001[Music] or something. I don't know. Okay, you're going to have to touch this. [Music] Yes, baby. [Music] Look at me. [Music] All right, welcome to the Whittier School's grade 8 moving on ceremony for the future graduating class of 2029. Let's hear it for them. Okay, please stand for the pledge of allegiance which will be led by our student council president Romero Velasco. And then please remain standing for the Whittier School pledge which will be read by eighth grade student and student council vice president Doris Gordron Twanchia. And finally, remain standing for patriotic selection from our select chorus entitled Oh, I Love America. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. [Applause] All right, at
002this time we're going to jump to our chorus selection. Oh, I love America. [Music] A N E R I A. [Music] If you love, you may sing a song that I will sing with you. Oh, I love America. Oh, I love America. [Music] M E R I C A I love America every day. If you love America like I do, you can sing a song and I'll sing with you. [Music] I do. Oh, I love Oh, I love you. I love [Music] I Great job. A little bit out of order, but we have the Whittier School pledge and Doris is back. We pledge to be respectful to all students and staff. We pledge to be honest and truthful. We We pledge to be respectful to all students and staff. We pledge to be honest and
003truthful. We pledge to be dedicated, have positive mindset, and meet our goals. This we pledge to ourselves, teachers, and community. We're on the pathages to to success as one united wittier wave. You may be seated. Next, I'd like to call up Miss Kizalovski and Miss Towers for the teachers address. Let's hear it for our teachers. Good morning everyone. Parents, families, friends, and most importantly, our eighth graders who are moving on to high school. Today we gather not just to celebrate the end of middle school, but to recognize the growth, resilience, and achievements of each student here. These past years have challenged you in ways you didn't expect academically, socially, and emotionally. But you've met those challenges with determination and heart. Whether it was mastering algebra, navigating new friendships, or discovering passions you never knew you
004had, you've come a long way. You should be incredibly proud of who you've become. As you step into high school, remember that this is just the beginning of your journey. There will be more opportunities to grow, to lead, and to make your mark on the world. Stay curious, stay kind, and never be afraid to ask questions or take chances. You don't have to have everything figured out right now. Just keep showing up, keep trying, and keep believing in yourself. We're proud of you, and we can't wait to see all that you will accomplish. Congratulations, class of 2025. Whittier waves. Great job. At this time, I'd like to call up the leader of the Ever Public Schools, our superintendent, Mr. William Hart. Thank you very much, Mr. Mclucas. To our vice principles, Dr. Kent and Miss
005Fidalgo and to the wonderful teachers who have prepared your young boys and girls to go on from this school to hopefully Everett High School. I hope you're all thinking about Everett High School where there's a whole bunch of good teachers doing great things every single day. I want to thank the parents for taking time out of their morning to come with us to celebrate your child's success. It is not easy to get to this point. All of us face challenges. All of us have days that just aren't great. But today is a great day. Today is a day we all celebrate that our young people to my left are going to go on to bigger and better things outside of the wittier waves. So, let's hear a big round of applause for our teachers and
006our students. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Hart. And I'd like to acknowledge our support from Mr. Hart, our superintendent, along with his administrative team at our central administration. Thank you for your leadership and support. And Mr. Hart, I'm so glad you're with us today. And um we really appreciate everything that he does for the Ever Public Schools. How about another nice round of applause for Mr. Hart. Special thanks to the members of our school committee. Some members are with us today, including chairperson, Mrs. Samantha Hurley. How about a nice round of applause for her? We also have Miss Robin Babcock as well. Thank you so much for your support. As we continue our program, I'd like to acknowledge hardworking administrators who helped the Whittier School run so efficiently, our assistant principles, Miss Medalgo
007and Dr. Kent. Thank you for all that you do. Special thanks to our custodians and all the members of the Whittier staff that helped decorate for today. We really appreciate it. Sincere appreciation to our substitute music teacher, Miss Bellow, for her assistance with today's ceremony along with Mr. Norris for the music and Mr. Mahoot as well as Mr. Lento for the live stream and also Mr. Delgazo. Thank you. Also like to thank Miss Francancy Doo as well for being here today. Thank you Francancy. A great deal of gratitude goes out to Miss Ventura, Miss Towers, and Miss Kazalowski for their assistance with all the awards and packaging for today's ceremony. In addition, I'd also like to give another thanks to Mr. Hart and his team at Central Administration along with the school committee for their
008tireless efforts to make the Ever Public Schools a first class operation and for giving our teachers and students the best educational resources for optimum learning. Thank you so much. Thank you to our grade 8 students for their polite and respectful behaviors. They have followed each of our monthly character education themes and have set a great example for our youngsters and in particular our seventh graders. Thank you eighth grade. This time I'd like to acknowledge and appreciation for our teachers who've instructed and supported our grade 8 students. How about a nice round of applause for our civics teacher, Mrs. Norberg. Our English teacher, Miss Towers, science teacher, Miss Dorsey, math teacher, Miss Kesalowski, special ed teacher, Mr. Norris, English learners teacher, Mr. Mahoot. Thank you all so very much. Shout out to our math interventionist, Mrs.
