BLACK & GOLD QUARTERLY (BGQ) MAY 2020

BGQ BLACK & GOLD QUARTERLY may 2020 // volume ninety-nine

BLACK & GOLD QUARTERLY: MAY T W O - T H O U S A N D TWENTY Editor’s Note

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sophia Boyce PHOTOGRAPHY Joie Baldyga Olivia Hale GRAPHICS Joie Baldyga Jack Doerr Maria Linck BUSINESS Henry Huschke Niklas Fagerman EDITORS Joie Baldyga Maria Linck STAFF WRITERS Ted Arnold Olivia Hale Henry Huschke Addison Swanson Mallory Swope CONTRIBUTORS Jazryel Freeland COVER PHOTO 2020 Seniors Advisor: Jim Filkins

Last issue the BGQ was predicting the future, but no one thought the future would mean a ten week shelter in place resulting in a very early end to the school year due to COVID-19.

I never thought I would say it, but I think I now hate being in my bed.

Despite being stuck at home, the staff of the BGQ wanted to create, and put out our senior issue of the BGQ. The senior issue is always the hardest to put together because it’s April and May and the seniors are rarely in the building. This year, none of us were in the building. So while we were not able to get in touch with every senior, we tried very hard and got as many as we could.

Our final issue begins with four senior highlights that focus on blogs, loud personalities, app creators, and boarding school.

We also included a spread full of group shots of the seniors throughout the year from football games, sports teams, and of course our whole grade in the gym. We of course could not do a senior issue without the college list, and we enlisted some “Congratulations” help from Post Malone.

Following the college list, we have a few senior quote pages, as well as a page dedicated to senior accomplishments and advice for underclassmen. We made a special spread with submissions from student athletes who lost out on their final seasons.

I shared my thoughts on being short changed in our last semester of high school as well as on graduation.

While this issue is mostly dedicated to seniors, we couldn’t ignore the elephant in the room. Our Identity in Traverse City feature focuses on essential workers, from Munson nurses to grocery store employees. We also included an article solely focusing on two people who work in the medical field and what their jobs look like now.

We even added a ‘Shelter-in-place” Bingo board.f you can’t check off the “baked bread” box we’ve got you covered; We brought back our recipe featuring two bread recipes that are easy and delicious.

We hope you enjoy the class of 2020’s senior issue of the BGQ and that you’re staying safe and not going stir crazy!

From my bed,

Sophia Boyce MISSION STATEMENT: The Black and Gold Quarterly (BGQ) is Traverse City Central High School’s student-run magazine.

Since its conception in 1886, our publication has evolved with the times, frequently changing in style, format, and even name. However, one factor has remained constant—our staff’s desire to capture the story of our community, to challenge the accepted, and to open our minds to perspectives that we hadn’t previously considered through investigation, research, and inquiry. We are constantly striving to improve our content and artistic elements; after all, the BGQ is a school publication, so educating both ourselves as well as our readers remains one of our primary goals.

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Malibu to Michigan senior profile on Grace Bartley-Schroder

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Making Mr. Las Vegas senior profile on Andrew Rabb

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Our Calcusaver senior profile on Elizabeth Saunders

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Half Trojan Half Hawk senior profile on Delaney Bonofacio

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The Gallery a student showcase

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Identity in Traverse City how people in tc are being impacted by COVID-19

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Healthcare Heros point of view from the frontlines

Send information, advertising and other inquiries to: Black & Gold Quarterly Central High School 1150 Milliken Drive Traverse City, MI 49686 Phone: (231) 933-6533 Email: filkinsji@tcaps.net

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Blast From The Past collection of throwbacks from the

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The College List where the class of 2020 is headed to next

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A Quaran-Teen a senior’s take on losing her last semester of HS

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Class of 2020 Nostalgia Playlist songs to remember the good ol’ days

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Senior Quotes not your average yearbook submission

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Oh The Places We’ve Gone some accomplishments of the senior class

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The Lost Season senior athletes reflect on what could’ve been

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Quarantine Bingo what have you done these last three months?

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Michigan to Malibu by: SOPHIA BOYCE editor-in-chief

photos courtesy of: G. Schroeder

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“I belong in the water,” is how Grace Schroeder explains her love of surfing. The 18-year-old was a competitive swimmer in her childhood and spent the majority of her life on boats. She has always felt a connection to the water; it’s where her “state of being is most aligned.”

Schroeder started surfing back in fifth grade. One of her mom’s student’s family owns a surf shop in Empire and runs a freshwater surf camp. Her mom encouraged her to give it a try. She fell in love and continued to pursue surfing after moving to Los Angeles.

Her middle school in California had a year-long contest where they encouraged students to be innovative. During seventh grade, Schroeder programmed the school’s laser cutter to make wooden surfboards with different fins to test which worked best for surfing. In Eighth grade she started her surfing photography blog — Michigan to Malibu. “Not to flex or anything… but I won both years,” Schroeder jokes. She took her camera with her every time she went out surfing and would work on the posts over the weekend.

While Schroeder had been into photography for a while, sporting a Hello Kitty camera all the way back in 2010, her blog was the first time she actually applied her photography skills.

Luckily, she upgraded to a handme-down Nikon before she started her blog.

Photography is a big part of her blog, but the most important part is surfing. “It was the first thing I chose to do myself. It was my own thing,” Schroeder explains. There aren’t a lot of surfers in Northern Michigan so she felt she had something no one else had. Surfing, while giving her an escape, also strengthened her connection to the water and her fellow surfers.

“There’s a general notion to look out for one another because surfing is very dangerous, especially in the ocean, and I think that builds a sort of trust in a community built around the sport, so I think that is really special too,” Schroeder said.

