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Kopp Julia by By Julia Kopp Art Volume 57, Issue 5 June 2020 Page 1 CONGRATULATIONS, CSH SENIORS ! June 2020 The Harbor View Page 2 SEAHAWK SENIOR SPIRIT Light the Night 2020 On Friday, May 1, at 8:20 p.m., Cold Spring Harbor High School and schools across Long Island lit their fields and scoreboards to honor graduating seniors. Cold Spring Harbor's event was live-streamed on youtube with the CSH scoreboard proudly reading “2020.” All CSH students were asked to to wear their best Seahawk gear and watch the live footage from the field. Accompanied by music—opening with Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Sweet Home, Alabama” and closing with Lady Gaga’s “Edge of Glory”—the lighting lasted just over 20 minutes. Just before the live stream concluded, Mr. Monastero gave a heart-felt sign-off, saying, “We love you, Cold Spring Harbor. Be smart. Be safe.” To watch the video of the event, go to https://www.youtube.com/watchv=dKOcOpDMlQgg. June 2020 The Harbor View Page 3 WE LOVE OUR Senior Sign Delivery SENIORS On Monday, May 19th from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., Cold Spring Harbor administrators and staff volunteers followed the bus routes to drop off a lawn sign to each of the graduating seniors. This tribute was the result of a PTG fundraiser, because of which, every senior received a sign. Many thanks to Mrs. Stingi, Mrs. Vaccaro, and Mrs. Costa for organizing this wonderful celebration for the CSH students. Mrs. Stingi shared: “The Senior Sign delivery was a great success! Seeing the signs around town is a wonderful way to celebrate the CSH Class of 2020. The special delivery by Dr. Bolen, teachers, and staff put a smile on the faces of the seniors and their families. Thank you to everyone who helped make it possible! Best of luck to the Class of 2020!” COLD SPRING HARBOR HIGH SCHOOL CELEBRATE OUR SENIORS June 2020 The Harbor View Page 4 Don’t be afraid to put yourself out there and try new things because you may learn something new about yourself or someone else. Enjoy the time that you have with your classmates! SENIOR Lara Strunk Grades are important, but you shouldn't tie them to your self-worth. Keep in mind that there are multiple types of intelligence and that standardized testing only measures a few. ADVICE Anna Tesoriero My advice would be to get involved in as many activities as possible so you can make the most out of your high school experience Julia Khanamirian Appreciate the months you have with your friends! Self advocate by participating in the decisions being made I wish I'd had more time to hang with mine this year. about YOUR education because it is YOUR future, no one else’s. Never take the months you have for granted. Kyle DiNozzi Katherine Cardinale Study for Mr. Miller's Word of The Day tests. They will help you on the AP. Don't make the janitors' job any harder than it has to be. They're cool people and should be Aaron Stein treated with the utmost respect. Ethan Burdo School doesn't actually matter till you're in 9th grade. 11th grade is going to be really hard, no matter what classes you take. Once you're a senior, you do not have to take any hard As our year came to an abrupt stop, I can without a doubt say, don’t take school for granted. classes. As long as you get decent grades, the colleges really won't care. There's no reason to The 7:45 bell on Monday is especially rough, but remember, you only get that for 6 years; take an AP when you already know what college you're going to. seems like a life time, but it’s more like an instant. Lastly, thank your teachers, even after Nicholas Burns they give you a 50-question test. I will be eternally grateful for my peers, my teachers, and all the staff of CSH. Go, Seahawks! Don’t ever procrastinate because once you start, you won’t be able to stop. Next thing you Paige McLear know, it’s 5 am and you’ve got an essay to write due first period. Zack Bennardo Take classes and partake in activities that you are interested in and passionate about. Don't feel like you have to follow what others are doing. Know what you want and strive to Don't be mean to the lunch ladies. achieve it! If you do, you're scum. AWESOME! Julia Bavaro David Zimmon Do your homework. 1. Do as much college essay writing as possible over the summer. Having at least the main common app essay Daniel Margolis done makes an enormous difference on how difficult your senior year will be. Also, make a calendar/chart of If an assignment is “optional,” it’s your application deadlines and what they require, and double check to see if you need to apply earlier for usually not optional. scholarship eligibility. 2. PRIORITIZE. Having many obligations can be overwhelming. Even though it might sound silly, create a Jacob Bruno list of priorities when it comes to your obligations, and then you can better schedule what deserves the most Everything happens for a reason. time and when. 3. When it comes to waiting for college decisions, I made a playlist of songs that made me feel more hopeful Hannah Terry —or at least took my mind off of the waiting. It made a huge difference, and I would definitely recommend Work hard, but don’t forget to let yourself have a little fun. having this or some other outlet for when admission decisions draw close. Elizabeth Erichsen EB Brennan Dear Class of 2020, A Note from Dr. Bolen I know this has not been the end of year that you have been expecting through your years at Cold Spring Harbor. While we may not be able to see each other in person, we can still enjoy many of our end-of-year traditions.One that I have come to really enjoy is the senior advice in our final edition of The Harbor View. There are always some good nuggets in here, and I am sure that each of you might have learned something from these words of wisdom! Cherish these times, but know that there are more memories to make and more experienceto live just around the corner. Enjoy this special senior section,and I will see you all soon! Be well, Dr. Bolen “No Time” Choral Performance: Our Director's Reflection By Marc Beja When we first left school, music teachers around the country and world struggled with how to keep their ensembles engaged in an authentic way. We are so used to working together, tuning to each other's voices, listening to our section's harmony and how it fits into the larger context. With time lags and other issues on Zoom, performing live wasn't an option. But I wondered how I could honor all of the work we had done for our Spring Concert, and in some ways, all of the progress the chorus has made over the last few years. We had been preparing some really challenging and fun music for this year's concert. Virtual choirs were given prominence by Eric Whitacre, a composer and conductor we studied last year who has made a few of them featuring singers from around the world. In order to create our performance, I made audio files of each voice part for students to rehearse their individual recordings, I compiled all of the videos, stripping out the audio and with and sing along to. I then made an instructional video for students to follow as they made editing the voice files together, balancing each voice part. I placed each student's their video recordings. As you may have seen in many of the "concerts" on TV in the last few video --one at a time --into iMovie, exporting the newest version with one more months, singers need to wear headphones so they are singing in the same tempo and key as each singer, and then repeating the process over and over. When I was done, I placed the other, so the audience hears only their voices and not the backing tracks. After students comleted edited audio file on top of the edited videos. The response to our final product has been awesome. Our (unlisted) video has been viewed nearly 1,000 times in less than two weeks! I have received such kind and thoughtful emails from parents, CSH families, teachers, administrators, staff members, security guards—you name it. We are hoping to put out another edited song by the end of the year that will include audio editing by Dylan Dukes `20 and pictures compiled and edited by Grace Posillico `20. This year's chorus —and especially the senior class—is a really special group to me. I am so proud of our music department's seniors, and I will miss them terribly next year. I already miss them. June 2020 The Harbor View Page 5 CommUNITYOpinion -ByDay Kiara Freidberg Cars lined the main entrance of Cold Spring Harbor Junior-Senior High School awaiting their visit to school for the first time in almost two months. It was Cold Spring Harbor’s CommUNITY DAY, which was an innovative event for students, K through 12, to interact with their current, former, and future teachers while remaining safe and healthy. Cars with parents, students, and dogs pulled through the main parking lot where the teachers' cars were lined up in all of the spaces, creating a path for cars to drive through.