The Editorial: The Yearbook according to Jomeo and Ruliet
This is the Shakespearean tragedy of Jomeo and Ruliet, a play of two
yearbook editors who due to their love for a school yearbook wrote a tragic
editorial
Scene 1: Seven days before deadline
Prospero: Knowing I loved my taxpayer dollars, he, Gonzalo, furnished
me from mine own library with yearbooks that I prize above my dictatorship
of the HVHS Yearbook.
Miranda: Would I might but never see that yearbook!
Prospero: Now I arise. Sit still, and hear the last of our yearbook.
Here in this school we arrived; and here have I, thy yearbook coeditor,
made thee more profit than other yearbook editors could, that have
more time for vainer hours, and tutors not so careful.
Miranda: Heavens thank you fort! And now I pray you, fellow
coeditor...
For still tis beating in my mindyour reason for raising this yearbook
fretting storm?
(The Tempest, A1S2)
Scene 2: Six days before deadline
Quince: O monstrous! O strange! We are haunted! Pray, yearbook
typists! Fly, typists! Help!
Puck: Ill follow you, Ill lead you about a round,
Through keyboard, through crashes, through cracks in the monitor
(A Midsummer Nights Dream, A3S1)
Scene 3: Five days before deadline
Ruliet: O Jomeo, Jomeo, wherefore art thou Jomeo?
Deny thy yearbook and refuse thy photo collage;
Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love
And Ill no longer be a yearbook editor.
(Romeo and Juliet)
Scene 4: Four days before deadline
Petruchio: Room B13, for a while I take my leave
To see my friends in the common room; but of all my best beloved and
approved friend Hortensio; and I trow this is his yearbook camera.
Here, sirrah Grumio, drink two teaspoons of instant coffee each day, I
say.
Grumio: Coffee, sir? Nescafé®? With whom should I consume coffee?
(The Taming of the Shrew)
Scene 5: Two days before deadline (gulp
)
When they had sworn to this advised doom
They did conclude to bear thy yearbook deadline thence,
To show the uncomplete remains through Rome,
And so to publish the editors foul offence;
Which being done with speedy diligence,
The Romans plausibly did give consent
To the HVHS Yearbook Teams everlasting banishment.
(The Rape of Lucrece)
Scene 6: What deadline? (˝ hour left)
[We didnt know how to finish off a Shakespearean tragiparody, so we thought
wed leave you in the lurch on the ending to Jomeo and Ruliet.]
Jonathan: What a way to end an interesting time at HVHS, though.
Theres not an awful lot Im gonna say in the confessional now, but suffice
to say inbetween my concerted attempts to dance and sing the words to Stop
while playing it during my yearbook meetings (I still cant remember most of the
Spice Girls hand actions for that song), we made a rule we wanted to break. More is
more than more is more than more. I still dont get it. But in the end we got more
pages. Thats the essence.
Well, I oughta thank a few people, in no particular order naturally. Freya I. for
making sure I quite literally didnt run in front of an afterschool bus on Woburn
Road. (I kid you not. Thanks Freya.) Arun S., Melanie S., Megan P., Jenny B.,
James G. and Sarah P. for reading my poetry during Z Study spell and
making sure at the same time I slowed my two-a-day Milo-and-coffee habit. Fraser
L., Jec D., Laura H., Lizzie C., Anna V., Stuart W., Carly D. and Barney W., the
front lawn gang, for being a good forum for me during interval to test my yearbook design
ideas on. My History class, 7HIHN, for doing the same thing. 3MC,
for enduring a few bad moments in English. Naomi C., Catherine S., Daniel G.,
Jamie D., Sam P., Marissa B., Jon L., Gemma M., Kea W., Sarika P., some English teachers
that I think wanted to remain anonymous and too many other people to remember for
reading some second-rate (?) poetry, short stories and radio play scripts
of mine. (Im still writing them.) And to all those who sent in stuff for us
yearbook minions to type, scan, vex over, proofread and have fun reading. You are
the most marvellous of the lot.
Roseleen: Well, I guess Jonathan has said it all. I think Ill let him
have the limelight! (He had it especially when he was doing the Spice Girls STOP!
Sorry James but Jonathan just takes the cake!)
Now it is time for my thank yous. First to my yearbook team! You are the coolest. Thank
you to my legendary layout artist James man you rock! Jonathan,
my Jomeo, thank you for going mentally insane for me youre the best coeditor
partner in the world! Oh yes, and Mrs Mulligan you crazy kid! That in
includes Ms Honan, Mrs White, Mrs Sinclair, Mrs Lister, Mrs Boaden and Ms
Fergusson
you all helped soooooooooooooo much!!
And most of all to our sponsors and people who supplied reports, writing, art
and photos: without you our entire yearbook would look particularly pitiful.
I must also say to my third form class, 3DE, you are the best third
form class in the world!
But there is also a special wish: good luck to the class of 99! Never forget your
time at HVHS. Lots of love!Roseleen xxxxx
Jonathan: Now that Ive finished dribbling, on with more important stuff,
like you reading this yearbook! Have fun.
Roseleen Bhan, 7DE (Miranda, Quince, Ruliet and Grumio)
Jonathan Ah Kit, 7MC (Prospero, Puck, Jomeo and Pretruchio)
(with Mrs D Mulligan as Gonzalo and James Lamb, 7SO as Hortensio)
The 1999 HVHS Yearbook Amateur Dramatics Troupe were:
Name |
Role |
Character |
Mrs D Mulligan |
(bigtime yearbook lady) |
Princess Innogen |
Miss J Honan |
(other yearbook bigtimer) |
Mercutio |
Roseleen Bhan |
(the coeditor #1) |
Ruliet |
Jonathan Ah Kit |
(the coeditor #2 and photos) |
Jomeo |
James Lamb |
(the layout artist king) |
King Lear |
Pin Chaivanichakul |
(bigtime scanner dude) |
Nick Bottom |
Michael Koo |
(scanner-typist dude #1) |
Vicentio |
Shaun Day |
(fundraiser and photo boy) |
Mustardseed |
David Coppell |
(scanner-typist dude #2) |
Peaseblossom |
Amrita Ranchod |
(scanner-typist mistress) |
Queen Hippolyta |
Mohammad Amer |
(reporter-typist hero) |
Macduff |
Stephen Lwee |
(typist and little bro to Sarah) |
Claudio, Lord of Florence |
Sarah Lwee |
(layout do-gooder girl) |
Beatrice |
Sam Fung |
(PR and reporter hero) |
Proteus of Verona |
Clare Possenniskie |
(subeditor understudy) |
Margaret, lady-in-waiting |
Rachel Friedlander |
(subeditor understudy) |
Ursula, lady-in-waiting |
Megan Ridley |
(co-chief photographer hero) |
Portia, barrister/solicitor |
Isabella Clarke |
(interrogator hero) |
Rosaline |
Jess Firth |
(Freeze liaison and a photo guy) |
Tybalt |
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Copyright © 1999 by Hutt Valley High School
Extracted from page 4, Hutt Valley High School 1999,
the 1999 Hutt Valley High School yearbook.
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