23 out of 32 Worth County students either graduated with honors or with highest honors Sunday. Aubrey Ragan was Valedictorian, while Alexi Beagle was named Salutatorian. The Class Motto was, “Sometimes, we’re all too quick to count down the days, that we forget to make the days count.” Class colors were gold and black. The class flower was the Sunflower. The class song was “Five More Minutes.” Sponsors were Jonell Cook and Hannah Frerking. Senior Class Officers were Keegan Warner (President), Drew Martell (Vice-President), Cade Allee (Secretary), and Dallas Steele (Treasurer). Student Council Representatives were Riley Drury, Drake Kinsella, and Drew Martell. Juniors Jacob New and Kennedy Galanakis were class escorts.
Graduating on Sunday were Cade Allee, Alexi Beagle, Bradley Beier, Mollie Blaine, Seth Brown, Tevin Cameron, Christina Clementoni, Olivia Davidson, Riley Drury, Will Engel, Alyssa Fletchall, Ian Hargrave, Mason the Hawk, Jordan Huntsman, Devan Jackson, Jayden Jilek, Drake Kinsella, Chase LaFollette, Katelyn Lupfer, Drew Martell, Ryan McClellan, Kendall Miller, Shylea Moellenberndt, Elizabeth Owens, Wayde Parman, Aubrey Ragan, Jimmy Raymond, Dallas Steele, Shelby Steele, Emily Thomas, Keegan Warner, and Darbi Weddle.
Senior Class President Keegan Warner introduced the speaker, Jonell Cook, long-time Family and Consumer Sciences teacher at Worth County and the advisor for the FCCLA. He recognized her for being named the Missouri VFW State Teacher of the Year. Warner noted that this was the first Worth County graduating class to have their picture taken with a drone as they were posing from the Railroad Bridge north of Worth.
Cook said that at first, she didn’t want to speak. But then, one of her students told her, “You keep telling us to get out of our comfort zones.” She said that the Class of 2018 was very opinionated and outspoken, but there was a good group of students and parents that kept everything together. Among other things that various students accomplished:
–Winning the 2017-2018 State Football Championship;
–Winning Districts and Sectionals in Basketball;
–Qualifying for the State Track Meet;
–Cheerleading;
–Completing Tech School;
–Qualifying for State in Golf;
–Participating in Band and Music;
–Volunteering (nearly everyone did this);
–Completed an online college course;
–Being a student officer;
–Spending countless hours in the weight room;
–Successfully completed 75 hours of Missouri A+ Tutoring;
–Participated in the Math, Science, Academic Bowl, FFA, FBLA, or FCCLA competitions;
–Planning to go to college or tech school (nearly everyone).
Cook said they were an extremely generous group of kids and were fun to work with. She encouraged them to continue to show dedication and hard work, and they would accomplish things people don’t think possible. She noted that Michael Jordan failed over and over again, Thomas Edison tried 1,000 to make his light bulb, Walt Disney was turned down 300 times, Col. Sanders dropped out of school at 16, was fired four times by the time he was 17, and had his chicken recipe rejected 1,000 times before he finally broke through. “Don’t give up after one or two times of failure,” she said. “Use these as lessons to better yourselves.”
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