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valedictorian
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  • I'm so close to being valedictorian.†   (source)
  • I also recalled that Mr. Dubonnet had been the valedictorian of their class and a star football player.†   (source)
  • Because it was an ending, no matter what Eric, the valedictorian, had to say about commencement meaning "beginning" and all the rest of the trite nonsense.†   (source)
  • Henry Reed was class valedictorian.†   (source)
  • He graduated valedictorian of his class and went to Duke on a full scholarship.†   (source)
  • The valedictorian, Henry Stampel, broke into tears halfway through his speech and could not continue.†   (source)
  • Several times that weekend around the supper table, he recited his own high school valedictorian speech.†   (source)
  • She says it like she's saying, Juliet's going to be valedictorian.†   (source)
  • The valedictorian was Bobbie, who had scored the highest on the GED exam.†   (source)
  • You're the valedictorian.†   (source)
  • She was the source of a lot of online attention because, despite being a teen mom, she managed to be her school's valedictorian.†   (source)
  • As his high school's valedictorian and the quarterback of its football team, John "could have done anything he wanted with his life," says Kelley.†   (source)
  • The rejection was doubly painful because Ali, his younger brother, was an academic ace who had just graduated from Camelback tied for valedictorian.†   (source)
  • LaCountiss, with straight A's throughout, edged him out by a grade-point fraction for valedictorian.†   (source)
  • You're valedictorian, aren't you?"†   (source)
  • And how he had felt so right in a destiny that forced him to become the youngest valedictorian in his high school's history, the youngest freshman ever accepted at Georgetown, a bright, bright light that shimmered at the end of the tunnels of academe.†   (source)
  • The son of a wealthy father, valedictorian of his class at Harvard, Tyler was handsome, witty, and well read.†   (source)
  • Because of Kiffney-Brown's small seminar size, we spent a fair amount of time together, battling it out for valedictorian, and when he'd asked me to prom I'd been more excited than I ever would have admitted.†   (source)
  • I don't mean to boast, but I was valedictorian that year….†   (source)
  • Andrea LeMarsh told me that the senior class had decided that their graduation should honor the memory of Clay and Brittany (the other senior girl who was killed and who would have been valedictorian).†   (source)
  • Valedictorian of Rocori SHS and a 1538 SAT had not been enough to get Dixie into a top-flight college.†   (source)
  • KATE [BRIGHT VOICE]: She was valedictorian-†   (source)
  • Behind closed doors each winter the college admissions committee riffles through the folders of concerto - writing East Coast preppies, football stars from the Corn Belt and ghetto valedictorians.   (source)
  • And I hope I will be a valedictorian at graduation.†   (source)
  • "SHE MADE FUN OF ME BEING THE CLASS VALEDICTORIAN," said Owen Meany.†   (source)
  • Not only did he graduate valedictorian of his class, he became an excellent athlete as well.†   (source)
  • Dear God, please tell me you weren't a valedictorian, too.†   (source)
  • Jamie had some of the highest grades in our senior class, and depending on how the last semester went, she might even end up valedictorian.†   (source)
  • He was quarterback on the Muscatine High football team, a starting guard in basketball, the president of his class and its valedictorian.†   (source)
  • Dorothy was our valedictorian.†   (source)
  • I thought she might have been valedictorian, but she got a B when she was going through that tough time with her old boyfriend.†   (source)
  • Owen was so serious about being the valedictorian of our class that he was already writing his commencement speech—and it was only January.†   (source)
  • Commencement had been outdoors the year I graduated-the year Owen should have graduated, the year he should have been our class valedictorian.†   (source)
  • The valedictorian is always last.†   (source)
  • In many schools, they don't even know who the class valedictorian is until the spring term; but Owen Meany's grade-point average was perfect—no other student was even close.†   (source)
  • She was the valedictorian.†   (source)
  • He couldn't have imagined what a travesty Owen Meany's absence would make of the commencement exercises that year—how such a timid, rather plain, and much-ignored student, who was the replacement valedictorian of our class, would find the . courage to offer as a valedictory only these words: "I am not the head of this class.†   (source)
  • Believe it or not, she was valedictorian of her high school class, and even now she reads, does all the bookkeeping, and stays on top of the business.†   (source)
  • She had graduated, valedictorian, lettered in track, amazingly unpregnant, from Rocori Senior High School in Stearns County, MN, where the teenage pregnancy rate was seventeen percent and the dropout rate was thirty percent.†   (source)
  • There was a huge petition online to get her honor reinstated and name her the sole valedictorian again, though as of this writing that hasn't happened.†   (source)
  • Bobbie, posing with a group of us clustered around her in our khakis, looked stern and short in her robes and special gold-corded valedictorian's robe, but her hair was blown out and beautifully curled.†   (source)
  • You're the only valedictorian here.†   (source)
  • However, the day after the school's superintendent declared her valedictorian, the principal announced that she was going to have to share the honors—he was appointing a covaledictorian who had a slightly lower GPA.†   (source)
  • He said it had to do with the fact that the other girl had half a credit more, even though she had a lower GPA, but Kymberly and her mom believed that the school didn't want a black teen mom as their valedictorian.†   (source)
  • President of the Loyal League, he wore the shield on his sweater, and was valedictorian.†   (source)
  • I was selected as valedictorian of my class and assigned to write a paper to be delivered at one of the public auditoriums.†   (source)
  • If they had known the kind of fool boy you are, they would never have made you valedictorian," they said.†   (source)
  • Duer had been the valedictorian.†   (source)
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