009Delgazo, and our literacy interventionist, Mrs. Bosow. Thank you for all your support with our eighth graders. I'd also like to acknowledge English learner coordinator for her support, Mrs. Potillo. In addition, a special thank you for the emotional and academic support for our students from our guidance counselors, Mr. Sario and Mrs. Lions. Also like to thank our Elliot clinician, Miss Mud, and our bright staff, Mrs. Melis, Mr. Chappelle, and Mr. Yea. Another shout out here for nurse Anna for her medical support. To all the parents, families, relatives, friends, and staff that are here today, think back to a time when you were finishing up 8th grade and see if you can regurgitate some of those emotions and that feeling of where you were in your life and how you felt about moving on from 8th grade
010and about to embark on those first steps into high school for the first day of school. Without a doubt, it's a huge transition for these students here today. But trust me, they are ready and they are prepared for the high school experience. We're all very proud of your diligence and perseverance. Have you sharpened your academic and technology skills, show tremendous resilience, and were able to lead our school with high expectations for academic excellence and model behaviors. We had a terrific effort for this year's MCCAST assessments, access assessments, triannual IR. In fact, we had outstanding scores. We love data at our schools and our eighth graders finished the year with tremendous growth in English and math. Let's hear for our students for working so hard and ending the year on a positive note. As a school
011that's 53% English learners, a big shout out to an eighth grader who became English proficient this year no longer requires English language support. Please stand, Madav Verma. Congratulations, Madav. Attendance is extremely important to success in school. We had four eighth graders who attained perfect attendance, no absences. Congratulations to Alan Ardon. Please stand. John Dennis Leuisant and Lyla Ross [Applause] Morales. Thank you. Students, please be sure to acknowledge your parents and loved ones who are so proud of you, as well as your teachers and our supportive staff. The entire Whittier School has done their very best to prepare you for high school. As you move on to Everett High School, make the most of your opportunities and get involved with teams and clubs and make a difference. Remember that your grades as a freshman are just
012as important to your GPA as your grades as a senior. Throughout your journey, you will encounter all types of challenges as you grow into young men and women. They could be academic, social, behavioral, or emotional. There's most likely no one that will consider life to be smooth sailing on a regular day in dayout basis. When you have challenges, be sure to persevere and seek assistance and guidance from family, friends, teachers, counselors, coaches, and advisers. Don't ever give up on yourself and look out for one another. As far as we're concerned, you're currently the best versions of yourselves, and we know that you will strive for continuous improvement. A fitting quote from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that
013is the goal of true education. And with that, I would like to acknowledge students who embody the sentiments of Dr. King. Our eighth grade student council president, Ean Romero Velasco, please stand when I call your name. Doris Gang Chinia, our vice president, our treasurer, Karen Lopez Ramirez, we're not okay. Zara Fidal, Lala Ross Morales, Lena Sarah, Hugo Dilva Pasos, Astred Portillo, Rayundo, Adriel Korea, Tyl Gonzalez, Sto and Maria Ramirez, Ayala. Thank you all very much for making the Whittier School a better place for all of our students. It was great to see the dedication, teamwork, sportsmanship by our basketball players, cheerleaders, and soccer players this year. At this time, would all the girls and boys basketball players please stand? Thank you. Next, all the girls and boys flag football players, please stand. How about all
