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AAU (ALLIANCE FOR ACCEPTANCE AND UNDERSTANDING) AFS (AMERICAN FIELD SERVICE) AFS is an international exchange program. Our student club encourages Dover-Sherborn High School students to travel abroad; both school year and summer programs are available. Opportunities are also available to host foreign exchange students for the school year. The club provides both support and social events for visiting AFS students. Throughout the year, the club organizes and participates in many activities including the main event, the AFS weekend in November. Dover-Sherborn invites more than 20 foreign exchange students living in the New England area to visit our school. The exchange students are hosted for the weekend by club members and are recognized in the annual AFS Talent Show. Officers are elected and the annual dues are $5.00. The club meets monthly and has over 50 members. Faculty Advisor: Richard Waterman CAPAY (COALITION FOR ASIAN-PACIFIC AMERICAN YOUTH) CAPAY is a group that participates in activities to raise awareness of Asian American issues and Asian culture. CAPAY sponsors Asian movie night, Asian potluck, CAPAY Conference tour of Chinatown, the celebration of Asian American Heritage month, and cooking classes. CAPAY only fundraises when required. An example of past fundraising involved selling Chinese New Year envelopes and paper cuts in order to generate funds for the Pang Lui village in China. CAPAY meets once per month. The average number of members is 20. Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Vizulis CHESS TEAM The Chess Team practices and competes against area high schools from December to March. There is also an Individual Tournament at Sharon High School on a Saturday in March. Practices are on Wednesdays from 2:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m., and approximately 10 matches are scheduled on Mondays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The average size of the team is 15, with five as “starters” competing against other schools. Faculty Advisor: Charlie Chicklis CHINA EXCHANGE PROGRAM The Dover-Sherborn Exchange Group is in China for eight weeks, typically from the end of January until the end of March, depending on the date of Chinese New Year. Participating students must be seniors; participating teachers are selected from either the Dover Sherborn Middle School or High School. Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Vizulis DCTV (DOVER CABLE TELEVISION) DCTV offers students the opportunity to learn about video production and video editing by assisting DCTV with the recording of school concerts and athletic events. In addition, students can create their own productions to be aired on DCTV. There is no cost associated with training or producing, and no experience is necessary. DCTV is located in Lindquist Commons next door to the Music Room. For further information, contact Cable Access Corporation and Comcast at (508) 785-0737, or stop by the DCTV office. Faculty Advisor: Mike Klein DRAMA PERFORMANCES Dover-Sherborn High School produces two plays each year. The fall drama is a non-musical production. A musical is performed in the winter. There is a banquet in the spring for participants. Fall Drama Auditions for the fall play are held over two days in mid-June of the previous school year in order to give the cast time over the summer to read, review, and memorize the script. Rehearsals take place in September and October, on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3 to 6pm, until the three early November performances (two 7pm performances on Thursday and Friday and one 2pm matinee on Saturday). There are no weekend rehearsals except a technical rehearsal the weekend before the show. The production design crew, led by Mr. Len Schnabel, meets on Tuesdays after school as well as on announced Saturdays. The costume and prop crew, led by Ms. Judy Cranshaw-Grassia, meets on Thursdays after school. There are approximately 10-15 cast members plus many crew members in the fall play. Faculty Advisor: Joseph Catalfano
Winter Musical Tryouts are held for two days after school in mid-December. Rehearsals are held three times per week until the performances in early March. There is additional rehearsal time during the week of the performances. The crew meets for five Saturdays in the winter to create the set. There are four performances, featuring two casts of leads. There are approximately 40 cast members, 30 crew members, and 10 pit musicians in the musical. Additional information can be found on the following web site: TBA Faculty Advisor: Scott Walker
The Frisbee Club The Frisbee Club is a co-ed club that competes in Ultimate Frisbee games on Tuesdays after school from 2:30-3:30pm throughout the fall and spring seasons. Faculty Advisor: Chris Levasseur
