Septentrion - Bayfield School District

“News of the North”
Published by the
Bayfield High School
P.O. Box 5001
Bayfield, WI 54814
Septentrion
May 2008
Teachers get active in
sesquicentennial
By: Camille Bohnert
Teachers around the
school got very involved
with the sesquicentennial.
While approaching the
actual date, projects from
all grades filled the halls
to show support for the
event. Mrs. Eid had her
students make a picture
of what hey thought the
school would look like in
the future. That hallway
incorporated the future
theme of “treasuring
the past celebrating the
present and shaping the
future”. A time machine
made by high school
students was placed at the
beginning of the hall to
represent the feeling of
entering the future. The
stairwell and hallway
were filled with the
student’s artwork of our
future Bayfield School.
The area around the
Spanish room was filled
with “art of the future”.
Students were asked
to take Spanish art and
remake it in a futuristic
style. These pieces were
also hung in the hall. Mr.
Haiden’s contribution
to the hallway was
“the hands shaping our
future”. He filled the hall
with black and white
photos of student’s hands.
The hands in the photos
represent the students in
Bayfield School who will
someday be the minds of
our future. Looking back
at 150 years of Bayfield
Schools makes us wonder
what the future has in
store.
For more pictures see
page 5
NHS Induction
Z. Boutin
On Wednesday, April 23, the new NHS members were inducted. The new members
were Joe DePerry, Jesse Flores, Jared Blanche, Mike Montano, Justine Ringberg,
and Lena Ludwig. These students were picked for their academics and for their
services to the community.
To start off the ceremony Mr. Hay, NHS advisor, gave a brief introduction
to the program and then let everyone eat. The old members, Peter Atkins, Zach
Boutin, Forrest Howk, Rita Carlson, Ali Erickson, Malia North, Ali Erickson, and
Weston Thier, served the inductees lasagna, salad, garlic bread and punch. Once
everyone had finished eating Rita Carlson, president of NHS, gave a speech on the
things that the group had accomplished this year including highway clean up, blood
drive, clothing drive, etc. After Rita was done, Malia, Ali, Forrest and Weston read
a short paragraph explaining what NHS is all about. When they were finished Rita
got back up to the podium and had the new inductees recite the NHS pledge. Mr.
Hay then gave the new members their certificates, pins, and a rose. Afterwards the
old members cut and served the cake to the new inductees and their parents. Congratulations to all the new members!
Class Trip 2008
Bayfield, Wisconsin-Minneapolis,
Minnesota
Attention Soccer Players
Depart Bayfield High School
11:00AM
Arrive Como Zoo
3:00PM
Return to hotel and get ready for Guthrie Theatre
5:00PM
Dinner
7:30PM
Gutherie Theater
A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare
After Guthrie show
Return to Hotel
11:00PM
In rooms
Fab Four
By Forrest Howk
For all of you fanatics of futbol out there here’s a
news flash. There is talk of constructing a co-ed
By Forrest Howk
U-19 soccer team this summer to play in weekend
tournaments. Which would be cool don’t get me
As the end of the year approaches, all of us are lookwrong, but I suggest not holding your breath. The
ing forward to the freedom of summer. As a member
fact is that thee are not that many U-19 soccer
of the 12th grade, I am also looking forward to never
attending a class in this building ever again. But
teams in the area and it would be hard to find
before we seniors break out of the confines of high
a boys soccer team that wouldn’t be afraid of
school, we are able to enjoy the fruits of our hard labor getting their butt kicked by a team with girls on it.
in the form of our senior class trip. The following is
So in the meantime, if you have a
the itinerary for our scheduled activities for when we
hankering to kick around the old “goat bladder”,
visit the Twin Cities this May.
every Sunday at the Washburn soccer field there
May 29th 2008
will be a pick up game at 3 pm. Hope to see you
there to show Washburn how to play soccer.