014our girls and boys soccer players, please stand. And lastly, all of our cheerleaders, please stand. Thank you so much for all of your excellent EV efforts with your waves. As we wrap up this portion of the ceremony, I wish you all the very best of luck at Everett High School and all of your future endeavors. And I would like to thank and acknowledge our parents, grandparents, and other family members that have sacrificed so much time, effort, love, and support to help you to get you to this point. And now at this time, please join me in congratulating the grade 8 Whittier class of 2025. And now the really fun part of the program. We're going to move on to the presentation of awards. Oh, I'd also like to before we do that, I just noticed
015another school committee member is here and our mayor, Carlo Di Maria. Let's hear a nice round of applause for our mayor. Can I call you up to say a few words? Thank you, uh, Principal Mlucas. And good morning to everybody. And to the class of uh well, you're moving on to high school. So, the eighth grade here at the Whittier Earth, uh congratulations to you all. I know this is a big day for you, right? You all excited. You look a little nervous. She's smiling. It's a good day. All that all that hard work you put in these last years resulted to this day. You're graduating. You're moving on to high school. Who's going to Everett High School next year? Everett High School. Raise them high. Let me see. All right. So, a good majority
016of you going to Ever High School. I look forward to seeing you up at high school. Look forward to Principal McLucas said it all. You know, freshman year is just as important as senior year. I wish I took his advice back in the 1900s and 1990s. Uh, freshman year was tough for me, but uh don't make it tough for you. You know, get right school starts. Get right on top of it. Okay? Stay on top of it. Don't procrastinate. Right? Don't wait till the last minute to study for that test or pass that paper in. Kind of like what I always did. Uh don't do that. All right. Clubs, sports, keep continue on doing all the great things that the Whittier School uh staff teachers and paras and principles and everyone taught you to do.
017Okay? The custodians, everyone here that that really showed you the way. And of course, always listen to these people right here. This is the people that love you, that will always be in your corner. If it's your mother, if it's your father, the grandparent or an aunt, an uncle or a guardian, those are the people that are going to be in your corner for life. You're going to think your friends are always going to be there for you, but you're going to learn the hard way. This is these are the people you listen to. Listen to your father. Listen to your mother, your older siblings. I'm telling you the truth. They will give you the best advice in life. Okay? So, God bless you all. Have a great day. Thank you, Mr. Mayor. Before we
018move on to the presentation of awards, just another shout out to our interventionists and coaches and all the people that support our kids all year long. Even some seventh grade teachers that came out for this occasion. And our former nurse, Nurse Chris, came out, too. Welcome back, Okay, first up we have Nathan Abrau Beard and the awards that he'll be receiving a great games and literacy, the wittier spirit award, service award, and attendance award. Come on down, Nathan. Next up, Michael Enrique Aroujo. The reading award, gains in literacy, ELA award, most improved and attendance award. Alan Ardon, the wittier spirit award, service award, and attendance award. And if you came to any of our games, he was splash. Big shoes to fill next year. Marian Hel Bermudez Yano. The kindness award, the book club award,
019and the attendance award. Giler Bealo, good choices award, wittier collaboration award, camera crew award, wave award, and attendance award. Jamie Bautello, the hard worker award and attendance award. Luden buser, winner basketball award, flag football award and attendance award. Stefano Col Ortiz originality award, library award and attendance award. Kevin Castillo Gomez, adventurous spirit award, library award, book club award, and attendance award. Adriel Koreah, student council award, respect award, basketball award, football award, contributor award, attendance award, and kindness award. Gabriella Cruz Perseverance Award, most improved award and attendance award. Hugo Das D Silva Pasos, Student Council Award, Biggest Risktaker Award, Reading Award, Theater Award, Basketball Award, Class Contributor Award, Allin Award, Wave Award, and Attendance Award. Talia Clara De Jesus Martins. Our collaboration award and attendance award. Jan Carlos Deasero Filio, science project award and attendance award.
