KINGWOOD – Graduation is both a time of beginnings and a time of endings. It is a rite of passage from childhood to the beginning of a new phase of life as an adult. Friday evening diplomas were awarded to 252 students during a ceremony in the Preston High gymnasium. Prior to the ...
Thirteen prayers in the air. That’s how it was in the gym of Trinity Christian School on Friday evening. That’s how it was when the 13 members of Trinity’s Class of 2021 flung their caps as high and far as they could, at the conclusion of their commencement exercises on the foggy, ...
BLACKSVILLE – When you pare it down to its elemental core, as Morgan Chisler said on Sunday, it’s kind of hard to be jaded and ironic … while playing kickball. He mapped it all out during his opening remarks at Clay-Battelle High School’s Class of 2021 commencement exercise on the ...
The perception was the reality Saturday morning on the turf of Pony Lewis Field. Even if Lillian Barratt had to think about it for a minute. “It’s pretty unreal,” the Morgantown High School senior said with a laugh, as she readied for the Class of 2021 ceremonies to begin on the ...
MORGANTOWN -- After the pandemic-isolated, remote-learning spring of their junior year — followed by a senior year that saw plenty of COVID snags along the way, graduation weekend has finally arrived for the collective Class of 2021 in Monongalia County’s school district. University ...
For the first time since December 2019 graduates of West Virginia University walked across a stage and were handed the degree that marks and honors their years of efforts while friends and family watched. Saturday's two commencement ceremonies for graduates of the Benjamin M. Statler of ...