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    Graduation 2012

    Last year when our son graduated he needed to be gone by about 4:30. Unfortunately for us we live on the west coast so everything needed to be shipped home, and there was a lot more stuff than I thought there would be. There is a FedEx place in town that we used and it worked well. We shipped...
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    Hurricane Irene

    According to my son they will be moving boats up the Hudson to a more secure moorage. Do you think anyone has said “batten down the hatches” yet?
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    and so it begins

    I just got off the phone with my son and he says Engineers were 83% and Deckies were 70%. Not sure if this is an absolute, but it is probably close. He told me that there were a lot of people that missed a passing grade by one question.
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    Live Link to bell ringing

    I got a call and it sounds like the party has started:beer1:
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    and so it begins

    The web link is up and running for the bell ringing so it can not be long now! It is on the parents' page.
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    and so it begins

    Ring the Bell Web-Cam Does anyone know if there will be a web-cam focused on the bell ringing this year? If so, what is the link? When does it go live?
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    Graduation Annoucements

    We order graduation announcements last week through Balfour. You need to go to www.balfour.com and then enter United States Merchant Marine Academy. When we ordered the announcements we could not finish the purchase online because they did not have the time of graduation on the site...
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    Graduation 2011 Question

    I am not sure were we found this, but it was out a while ago. UNITED STATES MERCHANT MARINE ACADEMY KINGS POINT WEEKEND 2011 SCHEDULE EVENTS SUBJECT TO CHANGE The graduation speaker has not been chosen yet. There is the possibility of limited seating which for graduation. The prices...
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    Norwich University

    Do you mean there are more grad-student alums than all of the undergrad-student alums going all the way back to 1819? If in fact that is the case it is an amazing statistic. I don't remember any grad students thirty years ago so there has been a huge surge in the graduate program.
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    Graduation 2011 Question

    The past four years have been quite the experience and now we get to start planning for graduation. We have the schedule of events, but I have not heard how many people each midshipman will be allowed to invite to the actual graduation ceremony. Since we are coming in from the left coast...
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    Question on military colleges

    I do not know if the times have changed, but when I had to report we were requiered to bring an iron, Ironing Board, Broom and even a type writter (most 2011 HS grads have probably never seen one). The good news is that you can probably show up a day early and buy everything you need at the...
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    Presidential Graduation Speaker

    I agree 100%. It would be nice to have a President speak for the class of 2011's sake, but I for one am glad we do not need to put up with the security. I think it will be a much more enjoyable day and the focus will be on the graduates not the speaker.
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    Mids at Sea

    If you are tracking your mid’s ship on one of the tracking programs on the internet do not get upset when the ship disappears for a couple of days around the Suez Canal. They seem to stop reporting for a while. Both trips our son made over there were a little tense until the ship would appear...
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    Norwich University

    I forgot about the white name tags. I wish I could forget the night prior to our recognition!:beer1:
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    Tuition bills for 2010-2011

    We have always had the invoices sent to the house and I have made sure that they are paid on time. I would think you could call the school and have the bills sent home.
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