
June 15, 2022 unfolded over the Horace Mann School campus with blue skies and sunshine as dazzling as the day's celebratory event: graduation for the 180 members of the HM Class of 2022. This moment represented a dazzling achievement in itself, for, as the commencement speakers noted, the graduates had arrived at this day despite a portion of their high school years being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic.