The Crimson

2022-2023 Staff

Sydney Kaul
Editor-in-Chief

Sydney Kaul

Sydney Kaul is currently a senior at Bernards High School. She enjoys writing about current events that affect her town as well as reporting on important international issues. She has always had a love for writing of all kinds....

Jane Holmes
Editor-In-Chief

Jane Holmes

This is  Jane Holmes and she is a Senior at Bernards High school. She is one of 5 kids. She have been doing Journalism since her Sophomore year and she Love it. She enjoy writing about current events that are happening at the...

Meghan Shelley
Editor-In-Chief

Meghan Shelley

Meghan is a senior at BHS, and this is her third year working as an editor for The Crimson. She especially enjoys writing and editing articles relating to entertainment and opinions. In her free time she enjoys reading, writing,...

Matt Lesnik
Editor-In-Chief

Matt Lesnik

Matt Lesnik is a senior at Bernards, in his fourth year of journalism. He is an avid sports fan, enjoying football, baseball, basketball, and hockey. In their 2020 season, Matt covered Bernards' football team for Central Jersey...

News Editor

Madison Ferruggia

Madison Ferruggia is a junior in her second year in journalism. She hasn't quite decided what topics she would be interested in writing about, but there are multiple that she would. Madison is a member of both the lacrosse and...

Scarlett Campbell
Opinions Editor

Scarlett Campbell

This is Scarlett Campbell! She is a senior at Bernards High school. Scarlett was class president and a peer leader for three years and is currently president of Best Buddies Club, Debate Team, and STEMentor Club. She spends her...

Matt Mariani
Sports Editor

Matt Mariani

Matt is a third year journalism student. He enjoys writing about sports, especially football and basketball. He enjoys playing sports and hanging out with friends during his free time. He plays for the high school basketball team...

Spencer Saltz
sports editor/staff writer

Spencer Saltz

Spencer is a sophomore at BHS and is in the class of 2024 taking his second year in journalism. He plays soccer and basketball, enjoys topics of sports and history and has two siblings. Spencer loves writing about sports and opionated...

Olivia Guyet
Entertainment Editor

Olivia Guyet

This is Olivia Guyet! She is currently a senior at BHS. She lives in Bernardsville and has 2 sister. She enjoys journalism because she wants to learn more about current events happening around school and town.

Emma Swope
Entertainment Editor

Emma Swope

Emma is a junior at BHS in her first year doing journalism and she is a Section Editor. She is looking forward to writing about entertainment. She does soccer and track, and is involved in many different clubs. English is her...

Gianna Galesi
Entertainment Editor

Gianna Galesi

Gianna is a second year Journalism student and section editor. She is a junior who loves to write and spends her free time reading and drawing. Psychology is the most interesting subject to Gianna in school. She believes that...

Ava Highland
Entertainment Editor

Ava Highland

Ava is a junior at BHS, and in journalism 2! This is her third year in journalism, she loves writing and editing articles for the entertainment section. Ava enjoys playing tennis for the school team, and is the chair of the advertising...

Juliette Maro
Staff Writer

Juliette Maro

Juliette is a freshman at BHS and a first-year staff writer! She plays field hockey, runs track in the spring, and enjoys shopping and snowboarding. Her favorite subject in school is history because she likes to write. This is...

Payton Zaun
Staff Writer

Payton Zaun

Hi my name is Payton Zaun! I am a sophomore from Bernardsville. I have an older sister and an older brother. I play Basketball and Soccer. I chose to take Journalism this year because my sister took it in the past and loved it!...

Alex Vaccaro
Staff Writer

Alex Vaccaro

Alex Vaccaro is a sophomore at BHS in his first year of Journalism. Alex has played lacrosse his whole life and just started playing soccer during his freshman year. Outside of sports, his favorite subject is English and his favorite...

Kilian Schlager
Staff Writer

Kilian Schlager

Kilian is a sophomore at BHS and is in his first year of Journalism as a staff-writer. He enjoys surfing and skiing in his free time, as well as hanging out with his friends. Kilian has lived in 6 different countries, and speaks...

