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Official Student Publication of West Linn High School
Published Since 1921
CORE class builds
memorial park in
memory of Thomas
Earhart and Daniel
Sawyer.
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May 2008 - Volume 96, Issue 8
Renowned primatologist speaks to community
S ydney M ac N aughton
Staff Reporter
Jane Goodall, world
famous primatologist,
spoke to over 3,000 students
and adults about personal
responsibility to affect change
in the world and that each
day brings a new hope and a
possibility to make a positive
change. Her tour began with
two 30-minute speeches at
WLHS on April 23 to the
district's seventh grade
students, followed by one to
all freshmen and students
from eight other classes.
"It was a great opportunity
to hear such an inspiring and
well known person speak.
I loved how she began her
speech with a monkey call,"
Hana Deluca, sophomore,
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Traveling 300 days a year
giving speeches makes for
a hectic schedule for the 74-
year-old Goodall. The day
before her arrival, she was
in Orlando, Fla. at a World
Leaders Conference for the
positive change happen—for
communities, for animals and
for the environment.
Jane Goodall, renowned primatologist, speaks to six hundred
freshmen and others in the auditorium. Goodall travels over 300
days each year speaking about each individual's ability to make
change.
Photo by Jon Helmkamp
Roots and Shoots program.
The program, according to
its website, is about making
At 3 p.m. she visited the
local "Roots and Shoots" at
the Boones Ferry/CREST
Center. Children from
kindergarten to eighth grade
attended the speech.
Dr. Roger Woehl,
superintendent, decided
to expand the event to
an evening gathering at
Marylhurst University.
About 110 students were
involved and chosen to
present posters regarding
sustainability and/or their
ISEF projects. A banner
painted by the Art Honor
Society was displayed on
stage and student musicians
performed before Goodall's
speech.
Goodall spoke for
about an hour about peace
and a hope for a better
future. Beginning with her
childhood and moving
through her life, Goodall
instilled the fact that the
future will come from youth
action and that every day
makes a difference.
"We have the premature,
inherent tendencies toward
violence. Does that mean
that war is inevitable? It does
not," Goodall said during her
speech.
The audience at
Marylhurst rewarded her
with a standing ovation. "The
event was a great success...
we hope that it will happen
again," Dr. Stacy Erickson,
teacher librarian, said.
Dave Pagni, Community
Partnerships Coordinator,
met Goodall nearly 20
years ago and forged the
connection between the
school district and Goodall.
Goodall's first visit to West
Linn was in 1995. She visited
again the following year and
a third time in 2001 when she
dedicated the CREST Center.
"We have...a special
relationship with her, which,
of course, is a great honor for
our district," Pagni said.
GATA teams with Itafari to raise $4,000 for Rwandans
C helsea C allas
Staff Reporter
Music from Portland's The
Way Downs filled the large
room of the Sunset Fire Hall
while guests mingled, ate
pastries, listened to speakers
from Itafari Foundation
and Global Awareness Take
Action (GATA) and waited
H ilu C iavarello
Staff Reporter
Royalty seems to run in the
Steele family with Charles
Steele, senior, named May
Day King following older
brother Will's reign in 2004.
Rosie Dickson was named
Queen at the prom held on
May 3.
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for their raffle numbers
to be called at the May 10
Peace on Canvas Benefit.
The sale of art, food passes
and ticket admissions raised
an estimated $4,000 toward
building a high school in
Kigali, Rwanda.
Victoria Trabosh, Itafari
executive director, provided
"I feel very honored to
have been voted King after
my brother; we are the first
brothers to win in the his
tory of May Day. It is a great
honor, and to be nominated
after my brother makes it an
even greater honor," Steele
said.
Steele and Dickson were
honored at the May Court
Assembly on May 2. Both are
members of Thespian Troupe
1915, and each directed a play
for Shorts 9. Steele also takes
part in ASB, and was a mem
ber of the Varsity Football
team. Dickson is a student
in Barbara Murray's Honors
Humanities class, and in late
April performed her self-cho
reographed dance piece to
convey
her answer to "What
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is making us real?" She is also
active in art and dance.
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Photo submitted by MJ Steele
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the inspiration for the benefit
when she spoke to students in
GATA about the conditions in
Rwanda. "Itafari" means brick
in Swahili, and according to
Trabosh, a brick is the weight
of a malnourished child in
Rwanda. "A brick is the color
a woman sees when she is
face down in the dirt, and a
brick is the symbolic building
block used to rebuild a
country one brick at a time,"
she said.
The students decided
to host the pay-it-forward
event with the idea of
sponsoring one event that
might inspire someone who
can inspire someone else,
and so on. They concentrated
on keeping costs low by
soliciting donated art from a
number of different sources
and food from Starbucks
and Noah's Bagels. The band
played for free.
"We worked really hard
to get as many donations
as possible. We set a goal
of making $5,000, so it was
important to spend as little
money as possible in order
to achieve that goal," Lucas
Pinelli, junior, said.
In addition to Pinelli,
Christina Bums, senior,
Chelsea Callas, junior, and
Valorie Wallace, sophomore,
coordinated the event, along
with advisers David Frick,
social studies teacher, and
Trabosh. Student artists
donated work to be sold and
from other pay-it-forward
events, as well as donations
made through www.Itafari.
org.
Emma Jo Sipe, sophomore, helps Valorie Wallace, sophomore arrange
art at Peace on Canvas, a fundraiser to raise money to build a high
school in Rwanda. The art show, which took in over $4,000 was held
May 10 at the Sunset Fire Hall.
Photo submitted by David Frick
Samantha Hanlin, junior, was
among the 17 students who
contributed.
"I think it's a great cause.
I'm very thankful to be a part
of something bigger than
West Linn," Hanlin said
GATA members wanted to
help Itafari in rebuilding the
country which has suffered
genocide, poverty and
hunger. The money made
from the event is a significant
contribution to Itafari's
overall goal of $35,000 to
build the high school. The
rest of the money will come
"I love the dual focus on
peace as a world-wide goal
and making connections with
cultures so far away from our
world," Frick said.
Bums feels the event
is beneficial to Rwandan
students as well as to West
Linn students.
"Not only are we helping
so many Rwandan students
to achieve an education,
but we are also learning so
much in the process—from
organizational skills to why
we should care about other
people," Bums said.