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The valedictory address, or valediction, is the closing or farewell statement delivered at a graduation ceremony. It is an oration at commencement (in Canada, called convocation in university and graduation in high school) exercises in U.S. and some Canadian high schools, colleges, and universities delivered by one of the graduates.
A valediction (derivation from Latin vale dicere, "to say farewell"), [1] parting phrase, or complimentary close in American English, [2] is an expression used to say farewell, especially a word or phrase used to end a letter or message, [3] [4] or a speech made at a farewell. [3] Valediction's counterpart is a greeting called a salutation.
Joanna Gaines is a mom of five, who, like many parents across the country at the moment, is sending a child off to college. "I catch glimpses now of what that life will look like and wonder if ...
The parents and students of the class of 2009 in Centerburg, Ohio held their own unofficial graduation ceremony at the local park when the school board decided to cancel the official graduation ceremony, in response to a cheating scandal, [14] even though only one person out of the entire 97-student graduating class was ever proven guilty of ...
"As a result, we will not be able to host the main stage ceremony that traditionally brings 65,000 students, families, and friends to our campus all at the same time and during a short window from ...
Another poem titled "Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Jesus College, Cambridge", and Coleridge stated that he wrote it during 1791. It was published in the Sherborne Weekly Entertainer during the summer of 1793 [3] and again in the October 1794 Cambridge Intelligencer. The tone of the later edition is serious, whereas a possible ...
An outraged Atlanta mom disrupts her son's elementary school awards ceremony after the first grader wasn't awarded any accolades for his academic achievements. If mom’s not happy, nobody is happy.
The Roanoke College choir performing at a Baccalaureate service St. Thomas of Villanova Church during the 2008 Villanova University Baccalaureate.. A baccalaureate service (or baccalaureate Mass) is a celebration that honors a graduating class from a college, high school, or middle school.