Corbella: Iron ring ceremony for engineers a profound Canadian ritual
Article content Last Saturday — May 1, 2021 — my husband Stephen and I watched a uniquely Canadian ceremony online, written by famed author Rudyard Kipling nearly one century ago, called the Ritual of the Calling of an Engineer. Our 23-year-old son, Tyrone — who turns 24 tomorrow — had just completed his final assignment the previous day in electrical engineering at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan campus, a laudable feat in itself made all the more impressive since he did so with no grade under an A! (If it sounds like I’ve still got my proud-mom pompoms lifted high, it...
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