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Winter 2021
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in hoc opere
3 Latin Club Spelling Bee
4-5 Baking Competition
6-7 Roman Fashion

8-9 The Roman's Contributions

Written by Jiya Porwal

10-12 Meet the Officer

13 Family Standings
14 Acta Diurna

Audrey Lie

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Latin Club Spelling Bee
CALLING ALL LATIN SCHOLARS! Some of Walton's best and
brightest of all levels competed in an all around Latin
spelling bee. Featuring words like quorum, dificile, and
pluribus, members of Latin I, II, III, and IV competed for the
coveted prize: a valued giftcard. With Latin IV WJCL President
Aric Ting conducting this spelling bee, competitors were
allowed to repeat the word, ask for it in a sentence, and
have the definition of the word. As rounds past and
participants were eliminated, only Latin II Zhikai and Latin IV
Josh Ingleson were left standing. And after grueling
moments of back and forth occured, Josh was our WJCL
spelling bee champion. Congratulations Josh!

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Baking Contest: Classical Edition
On Wednesday December 9th, Walton High School collaborated
with the Dekalb School of the Arts JCL to host a Classical Bake-off!
Jclers from both schools chose to bake a classical confection to
win a prize of 20 dollars for first place, 10 dollars for second, and
5 dollars for third!

Grace Shen, a fellow Walton Jcler, created a lovely blueberry raspberry tart
creation inspired by the mosaics that the Romans typically lined their floors
with.

Emma Zeng made delicious Bestiae sprinkle filled cupcakes inspired by the
animals used in gladiatorial fights.

Eimear Kilcullen created a delicious batch of Persephone's dark chocolate

vanilla brownies topped with pomegranate seeds that famously tied
herself with Hades for 6 months.

Caleb made vanilla muffins that were suited for the Romans, and Eliana M.
crafted scrumptious looking cupcakes inspired by Greek/Roman gods and
goddesses.

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 Classical Confections!

Jcler showing off their classical confection

inspired by Roman mythology!

Eimear's dark chocolate brownies topped

with vanilla frosting and pomogranate
seeds inspired by the story of Persephone.

Grace Shen's raspberry and blueberry tart

inspired by Roman mosaics.

Confections were ultimately judged based on creativity, effort,

appearance, and theme. Congrats to our third place winner Eliana, our
second place winner Eimear, and our first place winner Emma! All
baked goods looked absolutely delicious!

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 Early Classical Fashion
Reflected on the Runway...
Audrey Lie

What better way to surprise those attending school in-

person than to add a few statement pieces to your closet?
Early Roman/Greek clothing and accessories have had a
surprising impact on today's fashion trends. Here are some
Roman-inspired fashion trends that you could add to your
wardrobe to make a statement in Walton's halls!!:)

A Strapped
1) Leather Strappy Leather Outfit
Secret Saturnalia part of Isabel
Sandals Marant's
SS15
Sandals were typically the most collection
common footwear for Romans,
especially for those living in a
more Mediterranean climate.
Men and women alike wore
these shoes, and the designs of
their sandals were an obvious
give-a-way of their social status.
These shoes were most The Merida
commonly made out of leather, Gladiator Sandals
and it consisted of a stiff sole by Free People
with leather straps and braids. that retail for an
astonishing 138
dollars!
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2) The Reimagined Toga
Model Chanel Iman wearing a
'reimagined toga' from Vera
Wang's Spring Collection
3) Colorful
dyes
Believe it or not, some fashion
designers find the toga a fascinating
article of clothing. Generally, togas
were worn by Roman men, and they
were dyed different colors to match
their social class or position. Togas
were strongly linked with the Romans,
and the Romans sometimes even
called themselves the 'togati' or the
people of the toga. Examples of the
types of togas worn include the toga
virilis, the toga candida, the toga pulla,
and the toga picta.Walk into school
with your version of a 'reimagined
toga', and you'll certainly catch eyes.
Even though dye might not have
necessarily come from Rome directly,
the Romans did find interesting ways
to dye their clothing. For a purple-
colored clothing item, the Romans
would crush a Murex sea snail to
produce a purple dye. Yellow cloth
was made from the stigmas of the
saffron coccus, and Red was made
from the Kermes insect. Rock the
halls with your homeade dyes or
maybe even tie dye some clothes!
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The Roman's Greatest Contribution
Written by Jiya Porwal
Audrey Lie
When asked "What are the Roman's Greatest Contribution to
Modern Society?", how would you respond? Here is Latin III Jiya
Porwal's interpretation of the question and response...

The Romans' greatest contribution to modern society was the

ubiquitous and salient integration of their language and literature
into the tongues of today in terms of both phonetics and composition.
Latin was a language that spread like wildfire throughout Europe, the
Mediterranean coastal regions of Africa, and through Asia Minor.
Through time, the Indo-European colonialism. These daughters of
Latin evolved into what we know today as French, Italian, Spanish,
Portuguese, and Romanian, as well as having an integral part of
English. Without the usage of Latin or French loanwords in English,
the language would rather resemble its roots of Anglo-Saxon and
Germanic cognates.

