Port Angeles graduation slated tonight at gymnasium

Port Angeles High School will present diplomas to more than 250 graduates today.

The ceremony will be at 8 p.m. at the Port Angeles High School gymnasium.

Tickets, issued four per student, are required for entry to the ceremony due to limited seating.

On Saturday, Peninsula College, Quilcene High School and Crescent High School will conduct commencement ceremonies.

Professor Emeritus Phil Churchley, one of the original dozen full-time faculty members at Peninsula College, will speak to 2012 graduates during the college’s 50th commencement ceremony, which will begin at 2 p.m. in the gym at the Port Angeles campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.

At least 425 graduates earning at least 517 degrees are expected.

The student speaker will be Carol Reamer of Neah Bay, who will graduate with two degrees in administrative office systems.

Churchley, who retired from the college in 1996 after a long career as a chemistry professor, began teaching at Peninsula College when the doors opened in 1961 at the present site of Port Angeles High School.

Also Saturday, Quilcene High School will present 20 graduates with their diplomas at 2 p.m. at the Quilcene High School gymnasium, 294715 U.S. Highway 101.

Crescent graduates

Crescent High School will present 16 graduates and two foreign-exchange students with diplomas and certificates at 3 p.m. that day at the Crescent High School gymnasium, 50350 state Highway 112 in Joyce.

On Thursday, Quileute Tribal School presented diplomas to two graduates, while 16 graduates of Lincoln High School in Port Angeles received diplomas.

Neah Bay, Clallam Bay, Forks Alternative School, Forks High School and Sequim, Port Townsend and Chimacum high schools also have conducted ceremonies.

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