The Friar's Lantern

Posted by Matthew Lanetti on Jun 5, 2013

Summer Reading 2013

As the school year comes to it’s inevitable close, the students of Malvern Prep are now assigned with summer reading. Hopefully this isn’t being read towards the end of the summer, as you never want to be left with not enough time to complete what would have been a simple summer assignment. Enough with the chit-chat, here’s what you really came for: For students entering the NINTH...

Posted by Joseph DiSipio on May 29, 2013

Intramural Basketball Crowns “Z” Champions

Joe DiSipio ’14 The Dougherty Hall gymnasium lay still and silent as only the muffled Thump! Thump! of rubber against hardwood permeated the air. A championship, almost as important as the ones listed on the wall’s banners, lay in contention. Blue Redeem Team clung upon their last hope to rip glory from the hands of mighty Team Z. May 6th proceeded as a normal Monday for many students, but for a...

Posted by Joseph DiSipio on May 29, 2013

A Lappas at the Emmys

Joe DiSipio ’14 & Brian Tatlow ’14 Kristen Lappas might have become a basketball coach like her father or a teacher like her mother, but she always knew she wanted to do something else. For Kristen, her greatest passion wasn’t on the court or at the front of the classroom, but behind a lens. Lappas worked tirelessly beginning in high school to break into the world of production and...

Posted by Editor on May 24, 2013

On Participation and Passion

The Editorial Board Write, write, write. Get your name on every one of those lists. It’s the day to sign up for extracurricular activities and college is on the line! Participate! Be active! Build your résumé! These are the messages that students have been redundantly receiving since before high school even began, but what if that were all to change? Each year, Mrs. Kenworthey stands before her Church...

Posted by Brian Tatlow on May 23, 2013

Paoli Gets Mugged

Brian Tatlow ’14 Rolling a ball of wet clay in your anxious hands, then throwing a cylinder on the ceramics wheel. Trim, slab a handle on there, fire, glaze, enjoy. That’s the process of throwing one handmade mug. Students in Ms. Plows’s Ceramics 3 class each threw 25 mugs this semester, all reflecting their own creativity and talents. Yet all of these hand crafted mugs would soon be...

Posted by Danny McGlinn on May 23, 2013

Juniors Follow a Green Light to a Great Evening

Dan McGlinn ’14 After two months of anticipation, the day finally arrived. The Great Gatsby was released in theaters May 10th, and nearly thirty members of the junior class at Malvern were there to see it. Not only was the film worthwhile, but we were joined by Miss Walsh, recently retired from Malvern after 40 years of teaching and the driving inspiration for our love of Gatsby. It was certainly a...

Posted by mmagargee40 on May 23, 2013

Malvern Prom 2013: Outer Space or Warminster?

Matt Magargee ’14 Thank God we made it out of that sauna of a before-party alive. Fortunately, the hour long bus ride did not seem that long. Highway after highway, our bus zoomed out of anywhere I knew. Questioning where we were, I looked out the window to see a sign telling us our location: Horsham. “Horsham? That sounds like a place you hear about in car commercials on the radio,” I heard...

Posted by Joseph DiSipio on May 23, 2013

Big Changes for Guidance Department and Common App

Joe DiSipio ’14 Watch out Juniors! And you thought this college stuff was hard enough already. Little do you know the establishment (aka “Myron” according to our beloved Mr. Roper) decided to switch things up on us this year. The Common App, which 488 colleges and universities across the country use, is changing! The good news is that Friars do not have too much to worry about, because we have a...