Graduation Program 2016

BESANT HILL SCHOOL O F H A P PY VA L L E Y

70 th

Commencement Ceremony

2016

Commencement Ceremony May 28, 2016 Welcome and Remarks Randy R. Bertin, EdD, Head of School

The Wendy Morgando Faculty Recognition Award Randy R. Bertin

Commencement Address David Marshall, PhD, Executive Vice Chancellor University of California, Santa Barbara

Presentation of Diplomas Randy R. Bertin Portia Pelow-Dickerson, Dean of Academics

Reading Portia Pelow-Dickerson

Moment of Silence In keeping with the “Happy Valley� tradition , each graduate will present a two-minute farewell speech. We have informed the graduates that a chime will sound if speeches go beyond two minutes. Our intention is to keep the program equitable and enjoyable for all.

Please join us for lunch immediately following the ceremony.

Class o SAEED RASHED LEKHRAIBANI ALNUAIMI

Abu Dhabi, UAE

AARON LAZARE BERNHARD

Seattle, Washington

NATALIE CAHILL

Ojai, California

CHUN-KUEN TRAVIS CHAN

Hong Kong, China

WILLIAM PETER COSTELLO

Los Altos, California

CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH ESCOBEDO

Torrance, California

ROSALYN HUI YEE FONG

Hong Kong, China

KIANNA GONNELLA

St. Johns, Antigua & Barbudo

JACOB LASKER GRAY-LEWINE

Bellevue, Washington

NILE RAI HENDRIX-WHITMORE

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

MICHAEL L.T. HOPKINS

Sedona, Arizona

SIMEON WILLIAM HU

Los Angeles, California

JUNREN REX JIANG

Shanghai, China

MADELINE CLAIRE KANE

Winnetka, Illinois

MADELYN BREE KISH

Laguna Niguel, California

of 2016 MICHELLE ELYSE LEVINSON

Encino, California

YI DAISY LIU

Beijing, China

RYAN FRANCIS MCNAMARA

Elmhurst, Illinois

HANQING QIU

Hang Zhou, China

MARIA JOSE PANDO REYNA

Mexico City, Mexico

LUDE RONG

Cixi, China

GREGOR SCHUR

Metzingen, Germany

ELIZABETH SNETT

Ojai, California

DEHAO TU

Ningbo, China

DANILA VOLOSNIKOV

Moscow, Russia

BRUCE WANG

Shenzhen, China

FELIX WHITE

Lagos, Nigeria

SHIGEAKI YOSHIDA

Tokyo, Japan

HAOTIAN YU

Shanxi, China

KELU ZHAO

Shanghai, China

Matriculations 2016 * multiple matriculations

AMDA - College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts Baldwin Wallace University California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Claremont McKenna College Hamilton College - NY Kent State University Marquette University New York University Pennsylvania State University - All Campuses Regis University San Jose State University Sarah Lawrence College * Savannah College of Art and Design School of the Art Institute of Chicago Stanford University The New School - All Divisions * The University of Arizona University of California, San Diego * University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Santa Cruz * University of Madrid University of San Francisco University of Washington Whittier College

Commencement Speaker David Marshall, PhD Executive Vice Chancellor University of California, Santa Barbara David Marshall is Executive Vice Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara. He served for sixteen years as Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and was the first Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts. From 2005 to 2012, he also was Executive Dean of the College of Letters and Science.

A Professor of English and Comparative Literature, David Marshall’s research focuses on eighteenth-century fiction, aesthetics, and moral philosophy. He is the author of numerous essays and four books: The Figure of Theater: Shaftesbury, Defoe, Adam Smith and George Eliot (1986); The Surprising Effects of Sympathy: Marivaux, Diderot, Rousseau, and Mary Shelley (1988); The Frame of Art: Fictions of Aesthetic Experience, 1750-1815 (2005), which was awarded the 2005-2006 Louis Gottschalk Prize by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies; and a work of literary non-fiction, Forgetting Fathers: Untold Stories from an Orphaned Past. A former Guggenheim Fellow, he also has lectured widely and published on issues in higher education and public education.

Before joining UC Santa Barbara, Executive Vice Chancellor Marshall was a professor at Yale University, where he taught from 1979 to 1997. At Yale he served as Chair of the English Department, Director of the Literature Major, Acting Chair of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Whitney Humanities Center, among other appointments. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University.

Marshall is President of the National Humanities Alliance, which advances national humanities policy in the areas of research, education, preservation, and public programs.