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Special thanks to: Cres Ruiz, Javier Mariscal, Jose Lopez Varela, and Peter Montadas
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DINT BODY HAS MANIUVIRID ITSILf TO AN IXALTID POSITION IN IVIRYTHING IT PARTAKIS. BLAMIIT ON OUR ATTINTION TO DITAIL; BLAMI IT ON OUR TALINT POOL; YOU CAN IVIN BLAMI IT ON JUST PURl DIDICATION ... BUT WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT YOU NOTICI THI DISTINCliON. THI BILIN KIY (LOB HAS MIMBIRS HOLDING THI Off ICIS Of DISTRICT LIIUTINANT GOYIRNOR, DISTRICT SICRITARY, DISTRICT GOVIRNOR, INTIRNATIONAL TRUSTII, AND INTI RNATIONAL VICI PRISIDINT. STUDINT COUNCIL HOLDS THI fASC PRISIDINCY fOR AfifTH YIAR. AT THI ACADIMIC AWARDS CIRIMONY, 235 STUDINTS WIRI AWARD 430 HARD-IARNID MIDALS. VARSITY fOOTBALL fiNISHID 8-2. AND RIPRISINTATIVI GASTON (ANTINS, BILIN GRADUATI, WAS RI-ILICTID TO THI fLORIDA HOUSI Of RIPRISINTATIVIS fOR DISTRICT 114. WHAT MORI PROOf COULD YOU POSSIBLY ASK fOR? THIS YIAR CAN ONLY Bl DISCRIBID AS SHINING ... AND IT'S ONLY GITTING BRIGHTIR ...
CARLOS MIRANDA
wINVITE YOU TO LOOK BACK AND RELIVE THOSE OLD DAYS, AND TO GAZE WITH ENTHUSIASM FOR THOSE SOON TO COME. WE, THE PRESENT, ARE AN EX· TENSION OF WHERE IT ALL BEGAN; WE CARRY THE MOMENTUM OF ALL THOSE WHO CAME BEFORE US. AND, WE ALSO BRING SOMETHING UNIQUELY OURS. WE ARE ABOUT IMAGE, COURAGE, QUALITY, AND ULTIMATELY, ABOUT PERFECTION. OUR GOAL IS ABOUT US ALL, ABOUT OUR PARENTS, ABOUT OUR FRIENDS, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY. BUT WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT, OUR PURPOSE IS BEING ACHIEVED, OUR WORK IS PAYING Off. WE'RE GAINING GROUND, WE'RE ON TOP, FOR YOUR GOOD AND OURS•••
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JUST KICKING IT: Eddy Stanley takes it easy on slow days at Publix. "Bagging is a fast and easy way to earn so cash," he said.
A LITTLE CONFUSED: Leo
picks up a bite to eat on the way home from work at
"After working with McDonald's food all day, I have to eat somewhere else ," he said.
Marrero
McDonald's.
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Students join som'e new Dominican Friends
Frankie Larrieu and his parents on their trip to Paris.
Nicolas jimenez stands with his family before going horseback riding.
Senior Carlos Miranda stands in front of the leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.
Senior Paolo Russo stands in front of a popular museum in Italy.
Senior Mauricio Villasuso along with his brother and some friends prep are for a night of c I ubbing in G a I icia, Sa pin.
THE BIG ONE: Senior Manny Larrieu stands over the 851b. yellowfin tuna he caught off the coast of the Harbor Islands.
OUT OF THE BLUE: Junior Chris Fleites checks out the depths of the oceans during the summer.
DOWN BY THE BEACH: Seniors Oscar Peguero, Carlos Gonzalez, and Jimmy Newmeyer spend some time with their girlfriends.
IN THE MIX : Ale x Odriozola " OJ ODRY " worked at many summer partie s helping make those nights unforgettable.
Lu OMI THING Bl KMOWM!! THI WOLVIRIMIS KNOW HOW TO HAn fUM. AmRA YUR Of STRISS AND PRISSURI TO SHIHIIH THI CLASSROOM, WI RICHARGI OUR BATTIRIIS HAVING fUN DURING THI BIST TIMI Of THI YIAR, SUMMIR TIMI. NO MATTIR WHAT IT IS THAT WI DO TO DISCOHHICT fROM THI WORLD, WI GO ALL OUT HAVING ABLAST AT THI VARIOUS HOT SPOTS IN SOUTH fLORIDA. Of COURSI, THI BIACH IS THI HOTliST Of THIM ALL. SOUTH BIACH IS QUill SIMPLY 11 DA BOMB." SUMMIR IS RIGARDID AS SACRID TO US WOLVIRIHIS AND IT IS THI TIMI WI SHIH£ THI MOST. IT DOISH'T IVIH HAVI TO Bl THI BIACH SIHCI MANY TAKI TRIPS TO DIHIRIHT PLACIS AND IHTIRTAIH THIMSHVIS WITH DlffiRIHT 11 fADS" THAT IMIRGI OVIR THI SUMMIR. NO MATTIR WHIRl YOU LOOK, YOU CAN fiND WOLVIRIHI BROTHIRS JUST 11 CHILLIH" AND HANGING OUT IHJOYIHG Llfl.
JIMMY NIWMIYIR
Freshman Jason Machado loves to party all night over the summer with his friends.
Senior Mike Palacio spends some time with his girlfriend on South Beach.
Senior Robert Garcia lends a helping hand to save Danny Adan from drowning in the shallow water.
Senior Alex Odriozola kicking back pool-side with a couple of his friends.
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The Belen Key Clubbers hang out with some students from Lourdes and La Salle at Universal Studios.
he Forensics Club goes to the NCFL Grand National Tournament in New York.
- he Belen Key Club arrives to the convention in full force.
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IT'S FRIDAY NIGUT, YOU'RI HOMI AND THI CLOCK IS TICKING AWAY. AS THE ULTIMATE PROCRASTINATOR MOST STUDENTS TEND TO BE, YOU DECIDE TO JUST GO WITH THE NIGHT AS IT COMES TO YOU. WITHIN FIVE MINUTES YOU'RE ON THE PHONE CALLING UP EVERYONE AND ANYONE TO SEE WHAT PLANS YOU CAN COME UP WITH. WET WILLIES, IMPROVE, 609, AND THE GROVE ARE ALL PART OF THE LIST. 11 AIGHT," THE PLANS ARE SET; ALTHOUGH, THEY WILL CHANGE AS THE NIGHT PROGRESSES. BUT YOU GET DRESSED TO IMPRESS AND TEN MINUTES LATER YOU'RE RACING OUT OF YOUR HOUSE TO PACK AS MUCH FUN INTO YOUR NIGHT, ALL IN AN EFFORT TO KEEP YOU SANE THROUGH THE TEDIUM OF THE COMING WEEK. 11 THE WEEKENDS ARE MY FAVORITE TIME OF THE WEEK," SAID JUNIOR JOSE GARCIA TUNON.
JUAN DIAZ
Sophomore Felipe " Flip " Ojeda stands outside of Joffreys in the Grove with his crew.
Now- A-DAYs ms ARI ASYMBOL oF DISTIHCliON. MANY STUDENTS INVOLVE TIME AND MONEY INTO 11 SUITING UP" THEIR WHEELS. CUSTOM RIMS, EXHAUST, SPOILERS, AND BODY KITS ARE JUST AfEW EXAMPLES Of AfTERMARKET PRODUCTS THAT ARE PUT ON SOME CARS. 111 HAVE CUSTOM RIMS, EXHAUST, SOUND SYSTEM AND ATV. ALL TOGETHER IT COST ME AROUND SAID SENIOR RAMON CREGO. THE BELEN PARKING LOT HOSTS SOME Of THESE UNIQUE CARS. THE MOST NOTABLE ARE SENIORS RAMON CREGO'S AND JAVIER PEREZ'S HONDA ACCORDS AND MANNY LARRIEU'S BMW 323CI. 11THOSE CARS ARE INCREDIBLE. THEY TAKE REAL GOOD CARE Of THEIR CARS," SAID JUNIOR DAVID BOUZA.
Manny Larrieu's Beemer oozes class and style
Senior Javi Perez's sleek Accord is unmistakable on the streets of Miami.
JAVI PEREZ
Ramon Crego ' s Accord with all the goodies!!!
Senior Papo Manrara's unique Ford.
Senior Chuck Lopez's nicely fixed up Integra rides through the parking lot.
Junior Enrique A I a r d's Jetta distinguishes itself from from others.
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TuE MIDDLE scHOOL LIFE MAY SEEEM PRETTY STRAIGHTfORWARD WHEN IN fACT IT IS QUITE COMPLEX. TO PARENTS AND OLDER STUDENTS IT MAY SEEM THEY ·HAVE NO REAL WORRIES OR OBLIGATIONS. BUT fOR MIDDLE SCHOOLERS IT IS ATIME Of fORMATION IN WHICH THEY CREATE THEIR OWN IDENTITIES THROUGH THEIR STRUGGLES IN SCHOOL, fRIENDSHIPS , GIRLS, SPORTS, AND THEIR LifE AT HOME. IT IS ATIME WHEN THEY STRUGGLE WITH AfAST CHANGING LifE IN WHICH BELEN EXPECTS AKID TO BECOME A YOUNG MAN. THE STRUGGLES, EXPERIENCES, AND KNOWLEDGE GIVE WAY TO THE WHAT WE BECOME BECAUSE IT IS WHAT WE ARE.
JAVI PEREZ
.Junior High
Sitting back and enjoying the scenery, Danny Machado chills with a friend.
Senior Ivan Enriquez horses around with some sixth and seventh graders during lunch.
Eighth grader Leo ·Rivera has a blast at the junior High Jam.
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IBUMP IN THE TRUNK: Many students spend large amounts of money and time on their cars. One popular alteration is the sound system.
GETTING PUMPED: Porky's Gym is a favorite place among students who like to work out. One of the perks about Porky's is that it is open 24 hours a day. "I like Porky's because I can take a break from my late night studies and go hit the weights," said senior Danny Masvidal.
LOOK AT 'DEM DAGGERS: Sophomore David Caballero sports his well-trimmed daggers.
RING RING: Cell phones are another form of communication, quite popular with students.
WHO IS BEEPING ME AT 5:46: Many students use beepers as a convenient form of keeping in touch.
Favorita Cloth s B ands
-Banana Republic 10%
-OKnY 10%
-Kenneth Cole 8%
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-Other
"My favorite brand of clothes is No Fear ," said freshman Ivan Del Rio.
-Girls 24o/o - 18°/o
-Friends 8°/o
-Food 6°/o
-Sports 4°/o
-Other 40o/o
"Not having school always makes me bee a use it lets me sleep in Ia te," said sen'ior Migue,l! Bolanos.
"Father Eddy's oral exams don't make me happy at all," said senior Javier jacomino.
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Senior Danny A dan with his girlfriend at South Beach. Junior Robert Zaldivar and Andreina Perez at the Biltmore Hotel having Sunday brunch.
Senior Jimmy Newmeyer and girlfriend Dria Rodriguez-Garrigo at Marco Island during their summer vacation.
Junior Jonathan Salum and his girlfriend at the summer camp end-of-theyear showcase.
Seniors David Reboso and Oscar Peguero watch the sunset with their girlfriends at Marco Island.
Senior Justin Puente spends some time with his girlfriend down at South Beach.
Junior Jonathan Lay and his girlfriend get ready for a night on the town.
Senior Carlos Salgado and his girlfriend Maria Parra s p end a Sat ur d a y afternoon at Bays i d e .
RIENDS OR EVER
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A FRIEHD IS SOMEOHE WHO WOH'T SELL YOU OUT FOR AGIRL," SAID SEHIOR ALEJANDRO HERHAHDEZ. MOST CERTAINLY WOULD AGREE. A FRIEHD IS ALSO SOMEOHE WHO IS THERE FOR YOU, WHO WILL CONGRATULATE YOU AT YOUR HIGH POIHTS, AHD COHSOLE YOU AT YOUR LOWS. 11 A
FRIEHD SEES PAST YOUR FAULTS AHD DOES HOT EXPLOIT THEM; HE DOES HOT SPEAK WHEH YOU HEED SOMEOHE TO LISTEH. HE'S HOHEST, LOYAL, AHD ALWAYS THERE," SAID SEMI OR MICHAEL NUNEZ. fRIEHDS ALSO ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MOST CHARACTERIZE THE HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE, WHETHER IT BE HOURS SPEHT AT AGYM OR HAHGIHG OUT AT APARTY. THE FRIENDSHIPS WE MAKE LAST AH ETERHITY. LEARH TO TREASURE THEM.
State President Danny Masvidal and star football player Jimmy Newmeyer show their school spirit at our first Pep Rally.
MAHHY LARRIEU
Seniors wait to board their plane in Washington D.C . after a Close Up visit.
Juniors Ed die M a cia s a n d Jose G a r c i a - Tunon work in the d a r kroom.
Seniors gather together in the " Senior Lounge " to help each other study for Fr. Eddy ' s oral exams.
Seniors Jon Leyva , Juan Diaz , An res Duarte , and Armando Ant " Diaz are all smiles after doing well on their L.A. History test.
The Football players' parents cheer for their sons.
Ignacio Duquesne helps decorate his hallway. l he sophomores get a little rowdy.
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YOU'R GONNA GET A D! Felice Gorordo as Mr. Leo Williams, Daniel Adan as Mr. Eugene Zoller, Alex Sarria as Mr. Ed Garland,Michael Nunez as Mr. Jorge Martinez , and Jorge Navarro as Mr. F, perform their famous "you're gonna get a 0 ," song.
Jeopardy parody, among other comic bits, livens up skit
Miguel Bolanos and Michael Forrest play Ms. Angie Fernandez and Mr. Pablo Taquechel in the Telethon part of the Skit.
_ouis Artime and Richard Rodriguez imitate a Pokemon battle.
Javi Valdes, Robert Romero, Oscar Duyos, and Alex Franyie play the coaching staff in the popular ABC show The View
Mario Velez sings the "Tong Song" while performing as chemistry teacher Mr. Frank Pichardo.
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CARLOS f. MIRANDA MANNY LARRifU
Senior Miguel Bolanos and his girlfriend play an emphatic game of paper, rock, scissor.
Senior Andres Duarte cannot wait to take another bite out of the rock-like crouton.
Felice Gorordo, Chris Fleites, Carlos Gonzalez, and Danny Martinez gaze at a shiny object in awe.
<ing John Leyva and his Queen Aimee Padierne show off 1ow to really waltz.
Senior Frank Angones and his date celebrate after hearing the news of Homecoming King and Queen.
Alex Hernandez and his date take a break from dinner to enjoy each other's smiles.
Senior Frank Alvarez tries to figure out how much salad he can fit in the palm of his hand.
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Antonio Acosta
Cafeteria
Grace Acosta
Assistant Principal
Marta Alday
Head Librarian
Anthony Alexander
English Chair
Eddy Alvarez SJ
Humanities Chair
PedroAiion
Science
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Angel Aparicio
Physical Education
Ileana Armengol
Modem Languages
Victor Arrieta
Athletic Director's Secretary
Lourdes Arteaga
Office
Rafael Artiles
Maintenace
Carlos Barquin
Athletics Director
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Jesuit priest 4 years On and Off at Belen
Special lnterets: Golf + Miami Dolphins
logy eac re Manager, Varsity Soccer team Coach, SACs Chairperson 12 at Belen
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Special Interet: Builder's Club Advisor
Has two sons in Belen 5 years at Belen Builder's Club Advisor
photos, stories, and surveys by Eddie Macias NOT PICTURED: Thomas de Quesada, Tere Elias, Gerry Garcia, Drean Hernandez, Marina Hernandez, Rosa Mas, Richard Moncada, Jose Rasco, Ivan Roa, Augusto Venegas, Brian Wentzel
Ana Fenton
Efrain Barra Cafeteria
ChrisBesil Office
NoeBurgos Maintenance
Hasce Burgos Cafeteria
Adalberto Burke Science
Aimee Busquet English
George Busse Accountant
Miriam Cambo-Martinez Mathematics
Teresita Campos Mathematics
Maria Cartaya Discipline, Moden Languages
Maria Cartaya Guidance
Cristina Casero English
Gisell Castillo Mathematics
Josefina Chirino Theology
Charles Cleveland Social Studies
Patrick Collins Social Studies Chair
Maria Teresa Cou Cafeteria
Emilio De Armas Modem Laguages
Mr. Patrick Collins, Social Studies Chair, studied at Spring Hill College for his business degree. He had never considered teaching until he was sitting in a desk in a college s listening to his teachers Mr Collins was influenced by professors from the polit:i al science depart:men After making the decision t teach, he decided that he to work in a Catholic hool. When the Jesuits him a job at Belen, the arne prie ts who ed him during college, Mr Co · s jumped right on it. 'I wanted to teach these eage students who were coming this country and had a desire o learn." At the time many o his students were newly arriv d from Cuba. Mr. Collins sa mixture of people. If t ere were one thing that he Llid change about Belen it wo d be to provide students opportunity to meet others f diverse backgrounds. "I t to open the minds of stud nts and give them a globa l of life," he said.
a wonderft.u place support I receive better everyday."
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Eduardo Delgado
Social Studies
German Delgado
Social Studies
Maria Eireos
Library
Alicia Farifias
Modern Languages
Ana Fenton Science
Angie l:'enllanctez
Ariel Fenllandez
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Physical Education
Amalia Fuentes Cafeteria
Mercedes Garcia Science
Carmela Garcia Cafeteria
Marcelino Garcia SJ
President/Principal
Guillermo Garcia- Tufion
Theology
Ed Garland Mathematics
Sergio Gonzalez Humanities
Susana Gonzalez
English
Dora Haibi
Modern Languages
Andres Hernandez Cafeteria
Survey
Beatriz L. Jimenez
Assistant Principal, Modern Languages Department Chairperson and teacher of Spanish IV-S, Spanish VI-S, Advanced Placement Spanish Literature
Relative(s) who have attended Belen: 7
Brother-in-Laws, 2 Sons, 3 Nephews
22 Years at Belen
Aimee Ferrer Busquet
11th Grade British Literature Teacher
7 years in Belen
Key Club Advisor
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Fqst Fqcts
Jose E. Roca
Math Department Chairperson
Teaches: Honors Calculus (12 th) , Advanced Precalculus (11th), and Math Analysis (12th)
14 years at Belen
Junior High Basketball Coach
Rafael Ledesma
10th, 11th, and 12 th grade counselor and French I teacher for 11th and 12th grade
Relative( s) who have at tended Belen: Cousin (Father Victor Hernandez, S.J.)
14 years at Belen
Special Interests: Performing at the Language Fair in October, Key Club Kiwanis Advisor, French Club Advisor
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Mr. Patrick Collins
Fr. Willy Garcia-Tunon
SJ and Fr. Marcelino
Mr. Jose Roca
Mr. Richard Signore
Mr. Ralf Ledesma
1. Mr. Jimmy Perez laughs at a joke a studnet said during his class.
2. Mrs. Tere Campos and Mrs. Annie Fenton join eighth grade students Jimmy Fenton and Cisco Guevara for Homecoming.
3. Mr. Eugene Zoller expresses his concern for students by taking time after class to tutor.
4. Receptionist Mrs. Mercy Rodriguez knows the inner workings of Belen.
5. Fr. Victor Alvarez SJ gives his thumbs up.
6. "What are you doing?" Br. Gerry Garcia.
7 Mr Anthony Perez smiles for a picture before Mass.
8. Sophomore teachers Mrs. Angie Fernandez and Mrs. Gisel Castillo decorate the halls during Homecoming Week.
9. Ms. Jennifer Iglesias, Mr. Gustavo Perez, and Mrs. Ana Menocal head to the cafeteria.
12. Mr. Anthony Alexander, Mrs. Susana Gonzalez and Ms. Adriana Suarez at Mass.
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"Actions sp ak louder than words!" aid senior mathematics teacher Mr. Jimmy Mr. Perez is a man o
words. Before beco part of the Belen co nity, Mr. Jimmy Pere worked for General Motors for teo years as a factory worker who uilt cars. Once he beca 1e part of the faculty, it wa hard for him to leave.
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For Athleti s Director Mr. Carlos Barqu· Pedro Pan child cot ing from Cuba, school and sports were the means he sed to stay out of trouble. Throughout his big school years, he ran into any motivational coach Coach picked up positive habits from these c aches and began to practi them himself. "My coaches taught me to be I can b e, and now want to teach kids to be t e best they can be," he sa d. Barq, as he is often call d , has a history of workin L with kids He has been a amp director for differen sports camps and he was counselor at the CA. Also, he was the intra mrals director for the Big Five Club and in the 1980s he founded the Belen olverine Camp. To this d y, Barq serves as Dire tor of the camp. H.is main duties are to provide jobs or youth and provide fun activities for the c a pers in a pleasant environ ent. He is best known i the community for his po erhouse Cross - Countr and Track teams. Year af et year both the Cross Country and the track tea dominate their opp nents. Barq accomplishes by motivating the unger runners to step-it-u their best, and mai ain the winning tradition o running program.
"After 26 years her , it's like my home away fr m horne. It is like a f mily to me. I have grown nto Belen. "
9th Grade Spanish teacher I0 years at Belen
Special Interests: Spanish Honor Society
Guidance Counselor for IQth, I I th, and 12th grade. 7 years at Belen
Brian Wentzel
Sister Maria Cartaya
Survey
Maria V. Fiorenza
8thyear at Belen
Moderator of the computer science club
Special interests: Tennis, Soccer, Walking, Hiking, Needlework
Ignacio Font
Teaches: 10th grade studio art teacher, 11th and 12th grade Studio Art II teacher, and 12th
Grade AP Studio Art
7 years at Belen
Special interests: "] have no life outside of the Belen walls."
Fqst Fqcts
Dr. Pedro A. Hernandez
Science Department Chairperson
Teaches: 10th grade biology and honors biology, 11thand 12 th grade AP Biology
20 years at Belen
Other job(s): Professor at Nova Southeastern University in both the masters and Doctorate level , Club advisor for BASES
Special interests: Reading, Working out and Collecting comic books
Jorge L Martinez
U.S. History teacher
10th Grade U.S. History
Relative( s) who have at ten Belen: Uncle 16 Years at Belen
Vicki Minchener
3 years at Belen, Senior skit advisor
Special Interests: You don't really want to know
1. Mr Dan Montesi and Mrs. Charmine lcaza look at a picture a student took.
2. Ms. Josefina Chirino and Mrs. ;Angie Fernandez converse about !Mass.
13. Mrs. Annie Fenton and Mrs. I Marta Vidal make sure that every eighth grader is seated and rea for Mass.
4. Mrs. Brenda Ross, Mr. Rafael Ross, Mrs. Alicia Farinas and Mrs Armengol pay attention to the homily.
5. Dr. Sergio Gonzalez.
Dr. Armando Rodriguez
Mr. Rolan do Su cena
Fr. Willy Garcia-Tunon
Dr. Armando Rodri guez
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4. Principal Fr. Marcelino Garcia SJ congratulates Vice President John Leyva on the success of the Homecoming Dance.
5. Mrs. Marta Vidal checks her students' homework.
6. Athletic Director and coach Mr. Carlos Barquin registers his Cross Countryt team for an upcoming meet.
7. Mrs. Maria Elena Cartaya and coach Tony Meilan have lunch.
8. Mr. Gustavo Perez lectures his eighth grade English class.
9.
Coaches Victor Arrieta and Jerry Jones head to the main office.
2. Fr. Jose Tey SJ blesses the alter with incense at Fr. Willy GarciaTurion's ordination.
Mrs. Annie Fenton reflects on a remark made by one of her students.
Fr. Eddy Alvarez SJ addresses the student body.
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Chair, ty Service Director Hernandez ,...,,"" Icaza .,;.,,,rinror-.a Chair
istant Principal , Languages Chair
Guidance
Gisela Leon Modem Languages
Aida Mara Lopez Cafeteria
AnaMenocal English
Vicki Minchener English
Orealys Miret Library
Assistant Principal
A gentleman. A dignity. And a leadership. These of the words that used to describe Principal Mr. Leopo Nunez. In his days student in Cuba, he motivated and ir.ISPJrl!d his principal Mr J Baker who today is be his mentor. Outside rves on the Executive
and wishes the , a group of voluntary Guard when they spot · straits After five years realJ:fiillg this was going to be his is one of the busiest facu ·nent figure in the e unity and many other has contributed an enc>rm14> is influential speeches in them to become mo work. He is very for his students.
Tec hno ogy
Mrs. Carol Vila, Director of Technology and a senior mathematics teacher, is a very self-motivated individual Ou t side o f Be len she is o ccupied witl1 her chil dren, family and schoo lwork Before ming an important pers the community, Mrs. a had many previous ex1)er1¢nces and positions in and the mathematics field. Nlrs Vila served as o of the Directors for the County Counsel for t¢a c:hers of Mathematics She also the vice-princi Nlrs. Vila has corttntr(l doesn't get boring," ogy, my job is a da y latest and top of the thing that Belen should be to allow
women are rnovrng up 1n world and are having positions in cot:np•antesl believe that Jesuit ed1L:4cattlc•n can better train wuJLllc:J.u
Jose Padilla Science
Anthony Perez English
Gustave Perez
English
Jimmy Perez Mathematics
Francisco Perez- Lerena SJ Theology
Frank Permuy SJ Theology
Francisco Pichardo Science
Hermes Pifieda Cafeteria
JoseRoca Mathematics Chair
Armando Rodriguez
Assistant Principal, Social Studies
Mercy Rodriguez
Receptionist
Rafael Ross English Picture Not Available
Fqst Fqcts
irector ogy
6 years at Belen
Special Interests: arts and crafts and cooking
Relatives who have attended Belen: uncle, cousin and myself years at Belen
16 years at Belen pecial Interests: mountain hiking and ips to Dade County Jail
I years at Belen ial Interests: 20 years as a breeder nd show exhibtor of Rottweilers @ C shows
hes: Elements of Christian ith(6th), Christian Morality(9th) years at Belen
Carol Ann Vila
Grace Acosta
Ariel Fernandez
Brenda Ross Mathematics
Sylvie San Juan Humanities
Jorge Sardi:fia SJ Guidance
Reyniel Segarra Maintenance
Juan Sierra Maintenance
Ramon Sierra Maintenance Director
Richard Signore English
Richard Stuart
Physical Education Chair
Adriana Suarez Mathematics
Camila Suarez Guidance Secretary
Rolando Sucena Science
Pablo Taquechel Bookstore Director, Theology
Jose Tey SJ
Audio- Visual Coordinator
Sam Vega Guidance
Jose Vidal Modem Languages
Marta Vidal Modem Languages
Carol Vila
Technological Services Director, Mathematics
Rene Vivo
Maintenance
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Eugene Zoller Social Studies Picture
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cThePerseverance! alty! These a words that ac describe Rodriguez. Rodriguez's 3 unity is explained at I do I consider my ·tment to the Church ' he said Dr. Rod · perseverance, the S the Florida Associa
As a young man, Mr. Frank Pichardo, junior chemistry teacher, had very strong interests in the medicine sion presidency for 2000-2 achieve the best for S
e his studies in u H .• u...• uJ because of reasons, he de cided his pre-medical training an d apply it to edu c ational Mr. is inspired year after enthusiasm of his stu , self-confidence, and s perseverance h helped him overcom many obstacles which have also aided continuing his rk with students.
Mr. Frank Pichardo grades the chemistry test.
Library Assistant Mrs. Orealys Miret and Head Librarian Mrs. Marta Alday enjoy helping students find the right books.
Carol Ann Vila
Survey
Charmaine W. lcaza
Director ofT echnology Director of Guidance and Also teaches: AP calculus AB College Counseling and AP Calculus BC 22 years at Belen
Relative( s) who have attended Special Interests: Yoga, Belen: Several of Husband's Horses and Cooking cousins
Dan Montesi
26 years at Belen
Special Interests: arts and crafts, cooking
Mrs. Dora Haibi recievE an award for her work.
"Do you know that you can poke someone's eye out with this?" Mrs. Maria Elena Cartaya warns a student playing with "taquitos."
Fqst Fqcts
Marta Alday Head Librarian
Relative( s) who have attended Belen: Grandfather and brother in law 9 years at Belen
Special Interests: Reading, Walking, Family and Friends , 8th & 9t h Grade Advisor
Going to the beach,T ravelSpecial Interests: Photographer, ing a Secret Hero, Reading, Writing, Photography (nature), Environmental Issues
Carlos Barquin
Athletic Director
Relative( s) who have attended Belen: Son 3 2 years at Belen
Other Jobs: commissioner of All Catholic Conference and a coach
Summer Camp
Special Interests: Fishing
Mrs. Carol Vila
Dr. Armando Rodriguez
Mr. Jimmy Perez
Mr. Carlos Barquin
Fr. Willy Garcia-Tunon SJ is welcomed to the Jesuit order by Principal Fr.
