About 698 Worthington Kilbourne and Thomas Worthington high school seniors strode down the aisles of the Schottenstein Center on June 6, leaving high school behind to focus on their futures.

Kilbourne boys wore black robes and mortarboards while girls wore blue.

Out of 341 graduates, Kilbourne had 35 graduates with highest honors and gave away 127 honors diplomas.

The speakers were class president Matt Goldberg, Superintendent Melissa Conrath and school board President Julie Keegan.

Kilbourne's graduates with highest honors, with 4.0 grade-point averages and above, are: Mary Kate Blackmon, Kristen Bond, Rebecca Borden, Kristyn Burgess, Holly Chen, Stephanie DiBartola, Preston Gall, Matt Goldberg, Roy Greim, Danielle Hart, Ryhan Hassan, B. J. Hwang, Kevin Jiang, Joshua Keller, Maria Khrakovsky, Namhyeon Kim, Kelsey Koke, Taylor Kuepfer, Matt Mayberry, Elizabeth Martin, Kevin Metka, Laura Millar, Kristin Moore, Jaclyn Mowery, Ian O'Keefe, Robbie Schram, Emily Singeltary, Nathan Sparks, Leslie Stovall, Melanie Swick, Kyle Troutner, Bernard Wen, Jessica Williams, Peter Worley and Julie Young.

Greim said he was excited during the commencement ceremony, but he's got his eye on tomorrow.

"It was a special occasion, but I was thinking ahead to college," he said. "High school is over and I'll miss my friends and teachers, but I'm thinking about what's new and what's next."

Greim will attend Swarthmore College, just outside Philadelphia, with a possible major in history.

"It's about the size of Kilbourne and is a small liberal arts college," he said. "I felt I wanted a liberal arts education. I think it will be intellectually stimulating because I won't be able to hide in a large class. The atmosphere seems to be more cooperative than competitive."

Greim said he'll miss the familiarity of his high school classes.

"I had some really good teachers, especially in the history and the social studies department, and they were not only good teachers but really nice people," he said. "I'll also miss having all my friends in my classes."

He played in the orchestra at Kilbourne, was on the In the Know team and started an Ultimate Frisbee Club. He also put together a team of students to represent Worthington in the Ultimate Frisbee League in Columbus.

Thomas Worthington graduates totaled 357, with boys wearing blue and girls wearing white robes and mortarboards.

Commencement speakers were Worthington alumnae and sisters Claire Shipman and Susannah Shipman, a national journalist and documentary producer, respectively.

Students graduating with 4.0 or above are: Alek Adkins, Nana Agyepong, Raymond Anderson II, Meghan Atterbury, Molly Bachmann, Seth Bullock, M. Walid Choueki, Elka del Portal, Lana Dennison, Kathleen Dotts, Max Friedlander, Melissa Girgis, Mounika Gutti, Kyle Hann, Jesse Hart, Stuart Holmes, Jonathan Katz, Rachel Keeler, Benjamin Lemberger, Alexandra Nash, Seung Wan Paik, Chirayu Patel, Shannon Perry, Eric Petry, Spurthi Reddy, William Reidenbach, Rebekah Rittenberg, Shaadee Samimy, Erika Senk, Anna Simmons, Casey Smiley, James Smith, Dustin Stasel, Luke Stevens, Kellen Sullivan, Matthew Tischer, Kuanwei Tseng, Andrew Ulman, Srivaths Venkatachari, Matthew Walker, Jennifer Wallace, Samantha Ward, Rachel Webb, Zachary Weinrich, Dorien Xia and Rebecca Zeid.

Agyepong said receiving her diploma was bittersweet.

"I was enjoying the ceremony, but really thinking of how bittersweet it was," she said. "I was ready to graduate, but I know I can never relive those high school years and all the great moments, even though I'm proud of my accomplishments and hard work."

Agyepong will attend Otterbein College in the fall to major in chemistry and biology.

"I hope to eventually become a pediatrician," she said.

She was in choir, track and field and the Spanish National Honor Society at Thomas Worthington.

"I'll miss all the new friends I made and the relationships I formed with my teachers," she said.