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‘We are it. We’re the Ones That Lived Through This’: Matanzas and FPC Graduates Triumph Again

June 3, 2021 | FlaglerLive | 1 Comment

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It was back to graduating in person and tacking stock of a year of absences, losses and sorrows, but also of resilience and triumphs as 1,036 FPC and Matanzas High school students held their graduation ceremonies at the Ocean Center in Daytona Wednesday.

FPC and Matanzas Graduates Cross Finish Line at Speedway in Indelible, Pandemic-Defying Ceremonies

May 31, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

Caps went airborne as Matanzas High School graduates prepared for their victory lap this morning at the Daytona International Speedway. (© FlaglerLive via Flagler Schools)

Over 1,000 graduates of Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast High School gathered at the Daytona International Speedway to receive their diplomas today in two ceremonies that broke with precedent even as they rousingly reaffirmed tradition in the face of limitations imposed by the coronavirus emergency.

Graduates, Start Your Engines: FPC and Matanzas Will Have In-Person Graduation at the Speedway on May 31

May 1, 2020 | FlaglerLive | 45 Comments

The plan is for Matanzas and Flagler Palm Coast Graduates to drive their cars across the finish line in a graduate ceremony at the International Speedway on May 31. (© FlaglerLive)

Flagler Palm Coast High School and Matanzas High School will hold their graduation ceremonies on May 31 at the International Speedway in Daytona Beach following a committee’s work on devising an original plan to ensure a safe, in-person event despite the coronavirus emergency.

A Lifetime In One Picture
My Daughter Odysseus

June 2, 2017 | FlaglerLive | 30 Comments

Grinnell College's Justin Hayworth took that picture just as Sadie walked off the stage after receiving her diploma. We were unaware. The picture then appeared on the college's Facebook page, and Sadie was told it would run in Grinnell's quarterly magazine. (Justin Hayworth)

FlaglerLive’s editor reflects on the painful and joyful history behind a moment unexpectedly captured by a photographer at his daughter’s graduation from Grinnell College last week.

Commencement Season in an Age of Community Failures

May 12, 2015 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

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We can make excuses for failure and we too often do so, writes Ed Moore. In life there should be no excuses for quitting, for abandoning dreams and ambitions and for pursuing our goals.

Between Fleeting Time and Family Feel at Matanzas High’s 2013 Commencement

June 1, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 4 Comments

Some 340 students graduated from Matanzas High School Friday evening in a ceremony that emphasized the school’s successes and the connections of the student body with its extended families.

FPC Graduates Are Urged: Don’t Just Show Up. Know the Why of Your Life’s Purpose.

May 30, 2013 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

For Flagler Palm Coast High School, a day that began with a bomb scare ended with the graduation of some 450 seniors at the Ocean Center in Daytona Beach Thursday evening, with Katie Young delivering the Commencement Address and Lynettt Shott watching her first graduating class as FPC’s new principal.

A Pig’s Tale With Hitchhiking Advice from Thoreau as 327 Graduate Matanzas High

May 27, 2011 | FlaglerLive | 5 Comments

The fourth graduating class in six years at Matanzas included 43 seniors graduating magna cum laude and 23 graduating suma cum laude, with 28 percent of the class receiving high honors.

Stetson Awarding Degrees to 570 Students at Saturday’s Commencement

May 2, 2011 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Student speakers are Caitlin Peterson of Ocala, Jason Reese of Telford, Tenn., and Maxwell Grossman of Wellington, the latter, a conductor and pianist, representing the School of Music.

Graduations from God to America

May 30, 2010 | Pierre Tristam | 1 Comment

Graduation speeches are part of the American habit of reinvention. They should be provocative and revealing, even if we don’t all agree with the message.

Pryor to Class of 2010: “Take Your Chance, Make Your Choice, Make Your Move”

May 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

Citing William Jennings Bryan, Robert Frost and David Wilcox, Matanzas High School Principal Chris Pryor mixed anecdotes and metaphor in his last words of advice to the Class of 2010.

Photo Gallery: Matanzas High School Class of 2010

May 29, 2010 | FlaglerLive | Leave a Comment

A 38-image gallery of Matanzas’s third graduating class, with the full David Sequence.

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