Commencement 2006 June 17, 2006 - 4 PM Prof. JL Popyack, photographer

Today marked our first annual "Get Your Photo Taken with Louis Kratz" day, which was special because it coincided with Drexel's 119^th Commencement ceremony. Most of those ceremonies were held earlier in the day, with Craig Schroeder garnering at least one degree at each.

Serving as a Faculty Marshall (further evidence of the university's imminent decline), I suppose I had some official duty. I devoted most of my attention to recording the images below with my reliable Fuji FinePix 700. I figured all that advanced study in computer science/software engineering would help the students naturally self-organize into orderly groups of undergraduate CS, graduate CS, graduate SE. Perhaps this was a miscalculation. It hardly seemed like the right time to bring up the "Dutch National Flag" algorithm, however, so we relied on entropy.

Noteworthy among the photos below are the first hooding of a Computer Science Ph.D. at Drexel, a newly commissioned Ensign in the US Navy wrestling a horse, officers of the MCS Society and Women in Computing Society, BS/MS students, teaching assistants and dual Math/CS majors. Students wearing white silk stoles are members of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the International Honor Society for the Computing and Information Disciplines.

Inscrutably,
JL Popyack