On Tuesday October 11th, hundreds of HHS students stayed after school to create a ‘lip dub’ in memorial of Ricky Valencia-Rocha. Valencia-Rocha was tragically killed in a car accident in August,  and the student body has since mourned the loss of their fellow pupil. Yearbook teacher Mary Strickler had the idea to put a music video together for him. A lip dub is a video combining lip syncing and audio dubbing. All kinds of clubs, school organizations and classes paid tribute to Valencia-Rocha by dedicating the lip dub to him. All the clubs elected one singer to lip sync one line from the songs “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey, and “Get Back Up Again” by Toby Mac. The students showed their spirit by creating posters dedicated to Valencia-Rocha, with such sayings as “Once a Blue Streak Always a Blue Streak” and “Gone but Never Forgotten.”

“I thought it went very well, this was a good way to remember Ricky because the entire student body joined together to celebrate him. He most certainly would have loved it,” sophomore Garret Thompson said. Thompson was chosen to lip sync for the band.

The lip dub video in it’s entirety will be shown Friday October 14th at the school’s pep rally.

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