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Eye of the Tiger. Sophomore Sahale Greenwood paints a student’s face to look like a tiger. This was just one of the many activities going on during Service Learning night, which culminated the year’s success.

Combining Service with Learning By Catherine Malzahn and Lauren Fishman staff writers

Service Learning Night was a huge success this year. Students and families from El Sol Academy, Edward B. Cole Academy and Quest Academy were welcomed by Sage Hill on April 15. The Peter V. Ueberroth Gymnasium filled quickly with a multitude of friends and family excited to enjoy the evening. The night began with a speech by Patricia Merz, head of school. John Paulsen, Service Learning coordinator and English teacher also addressed the audience, explaining his how his hopes for the year were not only reached, but surpassed. “Our students [learned] that there are ways that they can make a positive impact in their community and hopefully [...] team up with established organizations [...] to address a need,” Paulsen said. All students in attendance enjoyed the night. It was one last chance to bond with the younger students they

had worked with all year. Sophomore Tiffany Chen hoped she helped the younger students create a solid foundation for the rest of their lives. “I hope I’ve inspired them to want to learn new things and work hard to achieve whatever they hope to accomplish in the future,” Chen said. Additionally, sophomore Charlotte Lynskey found the experience to be very rewarding as well as important in the long run. “[I hope I] helped them improve their writing skills [. . .] I also want them to view me not only as a mentor but also as a friend, someone they can trust or come to at any time with problems,” Lynskey explained. “Even though we don’t have any more visits with them, I hope they look back on the process and see me as a person who really cares not just because I’m being told to but because I genuinely do.” This year has allowed both Sage students and their younger partners to grow together. They connected really well and formed great relationships.

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Magic Man. Senior Michael Fenner wows the audience at service learning night.

feel like there was mutual respect and a strong connection between all of us,” Lynskey said. “They’re really great kids.” In addition to sophomores, freshmen enjoyed a year of kite-making with their third grade partners. While tenth graders went off campus for service learning, the freshmen took advantage of the newly-built science center to collaborate on their work throughout the year. But, regardless of the individual activities the ninth and tenth graders completed with their elementary school partners, Paulsen explained that the overall goal of the Service Learning program was to teach valuable life lessons to all students. He especially wants the younger children to use their experiences working with Sage students to become better people, in hopes that they too can give back to their school and neighborhood. “I hope that being a part of our program will teach them that there are ways that they too can contribute to bettering their own communities,” Paulsen said.

OPINION/EDITORIAL

So Long Sage: staff editorial

EICs say goodbye to Pubs When I transferred to Sage, I didn’t know a single person. Unobtrusive by nature, I spent the first few weeks of sophomore year a little lost and a lot confused. I heard about the first Publications Staff meeting by chance. To this day, I remember walking into the Digital Arts Room, staring wide-eyed at the 30 mingling students and the vibrant lady with the blond hair and the floor-length leopard print coat. I remember standing in the corner and filling out an index card with my name, classes and phone number. And I remember Konnie Krislock saying, “Welcome to Pubs. We’re glad to have you.” I spent my first year writing articles for The Bolt and designing spreads for Storm. I modeled my early articles after the articles I read, gaining confidence with each published work—a season recap of girls’ tennis, a piece on chickens coming to campus and then a full-page article on a student-run benefit concert. It was incredible knowing that my words would be distributed to students and teachers and staff. I reveled in the power, but I also feared the responsibility of telling other people’s stories when I didn’t know my own. At the end of my sophomore year, I volunteered to found an online news site. On Aug. 27, 2013, The Bolt Online went live and I suddenly held the new age of journalism in my two untried hands. Maps, timelines, interactive photos, videos: they were all possibilities with online jour-

nalism. Introducing a new style of journalism was daunting to say the least. But with every fear and challenge, I found another little piece of my own story and I felt a little bit more at home. Sitting, working, laughing together in the

rienced in the past three years. But what I will carry with me through college and for the rest of my life is this: the knowledge that I can succeed—and if I cannot succeed, I at least can try.