Fr. Sardinas takes a break from counseling student about their spiritual life
Mr. Edward Garland and Mr. Jorge Martinez during Mass.
Mrs. Giselle Rodriguez instructs her students were to sit.
matter.
Ms. Maria Eireos organizes all the check- out and check- in books at the library.
Marcelino Garcia SJ.
Mr. Juan Sierra, Mr. Reyniel Segarra and Mr. Rene Vivo discuss a maintanance
1. Fr. Jorge SardinasS J pauses from his daily prayers.
2. Mrs. Vega and Mr.s Arteaga share bookstore issues.
3. Ms. Josefina Chirino listens to her students' questions.
4. Mrs. Alicia Farinas and Mrs. Ileana Armengol speak before school starts.
5. Fr. Marcelino Garcia SJ opens the Homecoming Dance with a prayer.
6 Student Cuncil co-adivsor Dr. Pedro Hernandez and student Council Secretary Frankie Larrieu comment on the Homecoming Dance.
7. Fr. Jorge Sardinas listens to confession during a school-wide Mass.
8. Fr. Willy Garcia- Tunon SJ attempts to fire up the crowd.
1. Mr. Patrick Collins reminds students not to talk during Mass. 2. Mrs. Cristina Casero has an interesteing conversatio with her colleague Mr. Ignacio Font. 3. Brothers and coaches Mr. German Delgado and Mr. Eddie Delgado watch a video of the football team's plays. From this viewing, they learn how to correct mistakes.
4. Coach Mr. Carlos Barquin changes a broken net after so many of the basketball team's swooshes.
5. Coach Mr. Ruben Marrero gathers the Varsity Basketball team . 6. Fr. Willy Garcia-Tunon S. leads the cheers of the junior class.
Diego Abaroa Canek Acosta
Steven A. Agras
Kyle David Aguilar
Elias Alarcon Alejandro Alvarado
Henry David Alvarez Guillermo Alvarez
Armando Amin
Edwin P. Andres
Miguel Aparicio
Carlos Manuel Annas
Favorite Movie
Scary Movie
Replacements
Blue Streak
Matrix
Big Daddy
Armando Fleites
Santiago Morfin
Rosendo Forns
photos, stories and surveys by Robert Zaldivar
Frank David Azcuy
Felipe Jose Baez
Alberto Ballester
Richard Alfred Bandrich
Alexander V. Barrientos
Orlando Blanco
Carlos Briceno
Kristofer Burbano
Andrew M. Burt
Augustin "Guti" Guardiola is a future prospect for "Athlete of The
team is in for a su grader Nick Diaz is u U.JJ:; we speak," said his Frankie Ruiz He c at the Tropical Park second at Belen and Holy Rosary "He's runner," said fellow Danny Cox. Diaz with the seventh graders. He is a true heart
Joseph J Cabrera
Christopher J. Cannata
Javier A. Caraballo
Juancarlos Carrion
F emando J Casco- Downing
Alejandro M. Chediak
Giovanni Christodoulou
Adrian A. Colon
Daniel Robert Cox
Michael Henry Cruz
Alvaro De Castro
Agustin De Goytisolo
i ck
Looks wil l be joining the when the time to take pictures. the P hotograph y use his talent. His of taking pictures i the moment. He develop them in "He talks a lot ab photos," aid Javi
• I Miguel S. DeLaFlor
Nicolas A. De La Fuente
Ricardo A. De Lemos
Alex DelRio
Enrique Delgado
Marcello A. Delgado
Nicholas A. Diaz
Justin Andre Dieppa
Alexis Jose Fernandez
Luis Carlos Femandez
Armando Fleites
Alejandro D. Fonseca
Christopher Formoso
Rosendo Foms
Kevin Fresco
Carlos Garcia
Gabriel Garrido
Giorgio Garrido
Marcus J. Garrido- B.
Luis Andre Garrigo
Phillip A. Giarth
Emilio Jose Gomez
Emmanuel J. Gomez
Diego M Gomez De Cordova
Survey
F a vorite TV Show
Simpsons- 6
Dragonball Z -14
WWF-6
Who Millionaire? - 6
MTV-10
Mixture of shows - 38
Favorite ice cream
Chocolate- 32
Vanilla- 22
Other- 26
Whqt
F a vorite car
Ferrari -19
BMW-16
Porsche - 14
Hummer -12
Mercedes -10
Lexus IS - 9
Favorite book
Harry Potter- 25
Other- 20
I don't like reading - 35
Favorite sport
Baseball-15
Basketball-19
Cross Country - 6
Football-17
Other- 23
Summer groove
Travel- 35
Camp- 30
Nothing -15
After school Activities
Homework - 4 2
Sports- 23
Other/TV -15
F a vorite music
Rock- 25
Rap - 25
Mix -15
Latin- 9
Other - 6
F a vorite
Subjects
Math- 35
PE-13
Science - 4
Reading- 24
English - 3
Spanish -1
F avorite hangout
Home-54
Out (Movies , mall, etc.)- 26
J.C. Carrion Homeroom 6-A
"Guti'' Guardiola
Victor Tarafa Mr. Rafael Ross
Adam C. Gonzalez
l)arriellt.Gonzalez
l)arriel Flaul Gonzalez
Julio A. Gonzalez
l)aniel E. Gonzalez- Mora
Andre Grillon
Agustin G. Guardiola
Oscar Augusto Guerrero
Francisco A. Guia
Julian B. Guida
Gabriel Henriquez
l)anny Hernandez
Louis Hillman-Waller
Alfredo Iglesias
Paul Ingelmo
Enrique M. Jauregui
Carlos Manuel Jordan
Joshua G. Joseph
1. Andy Rovira hurries to finish practice.
2. Dr. Sergio Gonzalez's homeroom practices for the Mini Olympics.
3. Henry Alvarez warms up before the game.
4. Guti Guardiola talks to Diego Abarroa before his game.
5. "Give me a breather," says Matt Rad after being choked by Javi Caraballo.
6. Timothy O'Connor, Ignacio Soto and Alfred Iglesias at Cross Country practice.
7. Junior High Cross Country runners Jason Oliver and Nick Diaz lead the pack.
8. Tired after a hectic test, Luis F emandez decides to take a nap.
Michael A. Lafont
Joseph A. Lamelas
Dante Michael Laughlin
Daniel Llauro
Alex Lopez
Nicholas P. Madariaga
Victor Manuel Marmol
Nicholas E. Martin
Carlos R. Martinez
Reynaldo A. Mastrapa
Ralph Armand Matheu
William Mayol
Stephen A. Meadows
Julio A. Menache
Daniel Joseph Mendez
Gabriel I. Mendigutia
Gonzalo Milian
Juan Alberto Mora
Santiago Morfm
Reinaldo Juan Mouriz
Tomas P. Mu:fioz
Timothy Ryan O'Connor
Felix J. Ocana
1O.Steven Rico, Alvaro DeCastro and Michael Putman play a trick on Juan Sotolongo.
11. Nick Diaz stays up front with the pack trailing an 8th grader during Cross Country practice.
12. Giorgio Garrido, JC Carrion and Nick Perez wrestle around during lunch.
DavidOcon
Jason A. Oliver
Daniel Alberto Oporto
Clint Patrick Ortega
Jose Rafael Paez
Andrew K. Pantaleon
Jorge A. Perez
Marcos-Felix Perez
Nicholas A. Perez
Daniel Perez Del Rio
Jonathan Pestana
Stephen Poindexter
Juan Ponce
Thomas Prieto
Michael Putman
Matthew J. Rad
Marcos A. Ramirez
Javier E. Ramos
Steven Ray Rico
Raul Rene Robayna
James N. Robbins
Ivan Marcelo Rodriguez
Jorge Luis Rodriguez
Luis Carlos Rodriguez
Ricardo Rodriguez
Rafael Gabriel Romero
Andy Rovira
Raimundo A. Rueda
Geoffrey Ryan
Daniel V Santos
Carlos Sardina
Daniel Andres Silva
Luis Simauchi
Roberto Jose Smith
Tommy E. Soler
Ignacio Soto
Juan Javier Sotolongo
Eugenio Suarez
Octavio G. Suarez
Victor Andres Tarafa
FemandoJ. Tello
Adrian Jose Torrent
Danny Gonzalez
Ivan Rodriguez
Raymond Zomerfeld
Kevin Fresco
Ignacio Soto
Daniel Urgelles
Jesus Valentino
Jesse Nelson Vazquez
Oscar Manuel Vazquez
Michael I. Vidal
Javier Agustin Vijil
importa nt position points between two man determines if works very hard in meets ," said Nick
Tie
Ignacio Soto holds an the team--seventh man If s tie, the sixth and seven
Pablo Antonio Vinent
Rafael Yaniz
Eric A. Zambrano
Suarez is known to be very good at chess. He is also known as "The Chess Master." He has
win tournaments aU chess, he is also a said Timmy O'Co
Girls
Jorge Rodriguez
Tvra Banks
Javier Ramos
Nachos with Cheese
Daniel Lladro
AChick
Nick Diaz
AChick
Alfred Iglesias
most of it," said
Sixth
ody. Before coming to ped his old elementary time. Besides being good t artist "His drawings are
lee ho ckey, a played by too ma n y here in South F lorida is very ofte n by MichaelLa
team. As center and e rebounds and puts it back plays hard all the time and " said teammate Javier R
Carlos Alberto Abaunza
Alberta Abrante
Juan Carlos Acosta
Victor Alarcon
Adrian Alcalde
Javier Alemany
Daniel Alonso
Jon Erik Alvarez
Fernando S. Aran
Julian Arango
Michael Ramon Bada
Adam Badrampour
and captions
Alex Sardo
Photos, stories,
by Marcos Alvarez
Kevin Baldrich
Robert Joseph Baran
Robert Belsky
Gabriel Bermudez
Francisco Bolado
Alexander Broche
Christopher M. Brolley
Gonzalo A. Cabello
Anthony Justin Cabrera
Salvador Jesus Camaraza
Christopher Cano
Daniel Lamar Caridad
Key t o L"'
Jonathan Robbins is a traight ''N' student and t of his homeroom. He p laying the piano after Robbins' piano career
e was inspired to play after lis g to vl rn r nn the piano is a very importan part of
commitment a to only certain the young age of of baseball by his started playing for helps me relieve stress and ge in touch
Christian A. Carlesi
Armando Carrasquillo
Andrew Robert Cartas
Arturo Cepero
Kenneth Edward Collazo
Alexander Correoso
boy by the name of n.u,iantuv nd by his dad Not lrn.n.n T n rt swim , Santos h is arms wildly. This spc)racuq star ted acquiring a and before long it noticeab le that the was propelling himself poo l. From the exr)tnen c:e Santos gained a love that has stayed with since. Now, to feed his for sea life , he goes boating trips like the one smnmer when his aran ran into a storm and up in Captiva. "It a scary moment," he said, ended up renting a and fishing for trout so that bad."
FrankS. Damas
Pedro H. Dana
Franklin Danger
Eric Andrew Darpini
Gaston Ernest De Zarraga
Mario E. Del Rio
Jose M. Del Valle
David Delgado
Victor Eugenio Delgado
Michael Diaz De La Portilla
George C. Don
Alejandro Duque
Daniel Javier Escoto
Andrew R. Farley
Alex Rene F eal
JerryFeas
Anthony Fernandez
Matthew R. Ferran
Alexander Ferrer
Juan Enrique Flores
Javier Rene Fonseca
Oscar Tadeo Fonseca
Survey
Whe1t is //cooler, II re1p or rock?
Rap:
Rock: 56% 39%
Other: 5 fo
Whe1t is your Fe1vorite
c() Fete ri C1 Food?
PiZZCl: 40%
Popcorn Chicken:
Whqt do they think
Who he1s been your most memore1ble tee1cher?
John Erik Alvarez: "Mr. F because it's re a lly funny when he gives out copies."
Arturo Cepero: " Mr. Ross because he's really big and he can beat me up."
Robert Garcia: "Mrs. Ross because she always says funny jokes."
Kris Garcia: "Mr. Ross because I loved King Arthur."
What's better, regular Internet or America Online?
America Online: 73%
1 Esteban Sanchez-Agramonte and fellow classmate Kevin Bald rich get taught how to do "The Shuffle" by SanchezAgramonte's father. '
2. Marcos "Ears" Segrera takes the ball to the hoop as Salvador Camaraza covers and Osvaldo Fr!ger watches in astonishment.
3. Carlos Honda I shuffles the dominoes while his grandparents tell him a funny story about the f old days in Cuba.
4. Anthony Cabrera, Andrew Farley, and Da Caridad mix up the turntables.
5. The Junior Varsity Swimming team celebrates their second place all around finish in the Miami-Dade County Youth Fair. (Back row) Charles Wood, Alex Fernandez, Coach Helmut, and Mr. Wood (Front row) Frankie Bolado, Raymond Zomerfeld, and Carlos A. Merino.
6. Oscar Fonseca demonstrates the values taught at Belen by pulling out a chair for his grandmother
7. Carlos Friger, Osvaldo "Mafia" Friger, Salvador Camaraza, and Bryan Herrera get together after their blowout win in the intramurals
Carlos Osvaldo Friger
Osvaldo Jose Friger
Andrew Garcia
Daniel Garcia
Daniel Agustin Garcia
Kristopher Garcia
Robert Francis Garcia
Robert Joseph Gilardi
Daniel Nemesio Gomez
Jorge Luis Gomez
Andres Daniel Gonzalez
Christopher M Gonzalez
John Paul Gonzalez
Javier Gonzalez-Mora
Hector Gutierrez
Daniel P. Hanlon
Kean Alexander Hartling
Jonathan Hernandez
1. Fernando Aran, Frankie Ponce r---- - --, de Leon, Danny Nunez, and Victor Alarcon play duck, duck, goose with their grandparents on Grandparent's Day.
2. Gaston De Zarraga enjoys science class.
3. Roberto Baran has a sentimental talk with his grandmother during one of the many events on Grandparent's Day.
4. Christian Carlesi, Jose Del Valle, and Jason Lopez take a break from demonstrating to sixth grader Michael Putman what they through the year before.
5. Danny Caridad, Danny Nunez, Jon Erik Alvarez, Danny Hanlon, and Matthew Hanlon hang out at Sunset Place.
6. Danny Ramirez and Alex Pena get in the line with their grandmothers.
7. Andrew Cartas shows his excitement while doing a rendition of YMCA, an old disco song by The Village People
8. Danny Nunez eats a delicious pastelito with his grandmother on Grandparent's Day.
9. Jonathan Robbins and James Robbins throw a coin in the Trevi fountain in Rome, Italy.
Bryan Michael Herrera
Carlos-Miguel Hondal
Sean Ruben Iglesias
Julio Eduardo Jimenez
Andres Kaifer
Edward Michael Lazzarin
Alexander G. Leon
Michael A. Lloveras
Sergio Lobo-Navia
Anthony F. Logan
Brandon Lopez
Jason F. Lopez
William Lopez
Enrique A. Lopez-Calleja
Christopher Machado
Rene Ulyses Maestre
Christopher Marrero
Gabriel Marrero
Manuel Rafael Mato
Matthew W. Mecsery
Christopher A. Melley
Jose Mendiola
Carlos Adrian Merino
Raul F. Moas
Roberto Jose Monroig
Eric John Montes
Fernando Moreno
Andres Ignacio Navarro
Daniel N oste
1. Jonathan Robbins takes a few minutes from his busy schedule to hear a funny joke from a friend.
2. Andres Gonzalez gazes at the thought of all the fun that is ahead of him at Grandparent's Day.
3. Seventh grade swimmers Carlos Abaunza , Frankie Bolado, and Carlos Merino rest after swimming the Bronze medal in the 100 m Fly at the Dade County Youth Fair.
Daniel Thomas Nufiez
Alexander A. Oliva
Rodrigo Palacios
Nicholas Palermo
Alexander Pefia
Alexander M. Peraza
David Del Rio Perez
Robert Perez
Christopher Perez De Alejo
Francisco Ponce De Leon
Adrian Armando Pou
Enrique Ramon Puig
Ignacio Jose Quevedo
Emesto Carlos Ramirez
Daniel Ramirez-Bao
Jorge Ravelo
Redondo
Jose Redondo
Ian Joseph Rivero
Jonathan M. Robbins
R. Alexander Rodriguez
Mario Manuel Rojo
Carlos Alberto Roque
Arturo Blake Sabates
James Frank Sacco
Esteban Sanchez-Agramonte
Alberto Jose Santos
Ricardo V. Santos
Rolando E. Santos
Alejandro Sarda
Andres Sardou
Marcos Segrera
Thomas V. Simoes
Brian Soares
David C. Sotto
Rodrigo Oscar Tejedor
Luis Felipe Tomes
AlexanderPaulTrueba
Daniel Turnes
Valdes
"AT-shin with vour nickname on the back"
Frankie 'Ponce de Leon
"Our shin for a polo Shirl"
Michael Mora
"Pennv loafers for sneakers."
Andres Navarro
"Change eventhing."
Victor Alarcon
"Takeout the tie and wear shons."
David Perez
Carlos A. Valdes- Lora
John Valor
Anthony Albert Vega
Cesar Vega
DerekM. Veliz
Joao Pedro Volz
Junior Honor the president ALP HA Club
fmish a year with sL.LUjl.l":..J.LL and st art the next ye it all over again? If going b y Danny H sta nd ards, it wou ldn n is an elite member o ciety and just recently became the Literature Branch f "He's a gen ius. I have my life," said classma 't expect him to slow time soon "I ave a lot of aspirations fut ure and I'm to work hard so day they can bJO.,..,.,,....,..,. a reality," he
Balan
BCharles A. Wood Enrique David Zamora
"As aladies man."
Christian Carlesi
"As a plava."
Gabriel Bermudez
"As agood plaver on the soccer team."
Gaby Marrero
''The coolest kid in school."
Daniel Garcia
"As a drummer bov!"
Bobby Gilardi
etition forth, but not in Carlos These two bro Osvaldo Friger's cas are very close and very much . The friendly and helps specially when it come brothers have won championships in around gymnastics hope to see in the future.
The fact that both ----=,._____._ • in the same tou .. helps them keep an d npi-Pi"t-nu·, PH a big part in he is so good I want to be better than he is, " explained Carlos Friger
Nicholas Acufia
Richard D Agudo
Mario A Almeida
Hector Alvarez
Jose Antonio Alvarez
Ivan Arango
Luis E Arenas
Donato A Arguelles
Eduardo J Arguello
Alejandro J Arias
Mario A Ariza
JorgeAzze
Marino R Baez
Javier Basnuevo
Richard S. Begley
Jorge A Bello
Gaspar Betancourt
Andre Bihan-Thomas
Worst thing you've done in your life?
"I got an F in a theology test"
"In a Cross Country race, I turned the wrong way but I hustled to get in fifth place."
"I got suspended for cutting my hair too short."
"I
threw an egg at my friend."
''I killed an ant."
Danny Machado
Eddy Arguello
Alex Calderin
photos, stories and surveys by Jonathan Salum not pictured: Ander Alvarez, David- Guerra
Andres R Bilbao
Albert Cabanas
Alejandro E Calderin
Nicholas Camargo
Joseph I Cantens
Roberto A Carrion
P edro Casais
Michael E Casas
Richard Cassvan
Daniel Castellanos
Carlos Alberto Castro
Richard Cifuentes
Peter Concepcion
Alexander Costa
David Costa
Brian Cox
Javier Alberto Daire
Manuel A De La Fuente
Oscar De La Vega
Enrique A. De Solo
Raymond Del Castillo
past summer. --went whit- P"t1> T 'l t t"r rafting and I fell out of the
and felt a rush going
Saving and I o nce s w hos e life j slipped off. a distressed guy thou ght he to drown so he down and tried the dogs," said Eric Swimming
''This past I went to the Bah with my family in The funnest thing Bahamas was dolphin. Around many different
John Delgado
Alejandro E Diaz
Eric Nelson Diaz
Carlos Diaz II
Brian Andrew Dominguez
Nicolas M Echevarria
Freddy Elorza
Santiago Escobar
EricEsteva
James Scott Fenton
Eric Andrew Fernandez
Michael Fernandez
Alejandro Fernandez- Lovo
Gabriel A Flores
Alexander L Formoso
Eric Michael Fresco
Emilio Fuster
Thomas Gallo
Daniel Andrew Garcia
Carlos Miguel Gaviria
Sean Michael Gibb
Favorite flaces
Sunset Place
Colorado
Orlando
Hawaii
Bahamas
North Carolina
New York
Bimini
Grqde
Whqt do they think ...
Athlete l want to be...
Michael Johnson
Kobe Bryant
Michael Jordan
favorite teacher
Mrs. Campos_ Marino Baez "She acts like a teacher and a friend."
Mrs. Fenton- Peter Concepcion "She explains the material well."
Mr. Vida 1- Thomas Gallo "He taught me about Hispanic culture and !anDan Marino guage."
Tiger Woods
Alonzo Mourning
Randy Moss
Barry Sanders
Vince Carter
Mrs. Vida 1- Paul Santuoso "She is nice and willing to help."
Brother Frank_ Jorge Rios "He is a fun teacher because he makes jokes."
Mr. Zoller_ Jorge Jordan "He explains the material in detail." ,
Mr Perez_ David Costa "He makes class fun, but at the same time I learn.
Mr: Meilan _Ed Ar uello "He allows us to have fun ins orts and learn."
Peter Concepcion
Jorge Rios
Davis Costa
/ Jorge Jordan
Richard Agudo
1. Joey Perea heads to English class.
2. Nicholas Acuna looks for an answer in the Spanish book.
3.
Gil finishes his homework for Spanish in a hurry before homeroom ends.
4. Christopher Zumarraga raises his hand to answer Mrs. Campos' math question.
5. Ariel Lugo gets ready for Mrs Campos' math class.
7. Ander Alvarez checks his homework while Mrs. Campos dictates the answers.
Guillermo L Gil
Patricio J. Gonzalez
Christopher Griffin
Juan Carlos Gronlier
Antonio C Guadamuz
Felix-Andres Guardiola
Francisco Guevara
Jason Gutierrez
Oscar Marc Guzman
Khalil Harbie
Jonathan Hermida
Juan Hernanadez
Emilio Hernandez
Enrique Hernandez
Robert A Hernandez
Efrain Herrera
Andrew Interian
Christian M. Jacobs
Guillermo
6. Emilio Foster listens to Mrs. Campos teach math.
8. Eddy Regalado drinks water.
9. Danny Garcia goes in the counseling center.
5. Cisco
reaches up to turn on the Smartboard.
1. Jorge Bello and Joey Cantens search their book bags for Spanish workbooks
Chris Sanchelima sha big math test.
3. Robert Carrion plays with the Tl-83 Plus during homeroom . Vince Segrera attempts to eat a Sour Patch candy.
9. Eddy Pizarro shows off his huge muscles after working out in the weight room.
Guevara shows his dancing skills.
8. Carlos Rosayo holds up a Hispanic poster during Spanish class.
Michael A Jalil
Christopher R Jaramillo
Nicolas A Jimenez
Jorge Luis Jordan
Eric Patrick Knott
Christian Kruger
Edmundo Lacayo
Wilhelm E. Lapica
Laurent James Laroche
Ricky Lavifia
Jonathan E. Leal
Jose Ignacio Leon
Giovanni F. Lorenzo
ArielLugo
Daniel Machado
Carlos Mariano Macias
Carlos Alberto Manrara
Miguel E. Marmol
Robert Paul Mas
Louis Frank Mendez
Daniel Roberto Mendoza
Ray Milian
Julio Miguel Minsal-Ruiz
Albert Montequin
Jeffery Montes
Marcos Montiel
David Alan Monzon
Christopher Mouriz
10. Tony Valdes moves the overhead projector for Mr. Vidal.
11. Santiago Escobar gets ready to throw a pass to his teammate.
12. Mauricio Valencia prepares to stretch in Mr. Meilan's physical education class.
Michael A. Mouriz
Peter W Mufioz
Antonio M Navarro
George ANaya
Carlos A Nieto
Andres Nufiez II
Alberto 0 'Naghten
Miguel Ocana
DanielE Ocon
Jeremy Jose Olloqui
Carlos Alberto Ortega
Jose A Ortega
Alejandro L Ortiz
Andrew Roger Otazo
Daniel Palacios
Maickoll A Papastavros
Michael Peralta
Jose Angel Perea IV
Ramon J Perez-Alonso
Nicholas A Perez-Alvarez
Chris Pierce
Eduardo Pizarro
Edwardo Regalado
Jorge Jesus Rios
Juan Ignacio Rivas
Alejandro J Rodriguez
Daniel Rodriguez
Jose Rodriguez
Carlos A Rosado
Berny J Ruesca
Jorge E Salazar
F emando San Juan
Christian J. Sanchelima
Paul Santuoso
Adam Ross Schertz
Victor Hugo Segrera
Octavio P. Simoes-Ponce
Alejandro M. Sosa
Alejandro A Telleria
Jose Manuel Ugas
Joaquin J Urrechaga
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"Take curfew on."
Enrique Hernandez
··oive power to teachers."
Marcus Montiel
.. Make tour-dav weekends."
Andrew lnterian
"Three-dav weekends."
Jeffrey Montes
"lower taxes."
Nick Echevarria
Anthony A Valdes
Mauricio A Valencia
Vicente Valenzuela
Luis Vargas
Andres Vega
Michael A Verwey
Daniel Wiltz
Michael J Yanopoulos
Christopher N Zumarraga
"I was in the vacation with my family Hawaii when I felt a pain above m y right felt a shark biting my punched the shark on th and the shark swam Ricky Lavina then got the water. As he was ge · g out of the water he back and saw th e ocean water turn red. Laviiia taken t o the nearest h os ital where he got butterfly stitches. " Boy was I lu ky to even survive," he ·
Learning
"Over the summ er, I took a cours at Appalachian State University. The scener y of the mountains was beautiful. A bunch of other kids from many different states also stayed in the d orm rooms for three weeks with me. The courses I ook in the university were unforge ttable, especially the math course I took," s ·d Alex Rodrigu ez.
.. Bush. I ·m tired of Democrats."
Carlos Macias
.. Bush because he's Republican."
JorgeAzze
.. Bush because he's against abortion."
Carlos Castro
.. Bush because mv mom likes him."
Johnny Delgado
.. Nader because he is the underdog."
Andres Guardiola
is like the climb Tom best th.ing I had ever
"I went to Mexico this past visiting ancient ruins of and Aztecs . I felt comp take so mc of these took the ruins from the __..,.,, at Chicken Itza, which j painted. I still hav e the two most Almeida.
Gabriel
Alonso- Mendoza
Alberto Aran
Alvaro M Bada
Kalet Baldrich
Andres Birbragher
Jorge Luis Blanco
Daniel Bravo
Christian Brito
Humberto A Busto
Rafael Cabanas
Christopher Castellanos
Alejandro M Castro
Gustavo J Ceballos
Tho u ghts on the recount
"It's a joke."
"My dad has been complaining a lot."
" I should be the president."
"Gore is a I " sore oser.
"They should just wrestle."
Greg Hernandez
Jason Machado
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Aldredo Cemuda
Roberto J. Colon
Angel Cordova
Josh Corona
Javier Correoso
Luis Fernando Costa
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te soccer club. His older b n the team, has been a great d desire to be better.
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Javier Cruz
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Rafael De Ory
Robert R. Del Riego
Ivan Antonio Del Rio
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Freshman
Julian Javier Dieppa
Javier Eduardo Duenas
Ivan Baruch Echenique
Paul Erkelens
Carlos M Estevez II
Daniel Femanadez
Jorge M Fernandez
Alejandro Ferro
Eloy Figueredo
Daniel Garcia
Henry Garcia
Mario Garcia
Raphael A Garcia
Ricardo J Garcia
Cesar E. Garcia-Canet
Javier A Garcia-Tunon
Eugene Paul Gayol
Eric Christian Gomez
Manny Gomez
Emil Gomez
Adrian M. Gonzalez
Alimer R Gonzalez
Eric Guerra
Survey
Who would vote tor?
Bush Gore Other 40 7 7
Whqt do they think ...
What do think Fresident Clinton could have done better?
Everything- Arturo Sanchez
Be a better husband- Ivan Del Rio
}t were a member ot Congress)
Set a better example- Roberto Colon what laws would to enact?
