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JUNE 9, <strong>2022</strong><br />
WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880<br />
Academic and<br />
achievement awards<br />
HIGHEST HONORS<br />
George <strong>Peabody</strong> medals<br />
(top eight student scholars)<br />
Summa cum laude<br />
Benjamin Altfeld<br />
Sofia Valencia<br />
Magna cum laude<br />
John Howland<br />
Meg Price<br />
Jacob Palhares<br />
Santina Marzino<br />
Adam Abdulghani<br />
Alexandria Crowe<br />
HONORABLE MENTION<br />
Cum laude<br />
Madeline Talbot<br />
Marissa Bell<br />
Benjamin McKiernan<br />
Madeleine Scacchi<br />
Samantha Simmons<br />
Ella Kritikos<br />
Matthew O’Connor<br />
Sarah Broughton<br />
Olivia Dragani<br />
Scott Turner<br />
Spencer Raimo<br />
Ketsia Kabeya<br />
OUTSTANDING<br />
ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS<br />
Business Technology<br />
Nicholas Connolly<br />
Community School<br />
Marina D’India<br />
Cosmetology<br />
Luisanny Canela<br />
Culinary Arts<br />
Nicolas Amero<br />
Early Childhood Education<br />
Kaylee Pacheco-Moux<br />
Electronics Technology<br />
Vedant Patel<br />
English<br />
Sofia Valencia<br />
Mathematics<br />
John Howland<br />
Medical Assisting<br />
Mckayla Fisher<br />
Performing Arts ~ Drama<br />
Nelssy Escobar<br />
Performing Arts ~ Instrumental/Music<br />
John Howland<br />
Performing Arts ~ Vocal Music<br />
Alana Panneton<br />
Protective Services<br />
Julia Hunt<br />
Science<br />
John Howland<br />
Social Studies<br />
Benjamin McKiernan<br />
Visual Arts<br />
Lilly Dame<br />
World Language ~ French<br />
Adam Abdulghani<br />
World Language ~ Italian<br />
Leah O’Neill<br />
World Language ~ Portuguese<br />
Johnny Oliveira<br />
World Language ~ Spanish<br />
Sarah Trottier<br />
<strong>Peabody</strong> P.R.E.P.s<br />
first graduates<br />
By Anthony CAmmAlleri<br />
The <strong>Peabody</strong> Personalized Remote<br />
Education Program (P.R.E.P.) handed<br />
out eight diplomas to its first-ever graduating<br />
class May 31 at <strong>Peabody</strong>’s Black<br />
Box Theater.<br />
While families of the graduates sat<br />
down in the small, dark theater, a projector<br />
shined a slide of each graduating<br />
student onto the screen. While some<br />
slides had standard yearbook-style captions,<br />
others were unique to an online<br />
high school. The photo of graduate<br />
Mustafa Sewid, for example, was captioned<br />
“In Egypt most of the year.”<br />
When Executive Director Dr. Chris<br />
Lord approached the podium to welcome<br />
people, he invited the crowd to<br />
repeat P.R.E.P.‘s motto. “Excellent<br />
Attendance, Excellent Engagement,<br />
Excellent Achievement. This is a motto<br />
for life,” Lord said. “If you are present,<br />
and you are engaged, you are going to<br />
be successful.<br />
“Present not only physically, but mentally,”<br />
Lord said. “Whether you have a<br />
job, whether you go to school, or in a<br />
relationship, if you are present, and engaged<br />
in what you’re doing at that time,<br />
you’ll be successful.”<br />
After Lord’s introduction, School<br />
Superintendent Josh Vadala took the<br />
microphone and told the story of Steve<br />
Jobs. Vadala said that what made Jobs<br />
an outlier was his ability to think differently<br />
than everyone else, and he equated<br />
that quality to the graduates.<br />
“Dr. Lord and I were trying to think<br />
differently, about how we could do<br />
school, about how we could reimagine<br />
education, how we could provide you<br />
with an opportunity that works for you.<br />
And so many (times) we were sitting<br />
G3<br />
together and I just have to say that Dr.<br />
Lord and his teachers have done an<br />
amazing job, and they’ve given you the<br />
opportunity to be who you are.”<br />
Valedictorian Karla Galdamez will be<br />
pursuing a degree in biology at Suffolk<br />
University next fall. When she approached<br />
the podium, she spoke about<br />
refusing to give up hope.<br />
“I was born prematurely, at five<br />
months to be exact. I had three seizures<br />
the day I was born and had to get liquid<br />
removed from my brain. No one but the<br />
doctors and my mother had hope.<br />
“Now,” she said, “here I am, 18 years<br />
later, speaking at my graduation. The<br />
administration and the teachers were<br />
hopeful for a remote school. Now here<br />
we are one successful year later. Both<br />
scenarios have one thing in common,<br />
they never gave up hope.”<br />
Lord concluded the ceremony by presenting<br />
the Student of the Year Award to<br />
Christopher Noseworthy, who has dedicated<br />
himself to computer science, and<br />
will continue to take classes after graduation.<br />
Lord presented Noseworthy with<br />
a box of rare 2004 quarters from Lord’s<br />
coin collection.<br />
Galdamez also thanked the school for<br />
giving her the opportunity to study remotely,<br />
and get one step closer to her<br />
dream of becoming a cardiac surgeon.<br />
“I want to thank the administration and<br />
the teachers for never giving up hope on<br />
the remote school and us, you gave us an<br />
opportunity that we never imagined was<br />
possible. I want to thank my classmates<br />
because you never gave up hope on yourself<br />
and on each other, because of you this<br />
remote learning is possible. I also want<br />
to thank all the parents and families for<br />
always having to hope for us and never<br />
giving up on us,” Galdamez said.<br />
Hats off to the<br />
Class of <strong>2022</strong><br />
NO MATTER WHERE YOUR JOURNEY TAKES YOU<br />
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