 Hola, mi nombre es Cynthia Bañuelos y le quiero dar gracias a mis papás y a Highline College. Hello, my name is Austin Clemens and I'm graduating for a business associate's degree here in Highline Community College and I want to thank the Lord our God and my parents for all the support they have given me to make my best achievement here in college. Thank them so much. I won't ever forget. Thank you very much. Hi, my name is Christine and I'm in the paralegal program. I just want to thank my two children, Zander and Zane, who have supported me and loved me through this whole process and I wouldn't have completed without their support. To my mom and dad, I love you guys and all my family who's been there for me throughout the years. I finally did it! Hi, my name is Don. I just want to thank my friends and my family, especially my cousin Michelle who's been my rock through all these two years. My daughter, my grandkids and most of all, I thank God for giving me the strength to keep going. Yay! Hi, I'm Grayla. I would like to thank everyone who supported me through my journey and for all my friends and family for showing up today. Thank you so much. Hello. I'd like to thank my family, my wife Cynthia, my son Matthew, Elisar and my daughter Rika Gomez for giving me the support to finish this course. I'm really very very happy that I've done this and I'd like to say this in my language. Thank you so much for being my wife and my son. I'm very happy. Thank you so much. First of all, I'll be thankful to God for this great opportunity. I'm so thankful to my parents, to my brother Francis for all the help and support and finally I met all friends and family so much love. Thank you. Hi, thank you so much for coming. I'm Kayla and I want to thank my family especially my husband and my two children that have put up with the time management that I had to make and also I would like to thank Rod Stevenson for making it financially possible for me to get here and also A.M. Bolfa in the trio services. They made it possible for me to be here as well by coaching me through the whole process. Thank you. Hey, my name is Shonda Johnson and I'd like to thank God first and foremost for putting me here at the school. I love my professors. I had a wonderful time with my friends meeting new people and I'd like to say thank you for everybody that has supported me throughout my years of study at Highland College who has given me courage to press on, perseverance, motivation and skill work. I'd like to thank my professors who I just adore and I thank them for putting me at this platform in my life giving me ready for my next four years of study at other universities and I'm just so happy to be here today. I'm excited and I'm thankful. So thank you so much for being my family and friends. I thank you for being here for me and I'll see you guys again. Bye. Hi everybody. First of all, I would like to thank God that gave me opportunity and also would like to thank my family, friends and teacher who supports and encouraged me to achieve this goal. Thank you so much and God bless you all. Hi, my name is Joyce. I'd like to thank everyone that's supporting me, especially my mom and my dad. Thank you for your support. I love you all. Hi, my name is Julie and I'd like to thank everyone that's in my life, especially my mom and my dad for doing anything and everything just to support me. I love you guys. Hi, my name is Eurydia and this is Annie Smith. And I want to give thanks to my family and my friends and my teacher to help me throughout. Sorry, my sorry, I'm just going to give out to my mom and my dad for other support. Okay, Eurydia, you know I'm the choir now, okay. But I want to give thanks to my children, to my husband, to my church. I thank you, my church for all your prayers. It's been a long time, these two years been a long time, but I thank God and I thank you for your support, your love, and I just thank my teachers. It's been fun. It's been a journey. This is my second journey. Okay, I'm starting over, but thank God and thank you everyone for your support and your love. And I'm a Running Start student graduating this year with my AA and an emphasis in French and my high school diploma. And I can't be here today, but I just wanted to say hi to my mom and my stepdad and my stepsister who will be walking without me and I just want to say thank you for all the support you've given me and everything you've done for me and I appreciate you so much and I never would have gotten this far without you guys. And I love you. Hi, my name is Rochelle. I'll be graduating with the General AA to transfer. I was also the ASHC Vice President of the student body. I would like to thank the professional staff and all the student staff at the Center for Leadership and Service and Multicultural Affairs. Big special thanks to my advisors, Jonathan Brown, Nuri Kim, Ayesha Valencia, Marta Reeves, and my student government team, Pausman, Abdulaziz. We're all graduating together this year. I also want to