The 135th Northfield Mount HermonCommencement

Thorndike Field Mount Hermon, Massachusetts

Sunday, May 27, 2018 11 am

Commencement Speaker

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Adam Fisk ’94

Adam Fisk ’94 is a highly regarded computer software developer who embodies Northfield Mount Hermon’s mission to live and act with humanity and purpose. Through his nonprofit company, Brave New Software Project, Inc., and an app he created called Lantern, Fisk provides free internet access to people living in countries where government suppression is the norm.

Lantern is an open-source peer-to-peer tool that bypasses internet censors. It has been downloaded more than 60 million times, and has played a pivotal role in providing access to information, particularly during politically turbulent times when governments attempt to cut off that access. Most recently, Lantern has served citizens in China and Iran.

Prior to founding the Brave New Software Project, Fisk was the principal architect of LimeWire, the music-focused peer-to-peer file-sharing software. At its peak, LimeWire was one of the most popular software tools on the internet, with hundreds of millions of downloads. Raising questions about copyright and ownership, it had a lasting impact on the music and entertainment industries.

Fisk, who’s based in California, moved from enabling music sharing to fighting authoritarian governments almost by accident, he told the Los Angeles Times in 2015. At LimeWire, he had designed “all these crazy architectures” to make peer-to-peer connections work, and he realized that similar approaches could be used to evade censorship. Initially, Lantern deputized internet users in free, open countries to create pathways to news websites, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other websites for people living in more restrictive places. Today, Lantern is more nimble than ever, using constantly evolving techniques to evade government censors who see and control all network traffic passing in and out of their countries.

In his LinkedIn profile, under the “skills” heading, Fisk lists “social media,” “entrepreneurship,” and “web development,” among other categories — all expected for a tech innovator like him. But at the top of the list is something called “Subversion.” It’s a type of computer software commonly used by open-source programmers. But the greater metaphor is fitting.

Northfield Mount Hermon Commencement

Order of Exercises

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presiding

Peter B. Fayroian, Head of School Stephen S. Fuller ’58, Chair, NMH Board of Trustees

PRELUDE

PROCESSIONAL The audience is asked to remain standing throughout. WELCOME Peter B. Fayroian, Head of School

INVOCATION Rev. Lee-Ellen Strawn, NMH Chaplain

CLASS ORATION Naomi Vanessa Christiansen ’18

RITUAL OF THE SPADE Leighlani Nicole Sanchez, Representative of the Class of 2018

Amelia Justine Simmonds, Representative of the Class of 2019

CLASS OF 2018 HYMN “Let Freedom Span Both East and West” Jacob Trapp (1899–1992)

Adapted by Harry T. Burleigh (1866–1949)

Singing led by Chaewon Carrie Kim ’18 and Jacob Peter Mehl ’18Clarion Brass Quintet

Let freedom span both east and west, and love both south and north,In universal fellowship throughout the whole wide earth.In beauty, wonder, everywhere, let us communion find;Compassion be the golden cord close binding humankind.Beyond all barriers of race, of color, caste, or creed,Let us make friendship, human worth, our common faith and deed.Then east and west will meet and share, and south shall build with north,One human commonwealth of good throughout the whole wide earth.

COMMENCEMENT ADDRESS Adam Fisk ’94

PRESENTATION OF DIPLOMAS Peter B. Fayroian Stephen S. Fuller ’58 Class Advisors Angelita Castañon and Craig Sandford

And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England’s mountains green? And was the holy Lamb of God On England’s pleasant pastures seen? And did the countenance divine Shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold!Bring me my arrows of desire. Bring me my spear! Oh clouds unfold! Bring me my chariot of fire! I will not cease from mental fight; Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem In ev’ry green and pleasant land.

SCHOOL SONG “Jerusalem” C. Hubert Parry (1848–1918)

Text by William Blake (1757–1827)

The audience is invited to stand and join in the singing. Singing led by Laura Elizabeth Bertrand ’18 and Boulo Daniel Achor, Jr. ’18

BENEDICTION Rev. Strawn

THE NORTHFIELD BENEDICTION Lucy Rider Meyer (1849–1922)

Singing led by Sheila L. Heffernon

The Lord bless thee and keep thee.The Lord make his face shine upon thee,And be gracious unto thee,And be gracious unto thee. The Lord lift up his countenance, His countenance upon thee, And give thee peace, And give thee peace.

DISMISSAL The audience is asked to remain seated

during the recessional of the Class of 2018.

