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NormalRichmondNorfolkOcean CityAnnapolisDoverCape MayBaltimoreCharlottesvilleLexingtonWashingtonVirginia BeachKitty HawkHarrisburg PhiladelphiaHagerstownDavisOCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:OCEAN:TemperaturesPrecipitationfor the 48 contiguous states excludes AntarcticaYesterday's National94° 3:02 p.m.
78° 6:00 a.m.
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69° 5:16 a.m.
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74° 6:00 a.m.
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55° 2014Washington 12:11 a.m. 5:48 a.m. 1:16 p.m. 6:27 p.m.
Annapolis 3:36 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 3:05 p.m. 9:15 p.m.
Ocean City 5:19 a.m. 11:25 a.m. 5:58 p.m. none
Norfolk 1:32 a.m. 7:30 a.m. 1:28 p.m. 8:05 p.m.
Point Lookout 6:35 a.m. 11:10 a.m. 4:58 p.m. none
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Moon 6:17 p.m. 2:56 a.m.
Venus 2:54 a.m. 5:12 p.m.
Mars 11:28 p.m. 11:56 a.m.
Jupiter 7:13 p.m. 4:45 a.m.
Saturn 7:39 p.m. 5:23 a.m.Aug 3
FullAug 11
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24.53"Blue Ridge: Today, mostly cloudy, heavy thunderstorms.
High 72 –76. Wind southwest 8–16 mph. Tonight, humid,
thunderstorm. Low 62–66. Wind northwest 7–14 mph.
Saturday, mostly cloudy, humid, heavy thunderstorm. High
74 –78. Wind southwest 10–20 mph.
Atlantic beaches: Today, mostly cloudy, humid, heavy
thunderstorm. High 81–93. Wind northeast 6–12 mph.
Tonight, humid, heavy thunderstorm. Low 72–76. Wind
northeast 4–8 mph. Saturday, mostly cloudy, shower,
thunderstorm. High 82–92.
Pollen: Moderate
Grass Low
Tr ees Moderate
Weeds Low
Mold ModerateUV: Low
2 out of 11+Air Quality: Good
Dominant cause: Ozone88/7293/7681/7480/7378/7180/7280/7084/7086/6990/7788/7682/69 80/7079/6773/63 80/73
75°77°82°70 °Waterways: Upper Potomac River: Today, mostly cloudy, humid,
showers, thunderstorm. Wind northeast 5–10 knots. Waves a foot
or less. • Lower Potomac and Chesapeake Bay: Today, mostly cloudy,
showers, thunderstorm. Wind northwest 7–14 knots. Waves 1–2
feet. Visibility under 2 miles in a thunderstorm.• River Stages: The
stage at Little Falls will be around 3.00 feet today, falling to 2.9 0
Saturday. Flood stage at Little Falls is 10 feet.
Albany, NY 84/63/pc 87/68/pc
Albuquerque 91/65/s 92/65/pc
Anchorage 70/57/c 67/56/r
Atlanta 88/73/t 91/73/pc
Austin 95/73/s 97/70/t
Baltimore 80/70/t 86/73/t
Billings, MT 92/65/s 91/63/c
Birmingham 89/74/t 88/69/t
Bismarck, ND 91/60/t 80/54/s
Boise 104/67/s 100/65/pc
Boston 82/69/s 82/70/s
Buffalo 83/63/pc 86/71/c
Burlington, VT 84/63/pc 86/67/s
Charleston, SC 93/78/pc 91/76/pc
Charleston, WV 81/69/t 86/69/r
Charlotte 94/73/c 93/72/pc
Cheyenne, WY 82/55/s 82/55/s
Chicago 80/65/pc 81/66/pc
Cincinnati 80/67/t 80/66/r
Cleveland 81/66/pc 82/70/t
Dallas 89/73/pc 91/73/pc
Denver 87/59/pc 88/59/sDes Moines 82/63/pc 84/66/pc
Detroit 82/66/pc 81/67/pc
El Paso 97/74/s 97/73/pc
Fairbanks, AK 76/56/pc 80/57/c
Fargo, ND 86/65/pc 77/58/pc
Hartford, CT 86/64/pc 90/68/pc
Honolulu 87/75/s 88/75/pc
Houston 94/76/pc 93/74/t
Indianapolis 80/65/pc 74/64/t
Jackson, MS 93/74/pc 88/69/t
Jacksonville, FL 94/74/c 93/74/pc
Kansas City, MO 80/62/pc 82/66/t
Las Vegas 113/88/s 112/81/s
Little Rock 85/68/t 85/65/c
Los Angeles 92/67/s 92/64/s
Louisville 83/71/t 83/68/r
Memphis 84/70/t 80/67/t
Miami 94/81/pc 90/79/r
Milwaukee 77/65/pc 80/66/pc
Minneapolis 83/64/s 81/63/t
Nashville 88/72/t 84/65/t
New Orleans 93/77/pc 90/77/t
New York City 80/69/t 86/74/s
Norfolk 93/76/t 92/77/pcOklahoma City 81/64/t 86/65/pc
Omaha 83/62/pc 85/65/pc
Orlando 92/75/pc 90/77/r
Philadelphia 80/70/t 86/74/s
Phoenix 115/91/s 113/90/s
Pittsburgh 81/65/pc 80/67/t
Portland, ME 84/64/s 83/65/s
Portland, OR 88/61/c 83/61/c
Providence, RI 84/67/pc 88/69/s
Raleigh, NC 92/72/t 92/72/c
Reno, NV 97/61/s 98/60/s
Richmond 88/72/r 91/74/t
Sacramento 95/58/s 97/59/s
St. Louis 81/67/c 81/67/c
St. Thomas, VI 89/80/sh 89/79/pc
Salt Lake City 103/73/s 103/72/s
San Diego 81/67/pc 79/66/pc
San Francisco 71/57/pc 72/57/pc
San Juan, PR 89/78/sh 89/78/c
Seattle 81/59/c 78/59/pc
Spokane, WA 102/66/s 93/62/pc
Syracuse 84/63/pc 87/68/pc
Tampa 92/78/t 94/79/pc
Wichita 83/63/pc 87/67/cAddis Ababa 65/56/sh 65/57/sh
Amsterdam 87/68/s 77/61/t
Athens 99/78/s 97/79/s
Auckland 60/54/pc 59/54/c
Baghdad 119/84/pc 115/83/pc
Bangkok 94/81/t 93/80/t
Beijing 93/75/pc 93/76/t
Berlin 80/56/pc 85/62/pc
Bogota 67/47/pc 69/46/pc
Brussels 90/69/s 82/58/t
Buenos Aires 58/48/pc 64/57/pc
Cairo 100/78/s 97/74/s
Caracas 76/66/t 75/67/t
Copenhagen 71/58/pc 71/62/pc
Dakar 86/79/pc 87/80/pc
Dublin 73/54/pc 65/51/pc
Edinburgh 81/56/pc 67/52/pc
Frankfurt 95/65/s 94/67/pc
Geneva 95/69/s 94/66/t
Ham., Bermuda 87/81/s 87/81/pc
Helsinki 71/51/pc 72/54/pc
Ho Chi Minh City 87/78/t 86/78/tHong Kong 89/82/t 88/81/t
Islamabad 91/75/c 92/79/pc
Istanbul 88/71/s 88/73/s
Jerusalem 89/70/s 88/67/s
Johannesburg 70/41/pc 71/40/pc
Kabul 96/67/pc 94/68/pc
Kingston, Jam. 88/80/r 87/80/r
Kolkata 95/81/t 95/82/sh
Lagos 81/74/c 83/74/pc
Lima 63/58/s 64/58/s
Lisbon 85/65/s 84/62/s
London 92/63/t 79/56/pc
Madrid 101/71/s 101/70/s
Manila 85/78/t 84/78/t
Mexico City 73/57/t 74/57/sh
Montreal 80/64/s 84/67/s
Moscow 66/52/pc 67/53/sh
Mumbai 88/81/t 88/80/t
Nairobi 74/56/pc 75/52/pc
New Delhi 91/79/t 92/80/t
Oslo 75/56/pc 73/59/pc
Ottawa 83/62/s 86/64/c
Paris 102/68/s 86/60/pc
Prague 83/56/pc 86/61/pcRio de Janeiro 73/65/pc 74/65/s
Riyadh 116/90/c 116/91/pc
Rome 92/69/s 91/70/s
San Salvador 91/69/t 90/70/c
Santiago 68/44/pc 63/40/c
Sarajevo 87/60/t 82/57/t
Seoul 85/75/t 79/75/c
Shanghai 91/81/t 94/81/pc
Singapore 86/79/pc 88/80/pc
Stockholm 68/52/pc 75/57/pc
Sydney 61/45/s 65/45/s
Taipei City 98/81/pc 99/82/pc
Tehran 93/73/pc 94/78/pc
Tokyo 83/75/c 85/73/sh
Toronto 82/64/pc 84/67/pc
Vienna 90/62/pc 87/60/s
Warsaw 73/55/pc 77/53/pcToday
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through 5 p.m.yesterdayDifference from 30–yr. avg. (Reagan): this month: +4.4° yr. to date: +2.9°High: Needles, CA 116°
Low: Bodie State Park, CA 35°World
High: Basrah, Iraq 127°
Low: Summit Station, Greenland 8°Weather map features for noon today.WIND:WSW 4–8 mph
HUMIDITY:HighCHNCE PRECIP:75%FEELS*:87°W:
H:P:FEELS:94°ENE 6–12 mph
High60%
W:
H:P:FEELS:96°SSW 8–16 mph
Very High55%
W:
H:P:FEELS:90°SSW 7–14 mph
High40%
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H:P:FEELS:91°SE 6–12 mph
High35%
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H:P:FEELS:94°NNW 4–8 mph
