Last night, Tuesday May 11, was the annual North Shore's Honors Scholars banquet, where the top 5% of 29 public and private schools in the North Shore area of eastern Massachusetts are recognized for their scholastic achievements. This top 5% amounted to 10 kids from Rebecca's school and she was one of them. This meant that Steve, Anne and Rebecca had to get a little dressed up for the evening...
...then it was out to the "rubber chicken circuit" to have dinner, hear a few speeches and then see the scholars, close to 300 of them, receive their certificates and engraved pen/pencil sets. (The students were uniformly impressed to see their names and their high school's name on their sets.)
The students were advised ahead of time to "leave their fish in their aquariums", meaning limp, fish-like handshakes. They were told to give firm handshakes and look the presenters in the eye, which they all managed to do very well. Note the smile and the eye contact as Rebecca shakes hands below.
As always, we were very proud of Rebecca. It's a busy season, so there are more of these kinds of things coming. Why is it that everything seems to happen in May?
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