Salute to grads

It seems like such a simple thing to do. You’d be amazed at how many times I tell myself that, and how many times I deal with the fallout.

The premise is pretty easy. The high school graduation is really one of those seminal moments of our lives – as students, parents and members of a community.

As the daily newspaper charting the living and dying every day here in Delaware County, we make it our mission every year to record these special events for posterity.

We try to cover every high school graduation in the county.

Our critics would tell us we do no such thing. And they would be right.
We do not get to every graduation. For instance, last Saturday was the ceremony at the Notre Dame de Namur Academy out in Radnor. We didn’t get there.

But we did list the names of their graduates in our annual Salute to the Class of 2010, which ran in the newspaper on Thursday.

We staff the graduation of all 15 major public high schools in the county, as well as most of the parochial and private high schools.

We take slideshows and videos that we post on our website. Yes, there are some days when we simply are not going to be able to get photos at every ceremony. We try to track which schools we shoot each year, and vary it. That’s why we don’t have any photos from the Ridley graduation last night. We shot them last year. Instead we did photos and video from both the Prendie and Penncrest graduations.

By the way, if you have photos and would like to see them posted on our website, feel free to send them in to me at editor@delcotimes.com.

Today is crunch time. There are five schools that are holding their graduations – Bonner, Carroll, Springfield, Strath Haven and Chester High. We will make every effort to get to all of them. I can’t promise we’ll have photos from all of them. Three are being held at the same time tonight.

We also will make an effort to get to the Archbishop Carroll graduation.
They are in Radnor Township and we consider them very much a part of our readership. Which is why I’m simply dumbfounded that despite repeated requests they did not send in their list of grads to appear in our Salute to the Class of 2010.

If you’re a proud parent and were wondering why they were snubbbed, now you know. They weren’t. Instead their school never gave us the information.

We’ll be there tonight anyhow. It’s just one of those moments that needs to be recorded by a local newspaper.

It only seems like it gets harder to do each year.

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