Grant's graduation was one of the happiest, proudest days of my life. It's my new "happy place" -- when I need a mental escape, I think of Grant's graduation day, and I'm instantly happy and filled with joy and warm memories. Such a huge accomplishment and such a happy moment for our family!
The venue: outdoors in the middle of campus, under an enormous tent. The ceremony was amazing and the weather was picture perfect! The setting was just right -- dignified but not too stuffy (people had dogs on leashes on the perimeters!), relaxed and family friendly -- very representative of our Willamette experience.
Attendees: all but one of Grant's sisters and her husband and son were able to come, along with my parents, oldest sister, Sherri, and my sister Mary, her husband, and daughter Maddy!
One of Willamette's great traditions -- bagpipers escorting the graduates in and out of the ceremony. Super cool, but not to Eliot, who bawled through the whole loud production. Poor thing, after a long week of vacationing, packing up our place, and then the loud ruckus we put him through, graduation was a rough morning for him.
Okay, the video, oh the video ... we went through so much grief to get this to post because it wasn't the right file format ... blah, blah, but anyway, you'll notice that the audio is fine but the rest is on "fast forward" ... probably fine for most people who don't really care about the processional of people they don't know anyway, but the idea was to give you a taste of the bagpipers. Maybe a little more silly than amazing like it was in person (it makes me giggle to watch this version), but hopefully you get the idea ...
Willamette University President, M. Lee Pelton (left),
and Dean of the law school, Symeon C. Symeonides (right)
We think our conquering graduate stands out in the crowd!
Being hooded, which was a bit of an ordeal since Professor Tornquist, who hooded Grant, isn't especially tall, but Grant is!
One proud little family!
Our proud parents: Grant's on the left, mine on the right. We're so thankful they could join us for Grant's big day. They were such a support to us throughout law school; we couldn't have done it without them.
Our family that was able to attend: (Top) Grant's parents and siblings, minus sister Brenda (middle), (Bottom) Grant with my parents and sister Mary, her husband, Louie, and daughter, Madelyn, and my sister Sherri (bottom).
Congratulations, Grant! We are so proud of you! So much hard work, dedication, and diligence made this big accomplishment possible! You did it!!
1 comment:
Looks like it was a fun celebration!!
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