JAY– Fifty-nine seniors marched down the center of the Jay High School gym Sunday in a  graduation ceremony that showed the affects the small-town high school had on the graduates.
“I say with  great honor and great privilege, today is our day,” Class of 2007 President  Joseph Gagnon  said.
 Gagnon went on to talk about how “life is a gamble and where you are  now doesn’t tell where you will be in thirty or forty years or in the end.”
The game of Life, Gagnon said, is different from other games  because it allows you to choose the outcome. This is why he likes that board game, Gagnon said.
“I will not hesitate to choose any of you as a partner in this game,” Gagnon said to his classmates.
Gagnon also encouraged parents to stay in the lives of their children by saying, “They enjoy your involvement more than their poker faces let on.”
 Valedictorian, Anna LeBlanc discussed how after graduation the students will be part of the history of Jay High School. “One question remains,” LeBlanc said. “How will you be remembered?”
 LeBlanc told students, “Every individual has left something behind to be proud of.”
She encouraged the class, “To live with the  aspiration to positively influence the lives of others.”
Many people needed to be thanked for inspiring the seniors, including  parents, teachers and coaches who left an impression on the students. 
LeBlanc took the time to recognize a few of the people who inspired  her. She thanked a coach who inspired her to “Enjoy your kids because you only have them for 18 years.”
Salutatorian, Conrad Rier told a personal story about how he  discovered he wanted to one day work for NASA as an engineer.  When asked what made him want to do this, he said he is most likely to 
answer that he owes his dream to his childhood love of the movie Star Wars, but 
really, he said, he owes it to Jay High School. High school is what  gives you aspirations, Rier said.
“If I hadn’t taken math classes here I never would have wanted to go into engineering,” Rier said.
 Principal John Robinson and Assistant Principal Kenrick Charles were  very impressed with the number and amount of scholarships they had to  hand out to the seniors. A total of $166,000 was handed out in 88 different scholarships. Robinson said this amount is very impressive for a small town.
 The motto of the class:“In our hands we hold today; In our dreams we 
hold tomorrow; In our hearts we hold forever.”