PULSE BEAT July 2020 • Paramount Chamber of Commerce (paramountchamber.com) • Serving the community since 1947
Congratulations to our graduates! A special message to the Class of 2020
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or 30 years, it has been our privilege to publish congratulatory messages and photographs each year in the Pulse Beat to honor our Paramount graduates, and we have always conveyed to them our best wishes for future success with their educations, careers and lives. We offer those same good wishes, of course, to those of you in the Class of 2020—but yours is a special, unprecedented case that evokes additional reflection. We are keenly aware that due to these extraordinary times through which we’re all living right now, many of you missed out on traditional graduation ceremonies and celebrations of your achievements. That is most unfortunate and regrettable. But we hope that these current hardships will strengthen you, because—as the harsh lessons of the past few months have taught us all too clearly—our country and our world is really going to need your strength, talents and youthful energy to do some very hard work and help us make significant changes as we learn from past mistakes and rebuild a better, safer, more secure world not only for you, but also for all those future graduating classes that will become part of your unique legacy.
Wearing face masks and practicing social distancing, members of the Paramount City Council boarded a decorated doubledecker bus to drive the streets of the City and encourage community congratulations for members of the graduating Class of 2020. (Please see additional honors for students and teachers on page 4.)
PULSE BEAT Paramount Chamber of Commerce 15357 Paramount Boulevard Paramount, California 90723 Telephone: 562-634-3980 paramountchamber.com
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