JAY – The soft music of guitar strings being strummed sounded in the Jay High School parking lot Friday.

Vinnie Duguay, 18, sat on a rock in front of the school playing his guitar as he waited for a ride.

“It’s a nice day out; I’m waiting for my dad. It’s kind of my last time here to sit out and play,” Duguay of Jay said sitting in the sun. Duguay graduated Sunday.

The senior has been playing guitar for 2 years and wasn’t playing anything particular this day.

“I’m playing stuff that comes to mind, picking from my chords,” he said.

He’s attended Jay schools almost all of his life and now it’s time to move forward, he said.

Duguay is changing jobs and plans to attend college next fall.

“I’d like to eventually go to (University of Maine at Augusta) to study music theory but right now I’m going to go to (Central Maine Community College) to study business management,” he said.

He said he enjoys playing music.

“I like playing on stage in front of people,” he said. “Something about it calms me down.”

Duguay was not nervous about graduation Sunday.

“I’m kind of indifferent; it’s one of those things I can do nothing about,” he said.

A word of advice to kids still in school, he said, is don’t waste your summers. Once they’re gone, they’re lost forever.