Graduation Time

I happened to be sorting through a few things a day or two ago, when I found a program from my high school graduation. It's that season now and one of those montages of the year's college commencement speakers was on the national news last night. [Best Line: from Michael Keaton - (straightening himself up to say something very serious) I want to leave you with two words... I'm Batman.]

Not too surprisingly the anniversaries of all my graduations fall within the next week. Umpty years ago today I graduated from college. Four years earlier than that, from tomorrow, I graduated from high school. Four years after college I got my graduate degree, the calendar date a few days from now.

There were 600+ graduates on my high school class, not huge by the standards of bigger cities, but if I remember correctly the second largest high school class in the St. Louis area that year. I had to look in the yearbook to remind myself what color robes we wore. My brother and sister who'd graduated from the same high school had worn traditional black. Times had changed and my class wore gold robes. Our tassels were the school colors, conveniently black and gold. ( Read more... )