Friday, June 8, 2012
Come to find out, the secret of great gift-giving for graduations isn’t as elusive as it seems.
With 255 proud new Berkley High School graduates in the community, it’s a time of celebration – and wondering what kind of gift to give. Giving a personal and practical gift to students who have just graduated high school can be a tricky task, but it can also be an extremely rewarding one if you can find the perfect little something to go a long way. So we asked graduating seniors to give us their opinion on what the best gifts to receive really are. (You might be surprised to find out that cash wasn’t at the top of all of their lists, though each of the three graduates did mention it). “I think the best graduation gifts are things that are either A. super practical or B. super nice (or) cool,” explained Rachel Pernick of Huntington Woods…
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Commencement was marked by smiles, hugs, laughter and cheering on graduates as they claimed their much-deserved diplomas. Please share your photos here.
Berkley High School seniors had much to be proud about Thursday evening as they assembled into Baldwin Pavilion at Meadow Brook in Rochester Hills. The warm, sunny weather made for a perfect outdoor ceremony as more than 250 graduates made their way across the stage to receive their diplomas. A sea of burgundy and blue caps and gowns — or as Valedictorian Vicky Cheung likened them to, “Snuggies and one-size-fits-most parallelograms” on their heads — and students smiled, laughed and cheered as the ceremony dedicated to their achievements and future successes unfolded. Superintendent Michael Simeck put their accomplishment of graduating high school into perspective by taking them on a humorous trip down memory lane. It started 13 years ago, …
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'I salute you, O Class, I salute you with pride. You’re brilliant! You’re daring! You’re lively and kind!'
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Following is the speech Berkley High School senior Rachel Pernick delivered Thursday evening at BHS commencement: Salute to the Class of 2012, with lines from Oh, The Places You’ll Go! by Dr. Seuss Congratulations! Today is your day. You're off to Great Places! You're off and away! You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go. Out there things can happen and frequently do to people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry. Don't stew. Just go right along. You'll start happening too. OH! THE PLACES YOU'LL GO! You’ll be stirring up potions! And turning …
'Years from now, we will want to share with our grandchildren, like Grandma in Parenthood did, the things we tried, the times we won, lost, succeeded, failed and the roller coasters we rode. All of that starts now.'
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Following is the speech Berkley High School senior Rachel Sabbath delivered Thursday evening at BHS commencement: Good evening. Life has been described as a lot of things by a lot of people… Ralph Waldo Emerson called it “an experiment”, life is “like riding a bicycle” according to Albert Einstein, Truman Capote called it “a moderately good play with a poorly written third act”, and John Lennon said “it is what happens to you while you’re making other plans”. These were all brilliant people and very creative analogies. But my favorite analogy for life was made by a batty old grandma in the 80s movie Parenthood. It’s a simple idea but it transcends any milestone, mid-life crisis, or other big event. Grandma says of a roller coaster, “it was…
'Today is really just another day, a random Thursday no less, yet to us, it could very well be one of the most important days of our lives.'
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Thursday, June 7, 2012
Following is the speech Berkley High School senior Vicky Cheung delivered Thursday evening at BHS commencement: Friends, family, faculty … enemies? As we all know, today is an important day. It’s a day for the history books! Not only is today our graduation, it is Liam Neeson’s — Qui Gon Jinn, Aslan the Lion, and Ra’s al Ghul (no other explanation needed)—60th birthday. The funny thing about graduation is that, just like birthdays, it is pretty arbitrary in nature. Today is really just another day, a random Thursday no less, yet to us, it could very well be one of the most important days of our lives. If we take the time to really think about it, graduation is a fairly strange ritual. I mean, up until now, we’ve worked our entire lives for…
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
A handy guide of important details to know for your senior's big day.
With cap and gown pickup and rehearsal out of the way, Graduation Day will be here before you know it. If you're like most parents, you likely still have some last-minute questions about the big day. To help, we’ve compiled an overview of the details for Berkley High School commencement on Thursday, from getting ready to catching the best photos as 255 students walk across the stage for their much-deserved diplomas. Graduation will begin at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Meadow Brook Music Festival in Rochester. Graduates should arrive to line up at 6:30 p.m. for the commencement to begin on time. The Meadow Brook gates won’t open before 6:30 p.m. though. Commencement will be in the Baldwin Pavilion at Meadow Brook Music Festival on the grounds of …
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Tammy Cedo
10:21 am on Friday, June 8, 2012
Gift Cards to a local grocery store PLUS a little cash are some of the gifts I have given and have been welcomed. Also a laundry basket with some towels/washclothes & detergent and dryer sheets with a roll of quarters was another one. more ›