Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
Serving Proudly As The Voice Of Valley County Since 1913
After graduation Sunday, the class of 2013 forms a circle on the gym floor to sing the school song one last time.
Andy Gardner delivers the Senior Address at the Glasgow High School graduation. Some say 13 is an unlucky number but he said he couldn’t be luckier than to end up in the Class of 2013.
Austin Green won the toss and was the first of the top trio in the class of 2013 to step across the platform for his diploma on Sunday. School Board Chairman Alison Molvig reaches up to transfer the tassel on his mortar board to the right side. Austin wears the blue collar of the National Honor Society and the red-and-white Honor Cord as a high honor student. The other students tied for the top were Elizabeth Holom and Alaina Cole.
New graduates in the class of 2013 throw their caps in the air as the final notes of the school song are played.
On graduation day, Marj Markle receives a picture of the Glasgow Scottie as a gift upon her retirement as principal of GHS. School Board members Patt Etchart and Dave Irving, and Superintendent Bob Connors, right, applaud her.
Escorted by kilt-clad junior honor students, they walked in two by two, the Glasgow High School graduating class of 2013, the white-robed girls carrying red flowers, the boys in red wearing white boutonnieres.
As Andy Gardner, the class representative, told them in his Senior Address, their class of 47 graduates is the smallest class since 1930, and the smallest from this school building. Seventeen of them started kindergarten together.
Seniors are graduating all over the country but today, he said, “We’re graduating from Glasgow High School – it’s a miracle!”
He joked about half of them being ready for the challenges ahead, then said, “Growing up in Glasgow, we are bred not necessarily to be perfect or the best, but to not give up.”
“I knew someday I would be speaking to a graduating class,” said Sam Knodel, class of 1985, Homecoming King in 1984, who went away to Northern Montana College in Havre for two years and returned to start a family and spend his life in the family business, Eugene’s Pizza.
“I’m not a lawyer, doctor, CEO. I’m not a lot of things. I didn’t even fly here to speak. I have written a stage play. I have songs and plays in my head. I’m not finished yet. I have plenty of dreams, goals and ideas.”
He gave the seniors six keys points for success and advised them to be patient, it can take years, but “When the green light shines, go after it.”
Before their eyes he achieved what he said had been a secret goal: to give the successful speech, have people laugh at his jokes and get a standing ovation at the end.
School Board Chairman Alison Molvig noted seven teachers, staff and board members who are retiring with a total of 167 years of service in the Glasgow schools. GHS Principal Marj Markle is one of them. The students presented her with a farewell gift, a framed photo of the Scottie dog in front of the school.
The Concert Band, Concert Choir and Swing Choir performed their final numbers together. Knodel had the next-to-last word - or note - at graduation. Just before the rousing final rendition of the school song, the student musicians performed a recessional he wrote, “Here’s To You.”
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