The Class of 2012 Graduates!

6/11/2012

On Friday morning, June 8th, under the tent on top of the Hill, the Class of 2012 graduated from Hopkins School!

Head of School, Barbara Riley, started the festivities, followed by an Invocation by Imam Omer Bajwa, Coordinator for Muslim Life for Yale University. Senior Class President, Nicole Wolfe, gave the Salutatory address, and later presented Mrs. Riley with the Senior Class Gift. This year, the seniors raised an unprecedented $8,000 to contribute to an endowed scholarship fund named The Class of 2012 Fund for Financial Aid in honor of Head Advisor, Benjamin Taylor.

The valedictory address was given by Senior Brian Astrachan, who spoke to his classmates about a few of his memories and encouraged his peers to take time to appreciate all that Hopkins is while they are still students. He also postulated that every Hopkins student is here because of their excellent academic ability and many successes, and while that brings a certain amount of prestige, the pressure to live up to that standard is a part of the process, and one to be appreciated.

Seniors Daisy Braddy, Nyah Macklin, and faculty member Ian Melchinger sang a beautiful rendition of "My Heart With You" by The Rescues that brought many in attendance to tears.

David I. Newton '67 HGS, President of the Hopkins Committee of Trustees, delivered diplomas to each graduating senior.

Following the conclusion of the Commencement ceremony, the Faculty and Committee of Trustess formed a receiving line to congratulate every graduate. Handshakes, smiles, hugs, and tears continued for about half an hour as the students said goodbye to their Hopkins teachers and mentors and found their way to their proud families. Congratulations to the Class of 2012!

Click here to see the 2012 Matriculation list

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PHOTOS & VIDEO

Attached to this article are 6 galleries of Commencement photos, all photos are available to download, and are big enough to print. Also find a bundle of videos from Commencement.

Families can purchase their own copy of the 2012 Hopkins Commencement video from our videographer, First Image, for $25. Click here to reserve yours today!

Ben Taylor's Senior Breakfast speech is also now available to watch online, with thanks to the Falcigno family. See the video in the attached media.

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Read the Commencement Speeches below:
   Nicole Wolfe's Salutatory Address
   Brian Astrachan's Valedictory Address
   Barbara Riley's Commencement Address

Nicole Wolfe's Salutatory Address

Class of 2012, today is a day we thought might never come. We have hurdled the massive piles of homework, conquered the long sleepless nights, and finally battled the college application process. And now we are here, we are graduating, and that idea is so hard for me to grasp. I still remember my first day of seventh grade so clearly, nervously standing around before assembly anticipating the day ahead of me with an excited feeling in my stomach. I immediately knew Hopkins would be my school, and my family, for the next six years, and I remember looking at all of the older kids and thinking, “that will be me some day.” Have six years really gone by? But they have. Each year encompasses so many memories that I will always hold onto. Each year we have been pushed to stretch our minds across unimaginable borders and have grown as students and as individuals. We have truly been bred up “for the public service of the country in future times,” and Edward Hopkins and John Davenport would be so proud to look upon this incredible class.

As our Hopkins experience is coming to a close, I know that we are certainly ready to begin the next chapter of our lives, but are we ready to leave? How do you leave such an incredible community? A community of acceptance and support, of tradition and fun, of imagination and adventure. Over the years I found myself spending more and more time at Hopkins. I stayed when I didn’t have to and I realized that was because I didn’t want to leave. I wanted to stay as long as I could at this place that gave me so much comfort and happiness. Hopkins became such a big part of me and it has become, and forever will be, my second family. This close connection can come to you, too, underclassmen. Even though at times it may be hard, don’t count the days until breaks or dread waking up every Monday morning. Try to make your time here last and enjoy every second, because sooner than you think you will be here looking back on your unforgettable experience.

I would not feel the same way about Hopkins if it weren’t for all of you. My peers, teammates, teachers, faculty, advisors, and friends. Most of all I owe my amazing time at Hopkins to you, class of 2012. I look out at each of you and could not feel a bigger sense of pride. You have all had incredible accomplishments and together we have made the class of 2012 the greatest class at Hopkins. Every student at Hopkins is remarkable, but none are quite as remarkable as those in our class. Hopkins is full of generous students, but there is no one more giving than Sanam Rastegar. Boys have come and gone from the tennis team, but Nolan Paige will always hit the ball harder and stronger. And who can make a room full of people laugh harder than Evan DeCarlo? Many boys at Hopkins may show off their huge muscles, but Nitty is by far the strongest boy I know. And I can’t even begin to compare anyone’s voice to Nyah Macklin’s. We all know she will be famous some day. Each and every one of you have wowed me with your talents, dedication, and perseverance, and though the thought of college is very exciting, it is also so scary that I will not see all of you every day. I know I will never meet a group of people like you again, which is why I hope the bonds we have created during our time here will never unravel and that we will find time to be together in the future.

