The Watchdog
June 2007 Vol. 16 No. 5 SENIOR ISSUE C.D. Hylton High School Woodbridge, VA
Graduation bring new experiences
By Heather Gioia
Features Editor
As June 11 approaches and the senior count down to graduation dwindles seniors are finally able to partake in all of the senior activities they have waited the past four years for.
Graduation marks the senior privileges, the senior class picnic, the senior class trip, the baccalaureate services, the special senior “holidays”, and senior exam week. Along with graduating and participating in all of these activities seniors have the joy of being able to attend Grad Night and for many take there first big trip without their parents — Beach Week.
June 11 will be an extremely busy day for seniors, with the graduation ceremony beginning at 7 P.M. and the Grad Night services taking place later that evening.
Grad Night will take place at the Chinn Center in Lake Ridge, revolving around the senior class chosen theme “Going Places.” This is the one last chance Hylton seniors have to be together as Hylton students, after June 11 everyone will be going to different places in their lives. Grad Night will be from 11 P.M. Monday evening until 4 A.M. Tuesday and will consist of many events in which seniors will be eligible to win prizes.
Senior Erin French explains that she plans on going to Grad Night, “Because my friend who went to it last year said that she had a really good time. I hope to win something really nice.”
Nevertheless, what more seniors are looking forward to— beach week, the excitement of finally taking that one trip after graduation on their own with their friends. Since second semester began beach week has been all the rage amongst seniors, from the picking a beach house and making the house groups, to collecting the money and finalizing the plans. This summer Myrtle Beach, S.C. seems to be the hot spot, as seniors make their claims on different parts of the beachfront.
Beach week is a senior tradition, it is as important to some seniors as senior prom. It is one of the things that they have had to look forward to since becoming and underclassmen in 2003, the special senior holidays, graduation, and the big beach week trip.
“I’ve been looking forward to Beach Week since freshmen year. I plan to have the best week of my life,” exclaimed senior Anthony Russell.
Of course, as senior year comes to an end the class of ‘07 will be left with numerous memories of this year. From the tailgating and football games in the fall, and homecoming in October, to their first bomb threat at Hylton, and first real fire, to the junior-senior prom, to the senior class trip, the senior picnic, and final graduation practices, seniors this year wont be able to for get a moment of it. Between all the events scheduled for seniors, they will be some of the busiest students in the school, and have been this whole year. Grad Night is after graduation, June 11, and then after that the beach week trips begin, the excitement building amongst the seniors is enormous.
In the matter of a few days Mrs. Carolyn Custard’s first class to spend four years at Hylton with her will walk across the stage and open new chapters in there lives. The class of 07 will not leave everything from this year and there pervious years behind, the memories will stay with them, and the lessons learned will influence their decisions in the future.
The best of luck to the class of 2007 as you go on into the world and find your own footing and place. Enjoy the freedoms that will now come your way, have fun at beach week, but most of all be safe. Remember all that you have learned in your years in high school, and never forget all the times you always said you will never forget when you spent time with your friends.
Congratulations Hylton’s Senior Class of ‘07!
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