Sedona Red Rock High School’s Class of 2020 Graduation Ceremony1 min read

The Sedona Red Rock High School’s Class of 2020 Graduation Ceremony was created by the Sedona-Oak Creek School District to honor all the graduating seniors.

Speeches are presented by Sedona-Oak Creek School District Superintendent Dennis W. Dearden, English teacher Karyl Goldsmith, 2020 Valedictorian Soraya Movassaghi, 2020 Student Body President Mary Westervelt and 2020 Senior Class President Carolina Lopez-Villegas.

Over the course of many days, speakers were filmed presenting their speeches and individual seniors filmed receiving their diplomas, with the videos then spliced together.

Special thanks to filmmaker Jeremy Hawkes.

“I as Superintendent of Schools of the Sedona Oak Creek Unified School District give my permission to the Red Rock News to repost the 2020 Graduation Ceremony on YouTube.” Dennis W. Dearden Superintendent/Principal (12:44 p.m. Thursday, May 21, 2020)

Christopher Fox Graham

Christopher Fox Graham is the managing editor of the Sedona Rock Rock News, The Camp Verde Journal and the Cottonwood Journal Extra. Hired by Larson Newspapers as a copy editor in 2004, he became assistant manager editor in October 2009 and managing editor in August 2013. Graham has won awards for editorials, investigative news reporting, headline writing, page design and community service from the Arizona Newspapers Association. Graham has also been a guest contributor in Editor & Publisher magazine and featured in the LA Times, New York Post and San Francisco Chronicle. He lectures on journalism, media law and the First Amendment and is a nationally recognized performance aka slam poet. In January 2025, the International Astronomical Union formally named asteroid 29722 Chrisgraham (1999 AQ23) in his honor at the behest of Lowell Observatory, citing him as "an American journalist and longtime managing editor of Sedona Red Rock News. He is a nationally-recognized slam poet who has written and performed multiple poems about Pluto and other space themes."

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