Graduation Reminders for Students and Their Guests

Reminders for Students

• All graduating seniors will be required to travel by District provided buses to Suffolk County Community College.   
• Students should arrive at the Walter G. O’Connell Copiague High School between 4:30 PM and 4:45 PM.  DO NOT BE LATE!
• Remember to come dressed in your graduation attire
  • Cap
  • Gown
  • Tassel
• Students should not bring anything with them except their cellphones as there will not be any place to store personal items. 
  

• Graduation starts at 7:00 PM.

• Any guest that arrives after 7:10 PM will not be permitted to enter the ceremony area and will not be seated.  Guests will need to wait outside of the Suffolk Federal Credit Union Arena until the conclusion of the graduation ceremony.

• Balloons, signs, confetti cannons, and noise making devices such as airhorns are not permitted in the Suffolk Federal Credit Union Arena.   If brought to the ceremony, these items will need to be left outside of the building. 

• Any guest 5 years of age and older MUST have a ticket to enter the Suffolk Federal Credit Union Arena.  Guests without tickets will be turned away.

• Flowers will be available for CASH purchase on a first come, first served basis starting at 6:00 PM.  Bouquets will be $20.  

• At the conclusion of the ceremony, family and friends of the graduates should immediately exit the Suffolk Federal Credit Union Arena.  Students will meet their graduation guests outside in the designated meeting areas.   The meeting areas will be assigned according to each graduate’s guidance counselor (see below).

   

  Meeting Area A – Mrs. Baldwin

  Meeting Area B – Mrs. Cutolo

  Meeting Area C – Ms. Darge

  Meeting Area D – Mrs. Horan

  Meeting Area E – Mrs. Poten

  Meeting Area F – Mrs. Salegna

  Meeting Area G – Mrs. Tillinghast/Mrs. Kelly