LYNN – The English High School Class of 2015 celebrated diversity, saluted a fallen Marine and got a brief reminder Friday from valedictorian Danielle White about why they should keep their success in perspective.”If you’re sitting there thinking, ?I did this myself,’ think again,” suggested White.The 316 graduates marked their big day with cheers, tears and a celebratory moment when senior class president Victor Bene, with “this is what trans looks like” written on his mortar board, pointed to his orientation as a source of courage mirroring personal challenges and achievements faced and accomplished by his classmates.”The resistance you face is proof that you know who you are. None of us are statistics, we are free to imagine ourselves and, if we stop changing, we stop being,” Bene said to applause.After Principal Thomas Strangie praised graduating seniors for making “English a better place with even a better reputation,” School Superintendent Catherine Latham urged the Class of 2015 to not abandon face-to-face relationships for electronic ones.”Please, as you go forward, form relationships that are personal rather than electronic. Human relationships are good for all of us,” said the English Class of 1963 member.Yarmouth Deputy Police Chief Steven Xiarhos delivered the commencement address and talked about the death of his son, Nicholas, a 21-year-old Marine, in Afghanistan in 2009. Before being sent to Afghanistan, Nicholas Xiarhos served a tour in Iraq in 2008 where two Marines died repelling a truck bomb attack on the barracks housing Xiarhos and 50 other Marines.On the night he learned of his son’s death, Steven Xiarhos recalled looking through his front door window and hesitating to open the door as he watched Nicholas’ brother, Alex, and sisters, Elizabeth and Ashlynne, and their mother, Lisa, enjoying themselves inside the home.”I saw the whole family having fun. I knew, once I entered the house, our lives would never be the same. It’s unimaginable,” he said.Xiarhos urged his English audience to “live with integrity and live your own dreams.””Never let anyone disrespect our flag; it’s the symbol of freedom around the world,” he said.White plans to attend college in North Carolina and she rounded off her speech by reciting classmates’ favorite expressions and envisioning her friends as doctors and accomplished artists.”It’s been great roaming the halls with you, but it’s time to move on,” she said.