The announcer called her name, Morissa Bianca Cappel, and the Cappel family of Vacaville, seated in the football stadium at Solano Community College, let out whoops of joy and throaty cheers, raised their hands and waved.
Then Cappel, holding her diploma onstage during Thursday’s 66th graduation ceremony at the Fairfield campus, posed briefly for a memento photo with SCC Superintendent Jowel Laguerre and walked back to her seat in front of the temporary stage, taking her place among the other 289 cap-and-gown-clad graduates. Under a cloudless sky, mild easterly breezes and balmy 80-degree late-morning temperatures, Cappel ended one part of her education journey since graduating from Vacaville High School in 2009.