Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Donald Follmer's College Graduation

Bank of Mom and Dad is now closed.


Saturday was the big day. Donald Graduation from Southern Oregon University. It was a beautiful day in the valley. Partly cloudy and temperatures in the low 70's. There were about 800 graduates.

Ann Curry was the commencement speaker and I got to meet her after the ceremony. Ann is from Ashland and is a hometown girl and returned to share this moment with the graduates.

We got to the stadium about 3 hours early to get a good seat. You'll notice we are in the front row and we had our noisemakers. Notice in this photo the proud mother, grandmother and grandfather. All set for this great day. Behind them is Darnell and Josh. They are Donald's friends from New Jersey and were his graduation present from Mom. Donald wanted his long time friends with him at graduation. We were all so proud of Donald's accomplishment and wanted to be there with him.

With Donald is his girlfriend Kara. Both a delight and so happy together. Those couple of years of study dates paid off.

More on the party tomorrow.

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