Since she moved back to Michigan, Schroeder hasn’t uploaded as much on her blog because, “there isn’t as large of a community, and the weather and wave patterns are super iffy so it’s hard to produce as much content.” Saying that the blog is more of a hobby, and she never forces herself to post, but you can always catch Schroeder with a camera if she’s going out.

Michigan to Malibu itself does not have a huge following, but Schroeder connected it to “another hub of surf blog sites,” and after she did that she began to receive actual feedback. Since she talks about Great Lake surfing as well as ocean surfing, her blog opened up a dialogue between different surf pods from all around the world.

Sourcing her content also opened up the opportunity for her to be a surf coach in Brisbane, Australia for a year, which Schroeder thinks, “its inane and I never thought that would happen from me posting.”

Ultimately, what Schroeder likes best about her blog is that it’s not “a source of surf media, it’s just [her].”

photos courtesy of: A. Rabb

Making Mr. Las Vegas

by: OLIVIA HALE staff writer

In each individual, there exists a desire to be iconic.

For Andrew Rabb ‘20, being iconic came naturally to him. Rabb grew up avoiding the status quo and doing as he pleased, not caring what others thought of him. His background in musical theatre helped him to achieve a sort of stage presence in his everyday life. Rabb began acting as a child as something to keep him busy. “I started theatre as a kid simply because it was something that I got to do behind my parent’s back. Not that they didn’t approve, I just never represented an interest,” Rabb said. Notable roles of Rabb’s include “Monsieur Thenardier” in Les Miserables and “Francis Flute” in A Midsummer’s Night Dream. Though his theatre pastime started as just that, a pastime, he stuck with it through high school, participating in shows both at CHS and at the Old Town Playhouse. “The people kept me in theatre, I have never met more genuinely kind, slightly insane, joyous people before in my life,” Rabb said.

When he’s offstage, Rabb occasionally creates videos for his youtube channel, titled “Mr. Las Vegas.”

Mr. Las Vegas is Rabb’s alter-ego that was drawn up after a family trip to Las Vegas in 2018.

“Mr. Las Vegas started on male vocal arts day after I came back from Las Vegas over Christmas break. The joke became overselling the fact that I had gone to Las Vegas. The character stuck and one day when I got bored a thought came into my mind that some friends from Virginia had brought up, making a YouTube channel.

I made one kind of trashy video that people seemed to enjoy, then I made a few more. I have really enjoyed this alter ego and hope to go along with it as long as it stays alive,” Rabb said.

Since the trip, and Rabb’s first video, he has created merchandise, worn by dozens of people throughout Central’s halls. His first piece was the most iconic, a beige t-shirt with his photo on it. To be more specific, a photo of him in his living room, with a lawnmower. “The merch started because I had come across custom clothing websites and I realized I could put my face on anything

which I found entertaining. Over the course of spring break, I sent numerous people pictures of numerous articles of clothing with my face on it. Eventually, Heidi Walters said she might actually wear a shirt with the lawnmower picture if I made the shirt a different color. I have sold about fifty shirts and about twenty stickers,” Rabb said.

Rabb’s iconic sense of self has made him a character to be remembered, as he doesn’t let what people think define him, and stays true to himself through and through. “My number one piece of advice I would give is don’t take life too seriously, stress is a big thing in high school and college so just remember to take it easy. My philosophy on not caring what people think is not even that. I just think if I saw someone dressing like an idiot, I would laugh because it is funny, not because he is stupid. I keep that in mind. Even if people are laughing at me rather than with me they are still laughing, so who is the real winner?” Rabb shared.

Our Calcusaver by: MALLORY SWOPE staff writer

photos courtesy of: E. Saunders

Our teenage years are full of firsts; first relationships, first high school football games, first time driving, first jobs, first time creating and developing an app worthy of being featured on the Apple App Store, the list goes on. Wait. What teenager has the ability to create an app let alone find the time to do it? Central’s very own Elizabeth Saunders ‘20 is that teenager. While her classmates spent their nights doing homework then cashing in for sleep, Saunders chose to forgo the sleep and worked on arguably the biggest homework assignment of her high school career.

During Saunders’ eighth grade year, attending Elk Rapids schools, she decided to follow in her older sister’s footsteps and transfer to Central for the SCIMA-TECH (SMT) program. But there was one small problem. “By the time I went to apply, I learned that I was two weeks late to turn in an application,” Saunders explained. This wasn’t stopping her though.

With the help of CHS SCI-MA-TECH math instructor John Failor, Saunders was able to get an interview.

Her acceptance into the program opened up many opportunities, especially during her sophomore year.

“For the second semester of sophomore year, the SMT student has the ability to spend the entire semester researching or developing a personal interest,” Saunders described. For her, expansion of the AP Computer Science Principles (APCSP) curriculum held personal interest. This, in combination with the “remarkable statistics of sexual violence in America,” are what led Saunders to develop an app with the potential to save countless lives. After teaming up with Elijah Cobb, a 2017 Central SMT graduate, and mentor Jim Baran, Saunders spent much of her time learning coding languages that would allow her to create an app. Saunders’ desire to create an app stemmed from the APCSP curriculum, something that felt natural to her. The process, however, did not all come naturally. Saunders endured tear-filled, sleepless nights and infinite frustration for several months until she finally had her first finished product.

“My app is called CalcuSaver, an IOS app available on the Apple App Store. Essentially the app works on 8 // BGQ // May 2020

the idea that the user interface is a simple calculator with functions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

However, when the user clicks the star key just above the nine, the user will enter their name, emergency contact’s phone number, and their calculator code,” Saunders said. After these three pieces of data are stored, the app can be used as a normal calculator.