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The Roman's Greatest Contribution
Written by Jiya Porwal

The language of the Romans was the principle that allowed for the
birth of Roman literature; during the golden age of Roman poetry,
poets of the likes of Virgil, Ovid, and Horace produced art that left
a wax seal atop the dawn of Western Literature. Ovid himself
inspired writers such as Chaucer, Milton, Dante, and Shakespeare,
indirectly giving modern society an infinite fountainhead of
linguistic culture, With such authors, civilization gained a
substantial amount of new words and phrases to apply in
vernacular, complex syntactic structure, furthering the English
lexicon and introducing greater understanding of one's own
language. Latin is the ageless avenue for mankind to express itself
and a harbinger of humanities, as a language of lovers, soldiers, and
commoners thriving past its colloquial use and permeating
throughout contemporary literature and language.

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 Meet the Officer:
Anoushka Gandotra
WJCL SCRIBA
Favorite WJCL memory or experience What inspired you to choose Latin?
this year? My older brother never got to take Latin,
while all his friends did. He thought that I
II really enjoyed the pumpkin would really like it, so at the beginning it
decorating meeting we had. It was was him who convinced me to take it. He
great to meet all the 8th graders and I was right. After the first day of Latin I, I
really admired their participation! It knew I'd stick with it. It was so fascinating
was a lot of fun to see what people when Farns read the U.S. constitution's
preamble without words derived from
decorated and spread the JCLove!!! We
Latin, and it was just a bunch of pronouns.
have a LOT of creative WJCLers this
Taking and sticking with Latin will forever
year :) be one of the best decisions I've made!
What is the easiest and hardest part
is about being WJCL's scriba?
The easiest part of being Scriba is the
simple task of taking officer
attendance! Given that our officers
usually show up to all the meetings, it
takes all of two minutes to take it. The
hardest part of being Scriba is
probably keeping up with all the
minutes. We have a lot of meetings
and events, and occasionally people
talk faster than you can type. But
while it may be the hardest part, it's
also the most fun, especially since
sometimes you have to improvise in
order to sum up the main points of
the meeting.
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 Meet the Officer:
Cynthia Ruan
WJCL HISTORIAN
Since you were historian both this year and last
year, what would you say are the major differences Best Latin class joke?
between taking photos this year and last year?
A major difference between taking Farns narrating the story of Romulus
photos this year and last year would be and Remus founding Rome: "he is in,
being able to use my camera. Because he is out, and he is...aaaaahhhhhh"
our events are mostly virtual now, I can
rarely pull out my camera to take
pictures of the events. I typically
screenshot the events. Last year, I
would be sneaking into every little
corner to get that perfect shot.

What is your favorite part about being

historian?
I love capturing photos and memories
of all the fun times we have had as the
Walton JCL. At the end of the year, I
make a scrapbook for all the photos
and events, and I just love looking back
at all the fun times and happy faces.

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 Meet the Officer:
Elise Park
WJCL HISTORIAN
What is your favorite part about being
Any advice for other Latin scholars
this year's historian?
My favorite part about being this year’s
considering to become WJCL historian for
historian would be being able to go to the future?
every event and trying my best to still get My advice for other latin scholars
some pictures to look back on these considering to become WJCL historian for
strange times. Through this, I have been the future would be to look for every
able to learn to adjust to new situations opportunity to take a quick picture
and even though they are not ideal, I am because it is so fun and bittersweet to be
able to look back on all of them and for
still so glad that I am able to be one of
everyone else to as well. If you are on the
the Historians. I love being able to
fence about trying out for Historian, I think
incorporate my style, designs, and
you should totally go for it! There is
creativity into small things such as posts
absolutely nothing to lose and it is so
and those small things suddenly become
much fun and very worthwhile.
more valuable to me. Being historian
gives me an outlet to express myself
whereas in other classes or clubs I am
not as easily able to.

When are your favorite moments to

take pictures during JCL events?
My favorite moments to take pictures during
JCL events when everybody is so deep in the
moment. As cliché as it may sound, I think
that pictures help you go right back into the
second it was taken and bring you the same
feeling and happiness as that picture
carries. Even though it’s hard to do that in
these situation, I am trying to make the most
of the events we are still able to have and
capture them as best I can.

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 Family
Valerii Standings

1
861 points !!!
4
Iulii Fabii
812 points
859 points
2 5
Cornelii
794 points
Aemilii
6
842 points
3 Claudii
***shoutout to Latin IV Pranav Malladi 728 points
(WJCL Censor) for providing these
numbers!!
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acta diurna
Quot homines tot sententiae: suus cuique mos.
There are as many opinions as there are people: each has his own view.

-Terentius

reMINDERS Certamen
Don't forget to take the NRCE
Always wish your fellow
and the NLVE this coming Certamen players a
Wednesday. You have a four good luck on their next
tournaments!! Walton
hour window to take it from JCL wishes the Novice,
8:30-12:30. Good luck to those Intermediate, and
Advanced team the
who take it! best!

Important!! Joke of the

Send Grace Shen your
month
favorite Latin-related art Why did the woman
pieces via Discord or the link never win hide and
below for a surprise! Due on seek?
March 14th!
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Because Julius Caesar.

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