Graduation ceremony finally happens, 50 years later<\/a>“
Max Matza, BBC News (June 9, 2024)<\/p>\n\n\n\n“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….<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“…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….”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That’s a very welcome bit of good news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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