The confidence and strength she speaks with to David Letterman of all people, in front of a large audience and on tv! Wow! Really impressive girl!

@marniebaker-winnick2296

2 ай бұрын

@@Mark3-16 What? She's dead?

@kstepko

2 ай бұрын

@@marniebaker-winnick2296No, she is not. The description of the video indicates that she is a school superintendent now.

@ColtraneTaylor

2 ай бұрын

@@marniebaker-winnick2296 No, it's May now.

@marniebaker-winnick2296

2 ай бұрын

@@kstepko I was confused because someone commented "Rip April 😥"

@bricecampbell5317

2 ай бұрын

She's scared and pushing her words, hard. This isn't confidence she's from a tiny place and isn't used to the scale of everything. She's doing well in spite of of

She's a superintendent now of the school district. That's amazing.

@ThatOpalGuy

2 ай бұрын

Hope she isn't an election-denying, book-banning fool.

@manp1039

2 ай бұрын

very interesting

@RobertDeMartin

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for this, Alan. What a lovely young lady and my wish would be that she could inspire many more people in her life This video has already been seen 108K times and let's hope it goes over 1M. She's probably about 40 years old now and living a life she chose to live and she should understand there are many, many people in our Country who admire her and wish her well in every aspect of her life.

@jillgott6567

2 ай бұрын

WoW she is now the superintendent - Good for her

@rickwilliams967

2 ай бұрын

Yeah, great that she has a job that always puts money ahead of education. Real winner.

Dave always treated genuine people with a lot of respect.

The girl was great, but Letterman was masterful. He was funny without being mean, and asked good questions, while keeping eye contact and showing he was interested.

@allegrobrio968

Ай бұрын

I fully agree. His timing was masterful as well. Notice at the 2:43 point where he pauses his interview to allow the audience to finish clapping.

Well that just brightened my whole morning. Interesting her describing an early form of a Zoom call!

@thatsrich944

2 ай бұрын

In the 1870's Bell Labs came up with the concept of a video call, but it wasn't until 1931 that the first two-way video conference call happened.

" Stand for something or you'll fall for anything " what a lovely young Woman.

@randall-king

2 ай бұрын

She's been listening to Aaron Tippin.

@rockobill7637

2 ай бұрын

Gil Scott-Heron

@chrisray1567

2 ай бұрын

Pretty apt description of a lot of people in politics today.

@stevegfromnc3482

2 ай бұрын

Did she fall for Trump? That perfectly fits the definition of "falling for anything."

@JasonT850

2 ай бұрын

@@randall-king That was my thought exactly. LOL

For a kid from such a tiny town, she handled herself really well.

@mindeloman

2 ай бұрын

In the episode notes it says she's now a superintendent of a school district in South Dakota.

@Rogerthatidea

2 ай бұрын

Never had to deal with bullying…

@022171

2 ай бұрын

In NYC on national tv? I would guess they'd be a little less comfortable.@@pmbbmp

@ThatOpalGuy

2 ай бұрын

Arrogant and uneducated. ​@@pmbbmp

@Dave-sw2dm

2 ай бұрын

She learned to socialize with adults instead of dumb peer pressure.

I live in Iroquois, South Dakota, about 80 miles east of Harold, SD. and on the same highway. Our small towns are just loaded with wonderful people. She had so much charisma, while being on a nationally televised show.

Did you notice how many were there to witness her graduation? We only see half the audience briefly, at a quick count 80-100 folks. Assuming the other side of the hall was similarly populated that would mean about 80% of the town turned out for one graduate - now that is community support!

She had her 20 year class reunion 2 years ago. I wonder if she was surprised at how much she did or didn't change?

@jgrey8959

2 ай бұрын

It would be great if she wore a name tag

@garyhiggins5823

2 ай бұрын

At least she didn't have to travel very far to meet up with herself.

@andystewart581

2 ай бұрын

@@jgrey8959 😂😂😂

@mikebronicki8264

2 ай бұрын

I suppose the burden of planning the reunion fell to her as well.

@derekmills5394

Ай бұрын

@@mikebronicki8264She'd have to get permission from the superintendant to run the reunion first Great to see that she has done well for herself and stayed in her home district too! Michael H must be one hell of a nice guy

What a nice interview. Not making fun of rural America but of the situations it creates. He could be such a kind gentleman when he wanted to be.

