Jordan Villaruel, Taylor Watson, Angelique Ruggiero and Daniela Creighton
Jenna Bloomer, Isabella Bogdanos and Julia Caccavale
cannot be solved; it takes the interaction and dynamic of each word to complete the crossword. "If we want to make a difference, we must help others to reach their fullest potential just as ND has done for all of us. Everyone has something innovative to bring to the table. When even one person is not living up to her potential, the group will never be able to reach the ultimate goal." To conclude the graduation exercises, Principal Jaclyn Brilliant offered some remarks encouraging the girls to be life-long learners. Ms. Brilliant stated, “I would like you to be greedy for knowledge and learning not just in college, but perhaps in graduate school afterwards, the workplace, or wherever your life experience carries you.” After quoting a poem by Mary Oliver, “Where Does the Temple Begin, Where Does It End?” Ms. Brilliant exhorted each graduate, saying, “I urge you to reach out to others…with your arms open. Your life, after all, is profoundly connected to the lives of others.”
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Sr. Margaret McEntee, SC, Gwen Kozlowski and Oksana Kramarchuk
Nicole Collymore and Lorena Peralta
Priscilla Guzman
The ceremony concluded with the following blessing for the graduates:
May the world be your temple with no beginning or end. May you reach out all day long on your journey forth. May the light of Anne’s lamp shine for you to guard and to cherish you. May God shield you on your way, as you look around you with your arms open, until you are where you belong, your home everywhere and always and God holds you in Her arms.