Week of Aug 24-28

Senior Holt Priest received his varsity jersey at practice on Aug. 27. [Ally Guccione, 12]

While evaluating Spanish teacher Eileen Rodriguez-Kiser’s classroom, Principal Jeremy Mitchell had to sit on the floor because the class is so full. [Emma MacNeill, 10]

History teacher Melvin Trotier brought in different types cake for his government class to represent different types of federalism; each student got to eat the cake of their choice. [Ava Larsen, 11]

On Aug. 26, students shared their favorite pictures of their dogs on social media to celebrate National Dog Day. [Maret Welby, 12]

English teacher Dr. Angela Frye had students volunteer to cook bacon in her classroom during a movie day first hour and almost set off the smoke detector. [Alex Foelsch, 10]

The Activities Office has begun to discuss alternating the Glow Dance every other year with the King of Hearts, a dance where the girls ask the boys. [Allie Collins, 11]

Using a plastic tube, three coffee filters, and a rubber band, Colleen O’Toole’s Astronomy class went outside to calculate the circumference of the sun. [Mary Galkowski, 12]

This year’s Homecoming theme was chosen. The theme is Decades: the 20s, 50s, 60s & 70s, 80s and 3000s. [Mary Galkowski, 12]

Over 60 girls attended the first WOW (Women of West) meeting on Aug. 26. [Claire Pellegrino, 11]

Varsity Cheer did a total of 138 high kicks at the football game against Union. [Kristen Baranski, 11]

The twitter account @hot_pwest_chicks was suspended. [Hannah Hoffmann, 11]

Officer Scott Scoggins struck again, giving out 27 parking tickets to the seniors and nine tickets to the juniors on Aug. 25. [Gwenn Pietrowski, 12]