ARC or the film room (newly christened “the Pub”), we were a family. Being a part of Publications Staff and now, being editor-in-chief, has changed my life. I’ve learned the power of information and knowledge. I’ve become a better writer and leader. I’ve discovered entire universes of design that I did not know existed. For every late night Production Day, or every crammed deadline, or every article that I did not know how to write, I have grown by leaps and bounds. There are a lot of things I wish I could have accomplished and a lot of regrets I’ve expe-

I am already heading off to college. These last couple of weeks I have been reflecting on my time at Sage, and I realize that publications has been my defining high school experience, and it is something that I will remember for the rest of my life. The friendships that I have made and the invaluable skills that I have gained have made these past three years unforgettable. Freshman year I bounced around clubs and could not find the right fit. It wasn’t up until sophomore year that I had found my niche in publications. My only regret was

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that I had not joined publications sooner. When I first joined publications as a sophomore I did not know what I was getting myself into. At that point I had never thought that I would be editor-inchief. As I was promoted from photogra-

phy editor to managing editor to editor-in-chief that became a reality. But in publications, experience, friendship and a social atmosphere meant more than titles and names. Even though your extracurricular activities help determine your admission into college, they mean nothing unless you passionately pursue them. That had become the mantra of my participation with publications. I began to realize that publications was more than a club, it was a group of supportive individuals who produced unbelievable content. Now looking back,

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I have never regretted the decision that I made to join publications in Mrs. Fraser’s freshman English class. It has built me into the person that I am today. I urge all underclassman to take risks and join clubs that advance their passions even if it isn’t publications. Finding something that makes you get out of bed everyday is key to success wherever you go. My experiences, knowledge and friendships that publications has brought would not have been possible without the combined support of everyone around me. These people include the entire Publications Staff, Konnie Krislock, our ublications adviser, my parents who encouraged me to stretch my boundaries and the entire Sage community who have supported publications by reading our content and lending a helping hand. I cannot thank everyone enough for making my time memorable and life-changing. As I go off to college I will cherish the moments that I had designing the newspaper, taking photographs and leading other staff members to success. What makes this club even more valuable is that I can take what I learned at publications and apply it to my future success. It will be bittersweet to say goodbye because of the friends and memories that I made here and because of future opportunities that publications has laid the foundation for.

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OPINION

It’s Feminism Time!

Dust off the old history book and pay attention! By Claire Dwyer Associate Editor

So the struggle for women’s rights is over… or is it really? We live in a sort of bubble in America, where we pretend that the struggles of the rest of the world don’t matter in our day to day lives. And especially as women, we try to mind our own business and go about our work as we attempt to forget the injustices that we face every day. “I think feminism is absolutely relevant,” Nicole Bradshaw, AP Psychology and AP Government teacher, said. “There are a lot of gender issues. Women are objectified from a young age. We fall into gender roles as young as preschool. Women are thus still rare in politics because there is a natural restriction for some women because of childbirth. There is more we could do as a country as far as maternity leave. It’s weird because we are the top economic power and we don’t have federal maternity leave. There are still gender issues with minorities. There are some white women who more than a single white man, but women of minority races earn much less.” In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Barack Obama told Americans that women make only 77 cents to every dollar a man makes. Even now, in the 21st century, with decades of empty promises by politicians to bring equal rights to women, we still suffer from this pay discrepancy, one of the most egregious forms of economic abuse that holds women down in society and reminds them that they are worth 23 cents less than men. In addition, according to Fortune magazine, only 4.8 percent of the CEO’s of fortune 500 companies are women, and this is a historic high. “The purpose of modern feminism is to ensure that girls and young women understand that they are equals to men and that they don’t have to feel constrained solely by merit of gender,” senior Michael Rouleau said. According to the Sundial,

women graduate college at rates 4 to 8 percent higher than men, and represent a much higher portion of the undergraduate college population than men do. Despite this fact, lucrative positions such as neurosurgeons, executive or leadership positions in any field, or positions in traditionally male dominated fields such as computer programming or engineering continue to represent the injustices faced by

women in today’s workplace. For example, according to the North West Neurosurgery Institute, although 49 percent of medical school graduates are women, they represent only 12 percent of neurosurgeons, or 1 in 20, which is the top grossing and arguably most technically demanding medical profession. “True feminism is striving for equal opportunity for success between males and females without gender as a defining factor. Strengthening feminist ideals pre-

vent me from losing hope and give me the support to continue working hard,” junior Namita Prakash. “I hope this is an assurance that women all over the world can feel one day.” And that’s not to mention the rape, sexual violence, abusive relationships, unjust legal sanctions, and censorship that women face in this country and around the world. 1 in 3 American women will face

