Monthly Archives: June 2017
God’s Children: A Speedball Dynasty
Julian Tarpey, Veritas Staff
6-14-17
God’s Children and the Quirks at the end of the tournament. courtesy photo
The third annual Jared Lewis Quirk Memorial speedball tournament ended with a blow-out on Saturday, June 10. God’s Children faced off against the Thunder Donkeys in the final game and won 8-2. Thunder Donkeys wore white and God’s Children wore red. The MVP of the tournament was Justin Nugyen of God’s Children. Even more impressive than the six goal victory margin is the fact that the tournament raised $4,280 for the Jared Lewis Quirk “Good Guy” Memorial Scholarship. Fifteen teams competed in the three day event.
Justin Nguyen is awarded the MVP trophy. photo by Julian Tarpey
Here’s a link to all the action pictures taken by Julian Tarpey and team photos supplied by Ms. Walsh
Wrapping up the year with Underclassmen Academic Banquet
Jasmin Morse, Veritas Web Editor
6-9-17
Sophomore letter winners
Many people were recognized this past Wednesday at the RHS Hall of Fame Induction and the Underclassmen Awards Banquet. The event took place at Emerald Hall with food being served at 6pm and awards starting around 7:15.
The night began with a few words from RHS principal Dr. John Harrison as well as vice principal Ms. Kathleen Paulding.
Ms. Paulding gave the introductions to the three Hall of Fame Inductees, who then talked a bit about their work and gave advice to the students attending the banquet. The Hall of Fame Inductees include: Robin Paulding McGowan, Class of 1979; Denise Wallace Spriggs, Class of 1979 and Charles Tetzlaff, Class of 1991.
Charles Tetzlaff, Denise Wallace-Spriggs and Robin Paulding McGowan were inducted on June 7 into the Rockland High School Academic Hall of Fame.
Next, Dr. Harrison announced several special awards which were then followed by the academic awards and honor roll mentions. Ms. Paulding, along with Mr. Damon, and individual department heads and teachers, presented the academic achievement awards.
All in all, the evening was filled with fun, friends, and giving recognition well deserved to the students and inductees. Thank you to the Rockland Hall of Fame Committee for making this night possible and all the teachers involved.
Here is a list of all awards given out and the recipients:
The Math Team
Grade 11 – Sarah Lovell, Haley Chase-Crocker, Alexander Domina, Ronan McNally, Joseph Naughton, Rebecca Elliott, Sean Sugrue, Nicholas Walker, Sabrina Sprague, and Zachary Peterson
Grade 10 – Angelina Vong , John Ellard, Michelle Ramoska , and Tyler Beatrice
Grade 9 – Kayleigh Harris
National Leadership Award– Jaymie Atkins
The Rensselaer Medal– Sabrina Sprague
9th District Congressional Art Show Honorable Mention– Isabelle Uong
Veritas Journalism Award– Jasmin Morse
Special Achievement Award– Madeline Gear
Outstanding member of the Veritas Award– Erin Kearns
St. Michael’s College Book Award– Lily Matson and Christopher Penney
High Honors All Three Terms This Year:
In Grade 11 – Sabrina Sprague
In Grade 10 – Adiza Alasa, Tyler Beatrice, John Ellard, Michelle Ramoska
In Grade 9 – Melyssa Almeida, Kathryn Buckley, Nicholas Cedrone, Kerin Dalton Tyler Gambon, Madeline Gear, Melanie Harris, Sabrina Morgan, Oliver Reera, Zachary Webb, and Julia Yeadon
Academic Excellence Certificates and Academic Letters:
Last year, 20 academic letters were awarded to students in the Class of 2018. Congratulations to these students for their continued academic success.
