Mary Ellen Gambon
Special to the Journal & Sun
After an overcast start, puffy white clouds opened to cast radiant sunlight on Stoughton High School’s graduating class just as outgoing Superintendent John Marcus was about to present the first diplomas at a ceremony Thursday evening on the new football field.
The imagery was fitting. It was a light at the end of the tunnel in many ways for the students. At the early part of their tenure at the school, they were robbed of four fellow students in a horrific fall car crash. Then came the pandemic and the racial unrest across the country, changing the course of lives.