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With words of appreciation in prose and in rhyme, with soaring harmonies and humorous lyrics, and with the crowning gift — a polka dot Bulldog, with the orange and blue dots made by fingerprints of every student in the school — Norfolk Academy students celebrated retiring Headmaster Dennis Manning in Burroughs Gymnasium. Each of the three divisions — in fact every grade level — was instrumental in the May 9 celebration, which was a complete surprise to the headmaster. As the event’s emcee, Senior Class

President Lucas Knapp ’23, put it, for the past 22 years Mr. Manning has been “the best headmaster a school could ever have.” In brief remarks, Mr. Manning quickly deflected the praise: “I love being on teams, I always have. And this has been just a great team effort.”