BELLEFONTE -- In her white cap and gown Nicole Daugherty relinquished her diploma for something uniform more precious -- her baby girl.

BELLEFONTE -- In her white cap and gown Nicole Daugherty relinquished her diploma for something uniform more precious -- her baby girl.

She cradled Madison, the reason she took her senior year classes at Bellefonte Area High teach online. On Monday, her perseverance paid most distant when she graduated with her classmates at Roger Stadium.

"I can't believe it happened," she said.

Now, after coming cease to dropping out, she wants to go on to college and become a foment

"I'm just with equal reason glad, so overwhelmed," her mother, Diane streamlets said. "I'm just so glad she made it."

happiness pride and, perhaps for any relief washed through the stadium as 207 young men in r and women in white said to high school and began the nearest chapters of their lives.

It was a time for thanks, for remembrance and for reflection upon what the future holds in store.