LYME/OLD LYME — We continue our celebration of the Lyme-Old Lyme High School (LOLHS) Class of 2020 today with a link to their Senior Slide Show, which was produced by Class Historian Chandler Munson.
The Class will celebrate their graduation this coming Friday, June 12, with a meticulously organized drive-up ceremony lasting from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. This will be followed by a parade through the town.
Although the graduation ceremony is strictly for the graduates and their families only, it is hoped that as many community members as possible will come out onto Town Woods Rd., Boston Post Rd., Lyme St. and McCurdy Rd. with signs and noise-makers to cheer the graduates as they drive by in their appropriately-decorated vehicles.
It is obviously requested that parade-goers observe social distancing.
Although the Governor decided late last week that outdoor graduation ceremonies could take place from July 6 and henceforward, Lyme-Old Lyme Schools retained their planned date of June 12 since another of the governor’s stipulations was that ceremonies could only be for up to 150 people including the graduates. Since LOLHS will be graduating 127 students, a single ceremony was not an option.
It has been a very strange year for these students since they have not been in school since March 13, so — as we said on Monday — rather than wait until Friday, which would be our normal policy, we decided we would celebrate them in a variety of different ways throughout this week.
On Monday, we gave a link to a video, which features every single Class of 2020 graduate with their names. The video was made by Vicki Griffin and her son Tanner, who is a senior at LOLHS.