past. We cannot accept that women make less than men, or occupy fewer lucrative positions than men, or haven’t served as the president of the United States. Being satisfied with limited progress, complacent in our picturesque, affluent lives, content to not speak out for our own humanity and our own human rights---it is an insult to the feminists of the past who fought so hard to win us the vote, to halt sexual abuse in the workplace, to give us the right to serve in ground combat forces in the military. “I think feminism should play a much larger role in today’s society than it does. The media distorts feminism and makes it look like a hypocritical, misandrist movement when it really just aims for basic equality,” junior Kristin Saroyan. “Modern feminism should strive to break down gender roles and inform twenty-first century youth that they can accomplish anything regardless of sex.” AP US History teacher Jenna Corliss believes, “Feminism needs to be discussed because there’s no consensus on what feminism is. There doesn’t necessarily have to be a consensus. “It comes down to equality, regardless of your definition of feminism...The most fulfilling relationships are the ones that are based on equality. We should all think about the role that gender norms play in our lives... “These discussions can backfire when they become discussions about blaming. There is no one gender to blame for inequality. It does more harm than good to alienate men in these conversarape or some kind of sexual abuse tions, because everyone should in their lifetimes, while the numrecognize the role they play.” bers are 1 of every four in Sweden Feminism is especially relevant and Canada, and 1 of 5 in Denmark to us as high school students, both and Finland. In addition, women in male and female, because we need countries like Zimbabwe are raped to recognize the continuing chalat a rate of 16 women per day. lenges facing women in society, and The opponents to the necesstand up together as both men and sity of modern day feminism need women to change the trajectory only look at the facts and the reality of the women’s movement for the of women’s situation in the world future. We can be the solution, and today to realize that change still has the first real and important step is to be made. We cannot be satisbeing informed that everything is fied with our 77 cents to a dollar, not 100 percent equal just because just because it is better than the it’s better.

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LIFESTYLES

ness in choir this year, it is wrong to assume a tsunami of musically talented dudes washed up to Sage Hill Singers and Encore auditions separately.

group of individuals with interesting life stories are on this campus and we are writing about them by Celine Wang, Jamie Dailey, Steven Du, Amanda Ong

Dear Adventurer,

Serving in two wars

It is an undeniable truth that people are shaped by their experiences. But not all experiences are made equal, especially if they were forged through war. Two Sage Hill faculty members were once enlisted in the armed services. War definitely— for better or worse— impacted their lives.

eterans Day takes place each year on Nov 11. On that day, Sage honors two of its very own veterans, facilities manager John Bicking and Technology Specialist Patrick Lemon. Sgt. John Bicking served in the Vietnam War from 1966-1970, and Sgt. Patrick Lemon toured Afghanistan three times from 2003-2006 as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Although Bicking and Lemon served in two different wars, their stories were very much the same. Both joined the military because they felt that it would bring order to their lives. “I joined because I felt it was the best thing for me at the time,” Bicking said. “I was in between schools and I felt I needed a sense of direction.” Bicking then became a helicopter door gunner and an aircraft electrician for the Marines Corp, fighting in the jungles of Vietnam to stop the spread of communism. “Serving the country was an added bonus,” Lemon said. Lemon at the time was attending college but felt he lacked the motivation and drive to finish. Like Bicking, he joined the military for a more structured life and future, but was still unsure of his future once in the military. “I was only taking the general classes and kind of undecided on what I had wanted to do,” Lemon said. “I did well on the Armed Servic-

es Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) exam and had an interest in electrical fields so I was able to qualify for a good job in the Air Force.” From that point on, Lemon served under the Air Force Special Operations Command as an Aircraft Electrical and Environmental Systems specialist. He maintained C-130 gunships, modified cargo planes with an attached cannon that provided air support to troops. His career would eventually prove to have a lasting and positive impact on his life. “When I first went to Afghanistan, I was able to apply my skills and training in real life situation and I saw that the things that I did were directly helping the country,” Lemon said. Bicking’s experience was not as positive. An active combatant, he flew in more than 550 missions and was awarded the Air Medal 25 times. He also lost his friend. “Losing my friend was probably the biggest thing that affected me when I was there,” Bicking explained. “War just has long term emotional effects on people.” As the wars dragged on, both developed second thoughts about serving as well. “Although, I did not question Vietnam when I first got there, it became obvious it was a politically motivated war and in that instance I realized it wasn’t something that would ever be won,” Bickings said.