Eliminate abortions- Pedro Mir
Offer school vouchers- Michael Valdez
Lower voting age to 16- Andres Birbragher
Mandatory gun locks- Roberto Colon
Not have the scandal - Jose Sardinas
Your thoughts on the best president ot the belen f Dr. Armando Rodriguez- Jorge Blanco
Mr. Charles Cleveland- Sean Daly
Mr. Eugene Zoller- Pedro Mir
Mr. Rolando Sucena- Ted Todoroff
Emil Gomez
Max Henderson
Group of freshman at pep ra ll y
Chris Ro driguez
Juan Carlos Saab
Timothy S. Halpin
Maximilian W. Henderson
Gregory Hernandez
Santiago Iturralde
Nelson Izquierdo
Anwar Janania
Louis Jane
Andrew H. Joakimsen
Peter Klock
Julian A Knight
Jason Lopez
Manuel Lopez
Jason Machado
David Macnamara
Andres Manrara
Matthew R Maranges
Christian Marrero
John Javier Marrero
5. A group off freshman take a break to sit on benches before their next class.
6.
as he ' s getting ready to hand the ball off to
1. Robbie Leon, Brett Dufford, Chris Marrero, Greg Hernandez, Matt Maranges, Gaby Suarez, Jason Machado, Luis Costa, and Luis Jane at a "quince."
2. Javier Cruz shows who's boss on the basketball court.
3. Mr. Roland Sucena reigns supreme over his students.
4. Coach Mr. Eddie Delgado talks to the Freshman Basketball team during a crucial time out
Quarterback Tony Rodriguez (#22) takes the snap
(#5) Joseph Frederick.
Edgar Anthony Martinez
J ordi Martinez-Cid
Miguel J Massens
Edgar Allan Massoni
Paul A Meadows
John-Paul Mendez
Julio Mesa
George Metcalfe
Justin Metcalfe
Juan Jose Michelen
Jesus D Moises
Gabriel Montes
Norman Morejon
AhmedJMori
Alexander R Nuche
Eduardo R Nuiiez
Nicolas D Oliveira
Carlos Andres Ortega
Michael A Ortiz
Alexander M. Parets
Nicholas D Partagas
Leonel Peraza
Emmanuel Perez
Emesto A Perez
Jorge A Perez
Ms. Adriana Suarez's math class likes to work on binomials.
A group of freshmen during homeroom.
J avi Garcia- Tuiion smiles as he recieves one of his many awards.
Steven Pessoa
Mario Alonzo Pino
Tomas Possenti
Antonio T Prieto
Clement Quinones
Alexander Reyes
Giancarlo Ricard
Leonardo F Rivera
Juan Carlos Robaina
Anthony Rodriguez
Christian Rodriguez
Ricardo J Rohaidy
Edgar Rojas
David L Romero
Jose Roque
Carlos Rovira
AngelRuiz
VictorRuiz
Alvaro Sabido
Julian Salcedo
Arturo Sanchez
Jose Sardinas
Charles Soto
Matthew A Stille
Andy Suarez
Gabriel R Suarez
Robert James Suris
Jonas Thompson
Ted Todoroff
Ramon De Jesus Trillo
Jonathan R Urgell
Alejandro P. Uribe
Jose Antonio Urriola
Alan Valdes
Alexander Valdes
Michael Valdes
Rodrigo Vargas
Robert Velasco
Alexander Velasquez
Jorge Velez
Manuel A Vergara
No. Gore lost.
Alex Castro
Yes. Bush has poor vocabularv.
Mike Ort iz
Yes . Bush isn't capable.
Joshua Corona
No. I have different beliefs than Bush. Arturo Sanchez
No. Electoral college winner should win . Sant iago lturralde
Jeffrey Vivo
Michael Wood
George Fernandez
Manny Perez
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dive whenever he He said that his the one who ins was younger he would di with often watch his father dive. When ugh to dive, the first thing did He has gone as deep as 1 fishing
Cruz
Daniel, or Danny, as he pre fers to be called, is one of the few students to gear up and hit the high seas. Fernandez attended a saili camp about two years ago and he
hasn't looked back He now goes out on Sa mornings to the mari where he sails with a group sailing buddi es While ttending the camp at Mat Hammock Park, learned to steer and mane sailboat."My d ad forced me to do it so I wen th e camp kind of tic off. But when I got there, I that I fit in right away I re ally enjoyed myself."
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Soccer team. the son of farnousJV coach Fabio. has been COlKl).mg him
Julio Oscar Aenlle Nicholas Alexander
Rolando Alfonso JuanAndion
Jonathan Raul Andrade Javier E Araque
Daniel Baquerizo Nick Begley
Robert Beltran Jean-Paul Bermudez
Eric Blanco NoeBurgos
If someone granted you one wish, what would you wish for?
"A date with the American Pie chick."
"Good grades and beautiful women."
"I wish I could talk to my fish because I have always wondered what it would say to me."
"I wish they could turn the I Oth grade into the next episode of Survivor and see if anyone wins."
"I wish I could play soccer like Fabio."
Jonathan Andrade
Alex Munilla
Enrique Orizondo
Mariano Mallo!
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David Caballero
Eme sto Calderin
Robert Calderon
Carlos Calil
Chri stopher Camargo Jerry Campos
J orge Canamer o Christopher Cantens
J o se Ignacio Canto
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an ability to co unicate with peers. _______ "' Miranda, Key Secretary, meets and these requirem ts. "Acquiring my po · not very easy," said. "There was a lot of good competiti and I was fortunate to out vi ctorious in the elections "
Javi Carabeo
Rene Alex ander Carballo
Alberto Rene Carmenates
Nicolas Carmona D avid Carnright
William Sergio Cartas
Eduardo Jo se C a sal
Milton Collantes
Michael Cosio
Sports are an ntricate part of most
1 lives . U y, for many, the word "sports" usually means baseball and bas "sports" to Nicky Alexander and oughts of golf clubs pars usually cross his mind. Alexander began to p lay golf in 6th e. He developed a the sport and la made the final cut fo Varsity team in Now many believe
1 be the greatest fer in Belen history parties, he doe it happen. Since been a lover of vanous ................. deejays stuff at lo to be a magic and IJ>e c:arr.te lifelong friend Rudy
Alejandro Cura
Rafael A De Armas
Andres Felipe De La Ossa
Agustin J. De La Vega
Carlos J De La Vega
Felipe J De Leon
Jorge R De Leon
John-Michael Del Valle
Rodolfo A Delgado
Benito I Diaz
Ignacio Miguel DuQuesne
Daniel Enriquez
Andres Escobar
Emesto Escobedo
Alex Esteban
Andres Felipe Fernandez
Miguel Ferrer
Gabriel Fontela
Gaston A Fontela
Joseph A Frederick
Andrew J Fusco
Jimmy Gailey
Jorge J Garcia
Jose Miguel Garcia
Survey
favorite Soft Drink favorite Super Model
Coke- 38% Jenna Jameson- 39/o
Sprite- 30% Mrs. Gisell Castillo- 30%
Sunkist-19% Alex Esteban-15%
Other- 13 fo Other-15%
!)est Sport Frospective College
Football- 43/o UF- 35%
Basketball- 26% FSU- 25/o
Baseball - 21% Georgetown-15%
Other-10/o MIT-10/o
Other-15%
Whqt do they think
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favorite Vacation Spot favorite Musician
Marco Island- 57% Ja Rule- 39/o
Disney- 23%
Caribbean- 6%
Europe- 4%
DMX- 27/o
Creed-18%
Other- 16 fo
Most Interesting Animal !)est !)rand Of Clothes
Dog- 43%
Snake- 37%
Lion-11/o
Other- 9%
After School Activities
Sports- 38/o
Phone- 33%
Homework-12% TV-7%
Tom my Hilfiger- 34%
Nautica- 26%
Polo- 21/o
Old Navy-19/o
Carlos Wiltz
Rafael De Armas
Mauricio Montiel
Miguel Ferrer
Rene Veliz
1 John Guevara and Jonathan Andrade rise after taking a nap.
2 Rudy Delgado flips a fellow classmate for commenting on his attire.
3. Andres Escobar is frustrated after getting up. He thought his mom had come to pick him up, but it turned out to be someone else's mom.
6 Rick Hernandez greets Andres Vigil, who is dressed up as The Rock.
?.Is it real? Luis Gonzalez attempts
to pull off Anthony Torrente's hair
George Gonzalez
Louis A Gonzalez
Michael Gonzalez
Ryan Gramatges
Alejandro Guardiola
Christopher Gueits
Nicholas M Gutierrez
Stephen Hermida
Daniel Hernandez
Fernando E Hernandez
John Paul Hernandez
Ricardo J Hernandez
Eugenio Hernandez Ill
David Herrero
Carlos R Inguanzo
Luigi A Juarez
Robert C Klock
Carlos A Larcada
Rene A Larrieu
Michael J Lemus
Kristian A Leon
5. Bravo. Enrique Orizondo gets in touch with his musical side as he sings "Living La Vida Loca" in front
8. Sean Loret, commonly known
as "fishstix," works on a math
problem.
1. Before going home, Chris Vallenilla stares into the camera, wishing that one day he too could be as handsome as the photographer.
2. Yuck! Daniel Enriquez frowns in distaste as he pops a sour Skittles into his mouth.
3. Michael Rodriguez, Gabriel Fontela, Javi Navarro, Chris Zacarias and Luis Gonzalez crowd around a desk to read a newspaper.
4. Mike Gonzalez checks the schedule of the next football game.
5. Bryan Suarez finds that drinking Sprite and talking on the phone is a great way to unwind in the afternoon.
6. Rene Larrieu is rudely awakened from his nap .
7. Rudy Delgado shows off his Jamaican outfit.
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Luis Emilio Llamas
Robert A.
Alexander V Lopez
Daniel Lopez
Bryan Lorenzo
Sean Loret De Mola
Mariano D Mallol
lldefonso Mas
George A Massa
Daniel Mas vidal
Jonathan M Mederos
Andres M Miguel
Alejandro Miranda
Mauricio Montiel
Javier Morejon
Eduardo E Moreno
Federico A Moreno
Alejandro L Munilla
David A Mufioz- Bustamante
Xavier Navarro
Juan T O'Naghten
Felipe E Ojeda
Enrique Hugo Orizondo
PaulOrta
Americo Padilla
Ricky Palmerola
Damian Penichet
Luis F Pereda
Jorge Pereira
Emilio Eloy Perez
Ms. Gisell Castillo
with her students.
2. Juan Weissenberg, Rolando Vicaria and Ricky Hernandez like to hang out together.
3. Carlos Larcada stands up out of respect as a disciplinarian walks into the room.
RenzoPisa
Juan P Possenti
Stephen H. Putman
Enrique F Quevedo
Adrian A Ramirez
Daniel A Ramos
Alberto Regueyra
Aldo M Riesgo
Daniel Joseph Rodriguez
Danny C. Rodriguez
Loren Rodriguez
Michael A Rodriguez T. Rodriguez
Louis- Daniel Rojas
Frankie Rovirosa
VictorRuiz
Norman T Ruiz-Castaiieda
Juan Carlos Saab
Daniel Sabido
Roberto C Samitier
Alfredo Sanabria
Gregory G Schaiberger
Kristian A Sedeiio
David M Shipman
Leonardo Silveira
Roberto J Sobrado
Victor R Soto
Bryan-Michael Suarez
Rodrigo Suarez
Antonio Tarafa
Julian Tardielo
Santiago Tefel
Anthony E Torrente
Alex Uribe
Eduardo Javier Valdes
Guillermo L. Vallejo
Chris L Vallenilla
Alfredo A Vargas
Derek Varona
"I like going out to P-A-R-T-Y!"
Renzo Pisa
"Getting kicked off the football team."
John Del Valle
"I don't like it."
Andres De La Osa
"Complimentary angles are our friends."
Jorge De Leon
"Huh:»"
Andres Escobar
ReneDVeliz
Rolando J Vicaria
Andres Vigil
Alexander J Volsky
Adrian Ced Von Der Osten
Mark R. Wegmann
Juan M Weissenberg
Heinz Wendorff
Carlos Wiltz
Christopher Zacarias
right in the head. there will always be ing David Caballer
Some say he best personali others say he is
"Knocking little freshmen down in football practice."
Anthony Torrente "Whooping 10-c in intramural basketball."
Carlos Larcada
"Nothing." ·
Joey Pi no
"I love playing JV football for coach A."
Julio Aenlle
"Getting down and dirtv in the wrestling room."
Nick Carmona
At any club, when t people are leaving dance floor because they are tired, ""-'"'"'"· ·"'" just warming up. glides with the music, missing a beat, and ythmically moves to fi next dance partner. "I love to party," he sai is a great way to fun and especially, ab all, to pick up chi .
urn1ng
A few years ba at a party, Rudy happened to be the DJ who needed DJ had left a popular disc in the car and asked Delgado to take over. His experience inspired him to buy a DJ set.
"At first people quite hesitant to hire me," Rudy exp "But as they heard I had to offer, I calls to do parties.
Delgado bought 1,000 CD's. Now well known DJ's · parties a week. t on getting more and With the money he equipment, and elgado is one of the Miami throwing over
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While do The catch with his dad, a baseball landed on ·ke Gonzalez' head. F r he developed a love r the game. Now a arsity Baseball player, contributio n is key "Whenever I feel I trying hard enoug I look back to when hit me with a base fail," he said .
Christopher Acufia
Daniel I. Aguerrevere
Juan Carlos Alarn
Enrique Alard
Javier Alvarez
Marcos Alvarez
Luis H Angulo
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Andres A Berisiartu Eduardo E Bertran
t would you te ll a gir l to get her to go out with you?
I'd ask her to have ice cream with me.
Yo, he said ice cream B!!!
Uhhhhh ....
Take her for a ride in my bug, HA H A HA!
I'd blow her a kiss with my Iovin' lips.
Jose GarciaTunon
Eddie Macias
Morgan Ferrell
Eric Esteban
photos, stories, and surveys by Jesus Carretie and Mike Montiel
Marcos A Blanco
David Bouza
Richard A Bruguera
Daniel A Bustamante
Michael Cabrera
Richard Capitaine
Christopher D Caraballo
Jonathan Cardenas
Luis R Carmona
Michael Carreras
Jesus Carretie
Michael Castellon
Andres Chiriboga
Adrian Correa
Brian Costa
Martin Cruz- Mesa
Allen De Castro
Bruno De La Fuente
guys, they are still in
I think it is just the a Heidi w ith those think?" said David B
is the most common question on a typical Friday during lunch. eyes are suddenly on Andre Enriquez. "If there is anything worth doing or anywhere worth going o n the weekend, Andre will and criticize me, but down inside they · ........__ --.....-.. had what I have," h Whatever the case whether positive ladies, or negative ibly noticeable. "We all call description of him. He I hes, and his pretty hair, don
Christopher Dominguez
Eduardo G DuQuesne
Jorge Duarte
Juan Echeverri
Renzo G Effio
Rafael G Egues
AndreE Enriquez
Enrique D Escobar
Eric J Esteban
Michael R Fenton
Giovanni Fernandez- Kincade
Milton M. Ferrell
Camilo A Ferro
Chris Fleites
Jonathan M Fojo
Christopher W Garcia
Ignacio J Garcia
Jose D Garcia- Tufion
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Nicholas Gimbel
Adrian Gomez
IvanE Gonzalez
Andres F. Grisales
Christian Hermida
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Name the book, film, or that rea had an influence on !:lou? Explain wh!:!··· Do !:JOU consider !:)Ourself What is !Jour favorite Comedy -70/, a trendsetter? college? 2. F.S.U.
-"Half-baked" "I try, but no one follows my 1 · U.M. F. I "A I d " 'd Ch · D · Wh , ·r oyo a - merican Pie" ea , sa1 ns o 1s Drama- 25% "I consider myself a superhero? - "Braveheart"- 3rd trendsetter because I throw 1. The Log - "Devil's Advocate"- 4th clubs once in a 2. Superman -The 5th "Catcher in the while," said David Bouza. 3. Wolverine Rye" by J.D. Salinger.
4. The X-men 5. The Weasel
If could choose death, how would die?
-''I'd explode," said Jason Sauleda
-"I would rather be struck by lightning," said Chris Acuna
-"Jumping off a plane without a parachute," said Danny Nunez
Mike Carreras
Mike Montiel
Jesus Carretie
Camilo Ferro
George Jalil
1. Gio Kincade celebrates his most recent Forensics award.
2. Marcos Blanco and Eddie Macias show off their notorious "muffs."
3. Lui Perez, Chris Fleites, Danny Martinez, Marcos Alvarez, Jose Garcia- Tunon, and Mike Montiel mess around during lunch.
4. Joaquin Sanchez "runs game" to his date at this year's Homecoming Dance.
5. Benji Chiriboga is STILL smiling after six LONG years at Belen.
6. Chris Caraballo seems drained after donating a little too much blood.
AJexanderJfiernandez
Rene flernandez
Steven Iglesias
George Jalil
Khaled Janania
Thomas F J ardon
Carlos Jimenez
Pierre Jimenez
Jon athan C Lay
Christopher Leal
Christian J Leiva
John-Paul Lemus
Victor M Leon
Antonio Llera
Luis A. Tiberio Lobo- Navia
Joel Lopez
Oscar A Lopez
Luis Lopez De Quintana
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1.David Bouza, Eddie Macias, Chris Fleites, Mike Montiel, Mike Ortiz, Victor Leon, Emilio Saiz, Jose Garcia Tunon, and Benji Chiriboga chill in the student parking lot after making a stop at BK.
2. Richie Puerto models part of his costume during Deacon Robert O'Malley's class. Puerto eagerly awaits the Halloween holiday
3. Jonathan Salum bothers coach Mr. Carlos Barquin in his office after school one day.
4. Jesus Carretie and Chris Dominguez at a friend 's house as they get ready to go to a get-together.
5. Andre Enriquez tells Victor Leon and Jose Garcia Tunon about his plans for the upcoming weekend. Enriquez seems to always be eager for the weekend nightlife.
6. David Bouza does his best impression of Mel Gibson in the movie "Braveheart"
Morgan Ferrell and Mike Montiel talk about their upcoming football game against their arch rival Gulliver.
Mike Fenton, Coach Arrieta and Jesus Carretie keep score at a basketball game.
Eddie Macias
Christian
Daniel R Martinez
Reynick A Martinez
Christopher A Molero
Reuben Molinares
Michael Montiel
Ruben Moreno
Omar Moussawel
Daniel F Munilla
John J Novales
Daniel A Nufiez
Michael A Ortiz
Kevin D Pardifias
JohnLPerez
Luis Perez
Bernard J Pino
Andres E Portuondo
Richard F Puerto
Gabriel Pumariega
Johannes N Quiles
Arturo A Robinson
Daniel M. Saab
EmilioSaiz
Pablo Salazar
Jonathan Salum
Bryan Sanchez
Joaquin Sanchez
Mario E Sanchez . Manuel Santelices
1. Eddie Duquesne and Raul Smith head out after a long day of school.
2 Danny Martinez, Mike Carreras , and Renzo Effio mess around at the Awards Ceremony held at the Intercontinental Hotel.
3 Danny Valdes slides by a defender en route to another easy score.
Oscar D Sardinas
Jose Saud
Jason A Sauleda
Roy M Schultheis
Jason M Sirjoo RaulGSmith
Frank A Stevens
Jesus Suarez
Pedro Suarez
Daniel J Torrent
Jose A Torres
Daniel Tufion
Ignacio M Urbieta
Daniel R Valdes
Nicholas R Valverde
William Vargas
Louis D Velasco
Diego Vizcon
Robert Zaldivar 8P
'Luis Angulo makes a great effort to steal the ball from a Ransom player.
Joaquin Sanchez leads the offense in the Homecoming game against Bay Point.
Mark Gayol and Jonathan Lay cram during lunch before a chemistry test.
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"I'd knock 'em out."
Mike Ortiz "I'diust leave mv hous e."
Jonathan Loy "I can't do much: th ev own me."
Benji Chiribogo "Use Forensics to get them to le ave me alone."
Gio Kincade
Marcos Blanco looks lost as he wanders the halls.
"Girls!!"
Donny Martinez "Memories of Mrs. leon's Spanish class."
John Perez "Mrs. San Juan's class."
Joson Souledo "Being with mv friends."
Bruno de Ia Fuente "Being a BASH brother." "I'd be riding with Mr. T: do 1 HAVE to sav an vthin gil"
Eddy DuQuesne
NOSE TO NOSE
Smartboard in class," s · remember th e da y that baH off you own nose? I how big it is," said Reube Good call," said Leon.
Dann y Martinez
seeing it proj Victor Leon. "No way, don't u were playing baseball and yo ·nk that's when we all reali Molinares "Ohhhh yeah,
his affectionate nickname 'Schnoz" his whole life "It's · am," he said . "It's a part my indi iduality, and it s personality to be able to I at the jokes."
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Through the years, Mark Gayol has progressed from a quiet, mild-mannered student, into a more outgoing, and great friend ho people love to be calls his friends the funky unch. "I had a friend once," Jonathan Lay. "But then I Mark, and my life has same." Jonathan Salum Lafc; view of Mark. "He is guy. It brightens up my day around him,'' he said
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He is known as the' asel." Marcos just has his at this guy without laughing, likes to keep to himself, but a totally different person. on Popside bars and he'll if it is his hair, smile, or __....__ • -ity, but there is ing
on how to "run game." original about him,' said Chiriboga.
Eddy DuQuesne a lot like Blanco. ''When u get to Eddy, your vi ion of him turns from the kid to a raging much," said Emilio DuQuesne is famo making up quotes about his hero, Mr "Grape Jelly PUPA'' and hi
Juniors! •·I
1. Emilio Saiz shows of his Bush sticker during the most memorable election year to date.
2. Jonathan Salum gets awarded with a cake during lunch on his birthday. Unfortunately, he had some problems with it.
3. A group of juniors get together after a memorable night at Hooters.
4. Roy Schultheis spends time with his girlfriend Frances Matos at the Homecoming Dance.
5. Jonathan Coto, Nick de Ia Vega and Jesus Carretie join their dates for the Lourdes' Christmas Formal.
1. Nick Valverde gazes into a crowd of beautiful women.
2. Senior Papo Manrara displays ultimate ownership over Richie Puerto.
3. Eddie Macias, Chris Fleites and Emilo Saiz get together before entering their favorite class, art history with Mrs. San Juan.
4. Lui Perez shows he can do two things at once.
5. Jose Garcia Tunon finds comfort in his friend, senior Ramiro Areces.
Juan Carlos Abelairas
The art of war is not to die for your countr y , but to mak e the other. die for his.
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Francisco Alvarez When you do the show, play your role with everything Invest everything whatever you do, it changes someone's life for ever Algeria
Christian Andrade
Fear less , hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good. Swedish Proverb
Louis Artime
Javier Azcue
Michael Barrera
Do not lead me to temptation. can find the way mysel£ Anonymous
Francisco Angones
Fantasy is a necessary ingredient that enables you to laugh at life's realities. Dr Seuss
Christopher Alonso Got juice? Me
Alejandro Bedoya
For what it's worth, it was wor th all the while .I hope yo u had the time of yo ur life. Green Day
Ramiro Areces
I used to live in a tree but it wasn't enough for me. So I paved a road for me. Now, I am the proudest monkey yo u've ever seen. Dave Mathews
Some people dream of success, while others work hard at it. Anonymous
Giancarlo Bertaina
It's okay to talk to yourself as long as you don't answer back.
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Miguel Bolanos
Christopher Cabrera
Orlando Castro
Gran Combo de Puerto Rico
Alexander Soria
Eduardo Calil
Tranquilo Bobby, tranquilo. Juan Luis Guerra
Oscar Castro
Juan P. Broche
Severiano Canales
Jean-Paul Chavez
Manny Larrieu
Jason Bueno
Michael Cantens
Richard Cabo
Jason Burrows
Elbert Hubbard
Nicholas Carreno
Eric Collazo
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Through my life I've failed over and over again, and that is why I succeed.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Unknown
saying proves nothing.
I prefer for someone to think am stupid than to open my mouth and remove all doubt
Abraham Lincoln
Old oarsmen never die, they just row away. Rowers
Well, I guess this is growing up. Blink 182
The more you suffer, the more it sho w s you really care.
Dexter Holland
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
Vince Lombardi
Prepare for the worst and hope for the best and the rest is written.
Bizzy Bone
Your reach should exceed your grasp.
Dad
lan Coutts
Michael Jordan
Juan Diaz
Alex Echevarria
Ramon Crego
Andres Duarte
Ivan Enriquez
Felipe Deii'Oro
Nelson Duenas
Armando Diaz A witty
Voltaire
Oscar Duyos
Luis M. Fernandez Juan Fernandez-Barquin
Gregory Diaz
The mind is free and the slightest thought has a great influence It is therefore important that you think enlightened thoughts.
Javier Echenique
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
David Hume
Arturo Ferreira
And so I hold my head up high Creed
Luis Fonseca
Robert Garcia
Leonardo F. Gorordo
Luis Fors
Alejandro Franyie
Carlos Gonzalez
Gabriel Ga rcia
Marco Gonzalez
Ruben Gutierrez
Javier
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Alejandro
Daniel Padilla
Jorge Pella Alexis Plasencia
Michael Palacio
Justin Puente
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Jorge Palmerola
Juan Perez
Ignacio Quintana
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Ramon Crego a special moment with his girlfriend, Lourdes junior Nanni Silva, at the Homecoming Dance.
Danny Adan stops for his meal at Burger King to show he loves a good bargain. He also serves as Big Brother Chairman.
Alex Paret serves as a representative of Ecuador by reading a prayer for its people during an assembly in honor of several Latin American nations.
Varsity Football playerJavi Valdez shows the intense emotion and focus that made this Varsity team unique. On Wednesday, February 7th, Valdez signed to play football for the Florida Atlantic University Fighting Owls.
Varsity running back Oscar Duyos gives an intimidating glance while he waits for the offense to return to the field. Duyos is also a member of
Franyie towers over Lourdes senior
Varsity cheerleader Stefanie Perez.
Track and Field superstar Luis Fors trains diligently for pole vault.
Oscar Gomez, Gaby "Chilo" Gutierrez, Oscar Peguero, and Jorge Lopez stay after school to watch
Javi "Jaco" Jacomino burns by a helpless Booker T. Washington Tornado Jacomino is a two-year veteran on the Varsity team. the Varsity Footbal Kickoff Classic against Hialeah High School.
Juan Diaz dives to cover Student Council Vice-President Jon Leyva as Carlos Gonzalez attempts to shoot him with a high-speed stapler.
Upper Left: Robert Garcia recieves a big hug from Waldo the school mascot during a pep rally. Garcia is also the captain of the Swim Team.
Left: Starting point guard JP Chavez drives pass two Boker T. Washington defenders for the lay up. Chavez also plays Varsity Football and Track.
Big Brother Ramiro Areces. Danny Masvidal, Frankie Larrieu, and Alex Paret coordinate one of Student Council's evening dances. Their offices are President, Secretary, and Community Service Chairman, respectively.
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Mrs. Camila Suarez, the Guidance Department secretary, makes sure things are on schedule.
The guidance department is there for students' grades, personal problems, and college selection. Led by chairperson, Mrs. Charmaine lcaza, guidance sponsors activities such as a college fair, college rep visits, divorce counseling, and anger management.
UThe counseling department has helped me profusely in my collage application process; they really know what they are doing," said junior Benny Pino.
GETTING INVOLVED
Literature is not only a class; it's an experience. At least that is what the English Department works toward. Students not only read books; they live them as well. Sixth grade English teacher Mr. Rolf Ross has his students practice archery as part of his coverage of the King Arthur stories. "I loved it when Mr. Ross let us shoot arrows. I now know how hard it is to use a bow," said Emilio Gomez. Mrs. Aimee Busquet, junior British lit, has her students make their own videos on their interpretation of Shakespeare's Macbeth.
Senior World lit teacher, Ms. Vicki Minchener, has her students make their own version of Cliff's Notes.
Alex Odriozola
Society of Jesu s
When you received your graduation ring, you made a commitment. It was a triple commitment. You wanted to uphold the Christian values of your family, your schooL and Jesus Christ.
Your fam ily wants the best for you. They are, for you, God, s representatives on earth. Nobody loves you as your parents do. They are your best friends and counselors! As you grow up, take good care of your mom and dad. If you do this, you will honor the ring you wear.
Your school wants you to be "men for others// generous, men of faith and peace. Belen Jesuit Preparatory School wants to seal your heart with five important values:
1) Be a man of God,
2) Be open to g rowth,
3) Love as Christ did,
4) Be committ ed to do justice in your society, And last, but not least,
5) Be intellectually competent
If you keep these values, you will honor the ring you wear. Christ wants you to be his follower. Read the gospels and practice what they say. Be a living gospel. If you do this, you will honor the ring you wear.
In this way, that you will fulfill the triple commitment & be proud of the graduation ring on your finger.
Fr . Eddy Alvarez SJ
Fr. Marcelino Garcia SJ
Fr. Will Garcia- Tunon SJ
Fr. Ed Alvarez SJ Fr. Jose Tey SJ
Fr. Jorge Mungia SJ listens t o confession during Mass.
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Mr. Leo Nunez
Ms. Sylv ernandez is always trying to impro e the libra
The Spanish team competed at the Florida State Spanish Conference where it has won for five years consecutively. Belen competed against over l 00 schools in 12 different categories. Out of a perfect score of 800, Belen got 750 coming up short of the victory by 40 points. The rookie team wil l be ready next year,said leader Rolando Vicario.
