(Seguin) — As Seguin High School wraps up a historic school year, the top graduating student is sharing his thoughts and ambitions with fellow classmates as well as with the rest of the community. Leading the way as the top student of the Class of 2020 is this year’s Valedictorian Beckett Legore.
Legore says he’s honored to lead this very deserving group of students and is humbled by the recognition.
“It definitely was a lot of hard work. I would say it was more hard work than like pure intelligence. Being valedictorian does not by anyway mean that I consider myself to be the smartest person at the school. I know a few people who I would consider to be smarter than myself. I just happened to spend way more time than I probably should have cared about obtaining that title,” said Legore.
Legore says although they were not in a classroom, there was much to learn these last couple of months. Many of those messages were happily shared during his speech to fellow classmates during Sunday’s virtual Senior Celebration. However, since that time, Legore says much more has developed across the nation and throughout the world. Now while he won’t be addressing his classmates again during Saturday’s live ceremony, Legore says it’s still important to remind the graduates that their actions today will determine their ability to lead tomorrow.
“In everything that has happened this past week, I guess I just want people to know that life doesn’t end after high school. I personally always thought of high school as more of a steppingstone onto like the greater life and I think if people really want to bring some kind of change, they need to see things in the same way. It would be easier to think that after high school, you get your summer and you don’t want to look into the future but at this point, that is definitely something that is necessarily and something that we all have to do if we want to do anything meaningful,” said Legore.
As for his future, Legore aspires to one day receive his juris doctorate and plans on attending Trinity University where he will major in political science.
Also leading the SHS Senior Class of 2020 is this year’s Salutatorian Alfred “AJ” Burns.
Achieving academic success alongside Legore and Burns are the other students that make up the Top 10 percent of this year’s graduating class.
SHS Principal Hector Esquivel says this entire batch of students should especially be recognized for making the grade even through these trying months of their senior year.
“It sets you apart academically from the other students in the class but also shows that you put in the hard work, dedication, the effort to be able to place yourself among the top 10 percent of the entire senior class so I think there definitely was four years of work put into this. A lot of students taking a lot of advanced classes to be able to achieve this so it’s a very important honor and distinction for all members that are in the top 10 percent so I’m very proud of them. They have definitely demonstrated that they belong just based on their level of classes that they have taken so again, it’s a very incredible achievement for those kids,” said Esquivel.
The eight other students making the grade for the prestigious Top 10 list include students Andy McDowall, Timothy Polcyn, Leslie Muenchow, Savannah Luensmann, Cheney Stephenson, Julianna Harrington, Alexia Richardson and Kate Sherwood.