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Friday, May 4, 2018
Volume 14 • Issue No. 18
Softball Pitcher Tosses 500th Strikeout By Timothy Gillis KITTERY When Reilly Eddy was five years old, her parents David and Danna signed her up for T-ball. She was not excited. Her older brother played baseball, and it seems she had seen her fill of the bat-and-ball sports. But five years later, her amazing journey began when she told her dad she wanted to try softball. “I said then we have a lot to work on,” he said at a Traip
Academy double-header last week, where she was gunning for her 500th strikeout. “So we worked. I had her keep her right hand behind her back and I would toss tennis balls for her to catch left-handed. Then a whiffle ball for overhand throws, to work on form. No pitching at all.” Pitching is what she excels at now, throwing virtually every game for the Rangers. Eddy coached his daughter for the U14 USA Lady Mav-
ericks. He coached her first two years of high school, keeping her stats. “She struck out 106 batters her freshman year; 154 sophomore year; and 197 last year,” he said. She struck out 9 of the first 10 batters in the first game of the double-header with Sacopee Valley. Hannah is not playing softball next year at Maine Maritime Academy, though she See STRIKE page 45...
Marshwood Grad Smashes Atoms in Switzerland SOUTH BERWICK South Berwick resident Hannah Bossi only became interested in physics her senior year at Marshwood High School. A senior at Colby College, now she is headed to Yale University in the fall to pursue a PhD in physics, inspired by her recent work with top researchers. Interning last summer at the CERN Institute in Switzerland allowed Bossi to meet some of the premier scientists in the world.
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CERN stands for the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, and also refers to the laboratory, which in 2016 had 2,500 scientific, technical, and administrative staff members, and hosted about 12,000 users. In the same year, CERN generated 49 petabytes of data. (A petabyte is a million gigabytes of data.) CERN’s business is fundamental physics, finding out what the universe is made of and how it works. “The connections I made a CERN really did make a big difference and help me be prepared for this type of work in the future,” Bossi said. “I am incredibly grateful for all of
will continue to be useful at Yale” Last summer, she flew to CERN with 15 other Ameri-
cans she’d never met as part of a summer student program that takes 300 younger scientists from around the world. They are each paired with a scientist at CERN for 1-on-1 work. Burke was part of the ALICE project (A Large Ion Collider Experiment), one of four on the large Hadron collider. ALICE specializes in colliding heavy ions like lead and is built especially to investigate those collisions. Burke worked with Markus Fasel, a German scientist. “He was a wonderful ad-
Hannah Bossi on site at the experiment she worked on at CERN in Switzerland, the home of the Hadron Collider.
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the opportunities my time at Marshwood has given me. The skills learned at Marshwood have been useful at Colby and
Ruth Santoro Turns 102! YORK Ruth (Seddon) Santoro is going to be 102 this month. To put this in perspective, the year she was born, the toggle light switch was invented, a loaf of bread was seven cents, the first supermarket opened, and the average price of a house in the United States was $5,000. Currently a resident of Sentry Hill at York Harbor, Santoro was born on May 12, 1916, in Providence, RI, the second of six children to Jesse and Charlotte Seddon. She completed 10th grade in Providence, the city where she also met her husband before they eventu-
ally moved to Norton, MA., and raised their two sons, Richard and Kenneth. Santoro spent 57 years in Norton, 33 of them alone after the death of her husband. In addition to raising her sons, she worked assembling boxes at a box factory in Massachusetts. Although she never was a drinker or smoker, she doesn’t know if that is what has contributed to her longevity. Perhaps it is just good genes, after all, her mother just missed her hundredth birthday. Maybe it’s her easy-going, non-complaining attitude, because when asked how she’s lived so long, Ruth shrugs
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and says, “Just live for the day.” Her son, Dick Santoro of York said the family will be giving a quiet party for her at Sentry Hill. “My my wife Marti and I, and my brother, Ken, and his wife, Sylvia, will come up from Massachusetts. They have a fun room set up, and we’ll have cupcakes for all the residents and staff.” Speaking about all that his mother has seen, he said “It’s been a wonder to her. The airplane was just starting, the 1920s and ‘30s, during WWI she was a baby, then WWII. She had five brothers and sisters. It was hard times.”
The main thing his mother taught him? “Perseverance. She had such a hard life—everyone did back in the ‘30s. She just soldiered on, no matter what.”
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