GRADUATION EXCERPTS FROM THE 101ST COMMENCEMENT SPEECHES JUNE 11, 2021
“Seniors, I want you to look up and around you into this sky, studded with these twinkly lights strung over and around us. While we may have spent most of this year distanced from those around us, these lights actually string us together in some really fantastic ways, just as your friendships, families and Tower Hill years are strung together forever. So let the image of these lights be a reminder to you, seniors, that no matter what distance you may travel in the coming years, these Tower Hill lights will always be shining for you. Seniors, you surely have lit the way for each other and for the Tower Hill community this year.” —Elizabeth C. Speers, Head of School
“I’ll leave you with a question, one that I tried myself to answer before I wrote this speech: What makes the Class of ’21 special? Is it that we were the only class ever to live our entire senior year through a global pandemic? Yeah, that’s it. Thank you. But seriously, I know that our class is unique in the sense that clearly no other group of students could be exactly like this one, but what is inherent to our class to the people on the stage behind me? I have no idea. Maybe it’s nothing, or maybe historians will look back on our yearbook shocked to find 75 Nobel laureates went to school together. The question is mine; the solution is yours. So go out into the world, and please, give us something to talk about at the reunions.” —Keally Rohrbacher ’21, Class of 2021 Elected Speaker 26
Tower Hill Bulletin
Fall 2021
