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PAGE 16. THE CITIZEN WEDNESDAY JULY 3, 2002.
2002 ullett Central Public Schoo 2002
Valedictorian looks back at the last nine years
By Sara Moore
Looking around the room it is hard
to believe that these well groomed,
handsome and beautiful young men
and women are the same students that
were here this morning. What a
transformation.
Tonight we look back on our past
nine years at
Hullett. What can I
say? They've been
fun. They've been
hard. Mostly they
have been
educational!
Now that I look
back. where have
the years gone?
From the first day
of kindergarten, we've been anxiously
waiting for this day to come. Now that
it's here, what do we do? Cry? Laugh?
Say good-bye?
Our lives are changing fast and vk e
can't slow them down. As we prepare
to step into the future, memories of
the friendships. experiences, teachers
(past and present) and the lessons they
taught us come to mind. We started
these nine years in kindergarten with
Mrs. Kemp. It was a new and scary
experience for us. Everything and
everyone was so much taller than we
were. Now, some of us are taller than
our teachers.
As we stepped up to Grades 1, 2, 3
and 4, Mrs, Walters, Mrs. Bosman,
Mr. Sanders and Mr. Livermore
guided us. Each challenge, each new
lesson became a chance to spread our
wings and expand our minds.
Whether it was making clocks out of
paper plates. show and tell, or
computer games that were really math
questions in disguise, we were
learning.
Our teachers also taught us the four
most important words that we would
ever need to know. They were the four
r's - reading, writing, arithmetic and
last but not least, recess! All of these
things would help us through the
eni or years.
Grades 5, 6, 7 and 8 were new and
not as scary as kindergarten.
However, we were seniors now and
with it came new responsibilities.
Reading buddies, peer mentors, band
and Tech 21.
Mr. Gingerich's motto of study,
study, study and homework,
homework, homework kept us busy.
Mrs. Stennett's many projects and
band leadership kept us playing, while
Madame Rea tried to expand our
French vocabulary. Madame Turcotte
took over, challenging us to outdo
ourselves. Miss Wyatt repeated told
us to practice, practice, practice!
Thankfully, we listened.
Our production of Tom Sawyer was
a lot of hard work but it paid off in the
end.
Mr. Drennen,-you have led most of
us for the last two years. Through the
good and bad, ups and downs, trials
and tribulations, we thank you for
hanging in there with us. You have
been preparing us for high school and
the world ahead of us.
Once we enter that world we will
realize that what you were saying was
true. We will be faced with many
opportunities, good and bad and not
'always have someone there to tell tp
what to do or which choices to make.
One day we will look back on these
years and fully appreciate all of the
time and effort you gave us. Perhaps
when we are parents with teenagers
ourselves.
I have five more people to mention.
We thank Mrs. Webster, for
organizing the volunteers and all of
her priceless resource work. Mrs_
teRaa, we would like to thank you for
sharing your computer knowledge
and skills and for keeping the library
organized. Mr. Bosman, we thank you
for your tireless efforts to keep our
school clean and presentable. Mrs.
Miller, thank you for being a great
secretary. Thank you for always
welcoming us with a smile, a kind
word and of course snacks! Mrs.
Tebbutt, our principal and fearless
leader.
Thank you for gently but firmly
keeping us all in line and on the
straight and narrow path.
Last but not least, I would like to
thank our parents. You have played a
big role in our lives and will continue
to. A special thank you to those
parents who gave a year or two of
their time to home school some of us,
myself included. As our parents, you
made sure we handed in our
assignments, encouraged us to bring
up our marks on our report cards and
have stood by us through everything.
Thank you.
I would 6lso like tb cbngratulate my
fellow classmates for making it
through these past nine years to this
night. After tonight we will be
separating. Some of us will be going
to GDCI, some to St. Anne's and
others to CHSS.
Then on to college or university and
the rest of our lives. Some of us will
remain the best of friends, while some
of us may never see each other again.
This is life and the beginning of the
many changes we are yet
to experience.
We have many roads- to choose
from and many new experiences
waiting around every corner. May you
choose wisely. May each of you live
your dreams and goals. As the song
says, "Climb every mountain, ford
every stream, follow every rainbow
'till you find your dream.
And you can find your dream!
from Matt,
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