Mercer County High School - Highlander Yearbook (Harrodsburg, KY)

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107 Seniors Graduate From 29

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After Reverend Koch’s address to the graduating class, Principal James Gash recognized outstanding members by announcing their special awards. Among the many awards presented were the English award, received by Ruth Ann Cosby, and the music award, received by Margaret Sharpe. As the highlight of the evening, Superintendent Kenneth King awarded diplomas to 107 seniors, while a gymnasium packed with proud relatives and friends looked on. In their last action together, the class of 1976 switched their tassels to indicate that their status had at last changed from seniors to graduates. Salutatorian Lisa Gritton provided the Benediction - a most appropriate ending to the beautiful Christian ceremony which emphasized the important role that God should play in the life of every graduate. Follow- ing the commencement exercises, like the faces of Denna Jack- son, Lisa Elliott, and Alex Poulter, all the graduates beamed with both pride and relief, pleased that the long, twelve-year struggle had ended and not yet realizing that their greatest challenges had just begun. 28

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Until the last school song is sung- Until the last ball game has begun, These thoughts we'll cherish; These memories, they'll not perish. Thinking of the future - forgetting not the past, Thinking of times of togetherness, here we are at last. The Junior-Senior prom was a really big night. The teams, they played with all their might. We've laughecrtogether in showing our happiness jiVe've cried together in feelingsOT sadness. any hours have gone by - taking test after test; any hours have been spent striving from better to best. taw we are entangled by lift Remember these days, for th§ final Remember them always, andVou w young. Tewell .»| spell ell has rung. 1 stay forever