This year’s class motto is “Our lives are before us, our pasts are behind us, our memories are forever within us.”

Class colors are lavender and white and the class flower is the lily.

The MHS band will play “Graduation Suite” for the processional at the start of the ceremony.

MHS principal JD Nelson will give opening remarks and senior class president Holly Harriman will offer the welcome.

Co-valedictorians Ash David, Lacie Gallagher and Holly Harriman will be honored and offer remarks before Nelson recognizes honor students.

Select staff and others will present scholarships.

Nelson will present the Bank of McLouth, Jim and Jane Campbell Education, Cather Pearson Education, Pete Edmonds Memorial, Stan and Fern Braksisck, Bethel Graham Cook, Nelle L. Wellman and McLouth Recreation Commission scholarships.

A chamber member will present the Jefferson County Chamber of Commerce scholarship, while Annamaria Rainey will present the George M. Bogard, Chase Coffin, Michelle Harsh and John McPherson memorial scholarships, as well as the Linda C. Sullivan Nursing Scholarships and the McLouth Kiwanis Scholarship.

The Ward family will present the Ricky McDowell Music Scholarship, while the Mance family will present the Corbin Mance Memorial Scholarship and Leanne Hoobler the Justin Johnston Memorial Scholarship.

USD 342 Superintendent Jerome Johnson will present the class for graduation and then Board of Education members will present the diplomas. Nelson will present the graduating class.

The MHS band will play the school alma mater and “Graduation Suite” for the recessional.

National Honor Society members will wear white stoles, while student council members will wear red, white and blue cords.

McLouth High seniors in the Top 10% of the class will wear gold cords, while FFA members will wear blue and gold cords. Red and white cords will be worn for Cherokee Nation.

Graduation escorts this year are Cresinda Bandel, Judd Holwick, Jerrick Chenhall and Dani Lee.

Members of the MHS Class of 2024 are: Nicholas Dean Annett, Adriana Jade Hyatte, MaKayLee Ann Barfield, Viktoria Skye Irwin, Abigail Grace Bartlett, Liberty Rae Jansen, Caleb Scott Baze (Kansas Scholars Curriculum completer, Kansas State Scholar and President’s Education Award winner), Colton Remington Kerr, Noah Riley Beach, Jason Dale Lasher, Marissa Anne Caray, Ileah Grace Mayberry, Zoe Ann Clark, Caeden Gerald Murphy, Andrew Thomas Cloyd, Leighanna Lyn Patz, Hope Vivian Coates, Gavyn Joseph Perry, Montana Elizabeth Coates, Carl Jacob Rice, Collin Walter Coit, Curtis Isaiah Schupp, Jerrad William Alan Copeland, Clayton Lane Smith (President’s Education Award winner), Trenton Joe Dale, Elizabeth Renee Subelka, Ash Lee David, Emily Lynn Walker, Cheyenne Elizabeth Dlugopolski, Ricki May Ward, Elzy Nathaniel Folsom, Hailey Paige Williams, Lacie Katelyn Gallagher, My ‘Aunia Shanae Williams Collins, Blane Vern Gross, Somer Elizabeth Wyatt and Holly Elizabeth Harriman.

The graduates also will have a Senior Safe after-grad party this weekend. Baccalaureate services were Sunday at McLouth Baptist Church.