MARCH
PERFORMING ARTS
Jazz Ensembles
Lake Central’s Jazz Ensembles performed at the Halls of St. George at the 11th annual Scholarship dinner on Friday, March 6. The dinner raised money for seniors who qualified for scholarships through the band program.
“I thought the performance went well Friday night. [There was] a great audience, great participation and great energy. It was a fun night,” Mr. Christopher Harmon, Music, said.
The dinner lasted over two hours and the audience stayed in high spirits throughout the duration of the performance.
Forbidden Broadway
From March 12 to March 14, Lake Central Theater Company’s spring musical, “Forbidden Broadway,” was performed in the schools LGI. Unlike the usual musical, it was a revue, which consists of a collection of songs and skits rather than being plot driven.
“[‘Forbidden Broadway’] turned out really well. It was really funny. At first we were a little weary because we were like, ‘Will the people get the jokes?’ Then we were like, ‘Wait, this is too funny. I don’t care if they get the jokes,’ but people did get the jokes,” Megan Barry (11) said.
The amount of work that went into the musical was noticed; the show sold out on Friday and Saturday night.
CLUBS
American Sign Language
On March 10, the American Sign Language Club held their first meeting in the library.
“[I wanted to join] mostly because I was bored and needed something to do, but I thought it would be interesting to try and learn. [I’ll pursue it] probably as a hobby to know how to talk and use it [sign language] as a hobby,” Sean Harper (11) said.
The club offers the chance to learn how to communicate with people they would usually be unable to talk to.
Class Cabinet
On March 13, the Junior Class Cabinet met in Ms. Stephanie Sivak’s, English, room to finalize their plans for prom.
“[We decided] what our favors are going to be and how our balloons are going to be set up,” Eva Elmalh (11), Vice President, said.
The Prom theme was finalized as “Across the Universe,” and at the meeting the club decided on the color scheme and decorations. Prom will be on Sat. May 2.
Habitat For Humanity
The N-Teens club has decided to branch out and collaborate with Habitat for Humanity.
“I really think it’s a great collaboration that Habitat for Humanity is joining with N-Teens. I think a lot of kids in N-Teens really want to work with Habitat for Humanity, so this gives a great opportunity to be able to collaborate with them,” Sean Myer (11) said.
The next N-Teens meeting will be on March 13, 2015.
The Habitat for Humanity official website is: http://nwihabitat.org/ Business Professionals of America
The Business Professionals of America travelled to Indianapolis on March 25 for the State conference. The students who qualified from District were able to go, 22 students ended up going and out of the 22, 12 of them managed to qualify for nationals.
“[The conference] went pretty well considering I got second in [Visual Basic/C# Programming,] which was not what I was expecting. When I took the test, it was a lot harder than I thought it would be, so when I got second at State I was really surprised,” Anthony Tugman (11) said.
Nationals will be held in Anaheim, Calif. from May 6 to May 10.
SPORTS
Basketball
The West Lake Special Olympic basketball team played against Lowell on March 16. Though the students lost with a score of 34-31, the managed to play with smiles as the student section cheered them on.
“I think the student section made the kids really excited. They don’t always have events that are such a big deal,” Mrs. Karen Brann, Functional Skills, said. Centralettes
The Lake Central Centralettes traveled to Florida for the National Dance Team Association. The team managed to take home first place for Large Varsity Jazz, and seventh place for Hip Hop.
Boys Track
On March 11, Lake Central held the boys first track meet in the school's indoor track in the gymnasium against Crown Point High School.
“I feel that we have an advantage against other schools because of our track. [The meet] had a great outcome and we did well,” Kenneth Singleton Jr. (12) said.
The team will continue on with their season with excitement and hopes for a positive future.
APRIL
SENIOR BANQUET
Senior banquet will be held on Fri. April 17 and Villa Cesare. The banquet goes from 6 to 10 pm. Tickets went on sale online for seniors at LC through their student emails. The theme for the dance will be “Magic World.” The theme was chosen by senior class cabinet.
“We wanted something that could relate to a lot of different costumes that seniors would want to wear,” Jennifer Mohamed (12) said.
ACADEMIC LETTERWINNERS
The academic letterwinners banquet will be held on April 8. The banquet will be at St. Maria Goretti’s at 6 p.m.
SPRING CONCERT
The Jazz II and Concert Band will be holding their concert at Lake Central High School in the gymnasium on April 15. On April 16, the Wind Ensemble, Jazz I and Symphonic band will be holding their concert.
YEARBOOK
April 15 marks the end of yearbook sales at Lake Central. The theme for the yearbook this year is Every Some One. No extras of the yearbook will be ordered.
“We aren’t buying extra [yearbooks] because it’s not financially responsible. We can’t spend thousands of dollars with the hope that somebody might buy that in the end when they often don’t,” Mrs. Sarah Verpooten, Publications adviser, said.
The yearbooks can be purchased at yearbookordercenter.com for $70 using the code 3361.
STUDENT SHOUT OUT
Katie Rusinak (9) is not the typical freshman at Lake Central. Rather than a school sport or club, Rusinak drag races in her free time. Following the footsteps of her father, Rusinak has been drag racing since she was young.
“My dad used to race a lot, and we used to go to big events. There they had displays of little kids there with their dragsters, so I asked my dad if I could get into it, and we did.” Rusinak said.
Rusinak even has her own car for drag racing.
“It’s purple; it’s called the Purple People Eater. The body is a wedge shape and the engine is in the back and there are two big tires, which we call slicks and they don’t have any treads on them. It goes seven seconds in the eighth mile or 85 mph. It has a lawn mower engine with a clutch.” Rusinak said.
As most sports do, drag racing comes with challenges and competition to keep in mind.
“Well, [drag racing] involves a lot of science and math. It’s competition, and I’m a big competitor. And it’s also a challenge to me. Even if you’re really good at drag racing you don’t always win because there’s a lot of luck in it, too. So I’m always up for a challenge, and I’m really mechanical, so I enjoy that.” Rusinak said.
STUDENT SHOUT OUT
The Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship Program awards full tuition scholarships to students in certain counties around Indiana. For Lake County, six scholarships were awarded. One of the students who was selected for the scholarship was from Lake Central.
“When I got the phone call telling me that I was a recipient of the scholarship I cried. I’ve worked really hard throughout high school. It means a lot to see that my hard work amounted to something.” Jennifer Mohamed (12) said.
The process for the scholarship began with a written application for Lake Central. After that, there were interviews within the school that narrowed the selection down even further. Once Mohamed got past the school interviews, she was selected as the Lake Central representative and moved on to the County interview.
“The interview process was different than I expected. Some of the questions were typical, but others caught me off guard,” Mohamed said.
In the fall Mohamed will be attending the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington.
Photos taken by: Olivia Oster, Erin Dosen, Michael Clark and Cami Wallace