Mr. Browne: When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind.
Isabel: How are you?
Auggie: Good. And guess what? I got in a fight.
[shows his grazed elbow]
Isabel: Oh my God, you're bleeding! Are you okay?
Nate: What happened?
Isabel: Auggie got in a fight.
Auggie, Nate: [Checks on Auggie's
elbow] That's terrible. I'm sorry.
[pauses]
Nate: Did you win?
Isabel: Nate!
Mr. Tushman: The final award this morning is the Henry Ward Beecher medal to honor students who have been notable or exemplary. Usually, it's a "good works," a service award. But I came upon a passage that he wrote, which made me realize that good works come in many forms. "Greatness," he wrote, "lies not in being strong, but in the right using of strength. He or she is the
greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own." Without further ado, this year, I am very proud to award the Henry Ward Beecher medal to the student whose quiet strength has carried up the most hearts.