High35%Mostly cloudy
It will be cloudy and downright
chilly — if you count chilly as
temperatures not racing toward 90.
A good chunk of the day we may be
dealing with rain, although we’ll
have to watch where the frontal boundary sets
up. If it’s far enough south, we might not see a lot,
as the heavy activity focuses south. In other
scenarios, we could end up with enough for some
flood risk, with another inch or more possible in
spots. Believe it or not, highs might get stuck
somewhere close to 80.
The Weather
WASHINGTONPOST.COM/WEATHER. TWITTER: @CAPITALWEATHER. FACEBOOK.COM/CAPITALWEATHERBY COLIN CAMPBELLbaltimore — The final gradu-
ates of the Institute of Notre
Dame wore matching masks
along with their traditional white
gowns and each held a dozen
long-stemmed rose as they re-
ceived their diplomas and sang
their alma mater Sunday, bidding
a bittersweet farewell to Mary-
land’s oldest Catholic girls school.
The coronavirus pandemic had
interrupted their senior spring.
Then in May, the Baltimore pri-
vate school announced that it
would close for good in June
amid declining enrollment and
other financial difficulties. The
news made the graduates all the
more determined to have an in-
person ceremony, one last hur-
rah.
“We are so inseparable that we
refused to end this journey how
we started it: alone and without
our sisters,” class president Sy-
mone Stephens said during her
address. “Fortunately, now, we
know our potential... Honestly, I
can’t even explain to y’all how
excited I am to see the amazing
things this group of girls are
going to do for the future.”
The 156th commencement cer-
emony carried an extra air of
finality for the school, an Ais-
quith Street stalwart that had
stayed in its original East Balti-
more home educating students
and serving neighbors for de-
cades after other private schools
relocated to Baltimore County.
IND’s first class of students
graduated in July 1864, with Civil
War cannon fire booming in the
distance, according to the
school’s history. The school per-
severed through disease, riots
and a continually declining city
population to stay in East Balti-
more.
Its last class, graduating amid
the novel coronavirus pandemic,
sat six feet apart and fanned
themselves with their programs
in the 90-degree July heat during
their belated outdoor commence-
ment ceremony at Notre Dame of
Maryland University on Sunday.
Head of School Christine E.
Szala remembered meeting
members of the class during their
freshman year four years earlier,
the same time she arrived. Listen-
ing to the graduates sing “Ave
Maria” brought tears to her eyes.
“None of us knew then that the
Class of 2020 would be the final
graduating class of IND,” she
said.
Szala said she had enjoyed
witnessing the students’ growth
into “confident, thoughtful, pas-
sionate young women” who will
carry on the institute’s legacy
alongside its other graduates
around the world.
“You, the class of 2020, the
173rd graduating class, are now
joining that long lineage, and you
carry that mantle and the respon-
sibility of being the last group ofsisters to be joining this legion of
women,” Szala said. “I have no
doubt you will rise to the occa-
sion, as you always have done.
