SCHOOL NEWS
PEER Leadership
By: Maeve Ramirez
This year, Peer Leadership decided to host a Door Decorating Contest around the school. The theme given was “All You Need is Love” and the students took the idea and ran with it. With fifteen doors having been decorated in the day that the groups of four to five students were given love, positivity, and kindness had been spread throughout the halls of Secaucus High School, which is exactly the message Peer Leadership was hoping to spread. Once the doors were decorated a panel of five judges, made up of teachers, went around the school to figure out who would win the contest. All the doors were rather beautiful, but the judges decided that the group of seniors that had decorated Mr. Kelly’s door was the one to come out on top and win the contest. The winning door represented everything that Peer Leadership was hoping to portray in their message and the school certainly hopes to do the contest again next year, so the upcoming students will be able to spread the same message of love, positivity, and kindness.
On Friday, January 31st from 5:30-9 :00PM, S.A.I.L. and Rotary Interact students volunteered at the VFW for the 1st Annual Firehouse Meatball Contest. Students helped to set-up for the event, serve food and drinks and clean-up.
On February 5th, students from SHS SAIL participated in their monthly reading buddies program at the Secaucus Public Library.
On March 4th, students from SHS SAIL participated in their monthly reading buddies program at the Secaucus Public Library.
SHS Drama Society
By: Krystal Lai, Melany Cerces, Khushboo Patel
The Secaucus High School Drama Society will be presenting the Shakespeare Gallery as their next project this spring. Students interested in reenacting a scene from one of Shakespeare’s plays will perform their scene simultaneously amongst other segments. Sophomore Milene Escoto is doing Act II Scene V from Shakespeare’s comedy As You Like It. Being a Drama Club member since fall this school year, she regards that “going into the drama club earlier this year, I was very inexperienced with theatre...Even though I was only an understudy the first time, I feel I learned just by watching the main cast rehearse and being there to listen to Mr. Buckley’s advice. Going into it the second time, I feel much more comfortable about it all.” Milene looks forward to this spring and her involvement with the Drama Society, hoping that the Shakespeare Gallery will grant her more knowledge in acting.
Catherine Diaz, another student from the Drama Society, is playing the scene from Macbeth, which includes the three witches. When thinking about her first experience in the Drama society, she said “I had a small monologue in The Mousetrap… but now I have a larger speaking role in this Shakespeare Gallery which is different for me.” Diaz went from small roles to major roles which made her feel accomplished. “As an actor, I know how to emote and be bolder with character choices,” said Catherine with a confident smile. When talking about difficulties she faced, Diaz said, “I am a small bean, and I do not have a wide range for characters such as villains and young teenagers.” Diaz said that she purposely chose this scene to do it with her sister and some of her close friends. When talking about how she felt about this play she said with a radiant smile, “This play… even though it’s entirely cursed… has a special place in my heart.” Diaz looks forward to acting and performing this scene at the Shakespeare Gallery.