CA Hills incentive brings RTHS families immortality
Coach Colbert on Tim Clue: That kid still owes me 50!
How many rings around your family tree?
Childhood lessons guided Mohandas Ghandi’s non-violent philosophy
Twists & turns on one family tree impact 4 generations at RTHS
Thanks to Rochelle Printing, the RTHS Tatler is coming home

CA Hills incentive brings RTHS families immortality

ROCHELLE----The RTHS Athletic Boosters raised more than $12,000 selling bricks after the RTHS 1921 campus was razed last spring.
A new drive stands to generate as much additional funding as it will fond family memories. But before the memories, a little history?
It was late on a Sunday afternoon last spring that Ellie Chadwick’s boys responded to an S.O.S. from an old friend and headed over to the CA Hills Gymnasium.
At that point in the demolition, about all that was left of the gymnasium were 3 walls, portions of the floor and a dangerously sagging roof that did, in fact, implode the very next morning!
Crossing the security fence may have been foolhardy, but what remained inside the old ruin was simply too important to let go. So the indulgent group of gentlemen did the bidding of a sentimental Hub fan and harvested what was left of the CA Hills gymnasium floor! Portions of it, like the center court ‘R’, had been sold off at auction months earlier, but the bulk of that old floor remained intact, awaiting the wrecking ball.
Alumnus Brian Johnson, then President of the Athletic Booster club, appeared on the scene as the heavy sections of flooring were being rescued. The Boosters, having watched the success of the 2004 Partner drive, committed to generate $350,000 to create an outdoor athletic facility on a par with indoor facility.
Johnson has stored the flooring in his shop since that afternoon, but is now ready to share it with other RTHS alumni.
“I’ve cut the flooring into 5 x 5 inch sections,” he said. “I estimate we can create about 200 pieces. Add a plate with the CA Hills photo to it and you’ve got a unique keepsake, limited enough that I think we can get $100 per piece.”
Working through the Special Projects office, the Boosters will offer these CA Hills Keepsakes as a limited special bonus gift to new RTHS Partners. If you partner with RTHS and donate at least $1,000 to enhance the outdoor athletic complex you will receive a limited edition CA Hills Keepsake!

The CA Hills Experience

“The theme of this year’s Red Carpet Event is Circle of Life. It’s a gala evening designed to thank our Partners. This year, we’ll focus on the families that have spanned the RTHS generations,” Special Projects Director Ann Rice said. “We’ve a number of men around town who happily recall playing in the very first CA Hills game during the 1940’s. Their sons played on that floor in the 1960’s, and by the 1980’s not only their grandsons, but granddaughters played ball on that floor.
“It’s our belief that generations of families who’ve shared the CA Hills experience will go together and Partner with RTHS in the name of their family or its earliest player.”
Partnerships with RTHS range from the Union Pacific’s $100,000 gift to the 60 Friends who have contributed $1,000 each.
The most recent RTHS Partners are the RTHS Spanish Club and Ballet Folklorico. The club and the dance troupe raised over $2,500 on September 17 at its Festival Independencia Mexicana.
If you and your family are interested in becoming an RTHS Partner, in walking the Red Carpet Nov. 26 and in keeping a piece of CA Hills forever, please call Ann Rice at 562-4161, ext 5104.

In Photo: RTHS Principal Jamie Craven, Spanish Club Advisor Pat Mullin and Ballet Folklorico Director Jose Alfredo Rivera. Spanish Club and Ballet Folklorico teamed up to present Festival Independencia Mexicana to celebrate Latino culture and raise money for the outdoor facility. The Hub Plaza, on paper, resembles a Mexican village center. Festival organizers look to it as the location for future celebrations.

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Coach Colbert on Tim Clue: That kid still owes me 50!

