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Alhambra Class of 2011 Celebrates Life
Graduating seniors pay tribute to their last day of high school, and look to their future.
Life!”
The word echoed off the back-lit purpling hills—the arching kindness of the sky—and in the hearts of families and friends—as the cap-and-gowned class of 2011 graduated from Alhambra High School on Friday on Knowles field.
The graduates sat, listened, applauded, yelped, and single-filed across the stage to shake a hand, grab a diploma, and hurry to meet the tests of life.
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Fresh, funny, out-going student body president Nathaniel Schwartz said, “At the end of his first class, Mr. Fallah told us in his delightful-Iranian accent, ‘You are all my little cousins and I love you.’”
A voice boomed, “Let’s call some names, let’s go.” Then a delightful litany of names ensued, as each student was called to the podium to receive their hard-won diploma. Near the end, retiring principal, Sue Mirkovich, rolled out the names of colleges graduates would be attending
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Jessica Blackburn is going to study Audiology at Fresno State University. Karan Patel is going to study Civil Engineering at Diablo Valley College. He came here two years ago from Mumbai, India. Sydney Wirthman says high school was a wild ride, and she is not sure what she is going to do. Anthony Lucero is going to DVC to study math and English as well as play lacrosse, his mother says, “He is a hot lacrosse player.”
Albeit ceremonial, the speeches and rites were right in the spirit.
Life.
