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Volume XIII Issue I Fa

The CoJCL Torchnon est ad astra mollis e terris via

Fall Forum 2009Come join CoJCL for a day of Certamen, Latin games and food, and more.

Saturday, October 10, 20092:00 PM 5:00 PM

Fairview High School

Fall Forum has always been a fun event for

the Junior Classical League, but this year itpromises to be even better. In addition to the

traditional Certamen competition, JCLers will

have the opportunity to read Latin books such

asHarrius Potter, try Roman food, and enter

an impromptu art competition.

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Meet the OfficersGet to know your 2009-2010CoJCL Board a little better.

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NJCL DelegatesResults from the 2009National Junior ClassicalLeague Convention.

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Fun StuffPictures from NJCL andCoJCL conventions and Latinpuzzles.

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Officers

Meet your 2009 2010 Colorado Junior

Classical Leagueofficers.

Hank WinterscheidtPresident

Hey Guys, I'm Hank Winterscheidtand I'm the current president ofCoJCL. Im a junior at Regis JesuitHS and I'm in my third year of La-tin. I play football and soccer forRegis and I play the drums for theColorado Conservatory for the JazzArts. My favorite JCL memorywould have to be trying to chug agallon of water at last year'sconvention.

Heather JobVice President

Hey, my name is Heather Job andI'm your CoJCL vice president. I'ma junior at Cherry Creek, and I'min Latin III this year. I'm prettymuch a nerd all around, I spendmost of my time at marching band,speech and debate, choir, andLatin stuff. My favorite Latinrelated memory was probablyconvention last year. It was a blast.I love convention. Two days ofLatin. If I call that relaxing, am I adork? Probably.

Mary KentSecretary

My name is Mary Kent. I am the CoJCL Secretary. I amcurrently a senior at Fairview High School and am in myfourth year of Latin. I pledge my allegiance to my school andmy Latin teacher, Ms. Gibert very faithfully. Though I haveattended Latin Convention every year I've been in Latin andhave had an outstanding time at each of them, my favoritememory is the CoJCL State Convention 2009 dance. I am afool for dancing and could dance all day if I wanted to.

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Erika DavidoffEditor

Salvete. Im Erika Davidoff, your 09-10 CoJCLeditor. I attended two state conventions with theRicks Center and am now a Latin II freshman atHeritage High School. My job is to publish the Torchas often as ne-cessary and to keep the email list andthe new Face-book page and group updated. Myfavorite convention memories are the Latin Oratoryand throwing snowballs at the ceiling. I also lovemountain climbing.

Officers

Connor LehrHistorianI'm Connor Lehr, the CoJCL Historian. I am a Latin 2 studentat Regis Jesuit High School. As a 15 year old sophomore I havegone to one previous convention and hope to make this yearbetter than last. My favorite memory of CoJCL is going from thesteaming hot pool area into the snow that was falling fromabove.

Ben BrownMachinatorCogito ergo nihil est.

Zach PalermoParliamentarian

Wait, whos this guy? I thought Adam Safadi was

Parliamentarian. Turns out, when Safadi won national office, thestate office of Par-liamentarian was left vacant. As a result,youre stuck with thisguy as your Parliamentarian all year. I amcurrently a senior at The Classical Academy, and have completedall four levels of Latin that were offered at myschool. Probablymyfavorite JCL memory was the skit TCA put together for StateConvention last year. Cast as Hades, I wore emotastic amounts ofeye makeup and spoke in a gravelly rasp.I have enjoyed my 5years ofJCL so far, and hope that my6th is the best of them all.

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Congratulations 2009 NJCL DelegatesKirk McDonald, Adam Safadi, Patrick Hunger, Emily Skrutskie

This year, four students represented Colorado at the

annual National Junior Classical League convention in

July. Adam Safadi from Fariview High School, Kirk

McDonald from Fairview High School, Patrick Hunger of

Cherry Creek High School, and Emily Skrutskie, formerly

from Boulder High School, attended the California

convention. Collectively, they led Colorado to victory in the

spirit competition for small states. They also won several

individual awards. During the convention, the students

also attended many colloquia, on varying topics, includingbut not limited to those concerning officer duties, authors,

such as Steven Saylor and Kelli Stanley, and promoting

Latin in the community.

Additional congratulations go out to Adam Safadi, the

2009 CoJCL Parliamentarian, who was elected the 2009-

2010 NJCL Technology Coordinator!

Patrick Hungerwon first place in watercolor artand placed on many academictests

Kirk McDonaldwon third place for his pencildrawing and placed highly inseveral academic tests

Adam Safadiwon sixth place for traditionalphotography, seventh place forLatin sight reading, tenth placefor Latin oratory, and placed inthe top thirty on several tests

Emily Skrutskieplaced in the top ten on severalacademic tests and placed inmany performing arts

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The event will run from 2:00 to 5:00 on October 10 at Fairview High School. Fall Forum is a great

way to meet fellow Latin students from across the state and prepare for state convention in April,

as well as exploring fun Latin application in todays world.

Snacks will be served at the Forum. The event is absolutely free.

National Office Adam Safadi Fairview High School

Salvete amici!

Stepping into my first day of Latin my freshman year I hadno idea what to expect. However, as soon as my teacher told our

class about the Junior Classical League, I became interested.When I attended state convention as a Latin I freshman, I trulyfell in love with the classics. Since then I have done all I could toget involved with the JCL, culminating in the events from last

years state and national conventions.

As (most) of you know, at last years state convention I ranfor, and won, the office of Parliamentarian, with the promise to

bring the state closer to the national level. This past summer, Iattended my second National Junior Classical LeagueConvention, running for the office of National TechnologyCoordinator and winning. Now I hope to not only familiarize CoJCLers with the National Level, butalso help promote in Colorado interest in the Classics as well as the NJCL Convention.

