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The Young Man With No Guests At Commencement
Some students defy the odds. Their common denominator is natural curiosity. ___ This is final exam week here at the community college. The faculty and guests will attend a commencement ceremony in the...
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A Divorced Dad Reflects: Graduation was Years Ago, But Life Commencement is Now
Bill Douglas’s youngest graduates from high school, and that fact has given him a moment. He realizes that he is less about graduation and more about commencement. Here’s how. — Hard to believe, on...
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Time Machine Series: Exploring Past, Present, and Future
Pomp and CircumstancePASTAt my high school graduation in 1995, I had a captive audience of 425 graduating students below me on the Santa Fe High School football field, and all their parents and...
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The Cut
Portraits of the PatriarchyFather Time examines the progressive shift in modern fatherhoodPart 10The procedure was transactional—like getting a haircut, except the cutting was happening nowhere near...
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The Commencement Speech That Wouldn’t Die
This graduation speaker left Al DeLuise in tears — of laughter._______We have all been there, trapped in an auditorium or meeting where someone just droned on, oblivious of their surroundings, totally...
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