Delanie Toy, left, of Freeport, and Yeng Carle, of Portersville, light candles during Butler County Community College’s pinning ceremony for its first class of practical nursing graduates on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022, in Succop Theater on BC3’s main campus in Butler Township. SUBMITTED PHOTO

While the licensed practical nursing students at Butler County Community College earned 48 credits over a period of a year to get their pins from the program, the biggest lessons the members of the first graduating class received this year were all about resiliency.

Anthony Reeves-Crouch, a graduating LPN, said Tuesday at the college’s pinning ceremony that the six members of the class had to learn to work together and support each other to get through certain scenarios. Group collaboration, he said, would be necessary in real world nursing careers.

“We have learned to support each other and roll with all the changes,” Reeves-Crouch said. “Not only in how to become nurses, but how to adapt to various settings.”