Text by KYLIE MIES, KATHERINE CHENG and AUDREY KERNICK
Photos by JENNA HICKEY
So Long Long, SENIORS THE CLASS OF 2021 REFLECTS ON FOUR YEARS
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HEN THE STUDENTS of the Class of 2021 were freshmen, we did not expect our senior year to be anything like this one. We took relaxing on the quad, passing period trips to Town and Country Village and the lunch time concerts for granted. After a year of isolation from friends and teachers, we are now in the last moments of high school and ready to throw our decorated caps in the air in Viking Stadium. From the friends we met sitting next to one another in math
class to the frenzied float building nights during Spirit Week, we will hold onto the lessons we have learned and memories we’ve made at Palo Alto High School. With graduation around the corner, we say a final farewell to the Media Arts Center bathrooms with no soap, the beaten up Spikeball nets, the mural of Jeremy Lin in the Peery Center and the Student Center stage where we witnessed the original Oscar’s band perform as freshmen. Class of 2-1, we finally got it done! v
COUNTDOWN TO GRADUATION (TOP LEFT) — A group of seniors smile for a photo after picking up their graduation caps and gowns at a socially-distanced event in April. DRESSED FOR SUCCESS (TOP RIGHT) — Seniors Hayden Jung-Goldberg, Hana Erickson and Annika Shah dressed as sophisticates during a Spirit Week rally for Generations Day. PALY PRIDE (LEFT) — On Paly Pride Day, seniors decked out in Paly-themed gear pose for the camera during a lunch rally. Photo: Kimi Lillios SHINING BRIGHT (ABOVE) — Seniors Justin Laxamana, Sabrina Chan, Winter Pickett and Halo Lynch smile at the camera while dressed in yellow for Color Day.
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