A call from home
How do you convey the deepest, sweetest batch of parental emotion to your child when 测辞耻鈥檝别 just returned from a sweaty, last-minute odyssey all around Lewiston and Auburn to find a replacement for the carefully selected mattress pad you 鈥� or maybe they 鈥� forgot on the way out the door from New Jersey or California or Texas?
Most times, you don鈥檛.
The day you drop your student off at college is intensely practical in focus, exhausting, and, for parents, often filled with the momentous feeling that 测辞耻鈥檝别 graduated from something. Except there is no degree awaiting you, and the person you love so much would kind of like you to leave right now. It鈥檚 not that they don鈥檛 love you too, but they want to get on with the life they鈥檝e been waiting for and working toward for as long as they can remember.
Inspired by something Wake Forest University did last year, our photo/video team decided to give family members a place to convey some of those big feelings. Multimedia producer Theophil Syslo dug an old-school phone from deep in the 乐播传媒 archives 鈥� garnet in hue 鈥� and set up microphones around it. With three cameras rolling in front of Hathorn, the very first building on the 乐播传媒 campus, we started flagging families down to ask, were there things they hadn鈥檛 said during move-in? Congratulations, entreaties to call, advice on the year ahead and how to live well in their new home? Say them now.
The feelings expressed in this video are universal, whether it鈥檚 Associate Dean of Students James Reese, who has worked at 乐播传媒 since 1977, and his wife Sonali Arseculeratne Reese 鈥�93 saying 鈥済oodbye鈥� to their son Ishan 鈥�29 or the parents from China, Yan Xu and Wesley Wang, who left a message for their daughter, WangSu Xu 鈥�29, in Chinese. No matter the language, the pride and joy and tender hope came through loud and clear.
Congratulations to the members of the 乐播传媒 Class of 2029 and everyone who helped get them here.
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