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“If you can manage to filter your judgments about whatever situation you are in, through thinking about self-improvement and not through comparison, then you will be able to avoid falling into the stagnancy that comes with being complacent.” 

Kirill Nazarov ’20 offered a chapel talk on a poem by Pierre Joris titled “Altars of Light.”

Uyi Omorogbe ’15 returned to Shattuck-St. Mary’s and the weCreate space that inspired him.

I thought this story connected well with the prompt, and I would say I did pretty well for winging it. Mr. McKinley shook his head and said, “A cat cannot be brave.”

We, as members of the human race, have learned to define ourselves by our differences rather than by what we have in common.

The schoolʻs aloha is why I, and I believe many others grow so close to this place. I am not saying this place is like Hawaiʻi, because definitely itʻs not! But I believe Shattuck is just as special as Hawaiʻi.  

My family and I experience poverty first-hand every year when we travel back to my parents’ homeland of Macedonia. 

If I have learned one thing, it is that every experience in your life, good or bad, helps form who you are. 

The SSM Student Government rallied the School to support Faribault’s HOPE Center.

“Over the last 12 years, we have built incredible friendships, grieved for those we have lost, and shared in the joy of seeing so many young men and women grow to become incredible adults.”  - Kristi Politoski

Being a good person means that you value people more than yourself. 

“Thankfully, there are much smarter people than me out there, and, because of them, I am now able to enjoy the panoply of comic book hero movies, in flight, on my cell phone.” - Matt Cavellier

We cannot let what we go through define who we are, but instead let it shape us into who we are becoming.

My personality and hobbies may sometimes conflict, but ultimately they combine to create my life. Without these counterpoints I am not myself. 

Now in my senior year, I look back on my four years at Shattuck for this speech and I came to the realization that even if I came here for soccer, the things I learned along the way are way more important than playing at the next level. 

This past year, I was lucky enough to go on a medical mission trip to Haiti with my family. During this trip, we worked with IMR, International Medical Relief, to help bring relief and medical treatment to the people of Haiti.

Harrison Oh ’19 is a cellist in SSM’s Pre-Conservatory Center of Excellence.

Remembering 1912 Shattuck School graduate Walter H. Schulze and his role as the “Peace Messenger” at the end of WW I.

Words can’t describe how great of a coach he was. He always knew just what to say. His famous line was “you’re not your golf score.” 

How different would the world be if we treated everyone on the planet as an extension of our own family?

The people that we serve are so grateful for the food and supplies that we give them. Mostly though, they are just as happy to have someone to talk to and to have someone ask how they are.

No action or event can take the light from your eyes. Only you can give it that power. 

My Paw Paw risked his life and the lives of his family in order to stand up for what he believed in because he truly cared. 

All these individual voices provide the foundation for my unique voice. They serve as reminders for everything I am and everything I aspire to be. 

Head of School Matt Cavellier reflects
on Halloween at SSM and the way it symbolizes our shared community.

SSM has been hosting this annual fall event for 14 years.