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I wanted to pursue what I feel I ve been called to pursue, Catteau, 22, said. My cousin is going to Tech and it just felt like the best fit for me.
Catteau will join about 750 other ACU graduates at ceremonies Saturday, spread out to encourage social distancing and other COVID-19-based efforts to prevent spread.
ACU also had a graduate-level ceremony Friday, presenting 360 masters and 100 doctoral degrees.
Early life a constant inspiration
Catteau didn t have a traditional path toward graduation in the United States.
Born in the Bao an district of the city of Shenzhen, China from which he gets his first name a police officer found him as an infant under a viaduct.
Throughout her four years at McMurry University, Josephine Woytas has worn many hats.
And a tiara.
She s been a cheerleader, almost from the moment she stepped foot on campus her freshman year. And a reporter for the school s newspaper, which this year morphed into her serving as editor.
The Tulsa, Oklahoma, native served as an organizer for new-student orientation and led her social club, Gamma Sigma. And her crown came this year when she was named Miss McMurry during the COVID-19-affected homecoming weekend.
With her sights set on law school at either Baylor or Texas Tech universities, she transformed over her stay in Abilene from an unwilling, uninterested visitor to becoming one of the most popular students at the school.
EDITOR S NOTE: In-person May graduations for Abilene s three four-year universities are back. The Reporter-News spotlights a Hardin-Simmons graduate today; coming Friday is McMurry and Saturday, Abilene Christian.
Lucas Lopez has a passion for people. Especially when it comes to leading them out of darkness and into the light.
Such a mindset was evident throughout three years as a tour guide on the Hardin-Simmons University campus.
And it ll be extremely handy when he starts his next journey this summer in Atlanta, Ga.. He ll begin graduate school, studying genetic counseling at Emory School of Medicine. The way I like to describe it to people is that genetic counselors are the ones you go to whenever you know you re a carrier of certain genetic disease and you re worried about passing it on to a child that you want to have, Lopez, 21, said. Or, Hey, my mom was just diagnosed with breast cancer, what are the chances of me also having breast cancer? Of carrying the gene.