Seniors celebrate their last night at Manchester-Essex High School

By memo on June 11, 2012

On Friday, June 1^st, 2012 seniors celebrated their last night at Manchester- Essex High School. Baccalaureate is the official start to the senior’s graduation.

: Twin seniors Ben and Sam Lauredant walk in proudly to take their seats and start the graduation process. Each student at Manchester-Essex was given a robe, green for the boys and white for the girls. Credit: Liz Warren for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: History department chair Dan Jewett made a speech composed of the letters that the seniors wrote to their 12th grade self four years ago in freshman year. Jewett took bits and pieces of each student s speeches and made it in to his own speech. Credit: Alyssa Reeves for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Senior class president Andrew Randall and the secretary, vice president, and the treasurer all gave speeches on their time here are Manchester-Essex Regional High School. Credit: Liz Warren for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Seniors Ian Gillis and Savannah Repucci perform their duet as part of the Baccalaureate ceremony. Gillis and Repucci were one of the four performances by the seniors. Credit: Alyssa Reeves for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Seniors Katerina Eichenberger and Morgan Kennedy smile as they listen to classmate Graham Shaw’s speech. Shaw’s speech was very funny and brought a smile to all of the seniors’ faces.Credit: Liz Warren for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Seniors Ryan Brugger and Noah Brown look and listen to History and debate teacher Dan Jewett. Jewett’s speech consisted of writings the seniors wrote back at the beginning of high school which brought many laughs. Credit: Alyssa Reeves for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Seniors Allie Freed, Katerina Eichenberger, Leanne Ciccone, Ellen Burgess, Caroline Wood and Morgan Kennedy all perform for their last time at Manchester- Essex. This is one of the last times that these five girls will perform with each other. Credit: Liz Warren for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Credit: Alyssa Reeves for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Seniors Sam White and Ian Gilis perform a song for their senior class as one of the many performances during Baccalaureate. The song was both sad and humorous. Credit: Liz Warren for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Liz Warren for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: Senior Sam White plays guitar as part of his second performance with Emmett Shnider and Simon McIntosh. They sang “Where is the love” by The Black Eyed Peas but added their own twist and made a rap about the teachers. Credit: Alyssa Reeves for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

: At the end of Baccalaureate all of the seniors get candles as they walk out of the school for one of the last times. Once they are out of the school they have one of their own private ceremonies, where the teachers congratulate all of the seniors on their hard work. Credit: Alyssa Reeves for Manchester Essex Multimedia Online

photos by Alyssa Reeves photos by Liz Warren

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