Author: Ivy Miller

’23 Boys Lacrosse

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By Claire Stretanski ’23

Boys lacrosse at Wyoming Seminary has grown over the years, and this year they are better than ever. With a current record of 13 wins and 0 losses, they are enjoying their extremely successful season. This year, they have a combination of their PIAA league games and exhibition games against some of the best teams around. The last weekend in April, they celebrated a win against Johnson City, a team they beat for the first time in boys lacrosse history. 

Not only are these boys successful on the field, they also are successful in their team culture. They care so much about each other, and it is obvious to the spectators. Throughout the game, whether on the field or the sidelines, the boys are constantly patting each other on the backs, hyping each other up, and overall just enjoying the game. A member of the team even stated, “the team culture and chemistry is great, and we are hoping to make a run in the state tournament. We are a very close group of kids with great coaches as well.” 

As a team, they have clearly been successful, but there are many individual successes as well. Some recent accomplishments have been Richie Deluna with his 200th career faceoff win, Matt Swartz scored his 100th goal, Quinn Kelly reached 400 saves, and Xavier Beaulac scored his 100th point. They all support each other’s accomplishments and achievements, adding to the positive culture of the team.

What’s Rehearsing on the BPAC Stage?

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By Dino Perusko ’24

“You take a couple of geniuses, put them in a room together and… Holy schalmoley”, a line from unintentionally funny and old Gaston, might best describe what has been rehearsing for the past 1 month and a half on the BPAC stage at Wyoming Seminary. Sem’s drama department has been preparing its first spring play after almost a three-year break due to the pandemic, and it is coming back in full swing.

Set in a smoky cabaret in Paris, Picasso at the Lapin Agile presents two geniuses at the start of their career in 1904, just one year before Albert Einstein transformed physics by publishing his Special Theory of Relativity, and three years before the famous painter shook the art world with his cubism in the painting Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. The play also casts time-traveling Elvis Presley and slightly delusional scientist Schmendiman.

Filled with the new ideas that have transformed the 20th century, the play takes its audience from humor-filled scenes to more serious and thought-provoking dialogues set in the dawn of the 20th century. With hilarious one-liners, shaky and unstable relationships, and two geniuses that have marked the 20th century,  the play is secured to keep the audience entertained, shaking from laughter, and engaged since “the lights came up, and the lights went down”.

Directed by Ellen Sherry, featuring Dino Perusko ‘24 as Freddy, Harry Xu ‘25 as Gaston, Peyton Popple ‘23 as Germaine. Benecio Carpentier ‘24 as Einstein, Ari Froehlich ‘24 as Sagot, Ainsley Eidam’23 as Picasso, Kate Soreth ‘26 as Schmendiman, Anna Chong ‘24 as Countess, Holly Egbert ‘23 / Lauren Urosevich ‘23 as admirers and Alex Smulowitz ‘25 as a visitor, this absurdist comedy written by Steve Martin will shine on stage, in the black-box setting of BPAC, on Friday, April 28, as the first spring play at Sem since 2019.

Model UN at CMUNC

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By Dino Perusko ’24

From Thursday, April 20 to Sunday, April 23, 13 delegates from Sem’s Model UN Club got a chance to attend CMUNC, Cornell Model United Nations Conference in Ithaca, New York. Through the course of four days, students worked together in their committees to bring resolutions regarding real-world problems like the problem of maternal healthcare and reproductive rights at the World Conference on Women, and some not-so-real-world ones, like who killed the Queen, not the British one (may she rest in peace), but the one in the playing card deck.

For his performance in the above mentioned committee, one of our delegates, Robert Beletsky ‘23 was awarded a verbal commendation by his chair. Students thoroughly enjoyed their four days in Ithaca, outside and inside the conferences and in between – riding on the Big D’s Limousine. Although unable to attend the famous hike, they got a chance to tour the Cornell campus, do some sightseeing of its famous bridges,  explore Ithaca Commons, and even see Napoleon walking around during the conferences. Many new friendships were also formed with students from all across the world, from a student from an upscale school in Rochester, New York to one of our student’s look-alike.

For many of this club’s members, this was their last Model UN conference in high school. With bittersweet feelings about leaving this activity behind, they gladly recalled on all the fun experiences, resolutions, and friendships that they have made, inside or outside of the committee rooms at various conferences that they have attended, but also all the diplomatic and public speaking skills that they have earned throughout their years of Model UN.

The conference at Cornell was the perfect reminder that maybe it is not all about the awards that they have earned, but the friendships that they have made along the way.