News Release
Commencement activities planned at Milton Hershey School
Saturday, May 8, 2010
Milton Hershey School? (MHS) Commencement Exercises and related graduation activities will be held for seniors, their guests, and staff on Sunday, June 13, in Founders Hall.
Commencement ceremonies will begin at 2:00 p.m. (admittance by ticket holders only) and will be preceded by a Graduation Chapel Service at 10:00 a.m. and a High School Awards Program at 11:00 a.m. All of these activities will be held in the Founders Hall Auditorium.
Guests are reminded that, in accordance with School guidelines, business attire is required for admission to Commencement activities.
There are 163 seniors in the Milton Hershey School Class of 2010. The Welcome Address will be given by Icely Guzman and Jeimary Ramos-Malave will deliver the Farewell Address.
The weekend's festivities will begin with a Senior Dinner Dance to be held at the Hotel Hershey on Friday evening, June 11. Sunday's schedule includes a luncheon reception for graduates, parents/sponsors, and staff, which will be held in the Founders Hall Dining Room immediately following the High School Awards Program.
Noted Author Jeannette Walls will share her experience of living in poverty with the Class of 2010 as the keynote Commencement speaker.
Walls' memoir, The Glass Castle, has been a New York Times best seller for more than three years, has sold more than two million copies, been translated into 16 languages, and is being made into a movie by Paramount. In The Glass Castle, Walls describes growing up in the desert of the American Southwest and then in a West Virginia mining town with her three siblings and the brilliant, unorthodox, irresponsible parents who manage at once to neglect them, love them, and teach them to face their fears.
The story is at times harrowing and at times hilarious as the children go without food and indoor plumbing yet are encouraged to read Shakespeare and dream of the beautiful glass house they will all one day build. Despite all her hardships, Walls develops the determination to leave West Virginia on her own at the age of sixteen, move to New York City, enroll in Barnard College, and eventually become a well-known columnist for New York Magazine and MSNBC.com and a television personality. Her follow-up to The Glass Castle, Half Broke Horses: A True Life Novel, was released in October 2009, and was an immediate New York Times best seller.
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