"At the May 23 commencement for Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland, graduating senior Joe Doherty stepped forward to receive the Hamilton Medal, the Jesuit school’s oldest and most distinguished honor. That award is given for scholastic success and for a student who through his school activities impacted the community there in a memorable way.

But the graduation day and the honor represented much more for Joe Doherty.

Just after he received the medal, his father Steve Doherty stepped to the podium, recounting how in Joe’s freshman year, he had pain in his back and legs, and at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, he was diagnosed with leukemia. Learning of that diagnosis was a frightening and difficult time for their family, he said."

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