In addition to this National Office and being my schools JCL President, I do enjoy participatingin numerous other clubs at the school and state levels. I will be a four year member of my schoolsForensics and Debate team. I also am an active member in the state Youth in Governmentprogram, our schools knowledge bowl team, and the National Honours Society. In addition toplaying violin in the school orchestra and serving as orchestra president, I am a member of theFront Range Youth Symphony and a five year volunteer of the Arvada Teen Court.

Nevertheless, my love of Latin overrides all else. I cant wait to get to meet all of you throughoutthis year! If any of you ever have any questions for me about nationals, please feel free to contactme at [email protected]

E corde,Adam Safadi2009-2010 NJCL Technology Coordinator

Has your schools Latin club done anything unique or exciting in celebration of everyonesfavorite language? If so, write a short article about it and submit it to the Torch! See

submission information on page eight for more details.

School Latin Clubs

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More Than DeadHeather Job Cherry Creek High School

I checked my suitcase, making sure I had remembered every item. Neatly folded in place ofaccumulated Girl Scout shirts (Cookie Diva! Its always sunny at Girl Scout camp!) were a stack oftees I had purchased at convention. The way I figured it, not only would phrases such asfortunanobis vi animi tantum frenabiturassert my intellectual dominance over the little kiddies, they

would also challenge the girls to ask me, What on earth does your shirt say? at which point Icould use the snooty voice people seem to typecast all Latin geeks to possess and lecture, oh dearchild, that is a quote from the poet Aesop, and it means the level of our success if limited only byour imagination when you are older, perhaps you will understand. Yes, I was quite lookingforward to being that cool counselor who was a genius, a Latin-speaking fountain of wisdom. Onthe second day of camp, I donned my shirt from state convention 2008, non nobis solum natisumus. I was ready to answer all sorts of questions, but as I trooped ahead of my fellowcounselors-in-training to the dining hall, the only question any of them asked was, Jellybean, can

you please slow down? No, I thought defiantly. I cannot slow down! I have brains to flaunt!

But a whole day went by, and not a single camper asked me what the phrase stamped across myback meant. It wasnt just disappointing. It was devastating! Were none of these children remotelyinterested in language? I went to bed resolved to try again the next day with mysi hoc legere potesshirt. One girl asked me a question: was my shirt in Spanish? Because si is Spanish, but none ofthe rest was. No, I told her. Its Latin. Oh, she responded. Thats a dead language, right?

False! If anyone is bothering to learn the language, obviously it isnt dead. Now this is going tosound really nerdy - like shove me in a locker nerdy - but Im going to go for it. SPOILER

WARNING - if you havent readHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows yet, a) you are a poorHarry Potter fan and b) this next bit may be a tad confusing.See, Latin is like Lord Voldemort. A

lot of people hate it, but it has a small, devout group of followers who want nothing more than toforce their lord upon the rest of the world. And Latin has about a bazillion Horcruxes. Latin hassplit itself into a bunch of living, very hard to destroy languages. Latin will never truly be deaduntil languages such as French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and our very own English are dead.

Unlike Voldemort, however, Latin is a very good thing. But its useless if people see Latin studentsas snooty elitists. So I saw what I needed to do. I needed to take a more laid-back approach onopening the girls minds to my favorite ancient language. Instead of imparting Aesops wisdom onseven year olds, I would greet them with a salvete, puellae! Instead of trying to explainconjugation, I would count off cookies and other snacks in Latin. And you know what I found?Showing them Latin in small, digestible chunks made them more willing to listen to what I had tosay on the roots of civilization and language than if I pulled the snooty card. Plus, it didnt make

them feel stupid. The quickest way to make people disregard whatever you have to say is bymaking them feel stupid.

Although Latin is gaining in popularity at my high school, it doesnt seem to be snowballing asmuch elsewhere. And with this economic crisis floating over everyones heads like a black cloud,

budget cuts have to be made. The first things to suffer will be the arts and the obscure languages.If we want Latin in its original form to live on, were going to have to admit that learning anancient language doesnt make us smarter than everyone else, and were going to have to make itaccessible. More people will take Latin when its apparent that you dont have to be a stuck upknow it all to participate.

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From top to bottom, left to right: Adam and Emily eat lunch at the NJCL Convention,Adam delivers his campaign speech at the NJCL Convention, Regis students chill at theCoJCL convention, Patrick has spirit, Kirk shows off his Colorado warpaint, running theBazaar at the CoJCL convention, hello JCL friends!

NJCL photos copyright Adam Safadi of Fairview High SchoolCoJCL photos copyright Morgan Jones of Regis Jesuit High School

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The CoJCL TorchDo you want to write something for theTorch? Do you have any pictures fromJCL events? Has your schools Latinclub done anything interesting recently?Please e-mail all submissions to:

[email protected]

I try to publish as much as I possibly canin every issue if I cant fit it into thenext issue Ill save it for later. Pleasekeep articles shorter than 1000 words.Include your name and school with allsubmissions, including articles, puzzlesand photos, to be credited.

Roman Numeral Sudoku

Fill in numerals from I-IX so

that each numeral appearsonce in every row, column, and9x9 box.

If youre able to solve this,commend yourself.

CoJCL Co-Chairs:Amy Sommer [email protected], Mary Zang [email protected],Missy Johnson [email protected], Jim Broderick-King [email protected]

Please contact Erika Davidoff, CoJCL Editor, for Torch questions, suggestions, or submissions. [email protected]

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