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‘We pushed forward anyway’ Looking back on challenges, BHS class of 2022 graduates and accolades despite a terrifying and unprecedented global pandemic. On a hot, windy day last Fri“We took that deep breath and day, 375 members of Baldwin we pushed forward anyway,” LotHigh School’s class of 2022 filed wis said. “That’s a phrase that into their seats on aptly summarizes the school’s football our time here. We field at noon. Lookpushed forward anying on from the way.” bleachers were And they sucproud parents, relaceeded despite the tives and friends. odds. “We pushed Valedictorian Peiforward for four ghton Lotwis, who is years,” she said, headed to Yale Uni“despite the panversity in the fall, demic, despite summed up the moments of fear and graduates’ four-year unrest, despite tragexperience nicely in edy, disaster, relenther address: “On less personal strugSeptember 4, 2018, gle, we pushed forwe walked through ward, we made it — the halls of this high you made it, and you school back here for deserve to be celethe first time as brated for that.” smaller, fairly pecuSalutatorian Jasliar freshman full of mine Bisht, who will ambition and brimattend Sophie Davis ming with curiosi- SAlUtAtORIAN Biomedical Educaty.” JASmINE BISht tional Pro g ram/ Although the stuCUNY School of dents would experiMedicine this fall, ence challenges they also spoke of the hadn’t encountered in middle pandemic, and how she and her school, they rose to the occasion peers had not only persisted, but and exceeded most expectations, become better adults because of with landmark achievements Continued on page 12
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CAROlINE mCCAhON’S SIBlINgS with members of the Baldwin Civic Association and County Legislator Debra Mulé.
‘This was her happy place — in the sunshine,’ a sister says
Pond named after nature lover Caroline McCahon By KARINA KOVAC kkovac@liherald.com
A pond in Baldwin’s Silver Lake Park was officially named after Caroline McCahon last Saturday. McCahon was a nature lover who spent her work lunches and other free time with her family in the park she loved. For decades the pond was known informally, but affectionately, as Caroline’s Pond by state officials, local entities working on the Silver Lake Park project, community members and even Google Maps. McCahon, a graduate of Oceanside High School, died unexpectedly at age 27 in 1990, and her friends in Baldwin and Oceanside
came together to plant a Kwanzan cherry tree and install a plaque behind the fish ladder at Caroline’s Pond in her honor. Efforts to do more, by naming the pond after her, were spearheaded by McCahon’s friend Marguerite Grasing Keller, a Baldwin Civic Association member. Grasing Keller often found that people were confused by the directions she would give them to the pond, which is just north of Wateredge Avenue, when it had no official name. So she approached County Legislator Debra Mulé, who was “All for” the renaming, Grasing Keller said, and the Baldwin Civic Association signed on as the sponsor organization. Continued on page 11
s we enter this new phase of our lives, we mustn’t forget where we came from, and remember the values of what it means to be a Baldwin Bruin.