• By Royal M. Hopper III
    Times Correspondent
     
    HOBART: As the 230-plus Hobart High Class of 2007 stepped forward to accept the rewards of four years of hard work, applause erupted from one section of Brickie Bowl at a time.
     
    Parents and siblings filled the stands applauding for their loved ones.
     
    In one yard near the stadium, a woman stood watching the commencement in front of a sign congratulating her loved one and the entire class.
     
    "Once a Brickie always a Brickie," the sign read.
     
    In her commencement address, Sarah Rearick told her classmates theirs had been a class of dreamers, doers, and believers. She cautioned them that knowledge does not just exist in scholarly endeavors, but in the friendships that will carry them through life.
     
    Re'Nesha Weston, class treasurer, reminded students not to let go of the child inside them, the one that allows them to dream, as they become adults.  Class president Ann Govert reminded the seniors of their class' success and said with hard work and dedication almost anything is possible.
     
    As each senior accepted a diploma, friends and family cheered, starting with Cheryl Abad and ending with Adam Zormier.
     
    After the speeches and a performance of the class song, the seniors were presented to onlookers by Principle Dave Spitzer, and then pronounced graduated by Superintendent John Leach.
     
    Steven Gonzales' family and friends cheered for him as they called out his name, and Jesse Ann Weber's friends in the school band let out a loud round of cheers as she took her diploma, perhaps recalling the closing words of their classmate's address:
     
    "To my classmates in the class of 2007 I have this to say: Thanks for the memories. It's been a blast,"Rearick said.