6:00AM
May 30th 2008
Breakfast at Hotel
10:00 AM
Leave for Valley Fair
11:00AM -4:00PM
Valley Fair
Lunch at Valley Fair
5:30 PM
Dinner
7:05 PM
Hubert H. Humphery Metrodome
Minnesota Twins vs New York Yankees
After Game
Depart for home
M. Gordon
There are only 4 teams left to take home the Stanley
Cup. The teams that are playing from the East are
the (#6) Philadelphia Flyers vs. (#2) Pittsburg Penguins and from the West is (#5) Dallas Stars vs. (#1)
Detroit Redwings. These teams came along way to
come to this spot in the tournament and the winner
of these games in a 7 game series will go on to play
for the Stanley Cup. The Philadelphia Flyers came a
long ways by impressively taking out the number 1
seed Montreal Canadians and now playing the 2 seed
Pittsburg and for the Dallas Stars their run was pretty
impressive to by knocking out the 2 seed San Jose and
playing the top dog now the Detroit Redwings. These
games should be fun to watch because these teams are
good and they play all out the whole game.
Birthdays for the Month
of May
By M.Gordon
5/02/90
5/04/90
5/11/91
5/15/91
5/22/91
5/26/93
5/27/90
5/29/91
5/30/90
Reva Pallas
John Burg
Andrea Peterson
William Gordon
Jared Blanche
Brittany Gordon
Anthony Bresette
Ariel Newago
Alison Erickson
How to Make School Better
John Burg
School isn’t very fun to say the least, so I started to
think about how to make it more fun including both
fantasy and reality based answers. But like a good
reporter should, I took the question to the people to
see what they thought.
Derrick Crozier- “better breakfasts”
Forrest Howk- “fill it with water and give us SCUBA
tanks.”
Joe DePerry- “have a cookie machine and a milk
fountain next to it.”
Peter Atkins- “take the roof off, have unlimited food,
and shorten the school year.”
Zach Boutin- “give us food, shorten school day and
the length.”
Camille Bohnert- “more food.”
Josh LaFernier- “unblock all the websites and let us
wear hats.”
Asst. Child Care Teacher class
gets hands-on experience
By S. Cadotte
The assistant child care teacher class has been
planning activities for the head start in Red Cliff and
Bayfield. The people in the class are Juliet D, Josh I,
Brittany B, Reva P, Malia N, and me, Shyanna.
The first project that Juliet and I did was have
all the little ones make a kite so they could go and
fly it on the windy day. Reva and Malia cut out egg
cartons and made them into caterpillars to paint them.
Josh and Brittany played music on Josh’s guitar and
sang some songs. All the little kiddies enjoyed all the
activities that we shared with them.
The ACCT class loved playing with the little
ones so much that Reva, Malia, Brittany, and I stayed
until 11:30. We played outside in the sand box with
all the trucks and also with the bouncy balls. Inside
there are play corners called block area, reading, the
kitchen, the water table, and the art area. The time
flew by so fast, by 11:30 in was their snack time and
our time to leave.
Elementary Fitness Day
By: Derrick Crozier
On April 25, 2008 Mrs. Belanger had a fitness
day with the elementary kids, which went from 8:30 to
11:30. Every elementary class got a chance to come
in and try different fitness things, starting off with
the kindergartners going all the way up to fifth grade.
Not everybody got to do everything, but some of the
things the kids got to try were tug-o-war, jump rope,
hoola-hoop, running from side to side in the gym, and
jumping with taninkling sticks. As the grades went
higher they tried harder workouts. Once they were
done with their workout the kids got to go out and
make a healthy salad for themselves. Each kid learned
that they should keep their heart rate 100-150 for 15
minutes a day, at the end each kid looked like they
were enjoying themselves.
Ghastly Prices
P. Atkins
New Coffee Corner
P. Atkins
In the last couple of weeks the Bayfield School
Library has been transformed from the nerds’ nook to
hippest hangout in the school. In an attempt to bring
more students into the library, Library aide Vicki
Tribovich and librarian Shelly Swanson have added
comfy reading chairs and a coffee corner. After visiting
other high school libraries Swanson decided that
Bayfield’s library was overdue for some improvement.
