Peninsula College graduates April Fordyce-Blewett, left, and Deborah Ceja-Cisneros, both of Forks, have a photograph taken by Fordyce-Blewett’s mother, Peggy Blewett, prior to the first of two commencement ceremonies on Saturday on the college’s Port Angeles campus.
A total of 388 degrees and certificates were awarded for the 2022-23 school year with 270 people signed up to participate Saturday’s ceremonies.
Peninsula College graduate Audrey Pilatti of Neah Bay, right, gets assistance with a necklace from her sister, Edna Pilatti, prior to commencement on Saturday on the school’s Port Angeles campus. A total of 388 degrees and certificates were awarded for the 2022-23 school year with 270 people signed up to participate in either of two ceremonies. (Keith Thorpe/Peninsula Daily News)
Peninsula College President Suzy Ames, left, presents Patty Morey an honorary Associate of Arts degree awarded to her late son, Mark Morey, at Saturday’s afternoon commencement. Mark Morey studied journalism at the college in the 1990s and did not graduate. However, he went on to an award-winning career as a reporter at the Peninsula Daily News and the Yakima Herald-Republic. He died Jan. 29 of complications from colorectal cancer at the age of 46. (Jesse Major/Peninsula College).
