Writers Black caps flew through the air Tuesday night as over 2,000 Valley College and Pierce College students celebrated graduation in the San Fernando Valley. Combined with last month's Mission College graduation, Tuesday's ceremonies brought the number of students who received associate's degrees in dozens of fields this year to over 2,470.
Nobody accomplishes anything worthwhile alone.
While many of graduates were moving on to more academic challenges at other institutions, others were not. But they all felt the same sense of accomplishment. Simpson, who has appeared as an actor in several television shows and movies, will attend University of Southern California's film school on a full-tuition Presidential Scholarship. Another graduate, Yvonne De La Paix, will attend the University of California, Los Angeles, and study psychobiology and anthropology. De La Paix, like many of Valley's graduates, returned to school after taking several years off.