Graduation 2021
Familiar Traditions and New Protocols The 124th Commencement of The sang “The Star Spangled Banner.” Ursuline School on May 21, 2021 was a Salutatorian Cecilia Visco exhorted joyful occasion on Kelly Mac Field. It was her classmates to remember: “We are in many ways a return to our traditions Ursuline. Our actions in approaching as well as a unification of the Class, since the fires that plague our world define Blue and Gold Cohorts, in person and what the Ursuline community will be to remote learners, all came together with those who take responsibility for it going their families for this memorable occasion. forward. Despite having had limited time Although masks were worn by in the school building, our class has made Administration, the graduates, and many its mark on the identity of Ursuline. So, attendees, in a persistent reminder of although we may have lost some time in certain COVID protocols, this year the each other’s physical presence, we never graduates did not have to sit six feet Valedictorian Claire Cregin truly lost Ursuline. So long as we have apart and three family members were each other, this incredible class of changeable to join them on the field, with extended family and making women, we can never lose Ursuline.” friends watching from their cars or on the livestream. In the Valedictory Address, Claire Cregin reminded the Principal Rosemary Beirne welcomed those assembled Class of “our ability to persevere in the face of any obstacle, and introduced the trustees on the outdoor dias. After even if it is a worldwide pandemic. . . We may bend to adapt the invocation by Msgr. Keane, the Senior members of our to changes but we do not break ourselves to satisfy society’s Honors Choir, under the direction of Ms. Wendy Harmer, standards. We do not change ourselves to fit into boxes 57
