Falcon Fanatic wrote:The very next one was Dr. Ribeau's first one. It happened to be in the spring at the Doyt and it was FREEEEEEZING out, light sleet, with a strong, cold wind blowing in our faces....just a lovely day!!! After that....we have had individual graduation ceremonies INSIDE!!
Ah, May 11, 1996. I remember that day well. Don't know if I remember sleet, but it was damn cold and rainy! To think my mom complained about me wearing a sweatshirt (BG hockey sweatshirt, to be exact) and jeans under my gown. Heh, mothers. I didn't go all out like that with the cap, though I did find it in some boxes the other day and forgot that I decorated the top with a small Hartford Whalers logo.
And for all of you that have complained about your commencement speaker, try sitting in that weather listening to 45 minutes to an hour speech about the plight of the migrant worker in America. Whoa.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
McConvey wrote:Since I was unable to live out this dream, I instead wore a scale model of the rink on my mortar. Working goal lights and everything. It was, as my favorite goalie out here likes to say, SICK.
It was AWESOME, if I recall!!! Fantastic way to decorate the graduation lid!!! As someone who has been a platform participant in MANY graduations, and have just about seen it all....YOURS ranks as my #1!!!!
Wow. I'm flattered, because I know you've seen zillions of us walk.
Thank you! And Bruce thanks you, too (he's the one who made the rink for me. I have no artistic skill whatsoever).
And not that any of you are reading this today, but I wanted to once again congratulate all the no-longer-students graduating today!!
TG1996 wrote:
Ah, May 11, 1996. I remember that day well. Don't know if I remember sleet, but it was damn cold and rainy! To think my mom complained about me wearing a sweatshirt (BG hockey sweatshirt, to be exact) and jeans under my gown. Heh, mothers. I didn't go all out like that with the cap, though I did find it in some boxes the other day and forgot that I decorated the top with a small Hartford Whalers logo.
So wait... you love BG hockey and decorated your mortal with a Whalers logo?
TG1996 wrote:Ah, May 11, 1996. I remember that day well. Don't know if I remember sleet, but it was damn cold and rainy! To think my mom complained about me wearing a sweatshirt (BG hockey sweatshirt, to be exact) and jeans under my gown. Heh, mothers. I didn't go all out like that with the cap, though I did find it in some boxes the other day and forgot that I decorated the top with a small Hartford Whalers logo.
And for all of you that have complained about your commencement speaker, try sitting in that weather listening to 45 minutes to an hour speech about the plight of the migrant worker in America. Whoa.
The speech wasn't 45 minutes to an hour long, it just FELT like it!! He went through it pretty fast, if I recall. He wanted to get out of that weather as much as we did. And maybe it didn't sleet, but it sure felt like it when it was hitting me in the face. I think it took the rest of the day before I felt like I had warmed up!!! What a miserable day....totally opposite of what it was like yesterday!!!
"Regarding BGSU, I would think their biggest strength is that they never give up, They never slow down and they battle hard even after the other team scores. We have to be on our game and never, ever take the foot off the gas for a second." ~~USCHO Poster "BG was relentless. It's like they know that a good first pass on the breakout from a defenseman will almost always result in an odd-man rush against them - but they go in anyway and dare you to make that pass. All three of their goals were just grit and effort. That's a team any fan can be proud to support...they give all they've got." ~~USCHO Poster, AFTER Tech beat us #NeverGiveUp
#NeverSurrender
#Relentless
#Resiliant
transfer2BGSU wrote:I was at Fort Gordon, Georgia in May 1987 when a guy woke me up in the barracks early in the morning and showed me the graduation pic that was on the wire and in the Sunday morning paper that had Mark Emblidge holding a poster of Mr. Rodgers in one hand and a bottle of champagne in another as he sang "Won't you be my neighbor?" Fred Rodgers and that conservative guy Buckley were the speakers that year.
We were in the stands that day watching our future daughter in law graduate . It was actually kind of neat to see the grads on their feet singing "Won't you be my neighbor?" I can't remember, though, whether they started it or Mr. Rodgers started it. But, a neat memory just the same.
Falcon Fanatic wrote:The speech wasn't 45 minutes to an hour long, it just FELT like it!!
I thought I remembered some parts of the day as being fairly bearable (weather-wise), because I remember chatting afterwards, with friends and no immediate rush to "get where its warm", but maybe I had just become immune to it at that point.
"I don't believe I can name a coach, anywhere, anytime, anyhow, who did it better than Doyt Perry."
-1955 BG Assistant Bo Schembechler
I graduated from BGSU that same day, and while I obviously can add, I hadn't even thought about it being 15 years since graduation. That is almost surreal!
After that....we have had individual graduation ceremonies INSIDE!!
I didn't go all out like that with the cap, though I did find it in some boxes the other day and forgot that I decorated the top with a small Hartford Whalers logo. 
