Class of 2021
End of Year
Activities Guide
Dress & Appearance
For Graduation
Fairfield Union High School
6675 Cincinnati-Zanesville Rd. NE Lancaster, OH 43130
Phone: 740-536-7306
Fax: 740-536-7911
Matt McPhail, Principal
E-mail: mattmcphail@fairfieldunion.org
Fairfield Union High School
Graduaon is a formal extra-curricular acvity,
which will be viewed by over one thousand
parents, relaves, and friends. This acvity
will also be video taped. We encourage you to
parcipate in the graduaon program; howev-
er, you are not required to do so. If you do
not wish to aend graduaon, you must sub-
mit a signed statement (with parent signa-
ture if under age 18) to the class adviser, Mrs.
Cupp, stang your intenons by Wednesday
May 19. In keeping with this formal seng,
the following guidelines must be followed in
order to parcipate in this extra-curricular
acvity:
Men
Dress Shirt (white if possible), Tie (preferred)
Dark Color Dress Slacks (no jean styles)
Dark Color Socks
Dark Color Dress Shoes (no athlec shoes, san-
dals, boots or ip ops)
No Sunglasses
Women
Dress/Dress Slacks (no jean styles) and Top
Dress Shoes (no athlec shoes, boots or ip-
ops)
No Sunglasses
Caps may NOT be decorated
All school policies apply on the day of gradua-
on pracce. Your cooperaon will be appre-
ciated in order to best present the Class of
2021.
All seniors are required to complete the google
form tled “Records Release and Future Plans”
no later than May 7. Visit the Class of 2021 web
page for the required google form.
Important !!! Final Transcripts will be mailed
out in June based on the college listed on this
form.
CLASS OF 2021—FUTURE PLANS
FORM DUE MAY 7
Handicapped Parking for
Graduation Day
Names of those persons requiring handicapped
parking on graduaon day should be turned into
Mrs. Cupp via google form no later than Friday,
May 28. Visit the Class of 2021 web page for re-
quired google forms to sign up.
Other Important Dates & Times
April 29—Senior Photo for newspaper
publication—7:20 a.m. at High School
Gym
May 19—Deadline for all senior fees to be
paid. (No checks will be accepted during the
month of May.)
May 21—Last day of aendance for seniors
and all fourth quarter assignments are due.
Remember, an incomplete grade will pre-
vent you from going through the graduaon
ceremony and receiving your diploma.
May 23—Senior Awards Night, by invitaon
only.
SENIOR GROUP PICTURE and PRESEN-
TATION OF DIPLOMA – Dave Saunders Pho-
tography will be here on the graduaon rehearsal
day to take a senior group picture in your cap and
gown. He will also take a presentaon of diploma
photo at graduaon for those graduates who order a
package. An order form from Dave Saunders is in-
cluded in this mailing; please return the order form
directly to Dave Saunders on May 24.
Graduation Video—Innerphase Video will
be recording this year’s graduaon. One DVD
copy of the ceremony will be available to all
seniors—free of charge. More details will be
available on graduaon pracce day.
The Principal’s Message
Dear Seniors,
Congratulaons on making it to the nish
line! Last March when we went to virtual status
for COVID 19, nobody ancipated the challenges
you would be forced to deal with! Now, you
have put those challenges behind you and it’s
me to celebrate all of your accomplishments
from the past 12 years and most importantly
your graduaon! You should be very proud of
your achievement, especially given the fact that
you did the last ve quarters during an historical
100-year Pandemic! You have handled all of this
with perspecve and grace and while you were
forced to manage many disappointments, in the
end your focus and determinaon put you in
posion to make the best of one of the biggest
challenges of your lives! We are excited to share
this moment with you and while I am certain you
are already looking forward to your next chapter,
I encourage you to slow down and reect on all
that you have done to get to this point. Please
allow me to be the rst to congratulate you on A
JOB WELL DONE!
Good luck, and …
Go Falcons!
Mr. McPhail, Principal
Senior Sunrise (New for class of 2021)
- May 24, 5:45am
The Senior Sunrise is a new acvity that we are
oering for our senior class to be able to enjoy
one last morning together and share in watching
the sunrise on campus on your last day with
us! We will oer this prior to the Senior appreci-
aon breakfast and graduaon pracce on May
24 starng at 5:45am. All seniors should park in
the visitor parking lot in front of the building
(adjacent to the soccer elds). The sunrise on
May 24 is at 6:08 a.m. so come out and enjoy
your last sunrise as a Senior at FUHS!
Senior Appreciation Breakfast
Monday, May 24—7:45 a.m.
A special "Senior Appreciaon Breakfast" will be
held on May 24 beginning at 7:45 a.m. in the high
school cafeteria. There is no cost involved for sen-
iors, but reservaons will be needed in order to
complete planning and proper ordering of food
items for this event. Visit the Class of 2021 web
page for required google forms to sign up.
Mandatory Graduation
Rehearsal will be held on Monday, May 24
from 8:30 a.m. unl approximately noon. IF YOU
PLAN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GRADUATION SER-
VICE ON MAY 30, YOU MUST BE AT PRACTICE ON
MAY 24 AT THE TIME LISTED ABOVE! Do not ask
to leave early or arrive late for pracce. If you have
a job, request that morning o early to avoid po-
tenal conicts.
Caps & Gowns— Seniors will receive their caps
& gowns at pracce on May 24. The caps & gowns
were ordered by the senior adviser and paid for
from the senior class fund.
Career Center Students—If you are parcipang
in the FUHS ceremony, you will need to be at prac-
ce on May 24 with your cap, gown, tassel and
hood. If you are not parcipang in our ceremony
you will need to do the following:
• Nofy Mrs. Cupp in wring by May 19 that you
are NOT parcipang.
Those parcipang in the Career Center’s senior
ceremony, need to nofy Mrs. Cupp. Arrangements
will be made to deliver your cap and gown to the
career center in me for the ceremony.
GRADUATION—MAY 30
Due to the indoor restricons imposed by the
Ohio Department of Health relave to COVID
19 (25% of xed seang capacity), we will
make every eort to hold Graduaon at Fal-
con Stadium this year. We intend to have the
Graduaon Ceremony at our tradional me
of 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 30. If there is a
possibility of inclement weather on May 30, it
is possible Graduaon could be moved to earli-
er in the day, so please try to reserve the enre
day for Graduaon. In a worst case scenario
where weather does not allow for an outdoor
Graduaon on May 30, our next opon will be
to hold Graduaon on Monday, May 31.
We feel it is crical to make every eort to
hold an outdoor Graduaon to allow for all
family members to aend this ceremo-
ny. Should we experience inclement weather
on May 30 and May 31, as a last resort, Gradu-
aon will be held in the gym at Faireld Union
High School on Monday, May 31 at 4:00 p.m. If
we are forced to move Graduaon to the gym,
each graduate will be permied two
guests. Seniors will receive their ckets on
Graduaon Pracce day.
The dates and mes will be priorized in the
following manner:
Regularly Scheduled Ceremony
Sunday, May 30 - 6:00 p.m.
Report me 5:20 p.m. Falcon Stadium
Inclement Weather Plans
Sunday, May 30 - 12:00 p.m.
Report me 11:20 a.m. Falcon Stadium
Monday, May 31 - 6:00 p.m.
Report me 5:20 p.m. Falcon Stadium
Monday, May 31 - 12:00 p.m.
Report me 11:20 a.m. Falcon Stadium
Monday, May 31 - 4:00 p.m.
Report me 3:20 p.m. FUHS Gym
No ckets will be issued for
the outdoor ceremony.
