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Volume 57, Number 23 • June 07, 2012

Seniors say so long to high school By Ken Odor jodor@goochlandgazette.com

The 169 members of Goochland High School’s 2012 Senior Class took a step back in time last Friday before taking an even bigger step into the future, as they walked across the stage of Richmond’s historic Landmark Theater to collect their diplomas. Cody Bowald, playing tuba in the orchestra pit for the GHS band, said it was neat because “I can say I played where Elvis Presley appeared.” Presley made a stop early in his career at the theater in 1955, back when the structure, built by the Shriners, was still called “The Mosque.” Others also noted the difference from GHS usual graduation site, the city’s Arthur Ashe Center, which is closed for repair, making the move to the Landmark Theater necessary. Geometry teacher Edie Flag, waiting to direct the faculty and students as they prepared to enter to the tune of Pomp and Circumstance, had also heard of Elvis’s appearance more than five decades ago. “This gives it some atmosphere,” she said. “It’s where Elvis played in the ‘50s.” There was more than enough room for family and other guests with the top balcony completely empty. But the historic location could not divert attention from the focus of the day – the Class of 2012’s completion of their high school years. And they did it with style, according to Senior Class Representative Quinton Pace.

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Calendar Classifieds Letters Obituaries

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Photo by Ben Orcutt

Amanda Taylor of the Scarlett’s Legacy team and cochairman of Goochland Relay For Life 2012, carries the torch on June 2, to GES to kick off this weekend’s event.

Relay for Life is this Friday at GES By Ben Orcutt Special Correspondent

Photo by Ken Odor

Kasey Salmon gets a hug from her grandmother Sheryl outside Richmond’s Landmark Theater last Friday after receiving her high school diploma.

“When we walk by people they are captivated by us,” said Pace in his lighthearted address. “We’ve got that 2012 swagger,” he said, adding the class would approach obstacles as opportunities. Last minute grade point calculations

Opinion 6 Sheriff’s Reports 10 Sports 16-17 TV Listings 18-20

determined that Kelsey Simmons was the 2012 Salutatorian and the Virginia Tech bound grad responded with an address urging her fellow graduates to not be

This weekend’s Goochland Relay For Life event will be a family affair for co-chairmen and sisters Beth Gentry and Amanda Taylor. The opening ceremony is slated to begin at 7 p.m. at Goochland Elementary School and participants will log laps all through the night to try to reach a goal of $62,000 for the American Cancer Society. In addition to coordinating this year’s Goochland Relay For Life event, Gentry and Taylor also are members of a participating team called Scarlett’s Legacy. The team is named for the sisters’ mother, Scarlett Henley see Relay > page 4

see Grads > page 13

SPORTS

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