This past week has been another long and crazy one. Our graduation ceremony is today at 3:00 and that has meant we were furiously working to clear the graduate files, academically and financially. We are also in the last three weeks of the Caribcert program, trying to get admitted and registered our new students for the Winter Quarter as well as complete registration for continuing students, trying to finish the Standards of Academic Progress for the Fall quarter and finalize all the details for the graduation events. It has meant that Katie and I have been at the office working 12 hours a day pretty much every day this week.
The graduation events included a graduation banquet on Thursday and our rehearsal on Friday evening. Kathleen, as the registrar has been handling the lion share of planning and coordinating all the events. The college had not held a banquet in several years but there was a lot of enthusiasm about restarting that tradition. Katie got a committee of graduates to call several restaurants and get quotes for the meal. They ended up picking Grand Old House and the dinner was held out on the patio next to the water. It truly is one of the most incredible restaurants on the Island with an extraordinary view. Katie prepared a PowerPoint slide show presentation and it was shown on a plasma TV the rental of which one of our students got a local business to donate. Katie printed the tickets and handled the sale of tickets as well as getting all the payments made. She printed up commemorative menu's with the program on the back on card stock which made for a very nice keepsake. The banquet went really well and almost 70 people attended. It was great to restart an old tradition.
The rehearsal Friday night was at the Church of God Holiness in Red Bay where the ceremony will be held. Ironically, the church where we are having our ceremony is just a block and a half away from our house. That means a short trip Sunday afternoon. After missing our Friday night Sushi the last several weeks, we had a chance to go to Yoshi after the rehearsal and enjoy a nice meal. Yesterday morning we did some Christmas shopping and then in the afternoon went over to the college and spent two hours printing and folding programs for the graduation ceremony. We also went over again our roles in the ceremony and made sure everything was ready. After the ceremony today we have a week to get registration complete and then head home for a week in DFW and Georgia.
The graduation events included a graduation banquet on Thursday and our rehearsal on Friday evening. Kathleen, as the registrar has been handling the lion share of planning and coordinating all the events. The college had not held a banquet in several years but there was a lot of enthusiasm about restarting that tradition. Katie got a committee of graduates to call several restaurants and get quotes for the meal. They ended up picking Grand Old House and the dinner was held out on the patio next to the water. It truly is one of the most incredible restaurants on the Island with an extraordinary view. Katie prepared a PowerPoint slide show presentation and it was shown on a plasma TV the rental of which one of our students got a local business to donate. Katie printed the tickets and handled the sale of tickets as well as getting all the payments made. She printed up commemorative menu's with the program on the back on card stock which made for a very nice keepsake. The banquet went really well and almost 70 people attended. It was great to restart an old tradition.
The rehearsal Friday night was at the Church of God Holiness in Red Bay where the ceremony will be held. Ironically, the church where we are having our ceremony is just a block and a half away from our house. That means a short trip Sunday afternoon. After missing our Friday night Sushi the last several weeks, we had a chance to go to Yoshi after the rehearsal and enjoy a nice meal. Yesterday morning we did some Christmas shopping and then in the afternoon went over to the college and spent two hours printing and folding programs for the graduation ceremony. We also went over again our roles in the ceremony and made sure everything was ready. After the ceremony today we have a week to get registration complete and then head home for a week in DFW and Georgia.
