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

Sohana and Sachta Bakshi

Many of the SOU International Show participants at the end of the performance

Takumi the samurai

Posted on April 22nd, 2011 under people. Tags: international show, people, Southern Oregon University, takumi. Comments Off on “Sakura” by Naotarou Moriyama performed at International Show