*What a wild week in DC! Howard College celebrated its class of 2024, together with the Faculty of Nursing and Allied Well being Companies, in a particular commencement ceremony on the Capital One Area.
Throughout the occasion, Howard’s President Dr. Ben Vinson III addressed the graduates, acknowledging the difficulties they confronted on Thursday (05-09-24: “We apologize for the occasions you endured this week, however we stand right here to salute you.”
The ceremony, lasting three hours, marked the commencement of the most important class within the college’s historical past. Among the many graduates was Justice Hodges, who expressed aid and shock at with the ability to take part.
“After Thursday, I didn’t suppose I used to be going to stroll, and it was a horrible expertise.”
The week had been marred by chaos throughout an earlier try at a commencement occasion, as described by Hodges’ mom, Mylove Tetterton, who traveled from New Jersey. She recounted the disruption to WUSA:
“Three minutes into it there was a combat already on the opposite aspect, the within. It was whole chaos in there.” She noticed folks frantically banging and kicking on the doorways of the auditorium, attempting to realize entry, and graduates leaving the stage upon noticing their relations couldn’t get inside.
Tetterton additionally shared her fears about her son’s commencement prospects, exacerbated by previous disappointments resulting from COVID-19: “No, I didn’t suppose so, due to COVID, his highschool commencement. He missed it.”
On the Saturday ceremony, Dean Gina Spivey Brown reminded the graduates of their resilience, “I instructed you Thursday night time that you simply had been unstoppable, did I not?”
She highlighted the extraordinary need of family and friends to help the graduates: “We ready so many college students of excellence, you all, that there was an awesome help of household, buddies and family members. They needed to get in so dangerous that they had been breaking down the doorways as a result of that’s what we do at Howard.”
Following the cancellation of Thursday’s ceremony, Dean Brown shortly organized a contingency plan that allowed all 280 graduates of the Faculty of Nursing and Allied Well being Sciences to obtain their levels and awards on the massive stage. Hodges felt validated by this choice.
“She stated okay, after graduation, we’re going to present you your levels and your entire awards and we’re going to allow you to guys stroll. I really feel very blissful, I really feel like our voices had been heard and we had been accommodated nicely. I thank Howard for that.”
Tetterton expressed gratitude for the college’s response and the additional help offered.
“We stayed slightly bit longer, however they confirmed them that further help and sympathy for the opposite day, so I used to be blissful about it.”
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