INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL GRADUATES

Primary  2003

Kindergarten  2003

 

  Article from Dorothy Prats (Cuernavaca Carousel), Mundo Social July 6, 2003

 Diario de Morelos

 

 Strength and courage is your divine birthright and with blessings, peace, of spirit and mind,        harmony and joy you will build your life to express your true self.  If I were to use one word to qualify the essence of the International School it would be excellence.  Over 30 years of dedicated, directed, researched, advanced, bilingual teaching.

 

Money earned is money spent, invested back into materials, equipment, books, workshops, maintenance and when needed, remodeling.

 

I love it because it’s  small enough for every child ‘s name, quirks, likes, and when it’ s time for his allergy medicine and still large enough to be a community.  And community it is:   teachers, students, staff and parents form a tight-knit group who face problems, find solutions, create events and maintain an atmosphere of positive thinking and mutural trust.

 

International School has produced, for thirty years, prize-winning, award-winning, academic-winning, bilingual students in city, state and national zone tests.  The prestigious Marymount Alianza plaque was awarded to Lic. Yvonne Leonard to honor her work as an educator and the entire school for its continuous, outstanding achievements.  Note I use the word continuous… it started out good and has stayed good for over a quarter of a century.  No easy task.

 

Today Carousel congratulates the 2003 graduates.  The traditional ceremony is always a moving event.  Caps and gowns and shy smiles and sweaty hands and stammering voices and audible sighs of relief when the speech has been delivered and no mistakes made.. getting  in front of a microphone be it Kinder or Sexto Grado is a scary situation, an unforgettable moment in any child’s life.  It also adds to the forever moments in the memory bank and is worth every moment of the memorizing, the preparation the allout effort.  So to the children who stood up there in front of all those people and recited the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (David Abner Ortiz Jimenez), The Farewell Speeches, representing their classmates for Kindergarten Isaac Yael Hernandez Herrera and Valeria Guillen Campos.  For Primary, Sixth Grade graduates Lyanne Gwendolin Aguilar Hernandez, and Egidio Barrera Gascon, my deepest thanks for creating a memorable moment and felicitations for your outstanding scholastic records. 

 

Miss Lucia was the Mistress of Ceremonies and things, moved like clockwork.  Ing. Maria Isabel Hernandez Vivar, spoke to the graduates in a soft, kind yet deeply meaningful way, Lic. Yvonne Leonard in her speech to the graduates spoke about the achievements of some of the exgraduates including her first student:  Dra. Yvonne Flores Leonard, recently graduated from John Hopkins University.  Lic. Yvonne spoke about Samantha Pratt Limon earning a scholarship to the University of the Americas, Miguel Gonzalez Martin for his Masters in New Zealand, Gautham Nair making minds jump at Cal Tech in California and this knowing and keeping tabs on ex-students, this being there for them is her trademark and stern or not, this lion of an educator is a pussy-cat when it comes to keeping the extended family close.  She cares and it shows and it’s  been visible since the first day she opened the doors of International School.  Caring combined with knowledge, know-how, absolute integrity and honesty is a formula for wiseness and successful enterprises.  To Lic. Yvonne Leonard, her staff, her students and The International School, warm applause for another successful school year. 

 

To graduates:  David Abner Ortiz Jimenez, Lyanne Gwendolin Aguilar, Yuriria Mota Milla, Karen Montes de Oca Rodriguez, Tonatiuh Ambriz Pardo, Hector Ulyses Casanova Romualdo, Dulce Samantha Gonzalez Chavez, Ana Maria Areli  Morales Fuentes.

 

Alix Lizet Altamirano Lizama, Carlos Fernando Berra  Orendain, Carlos Fernando Rueda Cruz, Verónica Jakobsen Figueroa, Moisés Castro Bravo, Pablo Bribiesca Sánchez , Isaac Yael Hernández Herrera, Ximena Higuera Ramírez, and Valeria Guillén Campos, sincere wishes for a bright, brilliant and very blessed future.

 

 

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