INTO THE wild blue yonder, a cap flung by a jubilant grad trails colorful tassels.

Wearing shades as he views a bright future for the Class of 2013, Salutatorian David Burch took advantage of his captive audience to break out the moves and message of a Christian evangelist.

A rainbow of sentiments graces the tops of the mortarboards worn by the M-CHS class of 2013.

HOLDING ONTO her mortarboard, Historian Emily Walck first spoke to her classmates and the graduation audience in Navajo.

2013 Valedictorian Andre Esquibel poked fun at the M-CHS administration for multiple schedule changes and three principals in his four years at the school, and then told his classmates that the nation had showed discipline in re-electing President Obama. Esquibel is headed for the Naval Academy.