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All's Well That Ends Well: 500 Graduate One Day Late at Eastview/Highlands
Posted on Friday, June 27 @ 13:56:47 EDT by jfbailey
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WPCNR SCHOOL DAYS. June 27, 2003: In an intimate, one-hour ceremony at Eastview School and a simultaneous ceremony at Highlands Middle School, White Plains Eighth Graders graduated today at high noon ceremonies hastily and smoothly improvised by the School District after the cancellation of their Thursday graduation at the County Center due to a failure of a circuit breaker at the Westchester County Center. The Eastview exercises were complimented by parents for the "home town" feeling, prompting many this reporter talked to to say the exercises should be done at Highlands and Eastview every year.
CONGRATULATIONS! Eastview Eighth Graders receiving their Middle School Diplomas at Eastview earlier this afternoon. Left to right, Dr. Joseph Casbarro, representing the School District, Peter Bassano of the Board of Education, and Dorothy Schere President of the Board of Education.
Photo by WPCNR News
INVOCATION: Eighth Grader Joseph Costable delivered the invocation saying it was "The Best of Times, it was the worst of times," noting the historical events his class has been through, and ending noting that "of the best of times, they have had the better."
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ACCOMPLISHMENTS: William Roscoe Lewis, President of the Student Organization, detailed a long list of accomplishments and activities the eighth grade experienced this year and spoke for many of the graduates, concluding his speech, saying, "High School, here we come."
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LOOKING BACK ON MEMORIES, TIME FOR DREAMS: Assistant Superintendent for Pupil Services, Dr. Joseph Casbarro, thanked the parents and guardians for patience and understanding throughout the Westchester County Center power failure and cancellation of ceremonies yesterday. Casbarro asked students to raise their hands to show who came from Church Street School, Mamaroneck Avenue School, Post Road, Ridgeway and George Washington, and the parents and guardians looking on were impressed how balanced a representation of the five elementary schools there was. Casbarro encouraged them to remember their times at the elementary schools, saying now that they were entering high school, it was the time to dream...and that only they could make those dreams come true.
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PRINCIPAL ADVISES BALANCE:
Joseph Cloherty, Prinicipal of Eastview, advised the students that achieving balance among disciplines and appreciations was a goal of education, and that they should strive to achieve that balance as they continue their academic careers.
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After presentation of diplomas, Mr. Cloherty said, I present you with the White Plains High School Class of 2007.
"POMP AND CIRCUMSTANCE" was played on solo trumpet by Laura Mazziotti, and Ms. Mazziotti also performed the recessional. Here the graduates prepare to march out into the sunshine.
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The big old auditorium, lonely on graduation days for many years, had taken on a splendid appearance. It seemed brighter, warmer (literally and figuratively), as if cheered that its students had brought the old hall a warmth it had not enjoyed in decades. All attending appeared genuinely pleased at how the impromtu (though you would not know it thanks to the efforts of the administration and staff), ceremony was conducted. Even the sound system performed perfectly.
It was a graduation these Eighth Graders will always remember.
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