//Principal helps father see son graduate in hospital days before death

Principal helps father see son graduate in hospital days before death

A dying father was able to see his son graduate early thanks to the quick actions of a high school principal who made a bedside ceremony happen within hours. Remembering some of the small details that made his dad so special is what Sebastian Pawlack holds onto a day after his dad, Andrew Pawlack, died. “He wanted to see me graduate,” Sebastian Pawlack said.Andrew Pawlack suffered a stroke five years ago and was placed in hospice care in Annapolis after heart failure. Sebastian Pawlack’s mom, Tina King-Myrick, knew he wouldn’t make it to see her son graduate in June, so she made a frantic call to Westminster High School Principal John Baugher for help.”It was an emotional wave that went through me. You can’t explain that feeling, that sudden urgency,” King-Myrick said. “He said he was going straight to the school, grabbing an assortment of gowns, said he’d be there