2014 salute to the graduating class
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Harbor Light Newspaper Graduation SectionTRANSCRIPT
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Valedictorian McKenzie Hill,
Parents: Jan and Doug HillPlans: Michigan Technological University
Bennett Langton, Parents: Scott and Cynthia Langton
Plans: University of Michigan
Edwin Walda, Parents: Emylee and Mike Walda
Plans: Harvard University
Salutatorian
Margaret WestmanParents: Rosali Wiegard and Russell Westman
Plans: Aquinas College
Honors Scholars
Saluting the Class of 2014The Top Scholars
The top scholars from the Harbor Springs High School Class of 2014 have been announced by high school
principal Susan Jacobs.
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Congratulations toall our
Graduating Seniors!
Leah Bartz, Aaron Burdick, Layne Compton, Samuel Dart, Austin Desmarais, Sara Erxleben, Caroline Graham, Allison Green,
Veniece Gretzinger, Mary Hickman, McKenzie Hill, Alanna Huck-Scarry, Autumn Kihnke, Bennett Langton, Morgan Lauer, Kate Liska,
Taylor Lundeen, Justina Ouellette, Elizabeth Simons, Edwin Walda, David Walker, Margaret Westman, Elizabeth Wilkes, Eva Zoerhof
Congratulations Caroline Graham,
Eva Zoerhof,and the classs of 2014!
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Best Wishes Class of 2014!
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We are so very proud of you sweet pea!Semper Fi, Emmet!
We Love You, Mom, Dad & Aaron
Congratulations, Morgan!
Love, Dad, Mom
& Peter
‘Til the Rivers Run Dry! You did it! Good Luck at NMU!
Go Wildcats!Love, Mom & Kevin
Congratulations, Morgan!
Love, Dad, Mom
& Peter
We HOPE you know how much we love you!
Congratulations! Love, Max and Lizzie Bassett
Congratulations, Morgan!
Love, Dad, Mom
& Peter
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We HOPE you know how much we love you!
Congratulations! Love, Max and Lizzie Bassett
Congratulations, Autumn!
We’re proud of you. Reach for the moon and your dreams will come true!
Love, Your Family
Mom, Dad, Breanna & Cambria
paper and packaging sec-tors. This would include firms like International Paper, Weyerhaeuser, Boise Cascade, Louisiana-Pacific, Owens-Illinois, Ball, Bemis, and about 20 others. I am a regular member of the In-stitutional Investor All-Star Analyst team and have been on the Wall Street Journal’s ‘Best on the Street’ team and The Financial Times’ list of top stock pickers.
“Mary and I have lived in Princeton for nearly 20 years. We have three kids. The old-est, Elspeth, is in graduate school at the University of Chicago. Our oldest son, Ben, graduated from Davidson and is working in New York City. Our youngest, Max, has just finished his sophomore year at Johns Hopkins.”Please share some of your Harbor Springs High School memories.
“My favorite memories of
HSHS include many good friendships - - - in many cases with folks that I started with in Kindergarten. Two of my closest friends were Eric Blesi (who manages Harbor Point) and Susan Carpenter (Moore). I enjoyed a won-derful friendship with Tom McDonald from 8th-12th grades. Tom was my teacher and mentor for five years and has remained a good friend to this day. I owe him a tremen-dous debt.
“Betty Jesizek taught me how to organize my thoughts and write - - - I’ve been so thankful for those skills.
“I played JV & varsity basketball (mostly, a bench-warmer) - - - including on the 1974 state finals team. I was a yearbook photographer and was a lead in the senior class play in my junior and senior years.
“There were a lot of jokes and fooling-around. Some-where in 1972-3, I got some
Many of those students will head to Marquette, as seven of the 67 graduates will attend Northern Michigan Univer-sity in the fall. Most students chose in-state colleges, including Central Michigan University, University of Michigan and Michigan State, as well as Hope, Aquinas, Michigan Tech and more. A few will travel farther-- ev-erywhere from London to Kent State, Parsons School of Design, and DePaul Univer-sity. Several graduates plan to join the armed forces and eight students will stick close
to home, attending North Central Michigan College.
