Sometimes saying goodbye can be very difficultto do, but for some of this year’sseniors, saying their goodbyes cannot come soon enough. With the 2012-2013 school year finally coming to an end, you can be sure to find seniors scrambling to get ready to leave. Whether that includes finishing off their requirements for college, or strug- gling to get that passing grade to actually graduate high school, but no matter what situation they are in, eventually they will have to part ways with Berea High School, their friends, and teachers. “We grew up together;it’s going to be hard saying goodbye,” Se- nior Oliver Reyes said “These people, I call my best friends.” But sometimes best friends must part. “its how life goes,” Senior Forrest Billings said “and it will go on. We are about to have the time of our lives, but it doesn’t exactly jus- tify it- we can still look back and remember our favorite memories.” And many seniors are taking a step back to remember those good times. “junior year in cheerleading” Senior Samantha Carson had to say about her favorite memory. “When Berea beat Midpark in football.” “Marching down Magic Kingdom with the March- ing Band,” Jen Thurau said. “It was a very magical moment.” “Prom; it was so beautiful!” Ashley Porach said “Ev- eryone was smiling; they were so happy.” “There was no specific time when I was happiest at Berea High School, there was only every moment when a single seed of knowl- edge was taught by a teacher, and therefore I had the oppor- tunity to grow and potentially begin work on fixing the bro- ken parts of this world, amen,” Senior Daniel Salzgaber said. And these memories will live on forever for these BHS Seniors, along with the beautiful connections they made with their teachers “Mr. Stevens… probably the hardest math teacher I had, I learned a lot though,” Senior Mike Anguilano said. “Mrs. Duiker; she taught me how to write amazing essays, and Mr. Yonek was the best sci- And much like Dan, Oliver, and Savannah, I have also had an amaz- ence teacher. I thank them so much for being great educators.” ing time at Berea High School. I would never trade the long nights spent doing last minute assignments, the cramming before exams, the “Mrs. Duiker, even though she could be strict and cracks down on you, beautiful relationships I formed, andOctober the memories I have created. she makes sure you do a good job and takes care of you.” Senior Ivey Thank you very much Berea High School, it has truly been a pleasure. Altenhof said# “I never wantedSection to leave her class, or Titlesay goodbye” But the goodbyes have to come, Saying “See You Later” by Sophie Hopps-Weber Co-Editor For Good? W ith the school year quickly coming However, our culture is changing and it Even if we don’t all stay in touch with our to an end, many seniors will be saying “see is becoming much easier for people to high school friends and classmates, we will you later” to their friends and class mates. keep in touch, even when old classmates always have our reunions and countless But what exactly does see you later mean in don’t live in the same city or even the memories of the amazing times we had in this context? Sometimes it can be very difficult same state anymore. Social media such high school. Social media will also have a to keep in touch with everyone of your high as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram will large impact on the amount of keepsakes school friends, even people you have grown make it much easier for people to stay we will have from our high school years, very close to over the last four years. connected with their high school friends. including old posts and photos. “I think that most people do not stay in touch with many of the friends they have during high school,” Berea High School guidance counselor Sarah Kolis said, “Some people do develop deep friend- ships that they carry on through adulthood, but it seems that most high school friendships seem to fizzle out a few years after gradua- tion.” Senior Max Wieneke said he plans on Either way, there are ways to stay in touch In most cases students only stay in touch with staying in touch with most of his friends if you so choose. Some people drift apart one or two close friends, and lose touch with through online gaming, such as League of but there are many adults who continue to the rest. Legends and Minecraft. He already stays correspond with their high school friends. “I may not stay in contact with everyone, but in touch with many friends who graduated My own grandmother still continues to get there are some close friends that I refuse to last year, and plans on continuing to do so lunch occasionally with her friends from lose touch with,” senior Bryan Sima said, “I’m when he leaves for Ohio State in the fall. high school, and has been doing so for excited to meet new people, but I don’t want “Social media has definitely changed about 60 years. to abandon my current friends. I plan to bal- how people stay in touch with each other. “I know I don’t have a choice,” Wieneke ance my new friends and my old ones”. Social media allows us to check in with said, “Most of [my friends] will make me For some it will be easy to stay in contact, es- each others lives without too much time or stay in touch.” pecially if your friends are going to the same effort. It allows us to be connected with- school as you. out truly being involved in each other’s “I’m moving about two blocks down for [Bald- lives,” Kolis said. win Wallace]” senior Nikita Martin said, “Most of my old friends are going there. It will be easier for all of my old friends to find me”. Yours, Casey Corriea: • To graduate college with a busi- ness and computer science degree Mine & and be then employed. Goals:Ours. ~ ~ school to the moment I left high school, to able me to live a comfortable life, provide Ryan Corrigan: the moment I retired, and even after that— for a nice family, and hopefully to declare Ryan Kolp: • I’d like to work in the U.S. D.J. Salzgeber Char Rakes: that I made a point to continue down the war on the broken parts of the world. • Own my own gym around Berea, Embassy in Moscow, Russia…doing Staff Writer • Get into the radiology depart- path of the personal and educational jour- cause I like it here. nothing specific, just to be there. ment at a hospital. ney that started at Fairwood Elementary • I want to get experience about • Learn the Russian language flu- There’s a story about two newborn ba- how to do that. School all those years ago. I have chosen Goals of our seniors: ently. bies lying side by side in the hospital, and these goals not only because I want to con- they glance at each other. Ninety years tinue to grow on a personal level, but also later, through a remarkable coincidence, on a professional and humanitarian level. I the two are back in the same hospital ly- Marriah Rodgers: want to have a positive impact on the peo- • Move to Washington D.C. Peyton Kranz: ing side by side in the same hospital room. ple who need it most; those who are cold and be a writer. • Go to grad school to be a Brianna Sealey: They look at each other and one of them Keith Hochevar: and hungry or who live in fear from walk- • Learn how to drum—to physical therapist; probably at OSU. • I want to be at the Tiger Temple says, “So what’d you think?” be a drummer. It’s like the only • ing outside. I want to be able to continue to I want to invent a time machine. • I want to get really in shape in India, taking care of tigers. Hopefully it’s go- learn and to adapt, instrument I don’t know how to for the swim season next fall at the My Goals play. ing to be a very long and therefore to University Of Mount Union. time before I have 1. Be interviewed on the radio overcome, whatever to answer that ques- 2. Have been a tourist in (at least) walls I face when go- tion, but time shifts 56 different countries by the ing down this path. Elise Kouris: gears and will gain time I die The world works • I want to join an adult Demira Berbiglia: speed. As I face my 3. Read to my children every night the way it works, soccer team. graduation from Dan Medvetz: • I want to have the confidence to and I can’t change • I want to travel to the Jake Fischer: high school to col- 4. Hike the El Camino de Santiago • To graduate from Ashland Univer- sing, or play my ukulele (after I learn pilgrimage it much. But if the countries that my parents are • To make money. sity and be successful in a career… to play it) in front of an audience. lege, from adoles- broken parts of the from Italy and Greece…and cence to adulthood, 5. Attend midnight mass on Christ- what career I don’t know yet.