Hot Seat: Ms. Deeb
Each month, the Chieftain sits down with a different faculty or
staff member for a quick Q & A.
What has it been like teaching your fi rst year at Rice?
It’s been an all-around great experience. The staff has been
incredibly welcoming, supportive, and helpful, and the students
adjusted quickly to their new teacher
and are always eager to learn.
Keeping Busy
This Summer
What some of our students
Will be doing for work
By Joey Farrar
Special to the Chieftain
What made you want to come teach at
It’s that time of the year. You know the time ... when your
Rice in the middle of the year?
parents tell you it’s time to get a summer job. Surely, it can’t
A combination of the right timing and
be that bad, right? To help you in your search, the Chieftain
opening myself up to a new challenge.
staff thought it might be helpful to see what some of your
fellow brothers were doing for the summer.
What makes your teaching unique?
A popular summer job among Brother Rice students is
I always tell my students that I don’t
to do landscaping and yard work. Sophomore Zach Rivers
trick them or throw curveball ques-
takes this to the next level. For the last fi ve years, Zach has
tions. I’m very explicit about what they
spent his summers building a lawn-care business, which
will be assessed on. By telling students
includes mowing, weeding, and mulching.
exactly what I want them to know, they
Zach also does snow removal during the
are accountable to learn it, and have
winter for his customers. If you’re in the
zero excuses for underperforming on a quiz or test.
Troy area and need some help in the yard,
Which was the toughest class you taught this year? Why?
Precalculus was the toughest, simply because I have not taught it Zach is your guy.
Junior Ben Wall will be working as a
before. Most of the time spent on my lesson-planning for precalc
tennis
pro at Birmingham Country Club
was to ensure that I conveyed the material in a simplistic, under-
this
summer.
The country club circuit is
Rivers
standable manner.
popular among many Brother Rice students,
What was your favorite experience at Rice so far?
who often work as caddies, tennis pros, or
I grew up in public schools and have taught in public schools, so
lifeguards at the many clubs around town.
it was a bit of a culture shock to see the extent to which Catholi-
This will be Ben’s fi rst year as a tennis pro at
cism is practiced and embraced at Rice. The school is by no
BCC, and he is looking forward to working
means Catholic in name only; they practice what they preach,
with the kids.
and it defi nitely was refreshing to witness.
-Kevin Dixson
Kaden Sotomayor works with an Ameri-
can delicacy... pizza. Kaden works three
days per week at Tania’s Pizza in Royal
Wall
Oak. It’s a great job for Kaden because he
Why did you come back to Brother Rice?
gets to eat his work. Kaden, a Sophomore,
Rice means a lot to me and my family. Hopefully
in the future I will be able to work full-time, but it’s claims it’s the best pizza around, so stop by
and see him for a slice this summer.
somewhere that I love to come back and give back.
Sophomore Joe Cosgrove will continue
When you came back after nine years, what was the biggest
his work at the Rocky Mountain Chocolate
difference you noticed?
Factory at Somerset Mall this summer.
The biggest difference I noticed were the faces in the halls. Out of
There really are few jobs better than work-
72 faculty and staff in my yearbook, 50 were gone.
Sotomayor
ing around chocolate all day. As an added
What’s your advice to future alumni who want a job at Rice?
bonus, Joe says his favorite part of the job is,
Stay involved with the school, read, and pay close attention to
“Getting Chick-fi l-A every day.” Jobs don’t get much bet-
the emails they send you. If you ever get a chance to help out
ter than seeing your friends, tasting chocolate, and having
with a Kairos, do it. Get involved in alumni events and just be
Chick-fi l-A for dinner.
visible.
-Kevin Dixson
Finding a job for the summer is a little easier when your
Mom owns her own business. Luke Thomas will be spend-
The Chieftain Staff
Help Wanted ing the summer at Schott’s Market in Fraser three days per
If
you are interested week as a stock boy. Luke enjoys working at his Mom’s
Summer 2019
Kevin Dixson
store.
in
being part of the
Charlie Simpson
Plenty of Brother Rice students have found interesting
Chieftain staff
Michael Singleton
summer
jobs for the summer, so don’t get too down when
in
2019-20,
contact
Contributors
Joey Farrar
[email protected] your parents tell you to go out and get a job. Most of these
Brendan Holt
students really like their work.
Profi le: Mr. Torriglia
B R OTHE R R IC E H IG H S C H O O L C H I E F TA I N
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J U N E 2019