how big is your
 

high school graduating class?

what do you do that is special when you walk?

our seniors each had a flower (saw it in a pic on the website)and i'm assuming they were honoring a student who had died. i didn't go this year because the stadium where they ususally have it is being renovated and the ceremony was held in a city 50 miles away...the disadvantage of living in the country.

what color gowns does your school wear? do the boy and the girls wear the same color?

we graduated 150 this year. their gowns are dark blue. the beta stoles are gold and the nhs's are white. they get different colored cords for different levels of honors (top 10% i think get red and top 20% get gray...our other two school colors)

so what is it like at your graduations???

well, I had 600 graduating in my class ( talk about a LONG ceremony....) the top 10% of the class got to sit on stage, and we were also all given flowers that were dyed in the school colors, and we wore white gowns. All the FIRSTers wore their medals instead of a chord. This was the class of '00

wow
 

i can't even imagine sitting thru that! 600!
geez

Sachems class of 2002 has 1036 students....

Sachem takes up six entire zip codes. Sachem has 12 elementary schools, 2 junior highs, one high school of 9th and 10th grade, and one high school of 11th and 12th grade.

but, that apparently isnt enough...
Sachem is currently building new schools so it will soon be 12 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, and 3 high schools of 9-12th grade.


I graduate on june 29, so i'll let you know all the stuffs about it later on. It's outside our school because there's so many kids, and everyone brings a beach ball to play with them until the teachers take them all away. But, I have to be in the front row. Honor Society gets the first 5 rows or so (we have about 100 kids in Honor Society per grade), and my last name is Albrecht. Don't forget, i'm actually 34th in alphabetical order in my grade! (and class rank 64...aw yeah)

Re: wow
 

Our graduating class is (I think) around 85-95 students! Tiny, huh?

Trinity High School altogether has less than 500 students!

I hope you will.

what on earth do ya'll do while waiting for everyone walk? anything else besides beachballs?? surely ya'll can be more creative than that!!!

lets give those who haven't walked yet some really unique ideas.

Carolyn-those paper gowns sound awful. how tacky. i hope your class protested enough so the next one didn't have to get those

you will laugh when i tell you how big my graduating class is....some of ya have 600, try dividing that by.....100. Yup. Six. Go on, count 'em, you can almost do it on one hand.

We don't have school colors (yet), so each class gets to vote what color gowns to wear. Our class voted for grey gowns, and then we are all ordering different colored tassels. As for what's special about our ceremony...well....the school doesn't name a valedictorian (what's the point when there's only six of us??), so the speech is given by whomever volunteers to give a speech. My class wanted me to, but i am so glad someone else volunteered so i don't have to. Basically, the entire ceremony is redesigned each year by that class, which is cool, but extra work when we're already fed up of college apps and stuff.

that is REALLY small....but picking your gowns and doing your ceremony is pretty cool. you could each talk for 20 minutes and it probably still wouldn't be like sitting thru a 900 member class!!

r u a senior this year?

Well, take my sister's number (6) and divide by 3. Yes I graduated last in my class, and yet still gave the salutatorian speech. Class of '99 :D

We wore Forest Green. Try as I might, I couldn't convince the other person to wear Royal Blue. I didn't get to wear Royal Blue until I graduated from my community college.

Besides giving the speech, I had a very special ceremony with myself and my parents and lotsa candles on stage (as did the other person)

I'm not sure if we're doing anything special. Nothing special is planned that I know of...

But... our graduating class is approx 300 peeps...

Guys wear blue...
Gals wear red...

You guys all have grad now?! Our commencement isnt till September or so next school year... aw well, I'm not graduating this year(one more to go) so it'll be nice to see everyone when they come back.
*hugz to all as alwayz*
Ann-Marie -team 783

I graduated this morning!!! Yippie it's over with!!!

Girls wore White robes, Guys wore Blue, and NHS had blue collar-like things.

There were about 160 graduating seniors, and since we share our school building with two other schools... three if you count Cab's middle school... + the fact that the auditorium sux.... we hold our ceremony at the Grand Opera House downtown.

It was very nice, but everyone can only bring 5 guests, so most people have to scramble to get enough tickets for relatives.

-Ducky-

You know what they sayif you fall off the horse...

...make duct tape pants and u shall ride again!

congrats!!!!!!


way to go ducky

so....now what??

j/k


i have friend who had a limit to the number of tickets her daughter had. she was upset because they never said anything about a limit of guests when they were selling the invitations. HOW EMBARRASING! inviting people then having to say....oops sorry you can't come-you dont' have a ticket!

anyone can come to ours....in fact usually lots of students come just to hang out and see their friends.

