Please let me know if you need any ideas or suggestions for your send-off. Also, feel free to send me any feedback you have received from incoming students and parents--I'd love to build a database of comments and ideas!
Enjoy the message, and thanks for all of your hard work, Kerry!
Kerry,
Thank you so much for sending the photos! These will be sent to proud relatives and friends.
I’d also like to thank you for inviting our family to the gathering yesterday. That get-together did more to calm our family than all the literature that we’ve collected so far from the University itself! There is something about watching your first head off to a new life that includes both the anticipation and expectation of success and the baited breath of anxiety due to the unknown environment that she is about to enter. Your gathering helped us abate and belay the latter.
The families that were also anticipating the maiden flight of their first allowed me to see that were not alone in our anxieties and thus your gathering gave us a community with which we can share our concerns, exchange information, and bond through our (happy though it is) child’s departure. The families that were veterans at this – through sharing their wisdom, experience, and love for and pride in their child – be it measured by mental, physical, or spiritual accomplishments - calmed us, as we now have an idea of the type of families to which our child will enter. And the current students – through their insight, and excitement for their education, and their concern for each other – as well as those matriculating - gave me the greatest sense of serenity, as they were the true indication of both community and family of which my child will be part. And I am grateful, for they appear to be the type of family I would choose were I given one.
All that to say, thank you. This is a great thing you do and I appreciate you for it. When things get settled, I would like to know more about how I may help in providing such a service.
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