Boyertown Area School District Superintendent Dr. Scott A. Davidheiser Offers Advice to Class of 2025

The following remarks were delivered by Boyertown Area School District (BASD) Superintendent Dr. Scott A. Davidheiser to the graduating BASH class of 2025 on June 6, 2025.

"On behalf of the Board of School Directors, faculty, support staff, and administration of the Boyertown Area School District, I welcome the parents, relatives, friends, Boyertown community members, and most especially, seniors who make up the Class of 2025. This evening, we're here to honor the 490 graduates of the Class of 2025. 

Ladies and gentlemen, this is a very special group of young adults.  It's been my honor and privilege to serve as superintendent of schools during much of this class's senior year. 

As a class, you have represented yourselves, your families, and the school district extremely well. The presence of mind to recognize that life is fragile and therefore valuable sets you apart from others. Your curiosity and quest for knowledge, culture, experience, and connections make you engaging. Simply put, your empathy breeds compassion. The philanthropic endeavors and activities you've been involved in, supported, and cultivated during your time in Boyertown leave an unforgettable legacy. 

Each and every graduate this evening has a unique story about their path to achieving the honor of receiving their own diploma. While each and every one of these stories helps to define each of you and is extremely important, sharing all 490 stories this evening is not possible. However, as you continue with the next steps of your journey, I encourage you to share your story with others. Your story has helped shape and mold who you are, and it will continue to build community and allow others appreciation into your life. 

The next steps and adventures for each and every one of you most times cannot be taken alone. The better you know and understand those around you, the better you can connect with moving forward and accomplishing the goals that you've set. Your story will contain chapters, some longer, some shorter, but all pages of those chapters help define you. 

The one thing that each passing year teaches us -- teaches all of us -- is there is no script, no set of directions, nor any real road map, for that matter, to follow when charting our futures. But what we do have, however, is our own internal compass. It's that strong magnetic pull that informs each and every one of us to do the right thing, make difficult choices, and set a course for ourselves, one that is both challenging but also rewarding along the way. 

As graduates, I encourage you to question: What is your thing? What drives you? What motivates you? What inspires you? The key to learning and understanding these aspects about yourself is the cornerstone to building your own internal compass, which will include many intangible qualities that will assist you along the way. 

As Russian author Leo Tolstoy once shared, "Everyone often thinks of changing the world, but no one really ever thinks of changing themselves." Create an environment of continuous self-improvement for yourselves. 

In fact, who wouldn't want to be around someone who was kind in their giving of attention and appreciation to others, who was respectful by treating others as important, who was selfless in thinking about themselves less than others, who was honest and authentic, who was patient and showed self-control? I encourage you to develop and seek the intangible qualities, those qualities that aren't always quantified or qualified, but rather they're measured by those around you and the type of feelings, inspiration, and happiness you're able to develop in them. 

Ladies and gentlemen, the Class of 2025 has continued the lasting traditions that were established by all previous Boyertown Area School District graduating classes. A strong family of teachers, support personnel, administrators, and family have worked together to shape the culture of success. To the class, I want to affirm that your lives are invaluable; they are priceless. Your lives are worthy of boldly and vibrantly living each and every day. Find gratitude for what you have and stay open to the possibilities that still remain. 

I hope that you've learned the skills to understand and solve the challenges facing your generation. There are many complex issues that will require informed, thoughtful citizens to participate in the democratic process. Use the lessons learned in your classrooms to make the world a better place

Most of all, I hope you realize that you have earned the respect of the faculty and community with your work, your graduation, your stories, and your intangible qualities. You are part of a growing group of Boyertown Area School District alumni who are doing great things in this world 

Congratulations, Class of 2025."

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