John Milton Wesley

KCSS sends the Class of 2011 forth to face the world

King City Secondary School held its 50th Commencement Ceremony last Tuesday (June 28) at the Magna Centre in Newmarket.

Some of the Grade 12 grads are now looking to the advent of university or college in the fall, while others are entering the field of work.

Valedictorian Katelyn MacIachlan focused on the graduates’ accomplishments in her remarks.

“Look how far we have come,” she declared. “These will all become memories and they will help you grow and succeed in life.”

Maclachlan will be going to Queen’s University in September to study concurrent education, with the aim of becoming a teacher.

Jason Abbott, Adib Abedini, Sara Aghsaei, Talia Albanese, Chesney Alexander, Maria Jose Alfie, Connor Allen, Natalie Alonzi, Connor Anderson, Aurora Antonic, Stephanie Barlett, Taylor Baxter, Amanda Belardinelli, Kelsey Berger, Lial Beri, Arya Bina, Brady Boccia, Andrew Bolton, Katie Bondrager, Steven Bonollo, Wyatt Bowles, Cameron Boyce, Jake Brewer, Danton Brinovec, Sean Bulman, Paige Bundy, Alex Burbidge, Kyle Butler, Latisha Campbell-Small, Christina Canagasabey, Ryan Carisse, Sarah Carrick, Rainie Chen, Olivia Chilese, Eric Cognolato, Jonathan Colalillo, Sheldon Cook, Sean Cooke, Griffin Coutler, Dylan Courts, Haley Cranston, Kurt Cummings, Sarah Cunnane, Kristen D’Angelo, Robert Darnowski, Jhezhellee De Lemos, Brandon Desmarais, Jessie Dewdney, Tharanee Dhanayarajan, Alyssa Di Luca, Ashley Dipchan, Dana Diplock, Jonathan Dodaro, Scott Doedens, Nicole Douglas, Samantha Douglas, Shannon Douglas, Monique Duclos, Paige Dyck, Michelle Facca, E.J. Faust, Francie Fernades, Brendon Finch, Sydney FitzGibbon, Lincoln Forbes, Ryan Forletta, Delton Freire, Gino Gatti, Amanda Gentle, Cameron Gentle, Marco Germinario, Emilio Ghloum, Cassia Giancola, Douglas Gibbens, Doug Gleason, Nicollette Gooding, Benjamin Gooley, Hannah Greenfield, Nichole Gugliuzzi, Ario Hadian, Rebecca Hampton, Brittney Harnett, Victoria Hastie, Madison Hayhoe, Jade Heaton, Natasha Hillier, Katt Hobson, Taylor Horan, Jonathan Hotari, Remy Humphreys, Tracey Hunter, Ross Hyslop, Victor Hyslop, Luigi Iorio, Zaid Iqbal, Caitlin Ivany, Rachel Jacobs, Daniel Jegathiswaran, Anton Jitnikovitch, Danielle Johnston, Michael Jones, Sepehr Karimi, Ben Karki, Melissa Kearns, Cameron Kerr, Chris Kerchbaumer, Niro Ketheeswaran, Shaheen Khamissa, MJ Kim, Brian Kirkby, Savva Korovitsyn, Melissa Koteff, Jake Krembil, Riley Krembil, Ana Kripak, Kayla Laforge, Alice Lan, Thomas Lau, Brandon Lee, Daniel Lisi, Katelyn Maclachlan, Alissa Malina, Karla Mancia- Garcia, Stefanie Mandl, Ryan Manfredi, David Marks, Dakota Marsham, Chris Martire, Connor McAuley, Elisa McIntyre, Victoria McKenize, Kortney McLeod, Helder Mendonca, Stephanie Merrick, Mac Milton, Anton Mirashnichenka, Fred Molaei, Robert Monopoli, Sam Montazeri, Ryan Moore, John Morassutti, Paul Moroz, Holly Moulton, Genna Mulder, Maegan Mullings, Daniel Nicoletta, Julia Noguera, Daniel Oh Chong, Nazly Omar, Janah Omil, Mikayla Oppedisano, Kevin Oreto, Brandon Oukes, Sezgi Ozel, Lynda Packard, Gillian Page, Justin Palleschi, Carlo Pamatmat, Riki Parkes, Thomas Partland, Jack Pastore, James Paterson, Sasha Pavlov, Lindsie Peck, Julia Pelipenko, Ashley Pellegrini, Subentha Perinpasothy, Suvaistha Pernipasothy, Jacqueline Petricone, Robert Pirivatric, Matthew Plows, Jesse Poles, Denis Polidovich, Samantha Pontiero, Sarmad Qamar, Mustafa Qasemi, Kevin Ramkishore, Wesley Ranford, Inna Ratman, Martina Reda, Fay Reznik, Emily Roberts, Luke Robertson, Madeline Rondinone, Alex Rozenfeld, Michael Russell, Sarah Ryan, Arya Sadighi, Karim Safarmohammad, Zekria Saidy, Kaitlyn Saint, Matthew Sarracini, Ally Scarna, Courtney Scherer-Scott, Cody Schmidt, Jakob Schneider, Brian Seenarine, Dasha Selinevich, Rhojane Sese, Steven Sheard, Nicholas Skrypek, Alyssa Solimine, Robert Sparrow-Downes, Reid Spence, Daniel Spick, Stephanie Stepanis, Nick Strohmeier, Sean Strong, Vinay Sumra, Adrian Surdi, Robert Symmes, Bryan Tarras, Kylie Thomas, Marc Torelli, Sarah Tracey, Jason Train, Selena Tran, Ryan Traynor, Nicole Tribuzio, Falgun Trivedi, Matthew Tuck, Danyelle Turner, Ian Tushingham, Brandon Tzouras, Tudor Udroiu, Mack Urbonas, Ashley Vanderburgh-Oakley, Darian Waite, Zachary Waldeck, Julia Warner, Michele Webb, Emily Wilmot, Jessie Wootton, Duncan Worsley, Jason Xu, Sean Young, Andrew Zacchigna, Anastasia Zinchenko and Mathew Zuccato.

Salvos: Pieces Together

John Milton Wesley was born in Ruleville, Mississippi, a delta town and also the home of famed civil rights leader Fannie Lou Hamer, who was Wesley’s “Godmother”. He is a graduate of the 1972 Minority Journalism Program (MJP) at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former reporter anchor at WLBT-TV in Jackson, MS. He attended undergraduate school at Tougaloo College on a full vocal music scholarship starting in 1966, and received a fellowship to study political science and English Literature at Yale University in 1969. He returned to Tougaloo College where he graduated in 1970. Wesley’s Op-ed pieces, poetry, essays and short stories have appeared in Essence Magazine, American Legacy Magazine, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Baltimore Sun, The DownTown Denver News`, The Black Press USA, The Afro-American Newspapers, The Yumiori Shimbaun in Japan, and the International Herald Tribune. His fiancé (Sarah Miller Clark) was killed in the plane that crashed into the Pentagon on "9/11".

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