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Report on SU's virtual graduation ceremony today (read down)

sutomcat said:
Sure sounds like it. I wonder if they will show off the new sound system, lighting and scoreboards for graduation. That would be interesting.
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Each graduate is going to be announced like Michael Jordan at the United Center. Gonna be pretty sweet.
 
I thought the SU model was a some dude with a broken Mega phone and a couple people with Phone flashlights.
 
No commencement and a crappy jobs market as many try and enter the work force. This virus continues to deliver.
 
I’ll never forget my final days at SU as a student. Graduation, dinner at the dome, showing my parents around the campus that I finally knew. They came up 3x and first time since frosh year. Some people I said good bye to that I never saw again. It’s a beautiful time in so many ways.

One final night at 44s dancing on a table, listening to the Hurricane close things up and then turning onto 81 for the final time the next day leaving for the final time.

I always questioned some of my buddies who stayed in the frat house for an extra week bc they couldn’t let go. What id give for
That extra week of zero worries again.
 
elimunelson said:
I’ll never forget my final days at SU as a student. Graduation, dinner at the dome, showing my parents around the campus that I finally knew. They came up 3x and first time since frosh year. Some people I said good bye to that I never saw again. It’s a beautiful time in so many ways.

One final night at 44s dancing on a table, listening to the Hurricane close things up and then turning onto 81 for the final time the next day leaving for the final time.

I always questioned some of my buddies who stayed in the frat house for an extra week bc they couldn’t let go. What id give for
That extra week of zero worries again.
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Your story brought back a flood of memories. My parents, too, had brought me to Syracuse at beginning of my freshman year ... and they had not returned until nearly four years later for my commencement. Commencement weekend was not as organized as it has become. As I recall, the ONLY organized event was commencement itself, followed by a luncheon for a few invited graduates, their parents, various university officials, and the commencement speaker. (But we had two of them; more about that later).

The night before commencement, my parents took me, my boyfriend and two other friends, to dinner at a funky place I loved called Walter White's .. which has long since disappeared. I stayed in my sorority house that night (for the only time without a curfew in that era of strict curfews for women undergraduates). Commencement was held on a beautiful sunny day, Sunday June 2, 1963, outdoors in Archbold Stadium, featuring TWO commencement speakers. The university had invited CP Snow (a British intellectual that we had never heard of) as the speaker. But my class, which was politically active, rejected that idea ... and independently we invited Adlai Stevenson (a recent two-time Democratic candidate for president) to be the speaker. So we had two, and both also spoke at the subsequent luncheon (to which I and my parents were invited because I was on the senior class executive council).

My parents left that afternoon to return home to Armonk, but I stayed another day with some friends. One of them, a very close friend for four years named Milt Joffe, said to me as we said good-bye, "Have a great rest of your life." I was like ... "What do you mean?" He replied, "We will probably never see each other again." I told him he was crazy. Sadly, he was right. I never saw him again, and he died recently after a distinquished career at the Buffalo Evening News.

The next day, I sadly packed four years of belongings into my battered 13-year-old Dodge which had survived four Syracuse winters, and set out for Armonk. Along my six-hour drive, I kept switching stations on my car's AM radio trying to find some rock and roll, but all I found were news reports about the death that day of Pope John XXIII. Oddly, that is one of the clearest memories of my graduation weekend.
 
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cto said:
Your post brought back a flood of memories. My parents, too, had brought me to Syracuse at beginning of freshman year ... and had not returned until commencement weekend. Commencement weekend was not as organized back then as it became. As I recall, the ONLY organized event was commencement itself, followed by a luncheon for a select few graduates, their families, and various university officials, and the commencement speakers. (We had two; more about that later).

The night before commencement, my parents took me, my boyfriend and a couple with whom we were friendly, out to dinner at a funky place called Walter White's .. which has long since disappeared. I stayed in my sorority house that night (for the first time ever without a curfew). Commencement was held on a beautiful sunny day, Sunday June 2, 1963, outdoors in Archbold Stadium, featuring TWO commencement speakers. The university had engaged CP Snow (a British intellectual that we had never heard of) as the speaker. But my class, which was politically active, rejected that idea ... and independently we invited Adlai Stevenson (a recent two-time Democratic candidate for president) to be the speaker. So we had two, and both spoke again briefly at the subsequent luncheon (to which I and my parents were invited because I was on the senior class executive council).

My parents left that afternoon to return to Armonk, but I stayed around another day with some friends. One of them, a very close friend for four years named Milt Joffe, said to me as we said good-bye, "Have a nice rest of your life." I was like ... "What do you mean?" He replied, "We may never see each other again." I told him that was not possible. Sadly, he turned out to be right, and he died recently after a distinquished career at the Buffalo Evening News.

The next day, I sadly packed four years worth of belongings and set out for Armonk in my 13-year-old battered Dodge. Along the way, I kept switching radio stations trying to find some rock and roll, but all I found were news bulletins about the death of Pope Pius XXIII. Oddly, that is one of the clearest memories of my graduation weekend.
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Nice story, cto.

BTW, I loved Walter White's.
 
orange79 said:
Nice story, cto.

BTW, I loved Walter White's.
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DaCuse said:
It’s NEVER too late
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I mean I’m only 21 so yeah you aren’t wrong. But I currently only take a class a semester at a CC. Plus I couldn’t nearly afford SU lmao
 
hoopsupstate said:
41 years ago I graduated from SU and now I’m retired. Where has the time gone? A lot of great memories. Congratulations Class of 2020 and best of luck making your dreams come true.
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Your comment triggered something in my mind I haven't thought about. My graduation was 61 years ago - WOW! I am now much older but only slightly more mature.
 
A great weekend, one last hoorah with the guys. 8 years ago for me. Was definitely sad leaving the house the last time. I lived with 5 other guys my Jr/Sr year (Comstock Ave). Amazing house with incredible memories. It was basically a residential house so we all had pretty awesome rooms. Definitely not your typical college house.
 
Our university put on a pretty decent virtual graduation. I was also pretty proud of the high schools around here as well.

I wish we could have done more for our 2020 graduates, and I hope to bump into some before they head off to the real world. Never even got to say good bye to most of em. My team put together a little video for them, which I've posted below in case anyone is interested. One thing that came out of this COVID deal, it opened my eyes to some really need things we can do. We're making videos for everything next academic year lol.
BLaST Graduation Message
 
FloridaFan said:
I mean I’m only 21 so yeah you aren’t wrong. But I currently only take a class a semester at a CC. Plus I couldn’t nearly afford SU lmao
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Make it count, and you can’t not afford it.
 

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