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Madill senior Jon Venable elbow bumps MHS prinicpal Jason Ward during the school’s commencement ceremony on June 6. Matt Caban • The Madill Record
The Madill High School Class of 2020 finally received their send-off on June 6, a hot and sunny Oklahoma day.
The day’s high was set to be 94 degrees and the temperature felt at least that hot during the mid-morning event.
The black and gold-clad group of Wildcats took the adjustments made to their commencement ceremony in style as each class member walked around the track six feet apart in separate lanes at Blake Smiley Field.
Each senior also posed for photos facing both the north and south stands as families sat around the stadium in an effort to social distance.
The themes of family and helping each other were made known in both the prayer by Kyla Christie and the covaledictorian speech by Lydia Wiese.
“There was that one person who believed in you,” Wiese said in her speech. “To say we are here today by our own merit could never come close to being true.”
Wiese thanked her parents and her sisters.
Wiese said the day was about the future.
“The opportunities before you are what’s important,” she said.
After the ceremony, Wiese said she is a natural introvert who took time to get to know her classmates after initially being in the class ahead of them.
She said her goal with her speech was to thank those who helped her rather than recognize her own accomplishments.
The entire class sat in chairs six feet apart on the football field with the stage sitting at the 50-yard line.