Sunsets don’t always signal the end of the day. Sometimes, their glow serves as the illumination for a new path. The Class of 2021 at University High School can tell you all about it. After the second half their junior year was kicked down the road courtesy of COVID, and ...
Sometimes, you just have to laugh — even as you’re embarking upon serious work. That’s why Barbara Barker went all Milton Bradley-retro during her graduation ceremony at the Monongalia County Technical Education Center on Monday afternoon. The respectable reproduction of the ...
MORGANTOWN -- Marisa Young didn’t have time for global pandemics on Sunday. She was too busy graduating … and smiling. “I’m just so excited,” she said as she waited for a friend outside Milan Puskar Stadium. Besides, the Bridgeport native and new nursing grad has already ...
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 ...
Completing your final year of university is always hard. There’s capstones or theses (or whatever your program calls the big final project), plus regular classes, plus trying to squeeze in the last bit of college fun, plus preparing for a post-college future — whatever that looks like for ...
Everybody knew it was coming, and when it did, the only thing to do was laugh — or go all deadpan, as Emma Williams did. “This is extremely fitting for the Class of 2020,” the then-University High School senior said with nary a smile, as the rain pocked her mortarboard, and those of ...