After 10 years of teaching at South, Family and Consumer Sciences teacher Judith Taub has decided to draw her career here to a close at the end of the 2009-2010 school year.

After 34 years of teaching at Newton South, Spanish teacher Rebecca Block will be retiring at the end of the year. Block started her teaching career at South after gradating from Simmons College, but had prior experience with the school while still in college.

In the 33 years that she worked at South, Angela DeRubeis has seen it all. She knows all of the excuses for being late, all types of explanations for lost text books, and every angry parent complaint – there really is no way of getting around her.

Are you a Hufflepuff? Do you cheer for Ravenclaw? Do you don the colors of Gryffindor and resent Slytherin? Well, now you have the chance to finally show your Hogwarts spirit.

Sup dawg, I’m special, so listen to me.  I’m writing this sentence because every View from the Top requires a pinch of metatextuality in the form of complaining about voluntarily contributing 500 words to Denebola.  Whooo, third sentence!

During the school year, mornings typically are a boring routine starting with an alarm or a scream from a parent as an exhausted, frustrated teen slowly arising from their dream world, eventually grabbing a cup of coffee and running out the door to the next phase of their day.  Although students like this make up a vast majority of our student body, this routine isn’t the only option.  Different people wake up at different times for various reasons including excessive homework, sports practice before school, or a lousy alarm.

There is a great more to Goldrick housemaster, Henry Turner than many might guess. Turner was born in Boston and grew up in Melrose, Massachusetts; his passion for teaching stems from both urban and suburban roots.

It’s time for South freshman Olivia Siegel to leave her friend’s house when her dad, dressed in a bright blue shirt, khaki shorts, clean white Puma sneakers, cool sunglasses and a round black helmet, pulls into the driveway on his motorcycle. Siegel says goodbye to her friends and hops up behind her dad.

“You ready to live togetha, laugh togetha, drink togetha, and love togetha?” asks Doron Ofir Casting, a company in search of stereotypical Bostonians to cast in a new show being produced, titled Wicked Summer.

Almost a year ago, it seemed like the glory days of the South Step Squad had ended. The ground-shaking performances at the annual pep-rally and the passionate routines recited once a year at Tertulia had simply become something for people to reminisce over.