Event is Friday evening in the school’s auditorium
The 110th graduating class of Mountain Lake Public High School (MLHS) – the Class of 2014 – will celebrate their commencement on Friday, May 16, in the high school auditorium, beginning at 7 p.m.. Forty students are on the class roll.
The Senior High Band will present the prelude and the traditional processional, “Pomp and Circumstance,” as well as the selection, “Havendance,” by David R. Holsinger. Kurt Jahnke is the band director.
The Senior High Choir, under the direction of Andrea Brinkman, will share the number, “Another Bridge to Cross,” by Carl Strommen, while all members of the senior class – the Senior Choir – will present “Lean on Me,” by Bill Wirthers/GLEE, with arrangement by Adam Anders and Tim Davis.
Andrew Hempeck, Senior Class Secretary/Treasurer, will shares Words of Inspiration.
Introducing the featured speaker will be Mikayla Falk, Vice-President of the Senior Class.
Featured Commencement Speaker will be Mitchell Schroeder, a 2003 graduate of MLHS, who went on to graduate from South Dakota State University in Brookings, South Dakota. He and his wife, Erica (also a MLHS grad) have now returned to their roots; Mitchell employed by United Prairie Bank and Erica a pharmacist at Peterson Thrifty White Drug and Gifts. They are the parents of two daughters.
Deborah Wallert of the Mountain Lake Scholarship Program will present scholarships to seniors, and Paul Metcalf will award the “Bradley Behrends Memorial Scholarship.”
High School Principal Pamela Anderson will present the graduating class, and Christian Pfeiffer, Senior Class President, will give the Class Response.
Douglas Standerwick, Chair of the Mountain Lake Public School Board of Education, will award the diplomas.
The new MLHS alumni will exit the auditorium to their recessional selection, “Hall of Fame,” by The Script.
The Class Motto selected by the seniors is: “Our lives are before us, our pasts are behind us, but our memories are forever with us.”
Class Colors are the traditional Maroon-and-Silver.
Senior Class Advisors include faculty members Brenda Feil, Shawn Naas and Kim Syverson.
Fifteen members of the class have earned the distinction of being named an Honor Student. In order to achieve this honor, students must have maintained a 3.0 or “B” average in their high school years in all classes taken.
This year’s Honor Students, listed alphabetically, are:
* Rachel Dukes, daughter of Douglas and Martha Standerwick.
* Anna Engstrom, daughter of John and Tamara Engstrom.
* Mikayla Falk, daughter of Larry and Julie Falk.
* Brooke Fast, daughter of Curtis and Tammy Fast.
* Joshua Fast, son of Thomas and Marilyn Fast.
* Zachariah Fredericksen, son of Jeffrey and Heather Fredericksen.
* Joshua Grev, son of David and Kendra Grev.
* Andrew Hempeck, son of Larry and Jody Hempeck.
* Andrew Hirsch, son of Alan and Wendy Hirsch.
* Carter Kirk, son of Timothy and Sheila Kirk.
* Cheyenne Narber, daughter of Valerie Henao.
* Christian Pfeiffer, son of Wade and Janese Pfeiffer.
* Hannah Stoesz, daughter of Jerome and Marilyn Stoesz.
* Jordan Syverson, daughter of Steven and Kim Syverson.
*Aracely Zarate, daughter of Aracely Sifuentes.
Nine students were also recognized as National Honor Society members. These include Anna Engstrom, Mikayla Falk, Brooke Fast, Joshua Fast, Joshua Grev, Andrew Hempeck, Andrew Hirsch, Christian Pfeiffer and Jordan Syverson.