Wade Henderson To Address Mason
Grads Wednesday
Evening
Douglas, Krachman Valedictory Speakers
(June 11, 2005)
Mr. Wade Henderson, Esq., Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on
Civil Rights and Counsel to that
organization’s
Education Fund, will address Mason’s 158 graduates Wednesday evening at
5
o’clock at
Constitution Hall in
Washington, D.C.
51st Awards Assembly Honors Achievers
June 7, 2005
Program Script
Spring
Play Opens Tonight
‘Flowers for Algernon’ Aims to
Test
Audience’s Empathy, Perceptions
By Olivia Farrow (May 26, 2005)
The Theatre Department’s spring play entitled Flowers for Algernon, opens
tonight and has two more shows this Friday and Saturday at 7:30.
220 To Dance the Night Away
At 'Las Vegas Strip' Prom
By Sara Sugrue (May 20, 2005)
The Junior Class Prom Committee has captured the spirit of the Las Vegas Strip
and is bringing it to the Hyatt Regency in Crystal City to
celebrate the 2005 Junior and Senior Prom on Saturday,
May 21, 2005.
GMHS Ranks 23rd in Newsweek List
Of Nation’s Top 1,000 Public Schools
By Margaret Lipman (May 20, 2005)
Although George Mason High School fell to 23rd place this year in Newsweek
magazine’s annually-compiled list of the nation’s top 1,000 public
schools, school officials are still very confident about the level of quality
and difficulty in a GMHS education and have made several conclusions about
what caused the drop in the rankings.
Election Results
Person, Saynieva, Kincannon
To Lead Classes 12, 11, 10
By Margaret Lipman (May 20, 2005)
Wrapping up a campaign season that seemed to be the most spirited and involved
of the last several years, (complete with speeches, posters, and even a few
campaign managers), class elections for the 2005-2006 school year were held
last Thursday.
Not Your Parents’ Testing Anymore
Online Testing Expands at Mason
(May 19, 2005)
Elections Tomorrow
13 Students
Run for Class Offices
By Rabita Aziz (May 11, 2005)
For the first time in a number of years, myriad posters promoting
students for various class officer positions can be seen adorning the walls.
Agnes Meyer Award
Band Teacher Webster Receives
Teacher-of-Year Recognition
By Rabita Aziz (May 8, 2005)
Band director Mary Jo Webster was awarded the Agnes Meyer Outstanding Teacher
of the Year Award on Tuesday April 12, by The Washington Post.
Arrest Made in Falls Church
City Schools Bomb Threat Case
The
following press release was issued by the Fall Church City Schools regarding
a bomb threat that occurred in February and which resulted in a three-hour
delayed opening.
(May 4, 2005)
FALLS CHURCH, VA – The Falls Church City Police and the Jakarta Metropolitan
Police conducted a joint investigation of Falls Church City’s bomb threat
case that occurred in February of this year, resulting in the arrest of Emelia
Karolina, a resident of Jakarta, Indonesia.
Vote Set Tomorrow Night
Officials, Teachers, Board Members
Concerned over Council’s Proposed
Cuts to the Schools’ Budget
By Margaret Lipman (April 24, 2005)
The Falls Church City Council will vote Monday night on a disputed School Board
budget that the Council wants cut back nearly $300,000.
High Speed Internet Service
GM Students Accept the 'Challenge'
By Lasso Staff (April 20, 2005)
GM students gather to sign up for the Design Challenge Contest sponsored by
Verizon.
Verizon to Install
Fiber Optic Cable;
Design Competition in Progress
By Eliot John Hagen (April 18, 2005)
George Mason High
School has been chosen to be a pilot school for
Verizon’s Fiber-Optic (FIOS) installation. In addition to this, the company is sponsoring a design
competition for all GMHS students ages 13-20.
Masonites
Compete in WorldQuest
By Margaret Lipman (April 17, 2005)
Two Saturdays ago, seniors Alex Douglas and Dan McDonald, junior Bjorn Westergard,
and sophomore Margaret Lipman represented George Mason in Academic WorldQuest
2005, a competition testing students’ knowledge of current events, flags,
geography, world leaders, religions, and political systems.
Annual Event Raises $700 for CF
O’Hara, Hemphill Named Mr., Ms. Mason;
By Margaret Lipman (April 7, 2005)
Seniors Chad O’Hara and Nora Hemphill were crowned Mr. and Ms. Mason
for the 2004 – 2005 school year at the conclusion of last Friday’s
popular annual competition.
Slimmed Down Robot Racks Up 3 Wins
In Second FIRST Competition
By Sara Sugrue (April 1, 2005)
Spurred by chants of “Vae Victus” the George Mason Robotics team,
1418, and their robot, Manus Imperitorus (Latin for hand of the emperor), marched
onto the black playing field ready to compete in the For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology (FIRST) Regional Robotics Competition held at Virginia
Commonwealth University (VCU) March 3-5, 2005.