If and when the user is in a possibly dangerous situation, they can go into the app, type in their selected code, and an automated text message is sent to their emergency contact letting them know help is needed. Saunders, thrilled about her progress, submitted her app for review by Apple in hopes of making it readily available for thousands of people nationwide. Apple denied her first draft due to copyright infringements and visual resemblance to the default IOS calculator. Yet again, Saunders pushed through. Altering the appearance of her app so as to distinguish it from the default version, Saunders submitted for review yet again. This time, it was accepted. Saunders’ name was finally publicly tied to CalcuSaver. Well, technically Chelsea Saunders’ name for age requirements, but she felt a sense of accomplishment nonetheless.

Two years later, Saunders reports approximately 15 thousand uses of her app by people across the country. “Even if only one person uses my app to get out of a dangerous situation, I would feel accomplished knowing that someone somewhere avoided a tragedy through all of my sleepless nights.

Regardless, I do know that my app is being used,” she explained. Saunders was invited to a state-level ceremony where she won the Congressional App Challenge for Michigan’s first district. Along with this, Saunders was featured on radio and news stations locally and throughout the state. Through this publicity and promoting her app, she was fortunate enough to meet an audience member who donated five thousand dollars to build up an app development company. With this contribution, Saunders is able to run her company and continue developing apps that could solve global issues one day.

by: SOPHIA BOYCE editor-in-chief

Half Trojan Half Hawk

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Most of us wake up at 7:00, maybe earlier, and head to school for eight hours of learning.

While Delaney Bonifacio also wakes around 7:00, she heads straight for the ice rink for two hours of hockey practice followed by an hour of off ice workouts.

For the past five years, Bonifacio has spent half of her academic year in Ashland Massachusetts at the North American Hockey Academy. Hockey runs in the Bonifacio blood, as both of her older brothers played hockey and were a part of Central’s varsity team.

Bonifacio herself started playing hockey at the age of 4, and followed in fellow hockey player Delaney Drake’s footsteps in attending NAHA once she felt it was time to switch to girls hockey.

Bonifacio’s favorite part was having teammates from all over the country. She explained that, “it’s so cool going to a school where everyone shares the same passion as you do, but having them come from all over, with different paths and experiences makes it all the better.” She also did not mind playing hockey all day instead of doing school work. “Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy school, but I’d rather be playing hockey more than going to school and NAHA gave me that, but with a good education to get me where I needed to be in the amount of time we had,” Bonifacio said.

Not only was she attending school while playing

hockey, she also was traveling every weekend.

“I feel like I’ve seen more of the world playing hockey than I have without it,” Bonifacio said.

During her five years at NAHA she traveled to Minnesota, Chicago, Boston, Vancouver, New York, “places people dream to go, and I got to do it all while playing hockey,” she explained.

While half her year was spent jet setting for hockey games, the other half was spent back home in TC going to school for eight hours straight with the rest of us. Sometimes she would come back and would be super behind, but other classes she would be super ahead. Some classes she would have to spend hours trying to catch up, and others she would sit bored in class having already learned everything. But for her the hardest part was sitting still for eight hours, “at NAHA, I’m so used to being active all day, and having a little school, but coming back and having to sit in a classroom all day, I was so ancy and anxious. I just wanted to be playing hockey!”

Going to boarding school sounds like all fun and games, but Bonifacio had to give up a lot.

She didn’t get to do all the normal high school teen stuff the rest of us did. She didn’t get to go out on Fridays with her friends. She didn’t get to go to school sporting events, she missed out on school dances, and most of all homemade meals.“It was always travel, homework, hockey.

There’s no break, it’s hockey, hockey hockey, for five months straight and it’s super taxing, but it’s also the most rewarding thing ever,” Bonifacio said.

Looking back on it all gives her “chills and makes [her] so happy that her parents gave her the opportunity to do all that.” But attending NAHA also made her appreciate her family’s company so much more saying, “a lot of kids are just waiting to move out on their own,” but she already knows what that’s like. Going away also made her appreciate her hometown more as well. “Boston doesn’t have lakes or the things Traverse City does, so it makes coming home that much more exciting!”

Anna Ritzer ‘20 Bella Kearney ‘21

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the Gallery

Rosie Stallman ‘23

a student showcase Lexi Slowik ‘20

Jazryel Freeland ‘22

MeiLin Ferguson ‘22

What is your occupation & what do you love most about it?

I am an Emergency Physician, and I enjoy being able to help people during some of their worst times in their lives.

How has the coronavirus impacted your job?

Fortunately, here in Northern Michigan, so far, we have not been impacted as much as the Emergency Departments in the Detroit area. With that being said the pandemic has added a layer of stress for everyone in the Emergency Department. I have had to place several patients on ventilators which I feel for the patient and families of these patients since they can not be with their family prior to being put on the vent. It has been an adjustment to wear a mask for most of the workday and the extra PPE precautions make seeing patients more difficult. Overall, it has become easier over the past two months.

Tim Huschke

Kai Rogers

Where do you work?

I Work at the glorious Bardon's Wonder Freeze.

How has Corona affected your job?

Corona has actually affected my job more positively than negatively. The community has really rallied around local businesses, which is great to see! There are so many people coming out, and still following CDC guidelines and making sure local businesses stay afloat. I think that’s the best part of this whole pandemic. It is kind of crappy having to work around all these new regulations put in place, but it's worth it for everyone's safety.

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traverse city

by: ADDISON SWANSON staff writer In our spin-off of Human of New York, the Black & Gold Quarterly went out into the Central High School community in search of uniquity. Our mission was to find inspiring stories and share them to encourage selfexpression. Through a variety of randomly selected people, we were about to find one commonality: passion.

Stories like theirs are what makes us believe in the power that comes from expression through journalism.

People are art. We feel combining their words with a visual story, a unique and inspiring message is created.

Members of our community have conveyed their identities and inspired us through their words and sense of passion. To us, this is the truest kind of journalism--finding moving stories and sharing them.

