“Go out and try things in life,” she told the group of 44 graduates plus family and friends in attendance in SCC’s gymnasium in Lake City.

“All of us are moving on to the next chapter of our lives whether it’s here at home, going a couple of hours away to college or, like me, taking a 999-mile trip to Rochester, N.Y.,” she added.

Snyder, who will be attending Rochester Institute of Technology in the fall, continued by telling the crowd that there “will be so many avenues and paths to take — be curious and see where they may lead. You never know the experiences you may have.”

She and salutatorian Riley Jacobs each presented speeches, with Jacobs welcoming the crowd at the ceremony’s start.

-Messenger photo by Mark Adkins

SCC’s band led the graduates in with “Pomp and Circumstance” for the processional. The choir sang an arrangement of “Glorious” by Masa Fukuda.