English stories
A different Grand March at Billings
le mercredi 10 juin 2020
Modifié à 9 h 40 min le 10 juin 2020
About 100 graduates from Howard S. Billings Regional High School in Chateauguay were allowed to have a motorized parade on Sunday, June 7 to mark the end of their secondary school education.
Translation Dan Rosenburg
Dressed in their finest clothes, the graduates paraded one by one in vehicles in front of the school. The name of each student was announced on a microphone. Afterwards the graduates went on foot onto the square of the building to be photographed with a diploma and a cap encouraged by the school personnel. “We had a lovely ceremony, emotional for all of us,” confided school principal Lynn L’Esperance Claude. “The graduates had the chance to say goodbye to their teachers, and to their friends.”
The pandemic forced the motorized parade to replace the traditional Billings Grand March of the graduates which took place each year in the month of June.
See also : Tradition of graduates’ Grand March
Dressed in their finest clothes, the graduates paraded one by one in vehicles in front of the school. The name of each student was announced on a microphone. Afterwards the graduates went on foot onto the square of the building to be photographed with a diploma and a cap encouraged by the school personnel. “We had a lovely ceremony, emotional for all of us,” confided school principal Lynn L’Esperance Claude. “The graduates had the chance to say goodbye to their teachers, and to their friends.”
The pandemic forced the motorized parade to replace the traditional Billings Grand March of the graduates which took place each year in the month of June.
See also : Tradition of graduates’ Grand March