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December 20, 2004
Graduation Pictures
Graduation was OK, but took forever. There was a general ceremony for everyone where they gave out honorary doctorates and individually hooded about 70 doctoral students. Juan Williams of NPR and Fox News was the speaker and he did a decent job talking about how to use your education to change the world for the better. The two honorary doctorates went to the first black undergraduate student and graduate student of UNT from 50 years ago and Williams talked about Thurgood Marshall and how he used his education for good. This all took at least two hours. Then it was off to the separate college’s graduations and they had signs up for each college (except mine of course) for where to go. Luckily I kind of knew where I was going so I was not too late. This ceremony only involved around sixty students and was much less formal and over in about an hour. The building for my college ceremony was some cool looking performance building named after Murchison, who has buildings on campuses all over Texas named after him..
By the end of the ceremony it had been close to seven hours since I had left my uncle’s in Ft. Worth where I was staying and I had not had lunch so I was ready to go. I ended up going to dinner and then visited my uncle’s church where he is the pastor. He helped to start this church a year ago and they meet Saturday nights in a Baptist church since they do not own a building yet. He also performed a tuba duet of Deck the Halls and Silent Night with the music leader which ended up sounding very good. Then Sunday morning I went to my cousin’s church (my uncle’s son) that my cousin had founded a year and a half ago and where that cousin’s brother in law leads worship.
Posted by Pete at December 20, 2004 02:08 PM
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Congrats!!!
Posted by: chris at December 20, 2004 03:10 PM