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MMI honors 28 members of the Class of 2020 MMI honored the Class of 2020 during its 128th commencement “As humans, we place an expectation on our life to bring us the ceremony on July 7. Seniors received their diplomas from MMI Head fulfillment of happiness and we fear that without it we won’t ever feel as if we lived the life of School Justin Kleinheider we truly wanted to live. The and Chairman of the 2019danger in that expectation 2020 Board of Directors is that personal happiness John H. Hersker ‘76. will never be handed to us. This year’s graduating We won’t wake up one day class of 28 seniors were and realize that we suddenly accepted at more than 79 have everything we’ve been percent of the colleges they waiting for right in front of us. applied to and amassed It is the gradual changes, the more than $7.6 million daily growth, the frustration, in merit scholarships and the life lessons that slowly awards. allow us to become capable of The 2020 graduating experiencing true happiness. class also attained an More importantly, our lives average score of 1192 on don’t begin on the day we feel the redesigned SAT and an as if we’re capable of being average ACT score of 24. happy, it begins when we During commencement learn that happiness resides exercises, Valedictorian within us and our journey, Benjamin Putnam shared and not what surrounds it,” what he learned about Ankiewicz said. wisdom through his favorite Class President Kai Mele childhood cartoon and remarked on how the Class encouraged the Class of of 2020 grew from 16 sixth 2020 to find wisdom in graders who got to know each their own lives. “In one other by sharing every class episode, an old man said to together to the family of 28 his nephew, ‘It is important that is graduating today. “Over to draw wisdom from the years, our tiny class grew many different places. If into our family of 28 diverse you take it from only one and talented individuals, place, it becomes rigid and each of whom have made an stale.’… So, my challenge impact on my life, and I am to you is to draw wisdom grateful for the memories we from not just many places, have created together. I used but the places nobody the word family to describe MMI Class of 2020 would expect. It could be our class because, ultimately, the smallest flower or the that is what we are, and not without our share of problems. We are tallest skyscraper or the darkest night or the brightest sunrise, a band of misfits at times, but a family nonetheless; a family that I but just know there is wisdom, knowledge, and understanding in will never abandon, betray, or forget,” Mele said. everything,” Putnam said. Macy Zenier, who designed the Class of 2020 banner, spoke Salutatorian Emily Ankiewicz expressed to her classmates the need to persevere through adversity and find true happiness.
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