Photo Gallery: 2012 Tobinworld graduation ceremony
Dinah Akrins holds her tassel and moves it to the other side of her mortar board at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Josiah Roque enters the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Joe Corona, Principlal of the High School Academy, shows his pride after his graduating student Hannah Yang plays her piano solo at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Holding his speech, Jelani Davison, left, leans out of the crowd anticiptating himself being the next speaker at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Tobinworld Executive Director Judy Weber-Israel, with her eyes filled with tears, listens to 17 year student Jelani Davidson recite a poem he directed to her at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Communicating with sign language, Josiah Roque talks with his teacher Valeria Bochkur and Tobinworld Principal Charles Conrad at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Culminate Jelani Davidson presents a poem he recited to Tobinworld Executive Director Judy Weber-Israel at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Proud relatives and guests attempt to get photos of their favorite graduate during the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Desiree Davidson, of Mission Hills, proudly looks at her graduate at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Graduate Hannah Yang, after playing her piano solo, smiles as she is applauded at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Graduate Hannah Yang plays “My Hero” for a piano solo at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)
Culminate Viviana Ibarra gives a thumbs up to the guests as she is introduced by her teacher at the graduation culmination ceremony at Tobinworld in Glendale. (Tim Berger/Staff Photographer)