Speaker 1: Harry quack and swear we get boards. So we get married,
Speaker 1: just locked us. We settle in this town.
Speaker 2: All right, Tom, this is Rick. We're getting a little
Speaker 2: bit close.
Speaker 3: I'll save you this particular song and then pops the
Speaker 3: circumstance and then you'll pick.
Speaker 2: It up after that.
Speaker 1: Owing down this Mary go around.
Speaker 2: I enjoyed your story about McDonald's first. Tom's good enough.
Speaker 1: So we hold on a high school love say your
Speaker 1: landau like appearance, tiny little boxes and broad ain't what
Speaker 1: you want? What you know, just happy shoes you wear.
Speaker 2: And I've started recording me.
Speaker 1: If then I didn't know a little to exproy, use
Speaker 1: cash to buy a little mold action. Because Ma's hooked
Speaker 1: on Mary King, brothers hooked on married Jane. Daddy's oaked
Speaker 1: on married too.
Speaker 4: Dors down.
Speaker 2: Let's already to record each other.
Speaker 1: We have music, quack contrary, we get bored, so we
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Speaker 1: All that is broken, man.
Speaker 2: You speak for a living Ladies round go where stops.
Speaker 1: Nobody don't head as slowing down. It's Mary go man,
Speaker 1: marry Mary quackinstrare.
Speaker 2: We're so bored and so we're barried.
Speaker 5: Just locked us.
Speaker 1: We settle in this time on this broke, Mary go,
Speaker 1: Mary go. Jack and Jill wearing up the hill. Jack
Speaker 1: burned out on booze and pills and Mary had a
Speaker 1: little out.
Speaker 3: All right, it sounds like the pomp is gonna come
Speaker 3: a little bit really, so stand by Tom, Tom from
Speaker 3: from Mayor. All right, we're just under a minute away about.
Speaker 6: Cotton is down to a quarter of pown that.
Speaker 4: I'm busted.
Speaker 7: I got a cow that try and a hen that
Speaker 7: won't play, a big stack of the figures.
Speaker 8: Day the county, all my belonging Soway.
Speaker 9: I'm busted.
Speaker 4: I went to my brother to ask for a loan.
Speaker 10: I was busted.
Speaker 11: I hate to thague like an adulame.
Speaker 2: Nank you.
Speaker 10: And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. I'm Tom Davis. We're
Speaker 10: out here at Hornet the football field, and I got
Speaker 10: to tell you. We are here at the high school
Speaker 10: for a graduation class of twenty twenty five. Their motto
Speaker 10: is we made it out alive. I think a lot
Speaker 10: of schools had that. But this is going to be
Speaker 10: a great night. I don't know who ordered the weather,
Speaker 10: but it's absolutely perfect. We got a nice little he's
Speaker 10: coming in not a cloud in the sky, A lot
Speaker 10: of excited parents, a lot of excited seniors, and a
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Speaker 10: Welcome back to Copen, Oklahoma, and we're here at the
Speaker 10: football field ready for the commencement to begin. And I
Speaker 10: got to tell you this is a nice class, about
Speaker 10: twenty students. I do believe twenty even as matter of fact.
Speaker 10: And they have declared their class song is Rivers and
Speaker 10: Roads by head and Heart. Their class flower is the
Speaker 10: Sunflower class colors well orange and yellow, and their sponsors
Speaker 10: are missus Van and mister Taylor. And of course everybody's
Speaker 10: going to be here. We want to recognize the class
Speaker 10: officers for the senior class. The treasurers Jasmine Osborne, Secretary
Speaker 10: is Audrianna Jeffers, Cameron Van is the vice president, and
Speaker 10: Elizabeth Odom is the President of the class. We're going
Speaker 10: to be hearing some words tonight from the guest speaker
Speaker 10: to Wayne Bryan, and we will also be hearing from
Speaker 10: the salutorian, and that would be Cameron Van and the
Speaker 10: valedictorian Elizabeth Odom And like I said, this is really
Speaker 10: going to be a nice ceremony. It always is every
Speaker 10: time I come up here at It's hometown America. That's
Speaker 10: really what it's all about. And to see the apprehension
Speaker 10: a little bit with the seniors, and then once they
Speaker 10: get that diploma, that big sigh of relief and you
Speaker 10: can just see that smile from Miles knowing that the
Speaker 10: next chapter of their life is underway. And the privilege
Speaker 10: of talking with mister Wurtz just a little while ago,
Speaker 10: just before coming up here to the press box, and
Speaker 10: I got to tell you he's excited. He's been through
Speaker 10: this a time or two, and he was putting out
Speaker 10: the diplomas and everything, and we're just kind of marveling
Speaker 10: at just how beautiful it is today and how beautiful
Speaker 10: this is for families and how wonderful this is for
Speaker 10: the kids. And it is an exciting time. You know,
Speaker 10: I can speak as a father of seven kids. I've
Speaker 10: got one that's graduating here next week, and the family
Speaker 10: is all involved with this. It brings families together, believe
Speaker 10: it or not, and it's a big moment and it's
Speaker 10: something that the kids are going to always remember I
Speaker 10: remember mine because I had to look make sure my
Speaker 10: diploma was in there. Thank you, Lauren. And my buddy
Speaker 10: Bruce Agent did the same thing. But he was really
Speaker 10: sweating it. He was the first kid and his whole
Speaker 10: family that ever finished all twelve years of high school.