Thank you class of 2012 for granting me the honor of serving as your president for your final Hopkins year. All of you have touched me with your remarkable spirit, intellect, talent, creativity, and devotion. Thank you Mr. Taylor for caring about us with your whole heart and always giving us the help and advice we needed. Thank you Mrs. Riley, Mr. Roberts, and the entire Hopkins community for making this school the special place that it is.

And now, class of 2012, the time has come for us to move on, to make room for a new generation of Hopkins students, to leave our legacy and go create new ones at different places. May you always carry the lessons you have learned and the friendships you have created here, and never lose sight the love you hold for the best high school in the world.

Congratulations class of 2012, I am so proud of all of you.

Thank you.

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Brian Astrachan's Valedictory Address

Good Morning: Mrs. Riley, Board of trustees, faculty, family, friends, and especially the class of 2012, it’s an honor for me to speak to you today. As many of you know, the valedictorian at Hopkins is chosen by the class itself. I am so thankful for this opportunity, when any of the candidates were ready and capable to be standing here today. This year was very unusual in that there was the first tie ever, leading to a run-off between me and Ben Paltiel. Ben, in any other situation you would have had my vote.

So, how’s everybody doing today? I’ve seen a lot of tears already. Today, but also in the past month. I don’t mean to brag, but nobody will cry as much as my mom will. A month ago my brother graduated from college. That’s when it started. Around mid-May the word graduation would set her off. About a week ago, just grad-, starting to say the word, would bring tears. Yesterday any “g” did the job----“Hey, mom, do we have any food? I’m hungr---“ tears. Mom, I brought some extra tissues with me in case you need more.

Again I want to thank the class of 2012 for giving me this honor. I have to admit, I was a little nervous about what it entailed: giving a speech in front of so many people is more than a little daunting. Leading up to this moment, I was comforted by the well wishes of my family and friends. My Uncle, Valedictorian of Hamden Hall class of 1979, who hadn't spoken to me since my first day of Hopkins as a seventh grader, actually called to congratulate me.

I am used to pressure like this, but it is usually in the form of a tennis match. For those of you who don't know, tennis has been a very important part of my life. Through tennis I have met many wonderful people including my coach Ryan and my guru Oleg. As part of his job as my guru, Oleg has talked with me about what I represent. What the ground I stand on is. Because without ground to stand on, you’re completely helpless. You may fight but you don’t really know what you are fighting for. Some people have their egos, others their countries, but for me the ground I stand on is my family. Whenever I do anything, those are the people I think about and work for. Sure, I was chosen to be valedictorian, but the honor would be empty without my family here, happy for and with me.

I have a quick test to see if I am close enough with a certain group to call it family: if I am comfortable enough to dance like an idiot in front of the group, it passes. I don’t know how many of you saw me dancing at prom, but there is no doubt that Hopkins passed. Mr. Taylor actually came up to me, laughing, and complimented my one-man samba.

Looking back on this test and my Hopkins experience, I realize that Hopkins has become just as much a part of my family as any cousin I have. There is the class as a whole and many individuals I am close with, but having played on the tennis team for 6 years I feel like I represent Hopkins. I have more firm ground to stand on because of that. In the future, I don’t just want to do great things for me and my relatives but also for Hopkins. I could see no greater honor than coming back here and speaking to the students who will have taken our place.

The night after our tennis team won this past New Englands, my last team competition for Hopkins, I had a dream about the tennis captains who had previously graduated. I went up to them, gave them hugs, and woke up in tears because I was no longer going to be a part of the Hopkins student body. We are now the kids who return and visit but are not truly a part of what is happening. Even though the people change, and maybe the place changes, I mean who knows how many more buildings will be here at our 5th reunion, let alone our 25th, Hopkins remains the same. And we will always have Hopkins.

