Juniors receive rings during annual ceremony

Family, friends and mentors presented members of the junior class at LSMSA with their senior rings during a ceremony held Saturday, April 21, in Treen Auditorium.

“You all have accomplished many things up to this point and contributed so much to the LSMSA community, facing challenges and overcoming obstacles throughout the past year or two,” said Presley Simmons, a senior from Walker and senior class president. “Let this ring serve as a reminder of everything you have done up to this point to get where you are and encourage you to keep going to get where you want to be.”

Jamie Smith, a member of the LSMSA Class of 1988 and president of the Alumni Association, shared the history and tradition of the ring.

According to Smith, it was the dream of Dr. Robert Alost, the first executive director at LSMSA, that the LSMSA ring would be as symbolic as those worn by graduates of the military academies and would be recognized worldwide as the LSMSA ring.

Representatives from the Class of 1985 worked with a ring company to design just such a ring.

The LSMSA ring bears the school crest with the student’s graduation year on one side and an image of the High School Building with the Roman numeral representing the LSMSA graduation class on the other.

The LSMSA Class of 2019 is the 35th graduating class to participate in the ring ceremony.

Those participating in the ceremony include Caroline Adkins of Shreveport, Colby Alexander of Franklin, Cydnie Andrepont of Crowley, Andrew Bagert of Kenner, Destiny Beal of Raceland, Ashlyn Beaty of Sulphur, Jada Bezue of Hammond, Madi Bolin of Slidell, Luke Boston of Covington, Destina Boupapanh of Broussard, Jada Boyd of Thibodaux, Noah Broussard of Maurice, Jordan Byrd of Denham Springs, Marlies Carter of Madisonville, William Casey of Baton Rouge, Juan Cecchini of Denham Springs, Morgan Clendennen of Westlake, Christopher Comeaux of Covington, Ian Cooley of DeRidder, Colt Crain of Zachary, Ian Crochet of New Iberia, Brynlee Daigle of Iowa, Jojo Deep of Natchitoches, Melissa Desroche of Covington, Keaton Dicapo of Denham Springs, Donavan Dowden of Shreveport, Brielle Dunn of Denham Springs, Elyse Duplantier of Zachary, Eli Durr of Natchitoches, Orlando Edwards of Baton Rouge, Myles Fabre of Baton Rouge, Chavonne Fields of Alexandria, Abigail Fischer of Livingston, Juliet Flanagan of Pearl River, Jeralyn Foy of Winnsboro, Danielle Gonzalez of Baton Rouge, Nihal Gopalam of Prairieville, Christopher Grace of Hammond, Emma Gruesbeck of Natchitoches, Alexandra Guidry of Rayne, Coleman Guidry of Covington, Hannah Hauptman of Denham Springs, William Heitman of Baton Rouge, Anne-Marie Higginbotham of Lafayette, Hadley Hines of Baton Rouge, Camren Hohn of Iowa, Isabella Hood of Hammond, Bradley Hyatt of Thibodaux, Emma Istre of Crowley, Kansas Johnson of Columbia, Jansen Jones of Natchitoches, Vrat Joshi of Natchitoches, Rachel Judson of Lake Charles, Sameer Karmali of Leesville, Kiran Kaur of Lake Charles, Caroline Koonce of Baton Rouge, Manjistha Lakhotia of Lafayette, Madison Latiolais of Breaux Bridge, Song Le Jeune of Metairie, Abigail LeBlanc of Fordoche, Kailin LeBlanc of Schriever, Chancellor Lester of Brusly, Brandon Logan of Denham Springs, Riley Louviere of Lafayette, Lucien Maloney of Mandeville, Caleb Martinez of Robeline, Katie McElveen of DeRidder, Daniel Metzger of Slidell, Kyle Michalk of Leesville, Calissa Miller of Keatchie, Cooper Miller of Natchitoches, Victoria Miller of Shongaloo, Tobi Ojemakinde of Shreveport, Lily Orgeron of Lockport, Martel Papillion of Oberlin, Ishika Patel of Many, Garrett Pattison of Grand Cane, Dalaijsa Payton of Leesville, Morgan Phelps of Baton Rouge, Harlan Picht of Natchitoches, William Powell of Thibodaux, Jessica Rabalais of Slidell, Kaleb Ray of Opelousas, Cynthia Russell of Pitkin, Avaion Ruth of Brusly, Skylar Sanders of Starks, Zachary Schleter of Lake Charles, Rachel Schnadelbach of Hammond, Sydney Schroedter of Lafayette, Austin Schulenberg of Baton Rouge, Caitlynn Sengchiam of New Iberia, Esther Seo of Bossier City, Collin Serigne of Cut Off, Mason Seymour of Oberlin, Shivam Shah of Bossier City, Jordan Smith of Geismar, Austin Souphanthalop of New Iberia, Kameron Southichark of New Iberia, Joan Sporer of Leesville, Jaiden Stark of DeRidder, Arthur Stein of New Llano, Eric Stein of New Llano, Kynedi Stevens of Lake Charles; Halie Thielepape of Elizabeth, Casey Tonnies of Bossier City, Christopher Tonnies of Bossier City, Dakota Trim of Baton Rouge, Jonas Truax of Denham Springs, Annie Tyler of Vivian, Diamond Wilson of Natchitoches, Amaya Young of Natchitoches and Raymond Zheng of Natchitoches.