BY DARRELL HALENThe Trustee Scholarship at Boston University is the school’s most prestigious merit-based award. The scholarship, given to students who demonstrate outstanding academic and leadership abilities, is hard to win but very rewarding: It covers the full cost of undergraduate tuition. Salem High School’s Kripa Patel, a ...

BY DARRELL HALEN Pelham High School’s class of 2007 is an incredible group of people, Tim Mallard told his fellow graduating seniors. “As we have run in this race we call high school, we have stuck together and formed an alliance,” Mallard, the class president, said during the Friday, June 15, graduation ceremony. “We ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR Adopted as an infant, Jennifer Dusseault had to overcome much adversity, including attention deficit hyperactive disorder, as she pursued academic success. But on Monday, June 18, she proved any doubters wrong, as she stepped to the podium Goffstown High School graduation and received her diploma – a year ...

BY RYAN O'CONNOR For the first time in school history, Goffstown High School will send four students to Dartmouth College. Patrick Dobens, Lorena Bouroncle, Christina Kelleher and valedictorian Jocelyn Duford, all at the top of their class, will head northwest to Hanover, to test their academic prowess in the Ivy League. Dobens, who is ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY A procession of 340 McKelvie Middle School eighth-graders became the last graduating class – and the first freshmen to have their own high school in Bedford. Because of the new Bedford High School and Ross A. Lurgio Middle School, McKelvie is reformatting to be an intermediate school, after 43 years as a middle school. ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY With a Rubik’s Cube, a first-grade T-shirt and 465 oversized, beach balls, the Manchester West graduation for the Class of 2007 turned out to be a well-behaved event. None of the 465 graduates tossed beach balls during the Wednesday, June 13, graduation ceremony, probably because they were promised a surprise ending. As ...

BY SUSAN WARE Pembroke Academy graduated 186 seniors during a ceremony on the school grounds on Saturday, June 16. Senior class advisor Barbara Michaud gave a moving speech where she encouraged graduates to “get a life” by shunning material wealth and doing for others. “If you don’t do good, doing well is not ...

BY SUSAN WARE Memorial High School’s Valedictorain Emily Stekl, decked in the school’s red, white and blue,  encouraged graduates to ignore the old adage “youth is wasted on the young” and to embrace new experiences every single day and enjoy their youth. On Friday, June 15, Memorial High School sent 502 graduates ...

BY KEVIN SHALVEY With a Rubik’s cube, a first-grade T-shirt and 465 oversized bouncing balls, the Manchester West graduation for the Class of 2007 turned out to be a childish, but very well-behaved, event for Hooksett, Bedford and Manchester students. With a Rubik’s cube, a first-grade T-shirt and 465 oversized bouncing balls, the ...

BY SUSAN WARE When U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton spoke to Central High School graduates on Thursday, June 14, she was the first presidential candidate in the 155-year history of the school to deliver a commencement address. Wearing a white robe like the female members of the class, the Democratic presidential candidate urged graduates take risks ...