Graduation ?07 – Nearly 400 earn degrees from WCHS

It was a packed house Friday night at Nunley Stadium when 390 seniors received their diplomas to become Warren County High School graduates. The ceremony moved quickly and was over in an hour and a half.

Over 10 beach balls were batted around by members of the class of 2007, who smuggled in the beach balls in deflated form then secretly blew them up from their seats.

Salutatorian Morgan Gonder got the beach ball action started with his speech entitled ?Living for Today.?

?I think we all should enjoy our lives because that is what it is all about,? said Gonder, one of 390 graduates. ?We should also appreciate the moments we have had as the class of 2007. We should live each moment to the fullest. I know we are all sitting here waiting to see who will be the first to hit up the first beach ball and who will hit a beach ball the highest. Well, hit them high because you?ve earned it.?

Instead of beach balls, it would have been more appropriate if class members tossed around blankets considering the unusually chilly graduation-night temperatures.

Other highlights included Stephanie Jewell singing ?Don?t Forget to Remember Me,? and a performance from Drew Green and Jacob Roper playing the song ?The End.?

Student body president Sarah Fryar and class president Catherine Hill delivered a speech called ?The Making of the Class of 2007.? The speech ended with the following remarks from Fryar:

?We know why ?The Simpsons? is funny. We also know how to work a VCR when our parents don?t,? she said. ?We also graduate tonight knowing we won?t see our friends as often anymore. Tonight we will no longer be products of our parents but products of ourselves. We are also the first class that has not lost a single person since our freshman class. Congratulations to the class of 2007.?