Having said that, we cannot get our time back. Yes, we will always have Hopkins, but we will no longer all be on this campus together. And my biggest regret about my experience here is that I did not spend that much time physically at Hopkins, with the class of 2012. We are moving on, and now I’m sure that if only I started back from 7th grade or 9th grade I would spend as much time as I could with my Hopkins family. But that’s the thing: I probably wouldn’t. I would probably do the exact same activities as I did the first go-round. Because once we get used to the idea that we have plenty of time for anything, we get complacent. Without a sense of urgency, we as humans will always waste time. So as this class goes on to college, it must try to find some rush to enjoy those years as much as possible. Otherwise, the time will go by just as quickly and silently as our Hopkins experience did.

While not being at Hopkins enough is my number one regret, I actually have four others that are worth noting. Regret number 4: I wish I said the phrase "hopeful youths" more often. I'm never going to get to say it except at Hopkins. It’ll just sound weird anywhere else. Number 3: I wish I talked more to Mr. Taylor. He was my teacher this year so I got to know him, and I saw what I'd missed out on during the previous 3 years. He is a great teacher, advisor, and person, and if his kids grow to be anything like him then they'll be fine. So for those of you who are still at Hopkins or are going to college, take some time to find a professor or two to get to know. Number 2: I wish I ate more soup. The soup at Hopkins is delicious. I actually ate soup every day for the last month. And number 1, I wish that we were given more opportunity to work, to play, to compete, without fear of consequences. I’ll elaborate on this one—it may be a little more complicated than eating soup.

In the classroom, there was always far too much fear of a bad grade. It never mattered how many good marks one got; the only grade one remembered was the bad. There was never a “See me” on an A plus, no congratulations on a job well done. But for a D or an F, you’ve got teachers and parents to talk to about that.

The same was true for my experience in tennis tournaments. Losses would be remembered forever, wins for a few days. In the end, that is just not fair. I can remember the pain severely but the pleasure, the reason I played the game, like the smell of chocolate chip cookies that are baking 100 yards away. I can feel the joy of some victories, but only if I focus on the moment and make an effort to remember. The heartbreak can catch me at any time.

So what is the source of these feelings, this focusing on outcomes that, in the moment of a sports game or essay or test, prevents one from enjoying himself? The first reason is prestige. Prestige is one’s value as determined by others. In worrying about how others would react to my win or loss, for example, I was worrying about prestige.

If prestige stops us from having fun, why do we care so much about it? Prestige is an illusion of happiness. Sure, the idea exists, and others will value you for what you do, but we all imagine that prestige gives us some greater importance. And who doesn’t like being important. People will like us more or respect us more if we just win. If we just get good grades. But that importance is so fleeting. With one loss every history of victory is erased. And the joy from victory with it. In this manner, prestige hinders enjoyment in both the event and the aftermath.

The second reason for a lack of enjoyment is expectations. Put in a different way, we as Hopkins students do not have the luxury to fail. That’s exactly what the ability to fail is: a luxury. We and everyone around us have such high expectations for ourselves that anything less than excellence is a failure. I’m being completely serious when I say that the reactions to a B minus at Hopkins are the same or even more disappointed than the reactions to a D at countless other schools.

These expectations lead to tremendous pressure. One of the greatest tennis players of all time Billie Jean King, when asked about whether she found it difficult to handle all that went with playing in the finals of a US Open, said, “Pressure is a privilege.” And it is. We have earned that pressure. Because high expectations do not just appear. Expectations are only high because we have proven ourselves able to meet them time and time again. Pressure isn’t there to scare us; pressure is there to remind us how much success we’ve attained. These expectations cannot be erased but should be acknowledged and accepted. We only lose the joy of a task when we fear falling short of expectations. But those expectations are set by our previous record, so if we do exactly what we did before, we will meet them.

So if you, the class of 2012, do not take away anything else from this speech, I want you to remember to forget prestige, embrace the fact that you don’t have the luxury to fail, and look at pressure as a reminder of how well you’ve done to get here. Because that pressure is easy to meet: just repeat what you’ve been doing all along.

By removing the obstacle of prestige by caring more about what you are doing than how other people will judge you for what you have done, and by viewing expectations not as something to fear falling short of but as goals you have met and will continue to meet, you free yourself to focus completely on and enjoy the tasks and challenges that lie ahead.

Thank you.

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Barbara Riley's Commencement Address

Commencement addresses are difficult, but not for the reasons you might think. It is not, in a reference you will well understand, that there is another paper to write on a Sunday night, but rather that there is just one more chance – right now – for a shared moment, one more opportunity to create an experience and the words that will help you see your past in a new way and take us into our futures together. And, then, there is the fact that Nicole and Brian have already done such a beautiful job of both.

