G&G's Crossword Puzzle

(Editor's note: I decided to redo this crossword puzzle, mainly to fix a couple of errors that existed in the original 1990 version, but also because I found this online crossword puzzle maker that saved me a load of time and effort. I wish I had that 20 years ago...)

After compiling all the other articles for this issue, there were still some things that G&G felt still shouldn't be forgotten. Our Editor also felt like creating a crossword puzzle. To that end, G&G went and killed two birds with the same stone.

ACROSS
3. Many A.P. Math and English students gave blood to this organization
4. Popular card game frequently seen being played in A.P. English
8. The Applied Economics class sold these during the 1989 football season (sort of like the Minnesota Twins' Homer Hankies and the Pittsburgh Steelers' Terrible Towels)
10. Nickname of A.P. Math 12 student who had two knee injuries during his senior year
12. Mrs. Sparrow's classroom once smelled like this because her Humanities class carved up bars of it for a class project
15. Jenny Fitzgerald beat this AP Math/English student in the 1989 Homecoming Queen election (last name only)
16. Mrs. Sparrow once resorted to writing on this because she ran out of space on the chalkboard
17. Last name of the student whom North Farmington students mistakenly heard was going to Cal Tech

DOWN
1. Vic Varsanyi ('91) and Mark Williamson both had ________ calculators; Varsanyi's could also take derivatives
2. Mrs. Sparrow judged regionals of a tournament involving this activity
5. He came from Fairfield, NY to visit HHS during Homecoming (last name only)
6. Nickname of Paul Levine's Ford Fairmont station wagon
7. 11 Down tore down a campaign poster put up by this candidate for 1991 Class Vice-President, Julie _____, because it had a picture of a nearly-naked fat guy on it
9. The last name of the French mathematician who discovered a rule concerning certain kinds of limits; Mr. Boluch had trouble pronouncing his name
11. A.P. Math students who wanted extra credit for taking the Michigan Math exam had to beat the son of this teacher (last name only)
13. Todd Rope, Amy Gallagher and 17 Across starred in this, the school's spring play
14. May 10, 1990 was Senior ____ Day

If you must peek at the solution, you can see it here.

Final Notes and Special Thanks

Editor's note: This last part, was not included in the original version of Green & Gold Digest; I added it for this 2010 online re-creation.

The months I spent putting together Green & Gold Digest in 1990 were filled with challenges, hope and frustration.

• The challenges I enjoyed were trying to create a publication that filled niches that Harrison High's three existing publications didn't (or wouldn't) fill, simultaneously editing the whole magazine for layout as well as content, and finding a way to create the magazine without crashing my computer (the way the September 1989 issue of the Catalyst crashed that staff's Macintosh computer; I was able to avoid that by saving each article as a separate file instead of putting them all into one big file).
• The hope--at the time, anyway--was that someone else at Harrison might be interested in making G&G a regular publication, and as such, years later, it would become my legacy to Harrison.
• The frustration I experienced came mainly from the fact that creating a printed publication is an expensive process--especially where the per-copy cost of having a magazine professionally printed is concerned. For example, I had assumed that the cost of getting a 24-page magazine printed must be less than 50 cents a copy if the Catalyst staff sold it for 50 cents a copy, but their advisor, Mrs. Kathy Nyberg, told me that wasn't the case at all. The Catalyst's magazine format--a format it adopted in the fall of 1998 to take advantage of new desktop publishing software--was losing money. When A.J. Liebling said in 1960 that “Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one," he wasn't kidding.

Special thanks go to:

• Mr. Mike Teachman, Mr. Walt Boluch, Mrs. Nyberg and Mrs. Laura Sparrow for letting me post my AP Math/English newsletters in their classrooms
• Everyone who complimented my A.P.M. 10 year-end review in 1988, especially Mr. Teachman--that's how this whole publishing hobby took off
• Mrs. Nyberg for taking the time to answer my questions, and above all, for teaching an excellent Journalism course
• Mr. Clayton Graham (Principal) for taking the time to look over G&G prior to it going to press (to say the least, he did me a huge favor)
• And Mr. John Summerlee (Assistant Principal) for letting me use the school copier to make about 60 copies of G&G

Thanks for reading Green & Gold Digest. I hope you enjoyed it. You can also check out the G&G Reunion Issue (which I compiled in 2000) or G&G Time Capsule (compiled in 2010).