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From the Desk of Henry D. Berg
June 12, 2010
"Graduation Time "
Beginning with our final All-School Gathering last week, where we conclude the academic year and dedicate the yearbook, we have celebrated the achievements and reflected on the past school year. It has been quite a year. We began this session with the character theme of teamwork and it has occurred to me there have been a number of team related outcomes to the year.
We began with a visiting team of educators from across the state that conducted our ten year accreditation process. Then a team of health professionals administered swine flu vaccines. Nine varsity teams were conference champions and three teams reached the state championship finals. We inaugurated the first robotics and lego teams which performed with distinction in our rookie year. For the fifth time, a group traveled to Maine to drive teams of sled dogs and camp out in the frozen terrain. It took a team of snow plows to clear our campus from snowmageddon. And our baseball team played its best game of the season in honor of a fallen teammate.
This team of seniors led the school through the ups and downs of the school year with a combination of persistence and calm. They come by this social/emotional elasticity, both naturally and out of necessity. How else could a class integrate new members from the time they were in PreK until, and including, this year? How else could they maintain friendships with their geographic diversity? (I determined that there are seniors who live almost 100 miles from each other) How else could they be independent, even aloof at times, yet form the closest bonds with their kindergarten buddies that we have ever seen? We thank and congratulate our seniors for their contributions to the life of the school.
Henry D. Berg,
Head of School
Archive Journal Entries:
Back to School, September 2009
Common Experience, October 2009