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The WALRUS The time has come, the Walrus said, to talk of many things: Of shoes and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings. - Lewis Carroll Vol LXV, No. 3 St. Sebastian’s School December 2011 Senior Class Honors the Dean By Patrick Ciapciak ‘12 deep mud. Another idea was, in the was the Class of 2012’s gift to the spirit of John “Gus” Gordon, to build school. Every senior class in the an underground tunnel connect- All seniors and their history of St. Sebastian’s has made ing the Palmaccio Science and Math parents received a letter explaining a lasting impression on their school Building with the Athletic Center. You all this information, and enclosed through the annual Class Gift. So may be thinking, “Why from the Sci- was a blueprint of the second floor whether it’s a small wooden bench ence Building, why not the Academic of the library showing where the now outside the Athletic Building Building in general?” Good question, room is located and what furniture (Class of 1954), a tall brick clock- the answer is that the Academic would be included. Also stated tower (Class of 1994), or a stone wall Building has many straight outlets to in the letter was that the Senior welcoming all visitors to the school the other side of the street, but the Gift Committee is aiming to raise at the corner of Greendale and Great Science Building will be that much $450,000 for the gift, and is asking Plain Ave (Class of 2009), class gifts further and you will have to take a for 100% participation from senior will traditionally help the school twistier path full of distractions. To parents. So whether it’s $25 or look more beautiful and its students support my point, just imagine you $25,000, senior parents are encour- happier. are Matt Fechtelkotter studiously aged to give what they can. And so after months of recording one of his many Physics Some of you may be won- intense debate about how this se- drops in the rotunda when all of a dering, “Why is this year’s class gift nior class can honor the school that sudden you look at your watch and a room that would have still been has so lovingly raised and educated lo and behold you have just five min- built in the new Science Building them, Mr. Rich Arms and the Senior utes until your football/basketball/la- even if the seniors hadn’t decided Class Gift Committee has narrowed crosse game starts. You immediately they would donate it?” This is a Mrs. Supple speaks to all the parents and students that attended this year’s St. Seb’s auction down their options down to one enter the underground tunnel and valid point, but from what I can tell most supreme idea. But before I within seconds you enter the locker the cost of this room as a whole will announce what this year’s class gift rooms through a back door. Creepy? be deduced from the cost of the will be, I’m sure everyone would like Yes. Efficient? Yes indeed. Science Building and therefore be Auction Shows Generosity to know which ideas fell short in But enough nonsense, it is less of a burden to the School. Also, the selection process. One idea was time to reveal what the 2012 Class because this class’ parents have al- Joe Dudley ‘12 with their friends, student volun- cart, and no one was going to stop to start an endowment fund under Gift actually is. As we all know, the ready donated so much to the new teers, Guild members, and members On Saturday December him. During the bid, he received our name—but let’s be honest with study space in the Library will be Building, the Committee decided to of the St. Sebastian’s faculty and 3rd the Guild of St. Irene and the applause for his generosity, and his ourselves, that’s pretty boring for a doubled with the addition of the new not build a separate monument like administration headed to the com- Men’s Association held the annual goodwill did not go unrewarded, senior class gift. Most others had to Science Building. An area (not neces- previous classes. puter room to work. Their job was St. Sebastian’s auction. The event for in the end, he came away with do with the new Richard J. Palmac- sarily a room because it will be open One morning just a few to input all of the winning bids dur- was held at the Seaport Boston the golf cart. Another example of cio Science and Math Building, on one side) will be designated as an weeks ago, during the senior class ing the silent auction and double Hotel. Dressed to the nines, over 400 goodwill and generosity was during which we have all seen under con- “Open Study Space” and will include meeting, Class President Kevin check each one to make sure that parents attended the auction, and the 1,000 dollar donation: where ev- struction in the past year and won- three circular tables with comfortable Dillon called in the faculty member the proper price was put in. As they bidding on various items, with all eryone who held up a paddle would dered with wide gazing eyes how chairs. In this room, there will also whom we wanted to honor the worked, parents enjoyed a chicken the proceeds donated towards the donate 1,000 dollars. The sheet of wonderful it will be to finally frolic be a couple of small square tables room with. That man was Mr. Mi- dinner with tortellini in an Alfredo school. The auction was set up in paper of which the fathers filled out down those open hallways when it designated for Chess games, as they chael Nerbonne—Dean of Studies, sauce. After everyone had their fill, three parts. First was the silent auc- who was donating had 35 slots for opens in February/March/April 2012. will have only two chairs facing each Assistant Headmaster, and our fa- and the workers were done in the tion with hors d’oeuvre, next came a names, and the donators easily sur- One idea concerned the courtyard- other. As stated earlier, one side of vorite faculty member. Whether it’s computer room, the main event be- sit down dinner in the dinning hall, passed that, almost amounting to 50 esque area seen from the windows this room will be open, as the area is in Greek class, talking in the library, gan: the live auction. and was followed last by the thrill- people donating to the school. There of the upper library. Here, between actually a continuation of the short or traveling for a Debate tourna- ing live auction. All together, each were also several more parents who the current math/library wing and hallway that will connect the upper ment, we have all felt his warm and The live auction works as part played a role in creating the donated 500 and 250 dollars. the new Science Building, was library with the Science Building. Two guiding presence. It was this class any movie or television show has auction into a special evening, and envisioned beautiful landscaping, other sides will border other new that decided there was no other portrayed it—the auctioneer stands On behalf of the students one, for those who attended, will meandering pathways, and pleasant rooms, such as the Silent Reading faculty member who deserved this up on a podium makes jokes and of St. Sebastian’s, I would like to not soon forget. benches to sit upon as we students Room (which we all know will not be room more than Mr. Nerbonne. talks very fast, and those participat- thank all those involved in the auc- study in the open air. I can see why very silent), the Seminar Room, and And so on the wall of the room ing in the auction raise paddles for The silent auction was tion. To those who helped run it: this idea was promptly dropped, for one of many Math/Science Computer with the bookcases, there will likely their bid. In addition to the normal by far the most social part of the you did a wonderful job, and the us students never study by ourselves Labs. The final wall will have tall be a photo of the entire Senior style of the auction, there were also evening. As people bid on items, auction ran smoothly, creating an or outside. Also, every time it rains, wooden bookshelves much like the Class with Mr. Nerbonne in the students posted around the room everyone conversed in an open set- enjoyable evening for all of those in- this area floods considerably in a one in the existing lower library, and middle. The official name for this with flashlights similar to those used ting, while munching on the start- volved. And to all those parents who reenactment of The Great Flood that will be filled with scholarly books we room has not yet been decided, but to help airplanes land. The students ers which were being served. The attended and bid on items: thank Noah had to endure, forcing the will never read, but it will look nice. it will probably be nicknamed the would wave their flashlight around silent auction contained everything you for your generosity in donating construction workers to build tiny Also on this wall will be some sort “Nerbaleum.” if someone had a bid, but the auc- from tickets to the biggest sport- to the school.

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