She did it!!

Thats right...Aisha Anjali Woodward graduated Saturday from Bowdoin College with a liberal arts degree in Government and Legal studies. I can not say how proud I am of my "other girl"!

She was also the receipient of a couple of grants for further study as well as the award for Initiative in Leadership and Public Service. In a month she will travel back to Ghana to do some

community work after studying there last year. In January she plans to travel to Italy to teach English learn more Italian, study Dante and then apply to Grad school.

She took advantage of every opportunity Bowdoin offered her, and gave it back three fold. She helped research and author the second Mitchell Institute Study on secondary education in Maine, she took two groups of students to the Bronx to teach during spring breaks, and she continued to help find ways to make entrance to colleges like Bowdoin something every Maine student has an option to do...

Whatever effort we put in to getting her there, pales in comparison to how she ran with her education once there...she made everyone that helped in that process very very proud.

It was a wonderful day, sun stayed out as long as possible, the speakers were for the most part very good, the traditions of a campus like Bowdoin are always so nice to see, Alumni in their straw hats, the band marching the grads all over the ENTIRE campus before they hit the stage,

statues dressed in caps and gowns!

We all went out to lunch afterwards, Aisha her two brothers, sister Becky and husband Tom, Nancy Buckingham and our family, to Jamesons Tavern. Then we presented the "little wanderer" with a suitcase, from LL Bean, so she doesnt have to drag back packs and duffels throughout Europe!

She is a wonder and a delight and we are so lucky to have her in our lives...I look forward to seeing what she will accomplish in the years ahead..