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VIDEO: New Canaan High School Class of 2015 Graduates

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New Canaan High School Class of 2015 Graduation
Uploaded by Michael Dinan on 2015-06-19. After graduating from Princeton with a bachelor’s degree in English, and with honors from NYU School of Law, Stephen Vehslage worked his way toward a successful law practice, working primarily in civil litigation and white-collar criminal defense. All seemed to be going well to those who surrounded him, but inside, Vehslage had serious doubts the path he’d charted for himself was the right one. After some intense soul-searching, Vehslage decided that it was time to change course and go back to school, to become a teacher. Vehslage is now a 15-year veteran of New Canaan High School but his first year was anything but smooth, he told hundreds of Class of 2015 seniors and their families and friends on Thursday, in a keynote address during graduation ceremonies.

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Letter: Advice to New Canaan High School Class of 2015

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Dear New Canaan High School Class of 2015,

Congratulations! You’re reaching the culmination of your high school lives by completing your time in the New Canaan Public School system. Now you head on to the next stage of your life, a stage that for a lot of you probably seems both incredibly exciting and quite terrifying, at the same time. OK, maybe terrifying is a bit strong—at least I hope it is—because there’s little, if anything, to be terrified about this next step. That is if your next step is college.

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NCHS Graduation Survival Guide: Tips for Students and Parents

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With NCHS graduation just a few days away (5 p.m. on Thursday June 18 at Dunning Field) there are many parents, family members, and graduates buzzing with questions about graduation. The New Canaanite took some time to think of some tips for this year’s graduates, as well as some for their parents. Parent Tips: Answers to all of the questions parents want to know. Where should I park? Parking on the high school property will be limited.

Dr. Bryan Luizzi

New Canaan High School Class of 2014 Graduates [VIDEO]

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Recently graduated from the University of Chicago, carrying a degree in English and philosophy and grand ideas of what lay ahead, a 22-year-old Robert Darken took a position in the mid-1990s with an international relief agency operating an emergency winter food distribution program halfway around the world, in Azerbaijan. Eager to travel and write though with little thought given to what skills he actually possessed, Darken in his romantic vision for what this experience would be played a major, central role in solving enormous problems of want and hunger. Yet as his plane descended into the Azerbaijani capital, a thought—uncomfortably clear in its truth—occurred to the young man. “We emerged from cloud cover, and suddenly a million yellow lights spread out below,” Darken recalled early Tuesday evening as he addressed the 2014 graduating class of New Canaan High School and their hundreds of families and friends as commencement speaker at Dunning Field. “What had been nothing more to me than a blank spot on a map was being filled in beneath my feet.