Two Chattanooga women have put a silver lining in one of the cloudiest years in the history of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
UTC’s fall 2020 commencement – held across four days last month on the university’s Chamberlain Field under strict COVID-19 social distancing guidelines – featured two Ormond-family women who are more than 50 years apart in age but were bound together by a shared aspiration.
Pat Ormond, who will turn 75 years old later this month, and her granddaughter Melody Ormond, 22, both received bachelor’s degrees at the outdoor commencement on Nov. 20. Pat’s degree is in anthropology, Melody’s is in psychology.
Take that, COVID-19.
It was the culmination of a plan – you might even say a pact – years in the making.