use sorry twenty nineteen 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 with liberty and justice for all thank would like to begin the morning by welcoming parents and ministers school committee members community leaders faculty and most important of all our students i want to take a brief moment to recognize the folks over to my right hand side who have been dedicated to the vision of belmont high school and donating scholarships year after year there are many familiar faces in the crowd here i just want to say thank you to your commitment for kids it is much appreciated t we're here today to celebrate four years of hard work and dedication from our students at belmont high school no matter how many awards received today you all have one thing in common and you all have worked very hard to get to this point i can truly say that i am proud of the work you've done but i'm even more proud to be your principal high school at this time it is my heart to welcome one of the two historians you mr richards welcome and congratulations class of twenty eight we are honored to help celebrate your many achievements at belmont high school you and your classmates will be receiving awards and or scholarships this morning announce the name please come to the podium to receive your work on stage there because she was depicting the various words at the end of the program you're welcome to come back to the front of the stage so that your friends or family can take a picture o assembly so they can take a picture it might look something like this older we raise money each year provide for scholarships and have created and for the future of writers as well this is the eleventh year we've been able to feel we've had a good time doing it and i hope in the future you that's like getting up for the morning all the time my dad had incredible passion for life he was type a guy that when he walked into a room everyone just smiled because people loved him and the point of the scholarship is to help someone who is going on to higher education that embodies his passion for life wrestling and i'd like to present the art to charity and memorial scholars ship education by one of his or her belmont public school educators this year scholarship the nurse haley  thank you mr ferrara julian choice is the winner of the rotary club of belmont scholarship which is given to a student was demonstrating an incredible dedication to service to the community races all of you so how much savings bank will continually trying to help the community in any way that we can so today we're very excited to be contributing to one of its younger residence so for this particular recipient shined as a scholar and pretty much every category so we're giving this award to mr samuel but still and the next scholarship will be presented by the belmont software association please welcome david cameron to present the scholarship he then moved on to american international college where he started a icee varsity baseball team on june twenty seventh two thousand and one opening summer baseball for the belmont senior paper team brennan passed away doing what he loved player and a wrestler who exemplify the same spirit and passion that brennan demonstrated in baseball and in life itself this year's recipients are softball carolin ruby sanchez is the winner of the bryan and shawn riley scholarship the winners of the cambridge savings and scholarships are very happy timothy bailey and mar morning everyone my name videos even the smiley brother matt we're here to present a scholarship in honor of my brother tragically passed away about a year and a half ago and this award is going to be given to two students  most named after a long time boys are coach doctor my coach most really was a coach and mentor to hundreds of all my hockey players for more than forty years during that time which mostly only instilled in his players the traits of hard work dedication and commitment to the team the coach was doing scholarship was awarded to the senior boys r c hockey player who exhibits the qualities of hard work dedication leadership and teamwork both on the ice and in the school and around town this year's recipient contribution performing arts scholarship are awarded to two graduating seniors for their outstanding contributions to the performing arts company the award is named for the late dan schorr friend who among the many contributions he made to our community was passionate about arts education in our schools the diane wiltshire scholarship sponsored by the belmont against racism is proud to present this call ship to two metro students for the contribution to belmont high school this wilshire who is retiring in a few weeks has served as director for many years bacon memorial scholarship the next award will be presented by miss patty person he was we wanted the scholarship recipient to be someone who demonstrates itself a spirit of service and a passion for helping others within the school or the community and this year it is my pleasure to present the coming nor my  university of virginia law school is presenting me with the book jessica tennant kilohertz are the recipients of the national honor society scholarships the national honor society is an organization whose chooses its members based on extraordinary scholarship leadership character and ser this year we have received notification that students from belmont were chosen as national merit semifinalists and the wonderful news is that all students have advanced to become national merit scholars finalists distinguished themselves to be included with fifteen thousand finalists in white as a potential national merit scholar with the following national merit finalist please come to the stage to receive your work benjamin brody jackson his sons and daughters attended the belmont schools and graduated from belmont high and children graduated with the class of twenty sixteen the importance of education always trust in the family the family thanks everyone for the opportunity to have their father remembered in six tragically two years