Symphonic Band Earns ‘Superior’ Rating
For Fourth Year in Row at Districts
Feat Merely Adds to Music Dept. Achievements
By Margaret Lipman (March 9, 2005)
The GMHS Symphonic Band received an overall superior rating at the District
X Band Festival on Friday, marking the fourth consecutive year in which they
have earned this honor.
Douglass is National Merit Finalist
(March 9, 2005)
Tsunami Relief Project
Marshall’s Faculty Beats Mason’s
55-45;
But Everyone Comes Out Winners
Special Game Raises Over $4,000 for Flood
Victims
By Rabita Aziz (March 7, 2005)
While the George C. Marshall Statesmen sang a good-bye song to their opponents,
the Mason Mustangs chanted “We won the real game,” on the opposite
side of the courts at Marshall High School Friday night.
Scholastic Bowl
Mason Finishes in Fifth Place
In State Tournament
By Margaret Lipman (March 3, 2005)
Two weeks after a string of unprecedented successes in the Region B competition,
the George Mason Scholastic Bowl team ended its season with two disappointing
(and largely unexpected) losses in last Saturday’s State tournament at
the College of William and Mary
in Williamsburg,
VA
Robotics Team
Slimmed Down Manus
Imperitorus To
Compete in Second FIRST Contest
By Sara Sugrue (March 1, 2005)
Team 1418, Mason’s official Robotics Team, will be sending 12 of the
30 students who worked on the robot to compete in the For Inspiration and Recognition
of Science and Technology (FIRST) Robotics Competition held at Virginia Commonwealth University on
March 3 through March 5. The team will be competing against 61 other teams
from the around the world.
Scholastic Bowl
Mason Sweeps
Regionals, 4-0;
Heads to States Tomorrow
By Margaret Lipman (February 25, 2005)
Two weeks after winning the
Bull Run District Tournament, the George Mason Scholastic Bowl team won an
even more decisive victory at the Region B Tournament on Saturday, February
12.
Scholastic
Bowl
Mason Wins 3 Matches,
Clinches Districts;
Heads to Regionals, Once Again
By Margaret Lipman (February 7, 2004)
The
Scholastic Bowl team continued its successful season with a first place win
at the Bull
Run District Tournament last Saturday at Rappahannock High School.
Schedules
Back to Normal as Teachers,
Students Take Bomb Threat in Stride
By Margaret Lipman (February 4, 2005)
After the unusual circumstances
that prompted Tuesday’s three-hour delay, Masonites have now settled
back into their normal class schedules and routines following an early closing
and delayed opening caused by a bomb threat.
TRP Update
Total Exceeds $33,000
As Donations Continue to Save the Children
School to
Pursue Further Fundraisers
By Margaret Lipman and Nora
Hemphill (January 27, 2005)
Once
again exemplifying the admirable sense of responsibility and personal
efficacy that
is an integral part of George Mason High School and the entire Falls
Church
City community, this month’s Tsunami Relief Project raised over $33,468
(as of
Tuesday, January 25).
McDowell
Outlines Needed Changes,
Expansions to Improve Science Dept.
By Danny Johnson (January 27, 2005)
As the new middle school continues to rise from the
ground next door to George Mason, the high school continues to study
its space
needs for next year,
Tsunami Relief Project Benefits
International Club Sponsors Care
Packages for Stressed-Out
Students
By Rabita Aziz (January 14,
2005)
Continuing its new tradition of raising funds for a charity project,
the International Club is selling “Care Packages” for the second year
in a row.
Tsunami
Relief Project
Dozens of Students and Staff Join
In Planning Fundraisers for TRP
By Rabita Aziz (January 4,
2005)
The newly formed Tsunami Relief Project (TRP), established to raise
funds for victims of the floods in South Asia, has scheduled a variety
of fundraising activities that will take place all day long on
Saturday, January 15.
Winter Concert ‘Incredibly Powerful’;
Several Earn All-District Honors
By Danny Johnson (December
21, 2004)
Setting the stage for what was to follow--that is to say brilliantly
scripted and incredibly powerful music--the George Mason Choir opened
the annual Winter Concert last week with a moving performance of “Veni,
Veni Emmanuel.”
Model
United Nations
6 Masonites
Earn Commendations
at Hylton High's MUN Conference
By Margaret Lipman
(December
20, 2004)
Nearly 20 Masonites
traveled to C.D. Hylton High School in Woodbridge,
V.A., to participate in last weekend’s Prince
William Model United Nations Conference XXI,
Scholastic Bowl
Scholastic Bowl Team Holds 6-3 Record as
District Meet Approaches
By Margaret Lipman (December
18, 2004)
In an unexpected turn of events, the George Mason Scholastic Bowl
team
clearly and confidently defeated Clarke Country and Strasburg in the
first and third games of Monday night’s match, but lost by a slim
margin in the second game to Manassas Park – a team that Mason had
defeated by over 100 points in each of the last two competitions.