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What has working been like during the quaratine?

Work has been very different from before everything. Since I work at a small grocery store there are still no shortages of customers but because of our policies we can't let anyone inside the store especially because it is so small. Everyone is required to wear a mask (most are homemade).

All orders are taken over the phone and are filled as soon as possible. After the customer arrives we take their order out to their car. Before what you could expect was minimal orders over the phone and people would come in and go after doing their shopping. Most of our job was clean up on a slow day but now there are no slow days.

Aliathana Walter

Is there anything you’re looking forwards to once this blows over?

I am looking forward to, honestly, the rest of my life. As a graduating senior, and soon going into college, I feel like I have so much I can do and so much to accomplish. I want to travel the world with my friends and learn about many different cultures.

Background & Profession: I graduated from Western Michigan University in December with my BSN degree. I’m originally from Northern Michigan and I live in Alden with my fiancé and dog. I am an Emergency Department Nurse. And a new one at that! I am in a program called “Critical Care Nurse Residency” where it allows new graduate nurses to enter the critical care field of nursing right away. We had classes and skills labs scheduled but had to move most of them online to Zoom which presents its challenge for the skills lab portion. But at this stage in the program- we have been placed in the units that we have bid for/been chosen by, and mine is the ER. It is a big adjustment to go from new grad to ER nurse in general, but adding the Covid-19 crisis has definitely added a spin. It was especially difficult in the beginning to keep track of the type of PPE (personal protective equipment) I needed to wear to keep myself safe. It changes based on each patients condition, symptoms and diagnosis. It has been a great learning opportunity though, I am seeing very sick patients with other conditions besides covid-19, because diabetes, heart attacks, strokes, broken limbs, and other illnesses/injuries haven’t stopped since this crisis began. It has been a very challenging time for our patients and their families because of the visitor restrictions so it is crucial to find ways to be creative for communicating with patient families and providing updates on their condition.

Taylor Birgy

Is there anything you’re looking forwards to once this blows over?

I am most looking forward to being able to sit down for a meal with my family and close friends. I feel like it’s hard not to think you’ve taken those things for granted during a time when that connection isn’t allowed. I know it’s what’s best- but I sure am excited to see my people!

Healthcare Heroes Medical professionals give insight on being on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. by: MALLORY SWOPE staff writer

The COVID-19 pandemic has become the monster under the bed everyone feared as a child. It has redefined what “normal” looks like now and what it could look like in the future. From elementary-aged children to the elderly, the pandemic has altered the way we go about our lives. We’ve had to distance ourselves from family and friends for months now as we wait for things to return to normal. We’ve also had to endure new experiences no one ever thought we would face. For kids and teenagers, it’s school.

Our school days have moved from classrooms filled with friends and peers to our homes where we see everybody as icons or images on the computer.

For others, it’s work. Whether or not someone can proceed with their typical routine depends on if their job is deemed “essential.” For these people, the pandemic has gotten up close and personal with their lives.

Karl Koehler is an employee in an “essential” position. He has been a nurse for 25 years, 18 of which have been with Munson. Before the pandemic struck Traverse City, Koehler spent his shifts treating a wide range of patients’ needs. “We typically work closely with the cardiac catheterization lab and utilize state-of-the-art technology to manage myocardial infarction and heart disease,” Koehler explained of his day-to-day routine. Koehler has seen his fair share of change within the medical field during his 25 years of experience, from the change to digital records to treatment for hypothermia, but no change has 14 // BGQ // May 2020

single handedly impacted his practice more than the COVID-19 pandemic. Tim Huschke, Emergency Physician in Cadillac and Grayling hospitals, has endured similar experiences in the last few weeks. He has also found that the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike anything any medical professional has seen before, and he especially saw an immediate need for more testing. “I don’t think we had adequate testing initially and had a poor federal response, which allowed the virus to spread unchecked,” Huschke explained. Both medical professionals have seen just how ruthless the COVID-19 virus is to the patients infected, and to their families who can’t be with their struggling loved one.

“Make no mistake; COVID can be lethal,” Koehler warned.

Koehler’s initial reactions to the pandemic shifted over the course of a few weeks as the pandemic surged and encroached on Traverse City. “I thought it would be more easily controlled,” he stated. His response to the pandemic also had to change as his role at Munson did. When COVID-19 came to Traverse City, Koehler was taken from his unit and put on the frontlines of the pandemic as a critical care nurse for those infected. “This pandemic has changed all of our work and personal lives [at the hospital],” Koehler said. He has had to put his own safety and health at risk in order to care for COVID-19 patients which has led to many changes at home. “I social distance from neighbors and vulnerable family members, I wear a mask in public. At work we are required to always

wear a mask,” Koehler explained. Huschke also reported changes he’s brought about in his personal life to accommodate his work life. “I stayed in a hotel away from my family for the first two weeks of the pandemic, but now I go home after work and do my best to social distance,” he said.

Koehler has seen some good come out of the pandemic, however. Seeing everything that is happening first hand, Koehler sincerely believes the situation is being handled properly and has helped an uncontrolled spread of the virus, especially after seeing how different it was from what he expected.

He also believes gradually loosening restrictions of social distancing will help the population build up an immunity until a vaccine can be developed and made readily available. While Koehler is still leery of the virus, he has seen medical staff improve how they treat patients and feels encouraged about how much better it will be given some time.

Despite his encouragement, Koehler hasn’t always been optimistic about being on the forefront of a pivotal time in society. “I think it is interesting and simultaneously terrifying to experience the pandemic first hand,” he said. Fearing what might happen if the virus spread to him while treating a patient, he has “felt some anxiety at times not knowing how [his] body would react to infection,” whether he would present with symptoms or be an asymptomatic carrier.