Mrs. Beatriz Jimenez, department chair, and the tenth grade class prepared Noche Hispana. All the different cultures of Latin America came together in the central patio.
The math department has a new leader this year in Mr. Jose Roca. The math facult y has attended local, state, and national conf erences. The conferences keep them updated with new techniques and styles that teachers bring into the class room said Mr Roca.
Mrs.Carol Vila, former depa rtment head, and Mr. Roca have developed an advanc ed honors course. Next year seniors will be able to pick between honors math analysis or statistics .
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Mrs. Miriam Combo
Mr. Juan Flores
Mrs. Gisel Castillo
Ms. Adriana Suarez
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Mrs. Brenda Ross
Mrs. Terea Campos
Mr. Ed Garland
Mrs. Beatriz Jimenez, Mrs. Alicia Farinas, Mrs. Ileana ArmengoL Mr. Jose VidaL Mrs Marta VidaL Mrs. Dora HaibL Mrs. Gisela Leon, Mrs. Maria Elena Cartaya.
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, Mr. Richard Stuart is also Head Coach of Varsity Football.
Mr. Angel Aparicio is also Head Coach of JV Football.
raga is also Head Coach of Junior High Football.
The Physical Education department has taken many steps toward increasing student awareness on the importance of physical fitness. Thanks to the strides bY' head Mr. Richard Stoart, PE has pursuaded the administration to offer a personal fitness elective for juniors and seniors effective next year. The course, to be called ucomprehensive Fitness," has been a long time in the making.
ul am very excited to see how the new elective will go. We here at the PE department have wanted this elective for some time now and we are very happy to see it finally put into effect," said Mr. Stuart.
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Mr. Tony Meilan coaches the Varsity Baseball team.
Eighth grader Peter Casais attempts to chase down Joey Cantens as he races past him toward the goal in a soccer game during PE class.
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"My kite is housing yours," shouted 8th grader Cisco Guevara to classmate Jimmy Fenton when Mrs. Ana Fenton took her science classes out to the baseball fields to fly the kites they had constructed. They made the kites using straw, string, and tissue paper. Mrs. Fenton's science classes were studying the history of flight. "I learned a lot, but I also had a lot of fun in the process," said Santiago Escobar. Mrs. Fenton has been doing this activity with her classes since she began teaching at Belen in 1997 . She views it as a fun, innovative way to learn.
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Dr. Armando Rodriguez
Mr. Charles Cleveland
Mr. Eugene Zoller
Ms. Josefina Chirino
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Mr. Eugene Zoller lectures his Civics Class
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''I feel that I can give back to the people because I have been blessed with so much throughout my life."
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One of the Photography division's works, this shot was taken at Everglades National Park.
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ALPHA encompasses many of the artistic clubs. It intends to expand the abilities and knowledge of students by spurring them, through contests, field trips, and experience, to examine the frontiers of their creativity. The club maintains
1 tse It up-todate with modern equipment.
ALPHA's photography division recently renovated installing a new digital photo-lab. "We're moving our operation in the direction of the 21st century," said Mr. Dan Montesi, adviser.
photos by ALPHA club
Above: The Photography division at a field trip to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum
Left: The Ateneo Club at work. Clockwise: Juan Flores, Alex Correoso, Julio Gonzalez, Mrs. Annie Menocal, Rolando Vicaria, Daniel Hanlon, and Andres Miguel.
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Above: The physics club at one of its competitions. Right: Junior, Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade works after hours at the Computer Science Club. Below : Fr Pedro Cartaya, SJ, watches over members of his Hand Radio Club.
This year could best be described as a building year for the club. Under the dedicated, new leadership of the senior board consisting of seniors Daniel Roque, Richard Rodriguez, Orlando Castro, and junior Ivan Gonzalez, and the guidance of Dr. Pedro Hernandez, the club has undergone positive changes. "It's a new club. This year BASES has become more organized, more functional, and has expanded significantly," said senior and environmental club Vice-President Ignacio Quintana. The Environmental Club, for
example, is a club that has been restarted after three years of absence. BASES itself is a conglomerate of different sciencerelated clubs participating in many different fields and activities. The Computer Science club, for example, strives to "teach students about computer science, expand student's capabilities with computers, and to extend to every student the chance to learn about computers in a learningconducive environment," as explained senior and computer science club vicepresident Alex Garcia- Tunon. Carlos F. Miranda
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Photos by Daniel Roque and Bryn Alan
First Row: Dr Pedro Hernandez, Danny Nufiez, Oscar Peguero, Alex Selem, Orlando Castro , Danny Roque , Richard Rodriguez, I van Gonzalez , Eric Collazo , Seve Canales, Greg Diaz, Second Row: Mauricio Villasuso, Jorge Suarez, Mark Mooney, Arturo Sanchez, Carlos Trujillo, Peter Michael , Jason Burrows , Jason Bueno , Gabriel Pumariega, Andres Bayon, Giovanni Fernandez-Kincade , Third Row: Antonio Prieto, Jorge Prieto, Jorge Pella , Henry Garcia, James Sacco, Julio MinsalRuiz, Jean-Paul Chavez, Juan P. Broche, Fourth Row : Daniel Sabido , Juan C Alam , Chris Caraballo , Anthony Vega, Emilio Fuster, Christopher Camargo, Felipe Ojeda, and Jose Leon.
The Forensics team shows off its many awards after a hard day of competition.
Senior Frankie Alvarez at a competition polishes his skills before he puts them to the test in front of the judges.
"The purpose of Forensics is to use communication, 'what makes us most human' to spread a message, while at the same time entertaining an audience," answered senior, and long-time forensics member, Michael Nunez, in an interview. The team this year met parti cul arl y good results. "As a club we achieved all the goals we had hoped for. As individuals we all found more success this year then ever; we were
Not everything is business, the team takes some time to absorb the local scenery.
all truly able to refine our talents," continued Nunez. This year the team sent more competitors to nationals then it had ever achieved. At an individual level, the club members won a wide range of awards ranging among all 1 eve 1 s and areas of forensics. But in the end, the club truly remains
above all as a way to unite "I just love being with my real friends," said senior Ernie Plascencia.
carlos F. Miranda
Photos by Forensics Team
Gabriel Gutierrez, Frankie Alvarez, Michael Nunez and Chris Caraballo take some time off competition to pose for the picture.
Michael Forrest entertains children as Jonathan Cardenas listens. These children have arthritis.
Right: Jonathan Cardenas works with children. This event was designed to entertain children who have diabetes.
Key Club has proven to be the most distinct and award-winning club in Belen. This club is one of the best in its district and in the nation, proving itself, year after year.
This year the Key club was lead by advisor Mrs. Aimee Busquet, Mr. Ralf Ledesma (Kiwanis advisor), vice president Juan Fernandez Barquin, secretary Alex Miranda, treasurer Mauricio Montiel, and president Michael Forrest. The 2001
group of 150 gth_10th graders has accumulated over 20,000 community service hours.
The Key club decided that working with children individually would serve as their theme this year. Their single-service project was Naranja, lead by senior Alex Selem. Naranja is a program where Key club members tutor the children of migrant workers. The theme of the Major Emphasis Program, lead by junior Jonathan
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::::ardenas, is children. Their motto, "Their future, our focus." other projects included Juilding in the Dominican Republic, mentoring :hildren, and fundraising for children with jiabetes and arthritis.
"I always wanted to make a difference in the :ommunity and this is the way to do it," said ::::ardenas.
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Jonathan Cardenas plays with a child. Cardenas works with children who have diabetes.
photos by Key Club
The Model UN team: Thomas Jardon, Nick Gimbel, Jonathan Cardenas, moderator Mr. Thomas De Quesada, Giovanni Femandez-Kincade, Gabriel Pumariega, Eddy Bertran, and alumni Manny Dieguez.
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Model UN, as the name implies, "emulates the work and interaction of the many nations of the world, which takes place in the scheme of the United Nations," explained club moderator Mr. Thomas De Quesada. The club serves not only the purpose of recreation; it also helps students polish the skills they will require to sue-
The Model UN takes a break from competition.
From left: George Gonzalez, Mr. Thomas De Quesada, Nick Gimbel, Christian Leiva, Jonathan Cardenas, Eddy Bertran, Gabriel Pumariega, Tiberio Lobo-Navia, Giovanni F emandez-Kincade, Chris Sedeno, and Rodrigo Suarez.
ceed in many fields later in life.
"It provides students with a forum to improve people skills, negotiation skills, and learn about the current affairs and complexities of the world community," said Mr. De Quesada. The club deserves much respect. Despite the club's youthful
age, it has stepped up to the competition provided by other schools, and furthermore, succeeded. For the first time in its history, Model UN pulled away with Regional and State championships, along with the Johns Hopkins Invitational first place award, "thanks solely to the hard work and dedication of the students," added Mr. De Quesada.
Carlos F. Miranda
Photo Courtesy Model UN
"oeadl i ne' s tomorrow?!?!" This is the usual reaction of a vi ncam writer when faced with the cha 11 enge of meeting one of his responsi bi 1 i ties. vi ncam is a journalism class in which students write about subjects and events that affect the student body. They have to design the newspaper pages, write stories, meet their deadlines, and sell ads to cover production costs. "I have learned a 1ot about j ou rna 1 ism the past two years I have been in vi ncam and now I love to write," said senior/Sports Editor Billy wood.
Senior/ Sports Editor Billy Wood does som research in magazines for information on his next story.
Junior/ Staff Writer Louis Perez goes after classmate Eric Esteban after Esteban ridicules his story.
Senior/ Features Editor Eugene Ramriez speaks to a client about buying an add.
Senior/ Staff Editor in Chief Alex Sarria prepares his rough draft of a story for the monthly newspaper.
Senior/ Art Editor Rodrigo Tefel concentrates on editing & revising his work.
Senior/ Sports Editor Andres "Mouse" Duarte
with his balloon of knowledge while reflecting on a topic to write his next story.
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"I never thought I would see, myself in a journalism class. I'm glad I tried it out because I learned a lot and it can help me out for the essays I have to write in English class," said Junior/Staff writer Ruben Moreno.
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Jimmy Newmeyer and Carlos Gonzalez ball up some New Yorkers during the Vincam an Echoes trip to New York.
Vincam Advisor Mrs. Cristina Casero meets with the Vincam Junior Staff writers.
Senior/ News EditorAlex Rodriguez listens to a critique from Mrs. Casero about the prevoius issue.
Top Row: Jose Torres, Benny Pino, Rodrigo Tefel, Tony Sarda, Eric Esteban, Ruben Moreno, Chris Plantada, Louis Perez. Bottom Row: Alex Sarria, Alex Rodriguez, Felipe Tudela, Andres Duarte, Robert Garcia, Eugene Ramirez, Carlos Gonzalez, Mrs. Cristina Casero
Fearless Leaders- The Editors-inChief, Papo Manrara, Manny Larrieu, and Fran kie Larrie u.
Advisor Ms. Cristina Casero sporting the "bling bling" on the journalism trip to New Yo rk in which the yearbook class to part.
Jesus Carretie picks out the right picture to use in his spread.
Jimmy NeMre,e" shows school president Danny Masvidal some of the work yearbook has done.
surprising. Intriguing. Motivated. successful. Those few words recap another year for Echoes, Belen's yearbook. The staff, led by Editors-inchief Frankie Larrieu, Manny Larrieu, and, Papa Manrara, took the road less traveled and shook up the order of
business. First, they switched from ultravision, a primitive yearbook software, to Pagemaker, a more commanding program. Another change was that all seniors were given Editor positions, and work was distributed amongst them
taking much pressure off the The final alteration was physical. The administration refurnished the class adding 12 new computers. with the 2000 book earning second place honors, this year's staff was committed to producing an even more memorable book.
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"It's a lot . harder than we thought it would be," said junior Richie Puerto.
The yearbook class at work.
Juniors Eddie Macias, Mike Montiel, and Richie Puerto check out Homecoming pictures.
Javi Perez
Design Editor Javi Perez fills out the picture form for Bryn Alan.
Danny Masvidal gives his farewell speech at the banquet.
Eddie Macias addresses the Student Council for the first time as President.
Although half of the graduating senior class is staying in Miami for college, all but one member of the executive board is leaving Miami for school.
Oscar Peguero: Vanderbilt University
Jon Leyva: University of Miami
Juan Diaz: University of Central Florida
Manny Larrieu: Loyola University
Danny Masvidal: Loyola University
Frankie Larrieu: Loyola University
Danny Adan: University of Florida
Marco Gonzalez: Duke University
Chris Riveron: University of Florida
This has been a year of firsts for Belen's student council. Aside from holding the state presidency, the counci 1 began what wi 11 hopefully become a t radi ti on throughout the years to come, wo 1veri ne week. wo 1veri ne week consisted of a week in which one grade dressed out each day in their class color which was designated by the Student council. The week ended with a pep- ra 11 y for the basketball team in which every grade dressed out in their color, and on saturday of wolverine week, the first-ever Belen Bonanza was held. Belen Bonanza was a fun-filled week of activities in which the different junior teams competed against each other and the senior teams a 1 so competed against each other. The events included karaoke, an obstacle course, and the cheeseball throw in which one person throws cheese ba 11 s at a shaving cream cove red teammate.
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2000-2001 Executive Board
Advisors: Dr. Armando Rodriguez
Dr. Pedro Hernandez
President: Daniel Masvidal
Vice President: Jonathan Leyva
secretary: Francisco Larri eu
Treasurer: christopher Riveron
Big Brother chairman: Daniel Adan
corresponding Secretary: Marco Gonzalez
Parliamentarian: Juan Di az
Danny Masvidal and Danny A dan collect money at Revival, one of the Student Council's many fundraising dances.
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First Row: Eric Collazo, Papo Manrara, Juan Diaz, Carlos Salgado
Second Row: Peter Michael, Miguel Bolanos, Christian Andrade
First Row: Manny Larrieu, Frankie Larrieu, Oscar Peguero, Carlos Gonzalez
Second Row: Pablo Salazar, Javier Jacomino, Antonio Prieto
Third Row: Jonathan Leyva
Fourth Row: Joel Lopez, Daniel Tufion
Fifth Row: Deacon Robert 0 'Malley
First Row: Mr. Eduardo Delgado, Lou is Me nde z , Rob ert Hernandez, Alex Rodriguez, Rene M edin a Second Row: Arturo Cepero, Chris M elley, Alex Pe:fia, Jo n Erik Alvarez, Andres Navarro, Daniel Escoto
Third Row: Gonzalo Cabello, Jorge R avelo, Alex Leon, Eric Darpin, Rodrigo Tejedor, Sergio Lobo-Navia
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Th e Bui 1de r ' s c l ub is a par t of Bele n which i s often ove r loo ke d . It was s tarted by Mr s . Tere campo s four years ago. The Bui lder's Club is a service clu b for eighth grader s . Aside from the con stant visit s t o the Fr anc is ca n Farm, the Builder's clu b
conducted a christmas drive for ten needy fami 1i es from centro Mater and an Easter egg hunt for all the kids of centro Mater. The christmas drive consisted of three presents for each chi 1d and Neche Buena dinner for each family. The Builder's club members were
responsible for co 11 ecti ng the money raised by each homeroom from sixth to eighth grade. Then the members got together on a saturday to gift wrap a11 the presents.
Frankie Larri eu
Second Row: M. Fernandez, A. Formoso, R. Agudo, N. Camargo, C. Macias, A. Ro driguez, J. Hermida, J. Leon, A. Lugo, R. Cifuentes
Third R ow: S. Escobar, D. Palacios, J. Rodriguez, J. Minsal, L.Arenas, G. Naya, R M e dina
Fourth Row: J. Cantens, J. Daire, E. Fernandez, C. Ortega, E. Fresco, M. Almeida, A.Mantecon
First Row: Mrs. Tere Campos, V. Segrera, R. Hernandez, E. Knott, J. Hernandez, D. Monzon, D. Cos t a, M. de la Fuente
The Junior Astronomy club attended a field trip to the u.s. Space camp in cape canaveral, Florida in January of this year. , Among the many activities offered at the camp, the students enjoyed the Space Flight si mul ati ons the most.
"It was such a cool experience to feel what it is like to be those astronauts in a spaceship. The take off was really rough and bumpy!" said sixth grader Michael Lafont. Other activities the Astronomy club got to enjoy were movies on the planets and stars, interactive games and space training.
"space training was fun and interesting. I was able to take the same training astronauts take before the go to space," said sixth grader cris Cannata.
Eddie Macias
Bottom Row: Cris Cannata, Javier Vijil, Julio Minsal- Ruiz, Brian Cox, Fernando Casco, Michael Lafont.
Middle Row: Ralph Matheu, Frankie Azcuy, Danny Cox, Gabriel Garrido, James Sacco, Alex Duque
Top Row: Br. Frank Permuy SJ, Mrs. Cox, Mrs. Minsal- Ruiz, Mrs. Downing, Mr. Sacco
Brian Cox, Julio Minsal- Ruiz, James Sacco, Br. Frank Permuy SJ, and Frankie Azcuy stand by one of the many pictures of a launch pad. Launch pads send satellites into space.
Moderator: Ralph Ladesma President: Carlos Trujillo
First Row: Richie Puerto, Jesus Carretie, Orlando Castro, Mike Fenton, Jonathan Salum, J.P. Chavez, Danny Munilla, Jonathan Fojo, Chris Fleites Second Row: Cesar Alvarez, Jorge Palmerola, Mike Barrera, J.P. Albert, Luis Perez, Jason Sauleda, Adrian Gomez, Camilo Ferro
Third Row: Diego Vizcon, Chris Plantada, Eddy Acevedo, Emilio Saiz, Mike Ortiz, Enrique Alard, Mike Montiel Fourth Row: Armando Diaz, Billy Wood, Alex Hernandez, Chris Alonso, Juan Abelairas, Alex Echeverria, Guillermo Ovies, Mike Cantens, Oscar Sardinas, Marcos Alvarez
Moderator: Eduardo Delgado
President: Robert Hernandez
Front Row: Eduardo Delgado, Louis Mendez, Robert Hernandez, Alex Rodriguez, Rene Medina
Second Row: Arturo Cepero, Chris Melley, Alex Pena, Jon Erik Alvarez, Andres Navarro, Daniel Escoto.
Third Row: Gonzalo Cabello, Jorge Ravelo, Alex Leon, Eric Darpini, Rodrigo Tejedor, Sergio Lobo-Navia
Moderator: Alicia Farinas President:Julio Jimenez
First Row: Adrian Colon, Nicholas Martin, Julio Jimenez, Chris Gonzalez Second Row: Marcelo Delgado, Andre Grillon, Carlos Hondal, Alex Pena, Daniel Gonzalez, William Mayol
Third Row: Rodrigo Tejedor, Felix Ocana, Alejandro Alvarado, Daniel Oporto, Juan Mora, Daniel Silva
Moderator: Tony Alexander
President: Enrique Escobar
First Row: Gio Fernandez-Kincaide, Ignacio Garcia, Tiberio Lobo- Navia, Luis Lopez de Quintana, Thomas Jardon, Enrique Escobar, Reynick Martinez
Second Row: Nicolas Gimbel, Rafael Egues, Andrew Cuan, Eduardo Bertran Third Row: Alex Garcia-Tunon, Frankie Larrieu, Jon Leyva
President: Alex Rodriguez
Front Row: Eric Esteva, Jonathan Leal, Andres Bilbao, Danny Mendoza, Alex Rodriguez
Second Row: Tony Navarro, Eddie Lacayo, Freddy Elorza, Robert Hernandez
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The senior class gathers together showing they have the most spirit. It is a common tradition for the seniors to stand on the gym floor during pep rallies while the underclassmen sit on the bleachers.
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Waldo gets a piggy-back ride from senior Nick Carreno (#62) during the Pep Rally.
Waldo, the school mascot gets the Pep Rally started by introducing one of Belen's newest clubs, the Pep Club. This club is the backbone of school pep rallies.
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"We got spirit ves we do, we got spirit how about vou;»" chanted the senior class as the rest of the student bodv veiled, "We got more! We got more!"
Whether vou are involved in the school Pep Rallv as a panicipant or as afan is not the important factor. The importance of these pep rallies is the unification of the entire student bodv.
The first pep rallv of the vear took place Nov.10th, during Homecoming Week. The first event was the Facultv vs. Seniors Basketball Game. The Pep Rallv then introduced most of the fall spons, but was mainlv intended for the varsitv Football team which was
The junior football players lead the rest of the junior class proving that they have more spirit then any other grade.
getting readv to face the Bav Point Falcons at 3:30 that afternoon.
"After thev called mv name, 1had so much intensitv that it would be impossible to lose the game," said Dannv Monilia, free safetv. After the football pi avers were introduced, there was the school's first-ever weightlifting competition, which was also facultv vs. students. Representing the student bodv were iunior Dannv Martinez and senior Chris Alonso. Representing the facultv were Dr. Armando Rodriguez and Mr. Tonv Perez.
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Danny Masvidal gets the Pep Rally started.
Roman Toran is happy to see the cheerleaders
Seniors Cesar Alvarez {#5) , Jimmy Newmeyer {#22), Robert Romero {#60), and Alex Paret {#44) get the student body excited and on their feet right before they introduce the football team.
photos by Jesus Carretie and Jonathan Salum
Cross Country runner Jorge Palmerola announces his teammates
SeniorGio Bertaina displays his school pride during the Pep Rally.
"Mouse" Duarte dresses up as a La Salle football player to adding to the crowd's fervor.
Junior Mike Carreras gets into the way of the camera during a Pep Rally.
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Greatest Accomplishments
Ag ustin Guardiola: "Our greatest accomplishment is wi nning the ICC with hard work and de dication."
IIIII Col: "We dominated the ICC With the leade rshiP of Nikki Diaz and Agustine Guardiola."
Eugene Suarez: "You don"t have to be the best to win. All vou need is hard work and dedication. And that is what this team had."
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Jason Oliver and Agustine Guardiola run ahead of the pack in Tropical Park to finish second and third place. Guardiola finished the season with a time of 9:44. Oliver's best was a l 0:08.
Oscar Guerrero and Richard Rodriguez are exhausted but able to finish the race ahead of their competition, St. Theresa at Tropical Park
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Poised t o dominate
They say that il it smells, leeIs, looks, and sounds like it, then it probablY is or at least will be the runners ol the 2000 Junior High Cross-Countrv team. The Junior High Cross-Countrv team might as well be the next big thing in the Sunshine State cross-countrv banlelield. This group ol runners, comprised mostly o1am graders, has already drawn out its desired territorv. aluture State title. The young pack has already begun to show bright signs that it's on the right direction to that territorv. Combining over 7,200 training miles with their strong desire to win, the team captured lour perlect scoring meets, a Junior Orange Bowl top linish, a Tri-Countv title, a Miami-Dade Countv ChampionshiP and an ICC ChampionshiP. The 2000 season added 11 wins to the Junior High program's 23-vear historv. making it total more than 220 victories lor the record book. "The ink an Echoes Yearbook in lour years will probablY conlirm that in 2000 the Junior High cross-Countrv team wasn't iust smelling, leeling, looking, and sounding like a State title lor nothing," said coach Mr. Frankie Ruiz.
Michael Jalil takes the lead in the Dade County Youth Fair meet to capture fourth place at Tamiami Park. Jalil finished '----------------....J with a time of 12:32 in 2-miles.
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Alex Diaz brings it home in the Belen field to help his team win the ACC Championship meet. Diaz' s best time of the season was 13:00 minutes in the 2 mile.
Eddy Arguello runs ahead of his competition to capture 1st place in the ACC Championship meet in the Belen 2 mile course. Arguello lead the Jr High team with a time
Rene Medina rounds the corner to give Belen the victory in the St. John Neuman Invitational at Tropical Park. Medina finished with a time of 12:40 for the 2-mile race.
The team is proud of their ribbons and the District Championship trophy after a very strong performance at the District Meet.
photos by Victor Arrieta
Facing page from left:
*Senior Jorge Palmerola leads a tight pack at the Greentree Invitational as they come around the mile marker.
* Junior Jesus Carretie begins his kick at the University of Florida Invitational in Gainesville.
*Freshman Javier Cruz displays his ability to kick it in hard and do it with total relaxation.
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*8th grader Eddie Arguello is determined to beat his opponents at District.
Keeping with tradition, the crossCountry team began training in June, taking several trips to Key Largo, Nonh Carolina, and Tennessee for bonding, tun times, and hard training.
"I enjoyed this past season the most out of any of my other years," said assistant coach Mr. Victor Arrieta.
The team placed first at several major meets: the U.M. Greentree Invitational, F.I.U.Invitational and Spanish River Invitational. The team won its 7th Miami-Dade Countv title, which is the most out of any Miami-Dade Countv
team in history. The team was ranked #1 in the countv throughout the year. Going into the Miami-Dade Countv ChampionshiP race, the team felt pressured, but after some strong performances, the runners became the onicial Miami-Dade Countv champs.
In addition to receiving the SunSentinel'1eam of the Week" award, the team was featured in the CBS High School Spons Special. The squad had a great race at the District ChampionshiP Meet capturing the 22nd district title of all time. After adisappointing 2nd place at the Regional meet the
team went states ranked 6th. But the running pigs, as teammates refer to themselves, were able to pull througll, surprising everyone, to become the State Runner Up at the State Championships in Titusville. CrossCountry has held the dynastv of placing among the top live in the state for the past eight years.
were e returnees from the Varsity team last year. It shows what hard work and determination can accomplish," said head coach Mr. Carlos Barquin.
Jorge Palmerola added his name to the long list of Belen top runners by winning the district and the regional individual titles. He also captured 5th place at the State Championships and was Belen's number 1runner.
SPORTS V.CROSS COUNTRY
The entire team defines the word with their unity as they get ready to run at Black Mountain in Tennes-
"This team's performance at the State ChampionshiP meet was a pleasant surprise since there
At the number 2spot was junior Jesus Carretie who placed 17th at the State meet, and led atight pack of young runners.
Number 3 on the team was outstanding freshman Javier Cruz, who was followed by the
* Sophomore lldelfonso Mas looks tired, yet hangs in there at the DualCurleyMeet. sensation Eddie Arguello.
Another strong runner who stepped up at the end of the season to become number 5 on the team was sophomore Jose Garcia. At number 6 and 1on the team were sophomores Miguel Ferrer and lldelfonso Mas, adding depth to the pack.
"I knew we were capable of lullfilling the goals that we had set," said Palmerola.
"We trained hard and overcame many obstacles throughout the season, 1am extremely proud of the entire team," said carretie.
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Sophomore Miguel Ferrer focuses on his opponent as he gets closer and closer stride by stride.
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It was a tough season for the voung Wolverines as thev went on to win onlv one game the whole season against rival Gulliver Prep. Manv of the plavers were newcomers to the spon so much of the time was spent learning the basics. Despite the losses the team showed improvement throughout the vear and was led bV the running of 8th grader Cisco Guevara and the arm of 8th grader Brian Dominguez. "Our season didn't go too well, but I learned a lot from all the coaches and I think that next vear we're going to step it up and win a lot more games." Expectations for next vear's team will be greater as thev will be led bvan exPerienced squad with talent Marcos Alvarez
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Jimmy Fenton sits and relaxes on the bench after a hard fought quarter against Westminster Christian.
Coach Nick Garcia tries to pump up his defense after they allowed a touchdown.
Coach Danny Rodriguez rallies up the team before their last and only home game against Palmer Trinity.
Coach Danny Rodriguez gives a pep talk to QB Brian Dominguez and the Offensive Line.
Francisco Guevara freshens up for his role on special teams after scoring a touchdown against Palmer Trinity at home.
Danny Garcia looks for a hole as a Ransom defender pursues.
"Down ... Set. .. Hutt," barks out starting quarterback Alex Munilla in the middle of the second quarter. As the ball reaches his hand, Munilla checks for his receivers. Spotting Alex Cura open off the comer of his eye, he throws. The receiver catches it and runs toward the end zone. With the opposition closing in quickly, picks up his pace and carries the ball all the way to the end of the field scoring a touchdown. With an excellent running game and a perfected passing game, it is no surprise that the Junior Varsity Football team racked up 7 out of 8 victories. Though they were not able to vanquish Pace, the team did
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Top Row: Ignacio Duquense, Tony Rodriguez, Stephen Putman, Gaston Fontela, Javier Carabeo, JP Bermudez, Alex Castro, Alex Cura, Chris Vallenilla
Middle Row: Angel Aparicio, Nick Begley, Alex Nuche, Jason Lopez, Mario Garcia, Joseph Frederick, David Romero, Fernando Hernandez, Mike Ortiz, Julio Aenlle, Luis Llamas, Alex Llama
Bottom Row: Barney Flores, Derek Leon, Alex Esteban, T Rodriguez, Rene Larrieu, Danny Enriquez , Robert Sobrado, Anthony Torrente, Alex Munilla, Eloy Figueredo, Ed Essinger
Seated: Justin Metcalf, Ernie Calderin, George Metcalfe
Fernando Hernandez examines his recent battle scars.
