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Seniors Celebrate Countdown Day 2017

E.Eagan
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On their last official day on campus before Awards Night, the seniors joined the underclassmen to celebrate Move-Up Day, and then gathered as a class on the Michael Lupin Field to count down to the final bell.

At the Move-Up Day Ceremony, the Class of 2017 took to the stage, making room for the Class of 2018 to assume their spots of honor in the front rows of the Henson Auditorium for assemblies and performances next year. Each successive class followed, with the 8th grade Class of 2021 on hand to take their place in the Upper School.

Later in the ceremony, seniors Miles Lapeyre and Daphne Moses were each presented with the Heather M. Pereira Memorial Award for optimism and enthusiasm and Shuzheng Zheng with the Daniel Frederick Anepohl Award for most esteemed member of the class; Directors of College Counseling Ed Graf and Marie Bigham read the names of National Merit Commended Students, Finalists, and Scholars; and Senior Class President and Executive Committee Chair Michael Brown issued the oath of office to next year’s class president Calder Schmidt.

The seniors then announced their class gift of funds to name a space in the Rebecca Grant Popp Library for H. Davis Prescott, Jr., who is retiring at the end of this school year after 51 years of service to Newman. The audience stood in applause when Brown called Mr. Prescott to the stage. Senior members of the yearbook staff then announced the dedication of their yearbook to Mr. Prescott and to Coach Ken Lass. Afterward, the seniors ceded the Senior Patio to the class of 2018 and joined their teachers, parents, and friends in the Krohn Foyer for a special luncheon.

Immediately prior to the end-of-school bell, seniors spilled out onto Lupin Field for the final countdown. As the clock struck three, the seniors celebrated, spraying their friends with shaving cream and dousing them with buckets of water.

We look forward to honoring the seniors on Tuesday, May 30 at Awards Night and celebrating their graduation at Commencement on Wednesday, May 31 at Tulane University’s McAlister Auditorium.

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