- Kellie Berry
- Stephanie Blaney
- Eden Dalton
- Alexander Domina
- Olvia Elie
- Rebecca Elliot
- Aiden Glennon
- Harrison Hunter
- Margaret Jones
- Meredith Long
- Lily Matson
- Joseph Naughton
- Danielle O’Brien
- Harrison O’Brien
- Matthew O’Brien
- Christopher Penney
- Zachary Peterson
- Jocelyn Reera
- Sean Sugrue
- Isabelle Uong
Junior Academic Letter Winners: Jaymie Atkins, Ronan McNally, Jillian Schofield, Sabrina Sprague, and James White
Sophomore Academic Letter Winners: Adiza Alasa, Alyssa Antoniewicz, Tyler Beatrice, Madison Blonde, Caitlin Cameron, Abigail Condon, Kaitlyn Diver, Leah Drago, John Ellard, Katie Houde (HOOD), Kevin Jean-Poix, Matthew Karoutas , Elizabeth Kelley, Nicholas LaBollita, Matthew Macarski, Meaghan McDonough, Matthew McPartlin, Sean Morrissey, Jasmine Morse, Rebecca Mullen, Shannon Murphy, Alexis Nastasia, Nevaeh Nilson, Francisco Oliveira, Sarah Pollard, Michelle Ramoska, Justin Sherlock, Marissa Smith, and Kara Sullivan
Boys State/Girls State– Sean Sugrue, Eden Dalton and Margaret Jones
Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Award– John Ellard
Mass STAR Youth Leadership Award– Francisco Oliveira
THE ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS:
ART:
Gr. 9 Bryce Taylor, Jacob Harris
Gr. 10 Sarah Pollard, Kaili Rose Dummott-Hill
Gr. 11 Isabelle Uong
COMMUNICATION/DIGITAL MEDIA:
Gr. 9 Lara Glennon
ENGLISH:
Gr. 9 Jillian Dorney
FAMILY CONSUMER SCIENCE:
Gr. 9 Hannah Wyllie
Gr. 10 Matthew McPartlin
Gr. 11 Christopher Penney, Brianna Peppino
PHYSICAL EDUCATION:
Gr. 9 Orion Carroll
Gr. 10 Peter Kohler, Kaitlyn Diver
Gr. 11 Justin Bowman, Samuel Gray
TECHNICAL EDUCATION:
Gr. 9 Noah Coughlin
Gr. 10 Michael Ebersole, Christopher Armstrong
Gr. 11 Ryan Kelley, Zachary Sharland
WORLD LANGUAGE/SPANISH:
Gr. 9 Jad Bendarkawi, Kathryn Buckley
Gr. 11 Caitlin McArthur
WORLD LANGUAGE/FRENCH:
Gr. 9 Matthew Griffin, Jonathas Amaral-Numeriano
Gr. 10 Elizabeth Kelley, Sean Morrissey
HEALTH
Gr. 9 Destinie Irvin, Adrian Quezada
MATHEMATICS:
Gr. 9 Oliver Reera, Sean Belmonte
MUSIC:
Gr. 9 Jordan Cunningham, Kerin Dalton
Gr. 10 Mireese Wilson, Bonnie Gasdia
Gr. 11 Ryan Struzziery
COMPUTER SCIENCE:
Gr. 9 Elizabeth McGaffigan
PRE-ENGINEERING/ROBOTICS:
Gr. 9 Maria Ciano, Caroline Elie
Gr. 11 Jonathan Baar, Aiden Glennon
SOCIAL SCIENCE/HISTORY:
Gr. 9 Zachary Webb
Gr. 10 Kevin Jean-Poix
Gr. 11 Harrison O’Brien
MULTI-AWARD WINNERS:
Gr. 9
Madeline Gear Communication/Digital Media, Physical Education
Tyler Johnson Science, English, Family Consumer Science
Sabrina Morgan Social Science/History, Science
Gr. 10
Tyler Beatrice Mathematics, Science, Pre-Engineering/Robotics
Michelle Ramoska English, Mathematics,Spanish
George Selados III Pre-Engineering/Robotics, Science
Caitlin Cameron Social Science/History, Family Consumer Science
Adiza Alasa English, Spanish
Gr. 11
Eden Dalton Art, English, Music, Social Science/History
Sabrina Sprague Mathematics, Science
Sean Sugrue English, Mathematics
Joseph Naughton Science,Spanish
OVERALL OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ACHIEVERS:
Grade 9 Tyler Gambon
Grade 10 John Ellard
Grade 11 Ronan McNally
The following is a link to all the pictures of the inductees and the student award recipients.
Time to Vote for your 2017-2018 SGC Big Five!
Jasmin Morse, Veritas Web Editor
6-6-17
Last year’s Big FIve with the SGC Advisors. From left seniors, Julia DiCienzo, Shannon Lindahl, Noelle Atkins, Adam Royle and Taylor Gallagher led the SGC this year. Joanne White and Amanda Lanigan are SGC advisors. Maddie Gear photo
Tomorrow afternoon at 3:30 in the RHS cafeteria, all SGC members and all who want to get involved in Rockland’s Student Government will have the opportunity to vote on the upcoming year’s Big Five positions.
Each candidate for each position will have to give a speech in hopes to receive your vote. Once all the speeches are done, all who attend will get to vote for each student they see fit for each position.
