“I need a volunteer,” Rich Monopoli ’89 said to the assembled Upper School students during a recent Wednesday morning. “I need a guy to play me in 1989.”
Once a student, Gabe Hohmann ’14, was seated on the stage, Mr. Monopoli turned to him from the podium.
“You will experience great success over the next 25 years,” he said to Mr. Hohmann. “And you will experience great challenges.”
As an alumnus with many ties to Williston—his sister, Paula Monopoli, is class of 1976 and his niece, Alexandra Lewis, is a current senior—Mr. Monopoli was on campus to speak to students about the lasting legacy of the Williston experience.