This year’s Midnight in Paris theme for Turnabout was a huge hit, inspiring creative new ideas on how to ask that special someone to the dance. Students got really into the theme, incorporating it into the way they asked their date to accompany them to the dance as much as they could.

Senior Lindsey Fredian took the process to a new level when she asked her date to the dance by bringing two French poodles, Lily and Gigi, to school during lunch, complete with professionally done hair, bows and painted nails. Fredian did not just come out and ask her date to Turnabout with the poodles, the night before she asked him, Fredian sent David Devine pictures of the Eiffel Tower and poodles to give him a hint that she was going to ask him. Devine of course said yes.

Fredian was not the only girl that asked her date to the dance in a creative way. Sophormore Devinne Love asked her date, sophomore Peter Minella, by involving her entire English class, including Ms. Radogno. She organized a game called “Last One Standing,” where statements such as, “If you are a girl, sit down,” and “If you do not take Spanish, sit down,” so that Minella would be the last one standing. Then, the last statement, after Minella was the last one standing, was, “If you want to ask Peter Minella to turnabout, stand up.” At this point, Love stood up and asked him to turnabout. Love said the theme for this year’s turnabout was “really cute,” and so was her creative way to ask someone to the dance.

Along with the larger productions of girls asking the guys, there were some ways that were not as public. For instance, junios Kailey Tassone, asked her date sophomore Matt Spiller, to the dance by putting 53 stuffed animal cats in his locker and saying, “It would be purrrfect if you went to turnabout with Meow!” Matt accepted.

“He was beet red and said ‘yes’ and gave me a huge hug!” said Tassone.

These couples were not the only ones who enjoyed the festivities of the Midnight in Paris themed turnabout. The dance was packed with groups of friends and couples having a blast on the dance floor all night long. This year, Kirshbaum’s cookies were served in the dining hall, free of charge, along with lemonade and punch. The relaxed atmosphere of the brightly lit, quiet dining hall provided someplace to cool down and relax with friends during the dance. Most everyone had a good time, even the chaperones, among whom were Mr. Boland, Mrs. O’Malley, and Ms. Mineo, who could not seem to stop busting a move on the edges of the dance floor.