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Booster Club outlines graduation parade, 'grad walk' and senior gifts, including proposed 'Wolverine Way' renaming
Summary
Oxford School District's booster club briefed the board on graduation logistics: a parade meeting at Quaker Farms at 4:30 p.m., a new 'grad walk' tradition pairing kindergarteners and seniors, a mural canvas to be donated to the historical society, and the senior class's gift of a proposed street sign—'Wolverine Way'—which facilities will consider making a legal address.
The Oxford School District booster club updated the board on graduation plans and new senior traditions, describing a community parade, a "grad walk" event that pairs kindergarteners and seniors, and gifts from the senior class including a mural canvas and a proposed street-name sign.
A booster-club representative said the parade tradition began in 2020 to ensure seniors could be publicly recognized even when formal ceremonies were disrupted and described logistics for this year: graduates will meet at Quaker Farms and process to the high school, with a police escort and decorated cars; the recorded start time for the parade is 4:30 p.m. The representative said, "The kids love it when they're all you come up to an end of a street and there's like all these families there with signs and balloons and cheering."
The booster club also described a new "onward and upward" ceremony and a "bragwalk" in which seniors visit elementary and middle schools and are cheered by younger students. The group credited a volunteer, Vic (spelled Vick in some remarks), for arranging a canvas reproduction of a center-school mural; four graduating seniors who plan to enter the military will deliver the canvas to the local historical society at the start of the grad walk.
Separately, the senior class has gifted a new street sign that would change the road name leading to the high school from Quaker Farms Road to "Wolverine Way." The booster-club representative said facilities staff will take the proposal to determine what is required to make the sign a legal address change.
The items were presented as routine community updates; no formal board action or vote on the street-name change or mural donation was recorded in the meeting transcript. The meeting then proceeded to adjourn.
