The 144 graduates of the Perry High School Class of 2025 received diplomas in commencement exercises Sunday afternoon in the PHS gymnasium.
The graduates were edified by addresses from Perry Community School District Superintendent of Schools Clark Wicks, Senior Class President Quin Mahler-Moreno and Student Body President Owen Myers.
The PHS Class of 2025 was presented by Principal Brad Snowgren. Diplomas were presented to the graduates by Wicks, Perry Community School District Board of Directors President Linda Andorf and Directors Max Christensen, Eddie Diaz and Joe Tuhn.
The Perry High School Concert Choir, directed by Jenn Nelson, sang Allen Koepke’s “Can You Imagine?”
Family, friends and well wishers repeatedly erupted in cheers for the graduating seniors, who aptly embody the quotation in the high school foyer that stands like an epigraph to the seniors’ story: “The public school is the greatest institution for the encouragement of real democracy existing. Its policy is to place all people on an equal basis.”
