Comments on: Walk This Way

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:16:51 +0000

Yeah, that was pretty awesome.

Dave, I can’t remember when students stopped handing stuff to Al but now that you mention it, they haven’t done it for at least two years, it seems to me. Might be a good “tradition” to revive as a farewell to him next year. (Assuming he liked it: some of the stuff people handed to him or tried to put on him was pretty odd. I think the worst case was the student who handed him a book of matches in the year where we’d had a few little fires started in basements of buildings…)

By: Katie Davenport

Katie Davenport — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:17:58 +0000

Do you remember Ed Stehlik’s graceful cartwheel across the stage in ’05? It was the highlight of my graduation.

By: Timothy Burke

Timothy Burke — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:23:41 +0000

I’ll add that to my list of reasons why Baden-Powell is one of the oddest public characters in global culture over the last two centuries.

By: peter55

peter55 — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 15:31:45 +0000

Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts, apparently devoted great efforts to studying people’s individual gaits and could recall them, even years later. He is supposed to have met his wife after recognizing her gait as one that he had seen before, and telling her where he had previously seen her walking.

By: Western Dave

Western Dave — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:12:52 +0000

Do seniors still decorate the President as they receive their diplomas? Or did that tradition run its course?

By: hwc

hwc — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 02:37:02 +0000

What a delightful weekend. From George Lakey’s Baccalaureate Speech to Prof. Mahdi’s Last Collection speech to the fireworks to the graduation ceremony in the ampitheater.

Loved the jazz band versions of Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Proud Mary, and Joy to the World during the processionals