CLASS OF 2021

Plains High School honored 33 students Sunday who are finishing their senior year. The graduation was held outside, and the day was warm and sunny. Plains Schools Superintendent Thom Chisholm welcomed everyone to the ceremony, held on the football field. The commencement speaker, teacher Lisa Brown, opened her speech saying, “I would like to thank those who have made this three-day weekend possible!” She said this as gratitude to those who have passed in service to the country, and who were being honored for Memorial Day. She then regaled the students and their families with tales of a class campout several years prior that the class of 2021 attended. She mentioned some of the lessons they had learned along the way, and how they should apply these moving forward.

“The world we grew up in is not the same one we will enter today,” valedictorian Dacia Black-Garrison told her classmates. Salutatorian Katrina Hagerman also addressed the crowd. “I believe everyone graduating today has amazing potential, and I hope we go out and use it,” she stated.

Three students were recognized for joining the military: Clayton Hill who joined the United States Army, Mackenzie Blood who joined the United States Navy and Peter Carey who joined the United States Marine Corps. Two students from the class were awarded the class scholarship, equivalent to $500. Those two were Kolton Johnston and Dacia Black-Garrison.