YEC graduates celebrate

YOUNGSTOWN — YOUNGSTOWN

The 41 students in the Youngstown Early College Class of 2015 had persevered through some particularly tough challenges to earn their spots up on the stage today at the Ford Recital Hall in the DeYor Center.

They were Youngstown high-school students from an urban environment trying to take high-school and college courses at the same time, pointed out the keynote speaker at their commencement, the Rev. William J. Blake, director of the office of student diversity at Youngstown State University.

Yet out of that 41, he pointed out, 16 already had their college degrees.

Read the full story in Monday's Vindicator.