Huschke has shared this concern, finding it “gratifying to be able to be able to help people who have been

affected by this virus, but stressful to think you could contract a virus that is potentially lethal.”

Recently, a change has been noticed by both Koehler and Huschke in the pace of their shifts.

Koehler has not treated as many COVID patients, and his home unit on the variable acuity floor has reopened. The reopening of this floor was allowed largely due to the fact that the expected influx of COVID patients in the greater Traverse City area did not occur, remaining in the early twenties for almost a month. As a result Koehler, Huschke, and their coworkers throughout the region are beginning to return to a sense of normal, albeit different, as we wait to see what society’s new normal looks like in the weeks ahead. //

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“Now they always say, Ace Program

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David Ronthi

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Ashley Hollands

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Margaret Carmondy

Alma College

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Lilly Prall

Benjamin Post Anna Ritzer

California Polytechnic State University Brynna Wesley

Nicholas Schleicher

“Worked so hard, forgot how to vacation”

Henry Goldkuhle Kailey Gustafson

Eastern Michigan University Charles Douglass

Central Michigan University

Olivia Ferguson

Alex Parks

Macy Anderson

Elon University

Henry Parvel

Concordia University Heidi Walters

Cosmetology School Sara Gray Hailey Wuolukka

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Drew Swanson

Harvard University

Calvin College Riley Farmer

Leah Socks

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Hillsdale College

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Hope College

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Emerson College Sophia Boyce

Ferris State University Shelby Snell

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Lawrence Technological University Kurt Baehr

Michigan Technological University

Northwestern Michigan College

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Zachary Gerber

Michigan State University

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University of Michigan

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Ohio State University

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Syracuse University

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United States Air Force Alexia Vollman

United States Army Jesse Martin

United States Army

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Univeral Technical Institute

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A Quaran-Teen A senior’s take on missing out on the last semester of high school and the milestones that coincide. by: SOPHIA BOYCE editor-in-chief

I have wanted to be done with high school since my brother graduated three years ago. After attending a five week camp at Northwestern University last summer that feeling only got stronger. It was weird going back to high school after being in classes with people with whom I share a passion and taking normal classes instead of “How to Stalk People 101” (Journalism. . . am I right?). Our instructors told us we were going to “wish away our senior year” because we had already tasted college life, and you know what, they were totally right. But now, because of Covid-19, I have spent a big portion of my life in bed for the 70th consecutive day. Thus my senior year has effectively come to a close, and I wish that I had savored it.

To me, high school has felt like a never ending cycle.

As each new year started, I felt like I was just picking up where the last year ended; It never felt like a new start to me. The routine was exactly the same– I was going through the same motions. The only thing that changed were my classes. I still woke up at 7:00 am and laid in bed for 15 minutes, got to school between 7:42 and 7:45, and waited in my car for Macey to show up so we could walk into school together.

But now, we are all in a weird limbo. For seniors, if you were in AP classes, you were still doing work, but whenever you felt like it, or maybe not at all. I was still 22 // BGQ // May 2020

putting together this entire issue of the BGQ, but I felt like I had done nothing for ten weeks. I genuinely felt numb inside. I am nothing without a routine. I have no idea how I managed to go to school and do work for 13 years. I couldn’t do an hour of school work at home without losing my mind. The news is horrible. I only read headlines (a blasphemous sentence coming from a journalist), but I physically could not bring myself to read about all these horrible things happening right now. I didn’t want to read that the death toll in America surpassed 80,000 people, or about President Trump saying “You should just drink bleach!” All I did was lay in bed, watch Hulu, play board games with my family, threaten to cut my brother’s hair while he sleeps, or watch Tik Toks about how the class of 2020 doesn’t get to graduate.

I remember back in October maybe, when Jeff Heethuis from Jostens was telling us about all the things we would do for the last time as seniors; the last football game, the last basketball game, the last dance, the last anything all the way until we would walk across that stage at graduation. I vividly recall his booming voice telling us about how emotional we would be, and how we would all cry. It didn’t really click for me back in October, those didn’t seem like big things to me, but big moments never seem big when you’re living them.

“Big moments never seem big when you’re living them.”

Now that our senior year so unceremoniously ended on a random Friday in March, and I have all the time in the world to contemplate all the things I, and all my friends, don’t get to do, I am very emotional, and cry often. Honestly, It’s a really weird feeling. People are dying in the thousands, my parents argue about money because my dad’s pay has been cut by 90%, andI’m upset about not having a graduation and not getting to go on my senior trip. I know that I’m very privileged, and it is selfish to be upset about not having a graduation while people are dying, but saying that, I know I’m allowed to be upset.

The class of 2020 got short changed. Yeah, maybe prom wasn’t going to be amazing, and graduation would probably have been cold, but those were memories we were supposed to make with our friends, with the people we’ve grown up with for the past 13 years regardless of the quality of the memories.

Now, instead of having pictures with our best friends from senior prom and graduation, we’re going to have the memory of a school walk through instead of graduation and signs in our yards. Both kind gestures, but certainly not a suitable substitute for a high school graduation ceremony. My family threw me a fake graduation on zoom with all my family and my friends from Northwestern, but realistically, nothing can take the place or make up for stolen opportunities.

Perhaps, the thing that sucks the most is the reality that there is nothing anyone can do about it.

The class of 2020 became victims of circumstance.

We got to watch our friends and older siblings graduate all the while wishing it was us, but knowing we’d have our time. Instead, due to circumstances out of our hands, that time with our friends and loved ones has become a lesson in isolation and social distance; an omen of the “new normal.”

School’s out, seniors have, for intents and purposes, graduated, mentally if not physically, and summer has arrived. The inevitability of summer brings with it the time honored practice of leaving high school behind, just like every graduating class before us has done. However, it’s infinitely more difficult to move on when you’re stuck in your house and you have no idea if what you were moving on to will even be there for you in the fall and nothing in your life has prepared you for this moment.//

Class of 2020’s Ultimate Nostalgia Playlist A compilation of the top songs that we listened to growing up, now that we’re all grown up.

