James Grant and Joshua Haller graduated from Douglas High School.
A couple of people in our extended Record-Courier family graduated from Douglas High School on Thursday.
Former R-C photographer Belinda Grant was working for the newspaper while she was pregnant with James Grant IV. Jimmie’s dad, longtime Tahoe Daily Tribune photographer Jim Grant, worked for The R-C through most of the 20-teens.
With all that photographer’s DNA in his life, you’d think Jimmie might find a home behind the camera, but nope.
Part of Dance Workshop since 2019, and part of the pre-professional division since it started three years ago, Jimmie is headed to the Margaret Barbieri Conservatory at the Sarasota Ballet Co. in Florida.
Before he goes, he’ll be putting in an appearance as Capt. Hook in a performance of “Peter Pan” June 28-29.
On Page B8, right below Jimmie’s photo in the R-C’s Salute to Seniors is the picture of one Joshua Haller, son of former R-C staffer Caryn Haller and U.S. Marine Ed Haller.
Caryn worked for The R-C for four years in the early teens while Josh and Jimmie were attending elementary school.
The Tiger ballplayer plans to go to Western Nevada College for a year before heading to the University of Nevada for business school. His ma says he eventually wants to go to law school.
We’re proud as punch of the two Tiger graduates to whom we admittedly have a tenuous connection, along with the hundreds of other students who graduated from Douglas County schools last week.
All of the students who graduated last week have people who love and are proud of them, and rightfully so.
They join thousands of students over the past 110 years who can claim to have been educated and graduated from our little corner of Western Nevada.
That’s something no one can take away from them. Good luck to them and their classmates.