ROCHELLE---Comedian and playwright Tim Clue did a lot of running on the old RTHS football field when he played in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s for legendary Coach Joel Colbert.
Does Clue hold the school record for yardage gained in a single season? No, not exactly.
When asked about Clue’s “glory days” as an RTHS football player, Coach Colbert shook his head and chuckled. “That kid ran more laps than any other kid I ever coached!”
Colbert was a successful coach from the old school. It didn’t matter how big you were. If you were smart about the game and willing to work hard, you could be a winner.
One of the rules from that old school was hard and fast during Colbert’s reign: “Both on the field and in my PE classes,” Colbert said. “all of the kids knew the rule: 1 lap for every minute you were late. That rule applied to me as well, but I can count on one hand the times I was late to class or practice.”
Doesn’t sound as if the same can be said for Tim. Clue played for Colbert in 1979-80, towards the end of Colbert’s tenure at RTHS.
“Tim was one of those unflappable kids,” Colbert said, “agreeable enough, but he kind of worked on his own clock,” which may explain why he was late for practice multiple times a week. “He never seemed to mind the laps either. He’d just arrive late and take his punishment.
Perhaps it was older brother Ike’s stories of the Coach and his days as a Hub football player that drove Tim Clue to take on the game. Ike Clue played on Colbert’s 1973 team, a team Coach recalls was probably his smallest. “My biggest guy on defense only weighed 168 lbs., but these kids didn’t need size, they were smart, really smart about the game. Ike for example, he was Tim’s big brother, but he was a smaller kid, and smart, he was smart…well look at him, doesn’t he work for Boeing today?”
When contacted about Coach and the 1973 team, Ike concurred. “We did have a great bunch of guys who were smart,” he said, guys like John Hintzsche, now an RTHS faculty member, Jack Wilson who runs a division of Nike; Dr. Tim Koritz, Mike Ellis, also a teacher, Joe Peters, Bill Reed, Mark Rossi, John Babb, Rod Kepner, and Gonzalo Valdivieso. Coach said some of the other players on that team still around are Joe Wyatt, Joel Richards, Tom Walker, Paul Chadwick, Art Erickson and Jeff Davey.
Well, you’ve heard Coach Colbert’s side of the story, to hear Tim’s side you’ve got to attend the RTHS Red Carpet Event 2005 on Saturday, Nov. 26. Here are a couple of ways to do that:
There is a 2 pm matinee for the general public and an 8 pm invitation only gala for RTHS Partners. Clue will take a break from directing his hit play, “Leaving Iowa” to do a monologue on his days playing for Coaches Joel Colbert, Don Romes and Bruce Vickrey.
Tickets for the matinee show are on sale for $5 at RTHS and the Rochelle Area Chamber of Commerce.
The evening gala is an invitation only affair, a “thank you” to the RTHS Partners whose financial assistance has helped enhance the new building and the outdoor athletic facility currently under construction. Partnerships are still available. If you’re interested, contact Ann Rice 562—4161, ext 5104.

Whetted your Appetite?

Has reading Joel Colbert’s memories of RTHS football fueled a fire to relive your own RTHS glory days? Keep reading because RTHS may have just the thing for you!
“We’re tentatively planning for the very last game to be played on the Helms Athletic Field to be an alumni game,” RTHS Partner Project Director Ann Rice said. “Sometime in the early summer of 2007 we hope to gather together former RTHS coaches who will run a summer camp and reacquaint old teammates with the plays that made them successful.”
The really great news? Colbert revealed while at RTHS this week that he’s kept his playbooks and practice plans intact. Incidentally, when Sophomore and offensive line Coach Brian Worthington heard about that, he immediately put in his order for a copy!

Think Tim Clue will sign up for an RTHS Alumni Football Camp? Come to the Red Carpet Event to find out!

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How many rings around your family tree?

ROCHELLE-----Because the Circle of Life is the theme of Red Carpet Event 2005, I’ve been thinking in circles, about the circles of growth that mark a tree’s age. How many circles ring your RTHS family tree?
Having worked here at the high school for 19 years and having lived in Rochelle for 28, I know a number of families that boast 3 and 4 generations of RTHS students. Pal & Sandra Colwill’s is one such family.
Pal’s father, Ernest Colwill, although never an RTHS student, was among those who built the 1921 campus. Pal himself graduated RTHS in 1952. Pal is the first ring around the RTHS/Colwill family tree, but there are many more:
Virginia Vogeler attended RTHS before she became Virginia Seitz, as did her brother, Paul Vogeler and two sisters, Donna Rogers and Delores Paul.
Virginia is the mother of Sandra Seitz who graduated from RTHS in 1956. Sandy married Pal Colwill. (That’s 2 rings, if you’re counting).
Pal and Sandy are the parents of 3 daughters: Beth, a 1975 grad; Meg (1978) and Cathy (1982). That’s another ring around the tree.
Beth Colwill married Ron Egland. They are the parents of Brianne, Adam and Jeff Egland, all of whom graduated from RTHS. (We’re up to 4 rings.)
Adam Egland is now a father himself, making Beth a grandma and Pal & Sandy great-grandparents. Addison Egland will enroll at RTHS in 2019.
Sandy’s brother, Richard Seitz is a 1960 grad. He and wife, Peggy (of DeKalb) have 3 daughters: Kim (1978), Sherri (1984) and Amy (1987).
Kim Seitz Isley is mother of 2 RTHS grads: Tim (1997) and Kelly (1998). Peggy Seitz says there are 3 more grandchildren on their way into RTHS soon.
That’s a lot of rings around one RTHS family’s tree!
Pal will represent the Colwill-Seitz family at the Red Carpet Event this year, bringing his wonderful voice to our stage.

