Photo Gallery: Walnut and Diamond Bar High Grads Turn Their Tassels

Seniors at both Walnut and Diamond Bar high schools Thursday night crossed the stage and received their diplomas at graduation ceremonies on the two campuses.

For Diamond Bar High, it marked the school's 30th graduating class.  More than 800 students received diplomas at Holmes Memorial Stadium.

The following is a list provided by the Walnut Unified School District of Valedictorians and IB Diploma recipients from Diamond Bar High.

DBHS Valedictorians:  Deedee Chao, Joshua Chen, Genevieve Cheung, Jimmy Cheung, Stephanie Chow, Favian Ho, Brittani Kellogg, Casey Lam, Alice Lee, Christopher Lee, Joyce Lee, Sowbhagya Nalla, Udodiri Okwandu, Jonathan Phan, Zephan Walters, Adrienna Yan and Jason Yang.  

IB Diploma Certificates: Hajra Bawany, Jonathan Chandrasekhar, Deedee Chao, Stephanie Chow, Joshua Fachtmann, Eric Huang, Alexander Jeon, Irene Jeon, Daniel Chanyoung Kim, Kevin Kuhlman, Haelynn Kwon, Laurie Lee, Che-Hsuan Liao, Jackson Lu, Gwyneth Mallari, Katharina Miyoshi, Dylan Nguyen, Lauren Pak, Audrey Phone, and Adrienna Yan.  

Walnut had its 44th annual commencement ceremony at Ken Gunn Stadium, where more than 770 students were in the graduating class of 2013.

Walnut High School Valadictorians:  Kaelan Chan, Avika Dua, Jessica Kwok, Amy Lee, Morgan Lee, Jasmine Lin, Nahlee Lin, Margaret Pan, Elliot Park, Matthew Tsai, Priscilla Tsui, He Wang, Brittany Watu, Marion Xu, Julius Yee, Mason Yu, Kingston Zhou, Kingswell Zhou, and Lucas Zung.

IB Diploma Candidates:  Jeffrey Chen, Yi-Hua Chen, Mira Chiu, Andrew Chuen, Kaitlin Clark, Joseph Din, Michael Duarte, Diane Fann, Kevin Fong, Raytene Han, George He, Leon Ho, Grant Hoh, Aaron Huang, Timothy Huang, Sharon Hwang, Erika Ingram, Daniel Kim, Joshua Kim, Michelle Kim, Nathan Kim, Samuel Kim, Sandra Ko, Joyce Lam, Felix Lee, Kenny Lee, Michael Lee, Luxi Liang, Roger Liang, Rebecca Liaw, Nahlee Lin, Po-Hsuan Lin, Sean Liu, Yan Liu, Denise Lopez, John Martin Louis Luna, Erica Ma, Celine Mansjur, Kristen Nacionales-Tafoya, Abeer Nasir, Lan-Anh Ngo, Stanley Nhan, Amanda Ong, Leonie Phoa, Natalie Polacek, Rohit Rajkumar, Ty Jalayah Robertson, Adrian Rodriguez, Deborah Sam, Jonathan Shieh, Emmy Shih, Shanelle Sua, Kevin Sui, Alan Sun, Alex Takahashi, Albert Tang, Cheyenne Tate, Brianna Thorpe, Paulina Tinana, Matthew Tsai, Jessica Villanueva, Christina Vu, Eric Wang, James Wei, Jay Won, Sharon Wu, Marion Xu, Terry Xu, Timmothy Yacoub, Molly Yee, Tiffany Yen, Mason Yu, and William Zhuang. 

Both schools capped their ceremonies with a fireworks display to the cheers of the graduates, families, and friends.