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was an interesting exercise. I entered his office with no idea of
what was expected of me as salutatorian. As the questions came I
started to see the role more clearly.
I guess that’s no surprise. Mr. Matt
is known to make all sorts of events
teachable moments. He threw
some questions at me and one that
stuck was, ‘what experience during
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the past four years did you gain as
a class that was important to all of
you?’” Ordille said.
Ordille stated this graduating
class, inspired by discipline and
dedication, met and exceeded
many aspirations in academics,
athletics, the arts and service.
“We’ve formed friendships that
we can call family now. We’ve
faced problems and overcome
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St. Joseph High School students C.J. LaFragola, Marissa Gramaglia, Alexandria Grasso, Knikeem Lewis, Umara Iftikhar,
Kristin Kozachyn, Kevin Leadley and Kyle Leadley following graduation on June 4.
them together. An immediate and with shared interests. We are the during the four-year period. He
lasting skill we developed began most technological savvy genera- said those tragedies also conright from the start at freshman ori- tion that ever lived – the millennial tributed to bringing the class toentation. Here we were, kids of 13 generation. Our class of 2015 was gether.
“While we each had our diverse
and 14, from different grammar one of the first to integrate technolschools and middle schools. Some ogy directly into the classroom. groups, we saw that some events
of us were local in Hammonton, Our learning environment included cut across lines and become shared
while others came from shore everything in the new digital era experiences. And reflecting on that
points or Winslow or points in be- giving us the opportunity to be- experience, once again, I found
tween. Then a great thing hap- come the most educated genera- myself reflecting hard on Mr.
Matt’s question: ‘What did these
pened. This random group of tion,” Ordille said.
Reflecting back on the four-year four years prepare us for?’ Then,
strangers, sitting in a gym, quickly
went on to invent our class. It’s not high school journey, Ordille the answer to this appeared to me
to say we all became one group. touched on the passing of three inSee GRADuATeS, Page 16
We formed friendships and groups structors at St. Joseph High School
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