“Party Rock Anthem” - LMFAO “Set Fire To The Rain” - Adele “Pumped Up Kicks” - Foster the People “Tonight Tonight” - Hot Chelle Raw “Can’t Hold Us” - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Everybody Talks” - Neon Trees “Beauty and a Beat” - Justin Bieber & Nicki Minaj “Call Me Maybe” - Carly Rae Jepsen “Thrift Shop” - Macklemore & Ryan Lewis “Roar” - Katy Perry “Royals” - Lorde “Stay” - Rihanna

“Cooler Than Me” - Mike Posner

“We Can’t Stop” - Miley Cyrus “Best Song Ever” - One Direction “Just Give Me A Reason” - P!nk “Best Day of My Life” - American Authors “Girl On Fire” - Alicia Keys “Counting Stars” - One Republic

Sophia Haas

“22” - Taylor Swift

“Sail” - AWOLNATION “Shake It Off” -Taylor Swift “All About That Bass” - Meghan Trainor “Happy” - Pharrell Williams “Fancy” - Iggy Azalea “All Of Me” - John Legend

“She Looks So Perfect” - 5 Seconds of Summer “Take Me To Church” - Hozier “A Sky Full of Stars” - Coldplay “Chandelier” - Sia “Hey Ya” - Outkast

“I Gotta Feeling” - Black Eyed Peas

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Emily Hamel

“The Climb” - Miley Cyrus

Tristan Ringsmuth

“DJ Got Us Fallin In Love” - Usher

Paige Kendra

“Whatcha Say” - Jason Derulo “One Less Lonely Girl” - Justin Bieber “Fireflies” - Owl City “The Lazy Song” - Bruno Mars “Dynamite” - Taio Cruz “Moves Like Jagger” - Maroon 5

Adrienne Carroll

“What Makes You Beautiful” - One Direction

Senior Contributors Brynna Wesley

by: OLIVIA HALE staff writer

“My sophomore year me and all my friends went to an old place that we used to hangout at and we tried to fit five people in a hammock and it broke and I fell and cracked

“Had concerts in the girls locker rooms and painted nails in class.”

my head open. ”

-Chloe Burlson

-Khatoria

“Call Mr. Hall by his first name (Collin) the entire year, spreading the fad amongst the school.”

“Gone to class in costume.”

-Brynna Wesley

-Greyson Tringstad-Carl

“Thought I could pass BC Calc with an A.” -Trey Searles

“Created a huge fake cloud for my friend to sit on for a photo assignment.”

-Chloe Dutton

Tell us the most ridiculous thing you’ve done in high school.

“I forgot shorts for basketball practice so I ran from the locker room to the basketball storage room without pants, trying to cover my butt with my jersey so I could find shorts to borrow. Good times. Might be against some rules though... sorry.”

-Siiri Asiala

“Our spring rowing season got canceled, but the fall rowing season was really fun, my partner, Elizabeth Saunders and I were really trying to push ourselves since it was our senior year. We had always hoped to be a part of the Head of the Charles Regatta for the first time in our club’s history. It’s tough because teams who have never rowed in it before have to win a lottery. We didn’t make it at first, but at our race Head of the Cuyahoga we did really well and one of the other very good teams told us we should appeal the decision. Afterwards we appealed and we got in! It was such a cool experience! I was very proud of us, it took a lot of work over the summer to make it!”

Kaija Hornburg

Anessa Lardie

“I took one semester of Honors Physics and I made it out alive.”

Kendall Hayes

“Getting into University of Michigan.

I am so excited to attend U-M's Art & Design program and work towards a career in industrial design!”

“My biggest accomplishment is learning everything I know and making new friends during my time in high school.”

Owen Shaw

David Rothini

“Getting into Northwestern’s Medill Cherubs Journalism program my junior year.”

“My biggest accomplishment was persisting. Through FAFSA, college apps, AP classes, COVID-19... through everything I persisted. I couldn’t have done it without my teachers, family, and peers but I am still very proud of getting to the point of graduation.”

Sophia Boyce “My biggest accomplishment of high school is the traveling that I did. Seeing the world is something I have always wanted to do, and until sophomore year, I had never been out of the country. I have been so fortunate with opportunities to travel, and through that, grow, learn, and better understand the world.”

“Staring out at 0% then getting to 60% in less then two weeks.”

Sophia Haas “19-3 record this year, and back to back confrence championships in basketball.”

Henry Goldkuhle

Mason Waskiewicz

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“I’m not sure but it was probably something Mrs. Shelley-Barnes said after telling someone to close the door.”

-Marlow Wilcox

“‘The entire universe is inside a loaf of bread’ -Forton” -Jordan Newton

“Anything Ludka ever says.”

-Elizabeth Saunders

“‘Did you get attacked by a bear on the way here?’

-Mr. Baran referring to my ripped jeans.”

-Brynn Rowell

What is the funniest thing a teacher has said to you?

“Not this year corn dog.”

-Nathan Merchant

“Too many to count... probably something about Forton and his cat obsession.”

-Lucy Stiebel

“Shelley-Barnes: an essay should be like a mini skirt. long enough to cover what needs to be covered, short enough to entice.”

-Sylvie Shane

“Any quote from KSB, but most notably ‘I don’t want to be on this planet anymore. I wish I could climb my ladder into Heaven and never come back and deal with all of you’” -Emily Hamel

How would you describe the smell of Central?

“Fish sticks and old books.”

-Lauren Fleming

“A pine forest and cool fresh air.”

-Galo Lopez-Wild

“Stale motivation.”

