The Class of 2022 was lucky...despite having a “pause” for Virtual Learning during a global pandemic and missing a few traditional events Sophomore and Junior year. Our Seniors had a pretty “normal” year with sports, concerts, dances and an AMAZING SENIOR WEEK! Many Seniors enjoyed a Chick-Fil-a lunch and were so excited to receive Candy grams thanks to the work of Amber Hughes who organized it all!  Thanks to Amber and her crew:  Barbara Rosenbaum, Robin Staub, Lisa Bradley, Dawn Werk, Jen Hall, Caroline Otero-Gilmer, Anita Shawke and Julie Dobson and to Senior Secretary, Karen Barber, the Seniors got some special attention and recognition and an exciting Cardinals WIN on a beautiful day!!!

• BLINK-OF-AN-EYE - if you’ve read even one email this year, you know that we are desperately hoping ALL Seniors will have turned in a kindergarten or 1st grade picture so that they’ll be a part of the video shown at graduation and Senior Celebration. Tina has to put it together and May 10th is the FINAL opportunity to turn in a picture.

BLINK OF AN EYE

• Join the GRADUATES for lots of fun, laughs and memories at Senior Celebration!  Spots still remain for volunteers at the overnight event at Amp Up! 

 https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C054BABAE22A1FD0-senior1

Contact Julie Elston, Volunteer Coordinator 

or 

Kerrie Gibson & Paula Spellman, Senior Celebration Chairs

• Mandatory Graduation Practice - Friday, May 27 at 9:00 a.m.  Seniors, please be in attendance at this important rehearsal.  You will receive your cap and gown, honor cords, stoles, and practice important elements of the ceremony.  (If you are unable to attend on Friday, May 27, you will need to come to a make-up practice session on Wednesday, June 1 at 8:30 a.m.)

Graduation photos will be taken at the ceremony by Interstate Studios.

Students, please be sure to wear business attire to the graduation ceremony.  No jeans, tennis shoes, or flip-flops will be permitted.  Also, no decoration of graduation caps will be permitted, and no purchased honor cords may be worn.

Graduation Live Stream:  We are pleased to share that our graduation ceremony will be live streamed from Chaifetz Arena on the Rockwood YouTube channel, which is also where you will have access to the recording following the event. Feel free to share this link with friends and family who may not be able to be there with you in person.

In closing of this, our final email to the Class of 2022 parents, we want to say THANK YOU for being a supportive, helpful, kind and fun group to work with these past four years. From that first freshman parent meeting in the theater until now, less than a month from graduation, the number of texts, phone calls and emails we’ve exchanged, meetings attended and volunteer hours put in seems insignificant to the friendships we developed volunteering with many of you and always having these kids and their success at the forefront of everything we did. We look forward to watching these young men and women cross that stage at graduation and move on to their futures beyond the halls of Lafayette High School!

Best wishes always,

Anita Shawke and Julie Dobson, Senior Class Directors, Class of 2022

17050 Clayton Road

Wildwood MO 63011