SOCIETAS
BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGE HONOR SOCIETY
2019 INDUCTION CEREMONY
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: ALUMNA SIOBHAN ELVIN, CLASS OF 2010
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I cannot express what an honor and a privilege it is to be invited to speak to you all here today at my alma mater for the 2019 Boston Latin School Societas Induction Ceremony. First and foremost, I want to extend my sincerest congratulations to all of this year’s inductees: you should truly all be proud of what an amazing achievement it is to join the Societas Modern Foreign Languages Honor Society. By meeting or acceding the rigorous qualifications necessary to be invited to join Societas, you have demonstrated that you possess an invaluable skillset that will only continue to open doors for you after your time at BLS comes to an end. I also want to recognize on this evening all of the inductees’ families and teachers that played a role in preparing these students to get where they are today. Without all of you, none of this would be possible.
It was Charlemagne who first said, “To have another language is to possess a second soul.” I don’t remember when I heard this for the first time or where I may have picked it up along the way, but this powerful quote has always been something that has really stuck with me and summed up everything I feel about Modern Foreign Languages in just 10 simple words. Continue reading
