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Your own high school valedictorian

posted 15 years ago by hereminton
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Does anyone remember anything about their own high school valedictorian? I attended York Comprehensive High School in York, SC from 1982-1986, and graduated on Saturday, June 7, 1986. My class' valedictorian was Rhonda Denise Ham. I had only one class with her in high school, Biology II in 11th grade (1984-85). I remember a little of her farwell speech at graduation, and she went to Winthrop College in Rock Hill, SC to major in occupational therapy. I heard nothing about her following graduation for just over six years, but in July, 1992 saw in the local papers that she had graduated from Winthrop, then attended the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, was living in Hickory, NC and working as an occupational therapist at Frye Regional Medical Center there. She was engaged to be married to Mark Rice, who was from Hickory, lived there and was a project engineer. They were then married in Hickory on Saturday, September 5, 1992, and moved into a house in Newton, NC just outside Hickory. Then in January, 1994 I saw in the papers that they had a baby boy, Joshua Mark Rice. I never heard anymore about her after that, but she'll always have a big distinction for me, being valedictorian, and I was glad to learn what I did about her years later. Does anyone else remember their own high school valedictorian, and know anything about them years later?

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[–] tonyjack576 15 years ago

Damn, stalk much?

I asked our valedictorian to make her speech short and to the point, but no dice. She took almost an half hour. Then the class president, then the guest speaker, then the principal. I almost walked out. I did skip my college graduation and had a party.

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[–] ssrrapper 15 years ago

hereminton-

Wtf was THAT?! <--- (It had to be said.)

[–] road_runner_outsmarts_the_coyote 15 years ago

I went to a really small high school in Maine. Our class valedictorian was also the class slut!

[–] trickg1 15 years ago

Our class valedictorian was named Michelle, and intellectually was just off the charts. I looked her up on Google one time and found a picture of her from some kind of Renaissance kind of thing where she was wearing a chain-mail hood. I think she's married with kids now.

I don't remember a thing about her speech, nor do I really remember much else only that the father of one of our classmates gave the keynote speech. He had been the principal at my grade school when I first started, but left the position for some reason or other. He's gone now - died of a brain tumor - but was a really nice man. Sadly, I don't remember his speech either.