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HCS Celebrates May Jam

Thu, May 26, 2011

Quidditch highlights celebration as HCS heads into the home stretch for another year.

HCS Celebrates May Jam

Drew Thompson, quite possibly one of the best high school soccer players in Upstate New York, spent much of Thursday not as a player but as the object being sought by others.

The game wasn't soccer, it was quidditch, the game that figures heavily into so many of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. Thompson was the snitch; in the books and Harry Potter movies the snitch is a much-prized animated ball that flits about chased by "seekers".

HCS students were, for the first time, playing quidditch during May Jam, the end of year celebration/reward for good behavior. May Jam is the administration's reward for not just good behavior, but for cooperation and a lack of vandalism and other problems.

"If ever there was a group that deserved May Jam, this was it," said a very pleased Dr. Diana Bowers, HCS' superintendent.

The afternoon included games, music, food and the distribution of the HCS yearbook. Another highlight was the softball game that pits seniors against the faculty. No final score was available at the time this was posted.

Featured at May Jam was a table selling T-shirts, water bottles and other items to raise funds for Robby Britton, a classmate fighting a rare form of muscular dustrophy.

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