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manhasset grads set to explore new maps High school celebrates 95th commencement services BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO When Manhasset High School valedictorian William Delaney was a boy, his uncle would often challenge him to find different places on a massive world map he kept above his bed, and as he got older the destinations grew increasingly remote. The search was a game that made the world a little bit smaller, instilling in Del-
aney a love of geography that he said came in handy when he arrived at the Manhasset Secondary School for the first time four years ago, unsure how he’d find his way around the building. “For most of our lives, the paths we’ve walked have been carefully charted, mostly by people other than ourselves. The state requires us to go to school, teachers map our exactly what we’ll do each day and parents tell us what to do
Graduation coverage
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Manhasset graduates ring the ceremonial bell to begin commencement festivities.
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when it comes to almost everything else,” he said during the school’s 95th commencement services Friday. “While I can’t make promises about your parents becoming less involved as you move to the next phase of your life, I can assure you that we are taking a step into the uncharted wilderness, to that undiscovered country we call the future.” “It is almost as if, as we go through life, more and more we are the cartographers, sketching maps of our surroundings even as we are treading that terrain for the first time,” he added. The 244 graduates of the Class of 2015 received their diplomas during a twilight ceremony outside the Manhasset Continued on Page 39
Brothers to lead house band at pageant BY B I LL SAN ANTONIO
for a 16-year-old boy — he’s about to be around the aspiring starlets of the Miss Long Island pageant for Manhasset resident Michael the second straight year. But Ottavio, a singer and Ottavio is in an enviable position
guitarist, will be working during the July 12 competition at the Patchogue Center for Performing Arts, along with a handful of his friends. As members of the youth group rock band Pursuing JC, they’ve been tapped to fill the gaps between the poses and smiles. “Last year, we played
30 songs, but it gets easier when you’ve been practicing on weekends for four hours at a time,” he said. Featuring musicians from across Long Island and operating primarily out of the Shelter Rock church in Syosset, Pursuing JC has more than 100 covers and original songs in its repertoire. But as the band has grown
since its inception in 2011 — its lineup is now up to as many as nine members — its musical arrangements have had to expand to often accommodate multiple keyboard and guitar parts. “There are so many things you have to make sure are absolutely perfect,” said Jasmine Benjamin, 15, a Manhasset Hills resident Continued on Page 36
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