They also plan to update the book collection and order a
flat screen television that will show the news.
Lots of students who don’t normally venture into
the library were drawn in by the lure of fresh coffee,
many of them also checked out books. The coffee
corner serves several types of coffee, cappuccino, and
condiments for the cost of a couple quarters. Tables are
coming soon. Soon students and teachers will be able
to sit and sip coffee, while watching the morning news.
Make sure you stop by the library and pick up a book
and a cup of coffee, just remember that the coffee is a
privilege that should not be abused.
One year ago, oil was selling for $60 a
barrel. Now the price has doubled, it is over $120 a
barrel due to declining oil production and increased
demand in China and India. The increase in crude
oil prices has translated into much higher gasoline
prices. The national average price for a gallon of
regular gas is currently $3.61 and rising. Over
$4.00 a gallon is predicted for the near future,
though it could be worse. In England gasoline costs
around $5.50 a gallon.
The rising price of gas definitely makes
an impact on drivers. When it costs $40 to fill up
your car, and even more to quench the thirst of
larger gas guzzlers, people are thinking more before
they drive. Airline ticket prices are also going up.
Fewer people may be taking those vacations to
the Bahamas, opting instead for the local polluted
beach.
The high gas prices do have some positives,
though. People will be more energy conscientious.
Hopefully car companies will start to make more
efficient cars and find alternative power sources.
People will car pool and take public transportation
to save gas. Walk and biking will become more
popular, not only helping to save gas, but also to
lower obesity rates.
Calendar of Events
By: L. DeFoe
May 10- Prom
May 12- ASVAB Test
May 14- Jr. / Sr. Banquet 3:00 pm- 8:00 pm
May 14- NHS Blood Drive 8:00 am- 3:00 pm
May 20- Spring Band Concert 6:30 pm
May 26- NO SCHOOL Memorial Day
May 27- Spring Choral Concert 6:30 pm
June 2- Athletic Awards 6:00 pm- 8:00 pm
June 3- High School Awards
June 5- Graduation Practice 7:30 am-Noon
June 5- Citizenship Awards 1:30 pm- 3:00 pm
June 6- Kindergarten Graduation 9:30 am- 10:30 am
June 7- High School Graduation ALL DAY
June 9- School Board Meeting 5:30 pm- 8:30 pm
June 9- 8th Grade Graduation 2:00 pm- 7:00 pm
June 10- Last Day of School for grades 1-11/ End of
4th quarter/semester
Our shared planet comes to Bayfield
for Earth day
by: Camille Bohnert
Jim Ramsdell,
the creator of Our Shared
Planet came to Bayfield
to share his story last
month on Earth Day. He
is a self-taught artist who
discovered his gift of
wood carving during the
ten years he was living
in Alaska. He created
Our Shared Planet to
teach people to be aware
of the world around us
and also the beauty of its
creatures. The first day
of Jim’s visit to the high
school was a presentation
of some of his art work
and a slideshow of his
life changing journey.
He shared his story with
pictures of beautiful
Alaskan scenery and
examples of how he
discovered his talents. He
has done unbelievably
realistic carvings of
animals such as the redtailed hawk, salmon,
toucans, the river otter,
the orca whale and many
more. The second day
here, he gave students
a taste of his everyday
life by teaching about
his carving and painting
techniques. Each student
was also given a carved
feather that they could
paint on their own. “I
painted my feather with
delicate, intricate strokes
that created a thing of
beauty, the likes of which
have never been seen on
this earth before,” said
John Burg. Not every
student was as moved as
John but the presentation
was very enjoyable
for everyone. “I really
liked the sculptures,”
said Peter Atkins. “They
looked so real I thought
they could break off the
wood and crawl into the
wilderness.”
More pictures from the
sesquicentennial
A Thing of Beauty
Horticulture
By: Derrick Crozier
The students in Mr.
