Commencement 2022

Natalie Chenard, Nika Kirsanova, Ella Schweiser

Demi Leng and Julia Freedman Director of Choral Music David Coleman P22, Aimée Coleman, Fadie Coleman P22 Annika Svedlund and Elizabeth Record Svedlund ’90, P22

Britany Roberts, Oliva Rennie, Matilda Reinhardt Lily Brinkman and Darline Desforge

Jenna Lewis Dean of Residential Life Donna Corrigan P07 pins a flower crown on Cameron Curtin.

“Now is the time to trust yourselves. You are built of all the right things to succeed and you have learned all the right lessons here at Dana— uncompromising integrity, confidence to push past failures or mistakes, discipline to make sacrifices, courage to seek out help, and compassion and empathy to make good choices.”

— Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees Sandy Niles P17, 19

Sandy Niles P17, 19, Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees

Coco Zhang and Linnea Whiting Aluna Herrera

Science Department Chair Tara Jennings and Ava Sweeney

Eleanor Redgate and Arianne Randall “As long as I have known these beautiful people, we’ve laughed a little louder, smiled a little wider, and done a little more than was expected of us. There is a reason gold is one of our class colors after all. No matter what challenges are thrown our way we remain golden, shining brightly in a world that truly needs it.”

— Student speaker Ella Schweiser ’22

Student speaker Ella Schweiser

Peter Frechette P16, P22 and Phoebe Frechette Chapman Brown, Julia Bulkin, Sofia Cabral, Talia Carmichael, Nicole Chen, Natalie Chenard

Commencement Speaker Kellyanne Dignan ’99 “If you take only one thing from this speech, let it be this: support other women. Support their right to their life choices even if you don’t understand or agree with them. Celebrate them.

Advocate for them. Sponsor them. Mentor them.

If we work together, we can create so much opportunity — not just for women, for all people — however they identify.”

— Commencement Speaker Kellyanne Dignan ’99

the DANA HALL archives

MAKING HISTORY AND HISTORIANS

Every year, the Dana Hall community says hello and good-bye to valued members of the faculty. The Nina Heald Webber ’49 Archives carefully documents these comings and goings, and this year, the archivists are taking particular note of the departure of Social Studies teacher Eric Goodson, who started his tenure at Dana Hall in the fall of 2000. In 2003-04, Goodson started the Dana Hall Memory Project — a group of volunteer students who worked under his direction to help digitize items and research areas of interest to them. Goodson collected these resources and created an online resource for the community; those materials and projects eventually were part of the Making History course he began to teach during the 2010-11 school year. Student research including many oral interviews with alumnae, faculty and staff are part of the Archives’ collections. Goodson gave classroom lectures on specific topics in order to give the students context and background information, and get them interested in Dana Hall history and the history of women.

The Dana Hall archivists, past and present, are very grateful to Goodson for his abiding interest in and enthusiasm for all aspects of Dana Hall history, and for his appreciation, support and contributions to the Archives. “Eric has brought the School’s rich history to the attention of many students, parents, alumnae, faculty and staff,” said Archivist Dorothy DeSimone P06, 10. “His students have gone on to make valuable contributions to our research and oral history collections through their work, but also by sharing personal written reflections on school and world events. Eric has made sure the voices of his students from these two decades of the 21st century are reflected in the holdings of the Archives for researchers of the future. The resources, research, and lesson plans of these many years are also now a part of our holdings, and will be a valuable resource for those wishing to understand the first 141 years of Dana’s Hall existence. We say goodbye to Eric with best wishes for all his future endeavors and adventures.”

Early participants in the Dana Hall Memory Project, in 2004: Monaia Jackson ’05, Becky Simpson ’05, Social Studies faculty member Eric Goodson, and Natalia Knochowski ’06 Eric Goodson was honored with the Rinehart Chair in 2014, and is pictured with past recipients Jean McCarthy H01, Kevin Groppe P06 and Alexandra Siemon.

The archivists welcome contributions from all alumnae and former faculty and staff; the current collections include a variety of materials, such as photographs, programs, journals, letters, scrapbooks, clothing, school memorabilia and school records of all types, such as institutional minutes, reports and emails. For more information about donating items or adding your reflections and memories to Dana Hall’s oral history, please contact Archivist Dorothy DeSimone P06, 10 at dorothy.desimone@danahall.org or archives@danahall.org.