Garrett Senior
Staff Writer

Garrett Senior

Garret Senior  is a sophomore at BHS in his first year of Journalism. Garrets played both Lacrosse and Soccer for eight years now. Outside of sports, Garret likes to bike and go fishing. His favorite place to eat is Chipotle.

Greg Ferreira
Staff Writer

Greg Ferreira

Greg is a Senior in his first year of journalism. He took this class because a lot of his friends recommended it. He enjoys hanging out with his friends and playing soccer. His favorite season is spring and he has 2 older brothers.

Julia Haas
Staff Writer

Julia Haas

Julia is a sophomore at BHS, and has always loved to write. In her free time, she fences for the school team, and plays guitar. She's always interested in learning new things and is so excited to write about them.

Taejin Beckerman
Staff Writer

Taejin Beckerman

Taejin is a senior at BHS, in his first year of journalism. Outside of school he has participated in basketball for the past eight years, and plans to study business in the future.

Staff Writer

Abbie Zarin

Abbie is a junior in her first year of journalism. She has a brother who also goes to Bernards. Her favorite subject in school is history because she loves learning about the world. Abbie decided to take journalism because she ...

Lucas Garcete
Staff Writer

Lucas Garcete

Lucas is a 9th grader in his first year of journalism. He took the class because he enjoys writing. He likes to hang out with friends and play soccer.

Julian Bonk
Staff Writer

Julian Bonk

Julian is a freshman in his first year of journalism. He runs track and field, and plays tennis which he has been playing for a couple years now. He has a younger brother who is in seventh grade and he has a pet pig. His favorite s...

Jake Ballard
Staff Writer

Jake Ballard

Jake is a Senior at BHS and in Intro to Journalism. He is interested in writing sports articles, both local and national. Jake has been playing football for two years, and has been on the track and field team for two years. H...

Spencer Sorge
Staff Writer

Spencer Sorge

Spencer Sorge is a hardworking and creative sophomore at Bernards. She has a younger brother and a dog named Cyder. It is her first year writing for the Crimson and hopes to write either entertainment or opinion articles. Outside...

Maria Stephani
Staff Writer

Maria Stephani

This is Maria Stephani! She is a sophomore at Bernards this year. She is a kind and hardworking student who is thrilled to be a part of the Crimson staff this year! She has a younger brother and a dog named Lily who she rescued....

Victoria Brothers
Staff Writer

Victoria Brothers

This is Victoria! She is a senior at Bernards. She has a younger brother, an older sister, and a dog named Bailey. She is interested in writing articles for journalism this year and hoping to pursue it in her coming years.

Ella Patel
Staff Writer

Ella Patel

This is Ella! She is currently a freshman at BHS. She went to Bedminster Middle school. She has 2 younger siblings and 3 dogs. she loves to read and she hopes to go to Rutgers University after high school.

Lauren Sullivan
Staff Writer

Lauren Sullivan

Lauren Sullivan is a sophomore, and this school year she is looking forward to the sports she will play this year. She plays soccer, and lacrosse, and does winter track. Out of the three her favorite is lacrosse because of how fast...

Finn Vaccaro
Staff Writer

Finn Vaccaro

Finn is a sophomore, in his first year of journalism as a staff writer and intro student. He plays lacrosse and soccer, and participates in both Key Club and Investment Club. He is looking forward to writing for The Crimson to...

Rose Costello
Staff Writer

Rose Costello

Rose is a junior at BHS and it's her first year doing journalism. She looks forward to doing opinion writing. In college she wants to pursue journalism and communications. Over the summer she did a program in NYC writing for film....

Elizabeth Simpson
Staff Writer

Elizabeth Simpson

Liz is currently a senior, who is an active peer leader and key club member. As co-captain of field hockey, as well as teammates for lacrosse and basketball, she plays a major role in her community. In the future, she hopes to...

