Valedictorian Ty McConn and Salutatorian Kailee Love
EARLY – Ty McConn earned valedictorian honors while Kailee Love will represent Early High School’s Class of 2021 as its salutatorian.
Early’s graduation is slated for 8 p.m. Friday, May 21 at Longhorn Stadium.
McConn, the son of Larry and Kari McConn, said of the valedictorian accolade, “It’s a great honor. I’ve worked very hard in all four of my years with my studies and to help others. It’s a really great honor to be recognized for all the hard work I’ve put in. We get our reports each semester and I noticed I’ve been at the top, so it’s something that I knew was attainable and achievable for me.”
Mike Vidakovich
In the late winter of 1975, I was in eighth grade and I went to the high school on a weekend evening to watch the Glenwood Demons battle their big rivals from Carbondale, the Roaring Fork Rams. As was usually the case back then, it was standing room only in the old Glenwood gym when Bob Chavez’s Demons squared off against Sonny Darien’s Rams.
There have been a couple of plays or moments that have taken place on that old hardwood floor in Glenwood that I can now, and will forever remember as clearly as if they took place yesterday. One of them happened that night when Demon guard Rob Chavez was all alone heading down the court for what seemed to be an easy fast break layup.
Mike Vidakovich
During my senior year at Glenwood Springs High School, our much-anticipated basketball season began on the usual mid-November day in 1978. Our season held an abundance of promise, even though we were kicking off the new campaign minus a couple of starters and some reserve players who were still involved in Glenwood’s successful football run through the playoffs.
We were aware that if the football team advanced all the way to the state championship game, our first basketball contest would fall on the night before the title tilt. Moffat County was scheduled for our home opener, and we all knew we could take them even if we were a bit shorthanded.