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Holiday 2015
Halloween Costumes
Scariest
Twisty the Clown
(Miran Whasson)
Funniest
Beavis and Butthead
(Wyland Collins and
Atticus Korman)
Overall Winner
Scooby Doo Group
(Tamar Rubin, Daniel Shields, Grace
Durham, Isabella Urbani, Sarah Edmunds,
Rochelle Gluzman,
Chloe Clark)
First Runner-Up
Vending Machine
(Kenneth Kressin)
Most Creative
Students from Classical Voice and their instructor
step not too far out of character in their quartet
Flippy Floppy
(Cori Bangi)
Group Costume
Decomposers
(Cece LaPuma, Eve LaPuma, Julia Wang, Skyler MacKnight, Killian Mulrooney, Shelby Ogasawara, Shelby Capozzoli)
Dr. Wallace rocks out as his alter ego for
Halloween on tenth street.
Seventh floor teachers dress up as the characters from “nside Out”
All photos courtesy of
Cheryl Walsh
Reaching the Zena-ith
Troy Johnson
Staff Writer
Chapter Co-President
of Junior State of America (JSA), Co-Leader of
the Forensics Club, and
Community Service Coordinator of the National Honor Society (NHS)
-- all titles currently held
by the exceptional junior Zena Meyer (IA).
“Zena’s enthusiasm
is inspiring,” said Senior Julienne Dawidoff
(CMD), president of
NHS. “She was selected
to serve as a Community Service Coordinator
by last year’s board
and so far she is doing
a fantastic job!“
Chapter Secretary
of JSA, Sara Silberman,
describes her fellow
club council member
as a “powerhouse.”
“Zena mostly handles
the logistics of JSA and
she’s also a senator
at a state level which
means that she won
the election at the
spring state convention
this year. I think that
kind of attests to how
friendly and personable she is to have won
over a whole region of
people. Between JSA
at OCSA and at a state
level, being involved
in NHS, and being the
co-leader of Forensics Club, I don’t know
how she does it all and
remains such a positive
and giving person.”
Her job as Chapter
Co-President of JSA
consists of helping to
create agendas, write
debates, plan activism projects, fundraise
for scholarship funds,
and communicate
with other Chapter
Presidents on a weekly
basis. As one of the
Southern Empire Region
Senators, Meyer helps
voice the thoughts of
students in Southern
California. She was
also one of 65 people
chosen from the whole
country to attend the
Montezuma Leader-
ship Summit in Northern
California.
In addition, Meyer
noticed there was not
an official speech and
debate club here at
OCSA and she wanted
to change that. So she
teamed up with junior
Sofia Nam (ACT) who
also wanted to create
The Forensics Speech
and Debate Club.
“I was first introduced
to Zena because we
were both interested in
bringing the Forensics
league to OCSA. She is
super committed to not
only our club but also
to her other debate
club, JSA, and genuinely cares about the
different things we are
trying to promote. She’s
super respnsible and
has been really fun to
work with.” said Nam
Through Meyer’s four
years at OCSA, her interests and talents have
greatly expanded.
Having come in eighth
grade, she was original-
Photo courtesy of: Zena Meyer
ly in the Production and
Design Consevatory
and later transferred
into the Integrated Arts
Conservatory her freshman year.
“I just have a lot of
diverse interests, so
integrated is a better
fit,” explained Meyer.
The conservatory fits
her growing passion to
learn more about acting, writing, and film.
Outside of school
Meyer spends her hours
rock climbing and volunteering as a teacher
at the Pacific Marine
Mammal Center, a sea
lion rehabilitation facility.
Meyer wants people
to be more aware of
the problems happening in the world and
believes they cannot
be solved without education.
“Sea lions and seals
get sick or tangled in
polution,” said Meyer. “I
work with young children and teach them
about seals and sea
lions.”