020Pedro Enrique Deatos adventurous spirit award your basketball award and attendance award. John Dennis, thank you. Science project award in attendance award. Rose Dennis. There's a whole page dedicated to her. Good choices award, good person award, art award, computer award, Mr. Mahoud ELA award, physical education award, witty basketball award, robotics club award, book club award, basketball club award, wave award, kindness award, and attendance award. Yumi Dewan, writing award, wittier cheerleading award, book club award, class contributor award, wave award, ELA project award, and attendance award. Rachel Duran Belchana, good person award, computer award, book club award, wave award, and attendance award. Way to go, Rachel. Adrienne Estz collaboration award, computer award, robotics club award, camera crew award, tech support award, science project award and attendance award. Zara [Applause] Fidal Student Council Award, Adventurous Spirit Award, Great Gains
021and Civics Award, Wave Award, and Attendance Award, Santiago Fernandez, Tavarish Respect Award, Collaboration Award, Great Gains in Math, Great Gains in Science, Computer Award, Physical Education, award, camera crew award, wave award, and attendance award. Marcella Fana, the good person award, and the attendance award. Congratulations, Anna Clara Gomes. [Applause] Get a little interference here on Broadway. The collaboration award and attendance award. Kimberly Gonzalez [Applause] Esqueavel originality award. Writing award, science, civics, art, math, effort and science and math, flag football, soccer club award, cheerleading award, class contributor award, inquisitive mind award, science project award and attendance award. Way to go, Kim. Tyl [Applause] Gonzalez student council award. Good Choices Award, Kindness Award, Computer Award, Theater Award, Effort and Math Award, Class Contributor Award, Ready for Anything Award, Wave Award, Science Project Award, and Attendance Award. Nice job,
022Tylie. Doris Guadrron Chenia Student Council Award, Kindness Award, Good Person Award, Physical Education Award, Flag Football Award, Whittier Cheerleading Award, Class Contributor Award, Wave Award, ELA Project Award, and Attendance Award. Jaylen Guerrera Damasio, the good person award, ELA project award, and the attendance award. Besma [Applause] Hammoodi, the art award, the wave award, and the attendance award. Congratulations, Bessma. Tatiana Hernandez, Hernandez, a kindness award, civics award, math award, ELA award, and attendance award. Tristan Jackson [Applause] [Music] Adventurous Spirit Award, Library Award, Whittier Basketball Award, Flag Football Award, Fairness Award, and Attendance [Applause] Award, Kiss [Applause] [Music] Johnson, Originality Award, Cheerleading Award, Ready for Anything Award, and Attendance Award. [Applause] Simri Cowor Perseverance Award, Reading Award, Computer Award, Theater Award, Science Award, ELA award, Cheerleading Award, Yearbook Award, Cozy Club Award, Hardworker Award, Inquisitive Mind Award, and
023Attend Attendance Award. Way to go. Maria Linda Birdie [Applause] writing award, great games in civics award, math award, ELA award, flag football award, cheerleading award, wittier spirit award, and attendance award. Karen Lopez Ramirez Student Council Award, Respect Award, Great Games and Math Award, EHS Band Award, Physical Education Award, Whittier Basketball Award, Flag Football Award, Whittier Your Spirit Award, and Attendance Award. Judle Luis Song. The good person award, the library award, hard worker award, and attendance award. Pedro Miguel Lucio, the good person award and the attendance award. This time I'd like to just say a shout out to our director of security, Miss Lauren Okconor. Thank you for all your support. Next up, a Mamutoovich. The respect award, integrity award, wittier band award, cheerleading award, physical education award, class contributor award, wave award, and attendance award.
