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[DUCKIE]

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!

[robomama]

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

congrats!!!!!!


way to go ducky

so....now what??

j/k

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

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.

[Quain]

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..)

[IsabelRinging]

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!!

[Amy Beth]

Originally posted by Judy
You guys all have grad now?! Our commencement isnt till September or so next school year...

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.

[Judy]

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

[Madison]

Originally posted by Quain
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..)

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.

[robomama]

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?

[Michael Murphy]

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.

[robomama]

a box cutter huh????

should we be calling the fbi??

jk

sounds like that really hurt :-(

[ChrisH]

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

[Kristina]

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.

[A. Leese]

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

[robomama]

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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