Lisa's a graduate After four years, she's finally finished. Last weekend, our daughter Lisa graduated (from the Honors Program) at American University.
It's been a good four years for her, and AU was the perfect place. She fell in love with it the moment she got on campus and knew she was going to go when they talked about the plays they put on. We misunderstood what they said, and Lisa never got involved in any plays (she did them in high school), but it was a great fit for her.
About two months before going, she was inspired by the book
I'd Rather Teach Peace by Coleman McCarthy. It tells about his work in creating peace studies programs in high school. After she finished, she realized he lived in DC. Then, when she got to campus, she discovered he taught at AU. She took two courses with him, and helped him with his volunteering. And he, in turn, wrote some amazing references.
Lisa is interested in the Peace Corps, and Coleman wrote a glowing recommendation with what Lisa called "the name dropping paragraph." Coleman said something like, "Lisa is the type of person my friend Sargent Shriver had in mind when he formed the Peace Corps, and is just the type of person my student, Carol Bellamy wanted when she was Peace Corps director under President Clinton."
Pictures of the graduate are at
http://picasaweb.google.com/cwrothman/graduation 
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