This year running for Big Five positions are:
President:
- Pre-Determined to be Hannah Murphy
Vice President:
- Jill Donahue
- Chris Penney
Treasurer:
- Jasmin Morse
- Macie Jones
- Sydney McKenna
Secretary:
- Caitlin Cameron
- Jaymie Atkins
Publicity Coordinator: This position is a write in and will not be voted on but determined by the advisors and President
- Francisco Oliveira
- Sydney McKenna
Senior Awards Night, Thursday, June 1
Matt Dunn receives the prestigious silver bowl for earning eight varsity letters in four year of athletics at RHS.
The annual Senior Awards night took place on Thursday, June 1. This year the Athletic Awards were also given along with the traditional Baccalaureate and Scholarship Awards.
The awards part of the evening began with Athletic Director Gary Graziano recognizing recipients of Senior Athletic Achievement Awards.
They included:
Woman’s Coaches Award (Senior female student/athlete) – Kaylee Patten
Vicki Solari Award (Most inspirational female athlete) – Noelle Atkins
Senior Female Athlete Award (Top senior female athlete) – Emily Beatrice
Marion Mansfield Donovan Award (Top female student/athlete) – Julia DiCienzo
John Bell Bulldog Award (Female athlete who plays over and above abilities) – Jessica Lutts
John Bell Bulldog Award (Male athlete who plays over and above abilities) – John MacDonald
Peter J. Crowley Award (Top senior male athlete) – Matt Dunn
Chris McHugh receives the Joseph Dondero Award from Rich MacAllister
Joseph Dondero Award (Top male student/athlete) – Christopher McHugh
Louis Cifello Award (Most inspirational male athlete) – John Goode
Dr. Joseph Dunn Award (Top student/athlete football player) – Matt Dunn
Warren Najarian Bulldog Pride Award (Male and female athletes who never give up) – Bridget Reardon and Jake Crawford
John Delorey Award (Male and female athletes who exemplifies sportsmanship) – Hannah Millen and Leo Field
Robert Ellis Award (Top male student / athlete basketball player) – Mo Youssef
Charles E. Leverone Awards (Top male and female track or cross country runners) – Matthew Rocha
Silver Bowl Winner: Matthew Dunn
Old Colony Post 1788’s and United States Army veteran, Jeffrey Najarian presents Brian McCullogh and Renata Batista with cords signifying their entering the military after graduation.
Military Awards: Three seniors who are going directly into the military after graduation were recognized. Jeffrey Najarian of Old Colony Post 1788 presented the awards to Brian McCullough, United States Marines, and Renata Batista, United States Army. The third senior is Jessica Cameron, United States Navy.
The Art Department gave certificates of achievement to artists Hannah Millen, Colleen Burke and Alexa Leduc.
Journalism Awards were given to Veritas editors, <strong>Sophie McLellan and Sean Vo</strong>. Sports Editor and writer, <strong>Joe Taft</strong> received a Special Achievement Award from the New England Scholastic Press Association.
The Ronald Reagan Student Leader Award was given to Shawn Ward
Colleen McCarthy receives her Academic Letter Award at the Senior Awards Banquet, Veritas photo
Senior Academic Letters were awarded to Emily Delaney, Colleen McCarthy, Vivian Nguyen, Kelsey Willett and Mohamed Youssef
Community Service Awards went to Adam Royle and Julia DiCienzo
Excellence in Mathematics Awards were received by Luana Lima and Vivian Nguyen
The John Philip Sousa Band Award was presented to Michael Belmonte
High Honors for the first three terms – Luana Lima
Scholarship Awards were as follows:
Patrick J. Sullian Memorial Scholarship: Alexa Murphy
The Quirk Family presented five seniors with “The Good Guy” Scholarship in memory of Jared Lewis Quirk. From left: Matt Dunn, Alexa Murphy, Regina Quirk, Ryan Quirk, Quirk, Mike McPeck, Ryan Leavitt. Missing from picture is Mitchell Ryan. photo Laurie Dunn
“The Good Guy” Scholarship in memory of Jared Lewis Quirk: Ryan Leavitt, Lexi Murphy, Matt Dunn, Mike McPeck, Mitchell Ryan
Christine J. Biggins Memorial Scholarship: Sara Boucher
George and Betty Domigan Memorial Scholarship: Kelsey Willett
Leo Field receives the Jimbo Award Scholarship from Jimmy Cahill
The Jimbo Award: Leo Field
The John Mahoney Memorial Scholarship: Mohammed Youssef
The Rockland/Hanson Rotary Community Service Scholarship: Taylor Gallagher
The Edward Sokolowski Award: Lauren Zaremba
The Reuben A. and Lizzie Grossman Foundation Award: Noelle Atkins and Matt Dunn
Mr. Rockland Award: Ryan Leavitt
Share the Spirit Award: Taylor Gallagher
Spellman Oratorical Scholarship Awards: Jurnee Dunn, Jessica Lutts, Sophie McLellan, Evan Murphy, Emily Delaney, Luana Lima, Michael Belmonte and Lauren Zaremba.
