‘Appreciate what we have built’

First-year Tracy Area High School Principal — and human selfie stick — Tony Miller grabs a pic with graduates-to-be Kamryn Petersen, Sydney LaVoy, Danika Radke, Emma Edwards, Gabby Swan and Amber Hensch before Sunday’s commencement exercises. Please see Page 2 for more photos. Photo / Per Peterson

Fifty-eight proud Panthers bid adieu to the past with an eye toward their future at Sunday’s 130th Commencement of Tracy Area High School.

The welcome speech was delivered by Elizabeth Fultz; Madison Clark spoke on the past; Owen Elsen on the present; Amber Hensch on the future; and Shihur Yang gave the farewell speech.

Fultz thanked family and friends for attending this year’s ceremony and said the end of the day marks the start of diverging paths for the seniors.

“We will not be in the same class as the people we have known since we were 5 years old,” she said. “We will go out and create our own stories and make our own mark on the world, making significant memories with new people.”

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