Kris Grills, from New London Firefighters Pipe and Drum, leads a small parade as Kathryn Smith, second from right, who graduated from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland with the Class of 2020, walks with her mother Karen as she celebrates her graduation with friends and family in Stonington on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The Scottish tradition is for graduates to be joined by bagpipers as they walk through town following commencement exercises. “We just wanted to do something as close as we could," said her father George of their small ceremony and walk down to Lord´s Point with a bagpiper. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Kathryn Smith, who graduated from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland with the Class of 2020, hugs her father George after he speaks as she celebrates her graduation with friends and family in Stonington on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The Scottish tradition is for graduates to be joined by bagpipers as they walk through town following commencement exercises. "We just wanted to do something as close as we could," said her father George of their small ceremony and walk down to Lord's Point with Kris Grills, from New London Firefighters Pipe and Drum, playing bagpipe. The family is from Tennessee but spends summers in Stonington. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Kris Grills, from New London Firefighters Pipe and Drum, leads a procession for Kathryn Smith, center who graduated from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland with the Class of 2020, as she walks with her parents George and Karen in Stonington on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The Scottish tradition is for graduates to be joined by bagpipers as they walk through town following commencement exercises. “We just wanted to do something as close as we could," said her father George of their small ceremony and walk down to Lord´s Point with a bagpiper. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Kris Grills, from New London Firefighters Pipe and Drum, leads a procession for Kathryn Smith, center who graduated from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotland with the Class of 2020, as she walks with her parents George and Karen in Stonington on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The Scottish tradition is for graduates to be joined by bagpipers as they walk through town following commencement exercises. “We just wanted to do something as close as we could," said her father George of their small ceremony and walk down to Lord´s Point with a bagpiper. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)

Kris Grills, from New London Firefighters Pipe and Drum, asks for a song request from Kathryn Smith, who graduated from the University of Saint Andrews in Scotlad with the Class of 2020, as she leads a procession of with friends and family with her parents George and Karen in Stonington on Sunday, July 12, 2020. The Scottish tradition is for graduates to be joined by bagpipers as they walk through town following commencement exercises. “We just wanted to do something as close as we could," said her father George of their small ceremony and walk down to Lord´s Point with a bagpiper. (Sarah Gordon / The Day)