Graduations served their purpose

Graduation season brings a mixed bowl of emotions for me.  Each provided different set of challenges. 
Holt High School in 1988 ended a long road with me for most of the class.  Many of them I began kindergarten at Cottondale Elementary School and went through 12th grade. Others i joined up at seventh grade and went through the next five years.  Of course, the bond was stronger with the Cottondale kids than the Holt Elementary ones, although I love them dearly.
Only one person joined me at Stillman College, which came with a new set of friends, One-third of the Class of 1992 did not make it. Others graduated at other places.
I look back and smile with pride over my two graduations. I ended up with 3.2 GPA in high school and college, finding a stellar newspaper career of 32 years.