Principal Julianne eagan Recaps Graduates’ School experience

continued from page 11 become and who they want to be; you have skill in the world today. And so I challenge you, students, to believe in yourselves and contexts. Instead, do what you’ve done all these years. Work it out, find what you have in common, listen, play, laugh, show up. We need you, live and in person. I know you will make a difference. You already have.

I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge and thank staff who are leaving us at the conclusion of this school year. We are so grateful to Tina Deal who served as humanities teacher for the 2022-2023 school year. Tina will be joining the Brattleboro Area Middle School teaching team next year. Thank you and best of luck, Ms. Deal.

Graduates: Alyssia Amezcua-Dean, Lucie J. Barone-Benoit, Marek Barone-Benoit, Lucas DiZoglio, Silas Golding, Levi Green, Julia Holden, Emma Houghton, Tucker Jenks, Ava Kennedy, Lotte Kurowski, Elizabeth LaClair, Alana Meggiolaro, Jaeger Nelson, Dannica Provo, Dalton Vaine, Dawson Wheeler worked to see the best in others and to find the points of connection.

This ability to see people as complex, changing, and evolving individuals with limitless potential is a superpower and a highly valuable, essential, desperately needed believe in your Dummerston School superpower. Show up for people, show up for yourself, search for what lies beneath the surface, reject superficial, one-dimensional characterizations of others that I guarantee will be shared with you online and in other