Montoursville Area High School 100 N. Arch Street December 2014 Montoursville, PA 17754 Volume 42 Issue 4 The ArrowheAd Unpredictable Victorious Unique Marvelous Challenging Students teach teachers at BioTech, Picturesque find out more on page 2. Motivational Fufilling Fun Extraordinary Memorable Legendary Irreplaceable Are gender roles still too cookie cutter? Check out what the Arrowhead staff thinks on page 4. Unforgettable2014Liberating Defining Captivating Eye opening Grand Electricfying Vigorous Did your favorite memory from 2014 make the back page? Find out Worthwhile on page 12. Insightful Awesome Positive Follow The Page by Copy and Layout Editor, Haylie McQuillen Arrowhead Online Instagram: mhsarrowhead Brought to you by Blaise Alexander Twitter: @mhsarrowhead Family Dealership NEWS The Arrowhead page 2 December 2014 Ac Dec gains success Get up and dance: News in isaacmiller news staff compared to past years. Music at MAHS the music jilliano’connor Deacon got a Bronze in Liter- The additional girls’ choir, The Academic Decathlon of news editor ature in the Honors division of Montour Melody sung “This Central Pennsylvania recently the competition. Montoursville band and choir Little Babe,” “Give us Hope,” world held its first competition of the isaacmiller Our school competed against has brought some Christmas “Santa Baby,” and “Mele Kalik- 2014-2015 year. news staff nine other schools from the spirit to town during their con- imaka.” Our school took second, plac- are. certs. The Band concert was held on ing just behind Penns Valley. “I feel compared to the other The choir performed on Tues- Monday night, Dec. 15. Those who participated in the schools we were a a little un- day night Dec. 9. They played a series of different competition have been work- prepared,” said Sophmore Matt The songs that the entire choir songs which included “Christ- ing very hard to prepare for the Marks, “but compared to the sang included “Hark the Herald mas on Broadway” by John Hig- event. majortiy of schools in the state Angels Sing,” “Good King Kong gins, “DeerPath Dances,” “Was- Students who were in the com- we are in a very good position.” Looked Out,” “Giovani Lieti,” sail,” “Greensleeves: A Fantasia petition needed to do a good This was also Mark’s second “The World for Christmas,” for Band,” and “Declaration and amount of cramming for the year competing in the Academ- “Glory Hallelujah to the New- Flourish.” competition. Cram Kits are one ic Decathalon Competition. born King,” and “Hallehlujah “This group is my favorite of the tools students use to help Mark’s competeted in usic, art, The Messiah.” group I have worked with,” prepare. language, literature, and oth- The ‘Ville sang a series of said Band Director Mr. Adam “We worked a lot harder than er competitions. Marks got a songs as well but these includ- Wright, “They are fun, have last year by coming in during Bronze in Art and Literature. ed “Dance of the Sugar Plum great attitudes, and does every- lunch to study,” said Senior Montoursville will be hosting Fairy,” “Deck the Halls,” “Throw thing that needs to be done.” Amelia Deacon when asked the next Academic Decathalon the Yule Log on, Uncle John.” how they prepared this year Competition on Jan. 7 Seniors Alyssa Burger and ART H Katie Conklin both have big parts in the school’s plays . M. and musicals. The two were R M recently recognized in the OF Hall of Fame for Tech/Stage ONNOR ’C Management and O Performance. OURTESY J. C BY HOTO HOTO P P The Academic Decathalon club of the school recently placed second in the Academic Decathalon of Central Pennsylvania The choir is singing a bunch of carols for the Christmas competition. Montoursville will be holding the next compe- spirit. They sang many songs in three different groups tition on January seventh of 2015. dring their Dec. 9 concert. Taking home a title Students teach in writing professors about jilliano’connor news editor food campaign and a school’s protest against it. vampires A recent trip to a Penn State They only had about an hour to meganstoner campus on Nov. 17 has left two an hour and a half to write the editor-in-chief if the banding pattern produced of The Arrowhead’s staffers win- story with a minimum words of Twelve members of The Montoursville chapter of in the DNA is similar. ners of a writing competition. about 250. Montoursville Area High the Science National Honor So- At Lycoming the teachers were Senior Kendra Parke and “I was shocked,” said Parke School Thespian Honor ciety recently went to Lycoming split up into different groups, and Sophomore Isaac Miller have when she found out she won, “I Society attended the State College to educate science teach- half of the groups went to a lab/ both received the chance to re- thought that I could have done Conference at Central York ers about porphyria, which is of- station like the one run by the turn to the campus on March better.” High School on December ten known as the “vampire dis- Science National Honor Society. 