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Viewfinder: Westmont High School Class of 2011
Campbell's Westmont High School celebrated graduation on June 9.
It was a big day for Campbell yesterday. All of its high schools graduated.
At , the ceremony was the first for first-year Principal Michael Posey. It was also his first time addressing a graduating class.
The students assembled in the "Large Gym" 45 minutes before the actual ceremony to primp, hug, get a pep talk from Posey and line up.
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"Because your parents helped get you here too," Posey began, "from going to the hospital after you were born, getting you ready for your first day of kindergarten, from getting up in the middle of the night when you guys were sick, from putting off something that they wanted because you needed something, for getting you through good times and difficult times, for supporting you through your high school years, to this day, you're going to thank them by applauding.
"This ceremony is about you, but we can thank them too because they had a lot to do with it, getting you here, the last 17 years."
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The students cheered and raised their fists in the air. Posey beamed.
"You've done a wonderful job," he continues," you've made my first year here as principal terrific. I've been waiting 18 years to do this myself, my first address to a senior class
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