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The Belen Junior Varsity Football team celebrates by lifting their helmets high in the air after a victory.
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Starting defensive end Victor White consumes the Curley quarterback as he tries to escape his inevitable sack. The final score of the game was 38 -0 with Belen emerging victorious.
Senior running back Raymond Mendez breaks away from yet another helpless defender. Mendez, who is one of the team's eight captains, also excels in Track and Field
The Wolverine defense swarms a defenseless La Salle running back as he makes a futile attempt to gain yardage Belen set the school record for most points in a game with a score of 70-0
-first-ever playoff victory
-Most points ever scored in a game: 70-0 vs . La Salle
Five seniors making All-Dade
Making History
Senior running back Ramon
Senior Wide Receiver Jimmy Newmeyer catches a pass and Crego eagerly waits to get back turns up field for additional yardage. Newmeyer led the team on the field. Crego led the with 32 receptions, 8 touchdowns, and over 500 yards. county in yards per carry.
consumes a Ransom quarterback as he tries to escape the intruding defensive line The defensive line consists of Jorge Jalil, Papo Manrara, and Nick Carreno
om ore attacks the Hialeah High quarterback during the Kickoff Classic. Caballero had one interception returned for a touchdown
Oscar Duyos pursues a play as strong safety Cesar Alvarez "lights up" a Bay Point Falcon. Belen went on to win the Homecoming 41-6.
PRIDE COURAGE WAR WIN. These were the words that guided the varsitv Football team in its remarkable performance this season. The pi avers started on with a loss to long-time rival Monsigner Pace. But losing would not be aregular thing the remainder of the season. Team captain Cesar Alvarez addressed the team during halftime when the score was 20-0.
..We have to make achoice: we can either pack it up right now and go home, or we can get ourselves in gear and Plav like we know we can: like champions."
The Wolverines then went on to score 13 unanswered points against Pace. Although the 13 points were not enough to pull on avictorv, the response came back hard and against the La Salle Rovals, sening aschool record tor most points scored in agame bV shutting out La Salle 10-0 in front of asell-out crowd at Tropical Park. Belen ended the regular season with a record of 8-2, with an average of over 400 total vards per game, and an average a score of 31-1.
..This vear's team was aliving example of how hard work, discipline, and commitment pav on in athletics", said onensive coordinator Mr. Eddie Delgado.
Some notable individual performances were Joaquin Sanchez with 1000 passing vards, &Oo/o completion, and 10 touchdowns. Ravmond Mendez led the running backs and set a school record with over 1400 rushing vards, while Oscar Duvos, Mike Gonzalez, and Ramon Crego each had over 500 rushing vards. The defense was led bv iunior Richard Puerto at cornerback and senior Cesar Alvarez at strong satetv: each had 5 interceptions. Another notable accomplishment of the defense is that it held Cardinal Neuman's two 1000-vard rushers to a combined total of 59 vards. The team set new records and earned much respect throughout Dade Countv with 5 plavers making the All-Dade team: Cesar Alvarez, Nick Carreno, Ravmond Mendez, Jimmv Newmever, and Javi Valdez
Junior and starting quarterback Joaquin Sanchez evades a defender on a bootleg play. Sanchez had over 1000 passing yards and has played on the Varsity team
Defensive captain Alex Paret gets ready to smash an opponent at the Ransom game. Paret is a starting line backer and his powerful hits are notorious throughout Miami-Dade County. SPORTS
photos by Bryn Alan, Papo Manrara, and Ed Nunez
Off the Blocks
STRATEGY: Javier Basnuevo, Robert Garcia, Jeffrey Vivo, and Javier Morejon discuss their strategy before their race in the 200 meter medly relay.
The seasonWII be remembered as arebuildlngvearofprogress and triumph. The season opened up With ilsfirstmatch against longtime rival Ransom Everglades which endedvictorioustvtorlhe Wolverine as one otlhe countv'stoplhree retumingswimmers lnllhe Miami Herald, lead the Wolverine pack as CaotainWilhlhe help of other varsilVandJuniorvarsilVswimmers.
The swimmers marked their spot on the swimming map the last weekend ot October at the annual All-Catholic Conference. With anew and inexperienced team, the varsitv swimmers with the help ol the J.V. placed 4th in Orlando.
The season continued with the Dade countv Youth Fair, where Varsitv placed 3rd out ot the countv, behind Christopher Columbus and Gulliver. The J.V. placed 2nd the following dav and helped place the Wolverines as an upcoming team.
Alter placing 3rd in the Countv Championships, varsitv have much time to celebrate. With the District Championships onlv alew weeks awav, swimmers kept practicing twice a dav,trvlngto uetinlhatextravantageto aualiiVIortbe SlateChamPIODShiDSheld late In NMmbetlhe Wolverines pulled on a2nd place Win, aualifVinu 8th urader JavierBasnuevo, lreshman JellervV"IVO, sophomoresJavierAraaue andJavierMoreion,andseniorRobenGarciatolheStateChampionShiPSin Oltando.
With the last competition in site, the Wolverines got readv tor what would be their last meet ol the season and the fastest meet not onlv in Florida, but one ot the fastest throughout the nation. The morning session was marked with great swims such as Robert Garcia in the 200 tree, who Placed a lifetime best time alter struggling in the event tor over avear and a halt, and Javier Basnuevo with abest time in the 100 backstroke. With overall great swims, the Wolverines were able to qualitv two relavs tor the State Finals, which ended with aseason best time in both relavs, with the help ot Jenrev Vivo In the 200 medlev and Javier MoreJon In the 400 tree relav.
2000 was alast season, and we swam taster than we expected, but people should watch out next vear.ln 2001 we'll be taster with the help ol mvsell and Basnuevo, and the two Javl's. We're expecting to be bring the District ChampionshiP back to Belen,'' said freshman Jenrev Vivo.
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The Varsity team shows off their 4th place at the ACC meet in Orlando.
ON YOUR MARKS : The night before States the team goes to Olive Garden for a carbo load.
HEAD FIRST : Senior Robert Garcia jumps off the blocks at state's.
Throw Dem' Bows!!
Everv vear vou alwavs hear about the lack of attention the Wrestling team receives. People alwavs wonder whv thev put themselves through such hell tor at least six months of the vear. The wrestlers, however, see it difterentlv.
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RICKY
PALMERO LA· so 112
BRYAN SUAREZ· so 119
NICK
CARMONA· so 125
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MICHAEL WOOD· FR 179
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"There's a huge feeling of accomplishment 1get when I wrestle," said junior Oscar lopez.
The 2000-2001 featuring senior captains Billv Wood, Ivan Enriquez, Alex ··sumo" Hernandez, and junior David Bouza led the team to an incredible season in which thev finished 15-2. Even more memorable was the tact there were tour state finalists and an overall &ih place finish.
Enriquez won the state title, making him the second wrestler in Belen historv to accomplish that teat.
··1 had confidence that 1could do it" he said "I trained hard all vear to reach mv goal of a state title, and in the end it worked out."
Bouza and freshman sensation Jason Machado weren't tar behind as both captured a third place finish, and Wood finished in sixth.
Ricky Palmerola lets his :look tor another title or two coming next opponent know who's boss. vear," sa1d Bouza. ··we det1n11e1v have the talent and dedication to make it happen." Mike Montiel
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2nd Row: Jason Machado, Ricky Palmerola, Bryan Suarez, Nick Carmona, Oscar Lopez, Andy Nunez
1st Row: Adrian, Jessy, Steven Rico, Alex Reyes, Marcos Ramirez
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4th Row: Albert Hernandez, Miguel Reyes, Ivan Enriquez, Billy Wood, Sumo Hernandez, Tito Castro
Row: coach David, Oscar Zapata, coach Fidel Albelo, David Bouza, Carlos Miranda, Luis Carmona, Mike Wood
Jason Machado lifts his rival with ease.
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Ivan Enriquez flips his opponent over his head, en route to another easy pin.
State Champ Ivan Enriquez celebrates his victory much to the displeasure of his competitors.
David Bouza fights to the finish in front of a huge crowd at the State Finals.
Ricky Palmerola gets ready for his next Oscar Lopez is proclaimed the winner once again.
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6TH GRADE BASKETBALL
Above: Coach Jerry Jones thinks during a game.
Right: Steve Agras fights for a rebound.
2000 TEAM ROSTER
STEVEN AGRAS C
HENRY ALVAREZ F
CARLOS ARMAS F
RICHARD BANDRICH G
GIO CHRISTODOULOU G
AUGI DE GOYTISOLO F
ALEX DEL RIO G
AGUSTIN GUARDIOLA G
DANIEL MENDEZ G
MICHAEL PUTMAN F
JAVIER RAMOS G
OSCAR VAZQUEZ F
"It was a prettv easv season," said Augustin "Guti" Guardiola.
"We underestimated some teams, but in the end we came though," said Javi Ramos.
That's the understatement ot the vear! The 6th grade
Basketball squad had an overwhelming season, defeating everv single opponent tor onlv the tourth time in the team's historv.
"I am reanv proud ot the enort ot all this vear's plavers/' said coach Mr. Jerrv Jones.
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Left: Richard Bandrich
Below: Michael Putman, Guti Guardiola and Javier Ramos after a game.
2000 TEAM ROSTER
ERIC DIAZ
JOSEPH CANTENS
GABRIEL BERMUDEZ
ALEX TELLERIA
FRANCISCO GUEVARA
JONATHAN HERMIDA
ALEX RODRIGUEZ
CHRIS ZUMARRAGA
LUIS ARENAS
ANTHONY FERNANDEZ
GEORGE DON
ANDRES VEGA
JONATHAN HERNANDEZ
CARLOS ROSADO
ERIC MONTES
ALBERTO ARAN
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3. Jonathan "Pigeon" Hermida calls a play.
4. Joseph Cantens goes for a block.
5. Andres Vega holds up the ball.
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2000.2001 TEAM ROSTER
RICARDO ROHAIDY
JAVIER GARCIA-TlJNON
JAVIER CRUZ
CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ
ALVARO BADA
ALEX CASTRO
IVAN ECHENIQUE
ANGEL RUIZ
ALBERTO ARAN
DAVID ROMERO
RAFAEL DE ORY
ROBERT VELASCO
LUIS PASOS
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Even steven for the Freshman Basketball team as thev finished the season 6-6. lavi Cruz led with an average 111 ten points per game. llvaro Bada contributed with ten or more rebounds per marne. Other contributing were Chris Rodriguez Nho led with about six steals game and Javi Garciaruiion who was the team's all 11round pi aver. As evidenced IIV their record, most of their
games were evenlv matched. "Our biggest strength was our defense," said coach Eddie Delgado. Thev beat school rivals like Gulliver and Pace, winning their last game of the season against Chaminade Madonna in overtime. Robert Zaldivar
the pace.
The team looks on during a close game.
Javi Cruz takes it past his opponent.
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Almost There
2000·200 1 ROSTER
J.P. BERMUDEZ
IGNACIO DUQUESNE
JOSE GARCIA
ERIC DIAZ
MARIO GARCIA
ALEX GUARDIOLA
MANNY PEREZ
CHRISTOPHER GUEITS
IVAN DEL RIO
STEPHEN PUTMAN
DANNY RODRIGUEZ
ANTHONY TORRENTE
l Jose Garcia tokes the boll to the hoop.
2. The team talks strategy before the game.
3. Ivan del Rio, Jose Garcia, and Steven Putman line up to run a ploy.
4. J.P. Bermudez shoots a free throw.
5. Alex Guardiola squares up to shoot.
6. Anthony Torrente slows down the pace.
7. Ivan del Rio tokes it up to the basket.
8. Steven Putman drives it in.
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3. Coach Jones gives the team new strategy to beat their opponents
4. David Caballero leads the team while calling a play.
Thev beat Pace once. Thev beat them again. And then thev went on to elbow powerhouses aside such as Palmeno. But that wasn't enough. Guided bv the amazing teats of Alex Guardiola who led the team with an average 0111 points per game and a high ot36 three-pointers throughout the season, JV Basketball was virtuaiiV unstoppable.
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to Booker T. washington in a game that lasted until double overtime. That game thev were missing Alex Guardiola and Jose Garcia, two kev starters.
J.P. Bermudez contributed to the impressive 22-1 record with a total ot158 rebounds and was also the top shot blocker.
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Top Row: Donny Valdes, Carlos Gonzalez, Donny Padilla, Oscar Peguero, Gobi Garcia, Robert Zaldivar
Bottom Row: Cesar Alvarez, J.P Chavez, Alex Sorrio, Jimmy Newmeyer, Michael Carreras, Jose Gorcio-Tunon, Jovi Jocomino
his vear's Varsitv Basketball team had avear to remember. The team was stacked heavilv with seniors representing 9 of the 13 postitons. The Wolverines traveled to New York where thev competed in the lovola High School Basketball tournament, atrip that len manv memories imprinted into the mind of both seniors and lowerclassmen. Seniors contributed to the success of the team ,as thev brought their athletic abilities as well as their leadershiP to allow the team to compete hard everv night thev stepped onto the court.
Seniors J.P Chavez and Alex Sarria lead with their scoring capabilities. Seniors Oscar Peguero, carlos Gonzalez, Jimmv Newmever, and Gabi Garcia all contibuted to the successful season which ended with ateam record of 16-11.
Jimmy Newmeyer, Jovi Jocomino, Jose Gorcio-Tunon, Gobi
Belen's all-time leading scorer, J.P. Chavez leads the team and is also a track star.
his vear Belen has added anew addition to their wide varietv ot spons.ln this case irs Roller Hockev. The Roller Hockev team is vervvoung and is headed bv seniors Rodrigo Tetel and Dannv Moiena and coached bv Br. Frank PermuvSJ and alumnus luis Saladrigas. The team plaved schools like Palmeno, Killian, Ransom, and the alwavs tavorne Columbus. Thev plaved in an independent league called the Kendall Hockev Association. 'The team has much potential to become the top team in the league," said coach luis Saladrigas.
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Captain and one of the founders of Belen Hockey, Rodrigo Tefel.
INAUGURAL ROSTER:
CHRIS MORRIS
MIKE MORRIS
JULIAN DIEPPA
CHARLIE SOTO
ERNIE PEREZ
DAVID
BUSTAMANTE
CHRIS VALLENILLA
SANTIAGO TEFEL
JOSE CANTO
DANNY NUNEZ
EDDIE DUQUESNE
DANNY MOJENA· ASSISTANT
RODRIGO TEFEL· CAPTAIN
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Freshman Julian Dieppa glances at the score board to check how much time they have left.
Junior Danny Nunez takes a slapshot at the goal.
Freshman Ernie Perez prepares to deceive his defender as he heads toward the goal. He was a great addition to the young team.
Charlie So to searches for the puck through a swarm of Palmetto defenders.
The 2000-2001 Junior varsitv Soccer team experienced arebuilding season. Three oltheir top plavers were moved up to the Varsitv Squad hall wav through the season. coach Fabio onega did agreat iob in bringing the team together aner the loss olthese pi avers. Despite the losses, the team bounced back, practiced hard and challenged opponents. Thev posed a threat to opposing teams. The team was lead bv captains Hoben Klock and Renzo EHio. Other kev plavers were Javi Navarro, Nikki Alexander, Derek Varona and Peter Klock
ROSTER
CHRIS ACUNA
NIKKI ALEXANDER
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FREDDY ELORZA
MMY HALPHIN
EUGENE HERNANDEZ
PETER KLOCK
ROBERT KLOCK
OSCAR LOPEZ
DAVID MACNAMERA
·ZACK MORRIS
JAVI NAVARRO
DANIEL PALACIOS
ANDY PORTUONDO
SCREECH POWERS
JUAN C. SAAB
ALEX URIBE
DEREK VARONA
A. VON DER OSTEN
COACH: FABIO ORTEGA
Emil Gomez dribbles the ball downfield.
Team captain Robert Klock throws the ball in play.
Peter Klock saves the ball from going out of bounds. SPORTS
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The 2000-2001 varsitv Soccer team was among the most talented in Belen historv. Unfortunatelv, talent does not alwavs bring about manv victories.
Mr. Pablo Taquechel headed the inexperienced team along with anewcomer, assistant coach Mr. Hugo Garcia. The squad did fairlv wen adjusting to changes, and the loss of seven seniors from last vear's district runner-up team.
un was kind of frustrating this vear, knowing we had so much talent and not being able to get it to click on the field," said senior captain Miguel Bolanos.
Leading the team were four-vear veteran seniors Marco Gonzalez and Bolanos.
UThe seniors had incredible determination and agreat work ethic," said coach Taquechel. the underclassmen can learn from that, and applv it next vear."
Despite losing eight seniors, the future looks promising. Returning plavers include six juniors, four of whom have spent three vears on the varsitv team; two sophomores, and two freshmen .
.. Even though we are going to lose a lot of seniors for next vear, we have alot of experienced guvs coming back to lead the team," said junior Emilio S.aiz.
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Senior All-Star Marco Gonzalez controls a difficult pass against Gulliver.
Camilo Ferro stretches out to make an incredible diving save.
Eddie Macias owns any forwards who try to take him on.
Coach Pablo Taquechel means business as he prepares the team for rival Gulliver.
Emilio Saiz pulls off the famous "Siow-Mo" as he makes a break for the goal.
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Benji Chiriboga takes a Ransom defender to school
Mike Montiel gives freshman Carlos Ortega some words of wi sdom after scoring on a pass from Andy de Ia Ossa.
Anchors Away
The team ot 28 rowers and three coxswains completed its tirstvear ot eXistence earning over1DO medals. The rowing team medalled at all but one regana, going up against such schools as Winter Park and leon High School which have programs over 60 vears old. In their tirst regana in Orlando, Belen defeated Sarasota in the eight-man boat bV merelv a traction ot asecond, earning their tirst-ever gold medal. 'The boat was coming apan at the 800 meter mark," said coach Dr. Rene Reveulta. 'The Belen rowers pushed the boat across the tinish line with their desire to win."
led bV seniors Alex Echevarria and Javier Echenique, the novice eight ranked among the top three in the state, and qualified tor the state championshiP in Tampa. Belen's varsitv crew ottour, led bv strokeAitredo Vargas, and coxswain Chris Camargo, brought home two gold, two silvers and one bronze medal. Juniorvarsitv showed off their muscle with an unbelievable finish at the oars regana finishing third and receiving bronze.
Alex Echevarria Team Captain
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· javier Echenique hurries to the hot seat for the next race.
Alex Echevarria and Javier Echenique train on the intra-coastal in Mlariii
Frankie Rovirosa shows off his tools for victory. SPORTS VARSITY ROWING
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Sixth Grade Baseball
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MIGUEL APARICIO
FRANK AZCUY
RICHARD BANDRICH
CHRIS CANNATA
GIO CHRISTODOULOU
ADRIAN COLON
ALEXANDER DEL RIO
NICHOLAS DIAZ
ROSENDO FORNS
EMMANUEL GOMEZ
AGUSTIN GUARDIOLA
DANIEL OPORTO
JAVIER RAMOS
IVAN SOTOLONGO
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PABLO VINENT
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The coaches encourage the kids to keep the intensity on the field at the St. Michael away game.
Nikki Diaz scoops up a grounder and gets ready to fire the ball to first base.
The 61il Grade Team was verv voung and also verv talented. The team got on to aslow start but improved everv game aner that. With arecord ol4-4-2, the team proved to be consistent, and managed some wins against powerful teams. The season had manv highlights, including a16-7 win over St. Michael's, and Miguel Aparicio's one-hiner against St. Peter and Paul. The amount of abilitv and potential gives much promise tor the future of the Middle School Baseball Program.
Perhaps the most imponant aspect of the season was the tact that the plovers had a lot of tun and were able to compete tor the school. "Being in 6th grade, it's mv first time representing Belen in a sport. It's reallv given me a lot of school pride," said Dannv Opono.
Left: Top Row: coach Drean Hernandez, Elias Alarcon, Danny Oporto, Miguel Aparicio, Javi Ramos, Frank Azcuy, Richard Bandrich, Chris Cannata, Gio Christodoulou, coach Raul Hernandez
Bottom Row: Adrian Colon, Alex del Rio, Rosendo Forns, Emmanuel Gomez, Nikki Diaz, Ivan Sotolongo, Agustin Guardiola, Oscar Vasquez, Pablo Vinent
SPORTS : 6TH GRADE BASEBALL
Javi Ramos makes a great play to snag a low throw to second base.
Javi Ramos takes some warm-up swings before the game.
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The Junior High Baseball team is the future of Belen baseball. It is one of the lew schools to be luckv enough to have the privilege of molding plavers into the future stars at the varsitv level. This vear's Junior High Baseball team had a verv strong season finishing with a record of 8-2. This record interprets averv promising outlook which thev hope to end in Belen's first- ever state championshiP in baseball. The team is led bV staning pitcher Brian Dominguez who had a3-1 record and a400 baning average.
"I get butterllvs in mv stomach when I'm on
the Pitching mound, but as soon as I throw the first Pitch, I get in the zone and all the buttertlvs go awav:·he said.
Also leading the team was SS/RF Bernie Ruesca who was the most active hitter with ateam leading 500 batting average. Dominguez and Ruesca also represented the Wolverines at the All CatholicConlerence All Star Game.
The Junior High Baseball team surrounds head coach Raul Hernandez to soy a prayer after a hard fought game which was played at St Agatha. The coach then said the ritual prayer which is popular among Belen sports. "Our Lady of Belen, pray for us!" The team was lead by a strong pitching performance from Brion Dominguez. The Wolverines ended up winning the game.
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Top Row: Raul Hernandez, James Fenton, Jorge Jordon, Pedro Casias, Daniel Wiltz, Berny Ruesco, Vicente Valenzuela, Juan Hernandez, Dreon Hernandez
Bottom Row: Nicholas Echevarria, Manuel de Ia Fuente, Chris Marrero, Brion Dominguez, Alex Peraza, Kristopher Garcia, Andres Guardiola
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HEAD C OACH: RAUL HERNANDEZ ASST. COACH: DREAN HERNANDEZ
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Sophomore Alex Esteban gets ready to steal second base vs. Gulliver. Esteban stole the base helping the Wolverines defeat the Raiders.
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Carlos Wiltz prepares to catch the pitch to tog the runner from Westminster. Wiltz ended up togging out the runner leading to the second out for the 6th inning.
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Xavier Navarro gets ready to bunt the boll to get teammate Alex Esteban to the next bose.
Mario Garcia, after striking out the Ransom hitter, looks toward his opponent.
The Junior varsitv Baseball team had agood vear finishing 12-8. Thev had some outstanding victories against powerhouses like Pace, Brito, Westminster Christian, and the sweetest one coming on a10-0 knockout against Gulliver. Sophomore captains, catcher T. Rodriguez and center fielder Alex Esteban, pulled the team from an 0-4 slump with exceptional defense and timelv hiDing. Gutsv Pitching bv Pitchers
freshman Mario Garcia and 8th grader Dannv Wiltz silenced opponents' bats. This opened the door for the Wolverine onense led bV sophomore Xavier Navarro with a .500 avg. and the excellent base running of sophomore Ernie Calderin. The infield was led bv the defense of second baseman Ralph De Armas and first baseman Carlos Wiltz. Definitelv the backbone of the team was the perfect plav of the outfield, which had 8th grader David Romero and sophomore David Herrero guarding the lines. All this would not have been possible without the coaching of Herbie and Mike.
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De VarsiiVBaseballteam had an outstanding season. Thev staned on bv winning the "Diamond Bash" Classic, hosted bV Florida Christian. Thev defeated Pace 6-4 during the regular season, their tirst win against Pace in 18 vears. The team also finished third in the disuict This vear was lull otteam enonand evetVoneworked hard dav in and dav out both in the weight room and on the tiel d. The team was led bv 31 IDade CountvJ plaver otthe vear louis Roias IA63 aug., 6HRJ and Andres Enriquez 1.310 aug., 4 HRJ. These plavers along With the rest otthe team put up asolid defense. Jorge Suarez, Joaquin sanchez, and AI Correa were the leaders on the mound tor the Wolverines. The team finished 19-12 and is looking forward to averv exciting season nextvear.
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Members of the team strategize for their next inning.
SPORTS VARSITY BASEBALL
ROSTER
ALBERTO CARMENATES
OSCAR CASTRO
ADRIAN CORREA
GREGORY DIAZ
JORGE DUARTE
ANDRE ENRIQUEZ
CARLOS GONZALEZ
MICHAEL GONZALEZ
STEVEN IGLESIAS
ANTONIO LLERA
DANIEL MARQUEZ
CHRISTIAN MARRERO
DANIEL MARTINEZ
JONATHAN MEDEROS
JAMES NEWMEYER
DANIEL RAMOS
LOUIS-DANIEL ROJAS
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Bottom Row: Donny Martinez, Jon Mederos, Albert Cormenotes, Chris Marrero, Mike Gonzalez, Oscar Castro, Stevie Iglesias, Jorge Duarte
Junior pitcher Joaquin Sanchez gets ready to release his 85 mph fastball. Sanchez struck that batter out at well as the rest of the batters in that inning. He ended the year with a 5-2 record.
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3rd baseman Andre Enriquez looks closely at the signs given to him by coach Meilon. He ended up hitting a double between the gop at center and left field. Enriquez hod a .370 batting overage and four homeruns.
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Paw consists of four individuals who make up one of the best 4 X 8 meter relay teams in Belen history. They won all neets including the Miami-Dade County Youth Fair Invitational and the Tri-County meet. The 4 X 8 team beat rivals such as Gulliver and Ransom.
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Medina se ts th e pace. Medina increased th e lead at the Miami-Dade County Youth Fair track meet in the 4 X 8 meter relay. "I like running because it is a chall e nge," he said. Medina and the 4 X 8 runners captured first with a time of 9:18.73
Eddy Bas nuevo started the lead for the 4 meter relay. Bas nuevo lead the team with a victory, running his leg in under a minute.
Ivan Arango, Eddy Arguello, Alex Sosa, Eric Diaz, Louis Mendez, Shawn Gibb, Daniel Garcia, Carlos Manrara, Daniel Castellanos, Rene Medina, Alex Diaz, Paul Santuoso, Javier Ramos, Michael Jalil
Track and Field continued its vearlv tradition of excellence hv winning all of its meets except Miami-Dade Countv, at which the team came in aclose second. Star athlete Alex Sosa and team captain Rene Medina led the runners.
Outstanding performances were displaved hV 8th graders EddV Arguello lbroke the mile and BOO recordJ, Michael Jalil, and carlos Manrara. The team captured important victories at the All Catholic Conference and the Tri-Countv meet
The 6th grade team went undefeated, led hv Javier Ramos and Joshua Joseph. Jason Oliver and Nikki Diaz also had impressive performances. This 6th grade team has the potential of leading the next generation of Wolverine
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SIXTH GRADE
EUGENIO SUAREZ, JOSHUA JOSEPH, NICHOLAS DIAZ, JAVIER RAMOS, AGUSTIN GUARDIOLA, TIMOTHY O'CONNOR, JASON OLIVER, DANIEL SILVA, JAVIER CARABALLO, ANDRES ROVIRA, ALFRED IGLESIAS, MATHEW RAD, RAFAEL ROMERO, ANDRES GRILLON, CARLOS JORDAN, RICARDO RODRIGUEZ TOMMY SOLER
JUNIOR HIGH
Top: Eugenio Suarez, Joshua Joseph, Nicholas Diaz, IVAN ARANGO, EDDY ARGUELLO, ALEX SOSA, ERIC DIAZ, LOUIS MENDEZ, SHAWN GIBB, DANIEL GARCIA, CARLOS MANRARA, DANIEL CASTELLANOS, RENE MEDINA, ALEX DIAZ, PAUL SANTUOSO, JAVIER RAMOS , MICHAEL JALIL, CARLOS GAVIRIA, EMILIO HERNANDEZ, DANIEL GOMEZ, GASTON DE ZARRAGA, JAVIER BASNUEVO Javier Ramos, coach Stuart Bottom: Agustin Guardiola, Timothy O'Connor, Jason Oliver, Daniel Silva
SPORTS
JUNIOR HIGH
TRACK 8t FIEL
Sixth grader Javie r Ramos ru n s in th e 800 meter ra c e at th e TriCounty meet. Ramos won the meet with a time of 2:34.
Jos hua Jo seph competes in th e 20 0 m e ter ra ce to capture fi rst p lace a t th e ACC meet.
Nikki Diaz c omes in a clos e second p lac e versus h is t e amma te Javi e r Ramo s.
Tim O'Connor b e ats his co mp etition in t he ACC meet.
Intimidating the competition, the team show their mean faces before the last dual meet of the season held at the Belen track. The team won the meet by a large margin and held their outstanding undefeated record for yet another season.
