Good evening everyone.  I'd like to thank Principal Holder, members of the school board, faculty, family, friends and my fellow graduates for the hard work.  

.5 GPs behind the valedictorian (librarian's son)

Copy Editor of the yearbook staff

Secretary of the National Honor Society

Most valuable senior runner-up

Wanted the cutest boy to sign her yearbook

Outstanding student in English (Who's Who) - she should thank the English teacher

Library Club

Morning Watch

Reporter for the Spanish Club (Los Conquistadores)

Future Teachers of America

A Cappella Choir 

Won an essay contest 

Booster club

Slide rule club

Declamation

Reporter 

Future Teachers of America

SHE WAS NOT

A Class Officer

Football Sweetheart

Cheerleader

Homecoming Queen

Homemaking Who's Who

Athlete

Close boy "friend" was pretty much everywhere she was. (Richard Evans)

Senior Social Class Officer signed her yearbook as a "great helper"

The fear of public speaking ranks high among Americans, so it is important to parallel this with the foreshadowing of her eventual departure from the life that she knows to one that she has grown to love in the perfume of the ink, the silkiness of the cotton bond and the person who emerges from the page.