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November 13, 2009
Keerthika Ramakrishnan
The amphitheatre packed 500 to 600 students for the Halloween rally, and almost 800 students and faculty members were fed.
“The Halloween rally at lunch on October 30th attracted the biggest crowd I have seen in all my years at Washington,” activity director Helen Paris said.
There were barely any seats available for students who came late to rally. The Halloween rally has been a tradition at Washington High School for the past 20 years.
Unlike other schools in Fremont who usually have international kitchen for a week, Washington hosts barbeques throughout the school year. The rally is funded by money from ASB cards. Most of the money collected through the buying of ASB is returned to students in the form of rallies. Students purchased food for a $1.00 without a costume and $.50 with a costume; teachers in costume got food for free.
In general, the Halloween rally usually consists of a costume competition, pumpkin carving and bobbing for apples.
The Halloween costume contest contained a wide range of costumes, from a Roman goddess to Po from Teletubbies.
First prize for pumpkin craving went to junior Kaitlin Loob, and senior Alex Tyler won first prize for apple bobbing.
The funniest costume went to the costume group, “Irony,” with two prisoners and a cop.
The most creative costume was sophomore Alex Rich’s hitchhiker.
The spookiest costume award went to the mimes, senior Emily Ives and senior Dylan Jarvis.
For the first time at lunch time, there was a live performance by a new R&B group called New Era who sang a couple songs to end the largest Halloween rally in Washington history.
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