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Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, June 15, 2016 Page A-11 Speech from the 2016 salutatorian Oberon Fayland IVHS Class of 2016 salutatorian I would not gain much. However, now that I am standing here I realize that I was only thinking about academics. I now know that academics is not the most important thing. I have gained new friends, developed new interests and most importantly developed an understanding of other people. I wish that I learned this earlier, yet I now can go into life with these valuable lessons and hopefully teach it to others. Now to everyone in this class, don’t give up. What Muhammed Ali said in our class motto this year, “Impossible is nothing,” exemplifies our class. Everyone here has had troubles in the past, yet you all decided to keep working on the goal to graduate. Now that this stage of life is over, you will all find a new goal and there will be difficult times, but if you show the same perseverance that kept you in high school then you will without a doubt succeed in the future. Life will start out hard, but it will always get better. There will be unexpected and expected obstacles, yet I believe with all of our patience and perseverance we can and will succeed at life no matter what comes our way. Furthermore, in the future you will not have the choice to just give up, there will be people that will be relying on you, so by giving up you are not hurting just yourself but everyone around you. This class of 2016 will do great things because their will is to not give up no matter the circumstances. We will always strive for a better future for ourselves and others. Thank you to all of my teachers, both those in and out of school. I especially wish to thank five people. First I want to thank my mother for dealing with everything that I do and supporting me no matter what, and Kate and Mark Dwyer for helping me no matter what the situation is or how much it would inconvenience them. I would like to thank Monet Talty for helping me get ready for college and making sure that I know about all potential scholarship opportunities. Finally I want to thank Ms. Szijjarto for being able to speak my language of sarcasm and use it to actually make me work in her class. I would also like to recommend to the head of curriculum to make being her classroom aide count as a PE credit. Thank you to all of my friends in school who have made my time here enjoyable. You have all supported me throughout my high school career. I hope they all succeed withtheir goals for the future. Caleb Mayville has always helped me with my villainous schemes, wait, I mean heroic acts. Tyler Stevens has always been there to bounce my ideas off his head, and then tell me whether or not it was a good idea. Sean Breedlove has always made me laugh when I need to the most. When I first started going to high school, I thought that Oberon Fayland speaks on graduation night. Speech from the 2016 valedictorian Kynan Nordal IVHS Class of 2016 valedictorian Milton Berle once said “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” There are 197 doors in the Illinois Valley High School, I counted.These doors can provide a path to opportunity, some more, some less. I am grateful for my high school, and all of the doors that it has offered me, but more than that, I would like to thank the people that helped me to unlock those doors, because without them, a classroom is just a room. I thank teachers like Mr. Wayne Mchugh, the shop teacher, who when asked why their machine isn’t working has to remind them to turn it on, and Mrs. Jaime Szijjarto, who year after year, has to listen to questions in Spanish 1 like “How do you say taco in Spanish?” Unfortunately there are probably some seniors graduating today who are not 100 percent sure right now of the answer to that question. I would also like to thank my parents and family, and all our parents, friends and families, who have provided the love and support allowing each of us to be here today. Because today what you see is a girl blundering through a speech, and a class in cap and gowns, but not all the time and effort it took to get us here. I play a lot of sports, and I don’t write a lot of speeches. Some of you may remember this year’s basketball season. For those that don’t, we had an awesome season, for which I want to thank all of my teammates for leaving me with the best senior year. I did get injured, (obviously,) and when I went to school the Monday after that game, my teachers said “Knee injury? Welcome to the club!” (Meaning that you can find support almost anywhere.) I believe that you cannot be afraid to grab opportunity and not “wave at it as it passes by” as captain Jack Sparrow said in Pirates of the Caribbean. But I am not talking about opportunities for college or money or jobs, although those are very important. I am talking about the opportunity to play as a team, to work hard, and to sweat on a court or on a field , or the opportunity to spend time with your family at graduation. There are thousands of opportunities every day, ones that you are offered, and ones that you give to others. If I had decided to not take any risks and not play basketball, I would never have gotten injured, but I would never have gotten the experience I did. If due to my ACL tear, I had not played golf this season, or if I had never tried out when Mr. Derek Duman was coach my freshman year, I never would have gone to the state finals. Just like in life, you can be playing golf and one day everything seems so easy and the next you are struggling to hit the ball into the fairway. Other times you might find yourself behind an obstacle like a tree and you feel like throwing your clubs into the pond on your way off the course (which you wouldn’t be the first to do). Sometimes you decide to just hit the ball straight at the tree out of sheer frustration. But also, just like in life you have to deal with the consequences of those choices when that ball comes ricocheting back at you. My point with these metaphors is that you should persevere and exploit your opportunities. Some of the doors at this school may only lead to a bathroom, a hallway or a broom closet, but sometimes, you need a bathroom, or a broom. 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