Our very first Alumni Road Trip was a terrific success last month. We stopped over in Bangor our first night and enjoyed a lovely dinner with our Maine alumni. Then we spent two nights in Bean Town and helped celebrate the St. Patrick's Day weekend. Getting together with our Boston alumni for a downhome ceilidh, complete with Cape Breton fiddler Glenn Graham, was a real treat. On the way home we celebrated the actual St. Patrick's Day in New Brunswick's very Irish City of St. John.
This fall we'll repeat the success with an Alumni Road Trip aboard the StFX bus to Celtic Colours in Cape Breton.
Campus is abuzz this week with pre-convocation activity. The grounds are being spruced up and final arrangements are being made for our 1000 new grads and their guests attending the May 4 ceremonies.
Usually spring convocation takes place on a cool, sometimes grey and drizzly day. So we were bracing ourselves for the worst sort of spring weather. Happily the forecast is smiling upon us. We're still four days away, but the prediction is for sun and warm temperatures both Saturday and Sunday! It's so much nicer when our new alumni can mingle with family, friends, faculty and staff outside of the Keating ceremony right after convocation and have keepsake photos taken.
Two other exciting events on the horizon are our Golden X Inn Roadshows taking place in Pictou County and Halifax May 30 & 31. If you're in the area, you won't want to miss the Golden X Inn experience in a different place closer to home. It's a great opportunity to get out and have fun with fellow alumni and enjoy Golden X Inn favourite, Signal Hill.
Hail and Health,
Helen
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