Cougar Chronicle Volume 3 Issue 2 October 2019 Get on the mailing list Looking for a eMail: [email protected] Job? Seniors, THIS IS relatives as a keep- YOUR YEAR!!!!!!!!! sake memory for SENIOR PICTURE them. GRADUATION will DAY is Thursday, be on May 29th 2020 December 12, 2019. at 1pm in the Wise These pictures will High School Audito- go into the school rium. yearbook and they Mrs. Tunstall and Mr. CLICK HERE will also be available Phillips are the for your family to Senior Class Inside this issue: purchase addi- Advisors, please tional copies to send 2020 SENIOR See them for more out to friends and INFORMATION information. Sporting News 2 Clubs & Groups 2 September 15 to Student House 2 October 15 is National Jobs 3 Hispanic American Poetry 3 Heritage Month Staff News 3 The day of September October 12, falls within Just For Fun 4 Administration, National 15 is significant because it this 30 day period Endowment for the is the anniversary of inde- The observation started Humanities, National Important Dates 5 pendence for Latin in 1968 as Hispanic Gallery of Art, National American countries Costa Heritage Week under Park Service, Smithsonian Letters to Editor 5 Rica, El Salvador, President Lyndon Johnson Institution and United Guatemala, Honduras and Sponsors 6 and was expanded by Pres- States Holocaust Memorial Nicaragua. In addition, ident Ronald Reagan in Museum join in paying Mexico and Chile celebrate Principal’s Vision 6 1988 to cover a 30-day tribute to the generations their independence days on period of Hispanic Americans who September 16 and have positively influenced The Library of September18, respectively. and enriched our nation Congress, National Also, Columbus Day or Día and society. de la Raza, which is Archives and Records Volume 3 Issue 2 Page 2 Student House Project 2019-2020 The Construction and they relate to the sale and the Development Program construction trades. proceeds from focuses on providing broad the sale of the transferable skills in all Mr. DiNatale and house go to help aspects of designing and Mr. Fletcher finance next erecting buildings and other head up the years project. physical structures. In Student built addition to the construction housing project These houses are trades, students will learn here at Croom. some of the best built about management, Each week they take students houses in the area, partly finance, technical and to work and learn at the due to the fact that every production skills, labor construction site. detail is checked and in- Issues, health and safety spected much more often. regulations, and When done, these student These houses sell environmental issues as built houses are put up for upwards of $400,000. The Croom Cougar Chronical Sports Beat—Your Name Here! The Croom Chronical is Don’t worry if you have help you with your column! looking for sports writers. never written for a paper or If you are going to attend Are you interested in at- College, writing for the tending Croom High Schools This could be YOUR column school newspaper will be a sporting events? Are you featuring local and great addition to include in participating in Croom professional sporting news your College application. sports? You could play and See Mr. Puzzella if you write about the games after have an interest in writing! the games! newsletter before, we will Club, Group & Organization News Back to Page 1 Clubs and Organizations are a How about a Guitar Club? Or even great way to share your hobbies a Music Club, a Chess Club a Book and interests with others. Club, even a Sign Language club! The options for clubs are limited to your imagination. Give it try, you will enjoy it! Volume 3 Issue 2 Page 3 Looking for a Job? Are you looking for a job? Are you these jobs are also displayed outside looking to change jobs? Here at Croom Mr. Puzzella’s room just before the High School were are here to help you, cafeteria and gymnasium. even with finding a job! Look through the listings and if you Mr. Stephenson diligently searches see something that interests you, use through online job listing from the your phone and take a picture of Maryland Department of Labor, the listing. Licensing and Regulations (DLLR) as Many job listings have convenient well as other online job sources. online applications, while a few re- These job listings are displayed so you quire you to go in person. can check them out anytime you want. Mr. Stephenson has these listings post- ed outside his office door. In addition, Finding a job could not be easier! Featured Poetry - The Rose That Grew From A Crack This poem was written before he was famous, he sees himself as Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack something beautiful that can succeed from a tumultuous and hostile environment. In the concrete Proving Nature’s laws wrong, it learned to walk Tupac is emphasizing the way the rose had no support. It managed to grow up and become something amazing despite not Without having feet having feet – sunlight, care, nourishment, soil – to stand on. He’s he grew up poor, in what he liked to call “the gutter.” Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams Tupac is emphasizing the power of dreams and the way one’s devotion to their dreams can alter their lives. The rose’s It learned 2 breathe fresh air perseverance and determination to achieve its dreams enabled it to find a way to survive and thrive in its environment, ultimately breathing in fresh air. Long live the rose that grew from concrete In a way, this thought is tragically ironic. Tupac is urging the rose When no one else even cared! to live for a long time, the very rose that no one else cared to support. Sadly Tupac, the rose, died at twenty-five years old, and - Tupak he died as a result of the violence and turbulence which had made it so difficult for him to emerge in the first place. Staff News We would like to wish Happy October Birthday to: Mrs. Gaines (15) Happy Birthday from all of us to you! Volume 3 Issue 2 Page 4 Just for Fun! - Halloween 1. The holiday goes back more curious how that compares to 10. You can actually visit a pump- than 2,000 years. Christmas, Americans spent an kin patch in Hawaii. average of $1,007 on winter Halloween all started as a pre- Head to Waimanalo Country holidays in 2018.) Christian Celtic festival called Farms in Oahu to pick pump- Samhain (which means "summer's 5. The Irish also brought us jack- kins while you're on the islands. o'-lanterns. end"). It celebrated the final day of 11. Who is the face for the Michael the harvest and the crossing of As the story goes, an Myers mask in 'Halloween?' spirits over into the other world. Irish man named Stingy Production designer Tommy Lee People would ward off ghosts by Jack tricked the devil Wallace picked up two masks from lighting sacrificial bonfires, and, and therefore was not a Hollywood Boulevard magic you guessed it, wearing costumes. allowed into heaven or shop: a clown and William Shatner hell — so he spent his 2. Trick-or-treating has existed as Captain Kirk in Star Trek. since medieval times. days roaming the Earth, carrying a lantern, and went by "Jack of the People on Back then, it was known as Lantern." the set were "guising" in afraid of the 6. They used to be carved Scotland and clown mask out of turnips, potatoes, Ireland. Young but when and beets. people dressed up Tommy put in costumes and Jack-'o-lanterns originated on the Shatner mask, Everyone asked for food or in Ireland, after all. Once Hallow- stopped dead and said, 'It’s money in exchange een became popular in America, perfect,'" and the rest is history. for songs, poems, people used pumpkins instead. or other "tricks." 12. New York City throws the 7. Illinois produces up to five times biggest Halloween parade in the 3. Sugar rationing during World more pumpkins than any other U.S. War II halted trick-or-treating. state. It draws more After the rationing The Land of Lincoln has more than than 2 million ended, the tradition 15,000 acres devoted to gourd spectators and grew into what we're growing, and those farms typically has thousands of familiar with today. grow more than 500 million participants. Candy companies pounds of pumpkins annually. started launching 13. Skittles are the top Halloween advertising cam- 8. Candy corn was originally called candy. "chicken feed." paigns to capitalize on the ritual. The bite-sized candies outranked 4. Now Halloween is the second The Goelitz Confectionery Compa- M&M's, Snickers, and Reese's largest commercial holiday in the ny sold boxes with a rooster on the Cups, according to 11 years of country. front in order to appeal to sales data from CandyStore.com. America's agricultural roots. It comes after only Christmas. 14. The night before Halloween is Consumers spent approximately 9. 'Monster Mash' once reigned called Mischief Night. supreme on the Billboard charts. $9 billion (!) on Halloween last October 30 is year! Bobby "Boris" a night 5. Americans Pickett reached #1 popular for spend about on the Hot 100 in pulling $86.79 on Hallow- 1962 just before pranks It een every year. Halloween and really only later recharted in happens That includes 1973 — but this places on East Coast and in the Halloween decorations, candy, time in August.