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Jaclyn Aberbach: Cart lady cookies… Sarah Corrigan: Chiefettes, tailgaiting, Mr. Square dancing!...Lia DiGiovanna: EveryCarissa Allen: I will miss seeing my friends Massapequa…Joe Costa: Tailgates, thing, the Cart Lady, Intramural European everyday… Brendan Allwright: All the great friends…Ryan T. Coyle: My mommy…Ryan Team Handball…Victoria DiMartino: My teachers I’ve had…Anthony Alvarez: The Coyle: Friends, Teachers, Classes…Vincent friends…Amanda Dion: I will miss my ethnic diversity, the individuality, and the Crociata: Teachers, faculty, and friends… friends and my favorite teachers the most… drug-free environment. (Realistically, a Kristen Dacunto: Seeing my friends in the Christina Diovanni: The art wing….James handful of good people and the Social Stud- hallway, being close to home, having time Dougherty: Challin’ on out periods with ies department.)…Jon Amen: Nothing… Brian Anderson: Mr. Delman…Jessica A n d e rson: I will miss seeing everyone going away to school everyday…Casey In true Chief (and senior) fashion, we left this “farewell” letter to the last Bach: The diversity…Alysminute. We’ve put off studying, essays, this letter—but now there is no time left to sa Balzano: My friends procrastinate. You can’t exactly put off the last day of high school. And who would and some of my teachwant to? We’ve been waiting for the clock to hit 2:25 for the last time since we were, ers…Andrew Barbarello: what? Freshmen? Seeing my friends everyBut if you think about it, that doesn’t really feel that long ago. Four years day, MHS Unplugged and have gone by more like four months, everything on fast-forward because that’s the other music performancspeed we wanted it to be—everything accelerated so that we could get to the fines…Grady Battaglia: The ish line, the end; we’d be that much closer to the golden parent-free Mecca that is people…Leah Bayer: “college.” Teachers, going to Bistro Even though some of us have tried to block out the lovely and awkward for lunch everyday…Louis ninth-grade phase, we can still recall it with perfect clarity. We were alone, scared, Belmote: I will miss my and plunked down in the middle of 500 strangers (albeit a little isolated from the teachers and friends. Special menacing upperclassmen—yay Ames!). shoutout to Mr. Thieke, Mr. In just two or three months, we’re going to be there all over again. Multiplied Malone, and my friends... by ten. Jessica L. Bennett: The conThis time, though, will be different—we’ll have the wisdom that came from stant phone calls from atour years here at MHS. We’ll have already known that there are always going to be tendance every first period in some people that will go overboard with holiday costumes; the best place to be is on Mr. O’Reilly’s class…Jen the bleachers with half the school, fired up with school spirit and taunting the other Bentz: Dressing up and lookteam; and no one ever really uses imaginary numbers after Math B. ing completely ridiculous We’ll be able to tell the difference between fighting for a good cause and during Spirit Week…Charlie boycotting Bistro. We’ll have gotten used to walking miles to class from our prime Bergmann: The Diversity… parking spots on Arlyn Drive. We’ll have gotten used to splitting diner bills 20 ways, Daniel Betz: Having fun… and we’ll know that a nice tip prevents being kicked unceremoniously out of Friendly’s Jeff Biondo: I will miss all after every orchestra, band, and chorus concert. my friends that I screw up We’ll have learned all the patience we’ll ever need because of the daily traffic with and all the good times mobs that are composed of the ever-increasing throngs of sophomores. Massapequa we shared…Danielle Bowmen will always know how to dress for any occasion because of Mr. Massapequa’s ers: I will miss the people the scrutinizing judges. We’ll know that it’s not the end of the world if your class doesn’t most. MHS is really a place get bagels during a blackout. Most importantly, we’ll never forget to try to make our where I feel safe. The studay productive. dents and faculty have really Everything we learned here will resonate in our lives beyond high school, made the experience enjoywhether your foray into the real world starts now or in four years (or six years, or able…Joe Brandt: Nothmaybe even eight). ing…Andrea Bujacich: MassWe’re not talking about remembering the second fundamental theorem of apequa Chiefs Girls Varsity calculus, or the questionable madness of Hamlet, or the correct way to conjugate a Soccer 2008, number one in French verb. We are going to remember the people we encountered and the common the nation. Doesn’t get much experiences we all shared here at MHS in the past three years. Okay, so now we’re better or memorable than getting a teensy bit sentimental. But it’s true—we at The Chief know that when we that…James Burrows: Gym... all come back for our ten-year reunion, we’re not going to be reminiscing about Jordan Cafarella: Swim team, anything except those little details