The ceremony was at Centennial Hall today and it was great.It was a great feeling watching Risa Cross the stage today. It means a lot to both her family and I to see her make it. It shows how strong she is.
However, the honorary graduate, Kenneth L. Leinbach, stole the show with his charismatic speech filled with giant blue whales and juggling kush ball people, *laughs at inside joke that no one else will get*
MIAD will confer an honorary doctorate on Kenneth L. Leinbach, executive director of Milwaukee's Urban Ecology Center, at its commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 9.
“A luminary in the Milwaukee community, Mr. Leinbach is being honored for his leadership role in community-based environmental education, which has been nationally recognized and is being modeled in cities around the United States,” said MIAD President Neil Hoffman.
Leinbach led the community effort to build the Urban Ecology Center from an old trailer in an abandoned city park into a state-of the art green community center that annually serves approximately 70,000 visitors of all ages.
The Eastside Center provides consistent contact to natural land for thousands of central city students. Its multi-faceted indoor and outdoor resources include a college-level field research station and grade-school outdoor classroom that has become an environmental education tool for urban revitalization.
MIAD students are deeply engaged with the center and its mission through the college’s Service Learning Program and have made it their number one choice for fulfilling their community service requirement. The center is also a vital part of the college’s honoring of Earth Week.
From MIAD.edu
Lisa and Risa met up with Ken at the reception and exchanged cards. I hope some beautiful work can spring from that new relationship
The speaker who stole the show
more graduation pics
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