Senior Speech Illustrations: Week 21
February 16, 2017
Below are illustrations of lines from the senior speeches given on Tuesday, Feb. 14.
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“I want to thank my mom for teaching me that I am just as valuable as everyone else, and my dad for helping me to believe it,” senior Clare Tipler said during her speech on Feb. 14.
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“Technology is always abandoning that which is known for that which is unknown,” senior Bailey Troth said during his speech.
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“Our understanding may have changed— I now understand that Mom is, in fact, black, Dad is white, and I am still somewhere in between,” senior Kathryn Schmechel said during her speech on Feb. 14.