The 129 graduates of the Perry High School Class of 2022 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, Bluejay Congress President Rafael Avila and Senior Class President Nubia Torres.
All the graduates turned and waved at the livestream camera, greeting a fellow graduate who contracted COVID-19 this week and attended the ceremonies virtually.
Diplomas were presented to the graduates by Wicks and the Perry Community School District Board of Directors President Linda Andorf and Director Kenia Alarcon.
The Perry High School Concert Choir, directed by Jenn Nelson, sang Connor Koppin’s “i carry your heart.”
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.”
