{"id":36980,"date":"2025-12-07T08:13:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=36980"},"modified":"2025-12-07T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:29:45","slug":"a-big-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=36980","title":{"rendered":"A Big Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our grandson Quentin’s commencement ceremony at the University of Nevada, Reno, was yesterday afternoon. We were able to attend, sort of, thanks to UNR’s YouTube channel, where it was live-streamed. His proud parents, our son Gregory and daughter-in-law Beth, were there in person. Thank goodness they messaged these photos to us, because the ones I took of Quentin crossing the stage on our TV are blurry at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Congratulations to Quentin and his proud parents! Full disclosure: finals aren’t until next week, so Q and his hundreds of fellow baccalaureats aren’t quite done yet!<\/p>\n

Back in the day, I elected not to cross the stage for my degree at Sacramento State. Donna and I were on our own in California, my parents and sisters thousands of miles away. But Donna had worked to put me through college and I should have done it for her. Then, too, Donna had family in California, but I never thought of them. Shame on me.<\/p>\n

Years later, when our son graduated from the University of South Florida, we were stationed in Okinawa and couldn’t realistically attend, so we bought Gregory a round-trip ticket to visit us in Japan after the ceremony. A few months later, while we were still on Okinawa, Donna got her own degree from the University of Maryland Global Campus, which offers college courses at U.S. military bases overseas … her diploma came in the mail, same as mine.<\/p>\n

Quentin’s plans? We don’t know! I don’t know if he does … but I’m confident he’ll do well in life, whatever path he chooses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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