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Simpson Library boasted new CD-ROMS. The Battlefield Athletic Complex had just been completed. And acid wash jeans and shoulder pads ruled Campus Walk.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The photo of Lisa Welty Pagliocchini \u201989 trying her mortarboard on her 2-year-old niece, Mollie Elizabeth Welty \u2013 ran with Commencement Day coverage in Today, now University of Mary Washington Magazine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It was 1989 when a photographer captured an image a family would cherish forever. The picture \u2013 of Lisa Welty Pagliocchini \u201989 trying her mortarboard on her 2-year-old niece, Mollie Elizabeth Welty \u2013 ran with Commencement Day coverage in Today<\/i>, now University of Mary Washington Magazine<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Welty\u2019s mother\u2019s been \u201cnutsy\u201d about the photo ever since, stashing away the magazine for all of these years. Watching her daughter, now 26, turn the tassel on her own mortarboard on Saturday, May 10, brought the family full circle.<\/p>\n

\u201cHindsight is always 20-20,\u201d said Welty, who would have to leave home and come back to truly appreciate UMW. \u201cIt was the right school all along, I just didn\u2019t know it.\u201d<\/p>\n

If she had, she might not have schlepped all her stuff from Woodbridge to West Virginia, even with a full ride to row on the university team. When the school she signed on with turned out to be too big and too far away, Welty came home.<\/p>\n

She got a job \u2013 and a string of promotions \u2013 with GEICO. But she still wanted that degree.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never planned on stopping or changing or slowing down [in school], but it happens,\u201d she said. \u201cI knew I really needed to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Cedric<\/a>
Cedric Rucker adjusts mortarboard on Mollie Welty ’14<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Community college\u00a0edged her closer, but she got serious when she transferred to Mary Washington. Battling lost credits and lost time, she scaled back at work, giving up her supervisor\u2019s position and settling for less pay, but still working full time.<\/p>\n

An English major, she\u2019d study wherever she could \u2013 in Combs Hall, at the William Street Mansion, or perched in an Adirondack chair on Jefferson Square. She\u2019d hit the books in the morning, go to class until 4, and work until midnight. Then she\u2019d get up at 6 and do it again. Saturdays were for homework, she said, \u201cno matter what.\u201d<\/p>\n

With her parents\u2019 support and enthusiastic professors like Jon Pineda, Marie McAllister, and Mary Rigsby, she excelled. A member of Phi Beta Kappa who graduated summa cum laude<\/i>, she was \u201can excellent student,\u201d said Professor of English, Linguistics and Communication Warren Rochelle, \u201cand a good role model to her younger classmates.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hard-earned diploma in hand, Welty plans to pursue a master\u2019s degree at UMW\u2019s College of Education and hopes to teach elementary school.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a lot of work, but I\u2019m glad I did it,\u201d she said. \u201cIt [was] great to celebrate and seal the deal with a handshake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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