Roll Call Thread......

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Roll Call Thread......
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Thu, 04-02-2009 - 4:49pm

There are a lot of new posters out there and some old faces, lets all introduce ourselves again...


PumpkinAngel

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 11:14am
I find graduation ceremonies hot, long, pretentious, and boring. I was proud of the fact that despite having graduated four times, I never have worn a cap and gown....until one of my students was graduated with honors a few years back, and she asked me to walk with her as her faculty mentor. It was important to her, so I said yes. Which opened the floodgates. I walk with students almost every year now, and I still find graduation ceremonies hot, long, pretentious and boring. But since I now am the proud owner of a set of PhD robes (which cost twice as much as my wedding dress), at least my kids could go trick or treating as Harry Potter characters for several years running!
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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 11:15am
I know one reason. The graduate finds graduation ceremonies hot, pretentious, boring, and overly long and would rather be almost anywhere else!
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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 04-16-2009 - 11:20am

I won't

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Registered: 02-06-2009
Thu, 04-16-2009 - 11:22am
There's that.
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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 11:27am

My nephew did not attend his college graudation because of the cost of it.

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 11:30am

Lucky you. Our university is big, and each school (Engineering, Journalism, Education, Arts and Sciences...etc) has its own graduation ceremonyy. My college is the biggest, and the ceremony lasts about an hour and a half. Not to mention the lining up beforehand and the obligatory pictures with proud parents afterward (I do not mind that part). It takes half the day, and this being Missouri, it is either cold and drizzly or burning hot.

Then there is the M.A. ceremony, and the PhD ceremonies later in the week. It is not a fun week.

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 12:52pm

I am shocked and amazed that you could find a rabbi that would not only officiate at the ceremony, but do so knowing that any children of the union would be raised in the catholic church. That is, generally, NOT something that rabbis do. In fact, the vast majority wouldn't officiate at an intermarriage at all.

eileen

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 1:00pm

Those rabbis are rare as hen's teeth but they do exist. I also had a Jewish/Catholic wedding with a priest and rabbi. He was a rabbi who put an awful lot of mileage on his car because he was the rare exception to the rule you are familiar with. He was actually suggested by the priest because they had worked together before.

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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 1:11pm
Our local rabbi did a lot of interfaith ceremonies until about five years ago, when he suddenly announced that he was becoming upset by the number of interfaith marriages in his congregation and would no longer participate in such ceremonies. It really upset everyone because a lot of the families in the congregation (including my BIL and SIL) were mixed faith marriages.
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Thu, 04-16-2009 - 1:16pm
We'll probably go though that with DD3. She is attending a much larger university. They also graduate by college but each college is quite large.

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