6th to compete in the state Pa “I am nervous to go back be- fourth to sixth. ease.” Meanwhile, half of the other School Press Student Journal- cause I didn’t expect to win the The experiment, which was ac- groups went and listened to Paul ism Writing Competition. first time,” she said. tually started in the summer, was Anderson, who is well known for Parke competed in the Features Miller competed in the news provided by a company called putting science videos on You- category. category and won first place FOTOdyne, and according to Tube. She said she had to write about overall. the advisor of the honor society Lunch, which was provided for two schools coming together “I was pretty surprised that I Mrs. Karen Avery, “I have a grant the students and teachers, was an as one chorus on Constitution won,” said Miller. “Because there that pays for part of the materials, opportunity for the teachers and Day. was a lot of students compet- and then FOTOdyne gave us a students to mingle and talk about Miller competed News Writ- ing.” significant discount on the kits.” what? Science. ing. Miller said he is excited to go The goal of the experiment, ac- Senior Cayla Treaster, who was He said he had to write about back because it will be fun to go cording to Avery was “The DNA a teacher’s aid for the experiment, Michelle Obama’s unhealthy back and compete again. from people who are known to had a lot of fun, and added “I en- have the disease [porphyria] is joyed switching it up and educat- compared with people who are ing teachers…especially when it showing symptoms, to determine comes to Twitter.” Seniors Katie Conklin and Hunter Nolan. were selected TONER by video audition to be part of an all-state cast for the M. S opening show, which has a BY Roaring ‘20s theme. Conkin and Hunter have been a part HOTO P by M. Stoner Photo of the music department Senior Kendra Parke and Sophomore Isaac Miller are for their entire high school Pictured above are all the students that taught about porphyr- smiling over their victory. Parke took first in career. Features and Miller took first in News. ia at Lycoming College. Each student participated in many different ways, from being a teacher to being a teacher’s aid. NEWS/PHOTO STORY page 3 Monumental 2014 moments EARBOOK By Jenny Yocum Y OF Y S 2014 has been one to remember OURTE when it comes to C sports. The HOTO P football, Students from the Class of 2014 stand before taking their TONER wrestling, and seats during their graduation ceremony on June 5. While soccer teams have M. S 142 students attended the commencement service, a total BY all won districts. of 154 students graduated this year. The football team HOTO P has not won districts since 2006, but did this year against Loyalsock. The wrestling team won districts for YNN the time since W EARBOOK Y SS I 2009. Girls’ soccer OF M Y has won districts OF S Y S two times in a OURTE row, setting a new C OURTE C record for the HOTO P school. HOTO The cast from the musical Pippin pose after one of their P performances this past spring. On May 18, Pippin won Best Leading Actress and Best Overall Small Scale Musical at the Ray of Light Ceremony. Tis’ the season to be caroling Editor’s Picks jilliano’connor added, “It was Le 3 best lawlz of news editor sad seeing I signed up to make others With the holidays brings many many lonely “ laugh, but left laughing people together and one way to people at this myself when a woman 2K14 time of the do that is by caroling. bluntly said ‘I don’t like you taylorakers There are a few clubs head- year, but I’m a&e editor ing out to do some caroling to glad I had the to Mr. Mazzante. It was truly a opportunity to life changing experience Every year thousands of teenagers partake in the internet brighten up people’s days. whether it be for school assignments or for their own enter- Some of the clubs that are put a smile on their faces.” -Sophomore Jessica Mattiace” tainment. On these sites students find themselves with pic- bringing cheer around are tures with funny captions over a trending image.These pieces Tri-M, girls’ basketball, and Key Tira reme- bered a time of gold are called “memes”.