Circle of Life
Red Carpet Theme

Red Carpet Event Producer/Creator Dianne Jenner has built this year’s Nov. 26 show around the Tim Rice/Elton John song “Circle of Life”, the opening lyrics of which are:

“From the day we arrive on the planet
And blinking, step into the sun,
There’s more to be seen than can ever be seen,
More to do than can ever be done.
Some say eat or be eaten,
Some say live and let live.
But all are agreed, as they join the stampede,
You should never take more than you give.”

The Red Carpet Event committee is creating a list of multi-generation RTHS families. We’re looking for families who have had at least 3 generations attend our high school.
Many such longstanding families have contributed much to our community. We’re lucky in Rochelle, to have friends, neighbors, co-workers who, like the “Circle of Life” song says, never do take more than they give.
And giving. Well, there wouldn’t be a Red Carpet Event if it weren’t for giving. RCE 2004 was created to thank the more than 70 alumni, businesses, staff members and corporations that donated funds to enhance the new high school facility.
If you were lucky enough to walk the Red Carpet last year, you heard what a concert grand piano can do when a talent like Nola Barnes Addante strokes its keys. You felt the chill when Rockford baritone Rich Hilliard, another alumnus now a classically trained vocalist, let the rich timbre of his voice echo through that $7 million auditorium.
Another lyric from the Rice/Johns song says that the “greatest challenge is finding your place in the circle of life”. Help us interweave your family’s place in the circle of RTHS life.
Let us know who you are. Call the Special Projects office at RTHS, 562-4161, ext. 5214.

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Childhood lessons guided Mohandas Ghandi’s non-violent philosophy

By Jonathan Tilley
RTHS International Club

ROCHELLE—The International Club of Rochelle Township High School recently attended a presentation by Arun Ghandi at Rockford College.
Arun Ghandi is the fifth grandson of Mohandas K. Gandhi, the man who was, in part, responsible for the liberation of India.
Arun lived with his grandfather during the peak of Mohandas Ghandi’s work. Arun saw firsthand what his grandfather did and how he responded to the actions of others.
After Mohandas Ghandi was assassinated, Arun Ghandi committed his life to his grandfather’s teachings.
Arun spoke of three people who most influenced his grandfather’s life. The first was his Mother. She was interested in many religions and took a number of vows, one of which included never eating if the sun was not out.
This action disturbed Mohandas Ghandi, particularly during India’s monsoon season when the sun does not shine for days at a time.
Mother Ghandi would always complete her tasks with a smile, even if she had not eaten for days. This taught Mohandas Ghandi an important lesson about self-discipline and the importance of creating and keeping vows.
Another who influenced Arun’s grandfather was his babysitter. She taught Mohandas Ghandi to pray whenever he was afraid. As a result, Ghandi became less fearful. Whenever he did find himself in distress, he would pray for the strength to endure and to do whatever it was that needed doing.
The third person to influence Mohandas Ghandi’s life was his wife. They were married at the age of 13, not uncommon in Indian culture. At that age, Mohandas did not know how to manage and maintain a relationship, so he went to the library to do research. His research told him that as the husband, he should dominate his wife’s life. When he returned from the library, he told his wife not to leave the house. She didn’t fuss or complain, but neither did she alter her lifestyle. She left the house as always before.
When Mohandas confronted her about this, she explained her obedience was to the elders in the house, his parents. Ghandi had no argument to counter with. This became his most important lesson. Mohandas Ghandi’s wife taught him that handling anger, not falling victim to it, was the first step to non-violence.
He came to see that non-violence is not simply avoiding physical acts of violence. He came to see waste as violence against nature and greed as violence against humanity.
This is what Ghandi identified as passive violence. Passive violence causes anger, which in turn can lead to physical violence.
Arun Ghandi explained his grandfather’s philosophy: the only way to end the cycle is to change the mentality of the culture. Mohandas Ghandi believed we all have a stake in making the world a better place. He challenged us to think non-violently so that we can come to live non-violent lives.