“The war was not fought in a manner that victory could be achieved because the Vietnamese never understood what was at stake for them,” Bickings explained. “They never understood independence and democracy because the idea was completely foreign to them.” “Eventually, the success of a mission or event was measured by the other side’s body count,” Bicking said. “Both sides came up with an acceptable loss of life quota for conflicts. The whole war became a battle of attrition.” Lemon also developed moral qualms about partaking in the war. “There were some definite questions about the war and whether or not we should be fighting it. However when you’re in the military you have to look at the bigger picture and you’re basically told what to do and you do it,” Lemon said. “I definitely had some moral and ethical questions about our place in the war.” But through the hardship of war, Bicking and Lemon emerged changed men with new perspectives. “I am definitely more motivated and structured and more driven than I was before,” Lemon said. “I felt I had acquired newfound leadership skills.” “War definitely had lasting emotional effects on me,” Bicking said. “I just hope that we get to a point where conflicts could be resolved around a table instead of having people losing lives.”

ur life experience molds and defines our outlooks on the world- the trials and tribulations we encounter not only allow us to find ourselves but create our individual identities. With more diversity in our experiences, we have more abilities we have to really find ourselves and discover what we believe in. Math teacher Rena Dear for one, has many stories to

own everyday lunches “I’ve been self sufficient as long as possible,” she said. “I’ve always done everything myself. My parents raised me to become very independent. They never gave me any money or anything that they didn’t think I needed.” Her greatest advice to any of her students in getting life experience, however, is to do a cross country road trip. “That is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever done,” Dear says, “But then

Out of the ashes. . .

asae Okamura, Visual Arts teacher Donna Okamura’s mother, survived the Hiroshima bombing in Japan when she was 16 years old. She was at home, which was less than a mile from the epicenter where the bomb fell. “She remembers all the glass imploding inwards and sticking to her before she blacked out,” Okamura said. When she woke up a few hours later, her body was badly burnt from the radiation, and she immediately went to search for the rest of her family. She was relieved to find that her father and three brothers had survived although all were physically injured. “She [also] remembers her father going to look for her grandparents who lived extremely close to the epicenter, but all he brought back were their bones,” Okamura said. Not long after the bombing, Masae Okamura lost her father to radiation poisoning.

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tell and a knowing conviction in the beliefs she has carried on because of them. Dear started working at the age of fifteen, having been a waitress, geologist, tennis coach, camp counselor, dish sterilizer, and more. In her entire working career she has had almost twenty different jobs. “At one point in college my roommate and I participated in psychology experiments,” Dear said. “One time they made us stay awake for 40 hours straight–we were flailing around because our motor skill had just plummeted. We got $50 for that one though. It was totally worth it.” The wide variety of jobs Dear has had was a result of her pursuit of independence. Dear has been independent for such a long time–by the time she entered the first grade she was packing her

again, I didn’t have money, but I found someone who wanted to move her car and I drove across America when I was 24.” Especially in the bubble like world of Orange County, where Dear grew up herself, is this a necessary experience, as we often forget what the real world around us is like. With seniors graduating, her advice for them is to take new risks and go on adventures that help them see the “real world.” With this new kind of experience, they would see how big America, alone, is. “This [where we live] is not America,” Dear stated. “ People here look different, not good or bad, just different. You just forget. At some point you should be the outsider– you don’t always wanna hang out with your majority group. I think that was really eye-

hristmas. It’s a holiday marked with sugar cookie icing, ostentatious ornaments and roasting chestnuts over a family fire. Last Christmas, head tennis coach A.G. Longoria expected to sit in his home drinking hot chocolate while watching reruns of Wimbledon matches, but instead, he was diagnosed with lymph node cancer. “Well, it was kind of a shock because I go to the doctor regularly, and in the last two years, I’ve spent more time with doctors than the rest of my life – I’ve always been very healthy,” Longoria said. “I had trouble with hearing and went to a doctor who saw a bump in the right lymph node – I guess that’s how my diagnosis started.” Longoria considers himself lucky since the doctors caught the cancer extremely early on. Despite this, however, he still has to undergo intense treatment. In January, he was assigned two doctors, a radiologist and an

