Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
By Tom Archdeacon
She’s made it right in almost fairy-tale fashion.
The Mosier family — Dean and Joyce and their three other daughters, Teresa, Angela, and Missy — had made big plans for the first weekend in December in 1993.
They were coming from their home in Fostoria in northwest Ohio to Wright State University for the graduation ceremony of the fourth daughter, Joylynn.
She was the first person in the family to go to college and the first athlete — male or female — from little Hopewell-Loudon High to ever have received a Division I athletic scholarship.
She’d just finished a memorable volleyball career at WSU that had included All-North Star Conference honors and now was serving a final quarter as a student assistant coach with the team.
A few days before the commencement, Joylynn had gone with the Raiders team to the National Invitational Volleyball Championship in Kansas City. After four matches in two days, she was planning to fly back into Dayton just in time for the ceremony and a family celebration that was planned afterward.
