LINK Graduation 2010.pdf - Portland High School

HENRY MACVANE volunteers with the Long Island Fire and Rescue Department as an emergency medical
technician. He recently received an American Red Cross Real Hero Award for saving the life of a young boy who
was drowning. In his free time, he plays rugby for the Portland Power Pigs. His teachers describe him as a
hardworking student who challenges himself academically and an overall “great kid”. In the fall, he will study
chemical engineering at the University of Maine.
PAT CURRAN has played on Portland High's football and lacrosse teams despite living with type 1 diabetes. This
year, he served as captain of the lacrosse team. He is an honor roll student who has taken Advanced Placement and
honors classes. He is involved in Big Brothers Big Sisters program and serves on the Senior Executive Board. He
raised about $23, 000 over four years for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation through his involvement with
their fundraising walk. He will attend Bentley University next year.
KIMARA NZAMUBONA , originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, came to Portland High School in
the fall of 2008. He fled his home country after the Gatumba Massacre of 2004 that killed some of his relatives,
and he spent four years at a refugee camp in Burundi. At Portland High, he was involved in activities such as the
Outdoor Adventure Club, French Club, and soccer. The general manager of a local enginnering firm mentored him
and helped him pursue his interest in an engineering career. He has received a full, four-year scholarship to Colby
College.
YURI SHEPARD-KEGL is a graduate of the Governor Baxter School for the Deaf program at Portland High. She
came to the United States four years ago from Nicaragua. In that country, the only schooling available for deaf
students was a summer school prigram run by volunteers, and Yuri used a different sign language than is used in the
United States. Portland High provided both a hearing American Sign Language interpreter and a Certified Deaf
Interpreter. Yuri stayed after school two days a week for tutoring help. She also pursued her interest in art at
Portland Arts and Technology High School. Deborah Howard, a teacher of the deaf at Governor Baxter School
and Portland High, said of Yuri, “When I look back four years and look at her now, the growth in her is amazing.
She now is a confident, independent young woman.”
COURTNEY CONNOLLY, KENDRA EGGEN, AND ASHLEY QUIGLEY went to the Dominican Republic to help build
a hospital. They saw poverty, they felt others' need, and they stood proud as young Maine women helping others.
The Beatles once again,
“Though I know I'll never lose affection
For people and things that went before
I know I'll often stop and think about them
In my life I love you more.”
Dr. James D. Morse
You are the sum total of your life experiences.
You will think of Portland High as you age. PHS
is now part of you and you are part of it.
Portland High School is the second oldest
continuously running high school in the country.
You are now part of its history. When some
historian looks into the graduating class of
2010, your name will be there, just as mine is
for 1973. Your name has been added to the
list of graduating seniors. Know that the
teachers and staff, your parents too, send you
into your world, the one you've yet to
conquer, proud that you are a Portland High
School graduate!
As Portland High teacher Beth Arsenault
says, “Life is about possibilities, not
probabilities.”
The Beatles' song says it all, “There
are places I remember all my life...”
Congratulations, Class of 2010.
Portland High School--2010
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