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Three years after its doors first opened and some seven years since it was even conceived, Vistamar School in El Segundo has graduated its first senior class.
In the Saturday commencement - an understandably short event, there being just 14 grads - the capped-and-
gowned outbound Vistamar students were honored and applauded at Oceanside Fellowship Auditorium.
"It's 14 real individuals," Head of School Jim Buckheit said prior to the festivities. "They're from a lot of different backgrounds, and have different interests. And they've all gotten a lot out of being here."
Of the 14 new grads, "13 definitely" are headed off this fall to four-year universities - from Johns Hopkins to the University of Wisconsin. One student is still undecided about future plans.
"We have one student going into premed, another to an art college, several going to small liberal arts schools and several to large universities," Buckheit said. "It's quite an interesting range."
New graduate Scott Tarlow is bound for Wheaton College in Massachusetts, where he believes the globally focused education that Vistamar professes to provide will serve him well down the road.
"I feel like my education at Vistamar really challenged me to leave the borders of my life," said Tarlow, who for his senior project researched the dragon as a cultural and popular icon in Anglo and Asian societies.
"I'm...