{"id":10475,"date":"2010-03-02T03:53:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/?p=10475"},"modified":"2010-03-02T03:53:19","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T08:53:19","slug":"students-share-stories-of-determination-and-success-at-graduation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/2010\/03\/02\/students-share-stories-of-determination-and-success-at-graduation\/","title":{"rendered":"Students share stories of determination and success at graduation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/icons\/FWCS_logo.jpg\" alt=\"Fort Wayne Community Schools logo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Press release from Fort Wayne Community Schools:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Students share stories of determination and success at graduation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A young mother, a father of three and three other continuing education graduates will share their\u00c2\u00a0stories of determination and success during the Celebrating Literacy Commencement Event at 7 p.m.\u00c2\u00a0Wednesday, March 3, at the Scottish Rite Center. The five speakers are among the 330 graduates who\u00c2\u00a0completed the high school program at Anthis Career Center between January and December 2009.\u00c2\u00a0Students will receive a GED certificate or high school diploma during the ceremony at the Scottish\u00c2\u00a0Rite Auditorium. The Literacy Alliance will host a reception prior to the ceremony from 5:30-6:30<br \/>\np.m. in the lower level ballroom of the Scottish Rite Center. The Adult and Continuing Education\u00c2\u00a0program at Anthis Career Center serves students from ages 17 to 94, many of whom have endured\u00c2\u00a0educational and personal struggles on their road to graduation. Among those speaking at the ceremony<br \/>\nare:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Humberto Giron came to Fort Wayne six years ago with a high school diploma earned in Mexico but\u00c2\u00a0found employers would not accept it. As he learned English, he studied and eventually passed the GED\u00c2\u00a0exam.<\/li>\n<li>Emily Lydy will talk about finding her way after dropping out of high school and exploring other\u00c2\u00a0job opportunities. She realized she wouldn&#8217;t get far without a high school diploma and returned\u00c2\u00a0to Anthis for GED classes.<\/li>\n<li>Anthony Martin will share his story of living at 100 addresses and attending at least a dozen\u00c2\u00a0schools by the time he was 17. When he moved to Fort Wayne he was nervous about attending a new\u00c2\u00a0school but found he quickly settled in at Anthis.<\/li>\n<li>Jon Peete left high school as a teenager and found a good-paying job. But 18 years later, the\u00c2\u00a0father of three was laid off and realized without a high school diploma, he likely wouldn&#8217;t find\u00c2\u00a0a new job.<\/li>\n<li>It has been more than 35 years since New Haven native David Potts left school. Having thought he\u00c2\u00a0passed the GED before entering the Air Force, he was surprised to learn otherwise during a job\u00c2\u00a0search. He passed the GED last fall fulfilling a promise he made to himself and his father, who died\u00c2\u00a0over the summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Related Images:<\/h3><div class=\"ngg-related-gallery\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fwcs\/wendy_with_kids_2007.jpg\"\n\t\t\ttitle=\"Fort Wayne Community Schools Superintendent Dr. Wendy Robinson. Courtesy photo.\"\n\t\t\tclass='thickbox' rel='e3cf0297117e2a7f324f7ed127ee7d96' data-image-id=\"4397\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fwcs\/wendy_with_kids_2007.jpg\" data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/aroundfortwayne.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/fwcs\/thumbs\/thumbs_wendy_with_kids_2007.jpg\" data-title=\"Dr. Wendy Robinson\" data-description=\"Fort Wayne Community Schools Superintendent Dr. Wendy Robinson. 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