“I am especially proud of the opportunities that our graduates are pursuing, in-cluding two students who will be attending Harvard Univer-sity next year,” Tompkins said.
Senior Honors Convocation will take place on Wednes-day, May 28 at 7 p.m. at the Performing Arts Center. Bac-calaureate will take place at Stutsmanville Church at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 29.
Graduation will take place at Ottawa Stadium (Harbor Springs High School if it rains) on Sunday, June 1 at 2:30 p.m.
chocolate-covered grass-hoppers - - - which Gary Bob Morse (current Harbor Springs School Board Presi-dent) got Coach Rick Rossi to eat at the start of American History class. Mr Rossi had almost swallowed it, when he said “what the heck is this . . . “ and Morse replied ‘why it’s a chocolate-covered grasshop-per, Mr Rossi.’
“As he bolted for the bath-room in the teachers’ lounge, he was heard screaming ‘Wilde, I’m going to kill you!’
“Not everything went smoothly - - - I was not always really focused/disciplined and flunked three marking periods of algebra in 9th grade. My mom (later, a school board member) was convinced that I had voca-tional school in my future.” How did growing up in Har-bor Springs influence your career and life journey?
“Harbor Springs made me. “Although I felt restless
and constrained by Harbor Springs by the time I was a senior, I’ve always been con-scious of its impact on me. On balance, I’ve been quite thankful for my upbringing in Harbor Springs. Even as a kid, you knew people around town and people knew you. I started selling Scout-a-Rama tickets door-to-door when I was 8 years old and sold Varsity club Pollywogs, Pres-byterian Church stationary, Detroit Free Press subscrip-tions (enough to win a trip to Washington DC as a 12 year old).. It was a safe place to do that and great for a kids’ confidence to walk up to a door and try to sell something to a stranger.
“I always had jobs around town. I got my first paper route at Linehans’ (now Mary Ellen’s Place) at 10 years old and often had two routes in the summer (Harbor Point in the AM, townie route in the PM). I worked at Feathers’ dime store, Crumps Candy, The Pier, Boyne Highlands, Woodland Builders and Toski-Sands.
“The discipline and respon-sibility of a job and the dealing with adults are all important lessons. The range of people (economically & education-ally) that we grew-up with was pretty good preparation for life. There were folks on my paper route in the late 1960’s using outhouses in homes just off Summit St. The sense of community and the number of ways that people gave their time to make community were important lessons. It came in things like church activities and scouts, pee wee basketball and little league.
“The best acknowledge-ment of Harbor Springs’ impact came when I resigned from WEFA in 1988 to take the job in New York City. A very prim and proper and classy 40 year old African-American secretary (Loraine) pulled me aside. She had worked a one of the big law firms in New York City before she and her husband had moved to one of the Philly suburbs for a better family life.
“She pulled me aside and said ‘Mark, I want you to be careful up there, it’s a shark tank . . . but you, you’ll come out unscathed.’
“At its best, I think the town teaches us respect, consider-ation for others and a measure of humility.”
Wilde said his speech at graduation will be brief as he understands the desire of the graduates and families to move on and celebrate the day.
“I have three short “take home” messages: (1) Have confidence, you can compete in the world; (2) Carry with you in life the best things from this community; (3) Be a citizen - - - we receive many benefits from our community and country. We need to (give) things back - - - citizenship grants many benefits, but entails responsibility.”
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We HOPE you know how much we love you!
Congratulations! Love, Max and Lizzie Bassett
“Congratulations, Jacob Nethercott!
I am SO proud of you and the amazing man you’ve become,
and I’m so excited to see what you do with all of your talents
as you head on to college and into the rest of your life. I’ll be
right here cheering you on!
Love you!!Mom (a.k.a. Your Biggest Fan)”
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