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    Graduation Day
    Graduation Day
    Graduation Day
    Ebook36 pages34 minutes

    Graduation Day

    By David Howells

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    Graduation from high school is something that most of us go through. It marks a rite of passage, a transition. Two students, one with the highest cumulative average and the other with the strongest political achievements, were tasked by a new and progressive principal to make this day unforgettable. So what was it that those who leave high school remember most after 5, or 10, or even 20 years later? That they found out, and crafted a ceremony that most of us can only wish we had.
    Whether you have fond or bitter memories of the high school experience (most of us are a mix of both), GRADUATION DAY will touch you.
    Thank you for considering this for your reading. I hope it will mean something to you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDavid Howells
    Release dateApr 18, 2013
    ISBN9781301987153
    Graduation Day
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    David Howells

    Doctor of Chiropractic since 11/1984. Former Chief of Nuclear Medicine, Lutheran Medical Center, St. Louis, MO. Volunteer EMT, Hurley Fire and Rescue Squad, Hurley NY. Folk musician, volunteer soundman for the Hudson Valley Folk Guild. Kiwanis Club of Kingston. Society for Creative Anachronism fighter, archer, and chirurgeon. Greetings and welcome to my website. Thanks for stopping by. I welcome you to download VANESSA with my complements and see if you like the style. I'm told by readers the first two chapters are a slow acceleration (others say 'no problem') and then it takes off from there as a great page turner. Each of the four sequels had good reviews on first released a few years back, so I hope you'll try those as well. Time Snap and Hell Rise were more recent efforts I hope you'll like. The short stories have been a lot of fun to write, and are getting good response levels. Thank you all so very much! Long and merry life, best of health, David L Howells PS: I've done my best to filter out errors in the copy, but if you see one on any of the works, please notify me at twosword at earthlink dot net? I'd appreciate it (just include a three word sequence and which title, and I'll fix it with a search and correct). Happy reading!

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      Graduation Day - David Howells

      Graduation Day

      A Short Story in the Slice of Life Series

      David Lee Howells

      Copyright 2013

      Smashwords Edition

      This e-book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This e-book may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Valedictorian Gail Gruner sat at the diner with salutatorian Andrew Potts. Their roles at the graduation ceremony normally were clear, having the comfort and format of tradition, yet allowing ample room for creativity. Traditions had it that the valedictorian be, more often than not, the student with the greatest academic achievement. Gail had that in the bag. Her sophomore AP English Lit instructor still found himself defending the A-minus he awarded Gail on her project paper. Her argument that she finished it while sick in bed with bronchitis had only pushed it up from the B-minus originally awarded.

      Valedictorians gave the address, the ‘valediction’, from a student’s point of view, and surely there were those that found fame if not fortune when sufficiently memorable and clever. The best she found on a web search wasn’t even valid, though. Wear Sunscreen was supposedly the commencement speech given by Kurt Vonnegut in 1997. It wasn’t, but it was still famous. She had studied it for inspiration, got some great ideas from it, and now was unable to apply it. She smiled half heartedly to think she could not apply ‘Sunscreen’.

      Salutatorians like Andrew Potts were traditionally the second-highest grade cume students, which Andrew wasn’t. He was in the top five percent, but speaker rank also took into account extracurricular activities. Andrew’s presidency of the GO (General Organization) for four years in a row lime-lighted him for the traditional salutatorian salutation. Together they represented academia and civic participation. No one could argue that.

      But Principal (Mad) Myrtle Winthrop brought to the school a progressive breath of air from the now retired John Pendergraff. Traditions long held dear to the school could be kept, in her mind, but with evolving aspects so that there is a newness to the equations. Didn’t children, whom parents love for their lifetimes, evolve a little each day? Her school’s graduation ceremony would have service and studies highlighted. That would be kept intact. But, they needed to be united, or at least better connected. She wanted both speaking students to speak together, sharing the same space at the same time, "Like some comedy team. Andy, wasn’t school hard enough? Why complicate things that don’t need complexity?

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