later he passed away for the next seventeen consecutive years of graduating seniors name appeared in robert's memorial park however the last scene to receive the award was in two thousand and six there has been no reception for the past twelve years i spoke with roberts father and his mother his father is now ninety one years old living in  building a better life for themselves and their families while you're here they learn how to speak english and build themselves up from whites being poor farmers to run a hospice family businesses they were created resourceful and operated from a place of integrity thought this would be an appropriate memorial for him is he always believed in the importance and the value of higher education and he was always obligated to give back to the community overage will often junior was  hundred fifty one graduate of belmont high he attended paysan park which you may not know was a school at one point in the generally middle school he was active member of the belmont community for his entire life he was the first in his family to go to would not like to ask mister sherri turner to come to the podium to confer the athletic and physical education thank this year thirty one sr has received the president's volunteer service awards for performing at least one hundred hours of service in a year  they were honored by our superintendent at the last school committee meeting i will simply read their names now and now from the stand in place facing the parents please hold your applause till the end earning bronze awards for performing between one hundred and one hundred seventy four hours eight students receive silver awards for performing between one hundred seventy five and two hundred forty nine hours of service jennifer call brandon emily logan julia logan  the belmont intergenerational award recognizes the significance of intergenerational work in the history of community service at the high school the program began about thirty years ago when a social studies class with a student initiated oral history project with senior citizens and  the following awards are given to seniors for their ongoing commitment and passion for english during their years it fell my high school marvellous you is recognized as a senior who has demonstrated the highs academic achievement in english morning and graduation seniors i'm honored to present the following awards on behalf of the foreign language department each year the massachusetts foreign language association awards are given to students from demonstrated the highest academic of interest in foreign language and international studies beyond their work in the classroom this year we're honoring the following four students for the north east conference awards albert chen naomi arsenal  awards are given to seniors for their ongoing commitment and passion for the foreign languages throughout their entire tenure at belmont high school the first award is given to a senior who has demonstrated the highest academic achievement in foreign languages the following awards heard in recognition of the outstanding performance of monster school athletic teams we would like to recognize the be a girls soccer team for being the middlesex league champions perceiving the support for the team our captains we would like to recognise the beatrice boys golf team for being middlesex league champions accepting this award on behalf of the golf team as captain steve and good luck to the currently this is an all caps undefeated boys rugby team and the currently undefeated girls rugby team as they enter the m i a tournament people also like to recognize him for being the girls indoor track state champion in the pen and the fifty five meter hurdles for being named a new indoor track all american sorry new balance in turn track all american in the boston  and the boston herald all scholastic indoor track team award is recognized for outstanding achievement and science and math by a society of women engineers this next award is given to two seniors who have contributed the most to the greater world community as it relates to social justice and the  thanks to more words again the following words are given to seniors when there are ongoing commitment and passion to science and engineering throughout their entire tenure at belmont high school the senior being recognized for the highest academic achievement in james has recognized as the senior who has contributed the most to the school community as it relates to were selected to participate in the harvard economics challenge based on a placement test and their yearlong multiple choice and short answer averages we would like like to recognize the one senior who qualify this year the following awards are given to seniors for their ongoing commitment and passion to music throughout their years and please come to the podium to receive your award calvin perkins is the senior who has demonstrated the highest academic achievement and  hill is the senior who was contributed the most of the school community as it relates to the music department sebastian toles is receiving the two thousand and eighteen arc award in photography for outstanding achievement believe child three is receiving that two thousand and eighteen artwork and sculpture for outstanding achievement the following awards are given to seniors for their ongoing commitment and passion to the arts throughout their years at belmont joshua's and is the senior who has demonstrated the highest academic achievement in art hayley brown is the senior us contributed the most of the school community as it relates to the art department this year's award and technical production goes to son scholarship and the alumni and friends of belmont high school recipients to gather in the courtyard immediately following the ceremony for your pictures any parent who would like to take a the student's pi under their respective scholarship on the screen behind me come on down to the front of the end of this morning we can make that happen and thank you very much for attending test site see everyone on the sunday