Speaker 10: Some of them went fourteen, but he did it in twelve,
Speaker 10: and he was pretty happy about it. Right now, the
Speaker 10: podium is being populated by the dignitaries. We have the
Speaker 10: flags just to kind of a gentle ruffle. The lights
Speaker 10: are on here at the football field, but we really
Speaker 10: don't need them, but you know, for accent, it's going
Speaker 10: to make the pictures pop and look good too, for
Speaker 10: the for the photo book. If people have those anymore.
Speaker 10: I think they have those basically on their phone in
Speaker 10: their computer these days. And it's really a nice evening.
Speaker 10: Lots of families here on the bleachers, and some have
Speaker 10: taken off to the actually where the football teams sit
Speaker 10: and the benches there try to get a better you
Speaker 10: maybe try to get a better shot with their their camera.
Speaker 10: And they all just want to see their youngsters in
Speaker 10: this big moment. And we're going to be kicking it
Speaker 10: off here in just a little bit and once again, uh,
Speaker 10: we do have our graduating seniors. We have a Caden,
Speaker 10: Joe gossenman Gage, Michael Hall, Andrea Jeffers, Addison Daniel Love
Speaker 10: will have the rest in the moment right now the
Speaker 10: national anthem. This is popping circumstances and I will go
Speaker 10: through with the rest of the seniors. Alison Daniel Love,
Speaker 10: Tallan Writer Low, Elizabeth Nicole Odom, Jasmine Marie Osburn. Also
Speaker 10: we have Zachary Connor Osbon. Also we have a Killian
Speaker 10: Connor Osburn, Jacob Russell, Powell, Gavin Cain, Scott, Jared Joseph Shambles,
Speaker 10: Cole Daniel Smith, Mason, Eugene Street, Cameron Leanne Van Levi,
Speaker 10: James Van Schaper, also Carson McMichael Woodworth. The seniors are
Speaker 10: now approaching the podium and getting ready to make that
Speaker 10: turn just before the podium and being placed in their seats.
Speaker 5: M Wake what.
Speaker 12: You please be sieving.
Speaker 4: We have your company. School is welcome at this time.
Speaker 13: The twenty twenty five class President Elizabeth Oldhen with coductor
Speaker 13: seasons these. Elizabeth is a daughter of Crystal Holland and
Speaker 13: Satin Golden. She'll be pursuing a medical degree at Oklhoma
Speaker 13: State University and the fark.
Speaker 5: Leaving ladies and gentlemen, my classmates and I thank you
Speaker 5: so much for attending our graduation ceremony.
Speaker 14: You will notice, as my fellow.
Speaker 5: Classmates interured for in church, that there are different honors
Speaker 5: being displayed in the form of sashes and courts. Valedictorian
Speaker 5: and Soliteratorian are wearing.
Speaker 14: White robes with gold sashes.
Speaker 5: Students graduating with honors are wearing color cords. Black cords
Speaker 5: represent their sophomore year, white cords Junior year, and gold
Speaker 5: cords senior year. Jered Conation citizens are wearing red and white.
Speaker 14: Twist suit course. The steam.
Speaker 5: Members of our school community and guests who joined me
Speaker 5: on the stage tonight are Mister Chrismith Superintendent, Mister Jerry
Speaker 5: Wurtz High School Principal, and mister Dwayne Bryan guest speaker.
Speaker 5: School Board members are Miss Andrea Hunter, Miss Tasha Holli, Peter,
Speaker 5: Mister Tony Holland, Miss Shanda Shambles, and.
Speaker 14: Miss Julie Jenny's.
Speaker 5: Our education will be given by Adriana Jeffers. Adriana is
Speaker 5: the daughter of Tyler In Sabrina Cloud and Dinnish Jeffers,
Speaker 5: I asked you.
Speaker 14: About your head having my father.
Speaker 5: We come before you today with gradual and joy as
Speaker 5: to celebrate those models done for the graduating class of
Speaker 5: housing in high school. Thank you for guying your students,
Speaker 5: giving them strength and failing them with knowledge. But to
Speaker 5: each gradulate as they need for recoue chapter. Maybe they
Speaker 5: be getting guided by the list and inspired by hope.
Speaker 5: Help them get their challenge and education to make positive
Speaker 5: and hect around them. In your name, we pray amen.
Speaker 5: At this time I asked that you please stand and
Speaker 5: remove your hat for the seeming of the national anthem
Speaker 5: performed by miss Leah Talk.
Speaker 10: You are listening to the Copain graduation on one O
Speaker 10: four point nineteen around.
Speaker 5: See can you see by the don't.
Speaker 14: What's a broad happy last wee.
Speaker 5: Whose broad strips and brides.
Speaker 14: Snop brue oupamo.
Speaker 5: By w the b part we worres.
Speaker 14: The game, the tree.
Speaker 15: In the road.
Speaker 16: Brad b.
Speaker 14: B birs steak in.
Speaker 17: Yo through the bad lad was still.
Speaker 5: All say stars spa.
Speaker 17: War the land in the red.
Speaker 10: And that is missus Leah call. We're listening to krig
Speaker 10: no Waa Bartlesville go back to the ceremony.
