For example, say something like “Good morning/afternoon/night to the faculty, our trustees, and of course my classmates”
For example “I’d like to thank my Grandparents for traveling all the way down from Alaska to be here today. " or “I would like to thank my 11th grade teacher, Ms. Johnson, who developed my love for writing poetry. "
Rushing will make your speech harder to understand and sound worse. Pauses can make a good speech sound great, speeding up can make a good speech sound awful.
For example, “I’d like to thank our school for always making sure that we were prepared for the next step, and refusing to let us fall through the cracks”
For example, say “Thank you to my parents for being so supportive of my academic and extracurricular pursuits throughout the years. You always made it very easy to succeed. "
For example, “I’ll always remember the way that Ryan Hoolihan spreads peanut butter on all four sides of his bread at lunch. "
For example, “It’s been four years that we’ve all been to school together, and we still don’t know who stole that headrest from the bus on that 9th grade field trip - but we’ve learned a lot of other things”
