This article was originally published in the summer 2013 Harker Quarterly.

After the baccalaureate ceremony on May 23, the 44 “lifers” of the Class of 2013 – upper school graduates who have been Harker students since kindergarten – gathered at the home of Chris Nikoloff, head of school, where they enjoyed a special party and a Mexican dinner while reminiscing about their years together at Harker. The students chatted about major milestones such as earning their cursive licenses and also peered into their pasts by looking at the pictures from their Harker applications.

This year’s lifers are Erik Andersen, Pranav Bheda, Kevin Cali, Nicholas Chuang, Keri Clifford, Ashley Del Alto, Amanda Kalb, Laura Pedrotti, Shelby Rorabaugh, Daniel Wang, Robert Amick, Ragini Bhattacharya, Michael Chen, Jenny Chen, Amie Chien, Siobhan Cox, Tiphaine Delepine, Ria Desai, John Patrick Doherty, Michelle Douglas, Richard Fan, Matthew Giammona, Sonia Gupta, Patricia Huang, Cristina Jerney, Sartajdeep Khalon, Cecilia Lang-Ree, Sondra Leal Da Costa, David Lindars, Catherine Manea, Shivani Mitra, Payal Modi, Suchita Nety, Chloe Nielsen, Simon Orr, Anuj Sharma, Eric Swenson, Ravi Tadinada, Andre Tran, Amy Wardenburg, Molly Wolfe, Lorraine Wong, Katherine Woodruff and Rachel Yanovsky.