Hats off to the By Randy Capps
Class of 2020
Since our annual Summer Guide was impossible to do for this issue, we had to come up with another idea. Luckily, all of the inspiration we needed lives right down the hall. Our son, Ethan, is a member of the Class of 2020 at South Johnston High School, and like thousands of other Johnston County students, the second half of his senior year has been notable for all of the things that didn’t happen. I’m talking about proms, baseball seasons, softball seasons, tennis seasons,
club meetings and the countless other moments that make a young person’s last year in school one of the most memorable of their lives.
of them. But it’s a small way for us to recognize these amazing young people as we wait for the world to look like itself again.
My happiest high school memories happened during my senior year, and I can only imagine how it must feel for the Class of 2020 to have it all end so suddenly.
I enjoyed reading the submissions we got. I felt a mixture of happiness and sadness, reading about the things they all did, or didn’t, get the chance to do.
We can’t bring back that which has been lost, but we can try to honor the accomplishments of a few of our students inside these pages.
It made me think of Ethan and what this has been like for him.
This isn’t all of them. It isn’t even most
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Wait a second. I wouldn’t be much of a dad if I didn’t write up Ethan’s profile, would I?