GSA (GAY/STRAIGHT ALLIANCE) The GSA’s mission is to create a safe environment for all members of the Dover Sherborn High School community by educating students and staff about GSA issues. GSA sponsors both club and school wide events, including annual coffee houses, outdoor concerts (DStock) and movie nights. Once a year it organizes a Day of Silence to recognize those in our culture who are discriminated against because of sexual orientation; members also participate in the AIDS Walk. Funds that are raised through admission fees from our social events are used to procure speakers and performances for the entire school community. The group meets twice a month and more frequently prior to an event. The average number of members is 30. Faculty Advisors: Josh Bridger, Gretchen Donohue MARC PROGRAM The MARC program is a student advocacy group inspired by the ground-breaking work done by the Massachusetts Aggression Reduction Center at Bridgewater State College. The Dover Sherborn MARC program works to educate students on topics of social exclusion and cyber and real-time bullying. The goal is to empower students to create a school climate that matches the intent of our mission statement that each student deserves to learn in "...an atmosphere of freedom and trust in a safe and nurturing environment." Faculty Advisors: Paul Butterworth and Heidi Loando MATH TEAM The math team is open to students who enjoy mathematics and are interested in competing with other schools in the Southeastern Massachusetts Mathematics League. Team members compete in scheduled meets and frequently qualify for State and New England competitions. There are seven monthly meets per year from November through May. The club meets or completes packets of math problems twice a month. The average number of members is 25. Faculty Advisor: Jim Baroody MOCK TRIAL The mock trial team competes in the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Education Division Mock Trial competition for schools in Massachusetts. Students receive a packet of information on the year’s case from the Bar Association, and then meet to determine the strengths and weaknesses of each side of the case. Once these are established, roles are assigned and students practice their arguments for both prosecution/plaintiff and defense. The Bar then schedules trials at the District Courts, in which the team competes against other schools, trying to move through the rounds to the state championship. Meeting times vary. As the competition date approaches, longer meetings are held to work through the entire trial, test questions and lines of argument, and get students accustomed to thinking on their feet. The competition trials are held in January and February. These could be extended if the team moves on to regional and state competitions. The team is currently funded by a grant from the Education Fund. The average number of members is 10-15. Faculty Advisors: Tom Bourque and Brendan O'Hagan MUSIC CLUB The music club is a group of students that meet weekly to play music, learn about music, and share techniques, songs and skills. The meeting atmosphere is informal and supportive and the goal is to encourage musicians at all levels to practice and collaborate. The club sponsors coffee houses at Lindquist Commons, and sometimes organizes larger events in the community. Students who wish can learn how to use the school's recording equipment to mix and make professional sounding CD's of their music. The club is open to all, and meets in Mr. Bridger's room, where there are many instruments and songbooks. Faculty Advisor: Joshua Bridger NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY At the beginning of every school year, juniors and seniors who have a GPA of 3.8 or higher are invited to apply to the Dover-Sherborn chapter of the National Honor Society. Although academic achievement is a prerequisite for membership, qualified applicants should understand that the National Honor Society is also a leadership and service organization. Ideally, members will have demonstrated themselves to be brilliant and diligent scholars who have stood out in the classroom and even at the state or national level through winning academic awards or competitions. They will have handled setbacks with grace and perseverance. Members will have demonstrated character by proving themselves trustworthy and reliable whether or not they are at school, whether or not someone is watching. They will have distinguished themselves as leaders inside or outside of school by serving in elected, appointed, or volunteer positions in which they have proved themselves able to guide and motivate others. Students will have distinguished themselves in their devotion to serving others, certainly going far beyond the minimum graduation community service requirement. According to the National Honor Society Handbook, membership is: "an honor bestowed upon a student. Selection to NHS is a privilege, not a right. Students […] provide information to be used by the local selection committee [Faculty Council] to support their candidacy for membership. This is not an election, nor is membership automatic simply because a student has achieved the specified level of academic performance [3.8 average or above is required]. Selection for membership is based on outstanding scholarship, character, leadership, and service. Once selected, members have the responsibility to continue to demonstrate these qualities." Applications for membership consideration are typically due between the second and third week of September. The supporting information that students supply is reviewed by the Faculty Council, and then selected students receive an invitation to join the Dover-Sherborn chapter of the National Honor Society. The application form can be downloaded in a Microsoft Word format or a PDF format. Faculty Advisors: Elisabeth Melad and Mary Andrews
PHILOSOPHY CLUB Entirely student initiated and operated, the Philosophy Club is an organization that meets regularly to discuss some of the deeper questions raised by men and women about their existence. Discussions ranging from age-old questions of ethics to modern-day legal issues are articulated and debated at comfortable club meetings held after school on selected days. Faculty Advisor: Lindsay Li
