Parents and friends of AlphaMax Academy witnessed a successful graduation ceremony on Thursday 24 June at the Toraica Banquet Hall in Paramaribo.
A packed hall saw the twelve graduating students receive their Diplomas from the chairman of the Board of Trustees the Hon. Eugene Noordpool and Keynote Speaker the Honourable Drs. Jennifer Simmons,M.D. The graduating class of 2010 were also congratulated on stage by the other members of the board--Ir. Emiel Krak, Prof. Dennis Wip, Dr. Eugene Merkus, Sean Taylor, Director of Studies.
The program for the evening began with the procession of Graduates and the board led by Marshall Simone Griffith and three members of the graduating class bearing the school banner( Zikomo Mhango, Daniel Lee and Sabrina . The first item was a PowerPoint Presentation based on the architect's conception of the new AlphaMax Facility that is being constructed.
This was followed by the awards ceremony in which those students who had performed well during the academic year in lower, middle and high school received awards and prizes.
Next the Class of 2010 was presented by Milton Drepaul, Deputy Director and Co-ordinator of the Global Assessment program at AlphaMax Academy.
The students who graduated were: Diego Fransen, Vincent Hilversum, Khabir King,Daniel Lee, Zikomo Mhango, Stephan Playfair,Marina Sew- Atjon, Sabrina Vaseur, Sabrina W, and Isiah Webbers. Mr. Taylor and Marshall Simone Griffith then conducted the ceremony in which prayers were said for the graduates and the charge to the 2010 class was delivered by Director Sean Taylor. This touching part of the event was the school's last directive to its students before they entered another phase of their lives.
The valedictory address for the class was delived jointly by Marina Sew-Atjon and Zikomo Mhango.
Finally , Dr. Jennifer Simons gave a simple but moving address to the graduates in which the emphasized the need for young people to be grounded in basic values of love for God, Nature and other people. She stessed that our most valuable contribution in this life was our relationships with others whether they were friends or not. How well we managed our relationships defined our success as humans.
The program was interspersed by a piano /flute recital by David Chen ( Class of 2009) and Maryse Brandflu; a recital of excerpts from Rabindranath Tagore's Gitangili from Sabrina Vaseur,Krisina Taylor, Ruth Saman and Michelle Partoredjo ;and a guitar rendition from three Middle school students.
