Stephen's Graduation - May 13th

I promised to share some of the events of March, April and early May and will start with the most recent BIG event. Sally's son Stephen graduated from Tulane Law School on May 13th. He was the top student in his class, an award presented at the Law School honors reception Friday night.

The main Tulane graduation ceremony was Saturday morning - speakers were Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush. It was held in the arena, across the street from the Superdome. It was a very different ceremony - no Pomp and Circumstance. The music was provided by a jazz band. The invocation was even musical - a version of Just a Closer Walk with Thee done in the traditional funeral format. The first section was a very soulful clarinet solo, followed by a rousing jaz version by the full jazz ensemble, including brass and saxophone.
At the end of the graduation, there was a surprise appearance by Ellen DeGeneres. She appeared in a white hotel-type terry robe saying that she heard everyone would be in robes. At the end, instead of a formal recessional, she and the university president led the students in a "second-line" dance carrying a parasol and waving a white handkerchief.
Stephen took us out for steaks at Dickie Brennan's after the Law School graduation ceremony. He started work Monday the 15th as a law clerk for Edith Brown Clement of the Fifth Circuit Federal Appeals Court.