{"id":1224,"date":"2018-05-28T13:26:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-28T20:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:26:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T16:26:09","slug":"conducting-convocation-janet-youngdahl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/2018\/05\/28\/conducting-convocation-janet-youngdahl\/","title":{"rendered":"Conducting Convocation; Janet Youngdahl"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A guiding light for graduands as they make their way across the stage at Convocation, Janet Youngdahl (Fine Arts) is using her organizational abilities as a choral conductor\u00a0to guide\u00a0students to their proud graduation moment. Her excitement for convocation is contagious, and her pride for each graduate and the U of L as a whole shines through every name she announces.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1231 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0221-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0221-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0221-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0221-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m the Platform Marshall for two ceremonies. It\u2019s a big job! This will be my third year, but the first year I did it I was so nervous. I\u2019m a singer and a conductor, but it\u2019s a different kind of nerves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Platform Marshall is the person on stage who\u2019s noticing what\u2019s happening next and moving things along. The biggest task is reading peoples\u2019 names as they come up. The challenge is to go quickly without going too fast. You just have to pace it really well and if you make a mistake, forgive yourself and move on while keeping it pleasant for everyone there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Platform Marshall, you have this one-second \u2018meeting\u2019 to check name pronunciation with the student before they get to the stage, but sometimes it\u2019s funny, they\u2019re so nervous they don\u2019t speak loud enough or pronounce it correctly! However, I try to speak everyone\u2019s names really proudly, even if I don\u2019t really know how to say it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1234 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0974-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0974-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0974-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/files\/2018\/05\/SP_06-02-17_0974-1024x684.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want staff and faculty to feel proud about their role in facilitating a long-term commitment to each student. It\u2019s a big deal. I think it\u2019s important for the institution as a whole, and for the students and their professors. Convocation is meaningful because not everyone graduates. It\u2019s a long commitment to complete every single degree requirement and cross the stage. It is a celebration of a huge amount of work on the student\u2019s part.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s always a great deal of relief when it\u2019s all over, but it\u2019s an exciting day. I\u2019m always really happy when people graduate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A guiding light for graduands as they make their way across the stage at Convocation, Janet Youngdahl (Fine Arts) is using her organizational abilities as a choral conductor\u00a0to guide\u00a0students to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":1225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2,4,40,1],"tags":[110,188,187,27,138],"class_list":{"0":"post-1224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alumni","8":"category-faculty-staff","9":"category-inspiring-lights","10":"category-uncategorized","11":"tag-convocation","12":"tag-janet-youngdahl","13":"tag-platform-marshall","14":"tag-uleth","15":"tag-ulethbridge"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.ulethbridge.ca\/inspiring-lights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}