Speaker 5: Please be seated, Thank you, miss call. Please welcome Jasmine
Speaker 5: Orsburn and Cayden gods now. As they can say in
Speaker 5: the class history, Jasmine is the daughter of Air Orsburn
Speaker 5: and Jennifer Homes. Cayden is the son of Jared and
Speaker 5: a man that God's now. Some canen WANs, but five
Speaker 5: of us have remained strong since sach Prey k class.
Speaker 14: Our twenty skin and twenty eleven crew consisted of Kden.
Speaker 5: Class Now maybe not have Jeffers, Jasmine Orsburn, Zachary Orsburn
Speaker 5: and Levi van Steier. We are just kids, Jack then
Speaker 5: Lena Ivy, trying to stay inside.
Speaker 14: The lines when we were killer, when we tolered and
Speaker 14: matching up. Fine are of nap time, though.
Speaker 16: Did we know.
Speaker 14: That those early years would be the beginning of.
Speaker 5: Friendships that would last over a decade and they started
Speaker 5: pigging on each other like brothers and sisters. We didn't
Speaker 5: understand back then, however, is to draw up with the
Speaker 5: same classmates. Most people changed schools, movecouns, and drift apart,
Speaker 5: but not through great knees, birthday parties and school assemblies.
Speaker 14: We stuck together.
Speaker 13: As I call your claims. Please sam Kindergarten wasn't exactly thrilling.
Speaker 13: We said goodbye to Adrian Jeffers and gained the new
Speaker 13: friend and Killian Osborne. We were still learning the ropes
Speaker 13: of school, lining up in straight lines, not talking about
Speaker 13: story time, well, trying not to, and figuring out how.
Speaker 4: To write our names the right way.
Speaker 13: It was quite a year, but the foundation was something bigger.
Speaker 13: In first grade, Elizabeth Odin decided to give her the
Speaker 13: hornets a try. That's when our class started to get
Speaker 13: some personality, just a little loud and a little wild, but.
Speaker 4: Always and entertainment.
Speaker 13: Second grade went viol in a blur, but third grade
Speaker 13: brought big change. When I left that year, that class
Speaker 13: felt different without me.
Speaker 4: I like to think they missed me a little.
Speaker 13: Fourth grade rolled around an Adrey return, bringing her fire
Speaker 13: and sass with her. That's also the year we started
Speaker 13: testing the limits of limits are and teachers.
Speaker 4: We entered the rebellion for the beginning.
Speaker 18: Let's say, energetic missus Johnson must have been feeling bold
Speaker 18: because she led us this bicect frogs with when we
Speaker 18: still weren't sure.
Speaker 4: Educational or experimental chaos.
Speaker 13: In fifth grade, Adrian and Elizabeth both left again and
Speaker 13: things settled down sort of.
Speaker 4: Miss Davis never let us forget who caused all the trouble.
Speaker 13: Her favorite line, it is always my boys and never
Speaker 13: my girls.
Speaker 4: And let's be honest. She wasn't wrong.
Speaker 13: But maybe that's why all the girls in the class
Speaker 13: were as tough and as funny as they are today,
Speaker 13: because they had to deal with us boys for years.
Speaker 5: Jun or my Game, And with it came the drama,
Speaker 5: the awkward phases, and of course new friends. Elizabeth came
Speaker 5: back again. We're sensing a theme here. We welcomed Gavin
Speaker 5: Scott and Carson Woodworth. We brought fresh and energy, and,
Speaker 5: let's be real, a lot of charcasm. Seventh grade was
Speaker 5: full of changed Zach left and non Long came to
Speaker 5: the COVID showed up and flipped everything upside down.
Speaker 14: Suddenly, the lunch table conversations.
Speaker 5: The hallway laughter, the routine of seeing each other every.
Speaker 14: Day, it all stopped. We had to grow up fast.
Speaker 5: Learning from home wasn't easy, neither was being a part,
Speaker 5: but it made us stronger.
Speaker 14: And more appreciative of our time together.
Speaker 5: In eighth grade, our class slightly changed with the addition
Speaker 5: of Ours in Love, also known as nikes, no one,
Speaker 5: no no faces after allie, and no dramatic exits, just
Speaker 5: us getting used to a world that had changed overnight.
Speaker 13: High school finally arrived and with it brand new mix
Speaker 13: of personalities. Freshman year we joined by Cameron Van Callon
Speaker 13: Lowe and Cole Smith, who quickly became.
Speaker 4: The part of the new crazy.
Speaker 13: Sophomore year, we added Jared Shambles, Gauge Hole, and Zach
Speaker 13: came back this year, this time for good. Junior year
Speaker 13: gave us school high school experience, sports, late nights, study sessions,
Speaker 13: bonding over stress. We gained Jacob Powell, and after the
Speaker 13: year we joined felt like home.
Speaker 5: And then finally, senior year, the year we had been
Speaker 5: counting down to this since first day of freshman year,
Speaker 5: Mason Street and Jackson Hymen made a great decision and
Speaker 5: joined us to finish third.
Speaker 12: Year at Copan.
Speaker 5: We've learned a lot, not just from books and lectures,
Speaker 5: but from each other. We learned how to support one
Speaker 5: another when things got hard, how to laugh even when we.
Speaker 14: Were retired, and how to talk way too much in
Speaker 14: class without getting caught.
