The entire senior class of Portland’s Casco Bay High School (CBHS) will march down Congress Street from the Portland Museum of Art to the Downtown Station post office on Congress Street tomorrow, December 13 at 1 p.m. to mail college applications. 

The parade will include a police escort, music, roller-skaters and TD Bank’s WOW! van.  Downtown workers and other community members are encouraged to line the streets and cheer for the students. 

At about 1:45 p.m., the CBHS students will gather at Portland City Hall for a celebration.

CBHS is joining other Expeditionary Learning high schools throughout the country in holding events on December 13 to honor seniors’ perseverance in seeking postsecondary opportunities.  Students who already submitted applications online will mail a follow-up postcard to a top choice school, an updated transcript or a letter to a significant adult in their lives who has given them support. A post office clerk will collect the letters outside the Congress Street Post Office.

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