June 20, 2012
Green Mountain Outlook - 7
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18 graduates in Kurn Hattin Class of ‘12 By Lou Varricchio
newmarketpress@denpubs.com WESTMINSTER — There were 18 reasons to celebrate graduation day at Kurn Hattin Homes in Westminster June 9. And each one of the 18 reasons had a name and a unique story to tell. Founded in 1894, the year-round year-round, residential home and school serving at-risk children, ages 6-15, from throughout the northeastern U.S., has turned around the lives of many of its alumni. On June 9, 18 graduates wore the school’s traditional red graduation garb and proudly shook the hands of Executive Director Christopher Barry and Rev. Father Lance W. Harlow. Harlow also gave the invocation and the benediction. Several students received one or more prizes from the nine categories of awards which included: academic, cottage, sports, the Massachusetts board of directors, alumni, music, scholarship and awards for showing the greatest improvement, good citizenship and the greatest aptitude in the field of agriculture and the executive director's award, in memory of John P. Barry, educator and administrator were also given. Valedictorian Scarlett Stanhope spoke, and diplomas were awarded by David J. Maysilles, class of ’43. Maysilles is also the president of the school’s board of trustees, Class of 2012 included Timothy Shawn Allain, Jr., Chelsea Faith Candello, Breanna Lynn Collins, Mia Nora-Esha Dawson, Jennifer Lindsay Filiault, John Daniel Harris, John Nathaniel Ireland, Sebastien Jean-Francois, Nichole Ann Kelly, Danielle Lynn LaBrecque, Austin Reed Ladd, Tanessa LaFoe, Kayla Mae Loiacono, Taylor-Lynn Marie Maynard,
The 18 graduates of Kurn Hattin Homes’ Class of 2012. Photo by Kim Fine
Jailene Isabel Ramos, Scarlett Anne Stanhope, Garrett Warren Waterman and Ronald Whitcomb, Jr. “We are so proud of them,”said Kim Fine, senior development officer at the school. “After graduating, many of the students will stay on campus for the summer in the ninth-
grade transition program. Then they will rejoin their families and attend their local high schools in the fall. Others will go to the Milton Hershey School in Pennsylvania, and Rock Point School in Burlington, Vermont. Wherever they go, Kurn Hattin will always be their home.”
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