@pigs18

2 ай бұрын

He's from the Midwest and he has also been very open that he really doesn't care about celebrities or their Hollywood lives.

@rickwilliams967

2 ай бұрын

Huh? I don't understand what you're talking about. Rural people and kindness don't really correlate.

@jcraigshelton

Ай бұрын

@@rickwilliams967Sure it correlates. We just don’t like you.

She's the CEO/SPED at Hoven School District. Love this interview.

Vintage Letterman，nobody does it better

@Rashnak66

25 күн бұрын

Craig was better

What a well spoken young lady

A lovely and smart young lady. Glad she is doing well!

Delightful young woman! I was educated in a tiny school in Wales: 21 kids between 4 and 11 so plenty of 1 to 1 teaching. It was great!

@cokesquirrel

2 ай бұрын

My mom was born in Llanfrothen in 1935. I think it was 45 children From the youngest all the way up to The oldest I do know there was no electricity or running water Until 1946

She did a wonderful job 20+ years ago. Charming young lady.

So many takeaways. Going from a small town to NYC. Speaking directly and no nonsense. Nervous but willing to give her side. Large audience jitters not too obvious. Strong answers including “stand for something” comment. Good eye contact. Planned out future. Figured out how to establish circle with limited number of kids. I could not stop watching.

She couldn’t be lovelier!

She and Letterman were a great team! They were a hoot!

This was a really sweet, down to earth interview. We need more interviews like this these days.

Good for her. She is very confident and she has a great interview with Dave.

A pioneering hybrid class learner!

How the heck is she a better guest the half the trained celebrities? This girl rocks! A true Xennial!

@rc....

Ай бұрын

Those celebs didn't really cared for school that's how. Trained in what? Being a S?

Her real senior class trip wasn't to _see_ the Letterman show, but _be on_ the Letterman show. Quite a thrill ride.

That should be one heck of a class reunion.

No one does non celebrity interviews anymore

@stevejones5075

Ай бұрын

usually doesnt get views

2002... back when teenagers were not all screwed up from social media and their phones, and man does it bring a breath of fresh air to watch this young lady!!

Aww. What a wonderful segment. We miss you, Mr Letterman. The night time talk show have never been the same since you left. ❤️

I must have missed this one, and it was great. What a smart and charming young lady. Very nice to read how well she's doing.

Beautiful, bright lady! Awesome clip.

I prefer guests like these to celebrity guests pimping their latest film

@elandfried

2 ай бұрын

I was just wondering if any late night shows ever interview "regular" people anymore.

@dustinprewitt

2 ай бұрын

@@elandfried I don't know if there even are any regular people anymore.

@kstepko

2 ай бұрын

@@elandfriedJimmy Kimmel does on occasion; maybe he’s modelling his show after what he learned from growing up watching Dave.

Good request, was fascinating to see and read the update from the request description!

@erikpeterson25

2 ай бұрын

Yes

I was one of 12 graduates in my class, and it was the. biggest graduating class so far for the school. I loved it!

What a lovely young woman.

This is a great service; so many pieces of television history fall through the cracks!

The greatest thing about this video is that even though David Letterman was born in Indianapolis Indiana, he can relate to the small-town life because of where he is from and the type of life that the girl stated that she lives. Totally Midwest style

That was terrific. Me and my siblings graduated from HS in a school in South Dakota back in the mid-to-late 70s. It was great. My wife and I are now planning our return since retirement is upon us. The people are the best.

What a fun, uplifting interview!

For once, the audience at her graduation politely held their applause until all graduates received their diplomas.

a zoom meeting sounded like 'whoa' back then lol

This is what the best of America represents for me, your Canadian neighbour. Wonderful.

WoW! this was 22 years ago (2002)! hope she's having a great Life !!! 🙌🎉 someone should have a 'where are they now' segment !

I'm very impressed with how this young lady presented herself. And she looks like The South Dakota version of Michelle Dockery.

A really smart, sweet kid who's so self-aware and confident. I wish I had half her confidence back in high school.

I miss seeing Dave doing this show. :( He seems to be happy though doing other things. Thank you David. You're not an a-hole.

This girl is 40 now. Welcome to the future everybody!

That "VTEL" system with two TVs feels so archaic today. 😂

I wish I had classmates like her back in school. She's so bright and adorable !

