Well, you’ve read so much about my Masters Degree, it just seems incomplete to not show you the grande finale – GRADUATION!
It was May 27, 2009 at 4pm. Westchester County Center (NY). As with all these things, it was lots of hurry up and wait. Driving took twice as long as the ceremony itself. Oh well, after all the time we spent reading, writing, posting, calculating and worrying – what was another day.
The best part of the whole thing – meeting my cohorts. There were 18 of us to start the program back in September 2007 and on this day, seven of us got to walk across the stage. Our 30 seconds of fame. It was a great day to finally meet the people who for 18 months supported and helped me acheive one of my life list items. Not that others didn’t but these were the ones going through it every test, paper and post with me. We finally got to put faces, names and writing styles together. Funny some people were exactly as I imagined (or saw on Facebook) others, well… not so much.
If any of you were watching Facebook during that day, you saw the pics and even some of the banter we were all having while waiting. Thank goodness for Blackberrys and iPhones. It let us have others who couldn’t be with us, be connected even if it was over the web.
Won’t bore you with a lot more words. Here’s a summary of the day …
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- Delta Mu Delta International Honor Society Stole
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- Westchester County Center – Welcome Mercy College Class of 2009
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- Lined up and ready to go. WooHoo! I made it!
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- Bagpipers during the processional. LOVE the sounds of pipers!
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- The stage and faculty
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- (L-R) Melissa, Jaime, Chris, Joe and Leonora
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- Dan and I across the aisle
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- Graduates! (L-R) Joe, Me, Dan, Melissa, Chris, Jaime, Leonora
The final class receiving Mercy College Masters of Science in Direct and Interactive Marketing from the School of Business. Mercy has decided to roll the program into the MBA curriculum. In my mind, this degree has even more meaning now. Congratuations Graduates! Well done!
Graduates! (L-R) Joe, Me, Dan, Melissa, Chris, Jaime, Leonora
Now its off to the party!
(Seriously today June 6th … but that will be another post… 
An honor worth celebrating — um, perhaps with an all-day party!