Colleges set to celebrate graduates | The Daily Gazette
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Colleges and universities across the Capital Region are set to celebrate graduates over the coming weeks, employing a variety of approaches – some of which will only include the graduates.
The ceremonies differ from school to school but reflect the restrictions schools have been forced to work under – even as venues are given more and more room to host visitors.
While Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced outdoor venues would be able to open at full capacity by May 19, colleges and K-12 public schools have made graduation plans under state guidelines issued in April specific to academic ceremonies, which are more restrictive than the newer venue guidelines announced this week.
Union College announces plans for outdoor graduation ceremonies | The Daily Gazette
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The separate ceremonies will be held at the college’s traditional graduation spot, Hull Plaza, the patio and lawn spreading out from the college’s Schaffer Library. The main site will not allow in visitors beyond the graduates, under recently-released state guidelines for graduation events, but Union plans to allow each graduate two ticketed guests who can join a separate outdoor, on-campus location to view a livestream of the ceremony.
The Class of 2021 will be honored June 13, and students from last year’s graduating class, who a year ago were conferred degrees during an online ceremony, will be welcomed back to campus for their own commencement ceremony on June 20.
On my windowsill, there is a cloisonné egg, a dried rose given to me by Franz Klammer and a turquoise toy Fiat 1500. The egg is mine, it was gifted to me by my grandfather. The car is not mine, however. But I remember that I found it in the bottom of a box, mixed in with objects that once belonged to the little boy my father once was.
I love objects with stories. I miss visiting the homes of my friends and seeing the objects they have preserved which ones they deem worthy of keeping on their shelves. The objects on my windowsill have been there so long that when I pick them, there is a faint ring around where the base of the object rests against the wood.