Southern Oregon University Graduation Photos (part 2 of 2)

a loooooooooooong line of SOU graduates

Part 1 is here. You can click on any of these images for a larger view. From there you can right click a picture to save it.

Dennis and Rene

Math professors...

This was the first year that professors formed a gauntlet since commencement moved from Lithia Park in 2003. I thought we should have done the tunnel like at kids' soccer games, but Dennis opted for low fives instead.

I think this is the first year that students (half of them anyway) marched in in front of the grand stands.

Perhaps you are in there?

Some SOU international students...

graduates from southern oregon university

Soon-to-be grads sipping coffee and chatting on the phone while walking in the procession...

SOU professor gauntlet

SOU Business students

I couldn't see the stage so I got to watch the new grads watch the speaker.

Bill Rauch, of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, was the main speaker at 2011 Commencement. He must have said something funny at this point.

Tassles on the right until graduated...

sou graduate heading to UW for graduate work in chemistry

This SOU graduate appears to be heading to UW for graduate work in chemistry.

This graduate grabbed a photo of the crowd just before her name was read.

After an hour or so of names being read, I amused myself with photos of graduation cap decoration ideas.

SOU School of Business faculty

I finally made it into a photo. I think Rene just wanted to try out my camera.

At long last, SOU's School of Business students approach the stage.

Funny story... Actually, look at this photo long and hard to see if you can see what is "funny" about it first.

Did you see it?

Someone's camera got in the way of the guy's hands on the far right. When I tried to remove the camera from the photo in Photoshop, Photoshop was "smart" enough to realize that hands were missing so it substituted the other guy's hands in the far right guy's "hand place" too. I would have just undone it and left it with the camera blocking the lower right portion of the photo, but I thought this looked too funny to not keep.