oncologist, who all helped him plan a seven-week program that would help get rid of the growing tumor within his lymph node. The seven-week treatment plan, which Longoria is still undergoing, consists of seven chemotherapy sessions and 33 radiation treatments. Each week is considered two times worse than the week before, and often kills taste buds. As a result, Longoria can barely taste anything he eats. So far, the treatment plan has been working effectively, Longoria’s positive determination and enthusiasm for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and doing what he loves (playing tennis) has helped alleviate the pain of the process, and this mindset was further strengthened when he discovered that his tumor was actually shrinking earlier in April. “The tumor has shrunk, and I’m very positive, and all of my brothers and sisters and the Sage community have supported me,” Longoria said. “Even though I’ve lost a few

motor skills and my energy levels are going down, I’m still able to coach, which is my passion.” In the past decade, Longoria has helped Sage’s tennis teams climb all the way up to Division II. Not only have the girls’ and boys’ varsity tennis teams won seven league titles total, but he has wholeheartedly dedicated every bit of his time towards practicing with players in the summer and even in the winter. The revelation of his illness had an absolutely devastating effect on the Sage community, especially the tennis players. Despite this setback, however, Longoria has miraculously continued to train vigorously with both the boys’ varsity and J.V. tennis teams this year. “It’s [coaching] kind of therapy for me. For these two hours of practice with the team, I don’t think about the cancer, it’s kind of an escape for me,” Longoria said. “Being out here in the sun and being around people is a good therapy.”

Because her mother had died much earlier in her life, she was left to raise her two baby brothers as a teenager. About five years after the bombing, she moved to America along with many other Japanese who were seeking a new life and professional medical treatment. Because professional help was limited, she ended up spending five years with a neighbor trained in Chinese medicine who healed her burns with cucumbers and different herbs. Even though Japan is her mother country, Masae Okamura prefers her life here in America because her time in Japan has been tainted with bad memories. “[At 86 years old], she’s very happy and feels very fortunate that she’s alive because she lost a lot of her family and all of her friends in high school,” Okamura said. “ If you can imagine surviving that, you feel guilty but at the same time you feel grateful— she’s one of those people who is very happy and grateful.”

PERFORMING ARTS at Sage is “ Dancing a such a vastly different experience than dancing anywhere else . . .

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e i v o M ! c i g a M By Tess Hezlep arts editor

To start off spring, dance show had a “A Night at the Movies” theme that made the pieces more collaborative, more upbeat and more innovative than ever before. Each dance was based on a specific movie with an artistic message that related to the story of each film. Numerous pieces were choreographed by members of the Synergy Dance Ensemble. Seniors Amanda Cohn, Nidia Corona, Elizabeth Farkas and Helena Youhana as well as juniors Anna Paz and Eliana Theologides-Rodriguez. spent countless hours working on their pieces with the help of Sage Hill dance teacher Noelle Menard Robinson to create genuine works of art. Each piece displayed a wide variety of movie genres and dance techniques that pushed the dancers to try new things and to go outside their comfort zones. “I have been truly enlightened by the diversity of the pieces and stepped out of

my comfort zone as a classically trained dancer,” senior Elizabeth Farkas said. “I will continue dancing into college and I feel like my senior year on the Sage Synergy Dance Ensemble has allowed me to transition my technique more smoothly and take a new perspective on the art of performance.” The movies featured included The Jungle Book, Selma, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, The Mysterious Case of Benjamin Button, The Great Gatsby, Grease, The Hunger Games and Divergent. Farkas chose the movie, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, about a teenager who felt immense pressure to perform well academically and socially and eventually found himself in a mental hospital. “My dance is ultimately about friendship, and how the importance of each relationship can mend any interpersonal struggle no matter how large or small. The audience should be able to relate to each one of the dancer’s tran-

sitions from loneliness and sorrow to their unification and strength,” Farkas said. As part of Sageyness,” students are allowed to have artistic freedom. The dance show was a perfect example of the power students are given to make honest and authentic art without restrictions. “Dancing at Sage is a such a vastly different experience than dancing anywhere else because of the amount of support and creative independence we are given,” junior Theologides-Rodriguez said. “I feel safe to make bold artistic choices because I know I have the support of everyone around me.” Eliana’s dance focused on a coming-of-age theme. The movie that inspired it, The Jungle Book, addressed many aspects of lost innocence through metaphors and symbolism. “In my interpretation, Mowgli, the young protagonist, is a representation of innocent youth, and the jungle

