School's out, forever

H-D holds commencement exercises for 86 seniors
 
     The senior Class of 2015 bid farewell to Hampton-Dumont High School on Sunday during a commencement ceremony that featured laughs, advice and a few tears.
     Class president Brooklyn Plagge kicked things off with an opening address to her fellow classmates. She recounted fond memories from their four years together and urged her peers to appreciate the strong friendships they built over the years.
     “We are excited to start over, sad to leave things behind and anxious to move on. We realize how important our best friends are and how much fun we had over the last four years,” she said. “We could have waited to grow up, but in the words of Winnie the Pooh, how very lucky we are to have something so great that makes saying goodbye so hard.”
     Read the full article in the May 27 edition of the Hampton Chronicle.