Hail,

> Congratulations, what ever a Valedictorian may be!

Yep,basically same here : Congrats, but I dare raise the same question : what is a Valedictorian ? I thought I'd be clever and read all other posts to sortof obtain a clue, but to no avail :)

I detect a hint of "dictator" or "dictate" in the word, but dictating what ? A "vale" is a "valley", right ? Hmmm ... Valley Dictorian ... Valley Dict(at)or ian ... sorry, i know this sounds just about as wrong as you can be :-)