Graduations Scheduled Over Next Two WeeksStaff reports
iBerkshires
05:46PM / Tuesday, June 02, 2009
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — High school graduations start in earnest in Berkshire County this Friday with the senior class bidding adieu to Drury High School in North Adams. The festivities begin at 7 p.m. in the high school gym; better arrive early or you'll have to park in the cemetery and walk up to "Mother Drury on the Hill."
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts has already closed for the summer, with commencement exercises on May 16, the same day as Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington. Berkshire Community College awarded its degrees on Friday, May 29. But, there's still one more college in the Berkshires preparing to send off its graduates.
Williams College holds commencement exercises on Sunday, June 7, on the lawn of West College. The seniors and master's candidates will promenade through the village with Berkshire County Sheriff Carmen C. Massimiano in the lead, as dictated by tradition.
Tanglewood in Lenox will be busy with several high school graduation ceremonies, beginning with Mount Everett Regional School at 10 a.m. on Saturday, June 6; Monument Mountain Regional High School on Sunday, June 7, at 1:30 p.m.; Lee High School on Saturday, June 13, at 1 p.m. and Lenox Memorial High School on Sunday, June 14, also at 1 p.m.
Wahconah Regional High School awards diplomas on Sunday, June 7, at 1 p.m. at the Dalton school. Also June 7, St. Joseph's High School in Pittsfield holds graduation ceremonies at 2 p.m. in St. Joseph's Church.
In North County, Drury kicks things off, followed by McCann Technical School on Thursday, June 11, at 7 p.m. in the Chandler Gymnasium at Williams College. Hoosac Valley High School hands out its diplomas on Friday, June 12, at 7:30 p.m. in the school gym; Mount Greylock Regional High School on Saturday, June 13, at 5 p.m. in the high school gym and McCann its second graduation for postsecondary students on Monday, June 15, at 7 in school gym. Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School graduates on Saturday, June 13, at 3 p.m. in Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' Church Street Center in North Adams.
Pittsfield families will have to be quick to catch the city's two high school graduations on Sunday, June 14. Taconic High School holds its graduation at 1 p.m. at the school; Pittsfield High School will hand out its diplomas at Tanglewood at 4 p.m.
Then school's out for the summer! |
