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A Special Message from the Renton School District:
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Nearly 900 Renton School District students in the Class of 2020 were able to take part in modified graduation ceremonies at each of the four high schools. Students and families participated in drive- and walk-thru graduation events where students were presented their diplomas while wearing their caps and gowns, as family members remained in their vehicles, took photos and cheered on their senior while adhering to social distancing guidelines.
School principals and students also taped a virtual graduation ceremony, complete with student performances, tassel turning, and cap tossing at the Renton IKEA Performing Arts Center. Videos of each of these virtual graduation ceremonies are posted on the District’s YouTube page (www.youtube.com/user/RentonSchoolDistrict) The city is also working with the district to make them available on Channel 21 in Renton as well as our streaming service. Please join me in congratulating all the graduates of Renton, Hazen, Lindbergh and Talley high schools for their milestone accomplishment and wish them the best for whatever comes next. Randy Matheson, Executive Director of Community Relations, Renton School District |
A Special Message from KNA:
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The Board of Directors of the Kennydale Neighborhood Association congratulates the Class of 2020! What a year it was to graduate. No class in modern history has graduated at such a unique time and under such unique circumstances. Large groups, in fact any groups, were prohibited from gathering. You were deprived of the chance to have a “traditional” graduation ceremony; however, your parents, school staffs and the District worked diligently to create a memorable alternate experience for you.
If you still have your cap, throw it high in the sky again! You deserve it! A high school diploma represents years of hard work and dedication. There really are no limits to what you can do. We would love to hear about your accomplishments and where you go in this world, but we hope you always feel that Kennydale is home. |
we are all born unique and different, RIGHT? . . .If you are true to yourself, you will be the only one of you. The moral of the story is that the value is in YOU! |
Between now and the next step in your lives, you have already begun what is the longest summer vacation any student will ever enjoy. From the personal experience of this author, enjoy it! The opportunity to take months off from doing anything except to make money to pay for fun stuff (or your future education) doesn’t last for too long. If you are already onto the next stage, that is fine too. Gone are the days when everyone must arrive at school at 7:00 and leave at 3:00. You now have the independence to chart your own path.
There is no timeline or defined path to success and, in fact, even the concept of success is amorphous and illusory. So, if you would indulge the author with giving one piece of advice, it is to be true to yourself. The reason for this advice is simple, but best explained through a rhetorical question:
If you had the only coin of its kind, would it be more or less valuable than if the same coin was held by 10,000 people? Of course, the one-of-a-kind coin would be more valuable, assuming all things are equal. Metaphorically, we are like the coins. In fact, we are all born unique and different, right? Therefore, whatever it is that makes you act differently, talk differently, speak differently, think differently, no matter how large or small it is, makes you unique. If you are true to yourself, you will be the only one of you. The moral of the story is that the value is in YOU!
J. David Huhs,
Board Member,
Kennydale Neighborhood Assoc.
There is no timeline or defined path to success and, in fact, even the concept of success is amorphous and illusory. So, if you would indulge the author with giving one piece of advice, it is to be true to yourself. The reason for this advice is simple, but best explained through a rhetorical question:
If you had the only coin of its kind, would it be more or less valuable than if the same coin was held by 10,000 people? Of course, the one-of-a-kind coin would be more valuable, assuming all things are equal. Metaphorically, we are like the coins. In fact, we are all born unique and different, right? Therefore, whatever it is that makes you act differently, talk differently, speak differently, think differently, no matter how large or small it is, makes you unique. If you are true to yourself, you will be the only one of you. The moral of the story is that the value is in YOU!
J. David Huhs,
Board Member,
Kennydale Neighborhood Assoc.