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 Ninety-six members of the class of 2010 marched into the Meeting House on the Green for The Gunnery commencement exercises to the familiar chords of Pomp and Circumstance before an audience of proud schoolmates, faculty, friends and family. Head of School, Susan Graham, Commencement Speaker, Gerrit Vreeland '61, Head Prefect, Jessica L'Heureux '10, and Head Prefect-Elect, Adam DeSanctis '11 addressed the Gunnery community. Click here to watch highlights of the proceedings and here for the official press release.
The formal dinner prior to Senior Baccalaureate (this year on Sunday, May 23rd) is the venue for the second of three end-of-year awards presentations, the academic awards.
Science chair Steven Bailey presented the results of the national tests in which his students participated.
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Click on the links to see numerous photos from each end-of-year school event from the formal to the fun.
Prom Senior Dinner Spring Carnival
Freshman Dinner Four Year Senior Dinner
 Poetry: Reading it, writing it, reciting it, and translating it have assumed a much more prominent place in The Gunnery's community life in the past few years.
April is always celebrated as Poetry Month.
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 "All of you realize that we cannot survive without contribution from everyone, both faculty and students. There are so many great stories and memories from this past spring," said Athletic Director, Jon Russillo as he acknowledged several season highlights at the spring athletic banquet. "An inexperienced unknown pitcher pitching against the top team in our league and holding them to two runs for 7 innings. Or the JV lacrosse starting the season with only four to five players, having the season almost go under and then our students rise to the occasion, join the team, and have one of the more successful seasons in recent memory...."
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English department faculty member, Nick Benson and students from the Advanced Creative Writing Class welcomed some very special visitors to campus. Kindergarteners from Rumsey Hall (Washington, CT) came to class to share their writings and create new ones with Gunnery students.
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L-to-R Back:
Spencer Meyer, ?, Matt Petras, Matt Hanson, Clark Weirdsma, Eric Hanson
L-to-R Front:
Nancy Gaal, Emily Weirdsma, ?, Miranda Pasch, Katherine Holmes
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May Question: This group is thoroughly decked out in The Gunnery's colors: a team? a dormitory competition? When? Who?
Answer: Jim Graham, Kristalynn Schlegel '96 and Tiffany Keith '97 all contributed to the identifications from the class of 1996, but no one suggested why they may have been so decked out in colors.
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Randy Ashton or Eddy Zycho, Chris Johnson '96 (aka Saba), Monica Barra '96, Ilana Steiner '96, Ed Mwamufiya '97, Anthony Arnone? Not sure if that's him or not.
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April Question: This happy group seems to be tasting in NY. Who are they? What occasion brought them here? And was it worth the trip?
Answer: Quite by accident, two months in a row we chose photos of the classes of '96 and '95: Jon Russillo, Mark Niemiec '95, Kristalynn Schlegel '96, and Dean Sherza contributed to the answer. continued
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Alumni Weekend was a tremendous success. We welcomed alumni back from the 40s to the 00s. Please check www.gunnery.org for complete coverage in mid June.
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"Many people see Harvard (University) in very stereotypic terms," said Dwight Miller '55, Harvard's Senior Admissions Officer. "We run into this whenever we travel from Cambridge to the far west. People see Harvard as being filled with brilliant, weird, preppy in the old-fashioned sense, and wealthy students. Decades ago, some of this was true."
Dwight has spent the last four decades clarifying these stereotypes and filling this prestigious university with the best of the best from all walks of life. "Some major developments and evolutions came about here. Harvard has always had an open, broadly defined approach to Admissions. We always ask, `How do you create an interesting class of 1,600 freshmen each year."
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