Commence with higher education
As Lake Placid High School graduates are certain to hear Saturday, “commencement” isn’t the end of something, but the beginning.
It won’t seem that way when graduates walk across the stage at South Florida State College to pick up that coveted high school diploma. When parents, sisters and brothers start hooting from the audience — Please hold your applause to the end! — and when grads fling those mortarboards into the air.