FRYEBURG – “We have done it. Today we graduate,” Alexander Flynn Dyer told his fellow 192 classmates during Sunday’s commencement exercises at Fryeburg Academy.

Dyer, one of three student speakers, told hundreds of family members and friends of the graduates that he and his classmates have accomplished “the challenge of Fryeburg Academy.”

In defining the word accomplishment, he cited historical references such as the Continental Congress in 1774, man landing on the moon in 1969 and the 2004 World Series win of the Red Sox, which garnered a roar from the crowd.

Dyer said despite he and his classmates accomplishments, he could not have done it without his teachers. “Without you, graduation might have been the best five years of my life,” he said, adding Headmaster Daniel Lee Jr. provided the bridge over sometimes “troubled waters.”

The graduates, who wore blue and white robes and marched to the front of Fryeburg Academy for the outdoor ceremony, were welcomed by class President Susan Kelly Hannes, who spoke of the diversity of the class and said, “From now on we are our own individuals.”

In her speech at graduation, Jolanda Marie Wesley spoke of coming to Fryeburg from Lynn, Mass., and learning to adapt to a state that she felt had more cows than people in it. Although initially reluctant to participate in the school, she said she quickly began to see the positives.

“Now I look back and I’ve experienced more in four years than the 14 years before,” Wesley said of the friends, knowledge and experiences she had including seeing her first “shooting star,” beautiful mountain views and much more.

Christopher Lee Hikel talked about the different experiences that each graduating class has had since the school opened in 1792 and said years from now he will remember the friends and teachers he met here including headmaster Daniel Lee Jr. who gave him a salmon tie with purple cows, the school’s mascot.

“It’s who gave it to me and why,” he said of the tie he wore at commencement.

Hikel spoke of the money that alumni give years later to the school. “You don’t give money back to your school 50 years later down the road if you didn’t get anything of it,” he said.

Hikel concluded his speech by having everyone sing happy birthday to graduate Bobby Sheehan.

Lee handed out a number of prizes prior to the conferring of diplomas by Asa Pike, president of the Board of Trustees.