Yale Graduation 1999
Emmy graduated from Yale
on May 24, 1999.
Bill and Joan, Jen and Dan Liptzin, and Aunt Barb and Uncle Bob Nelson stayed at a beach house in Branford. Sharon and Ben Liptzin drove down from their home in Springfield, MA for dinner on Friday. Emmy came out from New Haven, too. The weather was lovely.



On Saturday, May 22, more than 50 family members and friends joined Emmy and her colleagues for a party at the Branford beach. The weather held perfect. That's Dan carrying bags of ice, 'warming up' for his trip to the near-North Pole later this summer.



Click here to see Ethan in heaven.

After the party, everybody went to the Reception at the President's house on beautiful Hillhouse Avenue, where a corgi lay in a peculiar posture. Dinner at a spiffy restaurant followed (that's Ken whispering to Ellen and Bob that the NY Governor's daughter was at the next table).
Click here to see all the Betzes at the President's Reception.



On Sunday, May 23, they attended Baccalaureate ceremonies. The weather had turned, sunshine giving way to a steady rain. But the splendor of Woolsey Hall, a fine luncheon in Saybrook College dining hall, a reception at the Saybrook Master's House, and good fun that included Bill and Ken hoisting Emmy onto their shoulders, as they had her mother almost exactly 30 years earlier, made for a fine day.
Since Emmy was a Commencement Marshall, her name was engraved in the Saybrook Common Room wall, as her sister's had been four years earlier.



During the afternoon, they went to the Yale Art Gallery and the Mellon Museum of British Art.



Commencement was held on Monday, May 24. The rain held off during the full University ceremony on Old Campus, but let loose during the Saybrook College fest. Afterwards, they had lunch in the Saybrook dining room. Then it was time for Jennifer to return to Philadelphia, and for Emmy to start packing up her things. Barb and Bob left for Maine and the Canadian Maritime Provinces on Tuesday. And thus a wonderful weekend came to an end as a great institution sent its bright and talented graduates out into the world.




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