Family and community are cornerstones of the Penn State Abington experience.Credit: Mike Levin. All Rights Reserved.
ABINGTON, Pa. — Rain supposedly brings good luck on wedding days, so if the same applies to graduation, the Penn State Abington class of 2016 — the largest in the campus' history — may be its luckiest. The daylong downpour didn’t diminish the joy as families, friends and the campus community celebrated:
380 new graduates;
Five valedictorians;
Fifty-five students who graduated with honors or in the top 12 percent of their class, the most in Abington history;
The first group to leave with bachelor’s degrees from the Penn State College of Engineering while remaining in the Philadelphia area;
Four students earned concurrent degrees in business plus either corporate communication, information sciences and technology, and two students in accounting;
Five Schreyer Honors College medal recipients.
In addition to academic bragging rights, the class of 2016 included:
Two pairs of brothers and two pairs of twin sisters;
Elizabeth Janoski, who took home $50,000 on "Wheel of Fortune College Road Trip" a few weeks ago;
Two students who will be commissioned as second lieutenants in the Army this month;
A group of student-athletes who were the first to compete for Abington as an NCAA Division III member for four years.
See more photos from Abington's spring 2016 commencement on Facebook.