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By LOU HATTER
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Last Saturday, Rappahannock County High School's Class of 1989 joined the school’s alumni.
The 75 graduating seniors heard their commencement speakers exhort them to even greater efforts than they have already put forth. They were urged to resist the temptation to rest on their laurels, but instead to continue to strive toward greater knowledge and fresh opportunities.
“There comes a time when we must stop fooling around,” Valedictorian Wesley Jenkins told his fellow graduates. “This is that time." Although he said he agrees that graduation from high school is a transition in life, Mr. Jenkins said he rejects the idea that he now faces w-hat is usually referred to in commencement addresses as “the real world—That’s not very accurate. School is part of the real world. ”
More accurate, he said, w'ould be a description of the world alter high school as “more advanced. It takes more than 70 percent effort to survive.”
Looking at the members of the class, Mr. Jenkins observed that “there is much leadership potential in this room.” He said he could envision, in the future, Dawn Johnson as a spokeswoman for the National Organization for Women, Harvey Fox as an award-winning reporter for the Washington Post, Eric Dunn offering endorsements for Nike products, “and we’ll all be working for Anthony Fudd, the MIT man!”
Mr. Jenkins exhorted his classmates to "pretend you’re in the Army: Be all you can be . . . Don’t be satisfied with the present. Live for the future, because that’s where you will be tomorrow.”
Mr. Fudd, in his salutatory address, compared his high school memories to a movie. “But what kind of movie would it be? A science-fiction horror movie, a romantic comedy, or an action-adventure thriller?
“Probably a mix of the three,” he suggested, noting the facets of his high school experience were a blend of all those elements.
“But a good movie requires more than a story line,” he added, recognizing the teachers who orchestrated the experience behind the scenes. In Hollywood, Mr. Fudd said, there are producers. Here they are our parents.
“And the director,” he said, “we all know who He is—guiding us through our daily lives.”
But the grand finale is not graduation from high school, Mr. Fudd continued. “We are all the stars of outown movies. But the rewards of our own lives will be fatmore than any Oscar. The curtain is closing on this production,” Mr. Fudd told his classmates. "It’s time to go out and begin the next act.”
James Fountain, a history and reading teacher at Rappahannock County Elementary School for 2'A years, compared the students’ experiences so far to the team ef
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