PHYSICS TEAM The Physics Olympics Team is made up of the AP Physics class as well as other students who are invited to join for their particular expertise in the field of physics. Therefore, this club is not open to all students. The Team meets once or twice a week from January to early March to practice for the Physics Olympics, a daylong competition of seven events involving theoretical and experimental physics. The average number of team members is 16. Faculty Advisor: Charlie Chicklis PINE STREET INN BREAKFAST CLUB The Pine Street Inn Breakfast Club consists of juniors and seniors who volunteer at the Pine Street Inn in Boston. Every other Friday morning the students meet at 5:00 a.m. at the high school and travel with a teacher by school van to the Pine Street Inn. There they serve breakfast to the homeless clients of the Inn. Return to the high school is at 8:30 a.m. The average number of members is 20-25 but only 11 students at a time may serve meals. Faculty Advisor: Jim Baroody THE REST (A CAPPELLA CHORUS) The Rest is a student-managed, coed, a cappella singing group that focuses primarily on popular music. Performances include two GSA Coffee Houses per year, the winter and spring concerts, baccalaureate service, graduation, local benefits, community events, and the AFS Talent Show. Funds are raised through CD sales and earnings from certain performances and through grants from Friends of the Performing Arts. Current members hold auditions for new members at the beginning of each school year. The group meets once a week for one and a half to two hours, and more frequently prior to a performance. The average number of members is 12-14. Faculty Advisor: Joshua Bridger ROBOTICS CLUB The Dover-Sherborn High School Robotics Club participates in the FIRST Tech Challenge which is a robotics program for ages 14-18. Students design, build and program a robot to accomplish tasks in a game that is released every September by FIRST. In competitions, two alliances of two teams each compete head-to-head using a exiting sports model. The season begins with the kick-off in September and competitions take place throughout the winter. The MA State Championship is held in March. The club meets after school as well as on the weekends. The club is open to all students and no prior robotics experience is necessary. Faculty Advisor: Lindsay Li. RUNES Members of Runes produce the annual Dover-Sherborn High School literary and art magazine, RUNES. Members are responsible for the layout of the magazine, which is a collection of students’ work containing approximately 45 pieces of literature and 25 graphic representations of art work. In past years, RUNES has won awards from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Columbia Journalism Contest. Other club events encourage student literary and artistic talent as well as social activities. Runes sponsors school wide contests in both art and writing yearly. The group meets twice a month during the first semester to evaluate submissions. During the second semester meetings are more frequent as we produce the book. The average number of members is 20. Faculty Advisor: Scott Huntoon and Kelly Sullivan SADD (STUDENTS AGAINST DESTRUCTIVE DECISIONS) SADD is an organization of caring students concerned with the issues of underage drinking, drug use, impaired driving, and seatbelt safety. SADD works to raise awareness of these issues through educational programs, speakers’ campaigns, and fun, drug-free activities. Special events include the Red Ribbon Project, the 6th Grade Halloween Dance, speakers for SADD week, White Out Day, Face: a three screen multimedia event, the SADD Prom Fashion Show, the SADD State Conference, and the Youth In Action Conference. Fundraising to support guest speakers and conferences includes the sale of tickets for the Evening of Giving at the Natick Mall and the SADD Prom Fashion Show. SADD meets twice per month. The average number of members is 85. Faculty Advisor: Kelly Sullivan STUDENT COUNCIL Student Council is the student government at Dover-Sherborn High School. Four elected students from each grade provide an outlet for the students’ voice to be heard by the school administration. Student Council works to raise school and community spirit by events such as Spirit Week, March Madness, Teacher Appreciation Day, and a Red Cross Blood Drive. Student Council meets twice per month for approximately one hour. Faculty Advisors: John Hickey and KC Potts TIME OUT FOR KIDS Time Out For Kids is an organization comprised of students whose motto is “Kids Helping Kids”. Club activities include the annual Spelling Bee, raffles, children’s concerts and clothing drives. Past funds have been used for Free The Children, donating textbooks for Indian schools, purchasing library books for the village library in Pang Liu China, and for sending students to Safe Haven camp for students with AIDS. Time Out For Kids meets once a month. The average number of members is 15. Faculty Advisor: Rebecca Vizulis YEARBOOK Unlike most of the clubs and activities listed here, Yearbook is actually a year-long course. Open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, Yearbook is always seeking creative, enthusiastic people for its staff. Members are given the rare opportunity to document their High School experience with words and pictures. Our goal is to capture the diversity of student life at D-S... and to have fun while doing it. Come join us! Faculty Advisor: Darren Buck
The Dover-Sherborn Public Schools do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex/gender, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, or homelessness. This applies to all curricular and extracurricular programs, activities, services, and scholarships.
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