024Juliana [Music] Martinez, the Whittier Basketball Award and Attendance Award. Nice job, Gigi. Jefferson Madano Sosa Perseverance Award, Great Gains and Literacy Award, Effort in ELA award, in attendance award. Hector Menddees Gonzaga biggest risktaker award, adventurous spirit award, effort in the LA award, flag football award in attendance award. Sylio Managati Netto Great Game Gains in Math Award, Wittier Basketball Award, most improved award in attendance award. Asia Mitchell The reading award and attendance award. Johanna Morales Aguar, integrity award, originality award, writing award, art award, theater award, yearbook award, cozy club award, and attendance award. Matthew Murphy. Oh yeah. Whittier basketball award, flag football award, class contributor award, physical education award, and attendance award. Mario Navaro Lever, Integrity Award, Fairness First Award, and Attendance [Applause] Award. Mariah Olivera [Applause] Sodre, collaboration award, soccer award, and attendance award. Stean
025Padilla Mahia, literacy award, math award, basketball award, originality award, and attendance award. [Applause] Corey Patterson [Applause] perseverance award, flag football award and attendance award, [Applause] Maria Pereira Dilva [Applause] Is she not here? Genesis Perez Luna Good Choices Award, Perseverance Award, Writing Award, Great Gains in Literacy and Civics Award, Cheerleading Award, Book Club Award, Class Contributor Award, Wave Award, ELA Project Award, and Attendance Award. Rahul Plates via math award, flag football award, camera crew award and attendance award. Susanna Pachche [Applause] No, Susanna. Oh, collaboration award, library award, book club award, science project award, in attendance award. Astred Portillo Reundo, [Applause] Student Council Award, Whittier Basketball Award, Soccer Club Award, and Attendance Award. [Applause] Maria Ramirez [Applause] Ayala Student Council Award, Integrity Award, Originality Award, Computer Award, Effort in Math Award, Cheerleading Award, Book Club Award, Allin
026Award, Wave Award, and Attendance Award. Nice job, Isabella Rodriguez Taba. [Applause] Theater award in attendance award [Applause] Romero [Music] Velasco principals award wittier W award student council award project 351 award writing award library award award, flag football award, soccer club award, cheerleading award, wave award, science project award, and attendance award. Lala Ross Morales [Music] [Applause] Student Council Award, Writing Award, Good Person Award, Basketball Award, Football Award, Soccer Award, Ready for Anything Award, ELA Project Award, Science Award, Physical Education Award, and Attendance Award. [Music] Daniel Ruiz Hernandez, collaboration award, basketball award, camera crew award, ready for anything award, and attendance award. Lazaro Salvador soccer club award, great games and literacy award and attendance award. Bianca [Applause] Sammedi collaboration award, writing award, computer award, basketball award, football award, soccer award, class contributor award, inquisitive mind award, and
027attendance award. Thiago Santana Adventurous Spirit Award, Great Gains in Literacy, Flag Football Award, Soccer Club Award, and Attendance Award. Ashley Santos Melgar, [Applause] [Music] Great Gains in Science Award, ELA Project Award, and Attendance Award. Monica Santos [Music] Adventurous Spirit Award, Great Gains in Math Award, and Attendance Award. [Applause] Lena Sar student council award, collaboration award, computer award, effort in ELA award, library award, physical education award, witty band award, book club award, science project award and attendance award. Tori Short Reading award, theater award, adventurous spirit award, basketball award, soccer club award, cozy club award, book club award, drama club award, class contributor award, all-in award, and attendance award, David Simoz, vice principal award. award, basketball award, soccer award, tech support award, class contributor award, all-in award, and attendance award. Tina Souza writing award, wittier cheerleading award,
028class contributor award, wave award, ELA project award, and attendance [Applause] award. Isabella Tabarz Plaza [Applause] [Music] Science award, cheerleading award, book club award, ELA award, and attendance award. [Applause] Adriana Leche Lopez, [Applause] biggest risktaker award, basketball award, flag football award, soccer award, all-in award, and attendance award. Kaylee Valley Hernandez Science award, soccer award, cheerleading award, and attendance award. Edwin Vasquez Ardon collaboration award, camera crew award, fairness award, and attendance award. Alex Vasquez Das ready for anything award attendance award. [Applause] Madha Verma science award, good person award. Attendance award. Way to go, [Applause] Ma. Zoe Zapata, the library award, adventurous spirit award, and attendance award. [Applause] Kimberly Gonzalez Bonitez. [Applause] Risktaker Award and Attendance Award. [Applause] Congratulations, Kim. Okay, next we have a special song from our select eighth grade chorus. Come on up. Select chorus
