2018-2019 Staff
Liz Velasco
Photographer
Liz Velasco is a sophomore at Palatine High school. Some things she’s involved in is Orchesis and Woods at PHS. Outside of school she loves travel and taking pictures to share with friends and family.
Will Schneider
Reporter
Will Schneider is an A&E writer, specializing in movie and video game media. His favorite genres are horror, sci-fi, and action, but he will generally watch or play anything so long as it’s entertaining. His favorite movie,...
Russel Wagner
Videographer
My name is Russel Wagner. I am a senior at Palatine High School and I make the football videos here at PHS. What I do is I go to all the football games and film them on my camera, and then I make a highlight reel of all the best...
Roni Pikor
Photographer
Roni is currently a Freshman at Palatine High School. Some of her hobbies include swimming, drawing, photography, and writing. As a future career she aspires to be a pharmacist or something in the medical field. For now at PHS...
Caraline Anderson
Opinions Editor
Caraline Anderson is a junior at Palatine High School. When she’s not arguing her opinions, she’s reading. She has wanted to be a writer from a young age when she was enthralled by the Magic Tree House series. Nowadays she’s...
Brett Novosad
Reporter
Brett Novosad, who is a sophomore at Palatine High School, is doing his first year of Cutlass. He is going to be involved in a few activities besides Cutlass, like Service Club, Pirates and Politics, and Gaming Club, and possibly...
Emily Panczyk
Reporter
Emily Panczyk is a freshman at Palatine High School. Along with being involved in Cutlass, she’s a member of Varsity Poms and plans to join Student Council and Aquarium Club. Her favorite things to do outside of school include...
Alekhya Thotakura
Reporter
Alekhya Thotakura is currently a freshman at Palatine High School. She likes playing the violin, hanging out with friends, and going outside. Her favorite time of year is Christmas season. She plans on improving her writing this...
Amelia Donlin
Reporter
Amelia Donlin is currently a freshman here at Palatine. She enjoys writing, playing basketball, running track, and hanging out with friends. This is her first year on Cutlass. She is very passionate about writing and hopes to...
Jane Spencer
News Editor
Jane Spencer is currently a freshman at Palatine High School and it is her first year doing Cutlass. Along with Cutlass she is also a part of Math Team, Scholastic Bowl, and Science Olympiad. Reading has always been a passion...
Sophie Rohr
Reporter
Sophie Rohr is a Freshman at Palatine High School. She enjoys acting, improv and choir. Other than theatre, she doesn’t do all that much, but hopes to find new interests in high school. She also enjoys writing a lot and hopes...
Brielle Patel
Photographer
Brielle Patel is a Freshman at Palatine High School. Along with Cutlass, she is also doing HOSA, Science Olympiad, and Math Team. She loves to read, play sports, photography, and hanging out with her friends. She is also currently...
Ava Paseka
Photographer
Ava is currently a freshman at Palatine High School. Ava likes to play her viola, spend time outside, photography and hanging out with her friends. This is her first year at Cutlass and hopes to improve her skills as a photographer....
Nataly Panczyk
A&E Editor
Nataly Panczyk is currently a junior at Palatine High School. She is involved in many activities in addition to Cutlass including Pirates and Politics, Poms, and TRUST. She also works with the Palatine Park District Dance Company...
Fidan Malikova
Features Editor
Fidan loves playing the piano, tennis, and of course writing. She loves writing about journalism, fiction, and even poetry. This is her fourth year being a part of Cutlass, and being an editor. She was the A&E editor her...
Julia Plesniak
Copy Editor
Julia is a junior at PHS, who not only loves a good book, but writing them too. Throughout the years, she has taken inspiration from many works, known or masked from the public eye. She has always wanted to be an impactful writer....
Caroline Philbin
Sports Editor
Caroline Philbin is a senior at Palatine who enjoys photography and journalism. She plans to attend Loyola University, Chicago with a major in journalism and a minor in photography. Outside of the class she plays hockey for Maine...
Joann Diep
Social Media/Photography Editor
Joann Diep is a senior at Palatine who is a part of Service Club and Foreign Exchange Club. Listening to music, hanging out with friends, and doing the spontaneous are some of her favorite hobbies. She also has an interest in...
Shrey Parikh
Reporter
Shrey Parikh is a senior at Palatine and a 2036 presidential candidate. He is a member of the Cross Country team and participates in Math Team and Scholastic Bowl as well. Parikh is very passionate about movies and hopes to...
Edwin Perez-Hernandez
Photographer
Edwin is better than okay. Not great, but still up there. He has some interest like editing and photography. He is currently in the speech team and has been captain of said speech team for two years now! Edwin is also involved...
Soraya Elhoumaidi
Reporter
Soraya is a hardworking senior who enjoys writing and getting to know people. She loves journalism and photography. She hopes to one day move to New York and have a successful career.