Graduation 2022: VUHS class ‘Queen’ makes a statement

Rhode Miguel took to the stage with a shiny silver crown perched on her mortarboard to read a poem written by her sister, freshman Tryphene Miguel.

Abigail Reen, a graduating Mount Abraham Union High School senior from Lincoln, has been awarded a scholarship by the Tari Shattuck Education Foundation, which gives scholarships to students planning to pursue a degree in Education.

Otter Valley Union High School has named the Valedictorian and Salutatorian for the Class of 2022. Olivia Depatie of Brandon, daughter of Thomas and Donna Depatie, is this year’s Valedictorian. Kieran Williams of Pittsford, son of Suzanne and Richard Will … (read more)

The 103 members of the Mount Abraham Union High School class of 2022 were urged on Saturday to use the resilience, compassion and patience forged through the tumult of more than two years of pandemic pandemonium to make the world a better place.

Middlebury Union High School’s departing senior class celebrated years of adaptability and a future of leadership at graduation this past Saturday, June 11.

On June 10 a happy crowd in the Vergennes Union High School gymnasium helped send 61 graduates off to their destinies.

Some 60 Middlebury Union High School near-graduates entered 15 craft of various degrees of seaworthiness into the senior raft race at Branbury Beach.

The bleachers at Markowski Field were overflowing on Saturday, June 11, as members of area communities showed up to support Otter Valley Union High School’s graduating Class of 2022.

In culling through some of the graduation speeches heard or read in the past few weeks, I’ve come to appreciate these rites as a community ritual of renewal and inspiration — something to pass on to each successive generation of graduates, but also someth … (read more)

On Sunday, the Class of 2022 gathered for the college’s first together-and-in-person graduation ceremony since 2019. On Tuesday, after a two-year wait, the Class of 2020 participated in the commencement COVID-19 tried to take away.

This year will be the first time in the COVID-era when MUHS Graduation will be held unmasked, indoors without any COVID precautions. Apparently, the administration sees this as the right thing to do despite Vermont having one of the highest rates of infec … (read more)

PAYPAL CEO DAN Schulman, a 1980 graduate of Middlebury College, will deliver the commencement address at his alma mater’s graduation ceremony on May 29. That ceremony is for the Class of 2022; two days later Middlebury will host an in-person ceremony for … (read more)

BRANDON — On a sunny, beautiful day that saw 76 Otter Valley Union High School seniors graduate on a well-spaced Markowski Field, in observance of loosened pandemic guidelines, Principal Jim Avery said afterward that the event was a “brand new way to hold … (read more)

BRISTOL — “It is what it is” has grown into a lazy catch phrase used to describe a crummy situation over which one has little or no control.Except when it’s used by members of the Mount Abraham Union High School Class of 2021, who turned “it is what it is … (read more)

VERGENNES — A little before 8 p.m. on Friday, June 11, the 103 graduates of the Vergennes Union High School Class of 2021 took two symbolic actions.After the speeches and songs and diploma walks came Principal Stephanie Taylor’s instruction for the senior … (read more)