New requirement has seniors being bussed to graduation

By WILL STEWART / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

BENNETT

To help alleviate parking problems during next Friday night’s high school graduation at Nunley Stadium, all graduating seniors will be required to be bussed there from the Civic Center.

“We now have limited parking because of the new middle school baseball field so that area will be blocked off,” explained high school principal James Bennett. “We figure if we bus 400 seniors it will give others an opportunity to park.”

Graduating seniors are to meet in the Civic Center parking lot no later than 5:15 p.m. next Friday. At this time high school teachers will shepherd the graduates, who should already by dressed in cap and gown, on to one of 10 school buses which will transport them to the stadium.

After the ceremony has concluded, the graduates’ actual diplomas will be distributed to them on the north end of the football field by their homeroom teachers. Upon picking up their diplomas, the graduates are to reload the busses which will transport them back to the Civic Center where Project Graduation will be held.

Bennett reminds seniors and their parents that graduation practice will be held at 9:30 a.m. next Friday at Nunley Stadium. Attendance is required, he said, noting anyone who does not participate will not be allowed to walk across the stage.