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MACE BEARER James B. Ward ’68

FACULTY MARSHALS Margaret W. Donnelly and David A. Dowdy

MUSICIANS Clarion Brass Quintet

PIPER Jarad Weeks ’08

FLAG BEARERS Aissatou Thiam ’19 and James Jeffrey Burton ’19

Class of 2018 Candidates for the Northfield Mount Hermon Diploma

=Jiwon Michelle Lee, Valedictorian

Ryan Cho Yi, Salutatorian

Amanda Marie Aalto

Boulo Daniel Achor, Jr.

Melissa Catherine Alexander

Rockshell Osei Antwi

Andrea Alber Baruh

Adele Ruth Behar

Laura Elizabeth Bertrand

Anita Bezbogina

Sekou Amadou Bolden

Charles John Bonettim- Khemarat Boonyapaluk

Gemma Ester Borra Paley

Alexandra Holliday Brooke

Caroline Macauley Brown

Catherine Mary Byrne

Kathryn Taylor Byrnes

Samuel Anthony Calagione IV

Samuel Alexander Calman

Caronique Leandra Campbell

Alisa Joan Canney

Lena Marie Carr

Simon Michael Chamberlain

Kirill Chan

Tzu-Wei Chen

Xiang Chen

Roxane Helene Chopin

Naomi Vanessa Christiansen

Chianna Li Collins Cohenm Daniel Joseph Cronin

Aksorn Nestor D’Souza

Allegra Belle D’Virgilio

James Leander Forbes DeMailly

Gianni Christian Demerski

Lucy Monroe Desmondm Aidan Padraig Donahue

Taylor Mackinnon Donnelly Minshall

Elian Gustavo Dorantes

Peter Francis Dowdy

Kendall Long Downend

Alexander Leonard Dumitriu Carcoana

Christopher James Dye

Adrian Oneal Eastmondm Gillian Valentine Ebym Evan William Egger

Jonathan Aaron Farrell

Eleanor Jane Fellows

Gavin Christopher Biggie Flynn

Lila Catlin Flynn

Ethan Shane Foster

Talia Rulf Fountain

Eric Patrick Ka Tong Fournier

Laura Angelica Franceschi

Davis Edmund Franks

Jack Allen Freeman

Joshua Chafee Gamble

Seamus Fuller Garlandm Zachary Ryan Gordon

Eric Michael Green

Sonya Isabel Green

Ellery Ketchum Halsey

Benjamin Thomas Hamilton

Charles Morrell Hannah II

Italics indicate Cum Laude m Postgraduate - Outstanding Academic Achievement

Class of 2018 Candidates for the Northfield Mount Hermon Diploma

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John Delancy Hayes, Jr.m Sean Richard Heffron

Lane Borg Henry

Jessica Catherine Hexter

Austin Lionel Ho

Emily Taylor Houston

Ozioma Adora Ikejiani

Zoe Alexa Jacobs

Sophie Silliman Jones

Dameli Kaliyeva

Elyse Cheryle Kassa

Kyle Daniel Kazeroid

Anna Hunter Kennedy

Toyesha Yudhishthir Khatau

Yesmeen Linnea Khattab

Andrew Young Kim

Chaewon Kim

Soo Jung Kim

Gaelin Shaw Kingstonm Noah Arthur Kirkwood

Stacia Rose Kolodziejski

Ivan Kondratyevm Claire Mary Kozub

Meghan Vivek Kulkarni

Erin Marie Kumler

Helena L’Huillier Lanna

Nathan James Laszewski

Anna Linnea Lebedeff

Jiwon Michelle Lee

Heidi Lucinda Leeds

Anna Abigail Lentchner

Isabel Amber Lewis

Kathryn Angharad Lewis

Zachary Morris Light

Arin Michelle Lipson

Miriam Elizabeth Lipson

Isabella Natalie Lombino

Noah James Long

Allison Lopes

Victoria Eugenia Lozano Escarra

Alfred Dashiell Luessenhop

Katherine Ann Majewski

Eve Kindig Mansfield

Anna Wilson Martin

William Warren Martin, Jr.m Francys Martinez De La Cruzm Nathan James Masteralexis

