The Crookston High School Class of 2021 will have their last day of classes on Tuesday, May 25, and the graduation ceremony will be held on Friday, May 28 at 7:00 p.m. at the Crookston High School Gymnasium. 60 students are expected to graduate as one of the smallest graduating classes ever at Crookston High School.
The ceremony is going to be a normal ceremony with no facemasks required. “It is going to be back to normal,” said Crookston High School Principal Eric Bubna. “We don’t have any capacity restrictions. We have a smaller graduating class, which will naturally have a smaller group than we typically have. Anybody is welcome to come, and we got word this week that no face masks are required. Individuals who would like to be socially distanced can call the office if there is a certain need. We will have some spots for individuals looking to keep their space, but fully vaccinated individuals don’t need to be wearing a mask, so the ceremony should look pretty normal, and we are encouraging everybody to come.”
Having a normal graduation ceremony will be nice for the students who have been through a lot the past year. “We get into this business for kids, and to be able to see the students are going to have a full gym with their family and their friends to be able to watch them graduate,” said Principal Bubna. “It is nice to see things getting back to the way they used to be, for sure.”
The student speakers will be Linnea French, Jasmine Haglund, Gabriel Monteith, Victoria Proulx, and Ella Weber. The staff speaker will be Ashley Stopa.
The class motto is – “It is what it is.”
Class flower – Lillies
Class colors – Blue and White
Honor Students-
Summa Cum Laude – 3.9 GPA and above
Gavin Anderson, Emma Borowicz, Emily Funk, Dani Haake, Karsten Isaacson, Joslynn Leach, Gabriel Montieth, Victoria Proulx, Sophia Rezac, Easton Tangquist, Ella Weber, Anke Wiersma
Magna Cum Laude – 3.8 to 3.9 GPA
Amber Cymbaluk, Linnea French, Gunner Hooper, Janae Luckow, Lucas Winger
Cum Laude –
Greg Gonzalez, Andrew MacGregor
The ceremony will mark the end of their high school career and mark an exciting beginning for the rest of their lives. “For a lot of these seniors, it has not been the way you wanted to end. Obviously, it has been a little better experience than what last year’s seniors had to go through, but it is definitely something that I think is going to set in as they walk across the stage to get the diploma,” said Bubna. “We talked with them at one of the meetings, and we said life changes now. This has been a central piece of what you have done day-in and day-out, and now it is time to move on. Ray Lutovsky (former guidance counselor) would always say, when you guys come back, you will feel like you don’t belong. And that’s a good thing. It will be an emotional time for these seniors, especially with everything they have gone through.”
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