We are now almost three months in to the 2023-2024 school year, and with every new school year comes a new class of seniors. The senior class has loads of recreational events to make their last year of high school memorable, and one of those events includes voting for a senior memoir.

Each senior class gets to vote on a group of things under specific topics that they feel represent them as a class. The topics include a color, flower, song, quote, and even the staff speaker at their graduation. There are two rounds of voting. The first round includes free responses to nominate different credentials for the second round of voting. The responses with the most nominations will go in to the second and last survey. Seniors will vote on their favorite choices from each category in a multiple-choice arrangement. The elections are determined by the items that have the most popularity.

Now, we will look over what this year’s senior class voted for to be their official senior memoir!
Class color: Pink
Class Flower: Forget-Me-Not
Class song: “Good Old Days” -Macklemore ft. Kesha
Class quote: “Never back down, never what? Never give up!” -Nick Eh 30
Class speaker: Mr. Pojeta

Watch the clip that gave us our Class quote here!

A tradition at Dakota is the senior memoirs being painted onto the walls above the lockers in the hallway. The memoirs being on the walls make sure that the previous graduated classes are kept in memory and always remembered.

Here is three of the previous year’s memoirs to compare with this years and others. –

Class of 2013
Flower: Tiger Lily
Color: Purple
Song: “Don’t you (Forget About Me)”
Motto: “Hakuna Matata”

Class of 2022
Flower: Rose
Color: Violet
Song: “22 (Taylor’s Version)” by Taylor Swift

Class of 2017
Flower: Rose
Color: Black
Song: “1999” by Prince
Motto: “The ‘90s Saved the Best for Last”

Class of 2019
Flower: Cactus
Color: Black
Song: “See You Again” by Wiz Khalifa
Motto: “It really do be like that sometimes”

What determines what the students vote for each year? Students elect/vote for certain things that are trendy during their school year, or things that represent how they’re feeling about the year. For example, the class quote (“Never back down, never what? Never give up! -Nick Eh 30) is a very popular audio across social media. Teens find it to be funny and relatable, hence why they elected it for their senior memoir.

The senior memoirs are an important tradition at Dakota, they represent the classes and help us remember the graduated classes. It shows us how the classes evolve and change throughout each of the years. This tradition is one that should continue each year!