DV and MP weather the rain during graduation

Would they, or wouldn't they?

As graduation approached, that was the question Desert Vista and Mountain Pointe administrators wrestled with all day, rain falling and temperatures dropping: Would they move ceremonies indoors?

Ultimately, both schools kept their graduations outdoors, though both moved the name-reading and diploma-receiving portion of the ceremony to the front.

"This is not the weather we would have ordered this evening," MP Principal Brenda Mayberry said in her speech, "but as a Pride family we have weathered many storms, and we will weather this one."

Contingency plans had been hatched by both schools - the plans involved splitting each school's graduation into two sections and limiting each graduate to two guests apiece - but were ill received by parents, who bombarded switchboards with calls pleading to keep the ceremonies outdoors.

See the rest of AFN's complete graduation coverage:

Graduation Night:

DV and MP weather the rain during graduation

Wet weather won't keep Mountain Pointe grads down

Desert Vista's '08 class record-breaking

Class Lists:

Mountain Pointe

Desert Vista

Features:

Identical triplets set to walk in Mountain Pointe grad ceremony

Boatload of DV grads to become midshipmen - or women

Sports:

Carman, Hood MP's scholar-athletes of the year

Shepard, Kline DV's scholar-athletes of the year

Ellenberger, Sangston Horizon Honors' student-athletes of the year