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Foxborough High School Class of 2011: 'Our Time Now'

Foxborough High School's Class of 2011 graduated Sunday at the Dana Farber Field House.

"[We are all Warriors]," said Foxborough High School Class President in a dynamic ending to her graduation speech.

With signature "Warrior Pride," the Foxborough celebrated their many achievements as individuals and a class at graduation Sunday afternoon.

For the first time in FHS memory, the school celebrated it's 137th annual commencement exercises off of school property. Because the floor of the high school gymnasium is being replaced, the Kraft Group generously donated the use of the Dana-Farber field house at Gillette Stadium.

215 Foxborough graduates stood enthusiastically on stage in front of family, friends, faculty, and community members.

Superintendent Christopher Martes and school board member Kate Kominsky both addressed the graduates and thanked the Kraft organization for allowing graduation to be held on Gillette Stadium property.

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Martes, who is retiring after this school year, commended the class of 2011 for all their accomplishments and reflected on his time serving as the head of Foxborough Public Schools.

"I was thinking on the way over here, another indication that it was time to retire is that 40 years ago this month, I graduated from Foxborough High School," he said.

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With tears in her eyes, Kominsky expressed how very proud she was of the class of 2011 - a class who has achieved academic and athletic success, including four students with perfect SAT scores.

Laracy, Class President, and Class Valedictorian, Tristan Ballard, both offered their own piece of advice to the graduating seniors.

"Life is truly what you make it. You can sit back and watch opportunities pass you by or you can make your presence known," said Laracy who will be attending the University of Rhode Island in the fall. "We have the opportunity to become anything we can dream of."

As Laracy spoke to the audience, proud parents, school faculty and friends made their enthusiastic presence known, proving what a tight knit community Foxborough truly is - a presence in which Laracy pointed out in her speech. 

"We were lucky to have grown up in a community like Foxborough," echoed Laracy. "One thing I am going to miss [when I go away to college] is the tight-knit feel of this Foxborough Community."

"We have the potential to be catalysts of change," said Ballard, who will be attending Duke University in the fall.

"We came to High School thinking it was all about us, now [we know a lot better]," noted Ballard in his graduation speech. "It's about knowing that no matter wherever we go, we need to take that [teamwork, that self -discipline, that knowledge that we both individually and collectively have [the power to take our legacy into the world.]"

The class of 2011 left their "own trail" on the community of Foxborough, and similar to their class motto from Ralph Waldo Emerson, will begin to blaze their new trail starting today.


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