HUMBOLDT — Humboldt’s Community Fieldhouse was filled with family and friends to witness the 44 graduates in Humboldt High School’s 132nd commencement Saturday.
Two of the 44, Haylie Yost and Bryce Isaac were on the stage often.
They were selected by their classmates to give the commencement speech, which was a rapid-fire dual performance of humorous observations from their remembrances of days in HHS’s hallowed halls.
Yost was given a charm bracelet by Terry Butts, representing the G.A.L.S. Family and Community Education group, as the highest ranking female student in the class. Isaac won the same distinction for male students from the Lions Club, with Cole Herder handing him a watch. Both had perfect 4.0 grade point averages throughout their high school careers.
Yost will attend Drake University and intends to pursue a degree in neurological science, and hopes eventually to do research on Alzheimer’s disease. Isaac has his sights set on physical therapy, with Wichita State and the University of Kansas a part of his post-secondary education route.
Yost also won the Nina McGee Feller and Warren and Shirley Breiner scholarships. Isaac received the Monarch Academic Achievement Award.
Others recognized were Connor Roseberry, for the Dean A. McGee and B&W Custom Truck Beds scholarships, and Megan Hudlin, for the Lions Club Scholarship.
Many of the other students were noted in the program for having had stellar academic careers at Humboldt High, including 15 of them being National Honor Society members.