Speaker 13: Well, sometimes tonight is more than just the ceremony. It's
Speaker 13: a celebration of everything we've been through together. We fortunately
Speaker 13: to be here graduating from Copan High School, a place
Speaker 13: that gave not join us education, but a second home.
Speaker 4: Our class has been loud, chaotic, and.
Speaker 13: Funny, and sometimes completely out of control, but we've also
Speaker 13: been independent, hard working, and responsible.
Speaker 4: Beyond our years.
Speaker 13: We didn't expect a total a typical senior year because
Speaker 13: we weren't a typical class. We were students who worked jobs,
Speaker 13: take college classes, and juggling online school like pros. We
Speaker 13: started building our lives earlier than most and something to
Speaker 13: be out to my classmates. Thank you for being kind
Speaker 13: of people who push boundaries, ask questions, and aren't afraid
Speaker 13: to be yourselves.
Speaker 4: I am proud of every single morning. And thank you
Speaker 4: to Coopen High School.
Speaker 13: For letting us grow here, for giving us the freedom
Speaker 13: and independent, the support to say on track in space.
Speaker 4: To become who we are today.
Speaker 13: Here two memories, the friendships, the chaos, and all the
Speaker 13: future were all about to create.
Speaker 15: Now we will have.
Speaker 5: Our salutatory and Cameron Van come to present her speech.
Speaker 14: Cameron is about her I spread and Sheridan.
Speaker 5: She plans on attending Oklahoma State University in the fall.
Speaker 14: Good evening everyone. I'm human Van, and I'm.
Speaker 5: Incredibly honored and honestly a little over the world to
Speaker 5: stand before you deny as a salutatorian of the Kocaine
Speaker 5: High School class of twenty twenty five. First of all,
Speaker 5: let's hear it for us. We made it after four
Speaker 5: years of early mornings, late nights, last minute's assignments, stressful tests,
Speaker 5: hauling laughs, and unforgittable memories of word. Here this moment
Speaker 5: isn't just about closing a chapter. It's about recognizing the
Speaker 5: story we've written together and the people who helped us
Speaker 5: along the way.
Speaker 14: To our teachers, thank you. You've been more than educators.
Speaker 5: You've been patient guides, motivators, mentors, and, on some days,
Speaker 5: unofficial counselors. You believed in us when we struggled to
Speaker 5: believe in ourselves, and you reminded us that learning is
Speaker 5: about more than grades. It's about growth. Thank you for
Speaker 5: seeing potential in us even when we were too tired,
Speaker 5: too stress, or too stubborn to.
Speaker 14: See it ourselves.
Speaker 5: To our families, your support was a foundation that kept us.
Speaker 14: Thank you for your.
Speaker 5: Every ride to school, every pack lunch, every.
Speaker 14: Word of encouragement After a hard day and every celebration,
Speaker 14: big or small.
Speaker 5: Your love is the constant behind the scenes, and we
Speaker 5: are grateful beyond words to my fellow classmates.
Speaker 14: What a ride has been. From freshman dinners to senior celebrations.
Speaker 4: We've grown up together.
Speaker 5: We've shared inside jokes, awkward phases, sleepless nights, and those
Speaker 5: moments of pure joy that all we high school can offer.
Speaker 5: We've all beense halls, not just as students, but as
Speaker 5: a community, leaning on each other, challenging each other, and
Speaker 5: a writing one another that we're not alone in this.
Speaker 5: And now we stand on the others of something new,
Speaker 5: the future. Some of us have a clear plan, hoods
Speaker 5: and military, a job lined up. Others are still figuring
Speaker 5: it out, and that's okay. Life doesn't come with road map,
Speaker 5: and sometimes the most meaningful past are the ones who
Speaker 5: make for ourselves along the way.
Speaker 12: Here's what I've learned.
Speaker 5: Success isn't about having it all figured out. It's about
Speaker 5: showing up, staying curious, and refusing to settle for less
Speaker 5: than what sets your soul on fire. Be proud of
Speaker 5: where you come from, carry your roots with you, but
Speaker 5: don't be afraid to go beyond them. Whether your dreams
Speaker 5: take you across the world or back home again, and
Speaker 5: chase them even if no one else understands, even if
Speaker 5: they seem too big or too bold, because the world
Speaker 5: doesn't need more people playing it safe. It needs dreamers, doers,
Speaker 5: builders and believers. It needs people with heart, and needs
Speaker 5: people like us. Class is twenty twenty five.
Speaker 4: This is our moment.
Speaker 14: Let's make it count.
Speaker 5: Congratulations and thank you, Thank you, Kim. At this time
Speaker 5: we would like to play our class song, Rivers and
Speaker 5: Roads by the head.
Speaker 15: And the heart we.
Speaker 19: See a year from now will be gone.
Speaker 4: All our friends will know who way and they go
Speaker 4: in the bed.
Speaker 16: Please said, but my friends as well be gone all
Speaker 16: the way, nada.
Speaker 18: As it as they And I may yes, your things,
Speaker 18: and I guess.
Speaker 4: It's your stand as well, but I'm su m h
Speaker 4: m hm.
Speaker 5: Uh uh.
Speaker 20: Oh king about the.
Speaker 12: Way things stay.
Speaker 5: Let's say.
Speaker 4: So if you.
Speaker 12: Don't know why, so.
Speaker 14: Issue very easy rhyme sary.
Speaker 5: Vise and rocks, ravisilassoes, uh.
