{"id":23753,"date":"2022-07-06T18:52:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T18:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/editionap.ca\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T19:54:10","slug":"a-memorable-event-for-saint-francis-xavier-graduates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visionrockland.ca\/en\/education\/a-memorable-event-for-saint-francis-xavier-graduates\/","title":{"rendered":"A memorable event for Saint Francis Xavier graduates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCelebrating the graduates&#8217; achievements in person was a memorable event for students, their families, and faculty,\u201d said Angela McNamee, principal of Saint Francis Xavier Catholic High School. \u201cWe were honoured to have Prescott-Russell Trustee Sue Wilson, Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario director of education Laurie Corrigan, and Mayor Mario Zanth address the Class of 2022.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The class of 59 graduates were ushered into the next chapter of their lives by valedictorian Madison Wardle, remarking on the challenges they faced through the pandemic and the strength and resilience they gained. Wardle was also awarded the Saint Francis Xavier Principal\u2019s Award for her academic, extracurricular and personal achievements throughout high school.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Kinnin was awarded the Governor General\u2019s Academic Medal for achieving an average of 97 per cent in her grade 11 and 12 classes. The achievements of Ryan Oldford also stood out, having logged nearly 500 hours of community service earning him the Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Community Volunteer Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Falcons welcomed their newest cohort of graduates on June 27, celebrating in person with friends and family in the Hammond high school\u2019s gymnasium.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":23757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education"],"acf":[],"featured_media_global":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A memorable event for Saint Francis Xavier graduates - Vision<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/visionrockland.ca\/en\/education\/a-memorable-event-for-saint-francis-xavier-graduates\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A memorable event for Saint Francis Xavier graduates - 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