05/21/2026
Class of 2026, aloha. 🌺
Last night you boarded Falcon Airlines at Gate 26, walked through an airplane, and stepped into a Hawaiian getaway built inside the gym, complete with a volcano.
The Dancing Dads delivered. The seniors played, chatted, and hung out until sunrise.🌅
That is exactly the point.
CFHS Grad Night is part of a 40-year national tradition that began in Maine, after seven students lost their lives on graduation night. By 1986, every state had a Project Graduation. The idea behind it has not changed: build a celebration so memorable, so worth showing up for, that grads want to spend the night together, safely, with the people who raised them.
The architects of that celebration are the CFHS Family Faculty Organization. The FFO spends most of the year planning Grad Night, then pours countless hours into designing and hand-building the set pieces, sourcing the props, chasing the donations, recruiting the volunteers, and transforming a high school gym into something the seniors will still be talking about at their 20-year reunion. The volcano did not appear by accident. Neither did the airport gate, the tiki bar, or the runway carpet. Every piece of it came from the imaginations and labor of FFO families.
It takes a big ohana to pull off one night. Parents, teachers, alumni, neighbors, and local businesses who donated, decorated, dealt cards, served food, ran games, and stayed up until sunrise so a class of Falcons could close this chapter together.
To the Class of 2026: you boarded as students. You walked off as alumni. Congratulations!
To the FFO and every volunteer who made it happen: mahalo! We lava you more than words can say!!!💕 🌴🌋
