Oh HOW I loved the word COMMENCEMENT when I was young!!
I learned that it was an American word from my Aunt Pick. She showed me the photo of Aunt Chiew's Commencement photo and in later days as I looked at Methodist School Magazines (The Hornbill) I would see this beautiful photo .
The photo was taken against a very familiar building, The Hoover House, in Sibu. At the time, the students were all studying in attap roofed, wooden buildings before the Methodist Secondary School was completed in 1949.
According to my Aunt Chiew, all the students and teachers wore white for the photo session.
I had my American dream too, but I was never to reach the USA , until 2018, when I was nearly 70 years old. I did reach San Francisco to visit my daughter and son in law...but I never had a chance to have an American Commencement.
White is a very formal, Methodist colour then.
(Commencement = a ceremony when degrees or diplomas are conferred to students.)
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