This is the time of year when there are Commencements all around the country. The speakers at these occasions are often politicians or statesmen, people who are doubling up on the venue to deliver a policy or campaign speech. A second group are celebrities, people famous in one field or another, and they provide a chance for the almost-graduates to hear a combination of advice, humor and, possibly and hopefully, wisdom from someone with high name recognition – something that actually occurs pretty frequently at Hopkins assemblies.

But the statesmen and the politicians, and the otherwise famous, had to look somewhere for their inspiration when they came to those Commencement speeches – they searched books of quotations, important readings or maybe just their own experience in schools to come up with something important to say.

No surprise: we do things differently at Hopkins. This is not the time for imported wisdom. Our Commencement ceremonies are home-grown: the speeches come from a class president elected by her classmates, a valedictorian chosen by his classmates, and the Head of School; and there is some beautiful music – also home-grown. Those elements make up the ceremony here.

What is really different about a Hopkins Commencement, and what Nicole, Brian and I have in common this morning, is that we did not have to search for our inspiration, because it has been right in front of us all along. And, what makes this ceremony different, every year, is the fact that no two Hopkins classes are alike. All inspiration today comes right from the 122 members of the Class of 2012, who have provided the focus of the words and the abundance of feelings that are in the air today. You have made this easy for us.

It occurred to me, as I have thought about what I wanted to to say, that it was probably about time someone told you just why we asked you to do what you have done these past four years, and why the particular program of study you have followed, with such trust and success, has been the one we believe – actually, know—has set you up to step into your futures. And, no, I am not talking about preparation for college, although you are more than ready for that next step in your educations.

Back when our School was founded in the 17^th century, American colleges were also just being established. Their purpose – and Hopkins’ purpose – was to train young men, intellectually and spiritually, for the ministry and for citizenship. At that time, the purpose of schools like Hopkins was to provide the practical, moral and intellectual education that ideally prepared men for responsible and fulfilling lives. If you add women into the mix, that purpose was and remains important and, even, noble.

Overtime, the course of study evolved beyond the Latin, Greek and Hebrew those first Hopkins students studied in order to be admitted to Harvard. (I know that Greg Schaeffer is saying: what was wrong with classics and Harvard?) Colleges and universities, the idea of a liberal arts education – that broad exposure to math and science, history and literature, language and the arts expanded the definition of higher education in the U.S. But, then, it fell away, as the universities (in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries) became research- and specialty-based; they lost that liberal arts focus.

In the past few decades, colleges and universities have sought to right themselves, to recapture their earlier mission, but they have been largely unsuccessful. Students who focus on the liberal arts in college have been in decline; the numbers of students who study languages, history and literature have been dropping for decades; and, their counterparts, who focus in on a pre-professional specialty, are on the increase.

The liberal arts – and in deference to our policies on academic honesty, I acknowledge that I am drawing on a book called College: What is Was, Is and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco – the liberal arts are having a hard time. That broad-based exposure to thinking like a mathematician, AND like an historian, AND like a scientist or a lover of literature and language -- all things we insist upon at Hopkins – are increasingly seen by college students and the institutions where they study as “of dubious practical value.”

In this view of the world, of education and of life, the purpose of education has come to be defined in terms of the ways knowledge could be productive and profitable, a view that has no place for the classics, or philosophy, or language or music.

Hopkins has been, in ways you do not know yet, a refuge from an educational world that wants you to specialize – and, the sooner the better. In an environment that wants you to know – today, right now – what you expect to do with the rest of your life, Hopkins has been the time to catch your breath, learn to say “I don’t know that yet” when people ask about your “majors” and professional tracks – and, instead, take in all the varieties of intellectual and personal experience that will enable you to make those choices – better, but also a little later.

This school has been, and remains, a champion of a classic liberal arts education. I reminded you yesterday, that it is unlikely that you will ever again be associated with a group of people, all of whom know Hamlet, and can think in another language, and still do math in their heads, and have informed opinions about . . . well, just about everything. That’s you. Hopkins Class of 2012.

The primary question that comes to me, over and over, from alumni/ae, parents, Trustees, other school Heads is: how do we know that we are preparing these talented young people for this newly global, ever-changing world of ours? What do we need to be doing that we are not? The answer is not that complicated, and it’s something you have brilliantly demonstrated in classrooms, in solitary study or creative endeavors, on practice fields and on the stage:

You know how to think.

