The St Joseph Lions Clubs will honor the cream of the crop of high school seniors on Wednesday.

This marks the 63rd year for the annual Lion’s Club Scholastic Honors Banquet. Host Club President Jon Ecker says it’s a way to congratulate, and hopefully motivate the top 10% graduating seniors as they move on in life.

“Each high school principal and school counselor will read from a list of names, and then each student will come up to the front to receive a certificate,” Ecker said.

“After the ceremony we will have a motivational speaker.”

This year’s speaker will be Dan Danford of the Family Investment Center.  The gathering is being held at the Fulkerson Center at Missouri Western State University starting at noon Wednesday.

Karen Pecora of the St Joseph School District says 89 high school seniors from the five local high schools will be honored this year.