UPLAND, Ind. (AP) - A Taylor University student once thought
dead in a case of mistaken identity has graduated from college.
A school spokesman says Whitney Cerak of Gaylord, Mich.,
received a bachelor's degree in psychology Saturday at the northern
Indiana liberal arts college.
Cerak was thought to have been among the four students who died
with a Taylor staff member when a semi trailer crashed into their
van on Interstate 69 in 2006. Five weeks after the crash, the
family of Laura Van Ryn of Caledonia, Mich., realized the young
woman they thought was their daughter actually was Cerak.
