Just before receiving her diploma as a University of Alaska Anchorage graduate on Sunday, Katie Scoggin spoke to her classmates about the importance of
Student commencement speaker Katie Scoggin walks up to the podium for her graduation speech at the Alaska Airlines Center on Sunday, May 5, 2024.
Katie Scoggin delivered her high school graduation speech to a laptop amid the COVID-19 pandemic in the spring of 2020. “I was sad at first because I was like, I can’t apply to these schools if I haven’t been on their campus and I don’t know what the environment is like,” Scoggin said. “At that point, I was just kind of like, okay, well, Plan B, actually, it was probably more like plan D, E to go to the University of Alaska Anchorage.”
“There were just so many unknowns, uncertainties about this time period,” Scoggin said. “I knew that I wanted to be close to my family, because none of us knew what was ahead. So I decided to stay with my family, and I’m really glad that I did.”Katie is the youngest of Bob and Ginger Scoggin’s five daughters. Bob said that out of all five, Katie takes after her mother the most.
“I won’t lie, it wasn’t easy,” Kristeller said. “I took five to six classes every semester for four years straight, and I’ve worked at least two right now three jobs while I’ve been in school.”
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