Dear graduate,

I join the St. Petersburg College Board of Trustees and the entire SPC community in congratulating you on earning your degree! Today we celebrate you and your commitment to hard work and academic success.

You especially inspire us with the way you have persevered during a challenging year. You will always be a very special graduating class of St. Petersburg College, as you have overcome obstacles never before faced by our students.

While we are not together physically, we are joined together by a spirit of determination and perseverance which physical separation can never take from us. To get to the finish line in 2021 required more grit, more personal reflection and resolve, and ultimately it required you as students and us as educators to change and adapt. And YOU DID IT!

With pride, the entire St. Petersburg College family applauds your dedication, celebrates your accomplishments and wishes you all the best as you pursue the next chapter in your life.

Sincerely,
Tonjua Williams