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Dancing to find the answers. Freshman Rachel Bryant twirls with grace in a piece choreographed by senior Elizabeth Farkas based on the quirky, independent film, “It’s Kind of a Funny Story.” a representation of the adult world. The youth is always intrigued by the adult world… I casted four jungle animals to represent the evils of the adult world and a snake to represent the force that draws people into it. I chose to end my piece as Mowgli has finally succumbed to the hypnosis and is officially in the hands of the jungle animals, so as to

convey his loss of innocence,” Theologides-Rodriguez said. Many perspectives and ideas were apparent in this dance performance. Robinson and her students took chances and made bold choices that forced people to think about their work and connect with it on a deeper level through the reference to film

SPORTS

Men on a Mission By Liam Murphy staff writer

The boys’ varsity baseball team had a 12-6 overall record, and was a perfect 7-0 against league opponents heading into Tuesday’s away game with Crean Lutheran. Tomorrow at 3 p.m. on Hague Field, Coach Dominic Campeau’s nine will face Crean once again in a game that will decide whether the Lightning will finish the season as Academy League champions, or have to share that honor with the Saints. Some of the season’s highlights included a 9-8 victory in 10 innings against Estancia High School, which featured a walk-off single from senior Chris Goul and a 19-6 drubbing of rival St. Margaret’s Episcopal School, with home runs from junior Conner Bock, senior Parker Reposa and freshman Brett Super. The team’s offense was led by Bock, who has a .320/.514/.780 slash line (batting average, on base percentage, slugging percentage), with an Academy League leading five home runs. The team’s pitching was led by Super, who has a perfect 5-0 record with a 0.34 earned run average. He threw a no-hitter against Brethren Christian on March 24, striking out 14 batters. “If there’s a better pitcher in Division 6 baseball, I don’t want to face him,” Campeau said, of Super in an interview with The Daily Pilot. “The kid is legit.”

‘If there’s a better pitcher in Div. 6 baseball, I don’t want to face him.’ There are plenty of new faces on this year’s team including freshmen catchers Justin Camp and Michael Helton, as well as the junior transfer from Servite High School, Cole Tait, who had to miss the team’s first 13 games (a 30-day span) because of the league’s ‘transfer rule.’ During this period, Tait filled in as the team’s P.A. announcer. By all accounts, he did a fantastic job in that role, but the players all agree that they’d much rather have him on the diamond. “He’s probably our best defensive player no matter where I put him,” Campeau said. “I can put him in center field. I can put him at short, second and third. He can play anywhere.” Campeau has revamped his supporting cast this season, hiring Tim Nolan, Mike Sanchez and Jude Hernandez. Campeau, Hernandez and Sanchez played on the CanadianAmerican Association of Professional Baseball (CanAm League) team, Les Capitales de Quebec, in 1999. Sage Hill School is ranked fourth in Division 6 CIF this season and the team has remained confident throughout the season. In the middle of the year, Tait declared: “I expect to win league this year.” Beginning tomorrow, the rest of us are about to find out if he’s as good a “guesser” as a player.

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The Masquerade

‘A Night in New Orleans’ Photos by

Jackie Nam & Hawken Miller The Masks Revealed. Sophomore Paige Okey, senior Bobby Cohen and senior Cha Cha Pillai reveal their true selves on the dance floor.

Smiles All Around. Seniors Kelli Nagasawa, Celine Zack and Meagan Gooding smile at their last dance here at Sage.

First Timers. Juniors Erika Garcia and Anna Paz experience their first prom.

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The Last Dance. Senior Bailey Super and her date, Edgar Soto, embrace each other as they dance to the last song.

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Reverse Oreo. Juniors Lexi Magliarditi, Nadia Aluzri and Lucy Donaldson get ready for a night to remember.

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Don’t Leave. Junior Namita Prakash and junior Hannah Peck hold onto Senior Sophie Doemer to keep her from graduating.

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Pretty in Red. Seniors Nellie Hamadani and Lauren Solaas strut their red dresses at prom.