Speaker 11: Radvises and rocks, Realvis uh verses and browns Revis.
Speaker 20: Shoes.
Speaker 13: At this time, our conductor of ceremonian Valedictorian will give
Speaker 13: her speech.
Speaker 4: Please welcome, miss Listen, old them, good.
Speaker 5: Evening, friends, family, teachers, staff, and of course my fellow
Speaker 5: graduates of the class of twenty twenty five. First, let's
Speaker 5: just take a second until Abram we made it. We're
Speaker 5: standing at a finish line that also happens to be
Speaker 5: his starting life. It's a strange place to be, half
Speaker 5: in the past, thinking about everything we've gone through to
Speaker 5: get here, and have facing the future wondering what's next.
Speaker 5: We're not a graduating class of one hundreds.
Speaker 12: We didn't get.
Speaker 5: Lost in the hall, and we didn't have Stadie and
Speaker 5: Pebrown his Broadway style tas, or enough students to disappear
Speaker 5: into the crowd. We know each other. Over the past
Speaker 5: four years, our class has shared countless memories that have
Speaker 5: shaped who we are today.
Speaker 14: We support to each other through.
Speaker 5: Every challenge and celebrated each success success together. In a
Speaker 5: small school like ours, we've had the opportunity to build
Speaker 5: stronger relationships not only among ourselves, but also.
Speaker 14: With our teachers in the wider community.
Speaker 5: We've grown up in a classroom where the teacher knows
Speaker 5: your name, your siblings name, and probably your dog's name too.
Speaker 5: We've shared brides of school, played on the safeteens and
Speaker 5: sat through.
Speaker 14: Pep rallies together. We walked the same hallways for years,
Speaker 14: past each other every.
Speaker 5: Day and learned their classes through your absence through the
Speaker 5: god names. Mostly because there were many of us to
Speaker 5: begin with, We've had classmates who've been in our lives
Speaker 5: since elementary school or walked in.
Speaker 14: Later and still became a part of the family without
Speaker 14: missing a be.
Speaker 5: These bonds and relationships have created a supportive environment where
Speaker 5: everyone feels valued and connected. What we had was something
Speaker 5: different and something I think is better. We had familiarity, simplicity,
Speaker 5: and a whole lot of meghbories that only a class
Speaker 5: of our science can truly understand. To my family, thank you.
Speaker 5: You have stilled in me the value staff shaped me
Speaker 5: into the person I am today. This achievement is not
Speaker 5: mine alone, and your sacrifices have not gone unnoticed. Thank
Speaker 5: you for being my foundation and my inspiration. Your support, encouragement,
Speaker 5: and love have carried me to this moment, even if
Speaker 5: I didn't always say it out loud. To our teachers
Speaker 5: and staff, thank you for seeing us for your patients
Speaker 5: and for believing in us even on the days when
Speaker 5: we might not have to leave.
Speaker 12: In ourselves.
Speaker 14: Into my classmates.
Speaker 5: Thank you for making easiers what they were, whether we
Speaker 5: were quietly passing time in class, poping off, or just
Speaker 5: sharing the little everyday moments. To add it up to
Speaker 5: something bigger, You were there and I'll never forget it.
Speaker 5: Every stand on the threshold of new beginnings.
Speaker 4: It's okay.
Speaker 14: It's a feel mix of excitement and apprehension.
Speaker 19: I know, I sure do.
Speaker 5: The world beyond us is vast and unpredictable, but remember
Speaker 5: the resilient, cultivated you equips us to face whatever lies ahead.
Speaker 5: Each of us has a unique de fault, the unique
Speaker 5: path to follow. Some will pursue higher education, others will
Speaker 5: enter the workforce, and some may take time to discover
Speaker 5: their passions. Whatever directions, Let's carry forward the many values
Speaker 5: with embrace. Let's be fulled in our aspirations, fearless in
Speaker 5: our pursuits, and unwavering in our determination.
Speaker 14: To make a positive impact. We've left an indelible mark
Speaker 14: on our school, and I have no doubt that we'll.
Speaker 5: Can continue to make meaningful contributions wherever life takes us.
Speaker 5: Congratulations class of twenty twenty five. Here's to the adventures
Speaker 5: ahead and the many memories we were yet to create.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 5: Tonight's speaker is mister Bwayne Brian. Mister Brian is a
Speaker 5: retired Navy Master chief who also attended Copan Public schools.
Speaker 5: Please welcome, mister Blaine.
Speaker 8: Just this thing a little bit. Jerry had me send
Speaker 8: this to him so you could put in this book.
Speaker 8: It's a lot more organized than me. So I'm gonna
Speaker 8: start off with this piece of paper.
Speaker 4: I noticed this.
Speaker 8: Class is eighteen strong, five young ladies and thirteen in
Speaker 8: my math, right, that man, is that right? My class
Speaker 8: in nineteen eighty six was nineteen. We had six young
Speaker 8: men and thirteen young ladies, which is really kind of neat.
Speaker 8: It's just a we flipped the script here a little
Speaker 8: bit and listening to you speak, I wrote down something
Speaker 8: that the sum of sound is crazy when I say it,
Speaker 8: but I often wonder that.
Speaker 4: We're in the middle of everywhere or in the middle
Speaker 4: of nowhere. How far are they apart?
