Perseveratorians: Best of Class 2012

Students from nearly 70 QCA Schools were at today's event (2 photos courtesy of Becki Rogers).

CBS4 Sports Director Jay Kidwell and I

 I was thrilled to emcee the Quad Cities 2012 Best of the Class Event today (5/2/12) at Davenport's beautiful Putnam Museum.  This is CBS4's tenth year sponsoring Best of the Class.  The top students and their families from nearly 70 QCA schools were there.

I had a chance to ad lib, just a little,  and coined a new word...I told the students they were not only Valedictorians but also "Perseveratorians", and that being a Perseveratorian is a character trait, not an award.  I told them in High School they had challenges to chase, face, and ace--and that they would experience those same things in life, and encouraged them to be Perseveratorians.

I said they hadn't probably heard the term, because I made it up, but they could feel free to use it.

Makes sense though doesn't it?  I think a lot of us are Perseveratorians: folks that persevere.  And who knows, maybe someday it will become a real word, in my mind, it already is.