Wendy Suzanne Matt

Abigail Maria Maymi

Alyssa Emma Maymi

Sophia Jean McLaughlin

Jacob Peter Mehl

Sydney Felicia Mitchell

Kylee Autumn Monkiewicz

Rachel Hallowell Mooers

Olivia Ann Hope Morrison

Vineet Myneni

Seho Myung

Danielle Julia Nasoff

Anna Igorevna Nefedenkovam Joshua Michael Nelson

Nguyen Hung Nguyen

Molly Ann O’Brien

Margaret Gertrude Orr

Nishan Shiv Parikh

Anshul Pattoo

Thanapat Phanratanamala

Isaac Matteo Pope

Italics indicate Cum Laude m Postgraduate - Outstanding Academic Achievement

Class of 2018 Candidates for the Northfield Mount Hermon Diploma

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m Napatsorn Prajamthong

Alysha Nabila Primasany

Haojun Qin

Kevin Justin Lagdameo Reyes

Brett James Rezendes

Dalton Robert Rice

Elizabeth Bowen Connelly Riehs

Julia Isabelle Victoria Robertsonm Thomas Frederik Rodriguez

Mira Sachdeva

Abdul Samad Onyedikachi Sadiq-Adamu

Leighlani Nicole Sanchez

Amanda Rose Savinskim Aidan Butler Schoellkopf

Jacob Samuel Schultz

Noah Dean Scott

Aidan James Shanahan

Jack Charles Shearerm Noah Chastain Shelton

Tianyun Shi

Tyler James Robert Silbey

Grace Victoria Smithm Benjamin Anthony Stefanini

Brooke Elizabeth Stephenson

Katerina Bushuyeva Stone

Samuel Alick Stone

Alisher Temirbolatuly Sultansikhov

Colton Thorpe Sy

Jason Yin Heng Ting

Samuel Harold Tober

Kai Toews

An Xuan Tran

Temirlan Tuganov

Fardusi Uddin

Kyle Matthew Valiquette

Max Antonius Harrison van Baarenm- Valeria Vilanova Galluccim Jorge Villa Gonzalez

Stephanie Mary Voge

Khang Hong Vu

Logan Akbar Waienm Ryan Walsh

Yu Fung David Wang

Elizabeth Jane Wear

Zachary Oliver Smith Weiss

Mary Johnson Wells

Calvin Charles Whipple

Camryn Elizabeth Williams

Blake Rhys Jones Wintermute

Arthur Alsop Worthington

Thomas Hongkai Wu

Naruto Yabuki

Eliza Rill Yager

Miru Yang

Ryan Cho Yi

Gary Ho Kai Yip

Aran Boyd Zecha

Ami Zunenshine

Italics indicate Cum Laude m Postgraduate - Outstanding Academic Achievement

Northfield Mount Hermon Senior AwardsPresented at Class Day Exercises

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Boulo AchorThe Bannwart Choir Prize

Laura BertrandThe Bannwart Choir PrizeThe Marie Hood Award

Sekou BoldenThe Marshall E. Climan Award

Khemarat BoonyapalukThe Colonel Walter Scott Prize in Advanced Placement Calculus

Catherine ByrneThe Shaffer-Mehrkens Religious Studies AwardThe David Michael Walker Prize in Music

Samuel CalagioneThe NMH Alumni Association Award

Samuel CalmanThe NMH Resident Leader Award

Lena CarrThe Piscuskas Day Student Prize

Naomi ChristiansenThe Florence Chapman Haslun Prize

Chianna CohenThe Gordon Paul Smith Prize for Excellence in History or Social Sciences

Elian DorantesThe Art Purchase PrizeThe John O. Mehrkens Award

Alexander Dumitriu CarcoanaThe Mary Davis Dining Service Prize

Christopher DyeThe Baxter Prize in Classics

Lila FlynnThe Robert P. Weis Mathematics Prize

Eric GreenThe Richard H. Valentine Award

Ellery HalseyThe Alice B. and John E. Baldwin AwardThe Etta May Schweiss Prize

Benjamin HamiltonThe C. Russell Bragg Prize in Social Science

Charles HannahThe Head of School’s AwardThe Vitold Piscuskas Sportsmanship Award

Sophie JonesThe Rhode Island School of Design Annual Art Award

Elyse KassaThe NMH Dance Prize

Chaewon KimThe Elizabeth Leyden ’22 Music Award

Gaelin KingstonThe Mary Ellen Peller Memorial Award

Noah KirkwoodThe Michael Antonio Memorial Award

Nathan LaszewskiThe Ralph E. Jillson Award

Jiwon LeeThe Viva Faye Richardson Piano AwardThe Robert Cade Wilson Scholar Award

Heidi LeedsThe Cambridge PrizeThe Arthur D. Platt Mathematics AwardThe Richard H. Valentine Award

Northfield Mount Hermon Senior AwardsPresented at Class Day Exercises

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Isabel LewisThe Appley Award

Kathryn LewisThe David Garbose Memorial AwardThe Colonel Walter Scott Prize in Advanced Placement Statistics

