BOOK DEAL LEADS TO CLOSE SHAVE SCHOOL VEEP'S LOCKS SHORN IN BARGAIN.Byline: Amy Raisin raisin, in botany and cooking raisin, dried fruit of certain varieties of grapevines bearing grapes with a high content of sugar and solid flesh. Although the fruit is sometimes artificially dehydrated, it is usually sun-dried. Staff Writer SAUGUS - While some cupped their hands over their mouths, nearly every kid squealed Friday as Mountain View Elementary School's vice principal made good on his promise - the students read and read, so the veep shaved his head. When school started last fall, Brook Reynolds challenged the more than 800 students to read at least 300 minutes each before summer break started, a feat for which the students earned the pleasure of witnessing the principal shave Reynolds' head. ``I couldn't watch it. He looked so different and weird,'' said kindergartner kin·der·gart·ner also kin·der·gar·ten·er n. 1. A child who attends kindergarten. 2. A teacher in a kindergarten. Kylie Noun 1. kylie - an Australian boomerang; one side flat and the other convex kiley boomerang, throw stick, throwing stick - a curved piece of wood; when properly thrown will return to thrower Videgain, giggling with her classmates Classmates can refer to either:
Reynolds sat down in a swivel chair with a full head of light brown hair, but as Principal Kathy Wolfson turned on the electric clippers and shaved her first path straight down the middle of his head, the crowd erupted in a chorus of high-pitched laughter. And Wolfson knew how to play to the crowd - her second pass revealed a white crescent of scalp on the back of his head. Six-year-old Sierra Kautiainen was among those in the front row. She had no trouble enjoying the fruits of having read piles of books over the school year. ``I thought it was kind of funny. He looked really funny,'' she said. Reynolds, who admitted to shaving his head when he was in the military, said he didn't think the kids would meet his challenge. ``I never thought they would do it. Now I'm afraid it won't grow back this time, or it will come in gray,'' said Reynolds, touching his shorn shorn v. A past participle of shear. shorn Verb a past participle of shear Adj. 1. scalp. ``But I'm glad to inspire the kids to do something,'' he added. ``Hair will grow back, but if I can inspire a kid to be a better reader, then that will last a lifetime.'' The students read a total of 1,717,700 minutes, which Reynolds happily converted for the young audience. ``You read so many minutes that, if I sat down and read for 24 hours Adv. 1. for 24 hours - without stopping; "she worked around the clock" around the clock, round the clock straight, it would take me 12,304 days to read as much as you did.'' CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Mountain View Elementary School Mountain View Elementary School may refer to:
1. The difference between prices at which a market maker can buy and sell a security. 2. The percentage by which an asset's market value is reduced for the purpose of calculating capital requirement, margin, and collateral levels. Notes: 1. . (2 -- color) Principal Kathy Wolfson uses the clippers to shave Reynolds' head to a sheen as students watch. (3 -- color) One haircut later, Vice Principal Brook Reynolds shows off his new `do, keeping his half of the bargain to get kids reading. (4 -- color) Mountain View students can hardly believe their eyes as they watch their vice principal's hair being shorn. |
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