Graduation Speaker Excerpts
Town gave us the opportunity to live in the moment and enjoy the world and people around us. I feel grateful for being part of a community that has allowed me to thrive and succeed, but not at the expense of having joy in everything I do. ...I hope the world is ready for the class of 2018’s spirit and light. Congratulations again to my classmates, and thank you for the best years of my life.
...in 7th grade doing the Galileo Trial project, ...I remember comfort in knowing that everyone in my group had similar emotions and expressions on their faces. It was the comfort of not being the only one... of experiencing things with others. My class, my family, is one I will always cherish and love. ...and I hope that the next chapter in our lives will be just as good as this one has been. — Jonah Gleeman
— Isabelle Miller
I have worked with almost every single person in this grade, and not one of you is the same; you are wonderfully unique... We did not set out to create this masterpiece, yet each of us was a color in The Town School painting that can’t be recreated once we leave here today. Thank you for painting my experience. The last 11 years ...are my Mona Lisa, made up of 32 individual masterpieces. It was an honor sharing this magical time with you. — Milla Douer
At the very beginning of 8th grade, as my peers and I began to think seriously about where we wanted to attend high school, I realized the same group of children who once built with magna-tiles and fingerpainted in Kindergarten ...are now independent, self-assured people. ...As I end this speech, filled with anticipation and nostalgia, I strongly believe we are now ready to discover our passions, gain personal freedom, and enter the next stage of our lives. — Bella Otero