The keynote speaker was Bill Hagen, the founder of The Cuthbert Project.
The theme for the graduating class of 2010 was “Sail beyond your Horizon,”
Hagen, working around the theme, told the graduates that if they stand on the beach with the water lapping at their feet and they look out at the ocean, the horizon, where the sky and ocean meet, is only six miles.
He went on to explain that what they could see was only a physical, line of sight horizon but that the true horizon they needed to address was the horizon of their minds which is limited only by their imagination, their education and their ability to dream.
Salutatorian Jimmy Akkin addressed the need for his classmates to live in two different worlds.
The first world is the world of their traditions and the values of respect and honor learned at home and from their island communities.
The second world is the world of the modern, into which his peers were graduating. He told them to, “Never forget your traditions or where you come from.”
Hagen just happened to be on Onoun working on upgrading The Cuthbert Project and was asked to be the keynote speaker.
The Cuthbert Project is working on establishing a computerized learning center, computer lab, at Weipat High School, and currently has eight operational laptop computers in use at the school teaching American English using Rosetta Stone software.
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