O’Neill’s horticulture
class are trying to make
a garden of flowers and
vegetables in the school
yard. His students have
been working hard trying
to get this done by the
end of the year. They
started by planting inside
the class in a homemade
greenhouse. Now his
class is going to start
building a greenhouse
on the side of the Tech
Ed building, which will
P. Atkins
hopefully be finished by
next year with the next
class. Earlier in the year
they went to the Blue
Vista Farm, where Eric
Carlson showed students
different way to prune
apple trees. They went
to another orchard and
pruned the trees, which
hadn’t been pruned
in a while. Overall,
Mr. O’Neill hopes to
accomplish having a
greenhouse and a separate
garden.
What Would Shamu Want?
By Forrest Howk
While on my recent trip to Orlando, Florida to
compete in the Junior Science and Humanities
Symposium, I was able to visit the well known
amusement park, Sea World. Throughout the
park, the animals and the tricks they were taught
were very impressive. But at the same time I
couldn’t help but wonder what the quality of life
is for the animals displayed in the exhibits and
shows. I am sure they are fed well and taken care
of, but nothing can match or amount to the life
they could have outside the oversized aquariums
at Sea World.
The most well known example of this limited way of life is the crown jewel of Sea World,
the killer whale Shamu. The park has gone
through its number of Shamus over the years but
has gone through even more controversies. There
has been the continuous question of “What would
Shamu want?”
I decided to ask this question to the students of Bayfield High School. Senior John Burg
believes that “It is an absolute disgrace that this
beautiful animal should pent up and paraded
around like a monkey with cymbals.” Many at
Bayfield seem to agree with this view. Out of
ten students, it was a unanimous decision that
the current Shamu and those to come should be
released to the wild or have their current living
conditions dramatically improved.
Northern Wisconsin’s most dangerous band
proved yet again that they are in fact very dangerous.
On Monday, April 21 the Bayfield High School
traveled to Hayward to compete in the large group
music contest. Under the direction of Jeff Wenz, the
band played three pieces for a group of three judges.
The first number was “Princeton Variations” by David
Shaffer, followed by the required piece “Cajun Folk
Songs” (class B) by Frank Ticheli. The band finished
off the performance with a John Philip Sousa march,
“Black Horse Troop.” All of them gave us a rating of
one, which is the best. “I was pleased with the way
we played,” said Wenz, “I thought we sounded really
good.” If you want to hear the band play for yourself,
there will be a concert on May 20th .
State Solo
Ensemble
By A. Butterfield
On May 2nd and
3rd, high school students
participating in the solo
ensemble traveled to
Eau Claire for the state
competition. There were
a total of nine students
who attended. They
were Weston Thier,
Alex Butterfield, Lori
Barningham, Skarlette
Newago, Britany Bonney,
Andrea Peterson, Sasheen
Goslin, Gena Gephart and
Justine Ringberg. The
triple trio and two soloists
made it to the state
competition. The soloists
where Gena Gephart and
Lori Barningham. Weston
was the accompanist for
the soloists and the triple
trio, and he also went to
compete doing a piano
solo.
First up was Gena
doing her solo. She did
awesome! Everyone
did, and she received
a second. Next up was
Weston Thier doing
his piano solo. He was
amazing, like all his
other performances, and
Weston got a first. Then,
it was the triple trio doing
their two songs. Things
went really well, and they
got a first as well. Last,
but most certainly not
least, was Lori singing
her solo. Her performance
was great and she
received a first. Everyone
did really well and we
were all very happy for
everyone and the results.
Electrathon’s big race
Trollers Take The Field
By. Shawn Hanson & Joe Newago
On Sunday, April 27, the Bayfield electrathon
team packed their three cars into the team trailer, got
into the school pickup, and headed off to Road America
in Elkhart Lake. The team arrived at Road America
at 2:30 pm. After the team unloaded their cars, they
brought their cars to inspections. All three cars had
problems during the inspections. Some of the problems
are too small of a brake light, brake light not working,
loose wires, and no pin through the axle. After the team
found out what was wrong with their cars, they fixed
the problems and passed the inspections. Next was the
braking contest. All three cars competed but all three
failed because none of the cars could stop in less than
25 feet. After the braking contest, the team put the cars
back into the trailer and the pickup so they could fix
the cars at the hotel. At the hotel the team fixed the cars
as best as they could for the big race the next day. The
next morning it was raining and on our way back to
the track, it started snowing. After a couple of hours at
the track, the team decided to head back home because
the cars can’t race cars when the track is wet. The next
two days the team fixed the cars the right way. Now the
team is getting ready for the next race on May 3rd.