I always like when Dave had a regular person on, he just wanted to hear about their life and treated them with humor and respect. With certain celebrities, gloves were off, because why not.

She was voted ‘Most likely to succeed’, ‘Prettiest Girl’, ‘Best Athlete’, Best Personality’.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@duanelachney9200

2 ай бұрын

Ha ha! It was no contest! lol

she's learnt to speak with authority as she was handling that small class of teachers in her charge

That’s one way to get valedictorian on the college application.

Great interview. Terrific to hear your story, April!

we desperately need more youg people like her

I don’t know the booking process for the show but she was a refreshing guest.

I lived about 30 minutes from Harrold! I had some buddies from the Harrold-Highmore area. All the people there are great! There must be something in their water because everyone is so well-spoken and wonderful!

Wow zoom classroom a full two decades before zoom classrooms were a thing (thanks to covid). I can sympathise a little, because in my college I had three lectures (classes) per day where it was just me and the lecturers for the 40 minute classes.

WISH YOU THE BEST YOUNG LADY. GO GET'EM!!!

This was Dave at his best :D

Parents must be proud of her. She did great.

"You ever just sneak into North Dakota?" ......So stupid it's hilarious .

Gives new mean to being in a class by yourself 😂😂😂

Man, my graduating class was 366 and upon going to college, I found out that that was really small, but, geez, this is next level. I love how she said it was great because if she didn't get something they couldn't tell her that most everybody did, so let's move on. Good point!

@Rusty_Nickle

2 ай бұрын

Good God. I couldn't imagine having that many kids in my class. I think we had like 60 kids in my graduating class.

@brycefeuerhake-ek8kl

Ай бұрын

Mine was 42

I was not expecting Dave to say South Dakota! I was surprised!

That was a wonderful video to feel in touch with humanity

This is what I miss most about Dave and Johnny. Their interviews with regular people that had something unique about them, not trying to promote anything...just good TV. If you've never seen Johnny Carson interview a woman that collected potato chips, you're in for a treat.

Wow.......what a gal ! !!!!!! Best interview . How times have changed on late night TV

She’s obviously 40 now but that’s impressive she did great

Great story. Thanks Dave!

I've watched Dave since I was her age 80's, this was one of the best! Hope this find young lady at the time is doing very well, I wouldn't doubt she is Dave's joke, football team, etc? 😂

Thank you for finding this clip, April and her family really appreciate it!

My daughter graduated from her North Dakota high school with a class of six....really makes the graduating ceremony run quickly. Well she has already had her 10 and 20 year reunions. Wonder if a small school like that has combined reunions?

She was great!

SALT OF THE EARTH-BRAVO APRIL! And truly enjoyed watching Dave genuinely get to know her and share her accomplishments with us.

Of course Dave liked her, she laughed at all his jokes. :)

Bet you she was ranked first in her class!

Masterful. Dave at his phenomenal best. Girl is beautiful.

Sure, turned out to be a special young lady!

Wow! What a wonderful, well-spoken, confident young woman!

"Most of the class gets it" has an opposite "No one in the class gets it."

Gosh, her folks must be proud.

Awe! We all think she is going to do great things!

That mad me smile thank you so much.

@WalterWhite-sm2dr

2 ай бұрын

Don’t get mad!

She's well spoken, she'll do well in life.

Very impressive, no wonder she went on to become successful, as a superintendent of schools.

Wow. She was using an early version of Zoom before it was even a thing.

Valedictorian, Salutatorian, President of the senior class, Yearbook lead, etc. Bet she got a bunch of points on her college entrance interviews.

if this young woman doesn't restore your faith in tomorrow, nothing will !! congratulations, a little late but . i see a bright future for her.

She’d be 39/40ish now; would love for a follow up interview….

Very likable young lady!

Wow even back in 2002 they were doing zoom classes lmaoooooo

She handled herself well and sometimes Dave is not the best guy but he is really great here.

Loved this!

I love her Hawaii story! 😂❤

I think she's awesome. She handles herself well.

This is marvelous!

It is rare when there is no salutatorian, but it is unique when the valedictorian graduates last in her class. (First, last, top third, middle third, bottom third...)

She graduated at the top and bottom of her class! Awesome! Who else can say that!?

What a poised, confident young lady. I'm sure she's done well.