Musing on the Morning News

Marc Verwiel

Copy editor

Max started counting down, Mr. Giorgi asked the room to be quiet, Jacob shuffled the papers, and Chloe sipped her coffee. That's how every day started with the morning announcements. Max counted, Mr. Giorgi asked, Jacob shuffled, and Chloe sipped.

 The first time I joined the morning announcements I was just there to promote the Homecoming dance. However, after the dance came and went, I still found myself walking to the journalism room every morning during homeroom. It just became part of my morning routine to share terrible ideas with Jacob and Max while Chloe looked on with a disappointed look on her face. We tried to come up with the most obscure questions just to see the frustrated replies come across the Socrative. The show followed nearly the same format every homeroom while I was there, only disturbed when the network wouldn't let us stream.

 But in our last week no ideas were thrown out. We laughed constantly about taking the show to random locations or having Max come on the show just to yell at us. We tried to do weirder and more random things as our time on the show came to a close, although some of our ideas were shut down (full day show, broadcast from the roof). Regardless about how it all appeared to you, faithful viewer, I truly loved my time on the morning announcements and hope that the next broadcasting team has as much fun as we did.

NHS Students take on Summer 2017

Parker Miele and Amanda Horak

Staff Writers

NHS Students Take on Summer 2017

While the New Hope-Solebury High School doesn’t have a large amount of students, summer plans are different for everyone. The majority of those polled (38.5%) said that they were going on vacation with their family. The next biggest choice was that they surveyed students were hanging out with their friends (30.8%). Staying home to relax is the smallest category with only 5.1% of students picking this option. The other 25.6% have other plans that weren’t one of the options. Regardless of plans the students of New Hope-Solebury are planning on a great summer and are so excited to see how their plans turn out!

Nativism invades New Hope Stage in 'The Foreigner'

Jacob McCloskey

Staff Writer

Over the weekend of April 28, a studio performance of the Larry Shue play “The Foreigner,” took place, directed by senior Josh Searle. Taking place in rural Georgia, the play follows a very shy man from Britain - played by Jake Perkins - who, after being extremely timid and quiet around the house, gets the excuse of being a foreigner, a man from an exotic foreign country, by the aid of Phoebe Liucci’s character. While this excuse makes it easier to socialize as little as possible with people, not all are pleased. Towards the end of the play, it becomes apparent that Josh Elefante’s character is not too tolerant of foreigners, as the KKK gets involved. Charlie (Jake Perkin’s character), uses a trick to scare off the Klan, and the conflict ultimately resolves.

 The studio performance put on by Mask & Zany was nothing less than exceptional. As a student director, Josh Searle is responsible for overseeing just about everything: directing actors, stage design, costuming, character development, blocking, and more. The final product was impressive in every realm, as the actors came to life while a large draw attended the play on Saturday’s matinee.

 The crowd reacted very positively upon seeing Josh Elefante’s character, Owen, as a Southern accent in combination with a timberland/jeans/flannel/baseball cap brought the character to life. Ben Dupont’s character, David, plays a well dressed family man, finding out that his wife, Catherine, played by Christina Hochberger, is pregnant. Over the course of the play we watch Christina’s character go through many flawlessly-executed crises and towards the end we find that David has actually been an affiliate of the KKK this whole time. Flo Minniti’s character is Betty, a hospitable extroverted southern widow who takes care of the house, with a delivery more accurate and impeccable than anyone in the crowd would have expected. Each actor brought a unique personality to their characters, and together it created something great.

 The play was performed in a manner which exceeded all expectations. The play opened as something humorous, and evolved into something more akin to a historical thriller while keeping a funny and charming tone. The audience left the auditorium shocked and fascinated, but laughing at the same time.