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Twists & turns on one family tree impact 4 generations at RTHS

ROCHELLE------It’s often said about a small town that everyone knows everything about everybody and nobody ever forgets, so its especially interesting to sit down with someone you’ve known forever and learn about the life they’ve been so busy living they’ve never taken the time to talk about.
Elmer G. Davis graduated from Rochelle High School in 1905. The next year, he married a local gal, Olga Binz, who lived in Rochelle, but who actually graduated from a Rockford business school. Together they raised 5 children
in Rochelle, all of whom became RTHS graduates:
Mary Davis was the eldest child. She graduated in 1925. She was in the first freshman class when the RTHS campus opened at 1070 North Seventh Street in 1921. Consequently, Mary Davis’ Class of ’25 was the very first to complete all 4 years of high school on that new campus.
The 1922 “Tatler” reported the first graduating class in the new high school in 1922 remarked, “they’d spent 31/2 long years in the ‘Old Red Brick’ (the top floor of the original Central School building) and a short half year in the ‘New Red Brick’ (at 1070 N. Seventh St.)”
Mary married Ed Orner and were lifelong Rochelle residents. The Orners produced two sons: James Orner, RTHS class of 1952 and John Orner, RTHS Class of 1956.
Gertrude or “Trudy” Davis was the next in line for an RTHS diploma which she received in 1927. She, like her mother, married a local boy, Don Bain, who graduated from RTHS about the same time. Trudy is 96 now, still living
in Rochelle. So eager was she to share her links to the high school that some of the dates, like the year in which Don graduated from RTHS, came tumbling out faster than could be recorded.
The Bains lived all over the United States early in their marriage before returning to Rochelle to rear their children:
Deborah, class of ’54; Gretchen, class of ’57 and Robert, class of ’67.
The next of Elmer and Olga’s children was Elmer G Davis Jr., known as Bud. He graduated from RTHS in 1929 with every intention of withdrawing all of the money he’d earned from after school and summer jobs to use for college. Unfortunately in the midst of the Great Depression, Bud’s money was lost when the local banks closed. His collegiate life was delayed for a year while he worked to recoup his losses. Bud eventually graduated from the University of Iowa. He left Rochelle and raised his children elsewhere.
Virginia Davis was the next of the 5 Davis kids. She graduated from RTHS in 1935, and from DeKalb’s State Teachers College (now NIU) in 1939. She returned to Rochelle to teach a new Kindergarten class at Central Grade School. Six years later she married Jack Kelley and they moved to Florida, but Ginny came back to Rochelle in 1990 and the four Davis sisters were reunited until death touched Mary in 1998 and Ginny in 2003.
Marguerite Davis was the last of the Davis clan. She graduated from RTHS in 1937. So impressed was Marguerite with big brother Bud’s stories of college life in Iowa, that she soon enrolled. That’s where Marguerite met James Thomas.
James was the son of a judge and himself completing his first year of law school. Because the pre-WWII draft was an issue with many young men in 1940 and ’41, he joined the Navy in order to enter Naval Training (the 90-day Wonders class) at Northwestern University in September, 1941. He finished the program the first weekend in December and went up to visit Marguerite, who was teaching that year in Wausau, WI. Marguerite recalls all of the fun they had that weekend blissfully unaware of the devastating news that awaited them as they walked together into the train where they learned that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. It was December 7, 1941.
It was a bit of news that would change their lives forever. “We were planning to be married in the spring of 1942, but the Navy didn’t grant any leaves that first year of the war.” Thomas was stationed in San Diego CA which is where which is where he and Marguerite were wed in 1942. “We spent 7 months in San Diego and were then transferred to Oakland.”
From there Thomas was sent overseas. Marguerite didn’t see her young husband for 2 1/2 years. “I knew he was stationed in the South Pacific, but I never knew on what island he was stationed. That information was
considered classified.”
Thomas came to learn later that her husband served on the same island as John Fitzgerald Kennedy, himself a 9- Day Wonder at Northwestern. “I never found out if they’d gotten to know one another,” she said. “John Kennedy didn’t become a prominent national figure until the late 1950’s.”
Jim Thomas completed his military commitment, came home to his bride the summer of 1945 and returned to Iowa to finish his law degree.
Barbara Thomas was born to the couple in 1946. She graduated from RTHS in 1964.
“When Barbara was 17 months old, I was 4 months pregnant with our second child,” Marguerite said. “Jim came down with a cold and it eventually affected his kidneys. I remember riding in the car to the hospital in Waterloo with the doctor who told me he was optimistic because 15% of the patients with kidney infections survived.”
It was 1948, 2 years before antibiotics to effectively treat kidney infections were available. Jim Thomas did not survive, leaving behind a pregnant wife and 17 month old daughter.
And so Marguerite Davis Thomas returned to Rochelle a young mother, an expectant widow. She moved into her parent’s home on North Eleventh Street, the home in which she still lives today.
“My sister Trudy had just moved back to Rochelle and was staying with mother, who also owned the house next door. Trudy moved into that home because I was coming home with Barbara.”
So the sisters, separated in age by a decade, moved in next door to one and other, and almost 60 years later, remain side by side.
Jamie Thomas, named in honor of her father, was born later that year. Jamie graduated from RTHS in 1966.

