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Keep LA-Hort Graduation on Ambler Campus

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Cory Speroff
9 years ago

Ambler became my second home while completing both my undergrad and graduate degree. It was most appropriate that on my last day at the Ambler campus I walked the long walk to the parking lot, degree in hand.

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Bianca Nati
9 years ago

If the students want to graduate at Ambler, give them something to smile about on graduation day and let them!

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James F Detwiler
9 years ago

Please keep up the tradition.

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Hort Student · petition starter
9 years ago

Thank you everyone for all your support! Leaders from the Ambler student organizations are going to meet with the Associate Dean of Tyler to present the petition and voice our concerns. We will ask them to review your comments as well. The meeting will take place in a few weeks. We will keep you posted! Your voices are instrumental in this effort.

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Victoria Holderer
9 years ago

Hello! I feel that if Temple-Ambler students wish to keep their graduation on the Ambler campus, then they should be allowed to do so. The campus itself is beautiful! And a much nicer location for a graduation ceremony.

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Amber Cialone
9 years ago

Keep it at Ambler!

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Cassandra Davis
9 years ago

Happy to support this effort!

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Rachel Szemenyei
9 years ago

As a senior student who has spent years on Ambler campus I would be very let down by a main campus graduation. Ambler campus is a beautiful place that I want my friends and family to experience at graduation!

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Nicole Toro
9 years ago

Please leave graduation at Ambler campus! This a historic site and it is disgraceful that students are losing it.

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Geoff and Penny Sargeant
9 years ago

We are the Australian parents of a landscape student who is graduating this May. We have had the honor and privilege of visiting Temple Ambler Campus and of meeting some of our daughter's professors. It was clear to us that the value placed by the students on the physical surroundings of the Campus is extremely high. We are coming to the graduation ceremony and would like to add our voices to the request that the ceremony be retained on Temple Ambler.

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Jane Plimpton Gottier
9 years ago Featured

Ambler Campus is a very special place and I feel the students should be able to graduate on campus! Please respect the students and they have so much pride in the grounds and it's beauty! I had my graduation in the city and it was very inpersonal. Class of 1980 Thank you and Happy Spring!

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Mary D Bowe
9 years ago

Our school, our classes, our history has very little to do with main campus. And as a setting for a lovely event, the Ambler Campus Formal Garden has great meaning and beauty for our majors!

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Anonymous
9 years ago

2007- Horticulture 1983- BBA Economics and Marketing

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Grace Elton
9 years ago

The landscape of the Ambler campus plays an instrumental part in the education of LA/Hort students. Please don't break the long standing tradition of allowing these students to graduate in these beautiful and historic gardens.

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Ina Hinkle Harmath
9 years ago

I graduated in 1957 when it was School of Horticulture for Women. We had a lovely graduation ceremony in the garden.

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Sam Chattin
9 years ago

Keep it at Ambler

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Denise Wood
9 years ago

Please keep the LA Hort graduation on the Ambler Campus. It was such a meaningful experience to be standing amongst that gorgeous garden as I prepared to walk commencement. I thought of all the ladies that had walked before me throughout history in that dame spot & it meant so much to be on that sacred ground. The setting was perfect for the gathering afterward. There is no better photographic backdrop for this group of graduates. The garden in bloom with a variety of colors is such a wonderful metaphor for personal growth amongst a group of people who express their beauty in the world in unique ways. Its also a way for graduation guests to get to experience the arboretum, which could lead to further visitors, donors and enrollment of students. Please, don't move graduation to main campus. It would mean alot to keep it at Ambler.

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Hort Student · petition starter
9 years ago

We reached 100 signatures in under 24 hours!

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Ronnie Ludwig
9 years ago Featured

My entire academic experience at Temple University revolves solely around Ambler and the surrounding Arboretum. Removing a graduation ceremony from Ambler removes any meaning or personal connection that I have to the University.

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Scott Tydryszewski
9 years ago

How dare you