Stuttgart High School seniors happy weather didn’t ruin graduation

STUTTGART, Ark. – Four years of hard work in the classroom resulted in the big day for seniors at Stuttgart High School.

“I feel like I made it,” Stuttgart graduate Kemauri Davis said.

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Friday’s severe weather risk caused uncertainty for students scheduled to walk across the stage and graduate.

Thankfully, the weather held up at Stuttgart High School.

SHS’s graduation ceremony was held at the Ned Moseley Football Stadium and open to the public, but if the weather didn’t cooperate, graduation would have been moved to the Junior High School gymnasium.

With fewer seats in the gym, many family members would have missed out on this big day.

“It’s great that God is watching us today,” a family member of a graduate said.

“We’re excited that it worked out and we can be outside, and everybody can come,” added another family.

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If severe weather happened each graduate would have only been given 12 tickets, leaving several loved ones forced to watch online.

“I’m just happy to have my family here with me,” graduate Carson Sherman said.

“My family is big. 12 invites are not going to be enough,” graduate Kemauri Davis said, adding that he had more than 20 family members in attendance.

Having to choose only 12 people to witness the big day was very stressful for the graduates.

Davis and fellow graduate Mykeal Bradley said they wouldn’t have been able to determine who their 12 invites would have been.

“It would have been a random 12 for me,” Bradley said.

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Jokingly, Davis said his family “would have had to play rock paper scissors,” to earn their ticket.

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