Scholastic Bowl Team Trounces Competition
at 2nd Meet
By Margaret Lipman (December 10,
2004)
Recovering capably from last week’s disappointing losses to
Rappahannock and Strasburg, the George Mason Scholastic Bowl team
confidently dominated this week’s competition.
Santa’s
Helpers Buy Gifts for 66 Little Angels
As Masonites Raise $2, 634 for Special Project
By Maliha Adams (December 9,
2004)
“Ready, set, go!” yelled senior Chad O’Hara as he and senior
Andrew
Roller jousted with shopping carts filled to the brim with presents.
81 Feted at Principal’s
Scholars’ Reception
(December 3, 2004)
Tonight, Won’t it Be
Loverly
After Weeks of Rehearsal,
‘My Fair Lady’ Takes the Stage
By Maliha Adams and Margaret Lipman (December 2, 2004)
Can an urchin from the streets pull the wool over the eyes of the
upper-class socialites of English society?
Annual
Entertainment Fundraiser
22
Acts to Perform Tonight in JV Show
(October
28, 2004)
Junior
Andy Tonken and senior
Alex Burnett-Greenstein will emcee the annual Junior Variety Show
tonight and tomorrow night at 7:30.
Lasso
Online Mock Election
Faculty and Staff Vote 60% for Kerry
By Margaret Lipman, Nana Saynieva, and Emir Parrota
(October 28, 2004)
Mirroring the strong support
for John Kerry from the GMHS student body, 60 percent of the faculty
and staff
Lasso
Online Mock Election
Kerry Beats Bush by over 2 to 1 Margin
Compiled by Lasso
Online Staff Members (October 27, 2004)
By an over two to one
margin--61.6 percent to 23.6
percent--Senator John Kerry beat President Bush in a mock election
sponsored by
this newspaper
Winter Musical
Rehearsals Underway for ‘My Fair Lady’
By Maliha Adams (October 27, 2004)
Rehearsals for the drama
department’s winter musical My Fair Lady, began last week.
Homecoming
Week
Spirited
Competition Kicks Off Today
By Rabita Aziz (October
18, 2004)
Ah, Homecoming Week. It’s the
only time of the year that the school will actually encourage us to
become as animated as Roger Rabbit, as hairy as a caveman, as lady-like
as Denis Rodman…well, you get the point.
German
Senators Investigate Mason's
Educational
Program, Practices
By Adam Knudson (October
18, 2004)
George Mason was happy to
welcome a group of German Senators who visited our school on October 6
to learn more about American public education.
326
Students from 11 Schools Attend
Annual
GMHS MUN Conference
By Rabita Aziz (October
16, 2004)
Thirty Mason students
participated in creating a successful annual Model United Nations
conference on October 1 and 2. Mason hosted 11 schools, with 326
students in attendance, at the conference.
Novice "It's Academic' Team Comes
In Second to Bethesda-Chevy Chase
By Margaret Lipman
(October 13, 2004)
The long-awaited theme of the
2004 Homecoming Week was decided during the Student Council Retreat
that was attended by 39 students representing all grade levels and
which was led by Student Council Association (SCA) sponsors Ms.Karin
Tooze and Ms.Christine Bosl and which took place last weekend at the
Glenkirk Retreat Center in Manassas.
SCA Retreat
Students Decide Homecoming Theme
Tackle More Pressing Issues
By Maliha Adams,
Slava Kitain, and Sara Sugrue (October 2, 2004)
The long-awaited theme of the
2004 Homecoming Week was decided during the Student Council Retreat
that was attended by 39 students representing all grade levels and
which was led by Student Council Association (SCA) sponsors Ms.Karin
Tooze and Ms.Christine Bosl and which took place last weekend at the
Glenkirk Retreat Center in Manassas.
Completing the Exchange
14 Chilean Students Begin Visit to U.S.
By Maliha Adams (September 13, 2004)
(Lasso Online reporter Maliha Adams attended
yesterday’s picnic welcoming 14 students and two teachers from Chile
who are visiting our school for the next two weeks. Our Chilean friends
will be staying with their host families whose students visited Chile
last spring.)
Mason’s
Last Year as 9-12 High School
60
New Students, 25 New Staff Members Are
Signs
of Mason’s Population Explosion
By Rabita Aziz (September
10,
2004)
Twenty-five new teachers and
paraprofessionals--out
of a total of 108 faculty members, greeted the now 660-strong student
body,
including 60 new students, at the annual Opening Day Assembly last
Tuesday.
This assembly marked the last first-day-of-school ceremony which would
be only toward grades 9-12 students. This time next year, Mason will be
an 8-12 high school, forever changing the grade alignments in the
city’s
schools.
