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May 2017
Volume LXXVIII, No. 8
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Haverford, Pennsylvania
Unsung hero Malone takes lacrosse to Inter-Ac title Samuel Turner ’18 Many know Thomas Jefferson, the Third President of the United States, as a man who achieved political excellence and exhibited selfless leadership. For these reasons, friends and teammates can often be heard calling Fifth Former T.J. Malone “Thomas Jefferson” on the lacrosse field. Malone has become an integral leader on the team. Since Malone first joined the team as a Third Former, he has poured his time and energy into lacrosse. Malone is what Varsity Lacrosse Head Coach John Nostrant calls “the perfect story for athletes at Haverford.” Coach Nostrant said, “He played JV lacrosse for two years and worked his way up to varsity. On this year’s team, we have a ton of contributors who were JV players, got a ton of playing time, worked hard, and embraced the role there. Then, this year, they stepped into a nice role on varsity.” Over the past few years, Malone looked up to upperclassmen for motivation. Malone said, “My most memorable experience was when I wasn’t on the varsity team but just watching [the 2015 team] win the national championship. Being there at the Union Stadium and seeing how everyone played, and knowing that I wanted to be there one day, was special, so I just kept working hard.” Malone found an incredible role model in Grant Ament ’15, who “played JV his Third Form year, worked super hard, and is now one
MR. JIM ROESE
T.J. Malone works through G.A.’s defense in 13-6 win on May 9th
of the leading scorers in NCAA lacrosse. But, all those players back in 2015 -- Supinski, Ament, Sabia -- have impacted me greatly,” said Malone.
Now, as an upperclassmen, it is Malone’s turn to serve as a role model for aspiring studentathletes: he has certainly lived up to the task.
Coach Nostrant said, “First and foremost,
with an up-close look at an insect life cycle. On another day, Ms. Royer walks into the classroom carrying test tubes and carefully prepared solutions. She walks in and out of science classrooms throughout the day bringing and taking lab supplies from classroom to classroom so that every boy can experience science first hand. It’s a big job at a school as
committed to learning as The Haverford School. If she’s not busy painting or carrying supplies, she is scrolling through web pages ordering enzymes and pH buffers, waiting 5-8 business days for their arrival. She prints out lab sheets and sterilizes beakers. Ms. Royer arrived at the Haverford School as a biology teacher and lab manager right
after graduating from Penn State in 2013 with a degree in secondary education focusing in Biology. But few know that since relinquishing her position as biology teacher last year, she has taken up an entirely new career as well. As she paints one of the boxes, a beeping sound rings through the halls. “That’s one of the fume hoods. I’ve been trying to turn them off all day, but they turn back on right after.” She gets up, leaving her paintbrush in a tub of paint and walked into the room from which the sound is coming. Lab manager is a unique position at the Haverford School. “It’s kind of a lot of different jobs in one,” says Ms. Royer. “When there is a physics lab, I need to make sure that everything is working. I have to keep inventory of everything. I need to keep chemical inventory and make sure that everything is safe.” Ms. Royer doesn’t spend all of her time here, though. After running around following annoying sounds and painting beehives, she leaves the school entirely. “I’m here every day, Monday through Friday, at least until the double period,” she says. Once she finishes here, she heads to a brewery where she performs a job with the same title but in a very different context. As the lab manager, her job is to monitor the yeast involved in anaerobic fermentation. “Yeast can produce a lot of chemicals, some of which are not necessarily desirable. All of these chemicals can affect the end product. My job is analyzing those byproducts and making sure the yeast are healthy,” Ms. Royer says. As soon as she finishes speaking, the fume hood
cont. on page 13.
Ms. Jacey Royer leaving her mark on Haverford Jared Holeman ’17 Stacks of wooden boxes lay scattered over a tarp near the science rooms. A student in a smock kneels down beside one and slowly covers one in sky blue paint. Ms. Royer holds a square wooden lid in one hand and a paintbrush in the other. The boxes may one day become homes for bees and provide Haverford boys
cont. on page 8.
Ms. Royer tends to Haverford’s new beehives
INTEL CHEN ’19
Also inside this issue... A look at this year’s graduation projects
INTEL CHEN ’19
“Musical chairs with cars”: fixing parking with Mr. Boccella
CONNOR LEES ’17
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