A NEW DAY DAWNS - Boston Latin School

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The nine-person lightweight crew
team qualified for the Youth National
Championship.
The girls’ hockey team won a DCL
Championship, as did the boys’ basketball
team.
BLS teams produced five All-Scholastic
athletes: Rafael Santos (boys’ soccer),
Kathleen Roche (girls’ hockey), Annmarie
Elvin (girls’ hockey), Caroline o’Loughlin
(cross country) and Alan Mui (boys’
volleyball).
Alan Mui of boys’ volleyball and Julianne
Chan of girls’ volleyball were each named
MVPs in the Dual County League.
student sPotLight:
Talent & Perseverance
if you didn’t know better, you’d think the accomplishments of
Albano Berberi ’08 were being rattled off the C.V. of a man three
times his age: multi-lingual, author of two works of fiction, violin
virtuoso and composer at the New england Conservatory and
mentor to students at the Perkins School for the Blind.
They are, instead, the unimaginable feats of a 17-year-old visually
impaired student who arrived in this country knowing not a word
of the language he would soon be reading by hand. Under the
guidance of teachers and support staff at Latin School, Berberi
has flourished creatively and academically, earning a spot in
coveted Advanced Placement classes as well as a seat in the
honor Symphony orchestra.
having assisted Berberi throughout his tenure at Latin, Theresa
Maggiore, a teacher for the visually impaired with BPS Unified
Services, was overwhelmed by the academic zeal of her student,
who devours books—sometimes faster than she could obtain
Braille versions of them—and excels in science and math,
despite the difficulties these subjects normally present to the
visually impaired.
Guidance counselor Megan Moylan says Berberi has been an
inspiration to other BLS students with his strength, humility and
perseverance.
8 Bulletin fall 2007
375
YEARS
We need You
in conjunction with the school’s 375th
anniversary in 2010, the Association
will publish a book commemorating
the school’s history since its 300th
anniversary in 1935. This book will be
anything but a dry history. it will be full
of the stories and memories that have
filled its students’ minds and hearts in the past 75 years.
in conjunction with this book we want to list all the teams, clubs, musical
organizations and other activities of the school that garnered local, regional,
state or national recognition. if you were a member of such an organization,
please let us know more about those accomplishments. We don’t want to leave
anyone out, so please take a moment and tell us about your group. Send your
remembrances to blsa@blsa.org.
Now a senior at Boston Latin School, Berberi is preparing for
independent college life through the Youth in Transition program
at the Carroll Center for the Blind in Newton. he hopes to
combine the love of music and computers that he has fostered at
BLS by majoring in sound design and computer science in college.
—J.G.
PhoToGRAPhY: MARK MoReLLi