The clouds cleared and thev didn't won its event for the first time, running a return until the last dav of the season, when school record, [3:24.631. Jorge Palmerola Track and Field begins. The team went on to won the 3200 Meters. Javier Valdes top place finishes at all of the major meets . stunned the competition, capturing 4th in Their success was due to the reliable the shot put and making it to the state meet. distance team comprised of Jorge Palmerola, The team finished a respectable third. Jose Garcia, Jesus Carretie, Javier Cruz, Heinz At the 2A State meet in Coral Wendorff and 8th grader Eddie Arguello, and Springs disappointing mishaps in the Pole the new sprint squad of lean Paul Chavez, Vault and an oHicials' interference in the 4 Ravmond Mendez, Alejandro Bed ova, Miguel x400 Mkept them from placing higher in Ferrer, Felipe Ojeda, Javier Garcia-Tunon and the team standings. Ravmond Mendez luis Pereda. The team placed first numerous placed 4th in the 300 MHurdles, lean Paul times with their biggest win at the UM lnvita- Chavez got 8th in 400 Mrunning aschool tional, where thev edged 4A schools like record l50.51J and Jorge Palmerola ended Columbus, Killian and Sunset. 6th in the 1600 Mand 8th in the 3200 M. In the regional meet at Westminster, In total the group set seven school record holder Ravmond Mendez became the records, and molded themselves into one of first sprinter in Belen historv to win a regional the most elite teams in Belen track historv. event, the 300 Meters Hurdles. The 4x400 Yet unluckv breaks at the end of the season meters relav team lRavmond Mendez, Alex kept them from an optimal performance. Bedova. Miguel Ferrer and Jean Paul Chavezl
Victor Arrieta
2001 TRACK AND FIELD ROSTER:
JORGE PALMEROLA
LUIS FONSECA
DAVID REBOSO
LUISFORS
RAYMOND MENDEZ
PAPO MANRARA
EDUARDO CALIL
JEAN·PAUL CHAVEZ
JAVIER VALDEZ
ALEJANDRO BEDOYA
GABRIEL GARCIA
JESUS CARRETIE
JONATHAN SALUM
CHRIS FLEITES
MICHAEL FENTON
ROBERT ZALDIVAR
JULIAN TARDIELO
RENE CARBALLO
DAVID BUSTAMANTE
HEINZ WENDORFF
ALDORIESGO
CARLOS LARCADA
GASTON FONTELA
DANIEL RODRIGUEZ
DAVID CABALLERO
ANDRES VIGIL
JOSE GARCIA
ILDEFONSO MAS
JOSEPH PEREZ DE CORCHO
CHRIS VALLENILLA
VICTORRUIZ
ROBERTSOBRADO
RICARDO HERNANDEZ
LUIS PEREDA
CHRISTIAN RODRIGUEZ
ADRIAN GONZALEZ
ERIC GOMEZ
CARLOS ORTEGA
CARLOS ROVIRA
JONATHAN URGELL
GABRIEL SUAREZ
AGUSTIN DE LA VEGA
JAVIER CRuz
JAVIER GARCIA-TUNON
JOSEPH DERGAN
ALAN VALDES
Left to right:
Sophomore Miguel Ferrer controls his breathing and shows his relaxation with his
Right:
good form as he runs the 100 meters at Districts. He qualified to Regionals for the event. Sophomore Heinz Wendorff holds on to the lead in the 4 x 800 meter relay at a dual meet against Dr. Kropp High. Freshmen Javier Garcia-Tunon leaps over the hurdle at the Belen Track. Javier finished very a top letter point scorer of the team.
strong as he runs the opening left in the 4 x 800 meter relay at the Booker T. Washington Invite. The 800 meter was his strongest event for the season. He qualified for states in the event.
May 5 fHSAA 2A St;at;CJ Champ:iondup Coral S'pmffs U.S. Track
Fea ess en1ors
Clockwise: Jorge Palmerola runs a fast leg in the 4 x 800 meter relay, and J.P. Chavez anchors the 4 x 400 meter relay at the Booker T. Washington Invite. Both of those relay teams made it to states. Also the 4 x 400 team made Belen history, capturing the regional champion title for the event. Raymond Mendez gracefully jumps over the hurdle as he keeps a fast pace in the 300 meter hurdles at the UM Relays. He finished in 2nd place for the event. Alex Bedoya runs a stong race in the 400 meters at the District Meet. The team got it together, capturing yet another district title at that meet.
Left: Big Javi Valdez puts his power to use as he records a personal record in the shot ut and becomes district champion.
Junior Jonathan Junior Jesus Solum clears his Carretie looks personal best of focused as he 13ft. easily at the runs the mile District Meet. He at the District stepped it up like Meet. He a man and be- recorded a came District Champion with that vault. personal best time at meet.
Heepin' it Even
before their last game at home against
ROSTER
MICHAEL FORREST
ORLANDO CASTRO
JUSTIN PUENTE
JASON BURROWS
JAVIER PEREZ
CARLOS LOPEZ
ADRIAN GOMEZ
MICHAEL ORTIZ
KEVIN PARDINAS
JUAN ANDION
TIM HALPIN
RICHARD AGUDO
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Team captain Michael Forrest talks some trash about how he is the next Gabriel Reese, but as a man not a woman, to a fellow teammate on the bench Forrest led the team with 126 kills for the season and was the unquestionable leader of the inexperienced group.
Michael Forrest, Jason Burrows, Javi Perez, Justin Puente , Adrian Gomez, Carlos Lopez, Tim Halpin, Juan Andion, Richard Agudo, Orlando Castro, and head coach Mrs. Miriam Combo-Martinez get together
Chaminade-Madonna. Belen won.
Michael Forrest leaps high in the air to spike the ball after a picture perfect set from Justin Puente against rival Monsignor Pace. The Wolverines sweeped Pace during regular season play, taking all three games against them. "They were our favorite team to play against because
With a record of seven wins and seven losses, it could be said that Vollevball had an average season. This could be wrong. When taken into account the fact that there were onlv three returning pi avers, and that thev onlv had two weeks to train the rest of the team, what thev achieved was surprising. "I am reanv haPPV with what we accomplished this vear. We were third in our district, and we had onlv three returning plavers. We did great. We almost beat Ransom, and we destroved Pace. All in all it was asatisfving season, and a great senior vear,'' said Javier Perez. The team beat Pace, American Heritage, and Chaminade Madonna. Thev were led bV team captain, senior Mike Forrest, who averaged nine kills per game, senior Jason Burrows, who averaged six per game, and senior Orlando Castro, who was renowned for his power blocks. "It was great to be led bv such experienced plavers like Mike IForrestl and Jason IBurrowsl. 1 had a great time this vear, and 1cannot wait to plav again next vear. We mav not have won as much as 1would have liked, but we had ablast, which is more imponant to me anvwav,'' said iunior Mike Ortiz. The team was coached bv sophomore math teacher Mrs. Miriam Cambo-Martinez. "Thank God Mrs. Cambo stepped in to coach us. For awhile there we didn't have a coach, which meant we consequentlv did not have ateam. 1think it is great that she found the time to help us out, and 1am extremelv thankful that she did,'' said senior Justin Puente.
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Puente, Orlando
Javier Perez,
Lopez and Richard Agudo strategize the game plan while making sure the camera man doesn't spy and tell the other team.
Justin
Castro,
Carlos
photos by Alex Odriozola
SPORTS VARSITY GOLF
The 2000-2001 Golf season was awinner, and possiblY one of the team's best ever. The team lost four of its top starters coming into this vear, vet still performed better than expected. Much of their success is owed to sophomores Juan Weissenberg, the 1st team AllDade plaver who had an outstanding vear, breaking several records and representing the team in Regionals; Nickv Alexander, another All-Dade pi aver who as well had aterrific vear; and Rickv Moreno in his first vear starting, who won an Honorable Mention Award for All-Dade.
The Golf team placed 3rd out of 27 in the Youth Fair lnvita-
photos by Bryn Alan
Tiger Who?
tional tournament, defeating all other teams in the division, as well as the teams of manv larger division &A schools. The team placed 5th in districts, with two top individual scores bv Jose Canto and Juan Weissenberg. Despite the loss of this vear's onlv senior, J.P. Albert, the team has high aspirations for next vear. Five of six starters will be returning-- sophomores Nickv Alexander, Jose Canto, Rickv Moreno, Juan Weissenberg, and iunior Dannv Bustamante. Under their coach Mr. Ed Locascio, thev have astrong possibilitY of becoming the #1 team in the district.
Dannv Bustamante, Captain
Juan Weissenberg and Ricky Moreno J.P. Albert
Danny Bustamante reaches for his cover to putt over his titanium Ping driver. Bustamante had just driven the ball for 250 yards straight down the middle of the fairway.
Juan Weissenburg, Ricky Moreno, Nicky Alexander, and J.P Albert talk about how they finished in their tournament. They all individually placed well which led to another win for the team.
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Jose Canto watches the golf ball get closer and closer to the the hole. This key putt helped Belen clinch the victory.
Advantage: Tennis Team
Freshman Steve Pessoa led the Tennis Team to the 21s• vear in arow ol winning seasons at Belen. Pessoa has been predicted to become one ol the greatest tennis plavers ever at Belen and this vear he made strides towards that goal. Sean Dalv grew in height and stature this season as the #2 Singles plaver and #1 Doubles plaver. Enrique Escobar is the veteran ol the team as aiunior and alwavs dependable on the court. The Gonzalea- Mora brothers, Javier and Daniel, replaced the Ferraz brothers as atamilv power house ol tennis. Special thanks were given to Ms. Maria Elena Cartava and Mr. Victor Arrieta tor helping to coach the team. The tennis record in now at 254-101 since 1915.
ROSTER
STEVE PESSOA (MVP, ALL COUNTY HONORABLE MENTION)
ENRIQUE ESCOBAR (COACH'S AWARD, ALL COUNTY HONORABLE MENTION)
SEAN DALY (ALL COUNTY HONORABLE MENTION)
JORGE SALAZAR
JONATHAN FOJO
LOUIS VELASCO
JAVIER
DANIEL
JEFFREY MONTES
PATRICK COLLINS (HEAD COACH)
Patrick Collins
Javier Gonzalez-Mora readies himself for his opponent's serve.
Top Row: Patrick Collins, Steve Pessoa, Jorge Salazar, Enrique Escobar
Bottom Row: Louis Velasco , Daniel Gonzalez-Mora, Jonathan Fojo
Enrique Escobar rushes to return a serve.
photos by Bryn Alan
Jenny Basten cheers for the blue and gold when the Varsity Football team played La Salle High School. Belen beat La Salle 70 to 0.
'This vear was a lot of fun; there were a lot of tough times the season. But, overall it was a lot of fun," said varsitv Cheerleader Raquel Del castillo.
The general consensus was surprise at how enective the cheerleading squad had become.
"I have to sav, 1don't remember ever seeing a Belen squad as good as this vear's/' said senior Alex "Sumo" Hernandez. There was also, some remarked, something unique to the squad; it had a verv diHerent feel behind the scenes in comparison to other squads.
"We're more like a lamilv,'' said varsitv Cheerleader Cristv Antonel. "Mv theorv is that we cheer lor the Belen bovs. we could name just about evervone in the football and basketball teams. Whereas other teams, like Columbus, train just lor competition."
"We're two trulv diHerent squads,'' said varsitv Cheerleader Stephanie Perez. "The onlv thing 1can sav 1didn't like about this vear was that I won't be able to come back" she said.
2001 VARSITY CHEERLEADERS
CAPTAIN: DESI GALVEZ NASTASSIAAGON
CHRISTINA PEREZ NICOLE PEREZ
STEFANIE PEREZ NICOLE ROQUE
CHRISTINA ANTONELL REBECCA HERNANDEZ
STEPHANIE ORTEGA LYDIA NODAR
DANICA GUEVARA
CASSIE MARTINO
JENNIFER BASTEN
RAQUEL DEL CASTILLO
CHRISTINA "KINA" MILLS
CHRISTY CHAVEZ
MICHELLE CHAVEZ
Carlos F. Miranda
SPORTS CHEERLEADING
Steph Perez performs a stunt during half time at a basketball game. "The Varsity cheerleaders hove been doing some phot stuff this year," said junior Chris Dominguez
Christina Perez leads the squad in a donee at the Pep Rally during Wolverine Week. "My favorite thing about Wolverine Week was the Belen Bonanza," said senior Donny Adon.
Steph Perez has been 0 Varsity Cheerleader since freshman year.
CAPTAIN: SASHA RAMIREZ
L ISSETE GOMEZ
ERIN MELLEY
CRISTINA RIVERA
PAOLA QUESADA
CAROLI SUAREZ
GIANNINA SILVA
VERONICA BILBAO
MONIQUE FERRER
ANGIE ALFONSO
ALANA HARDAN
JEANNIE HERRERO
MELISSA IGLESIAS
J I LIANSANZ "DEFENSE!" shouts Nicole Perez.
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The Catholic Charities of Notre-Dame D'Haiti is one of the many projects undertaken by the many clubs, such as Key Club, the French Club, and Student Council.
Chris Fleites, Jonathan Leyva, and Emilio Saiz take a break from the rigorous work to rest atop the roof of the Loyola School in the heart of Santo Domingo. Students are given the opportunity to help in the Dominican Republic throughout the school year and during the summer with Key Club, Fr. Eddy Alvarez SJ, or Fr. Willy Garcia- Tunon SJ.
every Saturday during the
year and everyday throughout the summer.
Victor White puts to use the lessons taught by Mr. Miyagi on one of the many houses at the Franciscan Farm. The Franciscan Farm can be worked on
school
photos by Eugenio Hernandez, Chris Fleites, and Carlos Trujillo
Enrique Escobar helps a Marjory Stoneman Douglas second grader with her phonics worksheet.
Consistency is the Key
Mario Sanchez is hard at work painting a post at the Franciscan Farm, while Michael Forrest just gets started on the actual house. Students often refer to the farm as \\Jerry's Farm," for twelfth grade theology teacher Mr. Gerardo Garcia.
As a top student among his class, captain of the Varsity Tennis team, and member of various clubs, junior Enrique Escobar seems to be on top of the world, but the buck does not stop there. Yet another aspect of Escobar's Iife that not too many people know about is his caring heart. He has taken part in the A II A board Program at Marjory Stoneman Douglas Elementary, attending at least once a week for the past three years, helping the young elementary school students with their homework, reading them stories, and answering any questions the kids have. Nevertheless, his relationship with the children is not strictly schoolwork. He has grown close to many of the kids, which is a big reason that he has been so dedicated to this voluntary work.
"When I started the A II A board Program, it was for the sole reason of getting community service hours for school, but I came to realize that had someone done the same for me, that person would hold a special place in my heart. I hope I can make that kind of impact on these kids," he said. This year, fellow classmates Michael Castellon and Jonathan Fojo joined him in the hopes that they too can make a in the children's lives , a task that Escobar has clearly taken to another level.
Marcos Alvarez
French Club members Carlos Trujillo, Chris Plantada, and Michael Cantens deliver toys to the children of Notre Dame D'Haiti for the Christmas Toy Drive.
WILLIE ur TME MASSES
There is a new look at the Masses th is year wi th Fr. Willie delivering the homi l ies. Fr. Guillermo Garcia- Tunon SJ, who was at Belen four years ago as Br. Willie, is back. He finished his studies in Brazil and returned to his alma mater While giving his homily, he walks up and down the aisles animatedly.
He incorporates many everyday stories into his message .
"He is easier to understand because he talks about things we can associate with He was one of us not too long ago," said sophomore Xavi Navarro.
"To participate in the Belen Masses, first as a student, then as a teacher,
and now as a priest has been extraordinary. I hope that my homilies and the way I celebrate the Mass, commun i cates that enthusiasm t o the whole school," said Fr . Willie.
Jose Garcia -Tunon, Luis Perez, Eric Esteban and J.C. Alam hold Father.
Fr. Willie delivers his homily
Robert Zald i var
Danny Rodriguez and Felipe Ojeda carry the offering.
J. C. Abelairas falls asleep. The night before he had stayed up late studying for a Latin Amer ican history test
photos by Bryn Alan
MIS FRAIS[S
Fr. Marcelino Garcia SJ consecrates the wine. Under his leadership, Belen has grown more than ever, with a new gymnasium, a home for the Jesuits, and soon the Science Pavilion.
Michael Forrest, Eugene Ramirez, Enrique Alard, Andres Bayon and the 6th grade choir follow Dr. Sergio Gonzalez's lead.
Edmundo Lacayo recieves the host from Miss Adriana Suarez.
Leading Th e
Among the most under appreciated activities Belen has to offer are retreats. Once a year, peer ministers lead students from every grade on a day of reflection at a retreat house away from school campus. "We take the students away from the every hectic Belen environment that we are all accustomed to, in order to try and create a more spiritual-friendly atmosphere," said junior peer minister Raul Smith.
However, there is a lot of work behind the scenes that goes unnoticed by most people. Peer ministers spend most of their class time planning retreats." A day of reflection could never be designed in only a few days. It is definitely a more extensive process," said junior Thomas Jordon.
Perhaps the most essential element in a retreat is interaction between peer ministers and the students. "I find my greatest strength to be making the guys feel comfortable, and getting them into the retreat and letting themselves go toward God," said senior Jon Leyva.
Peer ministers have to set an example for the younger students. "People look up to me, and I think that it's important for me to be a good example. Hopefully, I seem like the type that anyone can talk to about anything. That's what being a peer minister is all about," said junior Eddy DuQuesne.
Mike Montiel
Top: Juniors struggle to keep awake as they decide to continue into the late hours of the night.
Circle: Ms. Chirino supervised the Junior Journey. Ms. Chirino is also the Theology Chairperson.
J[]URN[Y l[] CMRIST
For most students junior year is a big maturity step. Now in their 6th year or maybe 3rd year of Belen, each person is now definitely closer to becoming a "man for others." The Junior Journey tries to encompass that aspect in the lives of the juniors.
"This retreat is very different from the other retreats you are taken on before junior year," said Mike Ortiz. "A big focus is the relationship between you and your classmates, which will need an important bond for the upcoming senior year."
Junior Journey began with small group activities followed by talks. The small groups focus on interaction between the group members and their leaders which is important because the peer ministers are able to set the mood. Talks also play a major role because peer ministers tell stories about experiences they have had in their lives, and others can chance relate to their stories and learn from them.
Perhaps the crucial moment of the retreat was the desert and oasis activity. Each person was given the opportunity to enter the circle of their peers and listen to what their classmates perceived of them, and take constructive criticism and compliments. "Desert and Oasis taught me a lot about how my friends view me; hopefully, now I can make improvements and change for the better," said Emilio Saiz.
"Journey was definitely the most impacting retreat I've ever been on. I think I will be changed forever," said Danny Munilla.
Mike Montiel
Tom my Jardon organizes the group in order to send them to their next activity.
Left: Tom my Jardon relates a personal experience with the hope of delivering a message to his peers.
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A knight, in the middle of the patio! No, it wasn't medieval times, but a prelude to the 6th grade Mini-Oiympics as Mr Rolf Ross led the opening ceremony in his middle ages attire.
"Mr. Ross looked cool in his knight attire," said Gonzalo Milian. 6E emerged victorious at the end of the day. The new generation of Belen students learned about Barq Ball, the combination of soccer, basketball, and football concoction devised by athletic director Mr. Carlos Barquin.
" Barq Ball was introduced to me and I can't wait to play during my years in Belen; Dodge ball was also a blast," said Daniel Gonzalez Mora.
Juan F. Diaz
This year ' s Mini Olympics was the biggest ever. It brought in a record number of participants
6th grade English teacher Mr. Rolf Ross dresses as a knight to begin the Mini Olympics with the opening ceremony.
Belen offers a very unique day for seventh graders called Grandparents' Day. Seventh graders get to spend time with their grandparents playing games, and participating in activities that otherwise they would not have the chance to enjoy.
"Grandparents' Day was great. We got to play dominos and sing karaoke, and the churrasco at lunch was awesome," said Danny Garcia. It also gave some kids the opportunity to see their grandparents who live outside of Miami.
"My grandparents live in Argentina, so it was nice to spend quality time with them," said Adrian Alcalde. The day ended with a Mass in the auditorium led by Fr. Willy Garcia Tunon SJ.
Both Anthony Cabrera and his grandmother stare down their opponents.
BINGO! There is no better feeling for this grandmother than winning a game of bingo.
Alex Rodriguez's grandmother looks for a tissue for her grandson who had to blow his nose. How cute!
\\Get me out of here" said Julio Fernandez Redu after his grandmother didn't want to leave
Grandparents still have the groove for YMCA Francisco Ponce de Leon and his grandparents dance.
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A Day Out with th e "Big Guy"
The bond between a father and his son is a special bond that may be described as unconditional love. This bond was evident at this year's annual Sth grade Father and Son Day. A variety of activities were scheduled throughout the day to please the interests of all, whether one wanted to run and have fun in the sun by playing a friendly game of basketball or just relax in air conditioning by playing checkers. Other events included tennis, dominoes, and cards.
"This year's Father and Son Day was wonderful. The participation was greater than we had ever had. It gave the students a great opportunity to bond with their dads," said 8th grade science teacher Mrs. Ana Fenton.
Ricky Lavina shows Chris Jaramillo what a pretty jump shot looks like while playing a quick game of HORSE.
Edmundo Lacayo gets ready to slam the ball as his father looks on in amazement.
Marcos Alvarez
photos by Bryn Alan and Marcos Alvarez
Nicholas Acuna thinks of his next move 1n an intense game of checkers against his father.
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Fun in the Sun
Many of the annual 9th grade Family Day activities capped off the day which began with a prayer service. The teachers and Key Club organized and carried out the activities. The improvised skits, raffles, and luncheon gave everyone the opportunity to relax and bond.
11 I didn •t think I was going to have a good time, but I had a lot of fun with my parents, especially in the football game, said Jesus Moises.
Even though some of the parents left in wheelchairs, the bond formed between them and their sons would be one to last forever.
Alex Nuche and Miguel Massens
1ctor iz an cena line up face-to-face as their
respective homerooms set up for the final play of the game.
Gregory Hernandez reads aloud the schedule of the events for the day.
Ninth grade ers Mr. mas de Quesada, Miss Adriana Suarez, Mr. Pablo Taquechel, Mr. Anthony Alexander, and Mr. Rolando Sucena and his wife enjoy their lunch after their hard day working under the blazing heat of the sun.
Edward Rojas reads during the Mass as Fr. Eddy Alvarez SJ looks on.
photos by Miss Adriana Suarez
A Big Party, Cafe Paris, and the ever famous Pan con Lechons. These are all aspects of the Belen Tombola which mask a seedy, backroom interior. When you're there, the festival almost seems like the miracle on 8th Street with good fun to be had for all, and most importantly for a good scholarships. But let's take a look beh1nd the scenes to a world of hidden candy sales, money, and raffle tickets. It a! I starts the day you're handed six raffle t1cket books. You now know you're in this for the long haul. The deadline for the half-day soon sneaks up on )IOU and you haven't even started to sell. That's where the pressure starts. Your teacher singles you out and your big brother practically threatens to take you down if you don't step up to the plate and sell. You think to yourself that this is all for nothing, and that the money will go into the wrong pockets but those thoughts couldn't be further the truth.
Tombola tickets support an important cause, giving 20io of the student bodY. financial support to be able to afford the $7,000 tuition. When students decide to gripe about having to sell $100 worth of
raffle tickets, maybe they should look around. Your efforts alone are keeping your friends in school.
Tombola tickets support
an important cause, giving 20/'o of the student body financial support ...
"I. tried really hard to sell my t1ckets this year. I think it's SelfiSh of reople not to sell the tickets. The schoo should come together and make a concerted effort to sell all of these books. I mean this is "Men for Others" right?" said junior Emilio Saiz. If you're not on scholarship, you should sell to help out a fellow friend and classmate. Those on scholarship should really feel the added initiative to sell if only to aid their cause. If not then the school motto, "Men for Others" should be changed to "Men for
Ruben Moreno
photos by Chris Fleites and Bryn Alan
Tom bola is not only a place for middle and high school students. It also appeals to younger kids who can enjoy attractions such as the dragon.
Mrs. Maria Guevara and Mrs Ana Fenton work at the funnel cake booth.
Mr. Emi lio De A r mas
Peter Miranda
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Monique and Vero Bilbao enjoy a ride.
The Close Up Program gave 59 juniors and seniors the opportunity to learn about U.5. government and meet students from across America. Participants were fortunate to attend the week of the presidential inauguration ceremonies. Fireworks, promises, and patriotic songs abounded. A cold, sleety, gloomy day was overshadowed as over 500,000 witnessed the peaceful transfer of power.
As representatives of Belen and Miami, most of the Hispanic students also had an opportunity to share with others their Jesuit education and ethnic background.
Amid all these lively surroundings, students experienced considerable controversy. The closest election in the history of the United States was fresh in the minds of disgruntled Democrats revealing itself in discussions as well as the rowdy streets of D.C. where protesters were out in full force chanting Hail to the Thief and Reelect Gore in 2004.
"Close Up was a great experience, especially this year with the chance to see a once-in-a-lifetime event. History was made in front of our very eyes and we were lucky enough to be in the presence of the center it all," said junior Lui Perez.
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The Close Up group gathers after the Farewell Banquet and Dance. This was the biggest group in Belen history.
Danny Martinez, Richie Puerto, Mike Montiel, and Lui Perez pay respects to deceased American soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery.
Mr. Patrick Collins, Social Studies chair, checks in on his students. The Close Up Committee awarded Mr. Collins for his years of
Marcos Alvarez, Lui Perez, Danny Munilla, Eddie Macias, and Richie Puerto eat lunch with rap legend look-a-like Snoop Dogg at Union Station.
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The group chills with their favorite evening security supervisor at their hotel. The supervisors ensured that everyone met curfew in order to make the experience enjoyable for all.
Joey Armas, Danny Torrent, and Nick Valverde get some hot chocolate at Starbucks during an extremely cold Inauguration Day joined by a new friend.
Eddie Macias, Diego Vizcon, Danny Martinez, Richie Puerto, Mike Montiel, and Chris Cabrera wait for their subway train to arrive.
Morgan Ferrel, J.P. Chavez, Richie Puerto, Eddie Macias, Mike Montiel, Jorge Navarro, Marcos Alvarez, Chris Cabrera, and Danny Martinez mess around in the attending mass at St. Joseph's Church in
A student's "Eighth Grade" year is a memorable experience, much like the "Senior Year." The Eighth graders get certain privileges that are not available to the "underclassmen." One of these is the Eighth
1992-1993. "It takes hard work and time to organize the prom, but it is all worth it once you see the students enjoying themselves with their friends and their dates," she said.
Grade Prom. This This year, Iike is the first of every other year, many formals that the Eighth Grade the students will Prom was held in experience the school cafeteria throughout Belen. on Friday, May 18. again, this
The Prom is orga- night was one full of nized by eighth grade unforgettable memories. math teacher, Mrs. Tere According to eighth Campos, with the help of grader Rene Medina, who science teacher Mrs. Ana was quoted saying, "It was Fenton and other teach- truly a night to rememers and parents. This is ber., the ninth consecutive year Mrs. Campos has. organized the prom, smce the inaugural year of
Jonathan Solum
Javier Basnuevo shows off his dancing skills. His arms are rasied up to impress his date.
David Costa and Marino Baez smile for the camera with their dates. Costa and Baez danced all night.
Thoughts of Eighth Grade Prom
Brian Dominguez and his date take
pictures in Dominguez's house before
heading to the prom.
Victor Segrera, Cisco Guevara, Joey Cantens greet the photographer with big smiles, all II
A New Beginning ...
Well, 71 freshmen were Saturday, May 19,2001. Probably th e most excited freshman of them all was Alex Castro. Alex Castro was the student in charge of the 71 couples that attended, the deejay, and how the y were expected to behave. "It was fun working with Mr. DQ and Ms. Suarez. I ha d a good time and so did my friends. I take it that the three of us did a good job," he said
Mr. Thomas de Quesada an d Miss Adriana Suarez were the teachers in charge of the pastelitos, chicken nuggets, croqueticas, coke, the chaperons, and getting the auditorium and cleaning staff. "It was a good time had by a11," said Mrs. Suarez and Mr. DQ added, "Everyone was treated to a nice night and they behaved extremely well."
Edd ie Macias
Luis Jane dances the night a way with his date.
Norman Morejon pauses to ponder on the great memories of the night.
Jason Machado and his friends get hyped up for the long nigh t they have ahead of them
mmin' to the Bea ts
All the debate over the Sophomore Formal was finally put to rest. The source of this debate was just because of the con stant postponing that went on for several months .
After all the wrangling, it finally happened . It took place in the cafeteria which was magically transformed through the work of Mrs. Gisell Castillo, students, and many parents. Sounds of merengue sprinkled the atmosphere which was mostly doused in hip-hop beats.
