JORDAN - Classes changed in the Jordan-Elbridge High School Saturday, when graduating seniors said goodbye, and left this year's juniors to take their place.
From where they sat in a semicircle on the auditorium stage, the class of 2006 partook in their own final performance, with a plot involving four years of bittersweet memories, and characters that consisted of faculty and friends.
They had fun, too.
“I feel very, very great!” valedictorian Rosemary Melchior said.
She, along with more than 100 of her classmates, had all just gathered together, perhaps for last time, on the sunny slope of grass in front of the school. Screaming with joy, they threw their blue and white caps in the air for photographs.
About an hour earlier, Melchior had delivered her ceremonial address, which emphasized never forgetting the school they were about to leave. She expects to arrive Aug. 31 on the campus of Northeastern University, in Boston, where she is enrolled as an international business major.
“It's because I'm from Jordan-Elbridge High School that I will succeed there,” she said. “The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we lead. I do know you can't drive by just looking ahead of you. I will remember the lawn mowers and tractors that used to be driven to this school. It's not just the tests, it's the people: students, teachers, and custodians. We are now past our ACB's, and going for our future Ph.D's
Those sentiments continued during the salutatorian address, delivered by Adrianne Fedorchuk.
“A little piece of us will remain pressed between the walls of this building,” Fedorchuk told her classmates, and the audience, which filled the darkened auditorium. “I will surely remember that once upon a time was the time of my life.”
Prior to handing each student their diplomas, which they received to the sounds of applause and yells from those in the seats, Superintendent Marilyn J. Dominick advised them to adore their families and friends.
“When all is said and done they are all that's important,” she said.
When the last diploma was given, a standing ovation congratulated the class. Then, an emotional school board Vice President Bradford Hamer, whose son was one of those graduating, directed the class to move their tassels. White and blue balloons, matching the girls' and boys' gowns respectively, then poured down from the stage rafters.
“They were in sixth grade when I came here,” Dominick said. “I tried to take every opportunity to be close to them. I think this group more than any other class thinks globally. And yet, a lot of them treasure this community and want to come back to make a difference.”
They had fun, too.
“I feel very, very great!” valedictorian Rosemary Melchior said.
She, along with more than 100 of her classmates, had all just gathered together, perhaps for last time, on the sunny slope of grass in front of the school. Screaming with joy, they threw their blue and white caps in the air for photographs.
About an hour earlier, Melchior had delivered her ceremonial address, which emphasized never forgetting the school they were about to leave. She expects to arrive Aug. 31 on the campus of Northeastern University, in Boston, where she is enrolled as an international business major.
“It's because I'm from Jordan-Elbridge High School that I will succeed there,” she said. “The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we lead. I do know you can't drive by just looking ahead of you. I will remember the lawn mowers and tractors that used to be driven to this school. It's not just the tests, it's the people: students, teachers, and custodians. We are now past our ACB's, and going for our future Ph.D's
Those sentiments continued during the salutatorian address, delivered by Adrianne Fedorchuk.
“A little piece of us will remain pressed between the walls of this building,” Fedorchuk told her classmates, and the audience, which filled the darkened auditorium. “I will surely remember that once upon a time was the time of my life.”
Prior to handing each student their diplomas, which they received to the sounds of applause and yells from those in the seats, Superintendent Marilyn J. Dominick advised them to adore their families and friends.
“When all is said and done they are all that's important,” she said.
When the last diploma was given, a standing ovation congratulated the class. Then, an emotional school board Vice President Bradford Hamer, whose son was one of those graduating, directed the class to move their tassels. White and blue balloons, matching the girls' and boys' gowns respectively, then poured down from the stage rafters.
“They were in sixth grade when I came here,” Dominick said. “I tried to take every opportunity to be close to them. I think this group more than any other class thinks globally. And yet, a lot of them treasure this community and want to come back to make a difference.”
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