Theatre Teacher Directs Final Play for East

By Sara Prygocki, staff reporter

Appropriately Mrs. Anna Botsford dressed as a Super Theatre Teacher during Tuesday's Superhero and Super villain theme day

Photo by Hannah Driscoll, staff photographer

 As most of the school knows, our hard-working theatre and English teacher Mrs. Anna Botsford is dividing her time between Sturgis West and Sturgis East. Following this year she will be working permanently at Sturgis West.

One of her many jobs is being the theatre director for Sturgis Theatre Arts Guild of Entertainers (STAGE), which puts on the school plays outside of the academic theater classes. This job will be passed on to the new English and Theatre teacher Mrs. Rachel Ollagnon following the fall play.

Botsford plans to make her last play here a good one with the popular comedy “Rumors,” authored by Neil Simon. It takes place in New York City: Four couples get caught in the middle of a gunshot mystery, and hilarity ensues. The play opens in December.

Charlie Powicki Wins Poetry Out Loud Contest

Photo by Lily Haselton, staff photographer
Poetry Out Loud Winner Charlie Powicki

Freshmen Charlie Powicki won the Poetry Out Loud School Contest on February 3 and will move on to the state sectionals at the Cultural Center in South Yarmouth on March.

Powicki was one of eight freshmen who participated in the afternoon in the library. The contest, sponsored by the Huntington Theatre of Boston's Educational Outreach Department, started as a poetry recitation unit in the three freshman English classes.