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Okay, so I only graduated 5 years ago this past Wednesday, but the things I'll never forget from my high school graduation:

1. As a competitive senior class (grade wise) we had 2 valedictorians and 4 salutatorians. Rather than everyone giving speeches, the valedictorians were the only ones to speak (besides the ASB and class presidents)...the salutatorians paired up and were in charge of leading the pledge of allegiance (for 2 of them) and the other 2 were in charge of introducing our special guests (more on that in a minute!) The one valeductorian's speech I will always remember, because he began his speech by putting on a watermelon helmet (that he had carved out himself)....we were all rolling in the aisles!

2. My next door neighbor had graduated from the high school 50 years earlier than I did (back in 1948). My mom, as the co-chair of Grad Nite, also worked with our class advisor and invited the members of the class of 1948 back to participate in graduation with us (since they didn't have a graduation ceremony). There were 8 who participated with us, and it was so much fun meeting them and having them a part of our ceremony (these are the people that the other 2 salutatorians introduced).

3. A tradition with graduation and our principal was he always promised the senior class that he would have us through the ceremony within 1 hour, or he would treat the entire senior class to dinner. We timed it and found he was over, but he swore he wasn't so he got out of the whole dinner thing (no class ever had dinner bought for them).

4. I think we also had the requisite beach balls, bubbles, and doing the "wave" as part of the ceremony.