Profiles

Year I students signing up for spring semester classes were greeted with a surprise! For the first time in her career, Elizabeth Poreba will be teaching a section of Year I seminar. Ms. Poreba is usually a 9th and 10th grade English teacher but when she discovered that a new section of first year seminar was being created, she volunteered to teach the class.

BHSEC prides itself on its unique college-level curriculum and constantly looks to build a stronger connection with Bard College to maximize the authenticity of its program. This is precisely what one of our new staff members, Dean Tabitha Ewing, is here to do.

This year, Bard’s Student Activist Network is hosting a gift drive for the upcoming holiday season. With the collaboration of the entire student body and faculty, this drive has the potential to become very successful for both the Henry Street Settlement Shelter and Bard’s relationship with its community.

Along with submitting college applications, keeping up grades, doing extracurricular activities, and maintaining a social life, Year IIs are faced with raising money for the senior trip, prom and graduation. The Year II Committee was formed to ensure that these momentous events run smoothly.

From the rush of entering high school to the anxiety of it’s overwhelming workload, BHSEC freshmen always have a lot to deal with. The school’s new drama teacher, Cara Greene, faced these same pressure as a new faculty member.

There are seven schools scheduled to visit BHSEC this week. Brief profiles of the schools follow. The schools that will be visiting are Union, Edinburgh, Muhlenberg, Bates, Carnegie Mellon, Alfred and Hamilton.

There are eleven schools scheduled to visit BHSEC this week. Brief profiles of the schools follow. The schools that will be visiting are New York University, Dickinson, Reed, Cornell College (Iowa), Earlham, University of Rochester, Bryn Mawr, Allegheny, Bowdoin, Barnard and, tentatively, Swarthmore.

Each year BHSEC offers exchange opportunities that allow its students to travel the world and experience different cultures and ways of living.

“I’m very political,” says BHSEC’s new teacher Elisha Miranda, who began teaching both Year 2 seminar and two electives, “Script to Screen” and “TV Writing,” this semester. Though these electives don’t seem very ‘political’, Miranda has always prided herself on applying a sense of social and political awareness to her background in film.

BHSEC is known for, and prides itself on its diverse and extremely well qualified teaching staff. The newest member of the science department, Ben Mikesh, is no exception to this standard. Mikesh, who will be the new 9th grade physics teacher, has done it all.