say a big special thank you to my counselor, Adam John-Apricio for all the wonderful guidance that he's given me for the past two years. This has been an amazing ride at Highline and I am a proud graduate. Thank you. I really want to thank my mom and dad. They made a lot of sacrifices for me to come over here and study in America. We gave up so much when we came over here. Our family, our friends, and the relationships we have established since when I was born to the age of eight. I miss a lot of my family, but I'm really glad I'm making something of myself over here. I can't thank my teachers, the supervisors that I've worked with here enough. I especially like to thank my co-workers at the Center for Leadership and Service. I've been such a supportive team. They're almost like a family to me. So, yeah, it's been a wonderful trip and I hope to continue this experience in the future. Thank you very much. Hi, I'm Jenae and I want to thank my parents because they helped me through college, getting me through the tough times and the hard times. And yeah, that's about it. Hi, my name is Namita. I'm graduating from my medical assistant program. Thank you for my family, my relatives, and my little two kids. Thank you. I'd really like to thank Highline for giving me an opportunity to change my life. I was a displaced worker and ended up coming in Highline and got a whole new perspective on what I wanted to do and change my life. Hopefully the next time you guys will see me will be when I'll be opening up my restaurant. Goldie's coming to a club near you. Thank you. My name is Marisa Tilfer and I just wanted to thank my husband Jeremy and my mom Rosa, who's provided me with so much support towards this degree. Thank you. Hi, my name is Missy and I'm graduating from Highline College. I first want to thank and give God all the glory for this great success and I thank my family and my husband for all their love and support and for believing in me. Thank you. Hi, my name is Alina Valenciano. I am a Reading Start student and I would like to thank my friends and family for supporting me along this journey. I'm excited to attend UW next fall. Hello, my name is Jeneth and I'm from Taiwan. I'd like to thank my family from Taiwan and the ISP office for giving me the opportunity to be the IISC. Thank you guys for making this possible. I love you guys. Hi, my name is Wen Yan. I'm from Taiwan as well. Thank you for people who ever helped me at Highline and then thank you for the Honors Program for helping us graduate as the Honors Scholar and I got to open my club at Highline College. Thank you, Highline. We love you! Hi, my name is Michael. I'm from Macau. Thanks for Highline College giving me this opportunity to study in America and thanks to the ISP office, my boss Amy, to make me an International Leadership Student Council that made me really great in this American experience. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to my husband and my kids for supporting me through this time. I made it! Hi, my name is Drang and I'm from Vietnam. I want to say thanks to all my family, my friends who supported me to study in the US and especially I want to say thank you to my sister who is coming to my graduation. And lastly, I want to say thank you to my mom and my dad who supported me to study in the US and giving me a great opportunity to study and become a successful person. Thank you. I want to thank you for my mom, my parents actually because they supported me a lot and I want to thank for everyone that I have met in Highline because even if you hate me or you love me you guys teach me something in my life. It's really important. Thank you. Hello, my name is Zephyr Swalia. I'm graduating with an Associate of Science in Computer Science and as an Honors graduate. I'd like to thank my parents for helping me get here and also my sister. Thank you. I'd just like to thank all my friends and family for supporting me these last two years in getting my Applied Science in Medical Assisting and thank you guys. I made it. I did it. Hi, my name is Sherri. I'd like to say nobody goes harder than an Emulsion Black Scholar. I'd like to thank my mentor, Ms. Liz Ward. I'd like to thank my mom. I'd like to thank my heavenly creator. It's all good. We're graduating. We're out here. Thanks again. Go Highline. Hola a todos los amigos de aquí de Highline Head Start. Perdón, de la escuela de Highline. Les estoy dando mis agradecimientos a mi madre, a mi padre, aunque ellos no están aquí en el área de Cearo, pero están en México. Yo les quiero decir a mi madre que le doy gracias por esta bendición que él me ha dado, el señor me ha dado la verdad de poder lograr mi carrera, terminar mi degree y también les quiero agradecer a todos mis maestros del área de aquí de Highline College por todos esos encouragement that they were giving me, all my professors. I really appreciate it, every advice that they were having with me, all the patience that they were having with me. I feel so excited for this