Aria Bowen – the only CHS Class of 2021 grad who napped as a baby on the Videoville counter. (Photo courtesy Mekare Bowen)
Miss Bowen rocks designer eye-ware at a 2019 football game, while fellow grad-to-be Savannah Smith is faster than the camera. (Photo by JohnsPhotos.net)
Old-school Savannah and Aria. (Photo courtesy Konni Smith)
Can’t tell the graduates without a scorecard.
So here you go, ready to be laminated — the Coupeville High School Class of 2021.
Every name matters, but one stands above them all for me.
Aria Bowen is the final reminder of my 12-year run behind the counter at Videoville from 1994-2006.
The same counter where a lil’ Aria took naps in her carrier while I jabbered about movies, her older sister Mekare built modern art sculptures back at the block table, and their mom, Dea, served up Miriam’s Espresso drinks.
So she gets three photos and a lot of the rest of you grads-to-be maybe don’t get one in this story.
You’ll survive, and still graduate.
Then you can go build a time machine, travel back to when Videoville rented 500 VHS tapes on a Friday night in Cow Town, and plop your own baby tush on our counter.
And, having bent time and space, you can act all surprised when, magically, it’s suddenly you getting three photos in a 2021 graduation story.
Simple really.
Until then, Aria (and a bunch of people not named Aria) form the CHS Class of 2021:
Constance Armitage-Buckley
Knight Arndt
Mollie Bailey
Owen Barenburg
Megan Behan
Drake Borden
Aria Bowen
Anya Burns
Elisa Caroppo
Coral Caveness
Aurora Cernick
Autumn Cernick
Kylie Chernikoff
Alexis Czarnik
Sionna Darga
Sage Downes
Dakota Eck
Mark Fain
Emily Fiedler
Zac Gardner
Trinity Hill
Isabel Hucke
Thora Iverson
Alex Jimenez
Emma Kalweis
Eli Kastner
Mikaela Labrador
Michael Laska
Ivy Leedy
Catherine Lhamon
Marissa Malinowski
Jaimee Masters
Lacy McCraw-Shirron
Heidi Meyers
Daniel Olson
Cierra Otto
Desiree Otto
Kimberly Partida
Chelsea Prescott
Richard Rebischke-Smith
Jackie Reid
TJ Rickner
Silas Russell
Chandell Schoonover
Andrew Score
Ben Smith
Savannah Smith
Liem Solow
Jacob Thurston
Lilly Tornensis
Maddie Vondrak
Erik Webster
Brandon Whitaker
Marissa Williams
Genna Wright
Sam Wynn
Lily Zustiak
Coupeville Sports 
Congratulations to all. Especially my great granddaughter Mollie Bailey, who is
carrying on the tradition. I graduated from Coupeville High School as Valedictorian in 1948.Many of her family are also Coupeville grads, too.
David you are amazing. I miss your face. Thank you for being a champion for Coupeville High School. So beloved!