Word: valedictorians
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After taking her school to court to make sure she would be the only valedictorian standing at graduation, Blair Hornstine—spotlight-burned and “traumatized,” according to her lawyer—declined an appearance at her high school’s concluding ceremonies last Thursday...
Hornstine, who plans to enter the Class of 2007 next fall, won her federal court case and thus was expected to make the valedictorian speech at graduation...
Comedian ADAM SANDLER was a surprise guest speaker at the graduation ceremony of his old high school in Manchester, N.H. Sandler, whose nephew was a class valedictorian, filled in for Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, who canceled because the date changed--or as Sandler put it, because he came down with "a wicked bad case of a fake tummy ache." Sandler himself was never a valedictorian. "I came very close," he said, "but was narrowly beaten by 622 other students...
Blair Hornstine, the high school senior who attracted national attention when she sued to become sole valedictorian at her school, violated her local newspaper’s code of ethics in five stories she wrote for them, according to a correction run yesterday in the Courier-Post of Cherry Hill...
Hornstine, who sued the Moorestown, N.J. school system to ensure she graduated as her high school’s sole valedictorian, could potentially find her acceptance at Harvard withdrawn. It is not the first problem that Hornstine has encountered at Harvard: after news of her $2.7 million lawsuit came to light, more than 550 students signed an online petition asking that her admission offer be rescinded...