Eight graduating students at Parkersburg Catholic High School are getting a chance to continue their education at West Virginia colleges and universities. They're among this year's Promise Scholarship recipients.

"It is a very great privilege for me to have the opportunity to present the scholarships to these deserving students of the graduating class," said Pastor Joseph Peterson, of St. Margaret Mary Church, "so that they might continue to provide for their education."

And Governor Joe Manchin believes the class of 2008 is the one which could find solutions to many, if not all, of the nation's and even the world's current problems.

"I really mean that this will be the greatest generation history has ever recorded, because they must be," Manchin said after Wednesday's ceremony. "But there's more opportunities than ever before, too."

The degree the governor did not see handed out today, is the one the entire state has been talking about.

That's the degree his daughter was awarded by West Virginia University, and since has been determined she didn't earn. With the governor up for re-election this year, we asked him if there would be any political fallout from the controversy

"In the political world, I think people look at your performance, where you've come from, what you would be able to accomplish," Manchin said. "The bottom line is that mistakes were made, and they need to be repaired."

In a statement issued earlier this week, Manchin said he has had no involvement in what the university's board of governors might decide in the matter.

Governor Manchin also said he will not make a decision on an endorsement in the Democratic Presidential race until after the last of the primaries are held in June.

"I truly believe that the rules would have been set that no superdelegate could have made an announcement until after the primary process was over. Sometimes, we never get that far because the process was settled earlier. This one seems to be going the distance during the primaries, so I intend to honor that."

Manchin, like West Virginia's two U.S. Senators, is a superdelegate to the party convention.

Senators Jay Rockefeller and Robert Byrd have announced that they are endorsing Senator Barack Obama, and Rockefeller has appeared at Obama campaign events.

Byrd announced his support for Obama earlier this week.