TIT 5° T F-Ya luli 6 The Dallas Post Dallas, PA Wednesday, June 13, 1990 Lake-Lehman graduates Class of 1990 By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer “Your class motto ‘We are at the end of the road and now it's time for reality’ is a very appropriate one,” commencement speaker Joann Ralphs told Lake-Lehman graduates at cceremonies last Fri- day night. “It's the first time you will be on your own to make choices, and you alone will be responsible for success in your lives.” Mrs. Ralphs, a 1971 graduate of Lake-Lehman and daugher of re- tiring high school principal John Zaleskas, is a pharmaceutical lawyer with a firm in California. “Make the most of every minute of each day and make your goal happiness and success," she said. “Remember, advances don’t always come as you expect them. People sometimes become lethargic and accept what they have. The world gives you nothing free, nothing is handed to you. Henry Ford once said ‘What you think you can be, you can and what you think you can't be, will be true,” Ralphs continued. Student council vice president Megan Kozemchak told her class- mates not to forget their parents, the ones who gave them the incen- tive to go after their dreams. Class vice president Denise Thompson greeted parents and friends and welcomed them to the commencement program. Valedictorian Molly White told her classmates, “After tonight Lake- Lehman will become a thing of the past, people will forget and others will take our place, but after to- night you will still be you. You will be in control of everything you do. “We have our youth and energy so let's go somewhere and do something. Tonight, for us the gates of the world are thrown wide open.” Salutatorian Nicole Gardner told her classmates, “This is our last day tobe students of Lake-Lehman High School. Our future is in our grasp, but let's look back at what we had and the times we had to- gether. The foundations our teach- ers helped lay in our lives will stretch across the miles until we meet again. © Principal John Zaleskas, ad- dressing his last class ol seniors, said they reminded him of what kids were when their parents were students. “They are friendly, sin- cere and have a wonderful atti- tude,” he said. Assistant Principal Robert O. Roberts told the class it always made him sad to say farewell to a class, but he said, “Tonight I am sad about three things. I am sad that I have to say good-bye to Mr. Zaleskas, who for 19 years has been a friend and a mentor. I will miss him. I have to say farewell to my last senior class, I will miss each and everyone of you, even though you made me lose more hair, and last, I am saying goodbye to senior high school to become principal of the junior high.” School board president Jeflrey Fritzen awarded the diplomas to all but Jennifer Presper, who was presented her diploma by her fa- ther, board member Dr. John Pre- sper. Department chairperson of pupil personnel Sylvia Bator presented awards to Heather Harrison, busi- ness education; Chrystel Newell, home economics; Charles Hartz, Robert Neyhard, industrial tech- nology; Megan Kozemchak, John Lincoski, citizenship; Christopher Daniels, James Nicholas Award; Molly White, valedictorian award; and Nicole Gardner, salutatorian award. Faculty member Walter Sorber presented the Del Giberson Me- morial Scholarship to Heather Salko. By CHARLOT M. DENMON Staff Writer “It's the end of the world as we know it” is more than the class song to Christopher Smith, senior who graduated ~ from Lake-Lehman High School Friday night. To him the end of the world as he knew it at Lake-Lehman came May 24 when he had to leave his classmates to enter St. Gabriel's Detention Center in Philadelphia to serve a sen- tence for the shooting death of Richard Hillman last year. Alocal court ruling had man- dated that Smith could not take part in graduation ceremonies, but Thursday a State Superior Court decision overturned the previous ruling and allowed Smith to return Friday to at- tend graduation ceremonies with his class, of which he was BACK TO GRADUATE - Lake-Lehman High School senior Chris Smith leaves the stage after receiving his diploma last Friday at graduation. Smith returned home from St. Gabriel's detention center Thursday after State Superior Court handed down a decision allowing Smith to participate in the ceremony, reversing the local court's ruling Smith could not. (Photo by C.M. Denmon) For Smith, the world really has changed president. Smith walked in the proces- sional with his classmates and when his name was called and he walked across the stage on crutches, the room became no- ticeably silent. He returned to his seat and stood with the others in his row as the last diplomas were presented and the students stood for the bene- diction. There were no strong evi- dences of pleasure or displeas- ure as Smith proceeded in the recessional with his classmates and was immediately sur- rounded by his family and some friends. While his classmates were awakening Saturday to the re- alization the world as they knew it had come to an end, Smith was on his way back to St. Gabriel's to finish serving his sentence. Police report DALLAS TOWNSHIP OVER $8000 IN ITEMS TAKEN FROM HOME David Warren Daris, Dallas reported to Dallas Township Po- lice, June 6 that someone entered his home and took items valued at $8,250. Six guns, stereo compo- nents, a color television set and a portable VCR were taken. FLUTE MISSING Mike Pawlik, music teacher at Dallas Middle School, told police ~ June 5 that an Artley silver flute valued at $400 belonging to a student was missing. COPS CHALLENGE FALSE ARREST Police Chief Carl Miers stated that an appeal for a new trial was granted to Miers and Officer Jer- emy Torr on charges of false arrest filed by . Michael Groff, who came to the township to repossess a car for a bank in Philadelphia. Groff attempted to repossess the carand the owner reported to police that the car was stolen. Officer Torr stopped Grofl from repossess- ing the car, since he had no iden- tification or papers to show he was authorized by the bank. KINGSTON TOWNSHIP BEER, GUN REPORTED STOLEN FROM HOME On June 4 Charles Shafer, Trucksville, told police that some- one entered his house through a sliding glass door. It is unknown whether the door was locked but there were no signs of forced entry. Taken were two cans of beer from the refrigerator in the garage area and a semi-pistol with a loaded magazine. DALLAS BOROUGH VAN VANDALIZED Police said that Carla Finn whose residence is next to Back Moun- tain Bowl, Memorial Highway, Dallas, reported that six lights on a van parked at her home were broken. 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