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Hats off to Class of 2018
Commencement held at Great Bend High School
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Hats are tossed into the air during the acclamation of the 2018 graduating class. - photo by photos by Susan Thacker/Great Bend Tribune
updated on May 22, 2018 One-hundred seventy-five seniors graduated Sunday in the Great Bend High School Class of 2018.The GBHS Band played “Pomp and Circumstance” for the processional and recessional music. Class President Christie Leigh Haberman led the audience in the Pledge of Allegiance.Before members of the school board presented diplomas, there were remarks by Salutatorian Rossiel Reyes, Valedictorian Baleigh Marie Fry, and Principal Tim Friess. ValedictorianFry shared a quote by Linda Ellis, “Your life is made up of two dates and a dash; make the most out of the dash.“Now, this quote is meant to be about our whole lives, but I believe that this quote fits the many different chapters that we experience in our lifetime,” Fry told her fellow graduates.