Features February 28, 2014
Enter Boone Man
As a teacher of AP Statistics, students flock to David Boone’s classroom each day for help. “It’s a great place to teach. The kids are very academically inclined, they enjoy the challenge,” said Boone, who is in his ninth year at Edina High School. “[Mr. Boone] is my boy. I love that guy,” said sophomore Tyler Eckberg. In addition to being a teacher at EHS, Boone is the head coach of the Edina Track and Field team, where he sent two athletes to the state meet last year. “I was the head coach at Cooper before coming here, then I assisted when Jamie [Kirkpatrick] was the head coach. When Jamie wanted to step down, it felt right to step forward and be the head coach,” said Boone. If you’ve seen Mr. Boone recently, you know his legendary beard and all of its alluring mystery. “It all started with No Shave November… I have done that for several years. Or some years I will start the beard in January and call it Manuary. I kind of strung it together from Novembeard to Decembeard to Manuary. . . to, I dunno, I gotta figure out what February is,” said Boone. He says his goal is to one day have a Duck Dynasty-style beard. Mr. Boone attended high school at Winona Senior High, and was a basketball, football, and track athlete. “I liked photo by Bridgit Loeffelholz football for the team aspect, but I also liked track and field for the individual accolades,” said Boone. Upon graduating in 1988, Boone attended college at Winona State University. He then received two Master’s degrees from St. Mary’s and St. Thomas. In his free time, Boone enjoys attending his daughter’s activities: soccer games, orchestra concerts, and more. “With friends … I like going to smaller venues like the Cedar Cultural Center or the Dakota Jazz Club,” said Boone. If you’ve had Boone as a teacher, you probably know his famous YouTube videos about math. With party favorites like “Sweet Asymptotes,” and ‘Letter e,’ there’s no way not to love them. He’s working on some new material, too. “[I have] some ideas in the works, the song ‘My First Kiss’ is ‘My First Test,’ and the song ‘Enter Sandman’ is ‘Enter Statman.’ Both these songs are written already,” said Boone. Noah Chestler, staff writer
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(This One Time at Band Camp...) Even midyear, stories of Band Camp still make students laugh. Here, some bandies share their funny stories of what happens at Band Camp:
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“This one time at band camp, my dad (a social studies teacher at EHS) was taking me to the last band party, and upon seeing the house, remarked that they would be ‘the first against the wall when the revolution comes.’ Of course I reminded him to ‘take it down a notch, comrade’ and that ‘maybe we should skip over the communism lecture this year.’” - sophomore Lucas Baron “My fave memory is the annual very competitive and violent game of Red Rover between the saxophones and the baritones.” - senior Ben Kilberg “Someone got asked to homecoming, which was kind of funny.” -sophomore Catherine Lee “The drum majors (myself included) wrote swag on everything... we make all of the posters for welcoming kids and we make our own costumes for the dress up days so we tried to hide the word swag in everything.” -senior Jack Halverson “Sophomore year band camp I thought Armeen Shahriar and Isaac Chestler were the same person.” -senior Bridget Jensen “This one time, we realized at 12:58 that we had to be back at school by 1 p.m., so that’s how I wound up in Ben Kilberg’s car going 70 mph on Valley View. It was terrifying.” -senior Micah Osler Hannah Sommerville, managing editor
“Cook-ing” Up Some Fresh, Hot Guitar Chords
He roams the halls and strums his guitar, entertaining all those who are lucky enough to be in a classroom he chooses to visit. Is he strumming more than just his guitar, though? Perhaps he’s strumming our heartstrings too. His name is Alec Cook, and he is a guitar man (among many other things). Now sit back and soak in some of his thoughts on the whole matter. “I’ve been playing guitar for about five years,” said Cook. “I took lessons for a while, and then my teacher moved away so I got a new teacher, and eventually I got to be as good as that teacher so we stopped going to that guy.” He obviously had some guitar experience, and the whole thing started when Cook was bored in music class one day back in sophomore year. “I was bored... so I just started walking around with the guitar,” said Cook. The initial reaction was positive, so Cook began to walk around with his guitar every Friday. Cook always has an open hour in his schedule, so now he walks around whenever he “deems it necessary to sing to the merry folk of Edina High School.” There are different reactions whenever Cook enters a classroom. “Usually the teachers find it really funny, or
are [mean] and don’t let me in,” said Cook. Cook says his main influences are “the Christian God, number one. And then probably Satan as number two because without Satan, God would have nothing to do... three, I’ll go Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin. Four, Jimi Hendrix. Five, Flight of the Conchords.” After some more thinking he added, “actually, no, put Jimi first because Jimi and God are interchangeable.” Cook wants people to understand is that there’s more than meets the eye. He doesn’t want to be remembered as just “the guy who walked around with a guitar sometimes.” To some people (his parents), he’s a son. To other people, he’s a pal. And to the hordes of people he charms with his sweet chords and licks, he’s a guitar man. And his best advice? “Be yourself.” Griffin Thompson, staff writer
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