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Rob Shrine The piano was covered with Rob's awards. There were a lot. |
Rob Awards This sums up his awards pretty well: the hat, the certificates, and the occasional medal. |
Student Awards "Most Studious" and "Most Likely To Become A Millionaire". Okay. |
Rob and his Speech Well, his soon-to-be-modified speech anyway. His school forced him to change it on the day of... |
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Beth and Beth's Mom It's good to pose on the day of your brother/son's graduation. |
Relaxing Rob Calming down before the big speech. |
Tim I'm just happy to be there. And to be given candy. |
Fountain Beth's Aunt had given this to her mother a few years ago, and it was finally brought out for her visit. |
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Rob at the Computer Eventually, the time came to get all dressed up. |
Rob and Beth She was *insanely* proud of him. |
Dressed-Up Beth I still like how Beth looks dressed-up. |
Orchestra I won't say anything about 'em. |
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Turning Rob He was turned towards us briefly. You can almost make him out... |
Crowd Shot There are benefits to trying without a flash... |
Speakers and Faculty ...and benefits for going with one, too. It all depends. |
Room Overview The whole thing took place in a church, which was just barely big enough to fit us all. |
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Rob on Stage Waiting in line for his time(s) to speak. |
Choir They really badly needed an actual piano. (At least this does a good job of showing the screen and the performers...) |
Salutatorian She came up just behind Rob. Hehe. |
Rob Goes to the Podium Behold, his speech begins! |
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Passing the Torch Before he could speak, he first had to hand the "torch of knowledge" to the junior class. Aah, high school ceremonies! |
Taking The Torch "I accept this Torch Of Knowledge..."; aah, forget it. |
Rob's Speech His speech was good, and his delivery was excellent. |
Rob's Speech, II It wasn't offensive, and it wasn't stupid. |
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Rob's Speech, III He made the audience laugh a few times... |
Rob's Speech, IV ...even after his best jokes were removed as "too offensive". |
Rob's Speech, V It's not easy giving a speech like this. |
Rob's Speech, VI But Rob did a good job. And I was proud of him. |
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Rob's Speech, VII Especially when he still went out on a limb and mentioned college. |
Rob's Speech, VIII It mattered to him! And besides, he recovered, according to everyone else. |
Rob's Speech, IX Congrats, Rob. |
Rob Leaves the Stage He did good, and didn't collapse. |
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Rob in Line Waiting to get his diploma. |
Rob Gets His Diploma Or his diploma-case, anyway. (Which was one of the comments he wasn't allowed to make during his speech.) |
Applauding Ex-Seniors Free! Free! |
Random Pictures I had to keep on taking pictures while we were looking for Rob. |
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Beth Finds Rob It took us a while, but we found him in the crowd. |
Beth Finds Rob, II Of course, once captured we had to take lots of pictures. |
Finding More Family There was a lot of family strewn about the crowds; here we found Beth's Mom and Aunt Lauren. |
Rob Friends Rob and Merrill Healy |
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Rob Friends, II Oisin Kenny, Rob, and Merrill Healy |
Rob Friends, III Rob and Sarah Teggelaar |
Rob Friends, IV Rob and Justine Benin |
Rob Friends, V Rob and Justine Benin, Again |
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Rob Friends, VI Rob and Alex Pell |
Rob Friends, VII Rob and Anjie Swidergal |
Rob Friends, VIII Kyle McAdams, Rob, Merrill Healy |
Rob Friends, IX Rob and Mike Bardusk |
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Rob and Grandpa Barley He looks somehow shocked to see his grandfather here. |
Rob and Grandpa Barley, II There, that looks more reasonable. |
Dillman Clan Clockwise: Aunt Lauren, Grandpa Barley, Beth, Rob, Linda, Paul, and Grandma Dillman. |
Rob and Beth Post-Graduation Her finger survived that treatment, anyway. |
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Rob and Beth Post-Graduation, II I don't think that she got his tassle. |
Triumphant Dillmans Linda, Rob, Beth, and Paul. (This is where I start just listing 'em.) |
Robert Barley Beth's Grandpa |
The Barley Side Robert Barley, Linda Dillman, Rob Dillman, and Lauren Barley |
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