Story doesn’t end here

While none of Elmer and Olga Davis’ grandchildren stayed in Rochelle to raise the next generation of RTHS graduates, the story doesn’t end here. Marguerite was back in Rochelle and faced with raising two young daughters alone.
“I had no idea what I was going to do,” she confessed. “I had taught one year 1941-42, but I gave that up to get married and raise a family. I had no intention of ever teaching again.”
That’s when RTHS Supt. C.A. Hills stepped in. A simple telephone call Hills made changed the lives of RTHS students for the next 2 generations.
“Mr. Hills had been my superintendent when I attended RTHS as a student,” Marguerite said. “He called me one day after I was back in Rochelle, just about the time Barbara was starting Kindergarten. He asked me to come to
work for him. While working mothers were very uncommon back then, Mr. Hills was faced with a serious shortage of teachers and so he offered me a job.”
But it had been 9 years since Marguerite had last taught school. Her teaching license had expired. “Mr. Hills encouraged me to go back to school and and renew it. I only needed 8 credit hours to do so.”
That was just about the time that Northern Illinois University opened its Master’s Degree program, so she enrolled. She was joined by fellow educators Garland Lind and Lu Bain. The trio car pooled to and from classes.
Mr. Leroy Peterson was Superintendent by the time Marguerite completed her MA degree. He hired her to teach in 1953.
Think about what an RTHS education in the 1950’s, ‘60’s, 70’s or ‘80’s would have been without Mrs. Thomas in the social studies room teaching history, the importance of social activism and voter registration!
“I don’t know about any of that,” she said modestly. “I can’t believe you got me talking about myself because I haven’t thought about most of these things for years, much less talked about them. I did not pre-plan my life. None of it was intentional; it was just the way events unfolded after my husband died.”

