Krissy Robertson ‘11 students had signed up. John Whalen ‘11 photos AMY DENNIS ‘12/The Patriot May, 2011 The Patriot - W.T.H.S. News - 3 Mr. WT Tech boys triumph Crowning MR. WT from page 1 The Technology Student to answer their own randomly selected question. Association (TSA) participated The boys then got into smaller groups to dance in a conference at The College of so the audience could really get to see the boys’ New Jersey (TCNJ) on April 6. personalities. This was going to be the last time Over 40 high schools competed they saw the candidates before they decided who to vote for. in 30 events ranging from During intermission, the entire audience got architectural models to CO2 to vote for their favorite dancer by putting their powered dragsters and flight ticket stub in the box of the boy of their choice. endurance. There were on site Many agree the show was a success. competitions such as “I thought it was better than any year before technology problem solving and because the choreographers were awesome and pre-conference judged events our boys really went all out,” said Taylor Peck like engineering design. ’11. The votes were counted during the entire second half, while the boys performed another photos courtesy of TSA large group dance, a dance with their mom, and a Ricky Hernandez ‘14 (above right) was one of the top 16 CO2 powered dance with a girl escort of their choice. After dragsters out of approximately 80 cars from throughout the state. Trevor counting over 1300 votes, Student Council Thayer ‘12 (left) also competed in the CO2 competition. President, Ryan Francisco, came in 3rd, John Nero came in 2nd, and Sibert was named the Ayush Asher ‘12 (left) 2011 Mr. Washington Twp. competed in the flight “I just want to throw a huge thank you to endurance and had to everyone who supported me, without you all I build and fly a rubber wouldn’t have had this opportunity,” Sibert said. band powered aircraft with “It was the best time of my life, I owe it all to the goal being to stay you.” aloft as long as possible. The Mr. WT boys agree that three months of preparing for Mr. WT was a lot of time and The TSA welcomes new dedication for the boys, but they all agree it was members and generally worth it in the end simply because of how much meets every first and third fun it was. Wednesdays in room “I will remember Mr. WT forever because H-111 of the 9-10 wing. after spending so much time with the other guys and the choreographers, I will consider us a Contact adviser Mr. Rich family,” said Reg Torrevillas ’11. Ambacher for more information. The Washington Township Public Schools’ Board of Education, Administration and Staff says to the entire community for its support of the 2011-12 school budget. We are grateful for your validation of our educational efforts and extraordinary programming that daily benefits thousands of students. Congratulations to our incumbent Board Members Kurt Snyder and Chet Nawoyski who were re-elected to the Board and to newcomers Josh Aronovitch and Ginny Murphy for their successful campaigns.

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