Last Sunday, 228 students from the class of 2014 graduated from Windham High School. The ceremony was held at the Cumberland County Civic Center for the first time since it was renovated and re-opened.
The
guest speaker was Karen Petcher, a math teacher at WHS and one of the class
advisors. Her daughter Alexandria was on stage as a graduate.
The
first graduate to speak was salutatorian Sarah Eastman, followed by Johanna
Stanley, Laura McKenna, Lauren Doering and finally, class valedictorian Brad
Meader.
“Making
yourself happy and making others happy is really what life is all about, not
money, authority, or physical possessions,” he said. “Second of all, we all
need to remember to chase what we want with everything we’ve got, holding
nothing back. It’s better to take a huge risk and have it fall through than to
keep your feeling of security and spend your life wondering about what could
have been.”
After
those words, Meader took a self-proclaimed big risk and performed a song he
wrote for his classmates.
.
The
audience of over 1,000 people gave him a standing ovation for his original,
stick-in-your-head song.
Diplomas
were given to graduates by WHS principal Christopher Howell. RSU14 School Board
chair Marge Govoni presented a diploma to her granddaughter Alexandra
Farinella, and board member Dawn Perkins presented a diploma to her son Dillon
Perkins.
Class
marshals were graduates Brenna Ryder and Matt Scala.
The
class was made up of many individuals, who as class president Sam Frank said,
came together over the last year to become the class of 2014.
Before
the graduation ceremony, the class held an awards night where over $50,000 in
scholarship money was given away and class day, where the graduates dressed up
in costumes depicting what profession they wanted to be in when they were
five.
Many
of the students concluded their high school experience with a Project
Graduation trip to Adventure Bound for hiking and white water rafting.
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