{"id":685,"date":"2016-07-08T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/?p=685"},"modified":"2016-07-08T10:44:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T14:44:44","slug":"2016-commencement-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/2016\/07\/08\/2016-commencement-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Fond Memories of FIT’s 2016 Commencement Ceremonies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Commencement 2016 was surely the best FIT commencement ever. It was so\u00a0filled with high spirits that I cannot imagine another having been better. Yet that seems\u00a0to be what I say\u2014and feel\u2014every year at commencement. And it doesn\u2019t matter that we\u00a0conduct two ceremonies! Perhaps that is the magic of the occasion itself,\u00a0one of such\u00a0optimism and celebration. Standing on the podium as I do, looking out on that vast sea of\u00a0faces\u2014smiling students, beaming family and friends\u2014the good feelings just radiate\u00a0throughout the room and bounce right back at me. It is a wonderful sensation.<\/p>\n

This\u00a0year\u2019s two speakers, FIT alumni Ivy Ross in the morning and Joe Zee in the afternoon, lifted our spirits even more with their keen insights, their zest and humor, their warmth.\u00a0Each was awarded an honorary degree as was FIT alum Francisco Costa in our morning\u00a0ceremony and Jane Rosenthal in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

Ruth Finley, founder and publisher of\u00a0the Fashion Calendar, joined us at the morning ceremony as well, and what a pleasure it\u00a0was to see her, at 96, in cap and gown, wearing pretty floral-patterned pumps, step up to\u00a0the dais to receive the President\u2019s Award for Lifetime Achievement.<\/p>\n

Altogether, 2032\u00a0students participated in commencement this year, about half of the entire graduating\u00a0class\u2014and they were the happiest group of graduates I have ever seen!<\/p>\n

\"Ivy <\/a>
Ivy Ross Accepts Her Honorary Degree <\/div> <\/div>
\"commencement-audience\" <\/a> <\/div>
\"Joe <\/a>
Joe Zee Addresses Graduates <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Ruth <\/a>
Ruth Finley Waits Backstage <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Students <\/a>
Students Line Up to Walk the Stage <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>
\"Jane <\/a>
Jane Rosenthal Receives Honorary Degree <\/div> <\/div>
\"Francisco <\/a>
Francisco Costa Addresses Graduates <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Commencement 2016 was surely the best FIT commencement ever. It was so\u00a0filled with high spirits that I cannot imagine another having been better. Yet that seems\u00a0to be what I say\u2014and feel\u2014every year at commencement. And it doesn\u2019t matter that we\u00a0conduct two ceremonies! Perhaps that is the magic of the occasion itself,\u00a0one of such\u00a0optimism and celebration. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35538],"tags":[242,15826,19557,35531],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-2","tag-alumni","tag-commencement","tag-industry","tag-legacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ycDS-b3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/onmymind\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}