To the Graduating Class of 2025,

The theme of this year’s yearbook, “Fragment,” is poignant because it captures the idea that we are all pieces of one whole, and that the individual experiences that each of you has had here in Dobbs Ferry has helped to create a lasting set of memories that you will all hold for a lifetime. As graduates of DFHS, you now become part of a history and legacy that goes well beyond any of us as individuals. Each year, our yearbook serves to add to that history, and captures the moments and experiences, or fragments, of that respective graduating class for future generations to see. The pages are filled with memories, flashes of “student life” in those moments, and of course the many wide-eyed graduates who are preparing to face all that the world has to offer.

On a personal note, the high school yearbook serves as an invaluable piece of our school’s history that I cherish deeply. This is now the fourteenth yearbook that I am part of, and each of these yearbooks is on the bookshelf in the principal’s office for future generations to see. I often pull a yearbook from the shelf to look at the faces of past graduates, all full of life and possibility, along with the images of the hallways and classrooms of DFHS which have not changed very much since first opening in the midst of the Great Depression. The earliest yearbook on the shelf goes back to 1941, and there are a few missing yearbooks due to conservation efforts during World War II. With this yearbook, the Class of 2025 joins that long line and storied history, and with that becomes another chapter, or fragment, of the Dobbs Ferry High School story.

This graduating class will leave behind a legacy that truly adds to the amazing story of our high school. The memories, or fragments, from the Class of 2025 include events that allowed us to come together as a school, such as MAC Day and our senior prom, and others that were either individual or group based, including our many athletic successes or one of our many musical performances. Regardless of the moment, each of you will always have the core memories from Dobbs that will forever unify this class, and the new memories that you will now go on to create will serve as new fragments that will ultimately tell the full story of your life. You have already had so many and are truly just getting started.

It has been an honor to serve as your Principal for the past four years. I wish you all the best and look forward to seeing all of the wonderful ways that you will continue to make our Dobbs Ferry community proud.

Sincerely,

John J. Falino, Ed.D.

Principal