Halfway graduated
May. 17th, 2005 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
taylweaverSo tonight was wonderful. Teachers College graduation was in Riverside Church, and it is beautiful in there - plus, the Christian decor is relatively subtle, so it didn't feel like a church as much as a more generic place of worship. Which was nice. And when one of the students in our program needed to sit up front to see the ASL interpreter, another student asked if the entire program could sit with her - so I was in the second row. Which was especially great because the student speaker was from our program, and deaf, so she signed her speech - and all of us could see her, and not just listen to the interpreter.
Instead of having a keynote speaker, we had three shorter speakers, three people that were presented with awards: Jerome Bruner, who had something to do with... was it cognitive development research? Anyway, he changed the way people look at education - I didn't quite follow how. Richard Heffner, who has done a lot with educational television, and teaching through media such as radio and TV. And last, Judy Collins. She sings. I don't know too much about her except that she is a singer, and an influential one, espeically a generation ago. When she got up to speak, she sang for us. Twice. At the end of her speech, she sang Amazing Grace - and both songs were without musical accompaniament, and both were beautiful.
And afterward, I took my parents to the reception to meet some faculty and classmates, so that was wonderful as well - even if we couldn't eat much of the food.
Plus, before graduation, we had a picnic dinner in Riverside Park, which meant we had no pressure to rush over to the church - we were there early, and my parents got good seats.
Tomorrow is Graduation, Part II. Hopefully, that one will be just as good. It will certainly be grand.
Instead of having a keynote speaker, we had three shorter speakers, three people that were presented with awards: Jerome Bruner, who had something to do with... was it cognitive development research? Anyway, he changed the way people look at education - I didn't quite follow how. Richard Heffner, who has done a lot with educational television, and teaching through media such as radio and TV. And last, Judy Collins. She sings. I don't know too much about her except that she is a singer, and an influential one, espeically a generation ago. When she got up to speak, she sang for us. Twice. At the end of her speech, she sang Amazing Grace - and both songs were without musical accompaniament, and both were beautiful.
And afterward, I took my parents to the reception to meet some faculty and classmates, so that was wonderful as well - even if we couldn't eat much of the food.
Plus, before graduation, we had a picnic dinner in Riverside Park, which meant we had no pressure to rush over to the church - we were there early, and my parents got good seats.
Tomorrow is Graduation, Part II. Hopefully, that one will be just as good. It will certainly be grand.
