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Ellie Ruos

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor

I am Ellie Ruos, and I am a co-features editor. I love the outdoors, and my favorite activities are backpacking, camping, and rock climbing. My favorite things are friendship bracelets, coffee, Chacos, driving with the windows down and my music up, and anything that is mini.

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Seniors part of the Senior Summit design committee work together to hang up the artwork in the gallery. 
According to senior Colin McCarthy (middle), their goal was to create a united collage from all art submissions.

Senior project brings unity to class of 2020

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
December 20, 2019

“Kindness.” “Justice.” “Freedom.” “Fun.” These are just a few of the abstract nouns the senior class used to capture their core values during a moment of reflection. “A View of the Summit”...

Actress Kiernan Shipka portrays timeless character Sabrina Spellman in Netflix’s chilling reboot of the comic strip and sitcom Sabrina the Teenage Witch. From left to right, actresses Tati Gabrielle, Abigail Cowen and Adeline Rudolph play the antagonistic, Macbeth-esque Weird Sisters in the show, which has been renewed for a second season.

Sabrina reboot wickedly good

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
February 8, 2019

I was on a “witch hunt” (although I don’t particularly care for that term) for a good binge-worthy TV show when I came across The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.  After watching the entire first...

Cool Kayaking:   Kayaking through the Prince William Sound, Junior Ellie Ruos (second from the right) navigates the waters with her friends. Ruos went on a backpacking trip throughout the Alaskan wilderness, with nothing but the untouched world ahead of her. Photo courtesy of Wilderness Adventures

Environmental awareness promotes new way of life

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
September 28, 2018

All my life I have lived the same routine. I’ve grown up in the same Glenview culture, surrounded by the Glenview “bubble.” I use that word, “bubble” not in a negative way, but with a more bittersweet...

TIME’S UP FOR TITAN:  Performing on stage, Beth Barber, English and Drama teacher looks to the audience during her act. Barber is retiring after 34 years of teaching Drama and English at South.

Lasting Impact: 2018 Retirees – Beth Barber

Ellie Ruos, co-features editor
May 25, 2018

From directing plays to grading essays, Beth Barber, English and Drama Teacher, believes her time at South has been incredibly rewarding. After 34 years in the classroom, Barber is savoring the last few...

Illustration by: Sophia Lau

Test anxiety proves prominent at South

Ellie Ruos, asst. features editor
December 22, 2017

Junior Lily Dolan sits down to take her next round of ACT tests, hoping to score a few points higher than last time in order to receive a scholarship from her dream college that she knows her family wouldn’t...

GBS honors generational teaching

Ellie Ruos, asst. features editor
October 6, 2017

It’s no secret that South is filled with many former students who come back to become teachers in the same classrooms they grew up in. However, most don’t know a number of these GBS graduates now work...

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