It’s the Meri Kiernan Newsletter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hey everyone, this is a special edition of the "quasi-weekly newsletter," the Meri Kiernan edition! Yes, that lovable girl that we all know and adore, Meri Kiernan, is being honored with the first ever tribute edition of this newsletter.
Here’s what some critics are saying about MERI KIERNAN:
"I give Meri Kiernan two thumbs up!
-Craig MacKenzie, Mr. Always Smiling ‘96-’97
"Meri Kiernan sure made an impact on my life!"
-the dead bunny from her audition
"Meri Kiernan is the sweetest person I have ever met."
-Jena Marie Paolilli
Be sure to catch Meri Kiernan in the upcoming production of "Jack and the Beanstalk." She will star as June, Jack’s mother. An essential role, because without her, there would be no Jack! Yes, she will play the wonderful woman who commands Jack to steal and sell their neighbor’s cow. She has already been nominated for a Tony award simply because the award-givers know that she will be great.
Meri Kiernan is an all-around awesome person. She was recently named Student of the Month and made a stirring and inspiring speech at the Rotary Club. Yay, Meri!
Meri is always dedicated to saving helpless things from danger. She is so insistent in her campaign to "Save the Endangered Chairs of 218" that Mr. Rondina has not yet been cruel enough to euthanize them, and they are living in bliss, devoting themselves to various tasks, such as: having random stuff put on them, allowing large garbage bags of bottles and cans to be hung on them, and guarding the door of Mr. Rondina’s office.
Currently, Meri Kiernan is a senior at CHS, and plans to graduate this spring. Her primary classroom of residence is 218, where she stores her stuff and practices throwing her lunchbag into the barrel. She also sings in the CHS Concert Choir, and her most recent performance was as a dancer and singer in the 1996 Production of The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Meri Kiernan is now officially 18 years old. She was born in the year 1979, on January 15th. Happy Birthday Meri!

Writer's Notes:
The following notes were not included in the original newsletter. They are intended to explain to the reader some of what was meant by various items in the newsletter.
This was the first special tribute edition ever. Meri is extremely proud of that, so I'm telling you again.
"The dead bunny from her audition" refers to this:
Meri Kiernan is a very sweet, harmless, caring person. The kind of person who wouldn't hurt a fly. Literally. So, at her audition for the Children's Play, Adam (director), Becky (assistant director), and John Gates (head writer) wanted to see her really act. So they told her to pretend she was killing a bunny. The horror that came over her face was hysterical, but then her audition was even better. She just acted like herself, luring the "bunny" towards her, cooing and everything, and then grabbed a pen and began to turn red and stabbed at the air violently. A prized moment in Meri history, she topped herself when she immediately ceased as they told her she had done enough, and then was almost revulsed at herself for what she had pretended to do.
Craig MacKenzie is spelled wrong. I put M-A-C-K-E-N-S-I-E, and it's really M-A-C-K-E-N-Z-I-E.
Meri was not really nominated for a Tony award, that's simply one of those jokes that I mentioned.
However, she really was Student of the Month and really did make a speech. She had "Confidence" so she did fine.
There are these chairs in the Chorus Room that were really comfortable. The only problem is that they all broke. So, Mr. Rondina decided to get rid of them. Meri was so angry that they had a joking argument for months after, and she resigned from her duties as his "pseudo-secretary", refusing to have anything to do with him. At the time of writing, he hadn't gotten rid of them, but almost all have since been removed. The bottles and cans part refers to the large garbage bag filled with empties that we dispose of, which then are given to the Chelmsford Friends Of Music bottle and can drive each month.
Every day until Mr. Rondina made the no eating in the Chorus Room rule (enacted 4-3-97), Meri would eat her lunch, put the trash in her lunchbag, and throw it across the room to the trashbarrel. She missed every time. The exception to this came about a month after the newsletter was written, when for the first and only time, it actually went in the barrel.