By Aldona Casey
The class of 2018 will be graduating June second at Mashpee Middle High School and with them will be valedictorian Celia Krefter. Valedictorian is given to the student with the highest academic grades and they deliver the farewell statement at graduation.
Celia Krefter was accepted into Columbia University, an Ivy League School in New York, New York. She plans on double majoring in drama/theater arts and human rights. She wants to become a professional actor, saying, “My goal is to use my platform as an actress to be a human rights ambassador, to be a voice for underrepresented and oppressed women and LGBTQ+ people.”
The class of 2018 will be graduating June second at Mashpee Middle High School and with them will be valedictorian Celia Krefter. Valedictorian is given to the student with the highest academic grades and they deliver the farewell statement at graduation.
Celia Krefter was accepted into Columbia University, an Ivy League School in New York, New York. She plans on double majoring in drama/theater arts and human rights. She wants to become a professional actor, saying, “My goal is to use my platform as an actress to be a human rights ambassador, to be a voice for underrepresented and oppressed women and LGBTQ+ people.”
She is very excited to give her speech and has always enjoyed public speaking. In the valediction she wants to “..remind everyone of the amazing things we can accomplish if we keep believing in ourselves.” She hopes to talk about the future and what it holds for the students.
Celia says she was able to become valedictorian because of her “...borderline unhealthy competitiveness,” and the fact she really loved school. She said, “I’ve had a lot that's gone on in my life, I've had a pretty wild experience thus far, and I feel school has always been my escape. A lot of people look for an escape from school, but school has been an escape from the events in my life and I have always channeled all of my emotions into working hard at my academics.”
Celia says she is excited for the future, but that she will miss Mashpee and students and teachers at the school. The piece of advice she leaves to the incoming freshman is “Advocate for yourself. If you want to make something happen, just march into the office and make it happen. Take classes you want to take and have the schedule you want to have, your not forced into any mold, even if you think you are, just as long as you go out and advocate for yourself.”