First Day Monday, August 15th
Shen-Val-Lore The Student Voice of Shenandoah Valley Academy
August 28, 2013
Shenandoah Valley Academy
Volume 83, Editon 1
Upcoming Events August 28-September 1 Senior Survival
September 2-6
Week of Prayer
3 Senior Portraits 4 Underclassmen Portraits 8 Sunday School 8 SA Picnic 11-15 16
Almost Anything Goes
Homeleave Lion’s Club Screening
19-22 S.A.L.T.
by Kenneth Laughlin
Almost Anything Goes is the real kick off of to the year. The freshmen have the highest hopes of winning and taking it all home, while the sophomores are bustling about to at least beat the freshmen. The juniors, filled with new pride at being upperclassmen, believe that they will crush the seniors, while the seniors have growing expectations; this is their year—their turn to win. Saturday night, August 17, 2013, we all started getting pumped as we waited outside the gym for the Student Association to get set up. This year the freshmen were very bold, and used that time to organize themselves. After most of the classes were inside, in came the freshmen, whooping and hollering. It was quite a sight to behold. The SA had a word of prayer to get started, then immediately started the dizzy bat race. This is a relay race where, one at a time, people from each class run to the center of the gym and place their foreheads on the base of a bat, place the bat on the ground, and rotate ten times around the bat without letting the bat come away from their foreheads. Students then hopped to the next activity, which was the mattress surf. We had thirty members from each class make a criss-cross line lying on their backs on the ground, and then they passed a person back and forth on a mattress. The more times the people are passed, the more points. The class
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with the highest points at the end wins. After the mattress race, the seniors got together and made a chant that they subsequently performed after every event to boost morale. Up next on the agenda was the toothpick game, where fifteen people from each class held toothpicks in their mouths and had to pass a lifesaver candy to the next person in line without using their hands. If the lifesaver dropped, the team must start over from the beginning. Towards the end of the evening the chariot race began, where two people drag another person in a sheet for one lap around the gym and then trade out with the next set of three, and the class with the most laps in the set time wins. A few new events were added this year, including the eight-legged race and the mad relay. The eight-legged race was similar to the tradition three-legged race, except after the first pair of students made it back to the line, another person was added. In the mad relay, each participant ran to the center of the gym, grabbed a paper, read it, and followed the instructions given all the way back to tag the next person. The most common one was dance the Macarena, but there were others, like the worm and army crawl. Finally the points were being tallied, the seniors were chanting, and everyone was getting ready for the big reveal. Fourth place was announced
Table of Contents
Almost Anything Goes! SA Handshake RA Week Pre Session Girl’s Club Freshmen Survey King’s Dominion Boy’s Club Birthday Report Principal’s Welcome SA President Welcome Hide Away Sabbath Mantinence! New Staff! Sports! Orchestra! Handbells! Shenandoans! First Sabbath Letter From the Editors Goodbye Alex & Angel!
to the freshmen, and at this news the sophomores were elated that they had not lost entirely and undoubtedly won third. “The juniors come in second” was announced and immediately the seniors began jumping and shouting and running about in celebration of their victory. There were chest bumps, high fives, and hugs all around. As everyone moved out back behind the gym through the side door, seniors still crowing with delight, students saw a huge water slide such as has never been seen here at SVA, for it was nearly twice as wide across as the years previous, and was all soaped up and ready. With some faculty, including Mr. Johnson, Mr. Twomly, and Mr. Jedamski, manning the slide and water, we were off! This year there was tons of soap, which helped reduce the number of injuries, as well as provide a more enjoyable ride. The only downside to all the soap was that people were getting it in their eyes, but that did not deter the mass of students crowding to go down. As people got soap in their eyes, they would go to the hose and flush it out so they could ride again. In the climax of the fun the staff told us it was time to return to the dorms. We all left, but not before the seniors had one more victory chant together. All in all it was the best Almost Anything Goes in the past four years at SVA
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ACT Dorm Retreat
October
SA Handshake by Kim Owen and Tatiana Melendez
Handshake was the opening SA event of the year. We all gathered on Monday, August 12, in the auditorium for the first time; Freshmen sat on the front right, Sophomores on the front left, Juniors in the back on the right, and Seniors at the back left. After faculty lined up, we were dismissed by classes, beginning with the Freshmen. Once the Sophomores were all lined up, it unfortuanely started to drizzle. Every year, it’s tradition that Seniors pull some kind of prank as they make their way down the line. We didn’t know what to expect this year. Would it be honey? Vaseline? Mud? No one had any idea what was about to hit us. As the Seniors made their way down the line in their newly earned crowns, the evidence of a colorful substance began leaving its mark. Due to the rain, our blurred vision made it difficult to see and defend ourselves against the outstretched hands, grasping at our faces and clothes, trying and succeeding effortlessly in smearing paint everywhere. I had made it successfully through all the seniors until Bethany Dennis decided I
needed some more blue and green paint added to my soaked complexion. It was extremely messy, but we were lucky that the rain washed most of the remaining paint off our bodies. After most of the seniors had finished, we ran through the now pouring rain across campus and found shelter along the front of the student center, where staff members stood ready to serve us behind tables covered in different flavors of ice cream and assorted toppings. The lines seemed to go on forever, and it was incredibly crowded under the limited protection. A few groups of friends decided that the rain and rapidly forming puddles were an excellent source of fun and entertainment, and unceasingly ran about splashing each other. TC Coleman was constantly shoving his camera-on-a-stick in everyone’s faces, despite their attempts to hide from it. That footage should be fairly interesting come Video Yearbook. Overall, the SA Handshake was quite an unforgettable event, and it’s certainly something worth remembering.
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Facultly Family
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Outdoor Ed
6 SAT 6-7
WAU Preview
11 End of First Quarter 12
Music Tour
13 Sunday School 15
Academy Day
16 PSAT 16-20
Homeleave
24-26 Potomac Teen Bible Retreat 27
ACT
27 Barn Party