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Congratulations!
All across the country, the month of June is a mixture of celebration and sadness as the year’s high school seniors bid farewell to their alma maters and step off into what is often referred to in commencement addresses as, “The Real World.”
This weekend, that journey begins for the Class of 1987 at Rappahannock County High School and Wakefield Country School. For those graduates, it is both an end and a beginning.
This year, they were tops - seniors - to be respected for their wisdom and experience by those students younger than themselves.
Suddenly, they find themselves at the bottom of the ladder again. Whether they’re collegebound or heading into the working world, this year’s graduates will find themselves having to prove their abilities all over again.
But RCHS and Wakefield graduates have an advantage. Those seniors have attended schools where the emphasis is not just on being number one. The teachers and administrators at both schools hold highly the principle of always doing your best, of giving your all.
Many times, to the delight of everyone involved, giving your best results in being number one. That is an important lesson.
But another important lesson, and one which we hope the county’s graduates will always carry with them, is that if you do your best you need never be ashamed, no matter what the outcome. No one can ask any more of an individual than to give a task his or he* best shot.
The teachers and administrators at RCHS and Wakefield have our thanks, and we’re sure, the thanks of the members of the Class of 1987, for preparing them well for their journey into “The Real World. ”
We wish them all the best, always.
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