By Richard Bammer

The customary elements of an American high school graduation were in play: Elgar’s Fanfare and Processional as seniors in caps and gowns walked slowly to their chairs set up on a football field, the shouts and murmurs of families, relatives and friends of the graduates, “The Star-Spangled Banner,” welcoming and opening remarks by the principal, more music, a valedictorian’s speech, the handing out of diplomas, the skyward tossing of mortarboards, the newly minted graduates rushing toward parents, brothers and sisters for hugs, kisses, handshakes, and, of course, rounds of celebratory photos.

For Wood High’s class of 2018, however, what was remarkable was the setting, a historic one in the life of the 29-year-old Marshall Road campus that started out as a Vacaville middle school in 1969: The more than 360 seniors, clad in royal blue caps and gowns, who ended their fourth year of high school did it in a new, sparkling, $16 million stadium, a fact that, in many ways, pleasantly overshadowed nearly everything else during the Friday night commencement ceremony.

Source: In historic first, Will C. Wood Class of 2018 bids adieu to school in the Wildcat Stadium