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We Love You, Class of 2005
Despite threatening skies early in the morning, the sun was shining by the time the Class of 2005’s 131 members received their diplomas at McDonogh’s 131st commencement exercises on Childs Memorial Terrace today.
After Headmaster Bo Dixon presented the senior awards, Senior Class President Tristram Thomas introduced the senior speaker, Jeremy Greenberg, by relating the circumstances of their first encounter. Both were cast in the 8th grade musical Bugsy Malone, Jr. with Tristram playing a talent show director and Jeremy trying out as an aspiring magician. While the role called for Tristram to cast aside Jeremy with a brusque “Next!”, Tristram assured the assembled students, faculty, staff, alumni, and family members that Jeremy has plenty of talent – the talent to make his classmates laugh and to lift their spirits.
With that warm introduction, Jeremy took the stage and infused the graduation ceremony with some levity as he compared the passage between high school and college to the life of a hermit crab, which periodically sheds an old shell of collected life experiences for a new one. He also referred to artist Jim Dine, who once made a painting that contained the name every person who had ever helped him. But, Jeremy explained, it would be impossible to create such a painting at McDonogh because there would simply be too many names.
After a musical interlude by the Senior Singers, students in the Class of 2005 filed across the stage one-by-one for the moment they had been waiting for, the chance to receive their McDonogh diplomas.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, excited graduates congregated with family and friends for a reception in front of the John McDonogh Monument.
There were plenty of memorable moments all morning long: Graham Bannantine’s attempts to get his bow tie tied, Sophomore Class Dean Merritt Imbriale’s baccalaureate address, Bo Dixon’s passionate goodbye to the class, and all the laughs, hugs and tears shared among classmates.
Farewell, Class of 2005. Be good. Be safe. We love you.
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Despite threatening skies early in the morning, the sun was shining by the time the Class of 2005’s 131 members received their diplomas at McDonogh’s 131st commencement exercises on Childs Memorial Terrace today.
After Headmaster Bo Dixon presented the senior awards, Senior Class President Tristram Thomas introduced the senior speaker, Jeremy Greenberg, by relating the circumstances of their first encounter. Both were cast in the 8th grade musical Bugsy Malone, Jr. with Tristram playing a talent show director and Jeremy trying out as an aspiring magician. While the role called for Tristram to cast aside Jeremy with a brusque “Next!”, Tristram assured the assembled students, faculty, staff, alumni, and family members that Jeremy has plenty of talent – the talent to make his classmates laugh and to lift their spirits.
With that warm introduction, Jeremy took the stage and infused the graduation ceremony with some levity as he compared the passage between high school and college to the life of a hermit crab, which periodically sheds an old shell of collected life experiences for a new one. He also referred to artist Jim Dine, who once made a painting that contained the name every person who had ever helped him. But, Jeremy explained, it would be impossible to create such a painting at McDonogh because there would simply be too many names.
After a musical interlude by the Senior Singers, students in the Class of 2005 filed across the stage one-by-one for the moment they had been waiting for, the chance to receive their McDonogh diplomas.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, excited graduates congregated with family and friends for a reception in front of the John McDonogh Monument.
There were plenty of memorable moments all morning long: Graham Bannantine’s attempts to get his bow tie tied, Sophomore Class Dean Merritt Imbriale’s baccalaureate address, Bo Dixon’s passionate goodbye to the class, and all the laughs, hugs and tears shared among classmates.
Farewell, Class of 2005. Be good. Be safe. We love you.