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Celebrating 50 years of publication
THE OFFICIAL STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF ARCHBISHOP MOELLER HIGH SCHOOL 9001 MONTGOMERY RD. CINCINNATI OHIO 45242
CELEBRATING This issue comemmorates the fiftieth anniversary of The Crusader. Remarks, complaints, and catering can be directed to room 335. Check out our group snapshot on page 3. REPEATING This past summer the Crusaders reminded Cincinnati who’s the state’s best baseball team is. Look for the papers hanging on the bulletin boards by the main staircase.
Veteran, foreign language teacher, video expert join faculty By Joe Pappalardo ‘14 Crusader Managing Editor
shocked Ohio golf this past summer with his underdog victories in the North and South Amateur and the Ohio Amateur. He went on to tie for 125th out of 312 players at the U.S. Amateur.
Pieping Chief Pieper is on duty all day just inside the main entrance. Besides looking for elusive parking passes and directing traffic, he spends his time guarding the lobby from the unsuspecting stranger. He also has candy. PROCREATing Mr. Clayton Graham, Pillar House Dean, now has an addition to his family, in the form of a baby girl. Be sure to congratulate him as it’s been a project nine months in the making.
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Guns, German, and cinematography
The help desk seems empty without Mr. Charlie Lytle, the phantom ghoster replaced by Mr. Gavin Gray. Meanwhile in room 206, the German students are introduced to Mrs. Linda Zins-Adams, as upperclassmen look up at their new math teacher, Army veteran Mr. Jason Crockett. Guns, German, and cinematography SUPPORTING – these things have nothing in common, but this year they are recognized as the Moeller’s hockey team plans to backgrounds of Moeller faculty’s newest attend a game from every sport. additions. Possessing talents and skills obBe on the lookout for the RV tained from global experiences, Mr. Gray, and free food. Maybe, in return, Mrs. Zins-Adams, and Mr. Crockett are attendance will finally increase at invaluable assets to Moeller High School. hockey games this winter. Mr. Gavin Gray is new to his job, but not the environment. He spent four years SAILING teaching Moeller’s video production class Mr. Mike Ward, famed genius of before switching to the help desk. While the ocean blue, made yet another last year Mr. Gray had kids making voyage this summer in Europe. short films and animations, he Having no injuries or serious now deals with senior laptop storms to speak of, he has quietly screens and students searching for their hard drives. returned to Moeller to toil on It’s a “new experience” from land. a technical standpoint, according to Mr. Gray. Although he DORNING has taken the reins from Mr. Andrew Dorn ‘11 recently Lytle and now bears the
Varnishing Moeller’s auditorium received yet another upgrade. Those rusty metal doors got a wooden facelift over the summer. First a gym, then a dungeon, and now a playhouse. Cushioned movie theater seats would be a nice addition too.
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Mr. Crockett rocking his Cross Country shirt
weight of organizing the maintenance and service of over 900 computers, he enjoys working with students. “I always like solving problems,” he says. Good humor and a knack for fixing things will be greatly appreciated at Moeller’s technology center. Mrs. Linda Zins-Adams is a successful German teacher residing in Montgomery, Ohio. After attending Northwest High School, she went on to the University of Cincinnati, Xavier University, and the University of Regensburg, in Germany. Consider her well-prepared. Mrs. Zins-Adams has been responsible for getting many students free trips to study in Germany, as well as 100 percent pass rates for her AP classes at her previous school in Kentucky, where she was named World Language Teacher of the Year. She is now in her twenty-first year of teaching, and came to Moeller because of its academic reputation. Po-
Mr. Gray demonstrates his computer handling skills at the help desk.
liteness, respect, community – these three values drew Mrs. Zins-Adams. She sums up German in one phrase – “Die grenzen meiner sprache bedeuten die grenzen meiner welt.” – “The borders of my language mean the borders of my world.” Mr. Jason Crockett would like to dispel the rumors about his military past. The math teacher grew up in Indiana, attending Brownstown Central High School, the University of Indianapolis, and Xavier University. He then served in the military for seven-and-a-half years, starting out as an active duty soldier, before becoming a medic, and then transferring to the National Guard. Mr. Crockett is humble about his career. “I haven’t killed seventy-two people,” he says, wishing his seniors would calm down and focus on math. He loves working with numbers, not only teaching upperclassmen CP1 and CP1-Level 1, but also coaching Cross-Country and leading Track and Field. The soldierturned-citizen has his hands full keeping both his mind and body sharp while developing his students’ as well. Mr. Crockett may have traded his weapon for a pencil, but he still lives to serve others.
Renowned teacher Frau Zins-Adams
Meet Schu-Daddy: Tyler Schumacher By Kyle Zimmerman ‘14 Crusader Editor-in-Chief If Bruce Wayne, Albert Einstein, David Hasselhoff, Bill Braun, Ron Burgundy, Aristotle, Chuck Norris, LeBron James, Ernest Hemingway and Pythagoras ever produced a child, that child would be Tyler Schumacher. Now in his fourth year at Moeller, Schu-Daddy has established himself as a true renaissance man. His incredible knowledge, logic, reasoning, and rhetoric
render him as a strong influence in all matters. Whether it is a question of AP Chemistry, girlfriend drama, how to scan something on the printer, proper mixer conduct, Sperry or Nike, open-heart surgery, or where to go for lunch, SchuDaddy is the best source for the right answers. Send Schumacher an e-mail (schumacher_t14@moeller.org), serious or funny, whenever you want and he will answer it in a column in each issue of the Crusader called “Ask Schu-Daddy.”
Schu-Daddy braces himself for the paparazzi.