Vista High honors Class of 2020 winter graduates
Vista High School held its annual winter graduation on Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020 in a small, socially distanced ceremony at Snider Auditorium on the Yuma High campus.
Yuma Union High School District Governing Superintendent Gina Thompson confirmed the group of graduates prior to the distribution of their diplomas.
“Vista helped me so much,” Vista Class of 2020 graduate Janah Corona said during her commencement address. “I actually wanted to come to school, and wanted to learn and have fun. This school has so many great teachers, and they allow us to take advantage of that. I want to thank them for their patience and commitment to always helping their students and reaching out.
“We’ve dealt with so much in our background, but we made sure that we’d never give up and made sure that we’d be here graduating.”
Here is complete list of this year’s VHS winter graduates:
Alec Nikolaus Bailey
Janah Saraie Corona
Dylan Antonio Jacquin-Ruiz
Sean Ray Mallett
Josiah Jeremiah Martinez Perez
Dayanna Michelle Perez
Lidia Saucedo Alvarado
Jayleen Cruz Silvas
Jalyssa Evangelina Sota
Jamir Clayton Ortiz
Julian Manuel Sota
Merlyn Parada Sotelo
The ceremony is viewable in its entirety at https://www.yumaunion.org/Page/2687