Hackley Graduates 90

In June Hackley School graduated the 90 members of the Class of 2012 with friends, family and faculty in attendance. The Reverend Doctor Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, Abbot, The Zen Mountain Monastery, Mount Tremper, New York, offered the invocation and benediction.

Class Salutatorian A.L. Schwalb offered remarks to welcome guests. Jordan Rapp, Hackley alumnus from the Class of 1998, offered the keynote address. A graduate of Princeton University, Mr. Rapp won the gold medal for the 2011 International Union Long Distance World Championships and was honored in November 2011 as the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Athlete of the Month. In May 2012, he won Ironman Texas, his fourth career win and another landmark in his amazing comeback after a near fatal hit and run accident in March 2010.

After presentation of diplomas by Headmaster Walter C. Johnson and President of the Board of Trustees John Torell IV ’80, Austen Bhayani offered the Valedictory Address.

Founded in 1899, Hackley School is an independent, non-sectarian co-educational school where the K-12 campus community joins in support of the schools mission “to grow in character, scholarship, and accomplishment, to offer unreserved effort, and to learn from the varying perspectives and backgrounds in our community and the world.”

Hackley School is a member of Round Square, a global network of schools dedicated to the ideals of internationalism, democracy, environmentalism, adventure, leadership and service.