THE ABINGTONIAN Abington Senior High School, Abington, PA, 19001 June 2016 THE SENIOR ISSUE IS HERE!! CHECK OUT SENIORS’ FUTURE PLANS (pages 5-8)! Farewell from the Co-Editors In Chief First and foremost, I want to how to create proper formatting I always remember hating picture around us because we cannot even thank Mr. Saylor and Mr. Quigley and generally how to engage the day in elementary school. I never remember the lives we live absent for helping me make the 2015-2016 student body in school and world could smile naturally because I the screens, absent the glass, absent Abingtonian a success. I was quite news. My advice for the editors couldn’t stand forcing myself to our self- -constructed cocoons of anxious in September, knowing that of next year would be: make the smile. Back then, I only had to fake connected solitude, absent the walls technology is not my strong suit; Abingtonian a newspaper that you that smile once a year, but now I feel we put up upon which the screams I ventured into the b asement and would want to sit down and read. myself gritting my teeth more and and cries of our childlike fears echo worked with Ryan to create the fi rst Don’t make being an editor a chore; more. until being silenced by distraction issue. By the time November came, I to be productive, you must enjoy and destruction, by constriction and could fi nish half the paper during one the countless hours spent putting We’re all a lot more grown up obstruction. Maybe we can change lunch period, something that initially a picture in the perfect place, or now, but in that growing up we’ve and open our eyes to a diff erent took me two days to complete. fi nding the perfect font to match gained more frivolity than sense. We future. Or maybe we will continue to Th ese small feats really helped me to the content of an article. try to photograph events before they live behind the glass, smiling through become a confi dent editor-in-chief. even happen but in doing so, fail to gritted teeth. I am now graduating and capture the private joy of a shared Leading a group of four editors I can’t believe that in just two glance, the unseen sadness of a lone Ryan Grewal and collaborating with both teachers short months, I will start a new tear, the lost emotion within us all. and other students forced me to learn adventure at Penn State, majoring We try to fabricate poignancy but how to become a leader. In tenth in Pre-medicine. I hope to one don’t recognize the meaning in the grade when I came to ASHS, I was day be the editor of the Penn State mundane. a completely diff erent person. I was newspaper. I will miss this school, so quiet and shy, and I remember the teachers, the students, and the We try, we try, we try to grab GOODBYE Mr. Saylor telling me that if I wanted club that has been a part of my life those memories faster than they a future with the Abingtonian, I since I stepped foot in this building escape our brains. And we fail. needed to become more personable three years ago: Th e Abingtonian. We try to see the world through CLASS OF and outwardly enthusiastic about the screens, but we are the ones behind paper. Th ank you for reading the paper, the glass. We are the ones hiding solving the word links, and reading behind the masks of our fabricated I really learned a lot through the the horoscopes with me! personas. We never allow ourselves 2016! Abingtonian. Not only how to fi x to experience the lives lived others’ grammar mistakes, but also Goodbye, around us because we cannot even Madeleine Kilimnik remember the lives we live absent Farewell from the Sports Section In my time at Abington High To the rising juniors: Th is year is To the future Sports editor: Don’t School, I participated in various clubs so crucial to your future so go out ruin my legacy. Seriously. I worked and sports; however, I only held a and prove yourself. Th is year will hard for this. Make sure that you leadership role in one. In sophomore distinguish those who are ambitious don’t forget that Chess is a sport and year, I wrote my fi rst ever news and determined from the rest. You they place nationally nearly every article. From there, I began writing will survive, but are you willing to year. Give credit where credit is due frequently for the Abingtonian, and give what it takes to thrive? and know that when you write an I was fortunate enough to become athlete of the month article, you are the Sports editor my senior year. As To the upcoming sophomores: making their month. Be stricter with I sit here typing my last ever article, I Find your niche. You don’t have to your deadlines than I was with mine . think of those who will succeed me. limit yourself to one activity. Th is One last message to Mr. Saylor and To the future seniors: I hope you are school has so much to off er. If you Mr. Quigley: Th ank you for all your able to fi nd the passion I found in can’t fi nd what you’re looking for, time and assistance. It is because of writing for the newspaper. Th e work then create it. Th ree years might seem you and this club that print will never you do to spread and commend the like an eternity right now but it will go out of style. class of 2016; I can’t wait to see what eff orts of fellow classmates will not go fl y by. Make memories and record I will forever be grateful of the the future holds for us. Go Ghosts! unnoticed or unappreciated. Cherish them (maybe in a published article memories Abington has given me. the time you have left . Life will never composed by the greatest club). It is with a heavy heart that I say Yours truly, be this easy again. goodbye. Congratulations to the Rachel Rawdin, Sports Editor Ready for Summer- AP Government Th e 2016 Summer Seniors’ Future time? Field Trip Olympics - Coming Plans! Page 2 Page 3 Soon! Page 4 Pages 5-8 The Abingtonian June 2016 Page 2 NEWS/FEATURES Farewell from the Farewell from the News Desk Features Section Being a news editor is not all fun and games. It’s a lot of hard Well, quite some time has gone by since I was a young, naive work – more work than I thought it would be. As part of the sophomore frolicking around the activity fair, desperately signing up editing staff, I had to make sure articles were written and sent for every club I could find. Little did I know at the time, I would end up in on time, that ideas for the next issue were on hand, and that participating in only a handful of these clubs and having a significant copies of the paper were distributed to the English classrooms. role in just a few. Thankfully, The Abingtonian was one of the clubs that A lot of times, it was pretty tough, because we were short on I became interested in almost immediately. articles or weren’t sure if any articles had been sent in at all. But With every cross-out, fact-check, comma insertion, and there were fun parts, too. The meetings allowed me to interact midnight-email-overload, my passion for my job as a Features Editor with writers and my fellow editors, and they made feel like a part was pervasive. Now, as my days as an Abingtonian editor are coming to of something. I also learned how to be more of a team and about a halt, I hope that all future seniors will likewise be able to look back in all the steps that come with successfully printing a newspaper. hindsight and remember an aspect of their high school experiences in For all the people who wrote news articles this year, thank such a positive light. you so much for your dedication and making my life easier. To the rising sophomores, you have three years to build your You all did a fantastic job. News can be hard to write because legacy. Abington has an activity out there for everyone – it is your you have to stay objective, factual, and accurate, and you did responsibility to either find it or create it. If you tend to get carried yourselves a favor by challenging yourselves to do it. Keep up away with words, join the Abingtonian (10/10 would recommend, the good work. You also assisted me by making sure the news although I might be slightly biased). If exercise is your antidote for column was filled for every issue. Some of you even wrote last stress, play a sport. If performing in front of an audience gives you an minute articles and really helped the whole editorial staff out of unmatched sense of thrill and confidence, try out for the school play. some tight spots. I was lucky to know so many talented writers. These next three years are your chance to create not only your resume Thanks a lot for all your help. virtues, but also the memories that will stay with you for the rest of your life.