"The party was so much fun The DJ was good and the food was delicious. It was an overall success," said Miguel Ferrer.
Amidst the silver and black festooned hall, guests mingled and dined on appetizers.
Danny Rodriguez looks determined to have a good time as he enters the cafeteria with his date and girlfriend, Christy Bofill. "I had an awesome time. I will always have great memories of my Sophomore Formal," he said.
Alex Esteban shows Mrs. Gisell Castillo his moves as they dance to the merengue beats. Esteban became a good merengue dancer after all the 'quinces' he has attended.
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Representing the class, Jorge Pereira, Felipe de Leon, Tony Tarafa, Nicky Alexander, Jimmy Gailey, Jose Canto, Frankie Rovirosa, and Ricky Palmerola exhibit the bond they share as true friends.
Tony Torrente and Jonathan Andrade show tremendous enthusiasm yet TRY to play it cool.
Alex Esteban joins his friend Alex Guardiola and Alex's girlfriend, Liz.
Anxious to boogie, Ernie Calderin encourages his friends to hit the dance floor with him as quickly as possible.
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into a night club.
Louis Gonzalez escorts his date Monica to the dance floor for the last dance of the night.
Carolina Suarez, Olga Garcia , Stephanie Prendes, and Je ssi ca Bu sse enjoy each other's co mpany. Each attends Lourdes.
Caballero is astounded at the cafeteria's transformation
UN rollUITD
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A night of partying, fun, and memories were all part of the class of 2002 Junior Prom April 6, at the JW Marriott. "The place was amazing and the party was out of hand. The DJ played his music and we had our fun," said junior Mike Ortiz. Proms usually aren't any fun nowadays; it's the afterparties that students look forward to. That wasn't the case this year. "I had a really good time with all my friends," said Johannes Quiles. The junior class knows how to party and they partied hard at their prom. For the relatively small class that they have, there was an outstanding attendance. "Even through all the date changes and obstacles we had to overcome in the planning of the prom, it was 100/o worth it," said Mrs. Aimee Busquet.
Eddie Macias
Top Left: Eddie Macias leads his date Desiree Fleites to a dance.
Middle Left: Mike Montiel, Eddy Duquesne, Marcos Alvarez, Jonathan Salum, Benji Chiriboga, Eddie Macias, Andre Enriquez, Danny Martinez, Jose Garcia- Tunon, Emilio Saiz and David Bouza.
C ircle: Marcos Alvarez and his date Cristy Buigas enjoy a cute moment together.
Top Rigth: Adrian Gomez dances merengue with his date.
Bottom Left: Richard Bruguera salsas the night away.
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Top left: Chris Acuna dances to the last song of the evening with his date.
Circle: Chris Dominguez cuddles with his date Tracy.
Top right: George Jalilleads his date to the dance floor
Middle right: Eric Esteban, Ruben Moreno, Bruno de Ia Fuente, Marcos Blanco, and Andy Portuondo gather at the lobby before entering the prom.
Bottom right: Jonathan Solum and Ruben Molinares talk business.
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"It was the begining of the end," said senior Alex Sarria.
"It cemented all our conceptions of what senior year would be; it put it all into context. I finally realized the totality of this, my senior year," said Armando Diaz.
The emotion of recieving their rings could only be rivaled by the emotion of brotherhood shared by the seniors. Truly, the consensus was that it was a superbly special night. No senior would deny that at the end of the evening, there was a new pride growing within each
"As I looked at my ring, I felt my eyes water because I remembered all the long, endless nights it took us to get here," said senior basketball star J eon Paul Chavez.
Jean-Paul Chavez, Oscar Gomez, Danny Padilla, Papo Manrara, Manny Larrieu, Chris Cabrera, Juan Diaz, Armando Diaz, Jon-Paul Albert, Ivan Enriquez, Frankie Larrieu, Ramiro Areces,Mouse Duarte, and Lil
Carlos F. Miranda Manny Larrieu
Javi Perez are proud of their 2001 rings.
Alex C. Rodriquez, Jay Santiago, Edward Calil, Alex Rodriquez, Alex Echevarria, Jason Burrows, and Luis Fonseca stand in front of the Ring Ceremony Cake on the night of Nov. 1st.
MASS
''Good- Bye Belen''
L-R: Danny Roque, JP Albert, Javi Perez, Jason Bueno
Frankie Alvarez
trteen ours o tng, rt es, concerts and 18-year-olds running around getting their freak on is what Grad Nite is all about. Many seniors look forward to this night as a culmination of four years of high school and as a chance to relax and have fun with the hundred and some guys that they have been through it all with
Grade Nite began at Pleasure Island with a series of clubs that appealed to almost every kind of style or flavor. A crowd favorite was the nationally televised BET Sound Stage Club where the two-story dance floor was packed for four hours by a large group of hip-hop heads that bounced to the sounds of DJ Rob Lo.
''The whole atmosphere in BET Sound Stage was incredible. The energy level was hype, and everyone was dancing non-stop. That basically set the mood for the rest of the night," said Peter Michael.
Then the main event crept up in the seniors quickly. Before the class of 2001 knew it, Tyresse was performing as DJ Skribble worked the turntables. At the same time hundreds of seniors were riding Space Mountain or Thunder Mountain and eating Mickey Chicken.
As the 13 hours of Disney flew by, and the Class of 2001 partied all night 'till the early morning; many were ready to go home and pass out 'ti II Sunday night.
"By the time we got back we were exhausted. Grad Nite turned in 'aren't you Grad to be back home," said Alex -Sarria.
Carlos Gonzalez
1. Carlos Trujillo, Juan Perez, Victor White, Mike Cantens, and Ramon Crego show the Cuban in them.
2. Victor White, Mike Cantens, "Big Javi" Valdez, Ramon C rego, and Ivan Enriquez buy some souvenirs for their girlfriends .
Seniors from all around the nation dance the night away to the musical stylings of DJ Skribble at the Grad Nite farewell party.
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Rodrigo Tefel , Alex J. Hernandez, Carlo s Lopez, Greg Diaz, Placencia, Justin Puente, Da n ny Mojena, Michael Forrest and Alex Selem chill at the lobby before partying at t he far ewell party.
Best friends Eddy Acevedo and Juan Perez race to the fin is h line in thei r red race car.
!\ group of seniors lounge at V\agic Kingdom.
Seniors Ivan Enriquez, Rodrigo Tef el, Juan Perez, Arturo =erreira , Chris Plantada and Michael Forrest rest after ' he exhilarating \\It's a Small World" ride.
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Very few events are anticipated as much as Senior Prom. Most students spend their high school lives anticipating the culmintion of their social and academic careers: Senior Prom. But what happens if the Senior Prom isn't all it's built up to be? What happens if the tuxedos, limos, after-parties, and all the general hype about prom don't live up to their expectations?
"Although Senior Prom is really hyped up throughout high school and has very high expectations to live up to, I still had a really good time," said Oscar Peguero.
Other students disagree with Peguero and feel that the Prom fell short.
"Prom didn't meet my expectations at all. · Granted, the hotel was very
nice, but the food was mediocre and the music was bad. I would have liked
more hip-hop but the DJ played too much retro and really bad slow songs,"
said Oscar Duyos.
Another complaint many seniors had was of the early date, Mar. 17th.
Despite differing opinions, most had a good time at prom and all will re-
memberitforeveL
Papo Manrara
Above: Danny "Palita" Padilla \\ gets jiggy with it" with good friend Kiki Martinez, a sophomore at Carrollton. Padilla is well-known for his unique ability to move his body while on the dance floor.
Right: Gaby \\Chilo" Guttierrez and Javi Jacomino wait as their food is served. Accompanying the gentlemen for the evening are their dates Daniel Santana and Jenny Rodriguez, respectively. Both girls are juniors at Lourdes.
photos by Papo Manrara and Bryn Alan
Frank Alvarez breaks up the crowd before busting a move on the anxious dance floor. Alvarez is wellknown for his warm personality and unique charm.
Alex Zuriarrain saves a seat for his good friend Juan Fernandez-Barquin. Both students are heavily
involved in Key Club.
Cesar Alvarez, Juan P. Broche, Robert Romero, J.P. Albert, and Papo Manrara join their dates before the prom at Alvarez' house. All but Albert are members of the Varsity Foo t ba ll team
Did Senior Prom Meet Your Expectations?
"I was pretty let-down by the Senior Prom. I hated the date at the beginning of the second semernster instead of at the end. I expected prom to be the climax of senior year."
Diaz
"My expectations of prom were tnet. I enjoyed the food, the hotel, and the company. Overall, I'd call it a succes and a night I won't forget."
Paret
"Everything went by so fast; the whole night's kind of a blur to me."
Thespians Mike Nunez and Frank Angones share a toast in the name of Felipe Tudela, who was responsible for coordinating and planning the evemng.
Armando
Alex
Danny Roque shows off some of his famous moves on the dance floor.
photos by Bryn Alan and Papo Manrara
Ramon Crego shares a romanic moment with his girlfriend Nannie, a junior at Lourdes. Crego has chosen to attend FlU so he can be close to home.
Marco Gonzalez and his girlfriend Julia Valois look over their food before beginning their meal. Gonza lez has been a member of the Varsity Soccer team and has been team captain for two years.
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Th irsty seniors, Paolo Russo and Alex Paret line up to order a virgin beverage from the bar during the Cocktai l Hour preceding the meal.
Gobi Garcia, Manny Larrieu, Javi Perez, an
enjoy time t w eir favorite teacher, Ms. Maria Elena Cartaya. She teaches Spanish to some seniors and is very well liked by all the seniors for her unparalelled school spirit and charming personality
THE TIME []F Y[]UR LIFE
Billy Wood rece1vesa welcome from the West Point Academy representative. Three other seniors will attend military schools: Giancarlo Bertaina and Robert Romero- The Naval Academy and Ivan EnriquezThe Citadel.
Above: Luis Fors receives his diploma from Fr. Marcelino Garcia SJ, principal. Fors earned impressive scores on his SAT Right: Jason Bueno congratulates his friend Jason Burrows. Bueno will follow his artistic aspirations by attending the Savannah College of Art and Design. Burrows will also follow an equally unique path as he heads off to Embry Riddle Aeronautical.
Below: Carlos Gonzalez, Marco Gonzalez, Felice Gorordo, Robert Gramatges, and Gabriel Gutierrez listen to the opening prayer. Marco Gonzalez, the class Valedictorian, will attend the University of Pennsylvannia. Gorordo earned an Honorable Mention for the Silver Knight in Speech.
How's it gonna be?
Left: Michael Forrest receives his diploma from Fr. Marcelino Garcia, principal. Forrest will attend the University of Miami. Below: Cesar Alvarez, Danny Adan and Eddie Acevedo are ready to graduate. Alvarez plans to attend Florida State Adan will head off to the University of Florida. Acevedo will go to Spring Hill in Mobile, Alabama.
Tonight, we are also united with our parents and family who have come together just like those times throughout this year which I will never forget. The ring we wear today bears a constant reminder of Belen and the ceremony which gathered our families.
In the Ring Ceremony we sat with our fathers or with a model figure who has served as our guide. For me it was my father. I have never admired a person so much! Papa/ yo espero a/gun dia poder ser una persona tan buena como tu. Te quiero Then, of course, t here was the Baccalureate Mass in which we sat with our mothers Mothers, only the Virgin Mary knows the love you have for us. No matter whether we are 18 months or 18-yearsold, you still lay awake at night for us, worried, in our times of distress. Mama/ tienes el corazon mas puro del mundo/ y como tu amor/ no hay ninguno. Como dice el poema/ "Hasta que muera/ madre/ hasta que muera/ me acordare de til"
Portion of Salutatorian Alex Selem 's graduation speech photos courtesy Bryn Alan
on as Felipe Deii'Oro, Michael Noa and Nelson Duenas congratulate each other. Deii'Oro and Noa participated in many Forensics tournaments during the year.
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Oscar Peguero displays the cords and sashes representing the many accolades he has earned as one of the top 10 students of his class. Peguero will attend Vanderbilt University in Tennessee.
Below: Salutatorian Alex Selem delivers his speech. Selem will attend the Massachusetts Institute ofT echnology.
Giancarlo Bertaina brings his tassle from one side of his cap to the other in recognition of his new high school graduate status. Berta ina fulfulled his long-time dream of attending the U.S. Naval Academy.
Luis Fonseca
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SON, CONGRATULATIONS ON ALL YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS, FOR ALL YOUR EFFORTS, AND GREAT DETERMINATION
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MAY GOD ALWAYS GUIDE YOU, AND KEEP YOU
JUST THE WAY YOU ARE..
LOVE MOM, DAD, CARO, AND ALL YOUR FAMILY.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CLASS OF 2 0011
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Congratulations, Oscar Gomez, and Class of2001!
May the Lord bless you and guide you so that you may have the courage and wisdom to alw8.ys make the right choices. We are so very proud of you! Remember that we will always be there for you. With all our love. Mom,
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.8818 : Build me a son, 0 Lord, who will be strong enough . To know when he is weak and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; One who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, And humble, and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; A son who will know Thee - and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge. Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here, let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those that fail.
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men, one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true and the meekness of true strength.
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As you face this special challenge
Listen to God's voice
''when you face a special challenge or you need to make a choice, just say a prayer to God above and listen for his voice."
Hoping that God will be especially close, speaking to your heart very
clearly to give you all the answers you need at this time as well as in the future.
We love you very much and we're very proud of you,
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We pray to GOD to give you the Strength and Perseverance to continue being the person you are now. A loving son, a good brother and a caring friend always trying to excel in your endeavors. We are very proud to see your accomplishments. Embrace the new challenges before you and PERSEVERE. We will always be at your side to support your dreams and aspirations. Congratulations to you and to all Graduates of the 2001 Class. We Love You! Mami, Papi, Tati y Tu familia entera!
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Class of 2001, My Golden Boys
Thanks for the memories . You have captured a section of my heart and I will never ever forget you guys . Always remember if you get the chance to sit it out or dance, I hope you .... dance . Love "811 I
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DREAMCAST that is notthe class map mustard on pizza? chocolate pudding and bread sleepovers on robbia Aiice and Bertha Can we go in the pool Marta? sick humor thanks for the memories guys Jorge, Katrina, MOM Dad. much love to you all laters ohh bed.
We beg in at the beginning you don't ha ve a dentist appt. do you? YE S I DID! you never let me see it. <Ross Hand Motion> upppf. fpppu the His 1silent. \vhere' s the bucket? starry. starry night.. chays froyz, playz You are all HYPOCRJ TE S! I' m big , ginune scholarship F ood , this isn't working out. Hey Skip! seize the day, man AMAZING! I love Chemistry! Friend! Friend? Buckslayer0 9 signs off . 7 yea r club... ·· Jump C ut' Friend Fn·, tell us a stmy F ace it Mario, you dropped it. Baila! <whip> Dance Phat ! m!htte, mL st ill I rise ... Big Olafs!.. . Fine >call me Will, Ell en !. . . Ali: I'm Tinky,. Peter. . . Je ssie: · , · . ... Svveeney Plaz ! land s, pops> ... HO\v does taste . huh Mike ?.. .Nati , why censor vours elf? . . .Nonns. you min evervthin g... Flaca. where• d vou go? ... -
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FRIENDS!!!...Sett!e down students Vermont isn't a place you move to, it's a place you move from .Is there , cure for -:-:.: n: , ':•, in ing spark now :·'s just quit the Se ra vr Skit I'm here to f ix your cable Ramiro, I can't hear you Beaut iful, Beautiful, Beauty The Inquisition, what a show A semidemi-quas i·psuedo autobiography Bugga Bugga l ' m gonna go my dessert _ Trad it ion lA <scl"at ch scratch> Springtime for Hitler and Germany By the way, my suspension and we could have d ied Negative Hubbub Mrs. Vila created dot-dots and the internet The Origami Story Piaz, I need a r ide Sgt. Nelson Blue Th ing Waaaaggnerrrrr Soccer Mom N,obile Iggy/Rudy A fact is anything u can convince anyone e lse to believe With great power, comes great responsibility Ther e is no future, only t he present...We can't mack it in front of the parentals Don't hate t he player hate t he game Work Hard , Ploy Hard, but NEVER mix the two live simply so that all may s imply live The 4th t he rest of our !ives Hutunaous Lump GAW!!! My doin' it room L. Don't tooch me floowers !L459
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Andres E. Duarte
Severiano R. Canales
Hey I'm Seve No, that is not a typo There's an "a", and it isn't silent!. Channels Danny, When's the Lourdes Astronomy Club getting here? How 'bout NO, Richard Twenty minutes are up, Gaby Go to Cuba, Plaz Stop complaining in Burke's class, Danny No, I do not like this song, Richard Pinky The Brain Archie Bunker's chair You're out of your element. That's what she said They don't tell me anything!. I'm out of the loop, again 1am not a cynic my car was a dynamo in its time Are you Unbreakable? Let's go see the" The Way of the Gun"! damn straight. A qtually Loop Me Out.. Thanks to everyone along the way I will never forget you guys And like that, 'l:le's gone.
Richard J. Rodri
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Carlos A. Sal ado
FF 2000 catalytic anais,whoopishh
Andu guess what I'm gonna do this weekend .I'm first & Andy's last •. .little people enanis who's stupid idea was this 3/5 .11ike it. stick 'er in the face ..•what r u talking about .l don't do that anymore .lets hit that ..• Marco r u lost Peter turn ..•there's a man chasing us in front of the house?f. .lets park body shots psych master want me to tutor you Ninja ... Diablo ... Salgado, pleeesss as speed as u can General
Jacky the green mile diesel. .lets give it up for lent•.. · want a pinky ring my knee hurts .I'll never get caught
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Dude when the hell did this happen? yeah sure General Jackie Hmm, right hold on, I'm lost DieseL. speed up!... yo. I'll hitthat.. anduarabu J like it ok, I'm wrong, you happy? Enanus Anais, sack Audisius si me compro ese cd, lo quemo The Green Mile Lito baina Bertronius that's cuz you're an idiot sir yes sir Bert, .singing you will never be taller than me My knee hurts 0-ri-zon-do, tiene uh, no rll rip that apart seriously, 'Vhen do I lie? ... Vanity ... no! ... Raffa. . man on bike
A. C. Rodri ez
Fring? Couch club lol Maria Gorillas with yellow cell phones! N OW a warning? Hahaerz MUSI C! Speed Ballads Aaaahhhhhh! Log Your scared· the 2AM crew lol AOL gangster haha Jay Tidal A .I big a!! J.J Big Lou.. WASHINGTON!! wus wrong with you? seishaaaaaaa High Quality Guy Put that dovm, I won that! Can you please move y our boodddyyy!!! .I wish I could just let myself go li!re "0 U
two Clu1 TIIIMMME!! T-?? days lol Chris Frulagoo ' 'Smallli7.ard" 1achina The BeAcH!. The 7 year club __ .Version
2.0 .I violated \vhat law? Learning Curve Oh speak for yo urself! Aug 1sr- Pizza Hut. Post.. Don Carters April 14"'- Fiona Apple shoutouts
2 my friends: Jay, Luis. Guill enno, Ida, Bob, Alex, Ruben, Luisa , & Maria. To everybody in Belen, thanks for 7 years guys. Finally, to my family Mom, Dad , Andy, Aileen , Abuela Aida, Abue la Carmita, Raisa, Raisita , Christy, Nina, Elena, Tito , Christin a, Angel.. .I love you guys , thanks for everything.
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Rodri o Tefel
Daniel A.Ro
Life is sucb•••G bo ! Sevo! ••- Ricb rd. •• BASES and LASES••• Epa!••• Piease, tell me what 's on your mind so I c n belp••• Absolutely NO r o Uercoasters Nicky! ••• I don ' t want to go on anything th t goes down fast••• " D ny S urvived Jurassic Park: Tbe Ride" ••• Ewoks are DEAD SEXY ••• Ok b by's!!. •• Oye PA •••" D ny, can 1 borrow your pants?" ••• Please, just let me sleep a little longer I'm sleep-deprived ••• l'm tired •••Aya •••TatJ ••• Tati ••• Luck.y••• Crispy••• Hmmm popcorn cbicken •••Yo bo, Yo ho, pirate' s life for me••• Are you Roqu e, Danny! •••Yes mom ••• No mom ••• You and your Palm .• •"'Lonestar" ? ••• You're s uch a DORK! •••Fr Cartaya , you and your jokes ••• 6A and Sir Ross .••You and your ir, Ricbard •••You DO look like a Glow Worm! I FEEL your pain! ••• Bndum, CBA!.•• Hakunab Matata! Hey Nicky•••••TJCKY TICKY! ••• FLIRT! •••Ai c hica•••"M y the Force be with you, always" •••Thanks Dad •••Wbo is this Danny ch racter? ••• ttfn •••Speak. ••ViUa, Villa, Vdla •••Vekro! Bell j r , Froyling ••• Urg ••• "To infinity, and BEYOND!"•••"'Caose Ws you and me ' •••YeUo••. Hmmm purp e ••• What weighs mon t a baby elephant or the largest crocodile ? ••• How many licks do es it take to get t o tbe Tootsie-RoD center of a Tootsie Pop? ••• I ' m afraid I ' m not getting io anywhere ••• Why did so m ny bad tbiogs happen on the day of my birthday? ••"Nicky, you bave a weird brother" ••• Hey you ' ve re c ed Danny's Beeper, not Dr Miranda' s office! So stop calling me!
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Gabriel A. Gutierrez
So there I was I've changed my parents' names we are the music makers "hey, you guys are pretty good " how bout no richard!. haha, spank NOT ANYMORE! ohhhhh yes, I don't like rice!. la piedra!. haha, seve's ghetto car macmomma where are the grapes Cati? lady in red McTere!. gabo gabo they call me coffee sweet n low yes Richard, BK AGAIN nicky, my little sis can I have a ride, Maria Luisa? they're weird!. danno, its been 14 years!. feb. 15 1 don't practice santeria macbaaain!. all RIGHT bro grrrr l can't believe that we would lie in our graves with the lights out, it's less dangerous Asytum? Leo, what do you mean you want us to dance? pizzazz!. Roy, in the kitchen close your eyes, I will take you home Dr. Strauss told me to write down then at what level do I belong? spare a little change MAMBO!. this is my sister Lynn 'cause I'm not a quitter hehe, dentist appointment..zebe FAB!...hey! bling blingL Toys R US Iike pacemakers (gulp) come this february it'll be eight years Jump cut!. lecture lecture Aiex (&Lacayo), you do realize you have FOUR more years? Mom: "Vamos a honey honey?" a thousand dollars flemybaby! gabiliana!. it nearly pecked meeeee!. I'm soooo bad upppfffff... k yourself what a cartoon chris: hahlow? ! bugga bug ga fleopatra thanks for everything what's more important? Oh!!. Que duermas con los angelitos thanks Nat... Laura, t'm sorry lot... what a great 6 years and so, what that in mind Hi, my name's Gabe Gutierrez, nice to meet you
Jay A. Santiago
Jorge Navarro
Daniel E. Mo·ena
MOJO
"Mojo" a.k a «turtle" a k a "nano".
eddie II.. .I 'm going out with m oj o mom, not mark dirty Mexican djodry powers out!? tit o like s "prom" and IJsansgiving" ... sumo is funnyfaL . lol ... J , do you have Danielle•s permissi on ... mike let's play some football billy i s my Cro-Magno n ivan all I can say is manka manka and ju don 't have _ burke we take c are of ea ch othe r, thanks zurri , my favorite black ara ju guy the D .R . krew ni ca , what you d oi ng to night? stephL,can 1 b e at them with my club? paolo UM is the best Gonzo agreees fates you ' re a good friend , thanks my anita , you r the best, sorry ab out th e cop
Gabriel Gutierrez
CH ILO ... Ciass of 2001... BELEN thanks for the best 7 years of my life .. . MAMI y PAPI gracias per to do y te qu iero much o NAN A I Love you !
JAVI you're th e ma n, BRO THERS FOREVER to th e rest of the fam ily t love you ... to all my boys, mu ch love .. .
Felice Gorordo
Leo Marrero
Manny Larrieu
FRANK I E: As you've tr a ve l ed through lif e , yo u have always kept God and your family in the center. We w·ish you all the success in the world. Ma y God be always with you. Love, Mom, Dad, Yoyi, Ca rlos and Silvi.
Jorge Lopez
You got dlssed worse than Chilo Santa Claus is a punk what up deg funnyfat...Sumoleon China Mom #41...Butkus Yoyi...Shabubu retto narcoleptic lt'sJohnathan Jaco's and Jenny's stupid jokes llarmonica AZZo Fina Carlos Trujillo saved my life I own u Ghetto Cruiser undefeatlng in air-it-out. lucubration Nation Burning the Midnight
Chris and his personal trainer South Beach smoothie Pokemon Master Double Barrels .Jaco's Steve Deberg Snowed in Holyfled. .hit me in the face Your
fac e LA fitness AOL Government finai...She sings that too?? .JP's killer garbanzos luis your head is inflating The little people society You kicked my dog Witi...Cyctops
cop Charlie z Sumo let' s go eat... Peter: I sit next to you in psychology .Jaco the minute man Coutt's Mom the Jamiacan race car driver You are Jamaican me crazy Gonzo and Robert: Bills # 1.. Homeroom baseball...silly goose .Jaco: "w hy don't you cry about it saddlebag s" Felice and his twel ve apostles · The Conch Jaco's getty JA cre w Jac 'em Up Ride Out...
Peter Miranda
Ralf: Reeclif.. Jet's go stumble around marry that girl...ycs, this thing il! on
Ale· andro Hernandez
F unny Fat!... FAT!! !. You're so fa t...l dp not look like a Koa1a!. W AB SWAB CCK D K o rroll as M igu 1 Car. D irtbag Ra, lph Rachacha Super Da c L ittle Dave Manoo S um a Songs ab out ChHo l'y1 an ka-Manka For r e ally?.. Mi g ue l, D isco unt .! can't eat F ide l C razy o ld m n . Piok up t he Pac e N ew C heesy G ordita C run c h Pro fess o r uik Pete r th e Panda K in ko R.::\rn iro , of t h Dead" , we o w n that g ame De c om p o s ing Ramiro p upi and pupu ... Snow F1ake ... AZZO ... C hina tylom .. . Seni or S kit Meetings ... Bruce Le e ... Dave ... Ric ky , Ricecakes Ja so n' s Head ic ky -boo-ick !, Bouza u mak e s om wi rd noi s Ne lly A1t1t ranc e SAT for th e r fug ee Sumo- ito practice M igue l we're innocent!... Oh no , Oscar' s he r e 1 wann a g i e t hanx for e vetything tom family and fri nds for alwa., s b in g th e re and s peci a ll y to t he b ig man , G od J a c em Up rid out
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Oscar Gomez
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Eddy Acevedo
CONCHATULA
Mike Barrera
Thanks to alL M n R-Repti les a ll the way ! .Snakes@ Sunse t crew below from right to left, D ennis's x.-gir l, De nn is Ge rard, Me, Amir,Robert, and Jared mtssn tg Lvu""'J Doug for a .ll the info and turtles Jt's a chocolate Hypo!!. '\Vhere is Denn is? .•.on th e roof Gerard shut that... M donna in disguise MetaJlica o ff already!!..! b eat Amir at pooL(twice) a Daytona here I come Dq high quality kind of guy Mr Cleveland 20k=S l 20;000+ Eche · Africa watch out He re comes Mi.ke B and Dennis G erard too ifhe' p a ys me m y 30 + A lbino Re s 2 C lowns wait til1 n ext season ! h's a beauty !!
Thanks ro aH, from the one and only, MikeS p.s : Peace goe out to Gin a and Santi, Oscar Jason, Joe W ., Tamarah, Na thalie, and thanks to KINGSNAKE.COM
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J. P. Chavez
Alex Zuriarrain
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Th.is above al l : to thine own self be true , and it must follow as the nigh t the day, canst be false to anyone." - W Shakespeare
Javier V aides
Miguel Bolafios
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Victor White
Danny Padilla
Javier J acomino
;J AVI ;J A«!OHIWO
•. •giving my utmost thanks to all those persons that have made me the man I am today •thank you Lord for being the strength and prime eJlample in my life
••.thanks mom, dad , and my brother Robert for your guidance and unconditional love ,,, to father Eddy1 father Willie, & Ralph Ledesma for teaching me about life
.••to all my basketball coaches for their time and effort .And a Final Thanks to my friends, the class of 2001 (golden Boys) , '" together as one , we walk through life."
Juan Carlos Abelairas
AS WOLVERINES ADVANCE IN PLAYOFFS
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Belen's Raymond Mendez had 204
Wolverines to a 24-21 upset vi cto ry ov er West Palm Beach Cardinal Newman in the first-rou nd of t he FHSAA fo otball playoffs Fr id ay night.
