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Gillian’s Convocation

June 14, 2018
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Gillian graduated from McMaster University with her Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in Molecular Biology & Genetics Co-op. Convocation was held at First Ontario Concert Hall (formerly Hamilton Place) in Hamilton, Ontario on June 14th, 2018. I was unable to attend, but they live stream and record the convocation on the web. Here is a snippet from the ceremony.

I borrowed these from Gillian’s Instagram post.


Angela and Gillian with William McMaster.


Pozu!

If you want to watch the entire proceedings, it is on YouTube.

MAC Homecoming

October 1, 2016
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It was Homecoming Weekend at McMaster, my roommate Stam from our university days and I went down for the football game between McMaster and Guelph. It has been awhile since Stam had been on campus, the last time might have been when Susan and I got married and we did our photos on campus. A lot has changed since then. The rain held off and Stam, Angela, Gillian and I stayed until the end. Mac won 27-15 and are now ranked 8th in the CIS rankings.

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Afterwards we headed over to Matthews Hall, our residence for the first two years, it had been 30 years since we lived there, of course it has changed just as much as the campus has. Angela had one of her friends get us into the residence, and Stam and I gave Angela and Gillian a quick recap of some of our shenanigans. The concrete room in the basement that we use to play cave hockey in, is now a study room, with windows to the hallway and carpeting and lots of lighting. This is the bottom of the stairwell in Matthews, they have even repaired the floor since the first time we came with Gillian for a residence tour in grade 12.

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During our time Matthews was divided into five houses, we lived in North House, today it is now referred to Matthews North. Of the other four houses the only other one that remains is Centre, the other three no longer exist. Stam only has four more years before his daughter will be heading off to college or university, who knows maybe she’ll end up at her parents alma mater.

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Off She Goes…

August 27, 2016
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We dropped Angela off at University today. It was her move in day for Brandon Residence, the same one Gillian lived in in first year. Here she is with all her stuff.

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A sign on campus for students, maybe they should have had a beer bottle in the guys hand.

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This one’s a little blurry, we were being rushed out of the building, she got most of her things settled. Her roommate had already arrived. She has a week of orientation before classes start on the 6th. She is enrolled in the Kinesiology program.

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Congratulations Angela!

May 31, 2016
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Angela has accepted her offer to McMaster’s Kinesiology program starting in September. Exciting times are ahead for her. Susan and I are very proud of the choice she has made.

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Uncle Tak’s Donation

December 7, 2015
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Uncle Tak has donated six pieces of work to the McMaster Museum of Art. They were part of the exhibition that was held there in 2012 as part of the Takao Tanabe: Chronicles of Form and Place exhibition.

Source: McMaster Museum of Art

 

Another Year Begins

August 31, 2014
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We headed out to Hamilton on Sunday to move Gillian into her house for the upcoming school year. She is sharing a house with three other girls that she met last year in residence. It is about a 15 minute walk to campus. I took an early “first day of school” photo. Classes start on Thursday. She was accepted into her specialization stream of Molecular Biology and Genetics.

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Afterwards we headed over to Andrew and Jeannette’s for dinner and to celebrate Grandma’s birthday.

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Move In Day

August 31, 2013
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It was move in day for first year students, Gillian’s allocated time was between 12-4 pm. It’s a lot different than 28 years ago when Lori and Dale dropped me off on Labour Day monday. You drive right up to the residence, all the belongings have to be labelled with name, residence and room number. You get out and they have student reps carry everything up to your room. Gillian and Susan went to get her key while Angela and I parked the car. Angela wouldn’t get out of the car with all the crazy students swarming it. Gillian is in a double room in Brandon Hall, it was an all girl residence when I attended, but like almost all of the residences now, it is co-ed.

Gillian all unpacked, kind of, she’ll need to go through what we unpacked for her and sort it out for herself.

Her room is at the end of a corridor and has a view of  the forest. The rooms have a wired internet jack, as well as wifi.

Angela planking on the roommates bed.

MAC Welcome Day

August 9, 2013
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We headed out to McMaster for MAC Welcome Day. They run a series a talks geared to new students and parents and the opportunity to tour residences again. We spent the day with Gillian on campus. Afterwards we went to Andrew and Jeannette’s for a BBQ and swim.

I think Gillian was laughing after Uncle Andrew dropped one of the weenies on the deck.

Congratulations Gillian!

May 21, 2013
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Gillian has accepted her offer to McMaster’s Life Sciences program starting in September. Exciting times are ahead for her. Her next task is to submit her residence application.

May @ MAC 2013

May 11, 2013
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After getting home late Friday from Chicago we headed out early for Hamilton and McMaster University. Saturday was their annual May @ MAC open house. Gillian wanted to visit again to see the Life Sciences and tour the residences again. We dropped Grandma and the girls off and then headed to campus with Gillian and her friend Veronica. Gillian wasn’t keen on Matthews Hall where I lived for two years. After 38 years they are renovating the outside of the building, the inside still looked the same.

Gillian has until June 3rd to make her final decision. Her friend Veronica was accepted to McMaster for Life Sciences and Nursing. If they both go to McMaster it would continue their 14 years of schooling together as they were both in the same junior kindergarten class.