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SHS Scholarship Fund
The Scarsdale High School PTA Scholarship Fund for College provides one-year grants to seniors who need help paying for their first year of college. Last year, it provided $85,000 in grants to 12 students for their freshman year of college. The Fund has been providing these grants for more than sixty years. All of the [...]
Halloween Hoopla
The annual senior celebration of Halloween took place on Monday, October 31, featuring costumes and a senior class breakfast; it was also marked by some acts of mischief. At the traditional senior class Halloween breakfast, the seniors flaunted an array of creative costumes. “In general, the photo sessions and the Halloween breakfast were unremarkable… In [...]
Ghana Day Assembly
In order to raise awareness about issues facing Ghana and to showcase the culture of the country, the Ghana Club hosted Ghana Day on Thursday, October 27 during fourth and fifth periods. The day consisted of an informative assembly followed by a Ghanaian cultural performance. The assembly started out with a movie created by the [...]
Class of 2013 Pumpkin Painting
The class of ’13 celebrated Halloween by hosting a pumpkin painting event in the cafeteria on October 28, raising money for class-related activities.“We sold about 36 pumpkins out of 59, about 30 or 40 people went, and we made around $90,” said junior class House representative Thomas Varghese ’13. In retrospect, government members realized that [...]
Step Back, Relax, and Take it Easy
Whether it is because you have three tests in one day, or because you have a soccer game until 9 PM and will not get to start your homework until 9:30, we all have stress. Stress has many sources, including parents, friends, schoolwork, and those painful college applications. However, when you text your friend saying, [...]
Who you gonna call? Stress Busters!
It’s 3 AM and you still have not gone to bed yet. Eyes glued to the computer screen, you are desperately trying to finish the last paragraph of your English essay before you doze off at your desk. As you type the last few words, relief sets in, but only for a while. You soon [...]
System Overload
If you stop for a second and take a look around, odds are you’ll find someone on his cell phone. He could be just looking at it alone, or in a circle of friends who are all looking at their phones. Maybe they are checking their email in the hallway, or playing Angry Birds or [...]