Date: Fri 18-Jun-1999

Publication: Bee

Author: CURT

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ED INK: The Face Of Education

One of our traditions here at The Bee is to publish the photographs of the

senior class at Newtown High School at graduation time, which we did last

week. We are following up this week with more photos of the Class of 1999

commencement ceremonies. There are many reasons why we devote so much space to

the graduating seniors at NHS.

The public school system in Newtown is our most ambitious and most expensive

community endeavor, and most of the time we tend to quantify it in terms of

expenditures, policies, curriculum, and construction. Graduation, however,

allows us to look at our public school system and see not statistics and

budget line items, but faces -- smiling faces.

With our graduation coverage, we attempt each year to show that in supporting

our public school system -- with all the money, with all the haggling at

meetings, with all the bricks and mortar -- we affect young lives. If we can

energize young lives with learning, give them schools that instill a sense of

pride and purpose, they we have really done something. It is the best thing we

can do together as a community.

We congratulate the Class of 1999 and wish them well as they look ahead to

choices made brighter by their accomplishments at Newtown High School. And as

they scatter around the country and the world to colleges and careers, we want

them to know that they will always be part of Newtown. We will always be happy

to see their faces back in town.