Well, it looks like Tulsa County Special District Judge Carlos Chappelle isn't going to get upstaged at the Booker T. Washington High School graduation ceremony after all.
Booker T. was one of the 1,000 schools competing for President Obama to deliver its graduation address.
Students at Washington made an outstanding two-minute video as part of the competition, but didn't win out.
A public vote narrowed the field to three finalists, schools in Michigan, Ohio and Colorado. Obama chose the winner, Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, Mich.
Mike Mims, assistant principal at Washington, told me that the school's June 3 graduation at ORU's Mabee Center will go on despite the disappointment.
The school had planned on Chappelle giving the graduation speech, but was going to find a way to shoehorn Obama in, if it had won the honor.
I'm having a hard time remembering who spoke at my high school graduation. It wasn't the president of the United States, who was Ronald Reagan at the time. I kind of think it was the president of the school board, who was no Ronald Reagan, for sure.
Here's that Washington video that I still think was a winner, no matter what President Obama says.
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