I realize this may at first seem premature, but (as difficult as it may be to
believe!) Graduation is approaching. We in the College are fortunate in having
individual ceremonies for each Department, at which a certificate from the
College, and a certificate and ring for the Order of the Engineer, are given
individually to each student. This note is just to give you a "heads up" on
that ceremony.
PLEASE NOTE THAT PLANS HERE ARE ONLY TENTATIVE: THERE MAY BE CHANGES RESULTING
FROM ACTIONS BY THE PROVOST. BUT, ASSUMING CEREMONIES REMAIN AS THEY HAVE BEEN
IN YEARS PAST, THIS IS WHAT WILL TRANSPIRE:
The College ceremonies have been held the Sunday morning of the Weekend, just
before Graduation. Ours this past year started at 9:30AM in DeBartolo 101 (the
big auditorium). The formal ceremonies lasted under an hour and were followed
by "heavy refreshments"--sandwich fixin's and the like--with the intent that
students and their families go directly from there to the JACC for the "big
ceremony". I mention this because, as part of the Graduation Weekend packet to
be sent to your homes, there is apparently a "box lunch" available for that day
which may or may not be optional and which may or may not be charged for (guess
which); it would be superfluous IF events go as they have in the past.
You should also be aware that DeBart Auditorium will only hold 450 family and
guests; since we expect approximately 100 students to take part, this means we
can only guarantee 3 seats in the hall itself and will be issuing
tickets for the hall seats; any extra tickets will probably go into a lottery.
It is possible we will have an additional room in DeBartolo into which a
closed-circuit television feed will be sent. Again, we are letting you know
about this now so you can plan with the Home Front.
Let me stress that THIS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE depending on the choice of
Commencement speaker (schedule and accompanying security moves times), and
whether or not the Provost tries to make this practice more wide-spread (which
could affect the availability of rooms). But this is to let you know what is
in the works at this time. We hope we will have more solid info available in
time for you to make commitments closer to the time.
Congratulations to you all....
-Bob Howland
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