029members. [Applause] [Music] We had Julia show up. Okay, before we get there, Julia Mariah Santos, Lopez, Silva. Julia, come on up. We're so glad you made it. Inquisitive mind award, fairness first award, and attendance award. Congratulations, Julia. How about that? Grade 8 select chorus. You ready? Come on up. Go over. Are you ready? [Music] If you ever find yourself in the middle of the sea, [Music] I find you. If you ever find yourself lost in the dark and you can't see, I'll be the light to guide you. Find out what we're made of. When we are called to help our friends in [Music] you, I'll be there. And I [Music] know you'll be there cuz that's what friends are supposed to do again. [Music] If you're tossing and you're turning and you just can't fall
030asleep, I'll sing a song. [Music] And if you ever really [Music] count on me like I'll be And I know it [Music] counts are supposed to [Music] do my No matter when you cry, I'll never let good. [Music] And I know when I can count on you like you are supposed to [Music] do on How about that select chorus? Way to go, girls. Takes a lot of courage to get up there and do that. How about a nice round of applause for them again? Thank you. Okay. And for our closing remarks, I'd like to call up Dr. Brendan Kent, assistant principal. [Applause] Thank you, Mr. Mclucas. So, be uh good morning. Before I begin, I just want to give a shout out to Miss Norberg. I know she's not here. Miss Noberg and the rest
031of the eighth grade teachers. Last week, they created a free clothing store for our students to pick out some dresses and dress clothes. And I just have to say, doesn't all the don't all the students look amazing today? So, thank you to all of our staff that helped make today possible. Thanks to all the families and special guests that join in today. Uh, for those that are not aware, this was my first year in Everett. And I just want to take a moment to thank all the students, our families, and our staff for welcoming me into the part of the Whittier Waves family. I couldn't be more happy and more proud to be your assistant principal, one of your assistant principles. It was an honor and privilege to work with so many great students, talented
032teachers, and dedicated staff members. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Gracias, mucho. Yes. Uh, I just want to say a few things and echo a few things that Mr. Mclugas said. Um, obviously congratulations on graduating. Uh, high school is going going to go by very fast, okay? I know that graduating high school might seem so far away for all of you, but trust me, it's not. The next four years of your life going to go by in a flash. So, I just want to give you a few pieces of advice. Uh, do make the best of it and get involved. Join a sports team or any other type of club, whether it's music, drama, the arts, or anything. Just get involved in some way, and don't be afraid to try something new.
033You won't regret it. My second piece of advice is to work hard, get a good start, and don't be afraid to ask for help. Like Mr. McLucas said, academically, I can't stress how important it is to get off to a good start your freshman year. So, if at any point in time you feel like you're struggling, don't be afraid to reach out to your teachers and guidance counselors for help. They will be there for you just like your teachers and staff members were here for you at the Woodyard. My final piece of advice is to remember, always do the right thing, and follow our four pillars to success. Be safe, be respectful, be responsible, and be a leader. We wish you all the best in high school. May you continue to learn, grow, and achieve
034your dreams. And remember, even after graduating, you're always going to be a woodier way for life. So don't hesitate to come back and visit us sometime. We'll always be here for you. Good luck in high school. And once again, congratulations. Thank you, Dr. Kent. That concludes our ceremony. Please feel free to stick around for some pictures and great family photos are right here in front of the banner. So, thank you everybody and best wishes.