High school graduation ceremonies take place tomorrow in East Hampton and Saturday at Pierson High School in Sag Harbor.
In East Hampton, 241 students will graduate under a tent on the school grounds at 6 p.m. Speakers will include the class presidents, Lila Ruddy and Brandon Bistrian; Viviana Guerrero-Torres, the president of the school’s student association; the salutatorian, Ava Tintle, and the valedictorian, Abraham Stillman.
At Pierson’s commencement ceremony — which has boasted such past speakers as the designer Donna Karan, the investigative journalist Carl Bernstein, former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and the former CNN anchor and congressional candidate John Avlon — the ABC News anchor Linsey Davis will address this year’s 69 graduating seniors. The ceremony takes place at 5 p.m. Saturday on Pierson Hill.
Ms. Davis, a part-time Sag Harbor resident, anchors the “ABC News Live” evening streaming newscast and “World News Tonight Sunday.” She is also a contributor to “Good Morning America,” “20/20,” “Nightline,” and “World News Tonight With David Muir.” She co-hosted ABC’s 2024 presidential debate.
According to her online biography, her “reporting has taken her around the world, covering everything from natural disasters like the earthquake in Haiti to major events such as the Boston Marathon bombing and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.”
The high school’s principal, Brittany Carriero, will present the Principal’s Award. Also speaking will be the salutatorian, Milla Campomar, and the valedictorian, Kai Basseches, and David Kriegsman, who graduates third in the class. Ms. Carriero described him as a history buff who loves kids. He works as a summer camp counselor and umpired for Little League. “The class is very community-oriented; each kid has a story like that,” she said. “Because we’re so small, the community is such a part of Pierson.”
In East Hampton, where the graduating class is much larger, in-person attendance is limited, but the ceremony will be live-streamed and can be watched at bit.ly/4nmqkn2. (A story on the East Hampton and Pierson valedictorians and salutatorians appears elsewhere in today’s paper.)