CCHS grads step into future
NEW CASTLE – Many royal blue-and-white caps peered towarded the stage in the Craig County High School gym June 10, as the students who wore them were about to take the next step in their lives and graduate from CCHS.
Numerous caps had been decorated to show where the students will attend college in the fall. Two students had glitter on their hats with the Virginia Tech logo and the James Madison University logo, and another set of students had Indiana and Florida on their caps showing where they would be after graduation.
National Honor Society graduates include, from left, Matthew Surface, Sarah Francisco, Sarah Lipps and Heidi Harry. Photo by Kristyn Francisco
The graduates had been counting down the days to graduation with a senior class trip to Carowinds Amusement Park in Charlotte, N.C., and having senior prom a few weekends ago. At the class’s baccalaureate ceremony on Sunday, June 5, in the school’s auditorium, the speakers were Michael Beaudoin and Raymond Christian.
The students were able to thank and honor their parents for their support through the years and present them with roses.
Graduation filled the gym from wall to wall, with people standing. The three top graduating seniors were speakers: Valedictorian Sarah Francisco and Salutatorians Sarah Lipps and Jake Beard.
The graduating class choose teacher Geoff Boyer to be the guest speaker.
Boyer arrived on stage with a large gold cube and a bag of golf clubs. He explained how in golf there are so many rounds and compared those rounds to rounds in life. He peeled off the gold paper on one side of the oversized cube to reveal a picture of himself as a baby, explaining that was the first round of life. He continued to show the next few rounds: graduation and marriage.
Boyer gave each of the graduates a photo cube so they could remember their first two rounds of life and fill in the rest as they move along.
Although the ceremony was hot inside the small gym, it was an exciting time for the graduates to take the next step in their lives.
As Lipps stated in her closing, “My hope for each one of us, the Class of 2011, is that whatever we choose to do we do it well, give it 100 percent, and in doing so we will all find success.”
This year’s CCHS Graduation was professionally videotaped by Mike Azar of Michael’s Video. Parents and others who want to purchase a DVD may download an order from from www.michaelsvideo.net/craigcountygrad2011.html and send along with a $25 check to the address on the form. For more information, contact parent Terry Francisco at 864-7529.
– Kristyn Francisco