Speaker 8: I don't know what it means still for trying to
Speaker 8: find that answer, honestly, but it came to me one
Speaker 8: day and I just think it's kind of cool. I
Speaker 8: also look at your glass growing up here in Copain,
Speaker 8: and some of you might not like what I'm about
Speaker 8: to say, but I can tell you mister Pettis still around.
Speaker 8: Mister Bob Pettis convinced me to do public speaking in FFA.
Speaker 4: Turned out okay. But what he didn't know was that
Speaker 4: a few of the boys, I want to say, the
Speaker 4: haves and the have nots, set on.
Speaker 8: Top of the FFA Trader right outside of the current
Speaker 8: old brick part of the FFA.
Speaker 4: Over there, they might have done some things that make
Speaker 4: you laugh in class or rest of the afternoon. We'll
Speaker 4: leave it at that. How does that sound?
Speaker 8: But like I said, it was the haves and the
Speaker 8: have nots. Okay, nobody really knew what was going on
Speaker 8: with our class. I like a lot of people don't
Speaker 8: really know what's going on with yours unless you go
Speaker 8: to that special party and all of you guys know
Speaker 8: about Okay. But many many years later, a young man
Speaker 8: somebody ever heard I wrote a song. It's called half Grown,
Speaker 8: and one of the lyrics in that song is you
Speaker 8: can't choose your blood, but you could choose to change
Speaker 8: the change that change you down. So congratulations for all
Speaker 8: of you from all my heart. Okay, but you're right,
Speaker 8: this is a finish line, but it's also the start
Speaker 8: of a brand new race.
Speaker 4: So engaging and you'll do you'll do well.
Speaker 8: Don't gauge it, and people will pass you and they'll
Speaker 8: come back here forty years later and it'll break their hearts.
Speaker 8: So every one of you engage life and get out there.
Speaker 8: And now I'm gonna read when I wrote down.
Speaker 4: Can I do that? All right?
Speaker 8: First off, thank you class at twenty twenty five. It's
Speaker 8: actually an honor to be asked to come here tonight
Speaker 8: to speak. I'm gonna surprise some people.
Speaker 13: I think I surprised Shelley Bardett a few years ago,
Speaker 13: but I'll get the rest of you now. They asked me,
Speaker 13: and I allowed me to be the guest speaker tonight
Speaker 13: at the high school graduation.
Speaker 4: But I didn't graduate, So there's that for you. In
Speaker 4: the manner most tea is traditional.
Speaker 8: I was fortunate enough to get a job, though, and
Speaker 8: it paid pretty well, providing me those housing and allowed
Speaker 8: me to visit about twenty five countries by the time
Speaker 8: I was twenty five, or.
Speaker 4: By the time I was forty. But a lot happened
Speaker 4: along the way. That's part of who I am today.
Speaker 8: One example of a person that taught me to hope
Speaker 8: someone find their better best. If I can say this
Speaker 8: as a lady day, Missus Morrison. She would send me
Speaker 8: a high school curriculum along with the teacher's editions to
Speaker 8: my first ship. I worked through those very exciting textbooks,
Speaker 8: and I would send her letters and assignments.
Speaker 4: Back as she would great them and send them back
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 8: See, you guys do attachments now, you click, you drag,
Speaker 8: you put it in the document.
Speaker 4: You call it good.
Speaker 8: Attachments Back then were a little different. They were envelopes.
Speaker 20: Okay.
Speaker 8: So first college class I took a few years later
Speaker 8: was English thirteen oh one on board the USS Independence
Speaker 8: in the person golf. Missus Morrison motivated me to keep going. Okay,
Speaker 8: I also want to acknowledge ab al comen. A few
Speaker 8: years later, I came back here and I tried to
Speaker 8: get my high school diploma. I've been going to college
Speaker 8: at the college class has been in maybe like ten years.
Speaker 8: She tried very hard to get my diploma issued. Okay,
Speaker 8: didn't feel like I earned it. I don't know if
Speaker 8: that's the right way to say that, but it was
Speaker 8: like and then a lot Okay to have that coveted
Speaker 8: piece of paper, but she took the time and went
Speaker 8: to bat for me, and so I could be awarded
Speaker 8: a high school Coloma. Just like all of you, have
Speaker 8: completed the coursework to graduate high school. Quitting was not
Speaker 8: an option, So I returned to Oklahoma about thirty years later.
Speaker 8: After walking across So I was going to say this
Speaker 8: very stage, but we were inside that gym. Okay ended
Speaker 8: up walking at different stage and walked the stage at
Speaker 8: Rogers University and earning an associate's degree. I was forty
Speaker 8: two years old. I can go on and on about
Speaker 8: the roads life has taken me on, but today is
Speaker 8: about you. So I'll encourage you all to face the
Speaker 8: challenges of the spirit of never quit. To celebrate your victories,
Speaker 8: no matter how big or small. At little note in here,
Speaker 8: and I'll just tell you about it. I used to
Speaker 8: do a little celebratory dance every time my credit card
Speaker 8: set approved that the cash register. So the you guys
Speaker 8: are going to face out the next few years, and
Speaker 8: I hope you'll overcome it, but just keep it real.
Speaker 8: I did a celebratory dance a couple of days ago
Speaker 8: at Lows.
Speaker 4: It's pretty cool. Lady's like what the hate wrong with you?
