Emperor

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The Emperor is the only position that exists at more than one site. It is also among the oldest traditions. The Emperor (or Empress) is the person who traditionally presides over the Passionfruit, and is usually quite knowledgeable about tradition.

Carlisle

At First Session Carlisle, there are plastic Crowns for the Emperor and Empress; however, the male crown became lost (left in Taiwan?). At Second Session there are Handmade crowns for Emperor and Empress. The role at Carlisle is to act as sort of student administrators, for instance when there was a conflict about Goth Day, the Empress had the final word. They also run Passionfruit, deciding on de-virginizations and the like.

Quite some time ago, the Empress and Emperor were referred to as the "juice coordinators" who would traditionally purchase a large amount of passionfruit juice for the whole circle. Then, people realized the ineffectiveness of this and started to bring their own juice, soda, water, etc., to Passionfruit. In addition, upon the departure of Gary Noritz, who facilitated finding & purchasing cases of passionfruit juice, the drink became difficult to obtain.

  • 2001
    First Session:
    Second Session: Owen Gentry and Pammy Woodward
  • 2002
    First Session:
    Second Session: Lizzie Wade
  • 2003
    First Session:
    Second Session: Laura and ???
  • 2004
    First Session:
    Second Session: Annie and George
  • 2005
    First Session: Franklyn and Nabil
    Second Session: Ben and Tini
  • 2006
    First Session: Ali G. and Matt Carroll
    Second Session: McKenzie Hull and Holly Murray
  • 2007
    First Session: Kimmi and Clara
    Second Session: Mike Schumacher and Jackie Mora
  • 2008
    First Session: NEW: Ryan Heaney and Ross "Sarge" Slaughter
    Second Session: Rachel Hull and Allie
  • 2009
    First Session: Alex Jacobsen and Jeanette Kim
    Second Session: Jake Meyers and Eddie Cytryn

Lancaster

The Emperor/Empress is the person who makes the first speech at Passionfruit. There can be more than one; for example, in 06.2 there were two, and at 05.2 there were four (two males and two females, in reference to The Chronicles of Narnia).

  • 1998
    First Session: ?
    Second Session: Jon Rin and ?
  • 1999
    First Session: Michael Mishkin and ?
    Second Session: ?
  • 2000
    First Session: Elspeth (Beth) Kursh and Tom Weingarten
    Second Session: Rose Ginsberg and Daniel Vitolo
  • 2001
    First Session: Ken Levin and Chelsea Seachord
    Second Session: Kayla Armstrong and Deb Streusand
  • 2002
    First Session: Maura Spiegelman and "The Original" Andy Bartholomew
    Second Session: Belle Saxton and Andy "UnAndy" Schlesinger
  • 2003
    First Session: Natalie Bau and Tim Hwang
    Second Session: Maddie Morrison, Tom "Lord of Lemmings" Wilson, and Jai Dhyani
  • 2004
    First Session: Liz and Dave
    Second Session:
  • 2005
    First Session: Alyssa Gottschlich
    Second Session: Will Colmer, David "Pickle" Kotsonis , Marley Teter, Nikka Rosenstein
  • 2006
    First Session: Alexa "Lexxie" Kottmeyer and Aliza Alperin-Sheriff
    Second Session: Alexander James Maestro Quinones Leroy Bangs a.k.a. QB, Colin Mahaffey
  • 2007
    First Session: See below.
    Second Session: Alexa Fredston-Hermann and Julia "Juice" Revzin
  • 2008
    First Session: See below.
    Second Session: Noelle Aly, Caroline, Maddy Jennewein, Julie Leghorn

Trinity

Main article: Trinity (Session 1)

In 07.1, the Emperor position of First Session was replaced with a new trio of positions called the Trinity, based on the Catholic Holy Trinity and in reference to the verse in Don McLean's "American Pie" which goes:

"And the three men I admire most
The Father, Son and the Holy Ghost
They caught the last train for the coast
The day the music died."

The Trinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost now fill the roles of Emperors of Passionfruit and execute the Last Supper.

Saratoga Springs

These are the Emperors and Empresses listed by year of reign. Two Emperors and two Empresses are crowned each session just to make sure at least one comes back the following year. This tradition began in 2005 when Riley O'Neill was the only one to return of four royalty chosen. It was passed down to Session 2 when David "Bex" Becker and Lina Huo (First Session Royalty) attended the Second Session Passionfruit of 2006 and told Youngin Lim to pick four, just in case.

  • 2005
    Session 1: Keane Tzong, Julia Wagner, Claire Kelley, Alex Micciche
    Session 2: Nick Fabiani, Stacy Toesland
  • 2006
    Session 1: Riley O'Neill
    Session 2: Youngin Lim, Zemelia Miller
  • 2007
    Session 1: David "Bex" Becker, Jay Margherio, Charlotte Coates, Lina Huo
    Session 2: Primary: Edison Huff, Stef Siller Secondary: Mike Feblowitz, Hilary (the lovely) Ludlow
  • 2008
    Session 1: Gage Wright, Zach Gerstein, Neha Srivastava, Liv Stillman
    • Replaced by: Peter Yang, Jesse Muse, Aliya Dincer, Rachel Lin
    Session 2: Bill Landis, David Clemens-Sewall, Christine Maroti, Gaby Garbasz
  • 2009
    Session 1: Will Pearl, Mark McGurrin, Sabrina Zeller, Laura Spake
    Session 2: Primary: Alex DeBerardinis and Sam Kwan, Secondary: Nick Kwan and Jennie Robbiano