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Senior year is filled with numerous hallmark experiences, from applying to college to planning for prom and graduation. However, none of these events are possible without the senior student council working behind the scenes....
Though the current junior class did the majority of their ninth-grade schooling online, they all returned to in-person classes as a group in sophomore year. This coming together allowed them to get to know...
Most of us can call to mind a positive memory involving a tree we loved growing up–climbing it, sitting under it for shade, having a picnic by it. But no one loves trees more...
One thing that was greatly reduced during pandemic schooling was field trips for students. However, now that ARHS is entering the second year of in-person learning, many teachers across the building are bringing their...
ARHS offers a mountain of official clubs and sports but one evolving freestyling club, known as Amherst’s Secret Rap Club, is made up of a growing number of interesting people who have found a...
When people step into the main office at ARHS, they will find it decorated for whatever is the latest holiday, from Halloween to Thanksgiving to the winter holidays; filled with plants; and staffed by...
Special Education teacher Avery Abbitt is one of the newest additions to the teaching staff at ARHS. He is teaching two Academic Skills classes to ninth and tenth graders and two Topics in English...
New teacher Yasuaki Suzuki is both the middle school and high school orchestra director. He teaches Intro to Music and Orchestra at the middle school and Steel Drums Ensemble, String Orchestra, and Music Theory...
Elena Betke-Brunswick, one of the newest additions to the ARHS art department, believes that one of the best parts of being an art teacher is being able to help students connect and fall in...
New ARHS Physical Education and Health Teacher Cedric Gonnet is a role model who leads by example. Gonnet embodies the roles of teacher, leader, coach, and trainer, but most of all he is seen...
Jace Chrzanowski is a newly hired French 4 teacher at ARHS whose mission it is to be knowledgeable, authentic, and inspiring. Chrzanowski is a fourth-generation educator. His mom was a high school English teacher,...
William Chapman, also known as Mr. Will, is a new paraeducator hired at ARHS to work in tandem with the Dean of Students, Mary Custard—and hall monitors—to heighten safety in the halls, classrooms, lunch...
Seniors Callum McDonald, Jackson Eisenhauer, and Zach Mitrowski, and junior Jackson Barber-Just co-lead ARHS’s Film Club, which contains more than a dozen members and operates on a flexible schedule. Film Club is a “space...
According to Math Club advisor and math teacher Rudy Cassidy, math has the potential to “create a better world” and is an “essential tool” in everyday life. The club meets on Mondays at 3:45...
With historically strong teams, four Western Mass wins in the last five years, and having qualified for states for more than 30 years consecutively, the members of the girls’ cross country team went into...
On October 30, the Amherst girls’ varsity volleyball team won Western Mass for the first time since 2016. The girls swept Longmeadow, the same team they lost to in their Western Mass game last...
Although the Amherst boys’ soccer team didn’t have the most stellar year, finishing the season with a record of 6-10-2, Coach Matt Travis and Captain Arthur Vickery both enjoyed playing a leadership role and...
The ARHS high school football season finished the season off with a few comeback victories and a record of 5 wins and 6 losses. Captains were juniors Jameson Dion and Neil Cunniffe and seniors...
On the sunny morning of May 12, teachers, paraeducators, and staff at ARHS and Summit Academy dressed in their union red colors and gathered to stage a “walk-in” and a chalk-up for fair pay....
Alla Azrilyan came to ARHS in 2019, as a member of the ELL department. She spoke with a member of The Graphic staff about the war in Ukraine, her life as a teacher, and...
When Russia violently invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, very few predicted how rapidly the crisis would escalate, leading to over 7 million people being displaced or fleeing the country. Montague resident Nadya Tkachenko...
On March 21, 2022, a fight broke out at ARHS and one student landed in the hospital. A letter Principal Talib Sadiq sent home to parents was republished in the Daily Hampshire Gazette, in...
This year’s musical, Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical, featured many lively ensemble numbers in which nearly the entire cast was on stage, singing and dancing together while dressed in beautifully colored hippie clothing....
Nyasia Jordan is one of the newest employees at ARHS. Her official position is campus monitor, and she sits outside the atrium bathroom signing people in and out or asks students for a pass...
On May 7, the Amherst Best Buddies club participated in the Best Buddies Friendship Walk at Polar Park in Worcester, Mass. ARHS paraeducator and advisor Marita Banda and paraeducator Cary Pazmany chaperoned the student...
English Language Learner (ELL) students at ARHS hail from countries all over the world and speak many different languages. I visited ELL teacher Stefani Lopez’s Beginner ELL English class to hear from her students...
What do Amherst and Wakanda have in common? Nyanyika Banda, a local writer who was commissioned by Marvel to create a cookbook inspired by the fictional country in East Africa that is home to...
You may have seen the friendly face of Geraldo Zelaya, an ARHS building substitute, in one of your classes over the last year and a half. Zelaya said he loves working at ARHS and...
Many colleges have increased their reliance on early decision or early action applications, in order to increase the yield of students who will attend the school, with some admitting over 50% of their first...
One thing that doesn’t immediately come to mind when people think of TikTok is choosing a college, but there’s a clear link between the two. As social media platforms such as TikTok grow larger...
