05/02/2020
My message to the Senior Class of 2020 on what would have been our live performance of Horizons. Like everything that has been an adjustment for the past 6 weeks, this is tonights tribute for your hard work and dedication to our Choral Department:
Your Senior year looks so different than others did before, and it is time that you embrace it. If there is one thing all of us have learned, it is how to embrace new situations.
Put yourselves in your own shoes as a freshman for a second. You were thrusted into a new environment, you overcame social challenges, adjusted to new classroom formats, and reimagined what the next four years might look like. I challenge you to do the same now. To my underclassmen, please know your sadness and disappointment is just as valid. Grief is something that should never be compared or qualified, and everyone in the world is facing their own unforeseen hardships due to the onslaught of this horrible virus.
Seniors, you were born when the world was grieving over 9/11, and you are graduating as the world grieves a pandemic. Although your two biggest launches into freedom, birth and graduation, have taken place in the midst of tragedies, just know that the world is an amazing, loving, beautiful place and it is waiting for you with open arms. I grieve with you that your senior year is ending this way, but I can't wait to see how you'll overcome and soar.
Class of 2020 Chorus Seniors
Christian Aquino
Damien Baez
Anna Bermudez
Grace Campbell
Maeve Campbell
Gianna Catalano
Rebekkah Chen
Riley Clarke
Justin Davis
Jordyn Dees
Adriana Diaz
Luis Fuentes
Alexis Geraine
Charley Golden
Zachary Gomez
Anusha Gupta
Hope Harnage
Jacob Hodges
Jahnathan Hyppolite
Alexander Krueger
Ryan Ledbetter
Ava McAlister
Nadia Medrano
Samantha Newton
Celestial Pagan
John Pereira
Nora Sanchez
Annette Santos