-Sara Gray

“Turbo cleaner with cherry icecream, and windex.”

-Samantha Maldonado

“Crayons and Bath and Body works perfume.”

-Olivia Ferguson

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“Do as much as you can and as much as you feel comfortable with! If you like to go to sports games, go all out for the themes and cheer as loud as you can. I promise you that pretending like it’s lame and that you don’t care doesn’t look cool. You’ll see it when you’re a senior and you watch the underclassmen not try, I promise. Even if you don’t like sports, give a game a try! That goes for everything. Go see the musical, join a club you might want to but haven’t done yet and get your friends to go with you. Make good friends you will have fun with and will make memories that you will think of the rest of your life. Reach out to new people. Continue to work hard but also make sure you cut yourself some slack. You have worked incredibly hard for the last three years to get where you are so let yourself enjoy your last year. You’ve worked hard (and continue to do so) but that means now you can play hard. It’s all a balance. Don’t let petty drama get you down. It is way easier said than done but you don’t want to look back realizing things prevented you from having a memorable and positive last year. Basically, create a year you will look back fondly on. You only get one senior year so make it worth all your previous time and effort.”

“The advice I would give is to not sweat the little stuff as much senior year. It is the time you should try to enjoy high school instead of being stressed out by it. Go to games, spend time with friends, savor your last year here. Ours was cut short, but I’m glad that I was able to get the most out of senior year before it was canceled.”

Siiri Asiala

Zac Clement

“Please appreciate your friends. Appreciate and cherish the memories you make. Who cares what others think of you, just be yourself. Don't rush things. I could write a whole book on why you shouldn't care what others think of you. I spent so much time on it that I missed out on a lot of good memories. Also, be kind to others. Be everyones friend and spread love. Theres so much more I wish I could tell you but you'll learn in time.”

“Be nice to everyone and make as many friends as possible! Freshman year is your year to be social because it gets harder to once you move into harder classes.”

Tristan Ringsmuth “Respect Authority.”

Alexis Frank

Serenity Scribner

“Procrastination today is a headache tomorrow.”

“Don't burn yourself out by taking super hard classes!”

Alex Olin

Lia Cook

I was really looking forward to my senior year of tennis and super bummed that it got canceled. The program as a whole is incredible. The coaches make sure we all feel welcome on the team and that the season lives up to all of our expectations. My teammates are an amazing group of girls to have friendships and play tennis with. I joined tennis my sophomore year and I wish I had started earlier. A lot of us play during the offseason, which has allowed us to grow both as friends and players together. I have built a lot of close relationships that will last longer than high school with girls on the team. I wouldn’t want to change my past seasons in the program for anything.

This season would have been a blast and I am super sad to say goodbye to high school tennis this early. And a special thank you to coach Dilloway for being a spectacular coach and for everything he does for the program.

Photo Courtesy of: H. Hilner

The Lost

Hadley Hilner The Lost

Track means so much to me. It’s so devastating that I won’t be able to complete my last track season, especially after working so hard throughout the years. I had big goals for this coming season and it’s heartbreaking to know I won’t get to accomplish what I dreamed of doing my senior year. Most of all it’s so hard to not be able to spend every day after school with my teammates and coach. They bring so much joy, laughter, and can brighten my day. They all mean so much to me. This senior year was wiped out right underneath my feet and I never saw it coming. I will never take for granted spending those long hard practices with my teammates, and those very fun bus rides. I will always appreciate the memories we made. I will keep running. I still have goals for myself with running that I can work on now during this time, and I’m keeping in touch with my coach and teammates to keep the positivity going.

Photo Courtesy of: L. Socks

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Leah Socks

My love for running is untouchable. It shows through the commitment and determination I have for the sport. Most importantly though I won’t be able to spend my last year with the astonishing girls on the track team and my coach’s. Being surrounded by a team like mine, significantly helped me reach my goals throughout past seasons. I love them so much and it’s heartbreaking to know I won’t be able to spend my last year with them. They all mean so much to me and brought a smile to my face every single day. I never thought my senior season and everything I worked so hard for would be taken away. I value being able to get outside every day to do what I love.

Not every day is promised so I take on each day with strength and positivity. Putting forth all my effort into the things I desire. I’m keeping in touch with my team and I’m looking forward to continuing to train over the break and I hope my hard work will be reflected in my fall season at Davenport University.

Olivia Richards Season

Photo Courtesy of: O. Richards

The Lost

The hardest thing for a lot of people, myself included, is letting go of or significantly adjusting something that you feel has been a large part of your life for so long, something you have poured your heart and time into. What’s been an important distinction for me in trying to make sense of losing my senior softball season is recognizing that softball is a large part of the things I do, but it isn’t who I am. The beauty of sports is that they teach us - have taught me - to work hard for what we are passionate about, to be selfless, to lead by example, and to believe in something bigger than ourselves. Sports have given me teammates and friends who have inspired me, mentors, that have challenged me, an outlet, and most importantly, a sense of pride and confidence in who I am- and I don’t mean as a player but as a person.

As Maya Angelou said: “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” So, seniors, while we lost this final season, a final opportunity to do something special in high school, we didn’t lose the way our passions, or the people we met along the way, impacted us, and the way we made an impact on them. Let’s remember that the relationships we created, the person we were to others, and the way sports, or whatever our passions were, made us feel, the things they taught us, and how they shaped us- those things are indispensable- and they are also transferrable to whatever it is we choose to do next with our lives.n this final season, we may have lost some things we wish we could’ve done, but we didn’t lose ourselves.

Olivia Fiebing

Photo Courtesy of: TC Rick

Athletes, what are your thoughts on not being able to have a final season?

“I was so fortunate to finish out my hockey season as I won’t get another one of those. When it comes to rowing, of course I am bummed about not being able to have my last season with the high school team, however, I have been staying very positive because I have many more rowing seasons to look forward to at Michigan State University.”

