Speech On Farewell Speech

What I just recited was a selection from "Oh, The Places You'll Go!", a graduation speech as prepared by Dr. Seuss. I chose to recite this because its optimism toward beginning a new phase of life seemed to fit our class. It reminded me of our entrance into high school, when as freshmen, we blew away the students and staff at Stoks high School with our incredible enthusiasm and spirit. We didn't allow ourselves to be intimidated by the upperclassmen, or by our new surroundings. By the time we had completed our first Homecoming activities, coming in second place only to the seniors, we had established a certain respect, and it became evident that the Class of 2006 was capable of achieving greatness.

We didn’t get here on our own. That is why we thank our classmates, families, teachers, counselors, and administrators for supporting us throughout this journey. Most importantly, I thank and glorify God for giving us endless opportunities. I hope tonight is a night to remember because it marks the start of something new. After tonight, we gotta go our own ways because high school wasn’t meant to last forever. Right here, right now, it’s time to break free from dress code and standardized tests. As we go our separate ways, let us continue to support one another. I know our teachers are still here to help, whether with college coursework or advice for our futures. We can step into the world confidently because we have solid

Fellow Class of 2016, we did it! I never imagined that this day would come as quickly as it did. It seemed like only weeks ago that I was just a freshman trying to figure out how exactly I could get to the fourth floor, because a senior told me in full confidence that that was where my class was, and being extremely confused and stupid when I found out that there was no such thing. Getting to this day has been a crazy trip for me. Honestly, I never thought that I would make it to this point; with a diploma in the rearview mirror and the opportunity to pursue whatever I wanted ahead of me. A big chunk of my family never made it past 10th grade, so I feel very blessed to be standing here among my fellow peers right now. My entire life had been influenced profoundly by choices I never made for myself, such as growing up the way I had, and being forced into Mr. Burrows’ engineering class, and visiting Haiti has led me to my latest assertion; that I would become an architect and join the Peace Corps. To truly understand why I made this decision I have to explain the “choices” that were previously mentioned.

First of all I would like to congratulate everyone of my fellow students on making past middle school. Wow! We made it to our graduation. Today, my speech will be about moving up since all of us are moving one step up to a crucial stage in our lives.

Graduation can best be described as the most important time in somebody’s life or just an everyday event because they do not care about it. When I graduate from Copiah Academy on May 11, 2018. I hope it is a nice cool day, and when the morning sun comes out its beams down with pride. While I am getting ready for the big day and gathering other things for the night. I try to get everything ready before my friends come over before graduation. When they show up in their cap and gowns, I will probably start crying, because it means we are a few hours away from graduating high school.

As we gather here today, first and foremost I would like to congratulate each and every one of you on your accomplishments and achievements. I speak on behalf of myself and many others with a sense of gratitude and recognition; your consistent efforts to push towards greatness allows us all to take a great amount of pride in this community. You all have contributed pieces of the puzzle, each unique and required to make the finished product that we see here today. Each and every student here has been outstanding in every aspect of performance, and more importantly, abiding by the Golden Rule and treating every person how you would like to be treated. Shifting focus from the past that is behind, to the future that is upon us; let us not forget

Thank you, thank you to all of the staff and teachers of the school for helping us all get through these tough three years of our lives. These years are when we begin to define ourselves and we start to understand who we are going to be in life. Thank you for helping us to learn not only our curriculum but teaching us valuable life lessons. I guarantee every one of us has at least once said to ourselves, I wish it was summer, I wish I was done with school, or I can’t wait until I get older. But now, we have realized that this process of growing up isn’t so great, and life will never get better than it was when we were five running through the sprinkler in your yard, not having any homework, and not having a single problem greater than I’m

Thank you so much for the offer, but I had foreseen the results and accepted the outcome. The news definitely was still very disheartening, especially after all my time and dedication to Relay this past year.

Good evening to the class of 2017, people I have never met, teachers who only passed me because they wanted me to graduate, Yucaipa high staff that is being forced to be here to get a 2% raise in their salary, friends, aqontenses, and most importantly my family. I am so very honored to give this fine speech today. Now as you can probably tell already, my speech is going to be more on a humorous note, but everything I will say tonight say is very sincere and has a true meaning. So hopefully with a little bit of luck that I wont pass out from the fear of speaking in front of thousands of people tonight, lets make tonight a night to

Our graduation is our coming of age, our right of passage. As we walk across this stage we are writing the closing pages to our Chapter I and heading into the great unknown. It's kinda scary -- but hey, don't you cry, even though high school is over, the times we've shared and the friends we've made will never be lost. The clock is ticking, time is fleeting and nobody lives forever. But true friendship is something we can count on never dying. I hope wherever we go in life it will be happy and even if we all move to remote island countries we can all count on the memories and laugh at all the stupid things we did.

Graduation is an exciting time in a person’s life, especially a high school graduation. When I think of family and friends gathering together to celebrate a joyous occasion, I feel I accomplished my strongest goal. It never occurred to me that graduation would be the end of my youth and the start of adulthood. Graduating from high school was an influential event that gave me an altered outlook on my existence. Life before graduation, preparing for graduation day, and commencement day overwhelmed me for reality.

On May 25th, 1787, the Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia, with a primary goal of revising the Articles of Confederation. Following this significant convention, members of the first created Congress were elected in 1788 under the Constitution. They began their first session in March of 1789 in the nation’s temporary capital, New York City. With a widely known assumption of George Washington being the electoral college’s unanimous initial choice for the very first president, coincidently, he was. Washington issued the Proclamation of Neutrality, and later created a Farewell Address after his second term in office. Less than five years later, the Convention of 1800 took place. Out of these three historical moments, the Farewell Address is the most important contribution to American national interests.

Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said. This liberating discovery enables me to proceed without any fear that I might inadvertently influence you to abandon promising careers in business, the law or politics for the giddy delights of becoming a gay wizard.

On January 17, 1961 Eisenhower gave his farewell speech to the great people of the United States of America. Eisenhower had delivered this speech to the regards of the final days of him being president of the United States of America, after 2 terms in the White House it was now Eisenhower to part ways with this country and his services as being a leader of America, after committing a half century to our great nation. Not only did Eisenhower address the nation on his final days as president but to wish the president after him “Godspeed” (Eisenhower) and America peace and prosperity.

Standing in the hallway, alone with nothing but my memories, I do not feel alone. The halls may be empty as it is long after bell for dismissal, but memories flash all around me. The silence is filled with laughter from the recent lightsaber battle and the beating of the drums from the senior parade of instruments. The aroma of fresh baked cookies causes my mouth to water as the memory of baking cookies with National Honor Society flashes by. The white poster brings back the snowy day of sophomore semi-formal with the scent of sweaty teens packed in like sardines trying to watch an old lady dance with a fellow student filling my nostrils. My feet ache with remembrance of sprinting from gym class to