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Class of 2022 Graduation Inside
June 23 - 29, 2022
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Four hundred FiFteen Freeport High School graduates received their diplomas at the ceremony on June 16.
415 victorious graduates Smiling families fill the bleachers By reine BethAnY rbethany@liherald.com
Parents and children piled out of their cars in a Hofstra University parking lot on the evening of June 16, and hurried toward James M. Shuart Stadium to share in their loved ones’ graduation from Freeport High School. Stopping for quick selfies outside the stadium doors, then eagerly passing the security gate at the entrance, they picked up elegant graduation programs and found seats in the bleachers that they hoped would afford them the best view of their graduates.
At precisely 6 p.m., the high school’s Symphony Orchestra struck up Sir Edward Elgar’s “Pomp and Circumstance.” With measured dignity, school administrators, school board members and other Freeport personages, as well as the high school valedictorian, salutatorian and senior class president, made their way from the rear of the stadium to the stage. Immediately following, hundreds of students in red or white graduation gowns paced calmly to their seats on the floor in front of the stage. Most of them had decorated the tops of their mortarboard caps, some with the names of the colleges they Continued on page 12
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