Tate Welch was named Valedictorian at the Worth County Graduation Ceremony Sunday and Keelin Engel Salutatorian. There were 25 students who graduated from Worth County; of those, 15 graduated with honors.
Megan Cassavaugh was the Class President. Vice-President was Reid Gabriel. Addison Blankenship was Secretary, while Maddie Taute was Treasurer. Student Council Representatives were Danyelle Jackson and Matthew Mincy. Class Sponsors were Selina O’Connor and Will Coleman. The Class Motto was, “Behind us are memories. Beside us are friends. Before us are dreams that will never end.” The class colors were green and silver. The class flower was the carnation. The class song was, “How they remember you,” by Rascal Flatts.
Graduating from Worth County were Wyatt Abplanalp, Nate Adwell, Andrew Alarcon, Austin Atkison, Morgan Beagle, Hannah Bever, Addison Blankenship, EmiLee Brown, Megan Cassavaugh, Keelin Engel, Reid Gabriel, Wyatt Gladstone, Jill Hardy, Brett Hightshoe, Braidy Hunt, Danyelle Jackson, Chance Jacobs, Lane Kemery, Allison Larison, Matthew Mincy, Timothy Richardson, Anna Spainhower, Maddie Taute, Tate Welch, and Ashlyn Wickert.
Graduating with honors were Nate Adwell, Morgan Beagle, Hannah Bever, Addison Blankenship, Brett Hightshoe, Allison Larison, and Anna Spainhower. Graduating with highest honors were Wyatt Abplanalp, Emilee Brown, Megan Cassavaugh, Keelin Engel, Jill Hardy, Braidy Hunt, Danyelle Jackson, and Tate Welch.
Senior Class President Megan Cassavaugh talked about how they never lost a spirit stick competition in school and told stories on all her classmates.
Amy Jackson, who taught the class in sixth grade, talked about how certain people were allegedly eating erasers in first grade, how tackle football got too out of hand, how they thought Brett was missing, only to find out that he was sleeping, hiding food in milk cartons and then wondering why the classroom smelled so bad two weeks later, the time they dressed up in medieval garb, the sixth grade field trip to a Royals game which was delayed by rain for 2-3 hours, learning about Mesopotamia for ancient history and Nate wolfing down figs, some of the boys taking her hunting after she taught a hunter safety class one year, and leaving a whole bunch of stickers on Anita’s desk with one prominently written note saying, “DO NOT MESS WITH MRS. JACKSON!”
This group was a close-knit group throughout high school. They helped the girls basketball team win Districts and Sectionals two years and win the Albany and Stanberry Tournaments and the GRC Title in 2020, helped the football team win state in 2017 and runner-up in 2018, broke school pole vault records in track this year, won the GRC West in track for both boys and girls, and were runner-up in districts as well.
There were many outstanding individual performances among this group, such as Keelin excelling at dance, singing, pole vault, and anything else she set her mind to, to Tate competing in livestock shows at the national level and doing well, to Chance sacrificing his body against East Atchison and taking a vicious shot after grabbing a 20 yard pass, to Andrew getting a ton of yards and taking shot after shot, constantly rallying the troops in football even when things seemed hopeless for the Tigers, to Timothy quietly going about doing his job as the kickoff specialist for the Tigers regardless of the situation.
There was a group of seven seniors in EmiLee, Jill, Anna, Braidy, Morgan, Megan, and Allison who became really close-knit over the course of the year, always staying late after games and practices to get extra swings in and extra fielding in during softball season. The hard work paid off as they were able to give district champion Princeton and runner-up North Harrison both a run for their money and knock off Lawson.
It carried over into basketball, where six of them carried the team to a win in the Northwest Missouri Tournament, and the seventh, Allison Larison, was their biggest fan as a cheerleader. To know Jill was to cheer her on, as certain kids from other schools did when she did well. She always had a smile on her face regardless of the scoreboard or the outcome. Megan was constantly finding people open and among the leaders in steals and assists.
When all was said and done, the Worth County Fire Department led the seniors in a parade around Grant City, with one set of girls dragging pop cans behind their truck and a lot of honking of horns going on. The Class of 2021 will be missed.
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