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The 133 members of Menlo School’s class of 2017 will receive diplomas on Thursday, June 8, in an outdoor ceremony starting at 9:30 a.m. and that includes welcoming remarks from Director of Upper School John Schafer.
This year’s commencement speakers are Menlo School graduate Nick Casey, class of 2001, the Andes bureau chief of the New York Times, and Menlo School math teacher Lauren Lax.
Mr. Casey has reported from more than 20 countries in Latin America and the Middle East. His work has taken him from the front lines of war in the Gaza Strip to a rebel enclave deep in the mountains of Colombia.
He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his work last year in Venezuela and won the George Polk Award for foreign reporting. He previously worked for the Wall Street Journal.
Senior class president Avery King of Menlo Park will offer her thoughts on graduation. Menlo School’s Chorus and Chamber Orchestra will provide music.
Board chair Rob Chandra will assist Mr. Schafer and Head of School Than Healy in conferring high school degrees upon members of the class of 2017.
Established in 1915, Atherton-based Menlo School enrolls 795 students in grades 6 through 12.
The graduates
A-C:Roberto Alarcon, Jasmyn Arleen Alviter, Georgia Ella Anderson, Jun Ru Anderson, Bjorn Galen Antell, Nikhar Arora, Kaitlin Ann Baldwin, Mark Christensen Ball, Tiago Bonchristiano, Anna Boonyanit, William Louis Charles Borie, Sara Eveline Brockman, Theodore Samuel Bronk, Aaron Brown, Gabrielle Lee Buck, Stephen Spencer Callcott, Emily Lauren Campbell, Lauren Yolanda Chan, Rohin T. Chandra, Aidan Ford Chisholm, Clare Cho, Colton Ford Conley, Zeke Coxe, Amanda Marie Crisci, Sarah Elizabeth Crowder
D-F: Sophia Lucille Davirro, Emily Sage Demmon, Amelie Isabelle Diaz, Blake Alexander Doll, Maya Donato, Sophia Marie Donovan, Dea Elizabeth Dressel, Chloe Vicky Ebrahimian, Alexandra Sarah Edidin, Christina A. Ekstrand, Samantha Elisabeth Erisman, Montera Christiana Espinosa, Charles Brooks Ferguson, Doran Scott Finley, Ryan T. Fischbach, Lee Ellen Fisher, Sabrina Rohini Fleming, Freya Kathryn Forstall, Henry Fortenbaugh, Patrick Jose Frantz, Maude Louise Frye
G-L: Julian Pedro Garcia-Mendez, Riya Goel, Jack Winston Gold, Harrison Maxon Gray, John James Hamilton, Kaitlin Hao, Daniel K. Hausen, James Grant Holmstrom, Claire Laurel Horsley, Jessica Lynn Houghton, Zachary Richard L. Hurwitz, Nolan A. Jimenez, Jacob Spencer Julian-Kwong, Zachary Kaplan, Justin Kasser, Cameron Alexandra Kay, Avery Anne King, Cleo King, Evan Michael King, Charles Batiste Lambert, Shay Partch Lebovitz, Aaron Thomas Lee, Olivia Rose Leupold, April Li
M-N: Allison Montgomery Liddle, Ellie Lieberman, Zoey Lieberman, Scott Mofatt Little, Bianca Lopez-Villa, Kate Alexandra Lucas, Rebecca C. Ma, Syed Mina Sultana Mahmood, Darcy Naomi Matsuda, Claire Frances McFarland, Griffin Thomas McGarry, Jacques Patrick McNally, Kenneth Z. McNelly, Lindsay Perrin Miller, Amrita Elizabeth Misha, Jason Moon, Rachel Lynn Norum
P-S: Anika Kiran Padwekar, Hayden John Willett Pegley, Nolan Mahoney Peterson, Emma Jean Richart, Carla Elisa Roever, Benjamin Eli Rosenblatt, Jasmine Sunia Sadeghi, Savion Ray Sample, Jason F. Scharff, Scott Cameron Schwab, Bradford Alan Seipp, Amelia Danielle Shoch, Anna Lorraine Shoch, Hunter Rose Siebel, Nikhil Mei-teh Singhal, Tim Smith, Benjamin Charles Somorjai, Akshay Srivatsan, Mikayla Allison Stabile, Alena Helen Stern, De’Jeane Stine, Catherine Marie Stonesifer, John Andrew Swisher
T-Z: Tatum McKinley Tai, Nitya Kannan Tarakad, Ishani A. Thakur, Megan Loo Tung, Brianna Jessica Tunggal, Mia Van der Meer, Sara Divija Varadharajulu, Indira Varma, Marco Davide Volpi, Benjamin Edwards Haig Wagner, Daniel N. Weiss, Thomas Cole Welch, Sophie Melina White, Paola Yahira Williams, Nicole Woo, Andrew F. Wyatt, Lauren W. Yang, Alice T. Yao, Andrew Gordon Yock, Elizabeth van Leuwen Young, Chandler William Yu, Benjamin James Zdasiuk, Ashley Elizabeth Zhang
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