Madison Czopek Apr 29, 2021
The school committee members discussed prom plans with students Grace Brogioli (second row, far right) and Adreanna Dillen (third row, far left).
Seniors will have a prom this year despite a handful of less-than-popular covid-19 safety restrictions, including a prohibition on guests from lower grades and from other schools and a requirement that students sit 6 feet apart while eating dinner.
During their April 29 meeting, the School Committee unanimously approved a request to change the prom venue to the Plimoth Patuxet Museums formerly known as the Plimoth Plantation. In February 2020, the committee approved the Cape Cod Club as the venue for the class of 2021’s senior prom. But that venue couldn’t accommodate the safety measures deemed necessary by school officials, explained Wareham High School Principal Scott Palladino.
Speak with Wareham High School senior Grace Brogioli for five seconds, and you know you are speaking with a special kid. Not only has Brogioli enjoyed success on the athletic fields on Viking Drive, more importantly, she has excelled inside the classrooms there.
Brogioli has been selected as one of just two student-athletes in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to receive the 2021 National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Scholar/Essay Scholarship.
The second-year captain of Wareham s field hockey team, Brogioli told Fun 107 about how she remembered joining the team as an eighth-grader. She said she was so nervous to be playing with girls that were seniors on the team, but they went out of their way to make her feel comfortable. Now that Brogioli is a senior, she said she wanted to make sure to create that same environment for her younger sister and the other eighth graders on this year s team.