Speaker 8: I told her celebrate the little stuff anyway, So celebrate
Speaker 8: once again to find out. We'll find ways to overcome
Speaker 8: your challenges. I'm gonna say it one more time. Don't quit,
Speaker 8: which is what I talked.
Speaker 4: About being the theme of today's speech.
Speaker 8: Okay, even if you're being bullied, but the way you speak,
Speaker 8: or the clothes you wear, color your skin, or any
Speaker 8: other the million things that people that are very weak
Speaker 8: can make fun of you for.
Speaker 4: Okay, prove them wrong, That's what I'll tell you, and
Speaker 4: never quit and push through.
Speaker 8: Attitude is good, but sometimes it's okay to be patient
Speaker 8: and a bit softer in some situations.
Speaker 4: I took a personality test a few years back.
Speaker 8: I was applying for a job and a pretty strenuous
Speaker 8: hiring process and almost didn't get the job because of
Speaker 8: my can do attitude tests.
Speaker 4: I mean, that's it's crazy, but almost didn't get the
Speaker 4: job because.
Speaker 8: I had a little too much can do and my
Speaker 8: age is supposed to start running out of steam.
Speaker 4: But I'm working on that. But we'll get back to
Speaker 4: Copain and you guys. I've heard you.
Speaker 8: Guys talk all of you about a common day. Some
Speaker 8: of you have been here since pre K. Some of
Speaker 8: you stayed, some of you went, some of you came back.
Speaker 8: But you have a common denominator. It's called copin Oklahoma, Okay.
Speaker 8: People outside of Copine somebody from Barnesville, even better Tulsa.
Speaker 8: They may say that you hit a certain demographic. You know,
Speaker 8: you're all under educated. You're not going to accomplish anything
Speaker 8: because you went to Copain. We've got doctors, lawyers, pharmacists,
Speaker 8: military men and women, and many who have become very successful.
Speaker 4: I say, where will you be.
Speaker 8: In ten years or even twenty years, or for some
Speaker 8: of us careland forty years anyway, Jerry, I hear you giggling.
Speaker 8: I'm sorry, mister Wurtz y'ah. The when I was in
Speaker 8: my teens, though, to tell you about somebody so that
Speaker 8: named Rick Brower. He showed me love and support he
Speaker 8: never had to and helped me run my race. Literally,
Speaker 8: Rick is a signing example of never quit. Now in
Speaker 8: my late fifties, Rick still motivates me. He may not
Speaker 8: have known that until I said that.
Speaker 4: But it's the truth.
Speaker 8: The next thing you say or do could change three generations.
Speaker 8: And that's what Rick Brower did for me. I didn't
Speaker 8: mention Kobe's name earlier when I was writing this, but
Speaker 8: ton't be more than changed generations when I was in
Speaker 8: elementary school right here, and I really appreciate it.
Speaker 4: So choose your words and actions with care and compassion.
Speaker 4: But we're often small.
Speaker 8: We're often content with a small community that we know
Speaker 8: because it's easy, laid back, it's comfortable the back of
Speaker 8: my day, you were adventurous. If you made it to Portersville,
Speaker 8: even better, Cane, I want to know from.
Speaker 4: The audience to wherever cruise Main Street and Cane look
Speaker 4: at him. Tell you what we had some cars that
Speaker 4: would not make it a Canian back, trust me.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 8: And we weren't even required to have insurance. I remember
Speaker 8: the year that that and seatbelt's happened all at the
Speaker 8: same time. Restrictions. That's stupid anyway. And nowadays you have
Speaker 8: social media, and I know that makes a difference, but
Speaker 8: as of today, still leading what you know. Don't be
Speaker 8: scared to embrace people, places, music, ideas and things that
Speaker 8: are different than what you grew up with. It doesn't
Speaker 8: mean you have to abandon the values and comfort of home,
Speaker 8: but open your horizons is going to help you grow
Speaker 8: this in nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 4: Pop music This morning, say you say me, I'll sing
Speaker 4: it for you.
Speaker 8: Let me wait by line on Ritchie. A lot of
Speaker 8: you in this stands up it. Y'all have slow music
Speaker 8: that you like, dance real close to. Don't answer that
Speaker 8: day believed in the eighties.
Speaker 4: It was weird.
Speaker 8: Some of those people are here today and you remember
Speaker 8: dancing with them. Anyway, there's a portion that the beat
Speaker 8: of the music becomes sort of fast. But the end
Speaker 8: of the fast portion it says, no matter who you are,
Speaker 8: you're a shining star.
Speaker 4: Other than that being very awkward.
Speaker 8: Moment when you're now dancing and the music switches to
Speaker 8: warp speed, we're real close. It makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 8: No matter who you are, you're a shining star. Never
Speaker 8: let others damp in your spirit. Right there, I want
Speaker 8: to add as present or future, some of us have
Speaker 8: things in our past, even at y'all, well, y'all was
Speaker 8: seventh grade, Yet some of you had things in your past.
Speaker 8: You're like, what, You're gonna have more things like that? Okay,
Speaker 8: You've got to face those challenges and overcome them, all right,
Speaker 8: So I'll kind of close this up, but just in
Speaker 8: case you're wanting to hear some work in music, well,
Speaker 8: Cindy Lauper, True Colors, that's a good one.
Speaker 4: Manic Monday.
