{"id":368990,"date":"2026-06-21T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368990\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T08:11:13","slug":"congratulations-long-beach-high-school-class-of-2026-herald-community-newspapers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/368990\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Long Beach High School Class of 2026 | Herald Community Newspapers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 students put a punctuation mark on their senior year at Long Beach High School with a traditional commencement ceremony on June 11. Family, friends, students and staff took over Alumni Field for an afternoon of speeches and celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We must enjoy our youth,&#8221; said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.liherald.com\/stories\/lbhs-names-valedictorian-and-salutatorian-for-2026,218537\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">class valedictorian<\/a> Marissa Miller during her address. &#8220;And not make excuses for not living our lives to the fullest.&#8221; After thanking her family, friends, teachers and mentors, Miller highlighted the impact of procrastination and the importance of pursuing life goals.<\/p>\n<p>Salutatorian Arsen Hrabko spoke of perseverance, personal growth and learning lessons despite failure. Hrabko reminded his peers to approach life with a feeling of courage, a sense of initiative and a spirit of adventure, repeating the popular motivational phrase, &#8220;You miss 100% of the shots you don\u2019t take.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Abigail Moehlenhoff, senior class president, spoke about the commonalities that brought the class together over their scholastic journey before giving her regards to classmates as they all begin new chapters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liherald.com\/longbeach\/stories\/long-beach-high-school-principal,214059\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Principal Andrew Smith<\/a> offered several real-world takeaways, including the importance of making your bed, investing in a 401(k) as soon as possible and always having fun. Alexis Pace, president of the Board of Education, warned students about the dangers of over comparison. &#8220;Notice more, appreciate the people around you,&#8221; Pace said. &#8220;And listen to your own voice rather than being overwhelmed by others\u2019 opinions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.liherald.com\/longbeach\/stories\/long-beach-public-schools-academic-career-programs,222601\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">School<\/a> Superintendent Jennifer Gallagher reminded graduates that the school would always be a place they could call home. Gallagher urged the young adults to pursue their dreams while continuing to make their community proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than 300 students put a punctuation mark on their senior year at Long Beach High School with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[149114,149116,149115,149113,8600,149117,131,133,67606,132,149112,4694],"class_list":["post-368990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-long-beach","tag-abigail-moehlenhoff","tag-alexis-pace","tag-andrew-smith","tag-arsen-hrabko","tag-graduation","tag-jennifer-gallagher","tag-long-beach","tag-long-beach-headlines","tag-long-beach-high-school","tag-long-beach-news","tag-marissa-miller","tag-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=368990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=368990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=368990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=368990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}