Graduation Speech: In Memory of Those Who Did Not Make It :: Graduation Speech, Commencement Address

Good evening and welcome pargonnts, family, community members, friends, the School Board, faculty, and seniors to the County risque School Class of 2012 commencement ceremony. It is a bulky honor to be able to welcome you here today. Class of 2012, you deplete worked hard for 12 years tonight we celebrate your achievements - this night is yours. Congratulations I have heard that some faculty members have coined the term survivors with reference to our graduating class. Indeed, we are survivors and I can non think of a better term to describe us. throughout the past year, our class has been subjected to several devastating tragedies. The deaths of three of our family members at County highschool Joy M., Serik P., and George F. These three members of our family at County High School were each fearsome and loving individuals. Their spirit of acknowledge lives on and was clearly exhibited by the port in which the students and faculty pulled together to comfort each other and bemo an their deaths. Their families will remain in our thoughts and prayers. As you graduate tonight, I would claim you to remember their love and strive to make it an integral part of your lives. The great Mahatma Gandhi c in alled the love that I believe these three held in their hearts all embracing ... a love that transforms all it touches ... with no limit to its power. And, most definitely, their love transformed peoples lives. They certainly have inspired me. A wise macrocosm simply known to us as Paul wrote of this love as the most excellent way. Paul wrote, Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no show of wrongs.