Claire Taylor
Staff Writer

Claire Taylor

Claire is a sophomore in her first year of journalism, she enjoys writing and is interested in trying journalism to familiarize herself with a new style of writing. In her free time she plays tennis and basketball, as well as...

Maggie Dolan
Staff Writer

Maggie Dolan

Maggie Dolan is currently a senior who plans on attending college and potentially entering the field of marketing. She has two older brothers, Matt, who is currently a sophomore at Holy Cross, and JT, who is a senior at SMU. She...

Lucinda Putnam
Staff Writer

Lucinda Putnam

Lucinda is a sophomore at BHS and a first year staff writer! Lucinda has been playing tennis for about 10 years and plays for the school team. Her favorite subject in school is History and she is interested in writing any type...

Caitlyn Sebastian
Staff Writer

Caitlyn Sebastian

Caitlyn Sebastian is currently a senior at Bernards High School. She has two siblings; a 15-year-old sister and a 13-year-old brother. She began her journey in journalism because she likes to write and wants to explore a new style...

Ari Rosen
Staff Writer

Ari Rosen

Ari Rosen is a sophomore at Bernards High school in his first year of journalism. Ari is a big sports fan, enjoying baseball, football, and basketball. He is the sophomore class president, and enjoys photography. He is the producer...

Sophia Vascellaro
Staff Writer

Sophia Vascellaro

Sophia is a senior at BHS and is a first-year staff writer for the Crimson. She is the captain of BHS’ field hockey team, and she enjoys reading, writing, and socializing. She is interested to try a different writing style and ...

Rajan Gandhi
Staff Writer

Rajan Gandhi

Rajan is a first year journalism student. He plays basketball and tennis. He wants to go to Yale for college to become a lawyer.

Sophia Vascellaro
Staff Writer

Sophia Vascellaro

Sophia is a senior at BHS and is a first-year staff writer for the Crimson. She is the captain of BHS’ field hockey team, and she enjoys reading, writing, and socializing. She is interested to try a different writing style and...

Morgan Sikes
Staff Writer

Morgan Sikes

Morgan Sikes is a junior at Bernards High School and this is her second year being a staff writer! Morgan has been doing dance for 13 years and enjoys doing several styles, such as ballet, jazz, and pointe. She is also a member...

Mei Salemi
Staff Writer

Mei Salemi

Mei loves to hang out with family and friends, learn, read, and run! She loves journalism and her favorite subject is science. She has two dogs, Tucker and Jasper, that her family adopted during quarantine during covid-19

Ben Costales
Staff Writer

Ben Costales

This is Ben Costales he is a sophomore here at Bernards! He chose Journalism because he loves to write. He is very excited to meet new people this year in high school.

Gianna Ramirez

Gianna Ramirez

Gianna is a sophomore at BHS and is a first-year staff writer! She loves psychology and Mamma Mia! She also plays softball and is excited to go to Florida for a team trip this year! Gianna decided to join journalism because she...

Sophia Ford

Sophia Ford

This is Sophia. She is currently a senior, who joined the Crimson staff because she wants to pursue a future career in broadcast meteorology. Sophia spends most of her time competitively dancing; she does tap, musical theater,...

Lila Beckerman
Staff writer

Lila Beckerman

This is Lila! She is a sophomore at BHS. She has an older brother who is a senior. Lila lives in Gladstone, NJ. She joined journalism because loves to write!

Alexa Paterno
Features Editor

Alexa Paterno

Alexa is a sophomore at Bernards High School and is a second-year journalism student. Alexa took this class because her mom encouraged her to, and she is excited to conduct interviews and write opinion and sports articles. Alexa's...

Charlotte Zaun
Staff writer

Charlotte Zaun

Charlotte is a sophomore at BHS, and is an opinion section editor as well as a second-year staff writer! Charlotte enjoys writing about current events in our school and around town. She loves conducting interviews and learning...

Summer Schnabolk
Features Editor

Summer Schnabolk

Summer Schnabolk is a senior at BHS. She is an active teammate for both the school's soccer and ski teams. She spends her free time baking anything and everything. She has a strong interest in business and plans on majoring in...

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