that made our time at MHS exciting and unique. my good friends, Mr. McCaw, In the end, life is a lot like high school—you come in timid and fearful and and SCALE Comp…Dan clogging up the hallways, and, if you play your cards right, you’ll go out on top of Caifa: High school in generthe world. al…Dana Canale: Seeing all The lessons are the same; we’re the ones that are going to be different. of my friends after school, the Chess Team, Astronomy Club, Love Always, and Mr. Zanco…Eddie Capurro: My friends…Michael Cariello: My friends, teachers, and the cart lady’s cookies…Mike Carillo: Nothing…Antonio Carratelli: Being surrounded by friends for eight hours a day…Dylan Castoria: Friends…Oliver Celaru: Too many to list…Marissa Cetin: to just hang out, MERGES! My wonderful friends, Mr. Hahn, 8th period gym, not being Newspaper (a.k.a. Nosepapa/ Allahpapa), Mamma C/Coylemonster, liv- music teachers and my best friend Laura… able to walk in any door except the front ing in room 131, Mr. Schmitt’s first period Aly D’Angelo: Doing nothing senior doors, teachers, ID tags, clubhouse, pool AP Lit, and the basics: friends, teachers, year…Angela Davi: I’m going to miss see- house, breakdown, challin’…Gabrielle square dancing and Pio!…Jimmy Chieco: ing my best friends everyday…Constance Duggan: Seeing the people that I only see The people I know…Christopher Chin- Deaner: Everything; friends, teachers, and in school, and spirit week…Danielle Sang: My friends and how we all met…Sta- the crazy school events…Kimberly DeCe- Etrasco: Lacrosse…Anthony Evangelista: cie Ciani: Nothing. Maybe old friends…Eu- sare: Chiefs varsity soccer, badminton, There have been too many things that I gene Coizza: The friends and the fun we European team handball, all of my friends!... couldn’t mention them all…Nicole Falhad…Patricia Colon: Random physics Jamie DeFilippis: The general vibe and cone: Seeing all of my friends everyday, class discussions…Nick Colucci: Cart Lady, feeling of being locked in a vacancy…Peter goofing off in cheerleading and most of all Fifield, “galorgage,” hack circle after Deignan: The fights…James Diana: Var- 8th period gym (CSC!)…Brittany Fassari: school… Thomas Considine: My friends… sity soccer season…Cristina DiCocco: Fighting people for parking spots…Kyle
JUNE, 2009
Vol. LVI - ISSUE 6
Fee: Coach K, Gianotti, Merges, Massapequa Life, Broadcasting, Franklin Delano Roosevelt…Jessica Feerick: The tennis team and seeing my friends everyday…Michele Feldman: My teachers and my friends. (The security)…Dave Ficara: Mr. Garone’s 2nd period class, and seeing friends…Nicholas Fitzgerald: All my friends talking and chatting away with friends. Getting to make new friends, teachers, school staff, helping people, extra curricular activities, lunch with Andrew Brannigan, signing with all of my friends…Ronnie Flood: Cart lady cookies…Dylan Floody: Seeing my closest friends everyday, cart lady cookies, my locker that never opens…Shane Flynt: Teachers and the classes I took…. Joseph Fox: All of the people that I’ve known will be gone…Jonathan Frascati: Senior year… Christina Fregosi: Chillen with my friends on my out periods and the random kids in school…Katie Fuccillo: My friends, teachers and chorus…Chris Fusco: Having to wake up 20 minutes earlier just to get a good parking space. I hate juniors!... Michelle Gannon: All the senior cut days, the fights, the morning songs, and Spirit Week…Samantha Gastman: Seeing all my friends everyday and Coach K…Danielle Gatings: My teammates that I’ve played sports with for all of high school…Erin Geiselman: I’ll miss seeing Kevin Dougherty and Chris Cochrane everyday… Michael Gelfand: Cutting gym…Alexandria Gentry: My friends and my team…Cara Goldfarb: Mr. Delman and his cone head dance…Kevin Goldstein: Seeing friends I never get a chance to see outside of school…Ashley Goldstein: Seeing the same people everyday like I have since seventh grade… Ian Goodman: Massapequa boys swim team, awesome times!...Dominique Graci: Some of the teachers, spirit week, and the cops always being at our school…Steven Grillo: Mathletes, King Kullen, doing homework with Nicole during class…John Guarascio: Seeing my friends everyday… M i c h a e l G u a rd i o l a : M y friends…Anthony Guiliano: Water balloon fights on the last day of school…Alyssa Gussack: Nothing…Phil Haire: The soopy liquid cookies that feel like raw mud in a bag for breakfast…William Harley: Delman…Nicole Hedgis: My friends, open campus, the teachers, field trips to the city with Theatre Arts class, being a part of the school plays and chorus concerts…Katie Heillburn: The people I met here…Matthew Herbe: Seeing friends I never get a chance to see outside of school…Sara Hirsch: Knowing that I get to spend 7 hours everyday with some of my best friends. And Cart Lady cookies!... Sabrina Holzknecht: The Cart Lady!... Stephen Houseman: Spirit week battles, I always win… Anthony Imbriano: The people. (especially Rob Seckler)…Scott Irwin: Tailgating the hockey games…
WHAT THE CLASS OF ‘09
WILL MISS MOST ABOUT MHS