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DOLLARS AND SENSE by Tolbert Rowe

Graduation 2020 is One

for the Record Books!

raduation 2020 is one for Today’s seniors, although missing out on
the record books! For high the ceremonial hoopla of the last three
school graduates in the months of their high school experience, those who

Gcountry, 13 years of making might just be the lucky ones. You see, staff it are forced
and losing friends, success and failure, we have no idea what public education to deal with. Medical professionals not
joy, and sorrow and more importantly and the delivery of instruction will look only provide much needed medical care,
“growing up” abruptly ended three like four months from now and possibly they also are forced to be the emotional

months ago. For college graduates many years to come. The graduating class of support for those unfortunate victims

years of difficult work came to an end 2020 might be the last class that relied who are hospitalized whose families are
with no formal celebration. on person to person, face to face and forced to stay away.
human to human contact. However, I
A term known only to medical Other than the obvious threat to one’s
personally hope not.
professionals six months ago, health, Coronavirus or Covid 19 can
Coronavirus took what every young Coronavirus has stolen from us all also be an extreme inconvenience to

adult has etched in their psyche. Walking the we have built our society around, those who have been identified as having
across that stage while their name is personal contact. For now, we must come into contact with someone who
being read before hundreds of people is protect others by wearing masks in tested positive. Realizing that just being

a rite of passage celebrated by thousands areas where we may come within the within a defined presence of someone
of grown-ups before them. Graduation safety zone of six feet. We must maintain testing positive can put you in solitary
ceremonies are so predictable and so cleanliness by washing our hands and confinement or quarantine for two
expected. But, like flipping a light switch, using hand sanitizer and sneeze into our weeks. At home, with family living in

everyone’s life condensed to the confi ned sleeves. We have become conditioned to a separate room with your every action
space of home, wherever and whatever the possibility that everyone we interact and movement being documented so
home might be. with could be infected, even though they the area where you have been can be
do not feel bad nor do they exhibit any disinfected.
When I think back, I realize that today’s
symptoms. Asymptomatic is another
high school graduates never knew So, here we are in Caroline County
term we have become familiar with and
what life was like before 9/11, just like sending nearly 400 graduates to either
understand.
a generation before them did not know higher education, the world of work or
what life was like before man walked This is the world today’s graduates are the military. With plans for their future

on the moon. Or the generation before stepping into. Young adults, strong and so well prepared, whose execution is
them did not know what life was like healthy, forced to succumb to the forces built on the foundation of a high school
before the world fought the war to end of evil spewing from a virus no one diploma, they are ready to take the fi rst
all wars, World War II. can see and our medical system and step into adulthood.
But now, because of this unprecedented
disruption, the future they have been
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preparing for is changing. Th ose going

away to college may find that away may
Purchase or Refinance be no farther than where they are now.
Those who have prepared for the
world of work could be forced to sit
on the sidelines until the 36 million
unemployed in our country (as of May
115 E Dover St. Ste 3 - Easton, MD 15 and growing) get called back to work.
tolbert@baycapitalmortgage.com C. Tolbert Rowe, And when they do, what will the world
www.baycapitalmortgage.com NMLS Vice President/Lending of work look like.
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And, for those who have taken the oath
410-819-3005 / cell 410-310-3520 to serve our country in the military,

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