JAY – High School Principal Joe Moore started a tradition Thursday to introduce the school’s honor graduates and their parents at the School Committee meeting.

It was the beginning of the senior celebration, a tradition he started as principal of Mt. Blue High School in Farmington when he was there.

Seniors in attendance stood up and told the board what colleges they planned to attend after graduation.

The professions they have chosen ranged from pharmacy to mechanical engineering.

The 2009 honor graduates are valedictorian Katie Hall, summa cum laude; salutatorian Liz C. LeBlanc; and Bianca Bourgault, magna cum laude; and Joshua Allison, Jake Couture, Jess Douglass, David Farrington, Cassandra Frechette, Elizabeth LeBlanc, Leah Mills, Bryndi Richards and Samantha Williams, all cum laude.

They received a round of applause.

School Committee members voted to approve a Project Graduation trip for seniors to West Forks to go white water river rafting.

Chairwoman Mary Redmond-Luce said the $40,000 voters approved Tuesday night would go to adult education, but it has not been determined whether it’s for SAD 36 in Livermore Falls, SAD 9 in Farmington or both.

The article initially asked to raise nothing for adult education. It failed to pass and was amended to add $40,000.

SAD 36 Adult Education Director Carrie Castonguay said enrollment is up 159 percent and 33 percent of those people are from Jay, which does not have an adult education program.

The board voted to send a letter of support for a bill in the Legislature that would delay the penalties for school systems that did not consolidate for two years.