Celebrating A Quarter Century

Mr. Meredith’s evening full of celebration began with Mrs. Wolfe and the marketing team scouring the classrooms trying to find a lighter for the candles on his cake—from the ovens in the Life Skills room to the Bunsen Burners in the Science labs, while Baljot and Erica desperately tried to hide the secret birthday cake behind a cardboard box. Realizing that fire is a school safety hazard (who knew?), we proceeded to sticking two unlit candles on the cake and warning the Build Team of our entrance.

Finally, the doors were opened and the singing began—quite off-key, I must add, but I believe it’s the thought that counts. Also, since one cake was not going to cut it—no pun intended—for about fifty members, Mrs. Wolfe craftily borrowed the barely eaten RHS Cotillion cake from the teacher’s lounge. Continuing the night, some members agreed to give Mr. Meredith a present, or rather twenty-five of their present. From Eric, he received an engraved twenty-six sided shape (one more side for good luck). From Julia, he received a CD of twenty-five Taylor Swift songs, because he just loves songs to which “he can daydream about boys.” And of course, twenty-five pictures of ponies and horses from our—hush-hush—resident centaur, Jenna. Finally,  Baljot and Karla created a large birthday card signed by each and every single one of our members. A half-eaten cake, a dozen pop country songs, and a rhombicuboctahedron later, dear Mr. Meredith’s birthday bash ends with a bang with a hilarious—including definitely no Googled pictures of Asian babies—montage video created by Baljot.