-Carolyn Garner

“Kind of bummed but like, people are dying so tennis season isn’t exactly what’s on my mind.”

-Molly Nefcy

“Pretty sad because I’m going to miss all my teammates and my coaches but I’m happy I got to experience one last practice before we left.”

-Julian Dittmer

“I was really upset but I’m trying not to think about it anymore. It is especially sad since I am not playing in college so I kinda played my last game ever and went to my last practice ever without knowing.”

-Anna Jackson

“I was super upset and I still am, but we might be able to still have a season in the summer so I’m still hopeful. ” -Ashley Hollands

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BGQ BLACK & GOLD QUARTERLY

Shelter-in-Place

BINGO

by: OLIVIA HALE staff writer

SKIPPED A ZOOM CALL

BINGED A NEW SHOW

WATCHED THE NEWS

CLEANED YOUR BEDROOM

WENT ON A HIKE/ WALK

TOOK A NAP

WATCHED TIGER KING

FACETIMED A FRIEND

DID A PUZZLE

MEDITATED

WORKED OUT

HUNG OUT WITH YOUR FAMILY

BGQ

TRIED YOGA

CUT OR DYED YOUR HAIR

ONLINE SHOPPED

WATCHED 3 OR MORE MOVIES IN ONE DAY

LEARNED A NEW SKILL

MESSED UP YOUR SLEEP SCHEDULE

STUDIED FOR AN AP EXAM

BLACK & GOLD QUARTERLY

MADE A TIKTOK VIDEO

BAKED BANANA BREAD MISSED GOING OUT

PLAYED BOARD GAMES

MADE A HOMEMADE MASK

The Recipe

by: JOIE BALDYGA & MARIA LINCK Content Editors

Nobody thought the world would come to this. People across the globe are stuck inside, left with only their possessions to keep them occupied, desperately searching for something, anything, to do. For many people, that something is baking. As a result, the once-full baking supply shelves are now barren; only the scraps are left over. Customers are limited to one bag of flour, just enough to make a new recipe, and yeast has become as hard to find as a bluemoon. What to bake has become an important question in our daily lives. The right recipe can make all the difference, and as luck would have it the internet is a good place to start the search. Pinterest is full of “easy baking recipes” or “healthy home dinners.” As you fire up your computer to begin your quest for that just right recipe, the BGQ is here to help! We’ve done some testing and found recipes for you to try that will keep you entertained and well-fed during quarantine.

Family Fun Cookbook Banana Bread Ingredients: 2 cups flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened 1 cup sugar 2 eggs, room temperature 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 3 medium-large very ripe bananas 1/2 cup sour cream 1 cup chocolate chips (optional)

All Photos: J. Baldyga

Instructions: 1. Heat the oven to 325 degrees fahrenheit. Line a 5 by 9- inch loaf pan, preferable one with a light interior, with enough waxed paper to drape over the ends and sides. This will make the baked bread a cinch to remove and the pan easy to clean.

2. Sift the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt into a medium bowl. In a large bowl, cream the butter using an electric mixer. Gradually add the sugar, scraping down the sides of the bowl as necessary. Add the eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the vanilla extract and blend briefly.

3. Peel and bananas and place them in a separate bowl. Mash them with a fork or a potato masher. Add the sour cream and stir to blend.

4. Using a wooden spoon, blend a third of the dry mixture into the butter-sugar mixture. Stirring just enough to blend (overmixing will make the bread turn out chewy), add the rest of the ingredients in the following order: half of the banana mixture, half of the remaining dry mixture, the rest of the banana mixture, the rest of the dry mixture. Stir the chocolate chips (optional).

5. Scrape the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top with a spoon. Bake on the center oven rack until a tester inserted deep into the center of the bread comes out clean, about 70 to 75 minutes.

6. Transfer the bread to a wire cooling rack and cool it in the pan for about 20 minutes. Using the waxed paper, life the bread from the pan and place it on the rack. Pull down the sides of the paper and allow the bread to cool thoroughly before slicing.

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Howsweets.com’s Garlic Butter Naan Ingredients: 2 cups all-purpose flour 3/4 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 cup warm milk (put in microwave for about 20 seconds) 1/2 cup plain yogurt 1 teaspoon honey Canola or vegetable oil 4 tablespoons salted butter 3 garlic cloves, minced Coarse salt for sprinkling on top

Instructions: 1. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt. In another bowl, whisk together the milk, yogurt, and honey. Add half of the milk mixture to the dry ingredients and stir until the dough starts to come together. Add the remaining milk gradually, stirring and bringing the dough together. Once the dough is mostly together, flour the counter and your hands and start to bring it together with your hands. The flour should be fully incorporated when you are done.

2. Oil the bottom of a medium bowl with about 1 tablespoon of oil. Place the dough in the bowl and cover with a towel, let sit in a warm place for 1 to 2 hours. Because there is no yeast in this recipe, it will not rise much, but still let it rest.

3. Once it rests, remove it from the bowl and knead it a few times on a floured surface, using extra flour if it is really sticky. Divide the dough into 8 equal balls. Roll out each ball into an oval shape with a floured rolling pin.

4. Heat the butter in a saucepan over medium heat until it melts. Stir in the minced garlic and turn off the heat, but keep the mixture warm.

5. Heat a cast iron skillet, griddle, or regular pan over medium-high heat. Once it’s hot, brush it with a bit of canola (or another high heat) oil. Place the dough on the skillet and let it cook until you begin to see bubbles forming at the top (check the bottom frequently to ensure it doesn’t burn). They cook quickly. Flip it and cook the other side as well. Repeat with the remaining dough.

6. Brush the naan with the garlic butter and sprinkle it with coarse salt.

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