moment and I appreciate my children's too. I know that I was missing them every time that I was coming to school but I want to tell them that I love every of them. Quiero decirles a mis hijos que los amo mucho y que les doy gracias por su paciencia, por su amor y su cariño y por haber esperado pacientemente en mí. Gracias a todos. Thanks to everyone. My name is Raquel and I just wanted to say thank you to all my family and my friends for supporting me these past couple years. I couldn't have done it without you guys. And to my children I just want to say I love you guys and I did this for you. My name is Brooke and I'm graduated from a Highline Nursing School. I'd like to thank my friends and family for helping me through lots and lots of sleepless nights. But most of all I'd like to thank God for bringing me to the end. See you later, maybe. Aloha family and friends. I'm graduating from Highline Nursing Program. I just want to thank the friends and family for supporting me today. Thank you. Le quiero dar las gracias a toda mi familia y sin ustedes no lo hubiera podido lograr graduarme. Muchas gracias. Pamela Hendrick, registered nurse. I want to thank my husband for all that he's done and all the support he's given me over the last several years. I couldn't have done it without you. I love you. Hi, I just want to thank my mom and dad for letting me have the opportunity to come to college. I wasn't going to come. I just want to thank them for pushing me and striving me to do my best every day in school and in and out of school. And I just want to thank my family, my friends, my family for helping me get through college. And yeah, thank you. Hello everybody. I just want to take a couple seconds out to say thank you for everyone who has helped me get to this point at this graduation in 2016. Hi, everyone. I want to thank God first because he gave me the opportunity to graduate. I want to thank all the people, my family, my friends, all the closest friends that I have who used to support me every day. I want to thank all of them. Thank you guys. Thank you guys so much. Thank you. Hi, my name is Spouseman. I am so happy to be here to be graduating with my associates in business. I want to say a big thank you to my family, especially my aunt for investing in me, investing in my dreams, my future. I am aware of all the things that you had to go through to just see me get here to this point. So I am really appreciative of that. I also want to give a big shout out to everybody that highlighted. It has been a tremendous journey. I appreciate every person that have supported me. I want to thank the directors, Kevin Stanley, Jackie Clinton, the honest team, the honest program and my supervisor is Jonathan Brown, representing students of Highline, being the student by the president. It has been amazing and I am definitely going to miss all of you here. I am so excited and I hope you are too. I wish all of you the very best and I will see you soon. Hey, my name is Lionel. I have been here on Highline since June 2013 and now I am getting my degree. I am majoring in civil engineering and then I thank for my mom for everything she has done for me. Hey guys, I just want to say congratulations to everybody. I want to say thank you to my parents and my family just for supporting me through this journey at Highline College. I am finally graduating with my precious degree and I am very happy and excited. Hi everybody, my name is Natalie. My name is Serena. And we are both graduating with an associate in business. Thanks for your love and support. We did it. Hi, this is Guru Chetan Singh. I am a first generation student and I am graduating with a computer science program and I am an honor scholar and I am so proud being here and I congratulate all of you and I want to thank my mom, dad and all of my friends. Thank you. Have a great day. Hi, my name is Abdul Aziz Bah. I am a student at Highline. I am on this student government as the AACC speaker of the caucus. I want to say thank you to everybody at Highline who has in one way or the other contributed to my success at Highline. It's been an honor and a great... It's been an honor and a great time being at Highline and I want to say thank you and to the rest of the students graduating I want to say congratulations. The wall is there for you and you've got a great education at Highline and go out there and use it and help the wall to be a great wall. Thank you to my parents and thank you to everyone who has helped me. Bye. Hi dad. Hello fellow graduates. I'm so excited for all of us in our futures. I want to thank Highline College for providing me with such a great learning experience. I want to thank student programs and student services especially Tony Castro. She does so much great work for all the students and I'm so proud of all my CLS and MCA family. You guys rock. Thank you for an amazing job and I'll take all the lessons you taught me with me through the rest of my life. Love you guys. I'll see Obrigoge and I just