Her family and friends were there to support
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If it wasn’t for them, I would not be graduating from DePauw University. While in high school, they offered me so much guidance in my study, but they guided me more in my personal life. Their advice has played an important part in the shaping of who I am today. They believed in me so much that I started to believe in myself. It is because of teachers like them that students gain confidence.
As the house filled with hot smoke, Mike Hughes says he had a hunch. He dashed into a room -- the first he tried—and there was a 9-month-old girl. The firefighter gathered the infant in his arms and rushed her to safety. "Another 20 seconds and it would have been a different result,” he recalled. That rescue happened 17 years ago. The girl, Dawnielle Davison, is now 18, and on Saturday, she graduated from high school.
Her family and friends were there to support her on her big day. But Davison also had a special guest in the crowd: the firefighter who saved her life. Hughes, who lives inWashington, and is now retired, said that he connected with Davison about five years ago after rediscovering an old newspaper about his rescue of the girl.