Students competed for Bulls tickets this Halloween season at student government’s annual costume contest.

The contest took place during assembly, with a category for students—the winner of whom received the tickets—and one for teachers. For students, seniors Abdon Valenciana and Ben Wilhelm won as Curious George and The Man with the Yellow Hat. For teachers, Bobby Oomen, an Upper School computer science teacher, won as Emo.

However, not many people participated in the contest, nor in dressing up at all. Students’ Halloween costumes tended to be few and far between, but teachers—and the varsity girls field hockey team—did go all out. Physics teachers Tressa Wilde, Josh Phipps, and Jonty Faulkner were capaci-“taters” (a play on capacitors, a part of the circuits unit in physics), while the field hockey team all wore onesies.

Eleftheria Lialios, a substitute teacher at Latin, was also in costume as a wizard, although she did not take part in the contest. Ms. Lialios said that she wished more students had dressed up but that on the whole she enjoyed the parade.
“What’s really great about Halloween is you get to be somebody else and you get to become that personality for just a day,” she said. “It actually expands your mind and your knowledge of how people treat you.”