Submitted by Deb Alter
Hoosac School is pleased to announce that Michaela Charron was awarded an Honorary Diploma, Class of 2017 at the school’s annual Bleeze Banquet on January 20.
[private]Charron is a long-time Hoosick Falls resident who was first introduced to Hoosac School in 1970 when she came to participate in a play under then-Headmaster H. Ashton Crosby. “I considered Ashton a friend and mentor,” she said, and has always felt a special connection to Hoosac. Charron has been attending the Yule Log and Boars Head Celebration at Hoosac every year for 28 years (since 1988), usually coming to two performances, and often writing reviews.
Over the years, she has made many friends at the school and said that she feels “very much at home here.” Headmaster Dean Foster presented her with an honorary diploma after the formal dinner as students, faculty, guests, and staff looked on.
An honored tradition, the Bleeze banquet marks the end of the jester’s reign, which started on the first night of the Yule Log celebration. More importantly, it is the “beginning of the end” of high school for the senior class, marked by a series of traditional ceremonies unique to the school, with musical performances by students and faculty members mixed in. [/private]