
{"id":11044,"date":"2010-06-16T15:45:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=11044"},"modified":"2010-06-16T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T23:47:02","slug":"the-class-of-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/06\/16\/the-class-of-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"The Class of 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a sporting event on the floor of the Smith Center on Saturday; but throughout the day, the place did echo with plenty of cheering.<\/p>\n<p>Graduation exercises for all three high schools in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school district started at 9 a.m. with<em> Pomp and Circumstance<\/em>, quickly followed by the East Chapel Hill High School choral ensemble\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gospel-tinged version of Let It Be. Other highlights included Principal Eileen Tully\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s musings on life and the slip-\u00e2\u20ac\u2122n\u00e2\u20ac\u2122-slide constructed on the school lawn as a senior prank. She encouraged graduates to take life slowly and appreciate all of its quirks.<\/p>\n<p>At Chapel Hill High School\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early afternoon commencement, new Principal Jesse Dingle told graduates how proud he was to be their principal. He praised their competitive spirit, but encouraged humility. <\/p>\n<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Envy is not competitiveness,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In the late afternoon, the occasional roll of thunder punctuated the smaller, but equally enthusiastic ceremony for Carrboro High School\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second graduation exercise.<\/p>\n<p>Carrboro Principal Kelly Batten said that while last year\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s class will be remembered for a lot of firsts, the Class of 2010 also should be remembered for its key roll in the school\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early history, including the formation of student tutoring and recycling programs. <\/p>\n<p><em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201dHenry Gargan and Kirk Ross<br \/>\n<\/em><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11043\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11043\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/06\/16\/the-class-of-2010\/grads-front\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11043\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/grads-front.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"grads-front\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/grads-front.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/grads-front-113x84.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/grads-front-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/grads-front-360x270.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/grads-front-106x80.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11043\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">PHOTO BY KIRK ROSS.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a sporting event on the floor of the Smith Center on Saturday; but throughout the day, the place did echo with plenty of cheering.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":11043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11044"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11075,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11044\/revisions\/11075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}