Middlef ieldPOST Volume 9 ~ Issue 21
May 27, 2015
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Neighborly News from Middlefield, Parkman, Huntsburg and Surrounding Communities
Cardinal High School Graduating Class of 2015 (MP Photo/ Lifetouch)
Beginning Another Chapter
Life is live and learn
By Stephanie Wolff, valedictorian
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arents, family, staff, and administrators, I first would like to thank all of you for coming today. Without the support you have instilled in this
By Anna Futty, salutatorian
class, we would not be standing in front of you waiting to receive our diplomas. Together we spent the past four years of our lives preparing for this moment: graduation. Graduates, together we sit here as part of the class of 2015, but after today we will all lose our identities. In a class of only 106, I’m glad to be able to say I know all of you, and I’m sure most of you could say the same. But after today, we will all be starting over. The way everyone sees you will change, there will be new faces around you each and every day. Although this may seem scary, we each deserve a chance to start over. Graduation may mean the end of one chapter in life, but another one is just about to begin. This doesn’t mean we are starting over completely. Over the years, our parents, our teachers, and our friends have taught us many things that we will Continued on page 8
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thought about starting this with a statistic about how many days, hours, and seconds we have been in this school, or saying its bittersweet that we have shared all these memories, and that it is finally coming to an end. But instead, I want to talk about the not so fun stuff of high school first. Coming in as a freshman, we all remember getting pushed into lockers, and run over in the hallway by seniors, and it was the norm. Work became harder, and good grades were more difficult to achieve than in middle school. And as freshman and sophomore year continued, we all gained and lost friends. We realized that a few real friends were better than a thousand fake ones. Our identities were
shown, as difficult decisions were given to us, and our character was being defined by the decisions that we made. And all of us have realized that life is a live and learn, trial by error, and learn as you go process. And now, it is senior year, yet another decision is made by us, on what to do after high school, and yet another decision is forming our lives further into who we are and who we are becoming. We all have succeeded in achieving an education and this is just the beginning of our success stories. I can still hear my dad’s voice saying “Drift: Do It Right The First Time,”“Team work makes the dream-work,” and “Team Stands For Together Everyone Achieves More.” From him I have learned that life doesn’t always have to be easy to be successful. And success, as measured in our society, does not have to be confined by a price Continued on page 8
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Village of Middlefield Page 2, 4
Cardinal Schools Page 8-9
Berkshire Schools MP Plus Page 4-5
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