Principal Serenades Graduates With 'I Will Always Love You'

Charlotte NC

10 June, 2021

12:48 PM

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HIGH POINT, NC — The principal of T. Wingate Andrews High School in High Point, North Carolina, knew just how he felt about the graduating class of 2021. To express himself in song, Marcus Gause thought of the classic Whitney Houston rendition of Dolly Parton's "I Will Always Love You." He didn't miss a single note. "Of course there's a bit of nervousness, because nobody sings behind Whitney Houston, or the greats like Dolly Parton," Gause said in an interview on ABC's "World News Tonight" this week. "The lyrics are really what I was trying to portray to my students," Gause said. Winston McGregor, a Guilford County school board member, shared a video of the principal's "I Will Always Love You" performance of the Whitney Houston hit. It's "something I will never forget," one of Gause's students told ABC.