PITTSBURG, Ks. — It’s an enormous day for school college students throughout the 4 States as their tutorial journey involves an finish.

This 12 months over 1,100 college students earned levels at Pittsburg State College.

These college students and their households gathered on the Robert W. Plaster Heart earlier than marching throughout the stage within the John Lance Enviornment.

This 12 months graduates represents 28 states, 12 international locations, and a few generations of Gorilla Nation.

“It’s been attention-grabbing to see the distinction in expertise that they had as a result of it’s a totally completely different campus from after they went and after I went, I actually don’t assume the Tech Heart was constructed and all that,” says Grayson Johnson, PSU Graduate.

“My spouse and I get season passes right here yearly and it’s like coming again and sort of reliving a life once more that we actually loved, we each met right here and I might be a second era and my son’s a 3rd by way of Pitt State,” says Jonathon Johnson, Grayson’s Father & PSU Alum.

In the present day’s graduation at PSU additionally marks the tip for one more member of Gorilla Nation.

This would be the remaining commencement Dr. Steven Scott will function President of Pittsburg State College earlier than he retires.

“We’re all about college students and we’re all about making this an expertise for them however positive there are some feelings at present for me, recognizing this would be the final time I precide over a graduation and I’m simply actually pleased with this place and the sort of pupil’s we appeal to and the scholars that we graduate. However most significantly today is for our graduates and so they’re so excited to wrapping up a university profession and actually glad to be gorillas, there’s little question about that,” says Dr. Steven Scott, PSU President.

Dr. Scott himself graduated from Pittsburg in 1973 and 1984.

He turned president of Pitt State again in 2009 and shall be retiring on the finish of the month.