Victoria Lozano EscarraThe Joseph Allen Art Prize

Eve MansfieldThe Proctor Publications Prize

Anna MartinThe Edward and William Rhodes Prize in Economics

Wendy MattThe Vivian Dandridge White Prize

Abigail MaymiThe Head of School’s Award

Alyssa MaymiThe Head of School’s AwardThe Phyllis Tournier Spanish Prize

Jacob MehlThe Elizabeth Leyden ’22 Music Award

Rachel MooersThe C. Russell Bragg Memorial Prize in Environmental Studies

Anna NefedenkovaThe Jo Dorchester Award

Alysha PrimasanyThe NMH Resident Leader Award

Abdul Samad Sadiq-AdamuThe Henry R. Huntting Literary Prize

Leighlani SanchezThe Frank Stanley Beveridge Award

Grace SmithThe Zschirpe Memorial Award

Katerina StoneThe Nancy Angell Rickenbacker Art Prize

An TranThe Harriet Cutler Heiser Memorial Award

Fardusi UddinThe Frank and Alice Chutter Memorial AwardThe Head of School’s Award

Valeria Vilanova GallucciThe Prize in 3-Dimensional ArtThe Albert C. Clough Award

Stephanie VogeThe Thora E. Johnson Award

Khang Vu The Kinmay Tang Award

Mary WellsThe Joseph T. Elliott Jr. Prize in MusicThe McBurney Work Hour Prize

Blake WintermuteThe Howard and Margaret Jones Farm Award

Ryan YiThe Elliott Computing PrizeThe Florence Flagg Memorial Award

Ami ZunenshineThe Nettie M. Johnson Memorial Award

Northfield Mount Hermon Commencement

Program Notes

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CARRYING OF THE MACEThe mace, an object derived from an ancient weapon, was commissioned by Headmaster Richard P. Unsworth for the 1984 Commencement exercises. It was designed and crafted out of American walnut by woodworker and former NMH English teacher Anthony Chastain-Chapman. A symbol of the school’s authority in teaching and learning, it is carried at Opening Convocation and Commencement by the most senior member of the faculty.

The crown of the mace bears three emblems that represent Dwight L. Moody’s mission to educate the head, the heart, and the hand: a book inscribed with the motto “I the Lord do keep it”; a flaming heart, the emblem of zeal; and a spade, suggesting manual labor.

HEAD’S MEDALLION Struck to celebrate the installation of Peter B. Fayroian, this ceremonial medal is to be worn by the head of school at Convocation and Commencement. It bears the image of the school seal with our motto: Discere Et Vivere, To Learn and to Live.

CLASS ORATIONSeveral orations were traditionally given at both Mount Hermon and Northfield Commencements, but until the two schools merged in 1971, they were usually delivered at each school’s Class Day — a day of celebration for the graduating class. Since 1972, a selected member of the class gives the oration at NMH Commencement exercises.

RITUAL OF THE SPADEStemming from an early springtime custom in which a tree was planted each year and designated as the junior class tree, the Ritual of the Spade is now an honored Commencement tradition. A member of the graduating class passes the ceremonial school spade to a rising senior in a symbolic act that suggests the value of hard work as well as new growth. The senior and the junior share brief remarks.

“JERUSALEM”“Jerusalem” was first sung by Mount Hermon men in the 1940s as part of a Sacred Concert program. Over the years, it reappeared in that program. In 1971, when the merger of the schools was announced, it was sung by the newly combined student body, with the following note in the program: “This magnificent song has long been a favorite of the students of the two schools. It surely typifies, as well, the spirit and aspirations of the new Northfield and Mount Hermon.” More than 40 years later, the song is still loved by students.

“THE NORTHFIELD BENEDICTION” “The Northfield Benediction” was first sung at the dedication of Marquand Hall at Northfield in 1885. The words are an adaptation of the priestly blessing of the Hebrews, in the Old Testament (Numbers 6:22–27). For more than 130 years, it has been the coda to major school events.

LUNCH will be available from NMH Dining Services for the graduates, their families and guests, and faculty and staff following the Commencement recessional. Residents of Crossley, Overtoun, MacKinnon, and Shea and their

guests should proceed to Forslund Gymnasium for lunch. Residents of all other dorms and their guests should proceed to Alumni Hall.

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SPECIAL THANKS to class advisors Angelita Castañon and Craig Sandford; to Shelby Holton ’05 and all the ushers; and to those in the offices of communications, dining services, plant facilities, advancement,

and student activities for their help with this event.

The head of school and members of the graduating class thank you for not smoking while on campus.

Please silence all electronic devices during the ceremony.

A professional photographer will take a photograph of each graduate as they receive a diploma.

For Commencement highlights, visit nmhschool.org.