All i know is that our Senior Class has like 800 kids... and its going to take a long time.. but who cares.. its the DOORWAY to freedom!... people talk about not wanting to move into dorms.. i can't wait.. its gonna be MY closet.. my dorm.. no parents.. just good times to be had.. (and learn stuff in the process..)

I'm not a senior, but there were about 380 people who graduated this year from our school.

They all booed the Superintendent when she came out at the ceremony because she referred to us on TV as "the other high school." There was an article in the paper about it on Friday:

"...the phrase was symbolic of conditions at the school throughout the year, with sewage flowing in the halls, no running drinking water for more than half the year and a rumored rat infestation."

Yay! South Fork Pride!! :D

wow....i have never heard of having graduation in the fall. I guess it *kinda* makes sense, being that it is called commencement, so it's like the beginning of the new school year. But still....is it a year round school? It doesn't really make sense to me to get out of school in june and not have graduation until sept.

That's how it is with us Amy.. everyone's done in June, they elect a validictorian b4 the end of the year and he/she has until commencement to write the speech. It's held in our school's auditorium and the stage crew sets everything up. The stage band plays... it's apparently pretty nice. All the acedemic awards from the year are next year too. Kinda weird really. But it's nice for the grads cause everyone gets together after they're all kinda established in their new lives. *sigh* that's Canada for ya!
*hugz to all as alwayz*
Ann-Marie -team 783

My class was about 1115, I think, and our commencement was nearly 4 hours long, if I recall. All out in the sun, too, as there's no place big enough to house everyone.

so have any of you grads made your walk unforgettable???

stumble?....fall down completely?...put a message on your hat for mom and dad?...wear weird shoes?...

they won't let our hs kids do anything.

now at clemson...thats a completely different story.

many messages on hats...the occasional flasher...the weirdest one was a guy getting his degree in forestry who had a small tree attached to his hat!!! some people are so creative.

this year they had it outside because the arena is being renovated and they got halfway through and had to quit because of a freak thunderstorm. but the really cool thing was that the president...ya jim...offered to let those grads who didn't get to walk receive their degree from him personally in his office!!! pretty cool dude.

soooo

who's got a story?

I'll never forget my graduation, if only because instead of a walk, I hobbled. Two days before graduation, I accidentally stepped on a box cutter blade, slicing my foot open. As a result, I ended up crossing the graduation platform on crutches. Luckily, I was sitting in the front row.

a box cutter huh????

should we be calling the fbi??

jk

sounds like that really hurt :-(

What AmyBeth330 didn't tell you was that her class of six is the largest we've ever had!

Nothing much happened at my high school graduation, but when I graduated from college, at the point in the ceremony where you move your tassle from one side to the other, all the engineering majors took off our motar boards and put on "engineer's" hats.

ChrisH

Our graduating class is 550 students, and we have it at the local community college's football stadium where we have our football games. The honor scholars (those with GPA's 4.0 and up) sit in the middle section in front.) Girls wear red robes, boys wear black. Absolutely no sandals, shorts, individual add-on's, writing on hats, etc.

As for gown extras...if you're in NHS, you get blue and gold cords and an extra blue and gold tassel. For California Scholarship Federation you can either get a gold stole or gold cords depending on how long you've been in it. French Honor Society Members get white cords. Honor scholars have a medallion on a white ribbon. Then 14 seniors got the principal's award which is a medallion on a red ribbon. I have all of those, yup all...and I tried it on and it looks really funny.

We have beachballs too and the administration always runs and grabs them, they get really mad. Another thing that seniors do is all have a marble with them. When we go to shake the superindents hand, they give them the marble so he keeps on accumulating them and has to try to discretely drop them on the ground next to him since he can't get to his pockets underneath the robe that he wears.

The 2002 class at my school had just over 520, but not sure how many over..both boys and girls where royal blue gowns w/royal blue caps..people in honor societies (National, spanish, french, health science, etc) have stoles that are diff colors and clubs give out chords.. and (although no one did it this year)..i plan on wearing my medals when i graduate..should be cool..heh

hey angela,

i think wearing your medals is a great idea! last year my daughter and her boyfriend both wore theirs. and not to brag *ahem* but you could hear them coming...all the medals clanging...hehehe. it was really funny. i think school should definatly let the students in robotics wear their medals. after all they are an honor won with lots of talent and hard work!

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