West Dayton High Reunion Attendees

Alumni from West Dayton High School and their guests fill the banquet hall for a reunion event. They listen to C.J. Cregg's speech at the podium, where she transforms talk of generational promise into appeals for civic duty, kindness, and higher expectations. Molly, Tal, Liz, and Marco sit among them; the group witnesses the speech's tender reflections on past and present until C.J.'s ringing cellphone disrupts the moment. No hierarchy structures this assembly; they function as a collective audience bridging personal history and political life.