Fellow graduate Oliver “Ollie” Cheever recalled, sometimes with humor, special moments in the life of his class, such as the Windsor Mountain overnight in September, where the campers had to rescue a plastic swan by swimming out into the lake. “If Fenn has taught us anything, it’s that you should cherish everything,” Ollie declared. “It all goes by pretty quickly and there is no greater lesson that I am going to take away.” Ben Carbeau, a rising senior, employed the school motto, Sua Sponte, as a theme in his remarks. “It means ‘It’s in your hands,’” he explained to the audience, adding that “It’s up to you to do what’s right... there are a lot of opportunities here to make good choices.” Upper School, he added, “Is the icing on the cake. You have the trust of your teachers and more independence. That means there are a lot of opportunities to make good choices and bad.” He went on to provide an example of the latter: when a fellow eighth grader jumped off the rope swing too soon at Windsor Mountain and “face planted.” To his
departing classmates Ben said, “Fenn has given you an amazing foundation. Now it is up to you to choose what you will do with it.” Finally, Ian Moore, who will continue at Fenn, recalled “the moments that have defined us as a class,” including the D.C. trip. Entering Fenn as a sixth grader, Ian remembered being a “new boy in a room of returners. But I will never forget the way kids made me feel included and welcomed to this new environment.” To his fellow rising seniors he said, “I want us to be the class that steps up and takes risks. That is courageous in their daily lives. That helps each other through tough times. That is empathetic. And that is willing to do the right thing no matter how hard that might be.”
“Our cohesive community is one that none of us will ever forget.” – Colin Cunningham ’16
Congratulations to all of the Fenn graduates!
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