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...

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...

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.

Jayne was one of my accounting students...

Sachta Bakshi

Susan gives Alisha a hug proving that accountants are very personable.

You can watch some of Wenjun’s Senior Recital here.

Yeah baby!

The faculty were allowed to exit before everyone else, giving us first crack at the cookies placed in the end zone.

Posted on June 11th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: commencement, dennis slattery, grizzly peak, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University Graduation Photos (part 2 of 2)

SOU grads lining up with Grizzly Peak in the background

I have about 60 decent photos from Southern Oregon University’s graduation ceremony this morning. I’ll post them in two installments. This first set of pictures will consist of 10, and the next one will have 50. If you were there, there is a chance you are in at least one of these images.

Donna and Lisa greet soon-to-be grads

Mark Siders visits with former students

Donna poses for a photo

A couple of Criminology professors arrive just in time

A couple of my accounting students discuss debits and credits

Dennis Slattery and a new grad

Posted on June 11th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: commencement, grizzly peak, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments: 1

Wenjun Qi is a music major at SOU from China. She gave me pointers on my trip to China last year before we had even met. It was a friend of a friend kind of thing. But now I see her on campus all the time. I look forward to our meetings as she always has such a big smile on her face. On May 22 she performed her senior recital in the Music Recital Hall on campus.

Here is a video of her performing “Libra Sonatine” by Roland Dyens in three movements, India, Largo, and Fuoco.

Posted on May 30th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: music, people, Southern Oregon University, video. Comments Off on SOU student Wenjun Qi

Today I will wrap up the posting of photos from the International Show held at SOU.

Posted on May 8th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Final batch of photos from the 2011 International Show at Southern Oregon University

I processed another 15 or so photos from last month’s International Show. I’ll present them in two batches. Tomorrow you’ll get the final installment.

Posted on May 7th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on More photos from the 2011 SOU International Show

Even though this was a Hawaiian Luau, put on by the SOU Hawaii Club, not all of the dances were from Hawaii. In fact, I think more than half were from elsewhere. The photos in today’s post are from the final performance of the evening. I think it was called the Kapa Haka.

The above picture may look like a poorly taken photo (because it was thanks to the poor lighting conditions at the beginning of the dance), but it actually captures the feeling of the dance quite well.

Posted on May 3rd, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: luau, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Maori Kapa Haka

Unfortunately, I forgot to bring home the program from the luau put on by Southern Oregon University’s Hawaii Club. Therefore, I can’t correctly label these pictures as to what the dances were called or who the participants were. This photo is from the couples’ dance that was performed by the soon-to-be-graduating seniors.

Posted on May 2nd, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: luau, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on SOU Luau

Each year, near the end of the international show, the students do an international fashion show. My-Linh, above, is from Vietnam.

Not all of the students represent their home country though. Ashley, on the right, was representing Thailand even though she is from Oregon.

Erina is Japanese, but she was part of the Mexico group.

The hosts of the fashion show portion were from France and Japan. That’s another student, Yuki, from Waseda University.

Earlier in the evening, many of the Japanese students (and some non-Japanese students) performed a medley of Japanese Anime songs including Miyazaki classics like Princess Mononoke (もののけ姫) and My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ).

Posted on April 25th, 2011 under only in ashland, people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University, video. Comments Off on Southern Oregon University International Fashion Show 2011

Sachta Bakshi and DaeWook Kim were the hosts of SOU’s International Show 2011.

One of my accounting students from Korea, Jun Byung Joon, put on an amazing display of Taekwondo.

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University. Comments Off on Taekwondo from Korea at the International Show