After spending over two of their four years attending high school amid a pandemic, members of the Clayton A. Bouton Class of 2022 are heading out into the world.   

Superintendent Timothy Mundell handed out just under 50 diplomas to Berne-Knox-Westerlo graduates at Tawasentha Park, in Guilderland, as part of ceremony that highlighted the conviction and resilience of a graduating class that, like the one before it, had many of its senior-year rituals thwarted by the coronavirus pandemic.

GUILDERLAND — A buoyant stream of graduates flowed out of the county’s convention center into bright sunlight Friday afternoon — the young women in robes of white, the young men in robes of red.

Guilderland High School graduates will watch a video of their graduation ceremony at the Jericho Drive-In on June 20 and then, a week later, will walk across a stage set up in front of their high school to collect their diplomas.

These local students have recently earned diplomas:

— Amanda Sherman, M.D. of Guilderland graduated cum laude from the University at Buffalo - Jacobs School of Medicine;

“When you throw up your diploma and your cap, you have commenced to ‘we,’” said Berne-Knox-Westerlo Superintendent Timothy Mundell, at the Class of 2019’s graduation on Saturday.

Nicole Carr, the Class of 2019 valedictorian at Berne-Knox-Westerlo, enjoys drawing comics. One revolves around a character she said somewhat resembles her. Another is titled “Meet Stu,” about her cat named Stuart.