Adair-Casey/Guthrie Center Schools are seeking to give the Class of 2020 their deserved recognition while keeping COVID-19 prevention a priority for their graduation this Sunday.

The commencement ceremony is planned to take place at 1 p.m. at the high school football field, with the graduates sitting six feet apart in the bleachers, and families of four to six people are allowed to bring lawn chairs or blankets to sit on the track and football field surrounding the stage. In case of inclement weather, the ceremony will be moved to the high school gym, where Superintendent Dennis McClain says each graduate can have two attendees, or four in the case of having step parents. He shares that the class will enter the field to “Pomp and Circumstance” and he will give a welcome address, but there are no other speeches planned, “We’re trying to keep it very brief. It’ll just be announcing the students and their awards, to kind of combine the senior night and their graduation. We won’t have a typical speaker, the awards will take the place of that. It’s going to provide us an opportunity to recognize all the hard work of those students but also try to keep it as brief as possible with the weather.”

After the ceremony, attendees are asked to promptly disperse off of the school grounds. For those that can’t attend in person, McClain watch the video stream here.