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Graduation
GRADUATION 2009 The PromiseCoflass a New Day of 2011
ABOVE AND LEFT: Seniors processed in a route from the Main Building and along the Harris House lawn to a waiting audience.
BELOW LEFT: Graduation speaker James Moorhead ’97 OPPOSITE: Malcolm McKenzie leads the faculty and audience in applauding the new graduates.
‘Find your purpose,’ speaker urges Hotchkiss’s newest alumni B Y
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“You are a formidable class,” Head of School Malcolm McKenzie told them, after first thanking retiring faculty members Walter DeMelle, Bob Haiko, Sarah Tames, and Jim Morrill for their many years of dedicated service. Advising the graduating seniors to “savor this ceremony,” he pointed out that “unity and diversity are the hallmark of your class culture…you did not choose each other, but you have made
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the most of each other.” Class presidents C. Anders Fogel and Georgina Ryder thanked Class Dean Stacey Nicholson and all of their teachers for making their time at Hotchkiss memorable. “None of us would be where we are today without your caring,” they noted, and closed by challenging classmates to stay in touch and to return for their FiveYear Reunion in 2016.
ALL PHOTOS BY JONATHAN DOSTER
The skies finally turned blue on May 27, just in time for the 119th graduation of Hotchkiss seniors. As the School orchestra played the stirring notes of Tchaikovsky’s “March Slav” and Lake Wononscopomuc glistened in the morning sun, family, friends, and faculty gathered on the Harris House lawn to honor 2011’s 170 accomplished graduates.