A (Belated) Annual Senior Class Tradition

Shelby Glover enjoys the opportunity to write senior slogans on her friend’s car. 

Usually before the school year begins at Emery, the senior class gathers in the student parking lot for an annual Emery senior class tradition: painting each other’s cars. This year was different because rain on the previously scheduled day caused the Emery seniors to have to put off painting their cars. During advisory time on Tuesday this week, the seniors finally got the opportunity to paint their cars. 

Ashley Doctor loved writing on her friend Lexi Spolane’s car! 

Everyone in the Class of 2017 was invited to hang out with their friends and write catchy Class of 2017 slogans on their friends’ windows. This activity was great because it brought the entire senior class together. Students used removable car paint to write slogans such as “SEN17R” on their windows.

Ariella Teller and Amanda Zivley wanted to outline the “SE17OR” on Amanda’s car to make sure that people see it. 

As senior year is now in full swing, this week’s car painting activity allowed the seniors to take a break from working on college essays and applications and simply gather under the brisk breeze of the cloudy Houston morning. 

Abey Bazbaz was so happy to finally be able to write on other people’s cars, even if people returned the favor and wrote on his car too. 

Senior Abey Bazbaz didn’t tell his friends that he was going to use the car paint on their cars.  “It was really fun! My friends got me good as did I to them,” he said, referring to funny senior slogans that were written on his car along with many of his friends’ cars.  

Emery Booster Club President and senior Orly Golub said, “I loved seeing the seniors come together to hang out and paint cars. It is both amazing and scary to think that we are almost halfway through our first semester of senior year, and I know that we all love the times we get to be together as a class for some of the last times.”