HOUGHTON, NY - On Saturday, June 9, Houghton Academy conducted its 130th Commencement Exercises in the Rosemary Tysinger Auditorium, celebrating the graduation of 33 members of the Class of 2018. Family, friends, faculty, staff, administrators, alumni, and community members celebrated with the graduates.
Faculty member and Discipleship Coordinator, Sarah Gurley, delivered the formal commencement address to the graduates and attendees.
Continuing, Gurley asked the class to embrace three F’s (despite their association with poor grades): Failure, Fervor, and Faith. Gurley urged the class to learn from their failures, find what they are passionate about (fervor), and lastly to find their faith in God.
Representing five different countries on three continents, the Class of 2018 will join over 1700 as Alumni of Houghton Academy. Collectively, they received 88 college acceptance letters and 256 college credits.
Members of the Class of 2018 are: Zebedee Ayorinde, Aaron Barber, Alyssa Clark, Charity Colter, Elaina Conklin, Ty Cooley, Kalem DeGolyer, Jun Fang, Cheyenne Heath, Rui Huang, Tom Kawamura, Kevin Li, Lyranda Li, Ray Liu, Liam McNeill, Garrett O’Kelly, Emily Pierce, Elise Poorman, Faith Reinbold, Grace Retz, Jordan Roberts, Lily Sardina, Lily Tang, Luke Tang, Wade Tran, Ivana Vincent-Otiono, Jessica Voss, Thomas Wang, Doris Wang, Hannah Wood, Sean Yang, Brown Ye, Larissa Zheng.