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Pies on Pi Day

| 19 Mar 2012 | 01:13
    Ogdensburg School Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski takes a direct hit from Lily Marino. Photo by John Church
    Ogdensburg School Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski takes a direct hit from Lily Marino. Photo by John Church
    Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski doesn't let Assistant Principal/Social Studies teacher Mike Ryder of Franklin get away without a pie facial.
    Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski doesn't let Assistant Principal/Social Studies teacher Mike Ryder of Franklin get away without a pie facial.
    Here's that pie facial, courtesy of Ogdensburg Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski. Assistant Principal/Social Studies teacher Mike Ryder is the recipient.
    Here's that pie facial, courtesy of Ogdensburg Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski. Assistant Principal/Social Studies teacher Mike Ryder is the recipient.
    Cindy Gunderman of Ogdensburg, resources staff, hit by Frankie Ciasullo.
    Cindy Gunderman of Ogdensburg, resources staff, hit by Frankie Ciasullo.
    Earl Hornyak of Ogdensburg, physical education teacher, tales a hit from Zak Duhaime
    Earl Hornyak of Ogdensburg, physical education teacher, tales a hit from Zak Duhaime
    From left, Earl Hornyak, Angela Weigle, Ray DeLear and Michelle Cooper are pie targets Wednesday afternoon at the Ogdensburg School.
    From left, Earl Hornyak, Angela Weigle, Ray DeLear and Michelle Cooper are pie targets Wednesday afternoon at the Ogdensburg School.

Ogdensburg —A two-week fund drive for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society concluded when 11 Ogdensburg School staff members faced a pie throwing firing squad at the school Wednesday afternoon.

Ten containers labeled with the names of willing pie targets were available for students to select if they made a cash contribution. The staff member with the highest amount collected had the honor of being pied three times. The 11th pie target, Assistant Principal/Social Studies Teacher Mike Ryder of Franklin, was coerced by the crowd of students into joining the other 10 staffers as a target. He cheerfully stepped forward and took a pie in the face delivered by Superintendent/Principal Tim Nicinski.

The pie throwers earned the privilege to hurl gooey creme pies by memorizing the most places of the mathematical constant pi. Trevor Washer was the top memorizer with 46 places. Appropriately enough, Math Teacher Valerie Reeth of Highland Lakes collected the most money. The students had a great time throwing or cheering, the staff stoically accepted the pie barrage and $432.13 was sent to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.

Pi day is celebrated by math teachers all over on March 14, or 3/14, which corresponds to (sometimes written pi) the mathematical constant that represents the relationship between a circle’s diameter (its width) and its circumference (the distance around the circle. Pi is approximately equal to 3.1415926535...