want to say thank you to all my Obrigoge clan but mainly my mom even though she's not here I want to tell her thank you because she really helped me get through this. Thank you. Hi everybody. I want to thank God the Father for giving me the opportunity to come to school in the favor to be able to get my community health and wellness degree. I want to thank my husband for being very supportive and understanding and patient with me for the last couple of years and I also want to thank Highline and the president of Highline for making this the number one diversified school in Washington state and thank all my friends and fellows and classmates and hope that they prosper as well in the future and thank you again Father God. See you guys later. Hey guys fellow graduates really want to give a special shout out to the beef fed office and the department. Everyone and all the effort that they've put into that department is awesome. Everyone in the west the west office for beef fed and work source also fantastic. Cannot forget Gene Monroe. Thank you Robin Richens. Thank you and everyone in the computer lab showing up. You've made my job a lot easier and to anyone that I've made forgotten a special shout out to Jan Schwartz visiting teacher from Namibia and his son Raji. Thank you. I just want to say thank you to my family for always supporting me believing in me and making me feel like I can accomplish anything. I love you guys very much. I did it. Hi I'm Cody Scott. I'm a graduate of the class of 2016. I'm getting my AA and my AAS in visual communications. I just wanted to say thank you mom and dad. I owe everything to you. You guys believed in me all my life and I wouldn't be here without you. Thank you. Hi my name is Brianna Jennings and I am graduating today from Highline. I want to give a shout out to all my family and my friends who have supported me through this whole transition. It has been a tough one. I sacrificed a lot of socializing for a greater cause and I want to thank my children my sons for being there and hanging in there with mommy knowing that I couldn't play a lot of times or spend a lot of time but it was for a good purpose and then I also want to thank my wonderful husband for your support and your loyalty and helping me through this whole phase of mine I just want to say to all of you, I love you and thank you so much. Hi my name is Ben-Linjit Singh. To start off I'd like to thank the entire faculty here at Highline. Needless to say, without them I wouldn't have made it this far. The sport and eagerness in which they help students go above and beyond is at the very least remarkable. Equally I recognize that learning is not confined to this campus. It's more than that. It is just as important to receive that very support at home which I was fortunate to receive. With that said I'd like to give a big thanks to my mother and father. Without them I would not have been given the opportunity to pursue running start, to pursue the honors program and to volunteer. Having them by my side allowed me to truly give back to the community in a selfless way while maintaining high academic standing. Though there were many long days and sleepless nights it was all well worth it. With the help of professors and colleagues today I thank each and everyone for allowing me to graduate as an honors scholar. I'm confident that I will continue to make everyone proud as I continue my endeavors beyond Highline. Thank you. Hi, I just want to thank my parents, my teachers and everybody that pushed me to keep going and keep my education on track. Thank you. Well I would just like to say thank you to Stephanie and Denise from Airport University for all their help and everything that they did to get me to graduate. And I'd also like to say thank you to Mike and Ethan for all the support and love that you've given me. Hi, my name is Tanaia Lanning and I am a 43 year old who's graduating with a degree in business. I'm going to be the first college graduate in my family and I'm doing this for my daughters, Breck and Brenna. I hope to see you girls do this for a long time before you're 43. And I have to give a lot of thanks to my employer, the Port of Seattle for helping me make this happen and to my boyfriend, Drew Covey. Thank you very much. I love you all. Hi, everyone. My name is Karen, I'm Brazilian from Rio de Janeiro, now studying international business and then here I would like to go for a long time, studying different cultures and rights of people. See you soon. Kisses and stay safe. Hi, my name is Negatut Antari and this is my name. Hi, my name is Seiji. Well, we want to say thank you to our parents. My parents in Indonesia. Hi. Hi. And I also want to say thank you to Chris, Roxanne and Sorry. You guys are awesome. Thank you. Hi, mom. Hi, dad. Thank you for supporting me. I'm so, I'm very, very appreciate for you. Thank you. Thank you. Hi, mom. Hi, dad. Hi, everybody that came to support me. Thank you so much. I really appreciate it with all my heart. Thank you.