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Published May 14, 2008 07:01 pm - The reason I bought a DVD recorder a few years back was to burn copies of old family videotapes to the more stable medium. Turning graduation into a digital event A ROBERT LEBZELTER column for May 18, 2008 Star Beacon The reason I bought a DVD recorder a few years back was to burn copies of old family videotapes to the more stable medium. Some of my tapes are more than 20 years old and could break and then all of those memories are gone. Also, my camcorder could go up and I would have nothing to play the recordings on while transferring the video to DVD. I sort of forgot about this task until I heard a discussion on a technology-based radio talk show. So I immediately grabbed one of dozens of 8mm and Hi-8 video tapes I had and popped it in the camcorder and hooked it up to the DVD recorder. There were videos of daughter Megan taking the tests necessary to get into kindergarten. She had to show the lady at a table numbers and letters. She had to bounce-pass a basketball to the person. She had to show she could skip. Skipping is important, you know. Except she flunked skipping. But not to worry. Megan assures me she can skip today. But she wouldn’t do it. On the same tape — now transferred to hard disk — was her entire graduation, from nursery school. Well, I mercifully cut the boring parts, areas where my daughter wasn’t involved. I took the latest version of my camcorder out last weekend again, this time recording another graduation. Megan this time was in full cap and gown, ending her time at Ashland University. I’ve been to plenty of graduations and must admit they are difficult to remember. My high school graduation is totally lost on me. Did I ever graduate? I must have but would be hard-pressed to tell you anything about it. College was a little clearer for me. President Jimmy Carter’s Health and Urban Development director, Patricia Roberts Harris, was our speaker. It was a furnace in the gymnasium at Kent State where graduation was held. 
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