Anything worth doing is worth doing twice — even if it is 30 years apart! And a Harvard Graduation is a celebration not to be missed. A few highlight pictures with captions….
On the morning of graduation day, ALL the graduates from the entire university come together in Harvard Yard and are pronounced to have earned their degrees, school by school. One of the really fun traditions is that each of the graduate schools cheers and waves something symbolic in the air when it is their turn — check out the Harvard Commencement video at about minute 49 for the Ed School and our children’s books 🙂 [In full honesty, I have to admit that I actually thought the Design School had the coolest symbol as they had built structures made out of Duplos and stuck them to their mortar boards!!]
In the afternoon, each graduate school heads back to their own campus for the awarding of the diplomas. Dean Jim Ryan gave a speech that has really stuck with us all on the topic of sins of omission — “you should see what needs doing and do it without being told.” You can read or listen to the speech here. He’s a terrific speaker and funny, so listening is better and it IS absolutely worth 24 minutes and 29 seconds of your life to do so 😉
And then Dean Ryan shook hands with 701 graduates, including this one….
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