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A joint venture of The Scandinavian Communities and
Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation
to Virginia, and just before he shipped
out, he asked me if I would come down
there and say goodbye to him. I said, yes,
I would. He lined up two rooms at the
Fairmont Hotel, and when I arrived, he
said, “There will be no sex. I could get you
pregnant, then go away and get killed.” I
thought, I am going to marry this responsible,
decent guy if I possibly can.
He didn’t know if he’d ever see me or
anyone else, or ever come back. A lot of
people would just take advantage in a
situation like that. He bought a little ring
for me in the first two weeks after we met.
He was shipped out to the Philippines.
I think he was out there for a year and a
half and he had plenty of time to change
his mind. He won a distinguished flying
award for bravery, and then he came back
and we were married in Oakland, California.
It was just him and me and the minister,
and his best friend and his best
friend’s wife. We had a little dinner at the
Officer’s Club in Oakland and that was it.
I still always wear heels. These are not
the highest. You wear them all your life,
you are more comfortable in them than
you are in flats. �
Congratulations to
the Class of 2020!
Nataliya Amaral
Macey Barnett
Ryan Biberon
Julian Blank
Megan Bodziony
Teneisia Brown
Paige Buckett
Hongxi Chen
Jiaqing Chen
Damon Coffey
Gabriella Couto
Michael Del Guercio
Megan Donahue
Sean Duke
Stewart Farnham
Joseph Fox
Gabrielle Freeman
Yining Fu
Brandon Gaskell
Evan Gutowski
Mirelle Hadley
Simon Hrncirik
Xihao Hu
Junseung Hwang
Sean James
Dianna Knight
Ondrej Maly
Ean McGonigle
Kumayle Merchant
Jehan Mody
Kaleigh Nunes
Lashon Parsons
Paul Roche
Beatrice Stafford
Cameron Stiepock
Charles Summers
Samuel Talavera
Yashu Tang
Juliya Tolman
Ivan Vasilev
John Vaske
Abrianna Vazquez
Naytik Vora
Yueming Wang
Yixuan Wei
Myles Wilmoth
Xiang Zhang
Ailun Zhou
Jiahui Zhu
Jinchen Zhu
Haicheng Zhuang
OUR GRADUATES WILL ATTEND THE FOLLOWING COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITIES NEXT YEAR:
Bridgewater State University • Butler University • Clark University • Community College of
Rhode Island • Curry College • Fordham University • Franklin Pierce University • Gettysburg College
• Ithaca College • Lehigh University • The New School • Maine Maritime Academy • Manhattan
College • Merrimack College • New York University • Northeastern University • Pratt Institute
• Randolph College • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute • Rhode Island College • School of Visual
Arts • Stetson University • Stonehill College • Suffolk University • Trinity College Dublin • Tufts
University • Union College • University of Maine at Farmington • University of Rochester
• University of the Arts • Worcester Polytechnic Institute • Worcester State University
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