Class of 2015 President Evan Chaletzky and Head of School Rick Melvoin.
The big winners were Jack Wilhoite and Eric Rolfs – boys, please stand up. Jack and Eric won for “interpretive dance.” They look like interpretive dancers, don’t they? A historic moment. First time since the School was founded that the words interpretive dance and Belmont Hill were used in the same sentence. Did I detect some controversy after the show? No offense to Jack and Eric but one wonders: should that trophy have gone to Benny Wanger and Myles Walsh singing Disney’s Hercules theme? Whether money changed hands the night before we don’t know yet… Benny is fine with it I am sure – just a few days after the talent show Benny pitched a perfect game for the Belmont Hill varsity baseball team against Nobles. Possibly the first perfect game in Belmont Hill history! Our son Charlie would have been over the moon about Benny’s perfect game. He loved sports more than academics, though he also had great affection for many of his extraordinary teachers. Charlie had such a special feeling for one teacher, in particular, that when
Alexander Santangelo receives the George vonL. Meyer III Memorial Prize from Head of School Rick Melvoin.
Charlie procured his very first fake ID he got it in the name of Chris Butler! I apologize for breaking the basic rules of commencement speeches. I have no advice for you. The idea that I could tell you something you have not learned from this faculty and from your parents would be pure hubris on my part. I will not tell you that you should go off to live in an ashram rather than to earn gobs of money on Wall Street. In fact, I hope you do earn gobs of money so that a gob or two can be donated here to the School. Bev Coughlin is ready to receive those checks. I will violate the latest fad in commencement speaking which is to tell you graduates that you are nothing special. A teacher at Wellesley High School gained notoriety telling the graduates there they are not special. But I know many of you boys, and I know this school, and I believe you are incredibly special as students, athletes, and as people.
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