She will never speak as Valedictorian in front of her class and their relatives again.
Big whoop. Nobody much remembers that kind of stuff two weeks later, let alone two years or twenty years. It's the kind of things mom's love, and underachievers in life bring up when they sit at bars alone in the early evening giving the questions on Jeopardy on tv.
If you talk to them, invariably they will tell you how all their friends say they should try out for Jeopardy, but when pressed for some names of some of these friends, they get confused.
> She will never speak as Valedictorian in front of her class and their relatives again.
Hey! Neither will I! Blatant sexism, if you ask me...