The front row

of seats at Sams Auditorium was filled with students in their caps and

gowns on Tuesday morning, as they awaited the beginning of the Fayette

County High School Summer School 2003 commencement exercises.

The students

heard encouraging words from both assistant principal Sharelene Patterson

and principal Bill Greenhaw before the graduation address from Dr. Jerry

Stinchcomb, director of Griffin Regional Education Service Agency. Sticnhcomb

told the graduates that he had received his diploma on that very stage

and offered these words of advice, "Show up on time, dress to play."

His speech used the words to tell the students how to be successful in

education, employment and life.

The graduates

were Alicia Marie Alls, William Alexander Ames, Christopher David Baczkowski,

Chad Steven Brannan, Caroline Ruth Combs, Melissa Dianne Dorminey, Angela

Rose Dudley, Christine Louise Dudley, John Oliver Emanuel, George Solomon

Harkness III, Melanie Lanelle Jeffords, Aaron Robert Kremple, Samuel Sylvester

Lee IV, David Randall Leutz, Daniel Forest Longsworth, Matthew Michael

Mikulskis, Annie Louise Outland, Marvin Robinson, Elaine Kilby Rosner,

Johnathan Clarence Stricklin, Kevin Michael Swanson, Jame Franklin Thompson

and Brandon Timothy Williams.