Vera's MBA Graduation from St. Mary's

Vera's MBA graduation ceremony was today. The morning started out with Vera putting her gown and hood in the drier to get out the wrinkles. The instructions say to do that. (Who'd a thunk that there was such a thing as the American Council on Education code of Inter-Collegiate Costume that's comes up with this stuff???)

Any hoo... after the drier, Vera tried on her collegiate costume, only to discover that the hood appeared to be torn at the inseam. Panic ensued, and she called the St. Mary's MBA program coordinator and left a message. "My hood is torn, do you have any spares?"

The woman called back (she was checking her work voice mail on a Sunday) and she had a spare hood. We got there early and as it turns out, the hood was fine. We were pulling too much of the pouch out of the hood out, they never sew them all the way up (I'm going to write a letter to the Inter-Collegiate Costume folks that their documentation sucks, graduates just don't need that stress). Whew! The plus was that Vera had an experienced person to get that hood folded and hanging just right over her robes!

After that was sorted, we arrived for a brunch celebrating students graduating with honors.

Here are three videos:

The first (top) is of the graduates walking in. It was held at the St. Mary's chapel, one of the priests was playing the pipe organ. Unfortunately he did not play "Pomp N Circumstance". It was strange not to have that played during the procession.

The second (middle) is of Vera receiving her diploma.

The third (bottom) is Vera and other classmates standing as they are being recognized for graduating with honors.

Vera did not walk in her undergrad graduation ceremony (I dunno why, she jsut didn't want to). So I told her she MUST walk in this one. Thanks to Vera's sister's boyfriend, Mike, for taking these Videos!