DEVON PREP TIDINGS, Summer 2012

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DEVON

PREPARATORY SCHOOL

The Piarist Fathers

TIDINGS

Volume 3, Issue 4

Summer 2012

CONGRATULATIONS CLASS OF 2012

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During Devon Prep’s Class of 2012 Commencement, each of the speakers con‐ gratulated the graduates on their accomplishments and success. They also en‐ couraged the 49 young men to use what they’ve learned at Devon Prep to give back.

Salutatorian Chase Weber urged his fellow graduates to use their talents and skills to improve the world. “We have a duty to use the instruc on we received and the skills we mastered to make the world a be er place,” he said. “Looking around this room I see future pioneers from all fields of study. The world is fac‐ ing a challenging me and as future leaders we have an obliga on to influence the world for the be er by maintaining our integrity and the morals that Devon has ins lled in us. We will influence the world for be er or worse,” he con n‐ ued. “And it is up to each one of us to decide which of these paths we will take. Devon has opened the doorway to endless possibili es. How we deal with these possibili es is what will decide the legacy of the Class of 2012.”

Collec vely the Class of 2012 earned over $7.4 million in college scholarships. In addi on they received more than 200 acceptances to over 100 colleges and universi es, including Princeton, Cornell, the University of Pennsylvania, Ford‐ ham, Colgate, Tu s, NYU, Notre Dame, Case Western Reserve, Drexel, Penn State, and the United States Military Academy.

More than 35% (18) are AP Scholars, 11 are AP Scholars with Dis nc on. Ten are Na onal Merit Scholars, six are finalists and three are scholarship winners. Eight of these young men are Eagle Scouts and several will go on to par cipate Con nued on page 3

Nearly 20% of Devon Prep’s Class of 2012 achieved the highest rank in the Boy Scou ng of America program, the rank of Eagle Scout. Eight Devon Prep seniors are among the 2 million men who pursued and achieved this dis nc on in the past 100 years, since its incep on in 1912. Each year about 5% of Boy Scouts do the same. It’s a long and challenging process, but for Ryan Fulmer, Sean Gillin, Daniel Lio a, James Lockard, Ma hew Magno a, Hugh Phelan, Adam Swi , and David Welsh, it was well worth it.

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