You know how to back up what you think.

You know how to express what you think.

You know how to defend what you think.

You know how to listen to what others think.

Your minds are never closed to what others think.

And, as you think, you listen to your hearts.

In a few minutes, we’ll be together on the Quad, you now graduates and your teachers thanking each other, and wishing each other well. Those will be poignant moments, as teachers and learners (and teachers learn and learners teach) share a special intellectual and emotional connection.

But right now, I hope you will think about each other. You are extraordinary individuals, stunningly talented, but part of the reason for that is that you have been a group, in school parlance, a class, and you have contributed enormously to each other’s growth over you years at Hopkins.

Listen to this reflection from a member of Hopkins Class of 1949, who is also a former Dean of the Yale Law School and now a federal judge for the Second Circuit:

“My friends at Hopkins . . . have gone on to become leaders in the most diverse areas of life. Some are diplomats, others scientists, still others writers --- their subjects are immensely diverse. Yet the beauty of it all was, and is, that in the atmosphere Hopkins fostered we were able to be excited about all these fields. At the school, we became close to and were challenged by, those who would make their names in the most different areas, while also learning deeply about the subjects that would become our own . . .I can truly say that not in Yale College, not at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, not in clerking for the United States Supreme Court, and only just possibly at the Yale Law School where I have taught for [over fifty] years, have I found friends and an academic setting as conducive to intellectual growth and originality as I did in my years at the School.”

That is Guido Calabresi, writing in 2003 when Hopkins was applying for a Malone grant to endowment for financial aid.

But that is also Guido Calabresi, writing about an experience each of you has come to share.

One amazing thing today is that I believe you already know that.

I began this talk with a thank you for your generous, touching and very important class gift. I will close with the acknowledgement of another kind of gift, not one given today, but actually over the past four, five, six . . .seven years.

You have all heard – probably more times than you would wish – the quotation from Edward Hopkins’ will, the inaugural gift that charged those first Trustees in 1660 with establishing a school for the “breeding up of hopeful youth. … for the public service of the country in future times.” Think about Hopkins’ gift: he gave us a school and the word “hopeful.”

You have done the same thing. The real gift – the one you have been giving individually and collectively since you first arrived on the Hill, has to do with the ways you have trusted, needed, challenged and inspired each other – and your teachers. Right now, you own the word “hopeful,” because that is how you make all the rest of us feel.

So: Hopkins Class of 2012: you are, right now, the past, the present and the future, and not just of our School. Part of my purpose this morning has been to remind you of how rare your experience and your talents are. You are truly wondrous, individually and as a class and, if you keep coming back to Hopkins, I promise to keep reminding you of that.