ROCHELLE-----The RTHS Special Projects Office has discovered another RTHS family tree with multiple branches.
Dorothy Ackland Ewald, graduated from RTHS in 1926. After high school she married Clarence Ewald.
Their daughter Judy Ewald Stavrakas, a 1957 grad, married Paul Stavrakas, a 1955 RTHS grad.
Paul and Judy have 3 children Scott Stavrakas, a 1976 grad, Lisa Stavrakas Souba,1983 grad and Dawn Stavrakas Peters, a 1978 grad.
Dawn Stavrakas married Joe Peters a 1975 RTHS grad.
Joe and Dawn have 3 sons: Brad Peters, a 2001 grad; Zach Peters a 2003 grad, and Marcus Peters, who will graduate from RTHS in 2007.
That’s 4 generations of RTHS graduates that began with Dorothy Ackland Ewald.
Now let’s look at Joe Peters’ side of the family tree:
Jim Peters is a 1946 RTHS grad. He married Christine Stone Peters, a 1949 RTHS grad. They had 4 sons:
Gary Peters was killed while still in high school.
Tom Peters, a 1970 grad, married Joanne Highland, a 1972 grad; Dave Peters, a 1972 grad, and Joe Peters, a 1975 grad. Joe, as we know, married Dawn Stavrakas. Joe and Dawn are currently Presidents of the RTHS Athletic Booster Club.
Tom & Joanne Peters have daughters Jana, a 1993 grad, and Jill, a 1996 grad.
Joanne Highland Peters, incidentally, has brothers and sisters who graduated from RTHS: Mike Highland, 1964; Trish Highland, 1966; Joe Highland, 1967; and Jean Highland, 1971.
Tom and Joanne’s daughter, Jill Peters has three children. She and Nolan Ryan (Class of ’96) have Jacob Peters who will graduate from RTHS in 2014. Jill and Eric Kinn, (Class of 1994) have Jared Kinn who will graduate in 2019; and Ellie Kinn who will be a member of the RTHS class of 2021.
Dave Peters also produced 3 RTHS graduates: Jenni Peters Sullivan, 1992; Brian Peters, 1994; and Jodi Peters Collins, 1997.
That’s another 4 generations of RTHS graduates beginning with Jim and Chris Peters and a total of 28 RTHS graduates from these combined families, which have served Rochelle through their businesses and good citizenship for almost 80 years.
The Peters family goes back 5 generations in Rochelle when Russ and Margaret Spencer Peters, childhood sweethearts, came down from Jackson, Michigan in the 1920’s to help create the pipeline that runs through Rochelle providing gas refined in Texas to states all the way north to Michigan.
“My grandpa always told us that once he got to Rochelle, he never had enough money to get back to Michigan,” Joe Peters recalled.
So in the midst of the depression, Russ Peters set down roots in Rochelle and started the Peters Garage, a farm implement dealership, which sold Ford and Minneapolis Moline products at two locations in Rochelle. It was the same year son Jim Peters was born.
Jim joined the family business, taking it over in the 1950’s. Jim has since been joined by his sons Tom and Joe, at what we all now know as Peters GMC.
Spiro Stavrakas was a Greek immigrant who landed in New York through Ellis Island. He made his way to DeKalb. He eventually left DeKalb and took over the Beacon from his brother-in-law in the late 1940’s.
Spiro was joined by his son Paul and Paul’s wife Judy. They grew the Rochelle Beacon into a popular steak house, filling the place every weekend with steak lovers from as far away as Chicago who drove west on Roosevelt Rd. (Hwy. 38) for weekend getaways in the Hub City. Paul officially took over the Beacon in 1963 and retired in 1983.
The Stavrakas-Peters tree has grown large and strong because of the work ethic and commitment to family that comes from both sides.
If your family history is intertwined with RTHS, please share it with us. The Circle of Life is the theme of this year’s Red Carpet Event Saturday, Nov. 26. Please join the circle, call the RTHS Special Projects Office with your stories or for tickets to the 2 p.m. matinee performance. This year’s show will feature alumni talent that spans the generations, plus a celebrity guest who will fill the auditorium with laughter.

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Thanks to Rochelle Printing, the RTHS Tatler is coming home

ROCHELLE--------While it's been almost 30 years since he's leafed through his own, Greg Brown, plant manager at Rochelle Printing, is looking forward to the 2005-06 edition of the RTHS "Tatler" yearbook.
This year the Tatler is coming home, thanks to Brown and 62 Rochelle Printing employees, most of them Rochelle area residents.
"We’re glad to have the yearbook printed here in Rochelle. Not only does it support the local economy, we also got a good deal. The cost savings allowed us to expand the size of the book and print the entire yearbook (144 pages) in color. That’s a first for RTHS," Tatler Advisor Matt Hagemann said.
For many years, the Tatler had been published out of town, but in looking for ways to connect to the high school, Brown decided to call RTHS Partner Project Director Ann Rice about publishing locally.
"RTHS works with Hub Printing and Printing Etc. on a regular basis, so when I learned that Rochelle Printing publishes yearbooks for other schools, it seemed obvious that we would bring the Tatler home."
Rice said upon meeting with Rochelle Printing President James Mear, Brown and the staff, a more enthusiastic reception she could not have received. "Greg, Rochelle Printing Owner Celeste Sax and so many of the staff are RTHS alumni, they've got an emotional investment in this project."
Hagemann said Tatler sales are currently underway. Students, or anyone interested, can write a check to RTHS for $30 through Nov. 30 and be guaranteed a 2006 Tatler. On Dec. 1, the price goes up to $35 and the books will be distributed on a first come, first served basis. Order forms are available at the RTHS office.

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