Nearly 500 seniors at Roseville Area High School (RAHS) are scheduled to graduate tonight (May 31) in the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in downtown St. Paul.
The 2013 commencement ceremonies begin at 7 p.m. with the program including a welcome by student Rhema Dapaah and classmate Grace Alexander giving the student graduation address.
The high school has five seniors graduating in the top 1 percent of their class. Meanwhile, there about 60 students graduating in the top 10 percent of their class.
Here is Roseville High's top 1 percent graduates, their plans and favorite quote:
Jane Becker
Parents: Jim and Barbara Becker College, major: University of St Thomas - Accounting Favorite quote: “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allison Cordes
Parents: Scott and Jill Cordes College, major: Bemidji State University – Mathematics Education Favorite quote: “I grew up on a farm. We learned that there was a season to plant, a season to water, and a season to harvest. The planting and watering could be laborious, but without those stages, there would never be a harvest.”. - John Wood
Logan J. Daniels
Parents: Terry Daniels and Barbara Riniker Daniels College, major: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities - Engineering Favorite quote: “Those who are clever, who have a Brain, never understand anything.” - Winnie the Pooh
Erik Husby
Parents: Paul and Bethany Husby College, major: University of Minnesota – Twin Cities- Astrophysics Favorite quote: “We all can be only what we are, nothing more, or less.” - Terry Goodkind, Wizard’s First Rule
William Thomas
Parents: Glenn Thomas and Kathleen Grimm College, major: University of Chicago – Mathematics and Physics Favorite quote: “The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.” - Susan Sontag
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