by Weston Thier
The Trollers baseball team finally got their
spikes dirty this past week after a long-awaited
and delayed opening to the season. Bayfield’s first
three games of the season were cancelled/rescheduled due to weather and field conditions. A couple
weeks and a cancelled tournament later, their
record sits at 2-2 after 4 games. They opened the
season with two strong conference wins.
Other teams got a look at the Trollers bats in their
first game, a 12-2 six inning rout of Washburn, in
which their starter hurled 4 scoreless innings, collecting 8 strikeouts in the process. In the second
game, Forrest Howk went the distance (7 innings)
in an 8-3 win over Drummond.
Plagued by injuries and other factors which
kept some key players out for the next two games,
their record now stands at 2-2. They plan to get
back in the win column soon though, with key conference games against Mellen, Butternut/Glidden,
and Solon Springs.
If you can make it to the field, stop up and
watch Trollers on their quest toward postseason
glory.
Girls Soccer
By Alex B
This years girls soccer team
is great. They work together and try
their best. The opponents this year
are rather tough, but the team pulls
through. They are not taking home
the joy of winning, but they always
play a great game.
Just this past week, the
soccer girls had a total of three
games, all played on our field. They
were against Superior, Washburn,
and Ironwood. Those games were
very intense. They were rather
close in all, but the team did not get
the victory they wanted.
Next week the team will go
Allyssa going to punt
against Three Lakes and Ashland.
out the ball.
Rita going in for the steal.
500 Cupcakes!!!
Z. Boutin
Who needs 500 cupcakes? Apparently the school does.
Mrs. K was asked to make enough cupcakes to pass out
to every kid in the school on Thursday May 1 for the
sesquicentennial. So on Wednesday, she had all of her
classes bake and frost the cupcakes. The morning classes started as soon as the first hour bell rang and managed to bake over 500 cupcakes by lunch time. That
left the frosting to the 6th and 7th hour class. There
was a little bit of a delay in the frosting part because the
class ran out of powdered sugar, but Mrs. K solved that
problem by running down to the store and buying more.
The class wasn’t able to frost 500 cupcakes in the two
hour time frame. So, a couple of kids stayed after class
to finish the job and had 15 minutes to spare before the
end of the day. So, if you plan on baking 500 cupcakes,
you shouldn’t schedule anything else for the rest of the
day.
Bayfield creates time capsule to be
opened in 50 years!
By: Camille Bohnert
In honor of the
sesquicentennial on May
1st , Bayfield students
put together a time
capsule to be opened
in 50 years! Each class
from the seniors down
to the kindergarten
put an item in the time
capsule on the morning
of the sesquicentennial
celebration. The
elementary students and
representatives from the
middle school and high
school gathered in the
cafeteria to drop their
items in the box. The
morning started with the
kindergarten class and
the elementary island
students giving May
Day baskets to board
members, teachers and
other adults involved
with the school to thank
them. Each student had
a May Day basket made
for their person in honor
of the special celebration.
Following this, the
state superintendent
Elizabeth Burmaster
spoke to the students and
Michael Charette played
a flute solo. After this
representatives from each
grade except the high
school went up one at a
time to put their items
in the time capsule. The
K - 8th grade items were:
Kindergarten: Gears
1st: 2007 and 2008 change
2nd: stickers and legos
3rd: Friendship pins
4th: Postcard of their favorite things
5th: Picture book
6th: catalogue of their favorite things from 2008
7th: CD with popular songs
8th: Photo album.
