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Our Annual Graduation Tradition

How are you commemorating your graduation this year? (Getty Images)
How are you commemorating your graduation this year? (Getty Images)

Host Robin Young salutes this year’s graduates with a rebroadcast of musician Tom Rush‘s version of “Child’s Song.”

She also checks in with Rush, who is recovering from COVID-19 and tips her hat to the graduates of Here & Now‘s home station — WBUR in Boston.

High School Graduates

  • Tyler Barolo
  • Emily Burbo
  • Ari Eaton
  • Ravi Eaton
  • Liliana Lines
  • Dylan Liriano
  • Annie MacBeth
  • Christina Rose Murphy
  • Lu Paris
  • Katherine Shea Ryan
  • Simone Seiner
  • Cadee Stefani
  • Alexis Stolpe

College Graduates

  • Elizabeth Brown
  • Frank Hernandez
  • Alana Humason
  • Lynsey Jeffery
  • Margot Kaminski
  • Nick Kaminski
  • Elie Levine
  • Gabriel Lubbock
  • Maggie Matta
  • Sarah Rowlands
  • Kalyani Saxena
  • Katherine Simpson
  • Kaya Williams

Advanced Degrees Graduates

  • Jacquie Andreano
  • Tom Andreano
  • Nathan Baranski
  • Quiana Scott-Ferguson

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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