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The New Rochelle High School Class of 2018 graduated Thursday afternoon in a commencement ceremony filled with advice, encouragement and challenges for the students to be the best that they can be.

“I call on the Class of 2018 to find a path that each of you finds genuinely purposeful,” valedictorian Elijah Pomerantz said to the sea of 670 fellow purple-robed seniors on the high school’s McKenna Field. “Standing on the precipice of adulthood, we all have to decide what this next chapter of our lives will bring. Whether we are heading off to college, to work or to serve our nation, we are all poised to begin our adult years auspiciously.”

An incoming member of Princeton University’s freshman class, Pomerantz was one of 15 graduating seniors who will attend Ivy League colleges in the fall. The class completed a sweep of the prestigious schools, sending at least one student to each of the eight ivies – including eight students to Cornell University alone.

Pomerantz and salutatorian Randall St. Louis remarked on the wide range of passions and skills exhibited by the class.

“As I look out at this crowd in front of me,” said St. Louis, who will attend Harvard University, “I see future scientists who have grown out of the Science Research Program, future athletes who have started their careers with championships here, future artists and performers from the PAVE program who will soon be walking red carpets, future engineers who will take us deeper into the age of technology and future leaders who I hope to see on ballots later in life.”

Class President Ever-Maat Mack challenged her fellow graduates and the families and friends present to think about “privilege and perspective.”

“If you can’t understand where others are coming from, you can’t empathize,” she said. “We should strive to treat each other with a certain level of unconditional respect.”

Principal Reginald Richardson said the seniors had faced challenges and had shown themselves to be “passionate, intelligent, articulate and resilient.”

“Because of you, I am filled with hope and optimism for the future,” he said. “Because of you, I can see a world much better than the one we have today.”

Board of Education Vice President Jeffrey Hastie also addressed the graduates, telling them that they have shown courage and kindness this year.

“The most impressive takeaway for me is your sense of now,” Hastie said. “Now is your time to action. Now is your time to speak. Now is your time to do. You are not waiting your turn, asking for permission. Nor should you. You will shape your future and no one else. Such a conviction at any age is inspiring, but more so in the young.”

Schools Superintendent Dr. Brian Osborne told the graduates that they are ready to shape, “even radically alter,” the world.

“Graduates, whatever you do next, learn as much as you possibly can in every possible way,” he said. “Your education is not a place you attend or a class you take. It’s how you ultimately make sense of the world and your place in it. May you take the critical thinking and deeply held core values that are so embodied by New Rochelle, and bring all your joy, creativity and compassion to lead us to a better tomorrow.”

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Governor of New York

Andrew Cuomo

New York State Capitol Building

Albany, NY 12224

Phone: 518-474-8390

Email Address: gov.cuomo@chamber.state.ny.us

Web Form: https://www.governor.ny.gov/content/governor-contact-form

NY State Senator

District Office:

222 Grace Church Street, Suite 300

Port Chester, NY 10573

Phone: (914) 934-5250 Fax: (914) 934-5256

NY State Assembly District 88

Amy Paulin

District Office:

700 White Plains Road, Suite 252

Scarsdale, NY 10583

Phone: (914) 723-1115

PaulinA@nyassembly.gov

Web Form: http://nyassembly.gov/mem/Amy-Paulin/contact

Speaker of the Assembly

Carl E. Heastie

Albany office:

LOB 932

Albany, NY 12248

Phone: (518) 455‐3791 Fax: (518) 455-4812

District office:

1446 East Gun Hill Road

Bronx, NY 10469

Phone: (718) 654‐6539 Fax: (718) 654-5836

Speaker@nyassembly.gov

NYS Senate Standing Committee on Education

Carl L. Marcellino, Chairman

Albany office:

188 State Street

Room 811, Legislative Office Building

Albany, NY 12247

Phone: (518) 455‐2390

Fax: (518) 426-6975

District office:

250 Townsend Square

Oyster Bay, NY 11771

Phone: (516) 922‐1811

Fax: (516) 922-1154

marcelli@nysenate.gov

Senator John Flanagan

Albany Office:

Room 330, State Capitol Building

Albany, NY 12247

Phone: (518) 455-2071

Fax: (518) 426-6904

District Office:

260 Middle County Road, Suite 102

Smithtown, NY 11787

Phone: (631) 361-2154

Fax: (631) 361-5367

flanagan@nysenate.gov

NYS Assembly Committee on Education

Catherine Nolan, Chair

Albany Office:

LOB 836

Albany, NY 11248

Phone: (518) 455-4851

District Office:

47-40 21 Street, Room 810

Long Island City, NY 11101

Phone: (718) 784-3194

Fax: (718) 472-0648

NolanC@nyassembly.gov

New York State Commissioner of Education

MaryEllen Elia

New York Education Building

89 Washington Avenue

Albany, NY 12234

Phone: (518) 474-3852

elia@nysed.gov

NYS Board of Regents

New York State Education Department

89 Washington Avenue

Board of Regents, Room 110 EB

Albany, New York 12234

Phone: (518) 474-5889

Fax: (518) 486-2405

RegentsOffice@nysed.gov

Board of Regents Member, 9th Judicial District

Judith Johnson

Regents Office, State Education Building

89 Washington Avenue

Albany, NY, 12234

Phone: (518) 474-5889

Regent.Johnson@nysed.gov

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President Donald Trump

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW

Washington D.C. 20500

Comments: (202) 456-1111

Switchboard: (202) 456-1414

http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

U.S. Senators for the State of New York

Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand

Washington, DC Office:

478 Russell Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: (202) 224-4451

NY Office:

780 Third Avenue, Suite 2601

New York, NY 10017

Phone: (212) 688-6262

Fax: (866) 824-6340

Web Form: https://www.gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/

Senator Charles E. Schumer

Washington, DC Office:

322 Hart Senate Office Building

Washington, DC 20510

Phone: (202) 224-6542

Fax: (202) 228-3027

NY Office:

780 Third Ave, Suite 2301

New York, NY 10017

Phone: (212) 486-4430

Fax: (202)228- 2838

Web Form: https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/email-chuck

U.S. House of Representatives District 16

Congressman Eliot Engel

Washington, DC Office:

2462 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-2464

Fax: (202) 225-5513

Westchester Office:

6 Gramatan Ave. Suite 205

Mt. Vernon, NY 10550

Phone: (914) 699-4100

Fax: (914) 699-3646

Web Form: https://engel.house.gov/write-your-rep1/

U.S. House of Representatives District 17

Congresswoman Nita Lowey

Washington, DC Office:

2365 Rayburn HOB

Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-6506

Fax: (202) 225-0546

White Plains Office:

222 Mamaroneck Ave.#312

White Plains, NY 10605

Phone: (914) 428-1707

Fax: (914) 328- 1505

Web Form: https://lowey.house.gov/contact/email

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