Academic Achievement Awards were presented by teachers and department heads in each department.
The Art Department presented their Academic Achievement awards to Shawn Ward and Hannah Millen.
The Communication and Digital Media Department presented their award to Sean Vo.
Shannon Lindahl receives the English Department’s Academic Achievement Award
The English Department recognized Shannon Lindahl.
The Family and Consumer Science Department presented their award to Adam Royle.
The Health Department presented their awards to Jakigh Marcelin and Rachel Buker.
The Social Science/History Department recognized Noelle Atkins and Sydney Wells as their Academic Achievement winners.
The Mathematics Department recognized Luana Lima.
The Physical Education Department presented their award to Cornell McWilliams II.
The Pre-Engineering and Robotics Department recognized Christopher McHugh and Brian McLaughlin.
The Science Department presented their award to Kaylee Patten and Kelsey Willett.
Tim Kane received an award as the top academic achiever in the Technical Education department.
The Technical Education department presented their award to Timothy Kane and James Sheehan.
The World Language Department recognized two students. In French, Leonard Field III received the Academic Achievement Award. The Spanish department presented their award to Lauren Zaremba.
Several seniors were Multi-Award winners.
Michael Belmonte Jr. was recognized by both the Computer Science and Music Departments.
Jessica Lutts was recognized by the English and Mathematics Department.
Emily Beatrice was recognized by the Family and Consumer Science Department and Physical Education Department.
The Communication/Digital Media and Music Departments recognized Sophie McLellan.
The Massachusetts Secondary School Administrators’ Association Student Achievement Award – Principal’s Award went to Noelle Atkins
The Massachusetts Association of School Superintendent’s Academic Excellence Award was presented to Luana Lima
The final “award” was the dedication of the yearbook to English teacher, Amanda McDonough and to Jimmy Cahill. Matt Dunn, Mike McPeck and Megan Saucier made the presentations.
Class of 2017 Graduation
photo by Austin Wood
Jasmin Morse, Veritas Web Editor
6-5-17
On last Friday, June 2, at 7 pm at the Veterans’ Memorial Stadium, the Class of 2017 took their final walks across the field to grab their diplomas and throw their caps in their final step to completing their high school education.The rain held off long enough for one of the last groups born in the 1900s to graduate.
The senior gift presented by 2017 Vice President, Colleen McCarthy was passed down to the junior class President, Hannah Boben. It was a bronze bulldog, a symbol of RHS representing each graduating class.
During the ceremony, the RHS Band played “German Dance” by, Ludwig Van Beethoven, and the Recessional “Pomp and Circumstance”.
At the graduation, there were several speakers who spoke about “Bulldog Pride”, how the graduating class can make a change in the world, and the changing world they’re being sent off to.
These included 2016-2017 Class President, Kaylee Patten, Valedictorian, Luana Lima, freshman biology teacher, Julia DiCanzio, and RPS Superintendent, Dr. Allan Cron.
Principal Dr. John Harrison announced the Rockland Citizens’ Scholarship Foundation Award winners, and prior to the presentation of diplomas, School Committee Vice Chairman, Richard Phelps said a few words about Bulldog Pride.
While Dr. Harrison called the graduates’ names and spoke about their plans, Mr. Phelps, Vice Principal of RHS, Kathleen Paulding, Guidance Director Margaret Black, and Senior Class Advisor, Samantha Hoyo presented the seniors with their diplomas and handshakes.
The following links will take you to our photo galleries: Pre-Graduation and the Graduation Ceremony.
Final look at the School Year of the Graduating Class of 2017
The following is a photo gallery that covers the Class of 2017’s senior year as photographed by Veritas photographers.
Come support the class of 2017 one last time at their graduation tonight in the Veterans’ Memorial Stadium at 7 pm.
Veritas News June 1, 2017
The Veritas News is produced by the Journalism class.
In the control room were Jayden Libby, producer, Sammi Nachtman, graphics, Jaylen Haltiwanger, audio, Grace LaPlante , teleprompter, and Brittany Keefe, tape feeder.
On camera were Jake Lauria, Liam Lenihan, and Juliana Smith.
Anchors were Jasmin Morse and Julian Tarpey.
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