The Graduate

Jimmy, Jackie, Mary, Albert Mitchell, Mary's father, and Melissa Mitchell, Mary's sister. Al, who is a Baptist minister, and Melissa came from Pennsylvania for Mary's graduation.

Today our precious daughter-in-law Mary Oliver, who is married to my older son Jackie, graduated from Valdosta State University with a political science degree in legal studies. She's going to be a paralegal. Last month she received the Outstanding Legal Assistant Studies Student Award for 2008; she had the high grades to be an honor graduate, but she was a transfer student and only had 58 of the requisite 60 hours to qualify. But no matter: Jimmy and I couldn't be prouder of her.

Mary just finished her internship this semester with Coleman, Talley law firm. Besides that, she works as a computer librarian at Georgia Military College, AND she's taken care of my beloved Andy the whole time we've been out of town with Jimmy's illness, and Andy adores her. As do we all.