Red ‘n’ Green
TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 2019
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222 Memorial Drive Berlin, WI 54923 VOLUME 51, ISSUE 8
A BERLIN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT OPEN FORUM SINCE 1924 Newsbriefs DeaconCeman Eberhardy Natalie Reporter Reporter Sophomores finish ACT Aspire testing
Sophomores finished a long year of ACT test prep last month, taking the ACT Aspire, the pre-ACT and the Wisconsin Forward Exam. This year school administrators decided that rather than setting aside whole or half days to test the sophomores, sophomores would test during Wednesday CIA. But, some sophomores seem to prefer the old system. “I feel like doing all the testing in a few days would’ve been better,” sophomore Raymond Mayotte said. The new testing schedule comes after lower than average scores on the ACT. “I think all of the testing hurts students because all of the computer testing doesn’t get us ready for the paper exam,” Mayotte said. Key Club elects new board members Key Club held their yearly elections for board members. The new board members are President Lindsey Mularski, Secretary Leah Vang and Bulletin Editor Megan Marks. “We do a lot of volunteer work and fundraising, especially for different countries and different events,” Marks said. Red ‘n’ Green attends NEWSPA Conference The Red ‘n’ Green traveled to their annual Northeastern Wisconsin Student Press Association conference at UW-Oshkosh on Wednesday April 10. The Red ‘n’ Green won multiple individual awards and the first place Blue Ribbon award for overall quality. “I think as a whole we have done a good job with having good papers that are continuing to win awards,” Editor-in-Chief Ryan Breeden said.
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- In Memory of Mr. Marquardt, pg. 3 -Baseball adapts to youth, pg. 8
Junior prom affected by weather for second year Paige Krause
Reporter
For the second year in a row, prom has been affected by cold, snowy conditions. Prom was on April 13 and the theme was Masquerade, hosted by the junior class. Students had to endure the cold to do their traditional prom pictures at Nathan Strong Park. “The weather was definitely not exactly what everyone wanted. It was so cold to be standing outside taking pictures,” junior Lauren Wilson said. The prom date is chosen through a joint decision. “Choosing the date doesn’t come from Mrs. Keyes and I. It’s a combined effort between us and the office,” prom adviser Jennifer Leahy said. The prom date fluctuates depending on what activities are that weekend. “We look at athletics and other activities and we try to avoid them. Everything gets taken into account,” Leahy said. “This date was unique and this early because of Easter weekend and other conflicts. Minus the weather conflicts, many students were overall happy with how prom turned
Prom King and Queen: Luke Piechowski and Leah Vang
Juniors faced wind, slush and piles of snow on the ground for prom pictures. “The hardest thing about the prom weather was the wind because it made it even colder,” junior Kara Block said. Photo Submitted out. “My favorite thing about “Prom was so much fun. It was prom was being with my everything I thought it would friends and having a good be except for the dance, which time with them,” junior Leah could have been better,” junior Vang said. Lauren Wilson said. “I still had a Vang was voted as prom great time and post prom was queen, and explains the exdefinitely the best part of the perience. night.” “When I was announced Prom wasn’t exactly what evas prom queen I wasn’t exeryone hoped, but there were pecting it at all, but I was some highlights to the night. happy,” Vang said.
Students earn medals at Forensics State Festival
Bryn Hermanson
Reporter
Fourteen Forensic team members ventured to Madison to compete in the 124th Wisconsin High School Forensic Association State Festival held on the University of WisconsinMadison campus on April 12. Four students earned gold medals. One of those students was sophomore Lindsay Mularski, who performed three short pieces from Ellen DeGeneres’ book, “Seriously, I’m Kidding” with her partner, junior Alysha Pischke in the Group Interpretive reading category. “With our specific category, we had to come up with actions and/or facial expressions to go along with the story,” Mularski said. “The judges looked for facial expressions, tone of voice, movements and the ability to read the piece together without making eye contact with your group members.” To qualify for the State Festival, students needed to compete at sub-districts on Feb. 11 and earn two prerequisite scores out of three rounds to qualify for districts on March 5. The same process of scores happened at districts to qualify for state, Forensics Coach Nicole King explained. The team started meeting in November to prepare for the sea-
son and to get their pieces in order. King noted that many pieces do not get finished until January. Meets in January through March are practice meets to get feedback. “We have different organizations that we belong to. We have a competitive meet where it’s ranked first place to last place on Saturdays, and we have the WHSFA organization where you are ranked basically against yourself to see if you’re performing to your maximum capability out of 25 points,” King said. The Forensics team has been particularly successful with the whole team qualifying for state after subdistricts and districts.
State Forensics Results
-Calob Congdon-- Silver -Sarah Fleegal-- Gold -Tess Mueller-- Bronze -Lukas Viars-- Silver -Clair Werch-- Silver -Megan Marks-- Small Bronze -Garrett Simon-- Bronze -Laura Wiegel-- Gold -Isabelle Willett-- Silver -Ally Wendt-- Silver -Lindsay Mularski and Alysha Pishke-- Gold -Joanna Schmidt and Nick Chier-- Bronze
Pictured: (L-R) Brittany Retzlaff, Bryanna Severson, Audrey Krause, Lauren Wilson
Pictured: (L-R) Aidan Schilling, Zach Cason, Alec Moriarty Photos Submitted
Jazz Band earns production credit on CD Joey Femali
Reporter
Jazz Band director Ben Ruetten has been directing Jazz for 10 years now and this year, the Jazz band will get more access to songs to play. The Jazz Band made a contribution towards an album named “Forward” by Paul Dietrich. It also featured drummer Clarence Penn out of New York. “Paul Dietrich composed some music and ended up putting this together in a big band setting. He then asked Clarence Penn to play on it and he ended up doing it,” Ruetten said. Dietrich also needed some money to put this CD together, so the Berlin Jazz Band stepped up. “Dietrich put up a kickstarter and we ended up putting some contributions financially towards the CD. Dietrich then kept me in the loop. He also gave us access to the album's sheet music and his library of music,” Ruetten said. Dietrich is familiar with the high school band scene as he has written pieces that have been played by Berlin, Ripon, Cambridge, Cedarburg and Madison schools. “I’ve written music specifically for
high school bands a few times, including a piece that Ben Ruetten commissioned for Berlin’s band called ‘Eleven Miles’ in 2015,” Dietrich said. Junior Zak Kapp recalls playing music composed by Dietrich in Jazz Band. “We have played some of Dietrich’s music in the past. I think it was pretty good,” Kapp said. The main goal of the CD was to write in a big band setting for Dietrich. “I decided to make a big band CD because it’s always kind of been a dream of mine. The financial realities of doing a CD with such a large group are pretty sobering, so I had to save up a bunch of money, in addition to running a crowdfunding campaign through Kickstarter,” Dietrich said. Ruetten and Dietrich do share a similar past as Ruetten’s college director was actually Dietrich’s dad. Ruetten also has been involved in the Jazz CD industry before. “I was on one in college. It never ended up becoming much,” Ruetten said. The band will receive credit in the production as “Berlin Jazz Band Ensemble with Ben Ruetten as the Director.”