[Go up with Senior Homecoming t-shirt and hold up front and back so everyone can see]
"Seniors. We just don't care."
I feel that this has been our slogan for the past four years, but what I wanted to talk to you about is the opposite of what our shirt says.
When I was chosen to speak, you have no idea how honored I was. It was completely unexpected. There's so much that I feel for you as I stand before you at this moment and I can feel the tears coming on, but I'll try to hold back until after the ceremony. There's so much I want to say to you that putting it all into words is difficult.
I know that to some of you I'm just one of those annoying people that yell during assemblies and sometimes I'll tell you to do it, too. But despite the fact that I yell at assemblies and despite that fact that I want you to, too, there's more to it than that. As big as an advocate I am for school spirit, I admit sometimes the importance of it is not always clear. But the importance of something else is clear and that is compassion. To me, compassion is a deep sense of love, understanding, and sympathy for others. Someone with true compassion can feel it for someone they don't even know, someone who is entirely different from them, and someone who they might not even like. For this reason, compassion is not an emotion. We must be able to share it regardless of who the person is. Can you walk down the street and see a random face in the crowd and feel concern for their well-being?
I have seen the amazing compassion that people are capable of and it moves me to tears. September 11th stays vivid in our minds. One aspect that touched me was how America came together with each other in order to share sympathy and comfort. Americans f...
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... you continue on from high school, before you look at another in contempt, consider compassion instead. Will it take someone's death before you realize their worth as a person?
Some of you are my close friends, some of you I only say hello to, and some of you I've never had the opportunity to speak to, but no matter who you are, I feel compassion for you right now. You are the people I have shared high school with and all I want for you is success and happiness in your future. You are all important to me.
Before I end, I want to give thanks to the one I couldn't have gotten through high school without and that is my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who is the ultimate example of compassion and love for me.
Thank you for giving me this opportunity to speak and thank you for making high school so incredibly memorable and special to me. May God bless you all.
I would like to thank all of you for coming here today to help us, as a family, to heal, and to celebrate my mother’s life.
Good evening. Some of you out there may not realize this but those of you who attended Suntime Middle School have been with this guy for the last seven years. I would like to ask you all, not just Suntime Middle School grads and who all else, to join me in thanking Mr. Weather for his patience and dedication to the success of our education over the years. We are the Class of 2000. The first graduating class of the new millennium. The past four years have been pretty wild. We started out as a bunch of rats in a small cage, but as time went by we learned and matured and became big rats in a new small cage, but in any case, the cage door is now opening; the handlers turning us wild things loose. As we leave "Where the Wild Things Are," home to some of the best cat fights, fist fights and food fights this side of the Cascades, I have a little surprise for all of you sitting in front of me here tonight in your caps and gowns … we ain’t seen nothing yet!
I would like to start off by saying thank you.Thank you for becoming a positive role model in my life, thank you for all of your advice, but most of all thank you for being a friend. When we first met I knew that you were going to be an awesome teacher ; What I did not know was that one day I would strive to be like you as an adult, or that I would learn something other than history in your class and I never would have guessed I would call you a friend.
Guys, I thank you. It has been an honor to serve as your class president. Good luck. Now, I am going to make like America Online Instant Messenger and sign off with an L-O-L. Good bye.
I hope that you can see my education and future are advancing as we speak. This doesn’t mean I haven’t had a few bumps in the road, because I have. Actually, some of the bumps have unfortunately been financial aid. But, I am growing. It is a day to day continual experience of growth and it’s exciting for me to see where it takes me. Again, thank you for this opportunity and all the work you do as an organization.
Although I appreciate every support that you have provided throughout my lifetime, I would like to emphasize your help during my high school years. I am truly thankful for your patience when I was facing academic difficulties. Rather than becoming angered by some of my academic failures, you have always cheered me up and encouraged me. This helped me to become more motivated into my academics so that I was able to make up some of the failures I have made.
Invited back to my alma mater, Fair Avenue Elementary, I was asked to say a few words, any words, on high school and graduating.
In all my time on earth I was very thankful to my friends and family. I have valued all my friends throughout the years. School has changed me, and made me realize that you don’t need many friends as long as they are good ones. We had a lot of good times and I will miss them dearly. To my family, I love you all. You guys always looked out for me and helped me during hard times while I was growing up. Thank you.
It was very hard for me to leave my family and friends behind, it was even harder to leave my childhood home. I still remember the looks on my families faces when I told them the news, I hated to leave them like that, so clueless. However, I know this was for a good cause, so I won’t blame myself for leaving them. I’m thankful I got out of my old home, but I can’t ignore the fact that I miss my friend’s company, I also can’t seem to get my mom's and dad’s voices out of my head. Man, I miss them, but I’m glad I got my children and my pets away from there. Now I finally get to give them the life they deserve.
i was walking towards the door seeing how many people came. I was shaking nervously in the girls bathroom but screaming in excitement I felt proud that i made it this far. my classmates and i was trying to put ourselves in order to see which one goes after the other. we were joking saying i am glad it over and hope we never each other again but deep down we miss each other already. I never knew bond we had for each other would grow into a long term friendship or family. now we off to say goodbye to each other and our parents to begin our life as an individual. as we begun to get in order to walk our graduation in our purple and gold uniform proudly showing everyone we made it/ we did it. Finally it was my time to walk smiling to everyone and look out into the crowd I saw my parents smiling and crying seeing that made me emotional. think about all the things we had to go through to make to this moment. After a moment of my principal speech, pledge of allegiance, singing the star spangled banner. it was our time to give out two roses to the ones who meant the most to you. I walk up to my parents and gave them each one for trying their best when it come to my siblings and i after I accept/ got my diploma we ate out together as a family which send some good memories in my mind even though my parents are no longer together they’re still good friends. summarize things up life can bring down unexpected time but rise you up we you need to be the
Essentially, I wanted to make you aware of the different issues happening on campus. Thank you so much for all that you do. As always, I am available to answer any questions that you may
Let me begin by saying that I am very honored to be addressing the County High School Class of 2012 as students of this institution for the last time. We've spent these last four years creating some serious memories: four years of chieftain power, leaking roofs, questionable Homecoming skits, and musical principals. Four years of good teachers, bad teachers, new teachers, old teachers. Four years of youth, music, growing up and breaking free. Four rubber chickens, four yearbooks, four ASB presidents and four chubby bunnies.
Class of 2012, as we sit here this evening, I would like you to take a look at the classmates sitting around you. Many students have given countless hours of time, energy, and passion to worthy cuases that they have been a part of throughout high school. However, those aren't the only students deserving of recognition this evening. We have students here tonight, who have taken a stand for what they believe in, not even hesitating to compromise their reputations.
Hi, my name is Pat and I would like to start today by thanking the seniors of 2012 for choosing me to speak today. It is truly my honor.
Good evening parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, and friends. I would like to thank you all for coming to this very special day. I know how proud you must be. As we have grown over the years, there are many stages we all have gone through. From learning our shapes and colors, to getting our first kiss in middle school, or how about explaining to our parents why we skipped school because the principal called home. As we remember these days, things that we've done will be with us forever. But this is only the start of our journey. The day has come where we say goodbye to the big yellow buses, assemblies, assigned seating, and attendance policies. Are you really gonna miss it? For some of us maybe not right away. But eventually we will so for us to be here it is not necessarily an achievement, but a privilege. All of us have been in school over half our lives. To graduate is one more step we've taken in our lives.