Speaker 8: I've never listened so close to that song until I
Speaker 8: did today anyway, and by the Bangles in case you're wondering,
Speaker 8: And yes, it's on Apple Music and Touch Tunes. So
Speaker 8: next time you're at waffle house, hold little Manic Monday
Speaker 8: on and sit there going.
Speaker 4: To see how the crowd responds. It's kind of fun.
Speaker 4: But anyway, I want to say thank you to my wife,
Speaker 4: who's here.
Speaker 8: Tonight, because I came back from Japan in two thousand
Speaker 8: and seven, and in two thousand and nine I married
Speaker 8: that beautiful woman, and fifteen years later she still puts
Speaker 8: up with me.
Speaker 4: Okay. I got four beautiful daughters and my son, and
Speaker 4: it's a privilege to be here.
Speaker 8: But most of all, class at twenty twenty five, I
Speaker 8: hope I haven't reigned on your parade, and I want
Speaker 8: to tell you all congratulations.
Speaker 4: Okay. Now go out there and be your own shining star.
Speaker 4: Overcome your challenges.
Speaker 20: Okay, fill your.
Speaker 4: Own potholes and walk right through them, because they're.
Speaker 8: Going to happen, all right, and so thank you class
Speaker 8: at twenty four twenty five Copain Schools and all the
Speaker 8: people and make Copin home. And that's all I got
Speaker 8: to say. Thank you, Thanks for mister Brown, mister b Compayne,
Speaker 8: class at twenty twenty five. There has been a privilege
Speaker 8: to be a principal the last few years. It's also
Speaker 8: privileged tonight to add.
Speaker 13: An additional graduate to your class, Copaine High School of
Speaker 13: giving an honorary diploma to mister Victor Dwayne Bryan.
Speaker 4: I'm start out to set down, but this is my
Speaker 4: original to call him up and lacking in six gradert.
Speaker 13: I'd like to ask you not to bill in the past,
Speaker 13: but since you cannot do anything about it, look for
Speaker 13: the future.
Speaker 4: And don't quit on your dreams to go along with Brown.
Speaker 13: Now for the presentation of the POMAS students, families, friends,
Speaker 13: faculty and staff. The following roll call students have met
Speaker 13: fall Openma State in copaying Board of Education requirements for gratulations.
Speaker 13: Our diplomas will be presented by the Board of Education
Speaker 13: presidents and one hundred students.
Speaker 9: Please rise as I call your name, Please come and
Speaker 9: get your diploma. Caden, Joe, Darznel Jackson, Raider, Heidemann, Gage,
Speaker 9: Michael holl Adrianna, Marie Jeffers, Allison, Danielle Love, Tallan Writer Glove, Elizabeth,
Speaker 9: Nicole Odom, Jasmine, Marie Forsberg, h Zachary Connor, Orsburn, Killian Connor, Osburn, Jacob,
Speaker 9: Joshua Powell, Gavin Kine, Scott Mhm, Jared Joseph Shambles, Cole,
Speaker 9: Daniel Smith, Mason, Eugene Street, Cameron leanne vand.
Speaker 20: Levi, James Van.
Speaker 4: Styber, Carson, Michael bloodore Head. You see at this time
Speaker 4: I'd like to advite hey your own advice to the
Speaker 4: stage for a closing prayer.
Speaker 5: I ask you about your head, Dear Lord, how have
Speaker 5: you concluding ceremony were thank you for the special days
Speaker 5: whilding to graduates of Publing High School.
Speaker 14: We are grateful for the achievements, memories and friendships pager.
Speaker 15: In your life.
Speaker 14: We ask you any right at the protection.
Speaker 5: May they carry the values and lessons flamed her into
Speaker 5: the problem, making a positive uncut wherever they know. Bless
Speaker 5: our families, teachers in law, support of them. Help us
Speaker 5: all to remember the day of the gratitude the hub
Speaker 5: in your navy.
Speaker 15: Pray, Amen, come.
Speaker 13: On you graduating classes twenty twenty five. Please you rise, students,
Speaker 13: Junior disfilled is high school seniors wif you moment, you'll
Speaker 13: leave the stadium his graduates. Remember that's just one of
Speaker 13: your first big A constants with what do you want
Speaker 13: to come? Just time you move your tassel from right
Speaker 13: to left, turn and face the family, friends, faculty, and
Speaker 13: staff that helped you reach this milestone. Gam after events,
Speaker 13: then your products and ProCon High School twenty five.
Speaker 10: Well, ladies and gentlemen, you've been listening to the class
Speaker 10: of twenty five Copan High School graduation highlighted tonight by
Speaker 10: the father of a celebrity, Luke Bryant, Mister Dwayne Bryan
Speaker 10: getting his honorary diploma after raising his children, serving in
Speaker 10: the Navy and taking some college courses and actually getting
Speaker 10: an associates degree at Rogers State University. Tonight he was
Speaker 10: presented with an honorary cap and gown and diploma from
Speaker 10: Copan High School. He left early to join the service,
Speaker 10: and my goodness is with a story, he said, just
Speaker 10: don't quit, keep on going. And wow, what a magic
Speaker 10: night these seniors celebrating with their families. Youngsters looking up
Speaker 10: to the graduates saying, Wow, maybe someday that'll be me.
Speaker 10: I'm pretty darn sure it will. You've been listening to
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