Roger Bacon High School sisters are first siblings to earn valedictorian and salutatorian Madeline Mitchell, Cincinnati Enquirer ST. BERNARD, Ohio – Claire and Grace Hogshead, sisters and seniors at Roger Bacon High School, filtered into Carol Dauwe Fine Arts Center auditorium early Wednesday with the rest of their classmates. Birkenstocks, white Converse and a pair of cheetah print heels poked out from beneath the students' gowns. Rhonda Hogshead, the girls' mother, sat in the crowd with the rest of the parents, most of whom were maskless. Ohio's mask mandate had been officially lifted that morning. This senior Mass is the first "back to normal" senior send-off since the start of the pandemic, says district spokesperson Rob Rickenbaugh. Last year's seniors got a drive-thru graduation ceremony. Roger Bacon had in-person graduation on Thursday. Claire and Grace each gave speeches as valedictorian and salutatorian – the first time in the school's 93-year history that siblings have earned the top two spots in any graduating class. This year, Roger Bacon graduated 126 seniors.