March Socratic Society

Yesterday 45 Kilbourne students were inducted into the Socratic Society. Students are selected for the Socratic Society based upon their display of the Socratic Core Virtues - scholarship, lifelong learning, compassion, integrity, and personal effort. Students are only eligible to receive this award once throughout their entire high school career. 13 of "my" students were among those honored. They are (alphabetically): Jack Begley, Chase Brown, Ava Burson, Abigail Cardimen, Brayden Carter, Joey Castle, Andrew Chidester, Song Chong, John Dobrea, Maddie Domecq, Maxim Estevez-Curtis, Alex Ehlers and Nevaeh Spencer.  Congratulations to each of you! I am proud of you!  

What made yesterday's ceremony even more special to me was that they had one of my student's, Kaleigh Brophy, demonstrate her Irish Step Dance performance.  Kaleigh recently competed internationally in Ireland and so it was exciting to be able to see her perform at WKHS and to showcase what she spends so much of her time doing.  Additionally, the keynote speaker for the event was David Campbell.  David graduated from Kilbourne in 2003 (before my time at WKHS), but he has 2 younger brothers, Andrew and Will.  The only one I was lucky enough to work with was Will, but I was always so impressed by the entire Campbell family and so I loved being able to say hi to David, to hear his words of wisdom and encouragement, and to spend a few minutes catching up on how he and his family are doing.  Never doubt that even after you have graduated when you come back to visit many years later it will be something that your teachers and other staff will always appreciate and remember.