By Ryan McCarthy
One valedictorian expressed his love for his mother. Another quoted Malcom X’s words that “education is our passport to the future.” A third speaker thanked the Vanden High School graduate who paid him $5 for mentioning the student’s name in his valedictorian address.
Six valedictorians, who all had straight A’s for their four years at Vanden, spoke at the graduation Friday night with messages about coaches who had been some of the best teachers, friends who made them better people and how “too many teachers do too much work that isn’t recognized enough.”