The proud and boisterous Trayonna Mood blows kisses to the audience after she accepts her diploma at the Port Chester High School Class of 2019 graduation ceremony on Thursday, June 27.
Before the ceremony, graduate Edras Lopez poses with high school English as a Second Language teacher Kathryn Zappone as her 6-year-old daughter Luna takes the picture.
With honor cords around her neck and a beaming smile across her face, Jalissa Pirro walks to her seat as “Pomp and Circumstance” resonates.
As senior singers sing the national anthem, Erick Nepthaly Gonzalez Zeldeda pensively places his hand on his heart.
Paola Aguilar, 10, holds congratulatory balloons and sits on her father’s lap as they wait for her brother Reynaldo’s name to be called to walk across the dais.
Half of the Class of 2019 is shadowed by friends and family in bleachers and the barricaded area behind them as they sit in the flag plaza for the first graduation ceremony off the football field.
Osmar Cruz Figueroa listens to speakers during the graduation ceremony.
After walking across the stage, down the grand staircase and sitting back in his seat, Stephen Carroll peeks inside his diploma case.
A grin of pure joy stretches across J’Amor Clark’s face as he walks down the stairs with his diploma.
When Marian Lucas’s name is called, her family and friends go wild while wearing shirts and waving masks featuring her face.
While every graduate’s name was met with cheers and whistles from the crowd, the loudest reaction from the entire Class of 2019 is for John Morello, who got out of his wheelchair to walk across the stage and accept his diploma from Board of Education member Lou Russo.
Olivia Perrone giggles with delight as she clutches her freshly earned diploma and walks back to her seat.
After Marcella Zanetti receives her diploma from Business Administrator Sandra Clohessy, she waves at her animated family as they roar from the bleachers.
When the ceremony is over and friends, family and graduates merge to celebrate in the flag plaza, Zavier Garcia leans over to embrace Genevieve Pastena in a hug.
Proud father and Deputy Superintendent Joseph Durney poses for a photo with his newly graduated son, Myles.
After receiving his diploma, José Rodriguez shoots his finger in the air as he marches down the high school grand staircase and onward into the future during the Port Chester High School commencement ceremony on Thursday, June 27.
