Flag Day Assembly

Every year Hopkins celebrates Flag Day, an opportunity to showcase our school’s ethnic diversity. It gives us a chance to remind ourselves how important our heritage is to us and how valuable it is to share our cultures with one another. After a student speaker shares his or her heritage, new students and new faculty who were born – or whose parents were born – in a country outside the United States process with and stand next to the flag that represents their family background. This year, graduating senior Sanam Rastegar who is a member of our multicultural club, Student United for Racial Equality (S.U.R.E.), shared her story as an Iranian-American.

Following Sanam's address, Kingston Pung '12 announced the 25 countries currently represented in the Hopkins community, as students and faculty processed onto the floor carrying the flags of their country.

Thank you to Director of Diversity, Lisa McGrath and School Archivist, Thom Peters for organizing this year's Flag Day Assembly.

Watch video of Sanam's story above. Photos taken by Yuan He '13.