The Chronicle 1 Feature Stories 2 Misc. 3 Editorials 4 Spotlight 5 Feature Stories 6 Reviews 7 Photos of the Issue 8 Horoscopes Bishop Seabury Academy 5 November 2020 Vol. 16 Issue 2 By By Luke Velte Asher sits down with “The Chronicle” post procedure By Matthew Petillo Faculty member Sara Asher is many things. Teacher. TC: What has the support been Sixth grader Sofie del Valle showcases her Genius Hour project. Her project was about Mother. Wife. Cancer survivor. like from the Seabury commu- melting down plastic to reduce pollution in oceans. Unfortunately, cancer wasn’t nity? done with Asher: she learned in August that her cancer had SA: It’s been the most amazing returned. In late October, she support anyone could ever ask had surgery to remove the for. I think about the Seabury cancer, and agreed to sit down community every day, and it with “The Chronicle” to talk keeps my spirits up. When I about her experience. was in the hospital, I kept thinking about [everyone], and TC: Thank you for agreeing to I was never really that lonely, do this! You’ve been at home, because I could feel everyone’s Sixth graders explore their passions having to coordinate every- love in my heart, and it’s been thing with people here. What so great. has that been like, as well as through Genius Hour seeing your kids come to TC: How do you feel now that school while you’ve been stuck your procedure is now done? at home? By Catharine Richards SA: I’m very relieved. I’m still SA: Well, I worked really, in a great deal of discomfort. I really hard before I went into can’t move very much, and I Sixth grade offers the tech class you can’t do The sixth graders have surgery to get everything set up have to sleep in a chair, and it plenty of exciting new op- on an iPad,” she says. “I’ve the freedom to pursue what- -- so all my classes, all my moves around a lot, so it’s very portunities, including being always wanted to do Genius ever piques their interest. resources for [Faculty Member uncomfortable. But, I received at a new school, meeting Hour, and so that’s what From writing books to creat- Tashia Dare]. I worked hours the results of my pathology new friends and taking new we’re doing.” ing sellable goods, they are and hours to get that all set up, [test], because they took out a classes. But this year, the So what is Genius covering all the bases. “It’s so all she had to do was “turn lymph node as well to make sixth graders are taking Hour? “Genius Hour actual- really cool how they’re just the key” and take care of eve- sure that the cancer had not things even further and ly came out of [Google], and taking charge and doing it,” rything. It’s a little weird to see spread to my lymphatic system. learning new things about they call it ‘20Time’ and says Barbour. She adds that my kids go to school, sitting The doctor said that my lymph themselves through “Genius give their employees twenty giving students the ability to here in my lift chair. It’s odd. node was clean, meaning it Hour.” percent of their time to work grow and explore their natu- hadn’t spread to other parts of This year has posed all on a project that they’re ral curiosity is an important TC: What has it been like my body . because they sorts of challenges, and passionate about. It could be part of their development. working with [Dare]? caught it so quickly, so I’m while usually middle school a personal project, perhaps “My favorite part of really relieved about that. students have a technology [something to] eventually the project is that they have SA: She’s been fantastic! I class, that just was not pos- help the company out,” to interview an expert in trusted her fully to take my TC: You had this once before, sible this year. Faculty explains Barbour. “So that’s their field,” says Barbour. classes, and I knew she would in 2013. Can you talk about member Krista Barbour had the idea of it: basically “So once they figure out do a great job. She asked a lot some of the differences be- to get creative for her sixth gifting kids 40 minutes a what their project is they of questions that were really tween that ordeal and this one? graders. “Normally I do this day to pursue something have to find someone who’s good. I worked so hard to get huge project in tech, but we they’re passionate about or an expert and conduct an everything set in order, so SA: It’s always scary when need laptops to do that or that they’re interested in or interview with them and that she would feel comforta- your doctor calls you and says desktop computers, and they want to learn more incorporate what they’ve ble taking over my classes and “Oh, you have cancer.” It was since we can’t use those, about but they don’t have learned from that person teaching and keeping every- scary the first time because I everything I normally do in time to.” thing up. Continued on page 5 Continued on page 2 “The Power of Pink” do was do the treatment that the Continued from page 1 doctors told me. But, I could control things at school, like how I was handling things in the classroom and meant. That first time, I had quite a getting my work done. sizable mass of cancer. I did what they told me - I didn’t know any different. TC: Do you have any words of Evan Ho: One night when I was younger, I dreamed that I got chased This time, I think it was a little more advice for people back here at Sea- scary because I knew what I was bury? around an abandoned amusement park by a T-Rex. When I escaped into stepping into. I think that, sometimes, a building and climbed up the stairs, making it to my moms arms, the T- when you don’t know what’s going to SA: I say that if we all work togeth- happen, it’s a certain amount of safe- Rex ate my mom and then I woke up. er, and we take care of each other, ty. There’s something to be said about and we wear our masks, and we stay being a little ignorant about something distanced from each other, that this Sage McHenry: I had a dream that Isabel Klish and I, while in canoes, - I didn’t know what was going to isn’t going to last forever. The long- happen last time, but I knew what was were climbing a stream running down a mountain made of crystals. One er we can keep this up, the shorter going to happen this time, and it was time that we will be able to be to- of the canoes slid down the mountain of crystals, and a part of it broke pretty serious this time. gether again, like before. If I can off. Sr. Rowe proceeded to get very angry with us. He said “You’ll nev- have cancer during this, and come er make it as rock climbers.” TC: Can you explain what it’s been out on the other side, we can do this like having breast cancer, while know- mask thing. ing that you’re a wife, a mother, and a Catharine Richards: I had a dream that some girl stole my Amazon teacher, and having all these people packages off of my front porch in the middle of the night. I followed her who rely on you? to a house and Obi Wan Kenobi opened the door and I had to try and SA: It’s stressful. At the beginning of persuade him and Anakin Skywalker to give me my mail back. this year, I was dealing with teaching [with] another method, and I’m trying Jonah Kim: I had a dream that Ian Blake brutally beat his uncle and to do almost everything new, and so it was very stressful, as the start of the went to jail. I had to defend him in court but he just kept incriminating year is. I’m also trying to help my kids himself so I gave up. That’s literally it idk if we can use that lol transition into middle school, which is stressful for them, and [so] when I found out I had cancer, I was like, Katie Eckert: One time I dreamed that I was driving my car in a part of “Well, that’s great”, during a pandem- town I’ve never seen before, when I drove my car through the front door ic. So, It’s been very stressful and a of a department store, scared an old lady, said “oops didn’t mean to do lot to deal with, but I needed to keep my vision focused and not think about that, back it up” and did a U-turn out of the building and kept on going. the cancer, because there wasn’t any- thing I could do about that. All I could By Andrew Lang Although many Americans healthcare reform and investment. schools may have a more difficult states, “Vote for unheard voices; vote prefer the policies of President Donald Sophomore Gray Werner time following these precautions and for yourselves and your loved ones; Trump, many also want the institu- states: “They need to fix healthcare.