Many high school graduation speeches focus on the future, on making plans for the weeks and months and years ahead.
Minutes before the procession of Urbana High School seniors snaked into Knott Arena, Caris Konath asked her friend Cindy Max-Grant to help adjust her cap with a hair pin.
Each year, seniors at Tuscarora High School pull pranks during their last-ever day of high school classes.
Juliana Workman was calm and collected as she stood in her cap and gown on Thursday, minutes before her graduation ceremony.
Signs with the pictures and names of the 14 graduating seniors of the New Life Christian School lined the driveway to the school’s campus outside Frederick for the school’s commencement Thursday night.
Helen Hochschild chose a unique phrase when asked what had been on her mind during the waning days of her high school career.
By the time Kaylie Musard graduated with her Walkersville High School classmates on Wednesday afternoon, the senior had already accumulated four associate's degrees from Frederick Community College through Frederick County Public Schools' dual enrollment program.
At the end of their fifth grade year, back in 2016, students from Myersville, Middletown and Wolfsville elementary schools gathered for a celebration called Friendship Day.
Graduation was “surreal,” for Brunswick High School senior Autumn Crutchley.
Before leading a line of Gov. Thomas Johnson High School seniors into a Mount St. Mary’s University gym on Monday, Class of 2023 President Meredith Fitz-Enz admitted to being “very nervous” about the welcoming speech she was about to give before fellow graduates and their friends and family.
When Nicole Galdamez transferred to Linganore High School at the end of her sophomore year, she didn’t expect to graduate on time.
When the first class of 2023 Frederick High School graduates paraded into Knott Arena at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg on Monday, the cheers from their families and friends swelled and filled the space.
Frederick County Public Schools will allow a Frederick High School senior to wear a stole honoring his Native American heritage during graduation on Monday, according to an email from the student and his mother.
Many high school graduation speeches focus on the future, on making plans for the weeks and months and years ahead.
Minutes before the procession of Urbana High School seniors snaked into Knott Arena, Caris Konath asked her friend Cindy Max-Grant to help adjust her cap with a hair pin.
Each year, seniors at Tuscarora High School pull pranks during their last-ever day of high school classes.
Juliana Workman was calm and collected as she stood in her cap and gown on Thursday, minutes before her graduation ceremony.
Signs with the pictures and names of the 14 graduating seniors of the New Life Christian School lined the driveway to the school’s campus outside Frederick for the school’s commencement Thursday night.
Helen Hochschild chose a unique phrase when asked what had been on her mind during the waning days of her high school career.
By the time Kaylie Musard graduated with her Walkersville High School classmates on Wednesday afternoon, the senior had already accumulated four associate's degrees from Frederick Community College through Frederick County Public Schools' dual enrollment program.
At the end of their fifth grade year, back in 2016, students from Myersville, Middletown and Wolfsville elementary schools gathered for a celebration called Friendship Day.
Graduation was “surreal,” for Brunswick High School senior Autumn Crutchley.
Before leading a line of Gov. Thomas Johnson High School seniors into a Mount St. Mary’s University gym on Monday, Class of 2023 President Meredith Fitz-Enz admitted to being “very nervous” about the welcoming speech she was about to give before fellow graduates and their friends and family.
When Nicole Galdamez transferred to Linganore High School at the end of her sophomore year, she didn’t expect to graduate on time.
When the first class of 2023 Frederick High School graduates paraded into Knott Arena at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg on Monday, the cheers from their families and friends swelled and filled the space.
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