We are leaving tomorrow morning for our son's graduation from West Virginia University with his double major in Puppetry and Creative Theatre.  He will be graduating with honors! We are proud parents! BTW his graduation will be my birthday present!!

Welcome to West Virginia! Have a wonderful visit, and enjoy the graduation, and oh, yes, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!!

Congratulations to All !................and Happy BD LJ

Billy D.

Congrats and happy birthday!

Yes congratulations and Happy Birthday.....so glad to hear a new generation of puppet artists are coming.

Daryl H

We are back from West Virginia and I have some pictures to share. The first three are pictures of two of the puppets my son made in his class this semester. One is obviously a foam rod arm puppet. The second is a mechanical puppet with arms that punch out using the mechanism on the shoulders and the mouth opens using the string attached to the ring. The hands on the mechanical puppet are carved from wood and covered with paper mache then painted. The head is paper mache too. The last picture is him at graduation - notice his hat!

Wow! impressive pictures of a young Man with a good head on both his and the puppets shoulders. He has such a wonderful future ahead of him. Congrats on the Graduation.

Billy D.

congrats!! so nice to see the medium alive and well. & impressive work. =]

I love the puppet eyes on his grad hat... what is the right name for those again? He did great on his puppet!  You must be proud.

Thanks for the comments - we ARE very proud, graduating with honors and having all his professors tell us that he will be missed in the puppetry and theatre departments! He goes to the O'Neill Puppetry Conference in June.