You are the class that can and will
carry the spirit and charisma of
IND.”
Valedictorian Mickella Harris
said in her address that the vari-
ous labels that could be applied to
the Class of 2020 “don’t tell the
whole story.”
“History is going to remember
us as the first class born after
9/11, or the class that didn’t get a
prom,” Harris said. “IND is going
to remember us as the last gradu-
ating class after a 173-year histo-
ry. But that’s not what I’m going
to remember.
“Even if we forget our teachers’
names or how to use the Pythago-
rean theorem, we will always
remember the feeling we got
when walking through those
front doors and climbing thoseslate steps for the first time: the
feeling of being home. Our hearts
will never forget.”
The graduating seniors re-
ceived a standing ovation from
their teachers and families as
they formally joined the ranks of
distinguished IND graduates in-
cluding Baltimore natives House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.)
and former senator Barbara A.
Mikulski (D-Md.).
Stephens, the class president,
said she envisions her classmates
going on to fulfill their dreams as
congresswomen, Broadway ac-
tors, robotics engineers, teachers,
activists and artists.
“I wouldn’t be surprised if one
of the girls in this very class
became president of the United
States,” she said.
After an invocation prayer,
speeches and awards, the gradu-
ates picked up their diplomas one
by one from a table that oncebelonged to the late Sister Hildie
Sutherland, an IND mainstay
whose “Hildie’s Helpers” food do-
nation project has served the
needy for more than 60 years.
A sense of reality then began to
set in for Ramata Lam: Her time
at IND was complete.
The 18-year-old said she plans
to attend the University of Mary-
land at College Park in the fall.
“Now I have to get prepared to
go to the real world,” Lam said.
Fellow graduate Carlene
Mwaura, who is headed to Cor-
nell University in the fall, said she
couldn’t believe her high school
was really closed for good.
She also recalled the efforts of
the seniors to make sure the Class
of 2020’s in-person graduation
ceremony took place.
“It was crazy how hard we had
to fight for our ceremony,” she
said.
The piano-accompanied com-mencement — punctuated by bal-
loons occasionally popping in the
hot sun — provided quite a con-
trast from the unending buzz of
cicadas that were the soundtrack
of Sister Kathy Jager’s 1970 grad-
uation from IND, she recalled
with a laugh.
Jager, the religious studies
chair, has spent more than three
decades in the English, religion
and campus ministry depart-
ments. “I am the person I am
today mostly because of IND,” she
said.
“IND is not a school or a
building,” Jager added. “It’s an
experience. There are thousands
of alumnae who have that experi-
ence in them, so the IND spirit,
the IND values, will continue.”
Sandy Quick-Boehme, a 1988
graduate who lives in Anne Arun-
del County, felt conflicting emo-
tions during her daughter Aman-
da’s graduation ceremony.
Quick-Boehme was excited for
her daughter and touched to be
among the last to receive the
ceremonial single rose given by
graduating students to graduate
family members. But she was
heartbroken by the closing of
their alma mater, which has long
instilled leadership, communica-
tion and confidence in its pupils,
she said.
“It’s so hard to see IND end,”
Quick-Boehme said. “It meant a
lot not just to the students, but to
the entire community of Balti-
more.... I wanted my daughter
to have that experience, and I’m
so glad she did.”
More than a few pairs of eyes
welled up above the mandatory
masks, and graduates among the
faculty and families in atten-
dance couldn’t help but step for-
ward to join in, as the graduates
sang the alma mater:
“All too soon our paths must
sever,
May it be our life’s endeavor,
Thy strong way to keep forever,
Loved Notre Dame!”
Szala encouraged the gradu-
ates to hold dear the lessons they
had learned at IND, just as they
did with their memories of Sister
Hildie and her trademark Balti-
more vernacular.
“Let’s all be sure to say to one
another, ‘Bye, Hon,’ ’’ Szala said.
— Baltimore SunMARYLAND
Bittersweet goodbye to state’s oldest Catholic girls school
AMY DAVIS/BALTIMORE SUN
Carlene Mwaura, center left, hugs Macall Willard after the final commencement at the Institute of Notre Dame in East Baltimore.
IND counts House Speaker Nancy Pelosi a nd former senator Barbara A. Mikulski among its graduates.Institute of Notre Dame
in B altimore holds its
final commencement