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2012 Matriculation List

Class of 2012	College/University
Jakob Spicer Al-Haffar	Pratt Institute
Sara Elyse Arthurs	Smith College
Brian Kapel Astrachan *	Williams College
William Wallace Bagnall	Providence College
Grace Elizabeth Baldwin	Colby College
Douglas Taylor Barber	Brown University
Duncan Randolph Henry Barile	Bard College
Alec Miller Bartimer	University of Michigan
Michael Davis Bartimer	Northwestern University
David Edward Beam	Stanford University
Elizabeth Jennings Berman *	Brown University
Samantha Bouyea Beutler *	Colgate University
Tessa Rosalie Bloomquist	Trinity College
Daisy Monique Braddy	Bentley University
Alexa Erin Briggs	Mercy College
Leslie Kathleen Brunker *	University of Chicago
Kela Emma Caldwell	Scripps College
Emma Mary Campbell-Mohn	Duke University
Lucas Mason Carey	University of Oregon
Sarah Elizabeth Carlow *	Vanderbilt University
Shawn Alfredo Charles	The George Washington University
Tikim Daniel Coombs	Villanova University
Dylan James Cutler	Georgetown University
Margaret Elizabeth Hill De Berardine *	University of Pennsylvania
Evan Paul DeCarlo	School of Visual Arts
Jashon Rasheem DeSenna	Muhlenberg College
Amit Singh Dhaliwal	Lehigh University
Kelly Ann Dowd	Pennsylvania State University
Russell Thomas Einbinder *	Amherst College
Robert Lancaster Emmet *	Carleton College
Stephen Alphonse Falcigno	Trinity College
Kathryn Panzini Farrell *	Georgetown University
Amanda Blair Fath	Oberlin College
Acacia Bridget Fernandez	University of Chicago
Dylan Christopher Finley	University of Chicago
Laurent Maxime Firlotte	Union College
Anne Robbins Flynn	Sarah Lawrence College
Medina Vicença Geyer	Boston College
Jordan Louis Girasole	Boston University
Nicole Emily Gorton	University of Chicago
Theodore Ross Haines	The George Washington University
Emily Ann Hall	Bentley University
Lucas Jean Hausman	Bowdoin College
Brendan Joseph Healey	College of the Holy Cross
Emilia Sakai Hernandez	California Institute of Technology
Matthew Justin Hodel *	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Andrew Lally Hogan, Jr.	Tufts University
Linda Huang	Emory University
Dong Sup Andrew Hyeon	Wesleyan University
Arnesh Jajoo *	Columbia University
Hannah Sanford Johnson	American University
Lucjan Antoni Kazmierczak	University of Wisconsin, Madison
Lucelle Powers King	Georgetown University
Matthew Aaron Klein *	Dartmouth College
Vijay Kodumudi	University of Connecticut
Kathleen Mary Kranzlin	Johns Hopkins University
Sarah Tynan Kravitz	Middlebury College
Alexander Bernard Eli Leffell	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Roger Dean Lo *	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sonia Irene Lombroso	Wesleyan University
Jack Benson Lubin	Emory University
Natalie Jayne Magioncalda	Georgetown University
Nicole Marie Marzziotti	University of Richmond
Margaret Ivy Akosua Masselli	Wesleyan University
Alexandra Antoinette Marie Mayer	University of Connecticut
Chrysanthi Lynn Mayor	Mount Holyoke College
Luke Hugh McCrory	University of Notre Dame
Taashaylaray Endora McDuffie	Howard University
Teresa Claire McGann	Smith College
Margaret Anna Migdalski *	Brandeis University
Caroline Clancy Monahan	Trinity College Dublin
Lauren Rose Monz	Northwestern University
Alida Clemens Mossberg	The University of Tampa
Sarah Elizabeth Muskin	Vassar College
Nicholas Adam Mydlo	Bentley University
Andrew Lawrence Nitirouth	Tufts University
Darren McGrath O'Brien	Villanova University
Joseph Michael Okai	Tufts University
Rebecca Liefland Orleans	Oberlin College
Nolan Clifford Paige	Stanford University
Benjamin Isaac Paltiel *	Yale University
Chanyoung Park	Amherst College
Rachel Nicole Passarelli	Amherst College
Myles Render Pham	University of Colorado at Boulder
Caroline Fearon Pitkin	Franklin and Marshall College
Kingston Pung	Swarthmore College
Sanam Rastegar *	Yale University
Arya Mahesh-Meeta Reddy *	Johns Hopkins University
Ariel Benjamin Rock *	Swarthmore College
Samuel William Rosen	Dartmouth College
Erin Anne Rosenberg	Villanova University
Benjamin Lee Rosenbluth	Yale University
Gregory Drew Schaefer *	Harvard University
Theodore Robert Schaffer	Georgetown University
Andrew Elton Segraves	Pitzer College
Alexander Keiya Shoop	Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Annie Janelle Shoup *	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Margaux Elizabeth Sica	Wesleyan University
Allison Paige Siegenfeld	University of Pennsylvania
Anna Lee Smilow	Yale University
Keith Daniel Smith	University of Southern California
Andrew Dorsey Stone	Boston College
Amanda Elizabeth Stout	Smith College
John Anthony Sullivan	Duke University
Jon Alexander Tiktinsky	Colgate University
Erika Ainsley Trapp	American University
Nicholas Vincent Urban	Lehigh University
Gregory John Volpe, Jr.	Muhlenberg College
William Alexander Vranos	Dartmouth College
Corbet Johnson Walser	Columbia University
Lucian Wang *	Harvard University
Molly Raim Wartenberg *	Georgetown University
Julia Katharine Weber	Tulane University
Miika Aleksanteri Weekes *	Stanford University
Emory Lynne Werner	Colgate University
Kimani Sioux Williams	University of Mary Washington
Nicole Paterson Wolfe	Boston University
Marissa Kiyomi Young	The George Washington University
Alexia Anastasia Zagouras *	Harvard University

* Cum Laude

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