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news of the school now comes the moment when you step out into the world. The world you step into is a challenging one indeed—as you have witnessed, discussed and become involved with—particularly during the last half of your senior year. While your class of young citizens was involved with developing your thinking and analytic skills to enable you to address the issues you will encounter in the future, your peers across the globe were engaging verbally, and en mass, spreading their call for freedom from the public squares of their capitals through the world’s social networks. our virtual presence at those gatherings across the world gave us all an opportunity to think about freedom, about the characteristics of freedom that compelled so many to pour into the streets at the risk even of their lives. Seventy years ago president franklin D. roosevelt outlined four freedoms in an address to congress. The first was “freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world.” The second was “freedom of every person to worship in his (or her) own way—everywhere in the world.” The third was “freedom from want, which,” the president said, “translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world.” The fourth freedom was “freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms means…. that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.” “That is no vision of a distant millennium,” the president went on to say. “it is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.” yet, today, here we stand, in a millennium new to president roosevelt’s days, with you as the quintessential generation of this new millennium. but have we attained these freedoms? freedom of speech and expression? We have already seen how you and your classmates have little hesitation when it comes to expressing yourselves, and, perhaps more significantly, encouraging expression among others. but, how to adopt the responsibility of expression into exercising this freedom is something the world is still trying to grasp. We hope you have learned one way to do so throughout the years of your education at Horace Mann, when we encouraged you to ask questions, to investigate issues in class and on your own, and to incorporate the pursuit of truth within your eloquence. We ask you to continue to emphasize this essential element of education—to include inquiry into your ongoing pursuit of knowledge, so that when each one of you speaks, as we anticipate and call on you to continue doing, you articulate the responsibility of this precious freedom, loudly and clearly, for all to hear. freedom to worship in one’s own way? During the years this graduating class has spent at Horace Mann, through your classroom reading and discussions, and through new diversity initiatives within the school, you have learned about, come to understand deeply, and have championed the right of all to their own beliefs. We ask you to take that understanding with you in all that you do. freedom from want? So many of you have done so much already in your young lives to assist others in realizing this right—through your personal philanthropy, as advocates, and as teachers who have supported and encouraged other young people with compromised resources to achieve their potential, even as we have encouraged you to pursue yours. Those similarly engaged among the Horace Mann School alumni body you join today are legendary—far too numerous to name. freedom from fear? you, of all people, a generation that has grown up in a country at war, know that fear is no abstract idea. you have also already learned how acceptance of and advocacy relating to the first three freedoms is one way of realizing the fourth. When i think of this freedom my mind goes, once again, to that class Day we celebrated together. one of your teachers, on stage to deliver her department’s honors, looked out at all of you and your family members there that day and asked that you look around at one another, yourselves. “Know that these are your friends, the people who will always be with you. as you go through life, do not hesitate to turn to them” to collaborate on ideas, and for support in all that you do. looking out at this class today, i am assured of the voracity of this notion, and i repeat it to you, and then some. look to one another for friendship throughout the years ahead. look to your family members here to celebrate you today. you will always have all of their support. and, please, look to us—your teachers, your advisors, your deans, your coaches, your mentors and those who cared for you deeply over your years at Horace Mann, from our security officers, to those who have built, and planted, and pruned so that you could learn in the most nurturing atmosphere. We, too, will always, always, be here for you, to help you along the mission of striving and helping the world strive toward achieving each aspect of freedom, before another millennium dawns. as you did on your first day of school this year—we ask you to take a front row seat in the quest for our collective future. congratulations class of 2011. We love you. horace mann school class of 2011 valedictorian eric singerman ’11 addressed his classmates. 38 Horace mann magazine Winter 2012 photo by Jasmin Ortiz

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Horace Mann - Winter 2012

Horace Mann - Winter 2012
Contents
Letters
Greetings from Dr. Tom Kelly
Greetings from Melissa Parento ’90
Horace Mann School’s 125th Anniversary Observances Begin
Strategic Thinking
New Initiatives in Institutional Research and Admissions
HM's New Director of College Counseling
Timothy HO and Monica Merlo are 2011 Tina and Dave Bellet Teaching Excellence Award Winners
Langfan Oratorical Contest, 2011
Horace Mann School Graduates 178 in June, 2011
Alumni Council Corner
Bookshelf
Class Notes
Memorials
Philanthropy and You

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