One of these famed mythological heroes was named Theseus, who defeated the Minotaur and the infamous labyrinth by using thread to map his way through. Now make your way through the labyrinth of the scrapbook and see if you can catch scraps of thread!
Meet the Officers Meet the Officers
NJCL President WJCL President WJCL VP
WJCL 2VP
WJCL Parli
WJCL Secretary
Krish Sharma
Matthew Seiberlich
Trevor Waltersdorf
Lexi Wilson
Eshaan Vasudev
Yuki Mitchell
WJCL Treasurer
WJCL Editor
After Bellerophon successfully tamed pegasus through great difficulty, they went on many adventures together. With teamwork, they defeated the great Chimera, a vile monster. Like them, the WJCL board works together to complete many tasks and overcome obstacles!
Shilpa Kumar
Anika Taneja
Sanjit Madireddi
Jack Mineau
WJCL Delegate
WJCL trackstars WJCL trackstars
LUDI LUDI LUDI LUDI LUDI LUDI
Ludi soccer players gearing up to play
rrockin’everywhere ockin’everywhere
LUDI champs posing post frisbee game
Players ready to conquer Ludi
Just keep swimming
In the Odyssey, upon the arrival to his home, Odysseus was compelled to show his physical prowess by drawing a special bow and sending it through a series of axes in order to prove that he was the real Odysseus. Similarly, our WJCL athletes proved their athleticism by competing and conquering Ludi sports!
2023 officers posing after the dance (+ some absent friends)
JCLove from high above!
WE LOVE LATIN!
WJCL delegates cheering loud and proud at the procession WJCL officers holding up our DIY spirit! Peach for the Stars!
2023 Historian Matthew tips off his hat to fellow JCLers on ‘A Day in Old Rome’
Fac Fortia et Patere
“Do Brave Deeds and Endure”
3rd place Novice Certamen team smiles for a pic with their dedicated coaches
WJCL Photo of Convention Winner!
Post-Nats Picnic Post-Nats Picnic
Shri sees a successful year of Latin ahead
Jumping for joy because we love Latin!
celebratory trigon!
and reminiscing
Pre-state Events
CMH participates in a service project at the Hope Center
DSHA recruits new members to their Latin Club
One of Hercules’s labors was to clean out the Augean Stables, and to expedite the smelly task, he diverted the course of two rivers so they flowed through the stables. Above, you can see HHS students cleaning up a local park, just like Hercules cleaned the stables!
Homestead completes a park cleanup as their service project
BA practices cheers for spirit!
Homestead stages a funeral
Tosa East members write cards for Letters of Love
Tosa West creates their door dec for State
BEHS prepares dormice for Saturnalia. YUM!
BA at Yale Certamen after a successful competition
DSHA breaks records with their spirit!
Is this the real Hercules?
Candidates show their platforms at candidates forum
USM shows their spirit at GA
BA sells their famous buttons at bazaar MUHS delegates and their door dec
Per Astra ad Aspera
“Through hardships to the stars”
DSHA is ready for toga dinner
A Homestead delegate prepares his war machine
BEHS is full of spirit!
MUHS and Homestead delegates complete the service project
BCHS member was challenged to show his martial arts at GA
Delegates are ready for certamen!
The 2324 board does not mess around
President Matthew’s WJCL rap
CMH is pumped to be at state!
Luther Prep’s roll call!
of the
BA delegates cheering their hearts out
The winners
annual WJCL Kahoot
National Classics Week National Classics Week
MONDAY
Delegates were able to test their knowledge about Classics related facts, details about the board, and some silly questions!
Tuesday
On Tuesday, everyone tried their luck at WJCL Bingo created by our Secretary Eshaan!
The winner with the most spaces filled out was our Parli Lexi!
Wednesday
On Wednesday, our President Matthew took over the WJCL Instagram for a day!
Thursday
Here, delegates were able to take this Buzzfeed style quiz to see what WJCL officer they were most similar to!
Friday
Speaking of ingenuity, look at these strategies!
Perseus was another hero who was able to defeat the indomitable Medusa, whose gaze caused people to turn to stone, by forcing her to stare at her own reflection
And lastly, to celebrate Rome’s birthday and finish out the week, we had a cake-eating contest and a fundraiser at Panera! Our president, Matthew, and our 2VP, Trevor battled it out to see who was cake-eating champion (cake was hand-crafted by Historian, Anika, and Treasurer, Shilpa!)
We additionally had a cake-making contest and the winner was Addison from Homestead with this beautiful cake!
How many colors are in this cake?
Matthew and Trevor hard at work
End of Year Celebrations End of Year Celebrations
BEHS
DSHA recognizes
achievements
plays gladiatores et cives
HHS has their Caesar salad event
BA Latin members at prom
Latin students’
BA sells Cupid Grams as a fundraiser
Pre-Nats Potluck
ready
HHS students with Magis
practicing chariot!
Tosa students ready for nats
Eugepae!
to eat and have fun! paddle smash champions
DSHA ready for ludi!
A moment of appreciation for our new and improved spirit signs! Our cow will break you.
Now let’s test your ingenuity...
On how many pages did we sneak in strand spools of thread?
(answer on pg. 22)
MOO MOO MOO MOO
Shilpa, WJCL Treasurer with one of our new signs
Photos: Anika Taneja Matthew Seiberlich Historians