Island students: Island gazette and class newspaper
Superintendent: New York Times and National
Inquirer featuring Bayfield school article
Horoscopes
Virgo
You may have to be just
a bit heartless today if
Taurus
You feel a bit out of sorts, you want to take care
but it’s not so bad. In fact, of the business that you
know needs to be finished
you might really like it!
You’ve got plenty of great up right away. Someone
needs to hear the ugly
mental energy and might
find yourself racing ahead truth, so get it over with
quickly.
of your usual chores or
Libra
routines.
You’ve got to get
Gemini
something off of your
You usually know just
what to say to people and chest, but there may not
be someone obvious to
today is no exception -tell. You may just need to
in fact, if anything, your
pick someone at random
verbal skills are even
or even post it on a
sharper! See if you can
blog -- or come up with
find a new spin to put on
something even more
yesterday’s news.
creative!
Cancer
Scorpio
There are issues on the
You may be a little
table that nobody is
confused over some new
dealing with, so you’ve
got to roll up your sleeves aspect of your work or
home situation, but if
and get to work. You
you keep looking, you’ll
may find that people are
eventually see that there’s
less likely to complain
one tiny detail out of
and just follow your lead
place that should explain
instead.
it all.
Leo
Sagittarius
You may be stymied
Even through things
about how to proceed
seem pretty hairy, you
with your latest plan, but
can tell that you can shift
discussion should yield
the situation in the right
brilliant results. Friends
direction. Just try not to
and coworkers are all
step on anyone’s toes if
fired up, even if their
you can help it! Things
enthusiasm seems muted
ought to settle down
at first.
Brewers Baseball ten games they have had
two wins against eight
By John Burg
The high hopes that I, and losses dropping their
record to 16-18. They
many, had for the Breware currently five games
ers this season are at this
back in the NL Central.
particular time, in doubt.
They are on a recent slide The biggest blow comes
in which they have lost six with the possible season
straight games. In their last ending injury to up and
soon.
Capricorn
You may have a harder
time concentrating than
usual, but that just means
you’re adapting to the
pace of the day. Other
folks are equally weird,
so you won’t fall behind
and may even come out a
little ahead!
Aquarius
Romance is still in the air
and today is a great time
to meet someone that you
connect with on many
different levels. Look
for those who share your
interests and then watch
out for chemistry!
Pisces
Travel and big moves
aren’t optimal for you
right now, though their
time will come, of
course. If you’re locked
in to something big, just
keep your eyes open and
expect the unexpected.
Aries
You need to speak up
soon -- though that is
rarely a problem for
you. Today is perfect for
communication on just
about any level, from
straight-up conversation
to more subtle body
language.
coming superstar, Yovani
Gallardo. In a freak accident he tore his ACL and
will need surgery. It will
be tough but I have hope
that they can get their act
together and grab the NL
Central title and keep the
World Series dream alive.
April
showers…..
This year that has
meant April floods in
the Northwoods. After
a winter in which we
received a normal or
above average amount of
snowfall, some thought
that the precipitation
would lessen a bit when
a new season arrived. In
fact, since the last big
snowstorm on April 12,
the area has become
saturated with a mix of
snow and rain, systems
moving through the
area as frequently as the
migrating birds.
Although rainy
days and wet conditions
don’t always make for
the best recreational
opportunities, most
residents are not
complaining. Seeing
Lake Superior as low as
it was last year and the
lawns turning brown by
early summer, many feel
that any rain we can get is
going to be good for the
environment, so long as
flooding doesn’t become
too intense in the area
streams.
Still, it has been
hard to forfeit some of
our favorite activities
to the recent rains. For
instance, May 3rd was the
inland fishing opener in
Wisconsin. On Sunday,
May 4th, 2.5”-3” of rain
soaked the area, sending
the rivers of this area
into a frenzied brown
mess and making fishing
impossible in most places
for at least a couple days.
Things are
looking a bit drier
recently though. We have
had only 1/8” of rain in
the past week and people
are finally feeling the
warmth of summer.
By: L. Defoe