Here’s something I noticed, from Sunday’s news:
“Graduation ceremony finally happens, 50 years later“
Max Matza, BBC News (June 9, 2024)“Fifty years after a tornado warning led to the abrupt cancellation of a high school graduation for students in Moore, Oklahoma, the class of 1974 has finally walked across stage to receive diplomas….
“…The event 50 years ago was never rescheduled, and for years the class of 500 pupils had discussed the idea of holding a formal graduation ceremony for themselves….”
At the time, there were reasons for not rescheduling the event. And the lack of a ceremony didn’t affect their graduation: I gather that the students picked up their diplomas later, in the school gymnasium.
Even so, ceremonies matter. Which I figure is why the class of 1974 finally got their graduation day: and another class, whose graduation ceremony would have happened early in the COVID-19 pandemic, had their own belated commencement exercise.
That’s a very welcome bit of good news.