The t riumph was the first foot ball playoff victory in the school's his-
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Giancarlo Bertaina
Eduardo Calil
La Vida te da Sorpresa,
Oscar Castro
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Eduardo Calil
Oscar Castro
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Alex Echevarria
M anke ys !!. your m o th e r's an E gyptian pyramid l w ant s oup ahh!! T he un Dann y is a telet u bby
M y names Mikey and 1 e at b eans my ba by 's g ot sauc Big Bawgy Ponts Ohhhhhhhhhh! !!. Brother!!. OtfRoadin g !!. Mu-Shuga-nah In th e W ar. you die Pinlle berry DamnCommicsl! It 's all g ood in t h e hood
C aa a rrrrooona F low e r child. ini A- la-la-l a-lalong Oh My Hair! ! borde r 1ine d escendent ofM oby Dick Thank M om and Dad for e verything.
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Greg Diaz
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Oh no a B E EEEE E E E! Hey Craig!. I don, t do th is often Oh brother!. On a S ti c k !... T h aC s good stuff W asssaaa Are the exercises d o to1norrow? Is tha t t est to d ay? .. Damn the man save th e empire vot e for Poncho .. # ll ... # 15 .. . Finger 11 You r e ally t h ink so huh ? . . . Take a d eep breath give t h en1 the Big T in1e!. BRbrRRbRRBRbr bR P e ar l !. B r. Je rry say " T urtle !"
Mauricio Villasuso
Lui s M. Fernandez
J. P. Madariaga
, yaypi...# 55 00/LB .tntmnbob mjoles :frios '\wtever bro!. i own mikep u r g** luis-7th graders.• SI.lU'lO-CHILLI,the beach memorles omg -we' te seniorsL.imhotep NEEDLE•.•SlJOX)-St.kevin days .richie-phatfildes.•. funny tm.. gonzo spaz auack...•batman .u1:le•• flumer T! •.IOOuntain goat. •.Belen Footbal l-one heartbeat-pride, courage, war, win vutup deg. EON eddy Big Javi .•.moogo the bus rides •Javi tell them about me• dlina mom o lilY girl homies: much love ! tbanx4evrything. .my boys:sumo,luis,gomo.eon;bigjavi, ru mad atme? ill my football brothers, 9·3 boys(i 'Msh u only the thanx. • rHANK YOUS:God, nnn,dad,eva.ralpby 143 .Belen 14 3 always and forever i will miss u class :Jt:oth el's uve been the im out YO
Christian Andrade
The Greenmile : Marco Polo Jettonian Julia Goolia wrong side of the ro a d toe thing baby marco fighting dino s aur s look a t mee e e!.. "want to look fo r lizards after school?" Enanis Integros Pedro Alej andro Marina omg he faint e d again "my farm" "'I was goalie" ' "welcome back Enanis" he never lies Enanis is on p 98 (p sychology) Andu Arabu Acc o rdion Arabian like eras er papi!> no !'' "Frozen,"' ,Longstalking s ps ycho girl. Carlito "s way Mustangion Die sel. the mole !. Aiy Rafa. trailer I don't know help m e chris !. " I did n't d o anything., I swear" stop spitting I like
L ife : Musculitis ... Christo far ... C hristico . .. Christoferlin. .. El Nino . .. ... Guinea Pig .. . A ud icio us... the murcielago s coming !. .. I am Pochaco . . . Gringitis ... Jonas Gerard ... Tinkerbell vs. G e rbil .. . Ri g oberto loves his galleticas ... Hamster vs . Lobster.. . 327 my fishmonger . .. bumblebee. . . scary monster... P a blo & Pablita its always my fault yo ur right im wrong Sunset laps -55 lbs flashlight trips watch out for the parking Marco Island Disney 2X Chris tmas in Jersey Special thanks to a ll my teachers, and espec ially my family Thank you for all your supp o rt May God be with the class of 2 00 1
Ian Coutts
J a nathan Leyra
Abel Lera
Carlos Lopez
7 year mem ber .. . the " Lopez Look' ... Juve(b Jing bhng) ... Tin a t he in tee ... frak ata ... is that a hypothetical question?... [ r;,n . thanks for t he support and s acrifice and all the love , love you all ... thank s to the class of200 1 for the good ti tnes... o
Raymond Mendez
Eric Collazo
David Reboso
Orlando Castro
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you halarious man im defioetly gonna miss you pegging things at tugis fcotbal : paobldave russo thanks rOr aJi the head lol. Juugster you're the man , aba wnbop the master clubber tave memones oh by the way aba ravejippet dam we go back along way glad you played foatball man P&V • • bcJgotto pound on you in practice Jol, stein you rthe man it was along , 1k_ · .· J&CO (how you doing today lol) & oscar road to recovery but you did it, JP your tough .as hell man thankS for · famtamt days =Q'abs loL. making this the best season ever to all the \Jflder : wack (m danny /musdemas 2massles lol darn me and )'OU always go for gona miss you man)lil rich protegee, simba · · mike caba rene lou the same ones lol...litlle b's urn 70-0 yea ddol you know all of you better Yiin that district championship I to all the coaches thanks you're 8 belen boy at heart (hews it gonna be) , eric yo woody lol ,augge , german, stui j/k coach ,and Ql8cl\ eddie know don't ttx:the Cf\lise eventhough you 'N'ele wabbed out know haw much. I CNte you man oh and buck; • lilsiS 143 mom & dad thanlcs for putting me· helPing me become what 1am today In
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Gabriel A. Garcia
Luis Fonseca
Juan P. Broche
Daniel Masvidal
So Whatever _What Are You Retarded Or Something'>._ The Word On The St reet Is' Wolvennes 4e\a .BELEN 24 NEWMAN 20 First PlayotfWin Ever Original Gangstas \1e, Paret & Franyie Tile Quiet SttJrm Go "\aV)' Rage Agamst The Machine JP u ' re Car's On F1re' .Romero & Joe Selem #60 Air It Out Champs, Yeah Brot_ Hey Wobbet Hov. s Drama 4 u're Shut u re Face . Hotel California \\hat does it mean?. The Lucubration \Jation. Gabe Logan ts da man ... ) oyi's Ghetto Cruiser ... Sc hemers 4lyf .. Professional the Fishem1an ..JuanP 1 own U m T\CAA 00 .. Big ·O".. Cristy \tiom,Dad,Dave.Mami,Abue. & Sebastiru1 Luv U AIJI It's Been Gr8
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Christopher Cabrera
Nicholas A. Carrefio
Javier E. Perez
Juan F. Diaz
Papo Manrara
dot•dots papo, papsters, papsmear, paps, pops, papito, ok that ' s enough. over about heart here c,sood times, To my fams :dad, cru:m , and the world ' s greatest mom, thank you for always understanding to all my 'bois: you made it £or me Sargent Sarria, ees de detn suga, 53 for all m); teary nights, samathy, wheredubunnies?, em Hollywood, uf playa, {hey alex, Oli wants to talk to you }, !Claudius in cancun, whateeeeeever; picho, francois , franklin, quano Jerome?, on AT, 16miles aint nuttin playa, Sundays-lOer b4 yearbook oonv. w bootn-WeB4B(heUyeah)y.o, pass me the cool blast mint$ dog haha fuika foursbn1e, pantry niliiiid, I could use a seat; dope getties fi:aDk, damn, I live at your crib dog! , you ' ll always be my ::log frank; , Paret, uncle P ' s, po-diddy, dirtbag, reverend v.-e need the offi:rtocy bowl, uf is gonna be out of both hands, 420atMarcobalcony, bouncing in the vw bug our first day back from war, CAMF, I'ma yoke you up, are you trotting P?, call it travis ;sleazzzer, wusup 'sar, its pO , uf owns um baby! , keep sleazing at the ladies, ceza da crowd plea.za(S) ;wachi, juancheveri, juancho, juana, ca-rc:-C.u-lo, waltennercado, good times dog: KCconv ., DR, my boy 47, Iockdown visits, tol ;many wawoo, fuika4:mme , A-bomb w/ martin at your crib, dope reggies at marco ;newwwmeyer, there ' s a bathroom with your name on it in NY, you will never win!, uf vs fsu , she is evil newmy evilll ; vinny, my older bro, coke floats , ; danadal:l, dajew, rewrend dan, uf will be all dat, agenda chronicles about Christy p jaQO, padilly, j-lopez: p01mding crew at da construction crib ; osqui wosqui, the medicine man ; wobbet, watch your back at navy, litQrally, scheme team
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Carlos F. Miranda
cost me $4 .20 ... Eddie, Quack Pack & Quad Squad . . . Manny's 17th birthday , Slip N Slide . . .My 18th birthday = surprise party. I got j ipped ... Marcos and Eddie, late summer nights chilling at my cribo ... FIN A .. . Coral Way and 101th Bird and 67th varsity basketball games ballerina for Halloween BASTA Day w/ Chris & night before w/ Jon B1F BHP N'Sync senior skit Mad love to the girlies Marizelle/Mari , Aileen. Ceci (my cuz) Christy, Babylove, 143 Kiki and Keri = best instructors Steph, you Spaniard, where are your glasses, thanks for being there, 143 Alicia, Fatty Fatty Fat Fat C lose Up Allison the flasher Wake & Bake vearbook convention Thank you , Dad, Mom, Yoyi , Carlos , Silvi, & Tina, I love all of you Class of 2001 =Golden Boys, Hove you all. Belen, thank you for the best 6 years Wolverine 4 life I'm ou t! e
..it's..finally.over..The.best.7years ..Where.doJ.start.My.dawgs.since.the.beginning .. Danny.. Gabi .. JuanP.. _ .Papo .. JpC .. 9fh grade prom .. Jon's after parties.. Superbud.... RiSt time for everything .. 10!h grade formai..Umo .. mad play.. Ocean Reef.. Santo Domingo ..WOW..Martin the original UGK .. The start of .M arcos.Ghris .. Martin .. Fat AI..Rick .. Eddie.. Frankie.. The best things are left unsaid.. Marco OO' .. Full moon ..nice breeze .. forg et about it.Papo close aaii..Wendys late night.. The Godfathers .. The Creep .. Close Up.. Wake and Bake.. Allison.. They were nice .. Bald eagte ..Habour tsland... Gusty's.. July2nd a night to remember.. BabyK. ... Oictator Dan .. Javi 100mph US1.. what a ride ..DL is the way to .Table 4-20 .. Juan "primd' .. Rnally made it..Whaf s the deal playboy .. Whai's up partner.. Chrftin .. What have u done all day .. NOTHlNG .. Juan how bout some pepperoni pi zza .. UGP boys' keep it reaL
Senior 378 Page
Alex Sarria
JIMMY, YOU HAVE SHOWN US THAT YOU CAN DO ALL THINGS THRU HIM WHO STRENGTHENS YOU.
To our sons, - Jimmy Juan P
We are all so very proud of you and your accomplishments, and wish you the way best in your future endeavors.
We love you, The Senior Baseball Parents
382 tising
Greg
Carlos George
Oscar
Eddy
Alex J. Hernandez
FF200 0 ••• Is nice .•. General J ac l..·y ..• I l ike it ••• stays on the Green Mil e .•• fam ous phone call ..• \ Vrong side of the ro a d •• Carlito's way ••• Wh a t happened to the toilet? ••• l don't - anymore • • Yes, I do... · ••• Bert ne\'er lies •• 0 - ri-zon-do, tiene un \\'ho bro ke the lamp? .•. Don't r ide the Audi
••• You want me to be your cheerlea der? Chris 1 speec h es ••• Rejuve na tion ••. What do you think about the b lo nde girl? ••• C hilo, is your '\\>rist supposed to be li ke that? .•• Jorge's inspiration DR fa ce" pai nting T he first day of the rest of our lives
Marco Gonzalez
Senior Page
Fainting Enanis .I like it.. Raffa FF 2000 Baby Steps Andu Arabu Eraser Diablo Pinky Green Mile Diesel. Julia Gulia Clmvs Rejuyenation Lili Pedro Alejandro Marina . . .Baby Marco ... Pulga .. .Marco ·s toe ... Psychorita . ..Froz en .. . me duele . . .Bert ne yer lies ... $100 .. .Chris' car .. .Ifs time for a change . ..
know this is eight months in advance , but... he e's th e bucket?!?!? Beautiful , Beau tif ul Beauty How do yo feel about goats?
Ladies first... Idiocy has ove rtaken you Tony I cit. Sn uffteupagus FallingStar9797 Some thin gs will never be fo rgotten I hope y · e proud PLS, PS , Seagult The Blue Thing Hig h School... If I hear one more thing about a St Bernard Scurvy , Rickets, Osteopo rosis, and Diabetes (The Deficie cy Diseases ) Sacagawea Man goes in to cage, cag e goes into salsa , shark 's in th e salsa , our shark Fe li pe , do you know how to rea ct to a punch? Fa t bo y ves coo kies Ay ;pero no ! jPero si!. Mike !uvs sna kes (rep ti les I don't do huma s)
Sp id erRabb it... What a co incidence His legs fla il as if in depe ndent of his bod y! 2po in ts (sw ich) You 're on the team ! Cherry Chola On ions in nasty sau ce Ug h This is disgus ti ng, but it's free, so I'll eat it Grand pa Jim Hey Big A! This guy likes the new Pa ci no mo vi e! Gi 'im! Southball... Muttiey · a tika tika ti ka tika ka tika tika tika ti ka (whee) KUMBA !. You're ba d ! like yo on y, if you spit on me again, I swear Saturated Fat... You can 't make e cross the street l'm not blah, I' m a hootf. Tha t' s Miss Cha nandler Bong Hool< it up, MoFo Althea? I'm taking a shot! You 're shooti ng with Althea? (correc ) Good sh ootin gf Heffa love Money Love for the Past (Parts 1-647 ) Reboo Rikitikitavi.. At any rate Questin g and Chao... Stoney and Coo-Foo (reereereereer) Boorish behav io r Let's ma ke sure, history never forg ets
Alex Bedoya
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CONGRATULATIONS
We are very proud of you I!
· I love you
Congratulations lUex [tK.Ao Sumo]
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the Class of
May your heart be one with Jesus, for that is where you'll find your treasure. May your paths be illuminated by the Holy Spirit so your steps will be sure ones and May God draw you close to him so you'll alway be at home. Alex we are very proud of you and lone you very much!!!
Good Luck Always, Dad, Mom, Moni and Mari
Index
AAbaroa, Diego 58, 62
Abaunza, Carlos 66
Frankie Bolado 65
Abelairas, Gloria 265
Abelairas, JC 108, 151, 155, 214
Abrante, Alberto 66
Acevedo, Eddie I 08, I 5 I, 55, 225, 308
Acosta, Antonio 44
Acosta, Canek 58
Acosta, Grace 44, 52
Acosta, JC 157
Acosta, Juan 66
Acufia, Chris 98, 100, 106,160, 233
Acuna, Nicholas 74, 220
Adan, Danny 18, 117, 146 147, 209, 242, 242
Aenlle, Julio 90, 97, 154, 155
Agras, Steve 58, 172
Agudo, Richard 74, 76, 149, 202, 203
Aguerrevere, Daniel 98
Aguilar, Kyle David 58
Alam, JC 98, 135
Alarcon, Elias 58,158, 159
Alarcon, Victor 66, 64, 65
Alard, Enrique 98, 151, 215
Albelo, Fidel 156
Albert, JP 108, 151, 241
Alcalde, Adrian 66
Alday, Marta 44, 60
Alemany, Javier 66
Alexander, Anthony 44
Alexander, Nicholas 90, 91, 160
Alexander, Rene Carballo 91
Alfonso, Angie 209
Alfonso, Rolando 90
Almeida, Mario 74, 81, 149, 160
Alonso, Chris 108, 151
Alonso, Daniel 66
Alonso-Mendoza, Gabriel 82
ALPHA 132, 133
Alvarado, Alejandro 58, 215
Alvarez, Ander 77
Alvarez, Cesar 108, 151, 155, 166, 158,159 241, 259
Community Service 213 Computer Science Club 134, 135
Concepcion, Peter 75, 76, 160
Cordova, Angel 83, 232
Corona, Josh 83, 89
Correa, AJ 99, 166, 178, 179
Correoso, Alex 67, 133
Correoso, Javier 83
Cosio, Michael 91
Costa, Alexander 7 5
Costa, Brian 99
Costa, David 75, 76, 149, 228
Costa, Luis 82, 83, 86, 233
54, 155, 243, 224, 243 Cross, Michael 83 Cruz, Javi 83, 86, 89, 58, 159, 174, 175 Cruz, Michael 59 Cruz-Mesa, Martin 99 Cuan, Andrew 83 Cura, Alex 92, 154, 155, 184 D
Daire, Javier 75, 160 Daly, Sean 83, 84, 160 Damas, Frank 60 Dana, Pedro 60 Danger, Franklin 60 Darpin, Eric 148 Darpini, Eric 60, 151, 157 De Armas, Emilio 45 De Armas, Rafael 92, 192 De Castro, Allen 99 De Castro, Alvaro 59, 63 De Goytisolo, Agustin 59, 172 De La Flor, Miguel S. (i)
De La Fuente, Bruno 99, 105, 233 De La Fuente, Manuel 75, 161 De La Fuente, Nicholas A. 60 De La Ossa, Andres 92, 97, 184, 185 De La Vega, Agustin 92 De La Vega, Carlos 92 De La Vega, Oscar 75 De Lemos, Ricardo A. 60 De Leon, Felipe 92 De Leon, Jorge 92, 97, 166 De Ory, Rafael 83, 175 De Quesada, Thomas 4, 5, 52, 60, 140,141, 232 De Solo, Enrique 75, 160 De Trillo, Ramon Jesus 88 De Zarraga, Gaston 60, 159 Del Castillo, Raquel 208 Del Castillo Raymond 75 Del Riego, Robert 83 Del Rio, Alex 60, 158, 159, 172 Del Rio, David 64 Del Rio, Ivan 83, 84, 176, 177 Del Rio, Mario 60 Del Valle, John 92, 97 Del Valle, Jose 60, 64 Delgado, David 60
Delgado, Eddie 4, 57, 60, 86, 148, 151 Delgado, Enrique 59, 60 Delgado, German 60, 57 Delgado, John 76, 81 Delgado, Marcello A. 60
Delgado, Rudy 92, 93, 94, 97
Alvarez, Henry David 58
Alvarez, Javier 98, 155
Alvarez, John Erik 60
Alvarez, Jon 66, 148,151
Barrientos, Alexander V 59
Baseball Parents 382
BASES 134
Basnuevo, Eddy 158
Cabafias, Rafael 82
Cabello, Gonzalo 148,151
Cabrera, Anthony 61, 67, 219
Casais, Peter 75, 126, 161, 227
Casal, Eduardo 91
Casas, Michael 7 5
Casco-Downing,
Cou, Maria Teresa 45
Coutts, Ian 110
Cox, Brian 75, 150, 227
Cox, Danny 59, 150, 156
Crego, Ramon 110, 117,
Delgado, Victor 60 Dell'Oro, Felipe 110 Dergan, Joseph 83 Diaz, Adrian 83
Diaz, Alex 76, 157, 159
Diaz, Armando 110, 151, 242, 242
Diaz, Benito 92
Diaz, Carlos 7 6
Diaz De La Portilla, Michael 60
Diaz, Eric 75, 76, 173, 176, 159, 227
Diaz, Ernesto 157
Diaz, Greg 110,135, 166, 179, 225
Diaz, Juan 4, 110, 117, 146, 147, 148
Diaz, Nick 52, 60, 62, 63, 65, 156, 158, 159
Diaz, Pedro 83
Dieguez, Manny 140
Dieppa, Cristian 83
Dieppa, Julian 84, 181
Dieppa, Justin Andre 60
Dominguez, Brian 76,160, 161, 229
Dominguez, Chris 100,102, 209, 233
Don, George 60, 173
Du Quesne, Eduardo 100
Du Quesne, Ignacio 92
Duarte, Andres 110, 143, 155, 263, 282
Duarte, Jorge 100, 166, 179
Duenas, Javier 84, 89
Duenas, Nelson 110
Dufford, Brett 86
Duque, Alex 60, 150
DuQuesne, Eddie 103,105, 181, 216, 232
Duquesne, Ignacio 154, 176
Duyos, Oscar 110, 117, 155
EEchauri, Damian 76,226
Echenique, Ivan 84, 174, 175
Echenique, Javier 110,166
Echevarria, Alex 110, 151, 166
Echevarria, Nick 76, 81, 161
Echeverri, Juan 100
Effio, Renzo 100, 103, 160, 184
Egues, Rafael 100, 158
Eireos, Maria 61
Elorza, Freddy 76, 151, 160
English Department 121
Emiquez, Andre 100, 102, 178, 1/9, 1({), 167, 232
Emiquez, Daniel 92, 94
Emiquez, Ivan 110, 156, 157, 225
Erkelens, Paul 84
Escobar, Andres 92, 93, 97
Escobar, Emique 100, 160, 161, 213
Escobar, S. 149
Escobedo, Ernesto 90, 92
Escoto, Daniel 60, 148, 151
Essinger, Ed 154
Esteban, Alex 92, 193
Esteban, Eric 100, 142, 143, 224, 233
Esteva, Eric 76, 151
Estevez, Carlos 84 F
Faculty 51
Falcon Chemical 266
Farinas, Alicia 56, 60, 124
Farley, Andrew 60, 61
Father and Son Day 220
Peal, Alex 60
Peas, Jerry 60
Fenton, Annie 44, 60, 61, 63, 50, 127
Fenton, Jimmy 76, 127, 160, 161, 227
Fenton, Mike 100, 151 Fernandez, Alex 61 Fernandez, Alexis Jose 60 Fernandez, Andres 92 Fernandez, Angie 60, 63 Fernandez, Anthony 60, 173 Fernandez, Ariel 60, 52 Fernandez, Daniel 84, 89 Fernandez, Eric 76 Fernandez, George 89 Fernandez,Jorge 84
Fernandez, Julio 218 Fernandez, Luis 62 Fernandez, Luis Carlos 60
Fernandez, Luis M. 110
Fernandez, M. 149 Fernandez, Michael 76, 160, 229
Fernandez, Rafael60, 127 Fernandez-Barquin, Juan 110, 241, 241
Gutierrez, Gabriel 111, 137, 291, 295 Gutierrez, Gaby 117, 184, 240, 240 Gutierrez, Jason 77, 157
Gutienez, Nicholas 93
Gutierrez, Ruben 111
Guzman, Oscar 77, 157, 227
HHaibi, Dora 60, 60, 124
Halphin, Tim 160
Halpin, Tim 85, 202
Ham Radio Club 134
Hanlon, Daniel 65, 133 Hanlon, Matthew 64
Harbie, Khalil 77 Hardan, Alana 209 Henderson, Max 84, 85 Hemiquez, Gabriel 61 Hermida, Christian 100 Hermida, Jonathan 77, 149, 173, 227
Hermida, Stephen 93, 173 Hernandez, Albert 156 Hernandez, Alex 112, 151, 225, 302 Hernandez, Alex J. 112 Hernandez, Alex "Sumo" 156, 208
Hernandez, Alexander 101 Hernandez, Andres 60 Hernandez, Daniel 61, 93 Hernandez, Drean 158, 159, 161 Hernandez, Emilio 77, 159
Hernandez, Fernando 93, 154
Hernandez, Greg 82, 85, 86, 221
Hernandez, J. 149 Hernandez, Jack 229 Hernandez, John 93 Hernandez, Jonathan 173 Hernandez, Juan 77, 161 Hernandez, Luis 112 Hernandez, Pedro 51, 56, 127, 135, 147 Hernandez, R. 149 Hernandez, Raul 158, 159, 161 Hernandez, Rene 10 1 Hernandez, Ricardo 93 Hernandez, Rick 93, 95 Hernandez, Robert 77, 148, 151, 228 Hernandez SJ, Victor 51 Hernandez, Sylvia 51, 123 Herrera, Bryan 61, 65, 67 Herrera, Efrain 77 Herrero, David 93, 192 Henero, Jeannie 209 Hillman- Waller, Louis 61 Honda!, Carlos 61, 65 Hudson, Antonio 112 Hugo,EnriqueOrizondo 95 Humanities 123
IIcaza, Charmaine 51, 60, 63, 120 Ideas and More 250 Iglesias, Alfred 61, 62, 65, 156, 159 Iglesias, Jennifer 51, 61 Iglesias, Melissa 209 Iglesias, Sean 65 Iglesias, Steve 101, 166, 179, Ingelmo, Paul 61 Inguanzo, Carlos 93 Interian, Andrew 77, 81 lturralde, Santiago 85, 89 Izquierdo, Nelson 85
JJacobs, Chris 227 Jacobs, Christian 77 Jacomino, Javier 112,117, 148, 158, 159, 240, 240 Jalil, George 101, 155, 167, 233 Jalil, Michael 79, 157, 159
Torrent, Adrian Jose 64 Torrent, Daniel 104, 158, 225
Torrente, Anthony 93, 96, 97, 154, 176
Torres, Jose 104, 143 Total Bank 383 Trueba, Alexander 64 Trujillo, Carlos 116, 135, 151, 213, 224
Tudela, Felipe 116, 143, 242, 242, 275 Tunon, Daniel 104, 148 Tumes, Daniel 64
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Ugas, Jose 80 Unisa 254 Urbieta, Ignacio 104 Urgel, Jonathan 233 Urgell, Jonathan 88 Urgelles, Daniel 65, 215 Uribe, Alex 88, 96, 160 Urrechaga, Joaquin 80 Urriola, Jose 88
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Valdes, Alan 88 Valdes, Alexander 88 Valdes, Andrew 64 Valdes, Anthony Valdes 81 Valdes, Daniel 104, 158 Valdes, Danny 103, 159 Valdes, Eduardo 96 Valdes, Javier 116 Valdes, Michael 88 Valdes, Tony 79 Valdes-Castaneda, Rudy 116
Valdez, Javi 117, 155 Valdez, Julio 158 Valdez, Michael 84 Valencia, Mauricio 79, 81 Valentino, Jesus 65 Valenzuela, Vicente 81, 161, 192 Valenzuela, Vince 160 Vallejo, Guillermo 96 Vallenilla, Chris 94, 96, 154, 181
Valor, John 65
Valverde, Nick 104, 107, 225 Vargas, Alfredo 96, 166 Vargas, Luis 81 Vargas, Rodrigo 88 Vargas, William 104 Varona, Derek 96, 160, 184
Zaldivar, Robert 104, 158, 159, 172, 173, 177, 214, 233
Zambrano, Eric A. 65
Zamora, Enrique 65
Zapata, Oscar 156
Zoller, Eugene 4, 52, 53, 61
Zomerfeld, Raymond 61, 65, 156
Zumarraga, Chris 77, 81, 173
Zuriarrain, Alex 184, 241
Zuriarrian, Alex 116
Ech0es 200l
Vol. 19, is the first edition published in the 21 ,, century. The bookis printed by Taylor Publishing of Dallas Texas, represented by Mrs. Marcia Meskiel Macy. The book is composed of 400 pages printed on 80 lb. Matte paper, of which 64 are in full color. The division pages have spot color. The book is 9 x 12, on a press run of 1100. Seventeen students worked with 11 Compaq computers and one HP Laserjet 5000 N printer. The lithocoat cover features a photograph taken by Mr. Dan Montesi, guidance counselor. Students pay $30 per book. However, each book actually costs $60. The remainder of the cost is defrayed through advertising sales.
Editors Manny Larrieu, Frankie Larrieu, and Papo Manrara designed the table of contents and endsheets. The student life section and the division pages were designed by Alex Odriozola and Javier Perez. The sports section was designed by Jimmy Newmeyer. The academic section 'was designed by Carlos Miranda. The people section was designed by Juan Diaz. Javier Perez and Alex Odriozola designed the community section. Frankie Larrieu designed the organizations section. Business manager Chris Fleites designed the advertising section. All sections were designed using Pagemaker 6.5, Photoshop 6.0, and fonts (lnd folios downloaded from public Internet sources.
Bryn Alan took all senior and underclassmen mug shots, including many event pictures. Echoes staff took a large number of event and candid shots. Echoes belongs to the National Scholastic Press Association, which awarded it a 2nd place certificate.
Echoes would like to extend its gratitude, in no particular order, to the following who contributed to the yearbook production process : school president-principal Fr. Marcelino Garcia SJ, Executive Assistant Principal Mr. Leopolda Nu:fiez, Mr. Ignacio Font, Mrs. Mar cia Meskiel Macy, Technology Director Mrs. Carol Vila (for our new computers!), Mr. Augie yenegas, Mrs. Maria Fiorenza, Mr. & Mrs. Jose Odriozola, Mr. Dan Montesi, Mr. Rolando Sucena, Mrs. Annie Menocal, Mr. & Mrs. Juan Diaz, Mrs. Tere Elias, Mr. George Busse, Mrs. Mercy Rodriguez, Mr. N oe Burgos, Ms. Patty Posey, and the others who contributed in some way.
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