Class of 2002

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The Student Life Record Group consists of records related to Nightingale students that evidence student life at the school outside of classroom academics. Included are yearbooks, student publications, athletics records, admissions department records, college advising records, records of student clubs and committees, student governance records, diversity and community life, records regarding the brief boarding school at Nightingale, and records of student support/counseling offerings.

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As early as the 1970s, Class XII students have had the option to create an Independent Study Project (also called an Independent Senior Project, or ISP). Students select a subject of their choice, the parameters of the project, and how their learning will be exhibited, whether it be a final essay, analysis, play, artistic creation, or combination of these things. Presentations are given in the spring.

Scope and Contents From the Series: Commencement Records include commencement ceremony invitations, programs, scripts, and transcriptions of speeches given. Each year, a commencement guest speaker is invited to deliver words of wisdom and inspiration to the graduating senior students; correspondence with prospective guest speakers and the speaker's biographical information and or curriculum vitae may be in this record series. Also of note are sheet music and lyrics for a Nightingale commencement song. Invitations include the...

Scope and Contents From the Sub-Group: Heads of School records consist of records created by or under the purview of the various heads of Nightingale-Bamford School from its founding to present, as well as photographs, clippings, and biographical records with the head of school as subject. Records include correspondence and announcements, memoranda, reports from the heads of school to the Board of Trustees, speeches given by heads of school, and related records created and received in the course of business as well as records...

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This series consists of video recordings of Nightingale-Bamford School Commencement ceremonies for most years after 1985. There is one sound recording of the commencement ceremony in 1986, and one senior slideshow video created for the Class of 2009.

Scope and Contents From the Series: The General Student Work and Projects series includes representative essays, poetry, artwork, academic presentation programs, and compilations of student-created content. These consist of several cookbooks created by a grade-level or classroom of students, handmade science books, literary magazines created by Lower School classrooms, and scrapbooks of class trips and memories. Informal and formal publications of poetry are included, notably the 1995 and 1997 publications of "Poems for Life,"...