By April 13, Western Program seniors were on the home stretch. Senior projects were near enough to completion that there was time to enjoy toasts at the Senior Dinner Celebration -- following the tradition of our Senior Day -- as well as some fun and games around campus. Later in the month, the projects were formally presented over a three-day period. A printed program, with original art by our own WCAS recipient, Elisabeth Price, thanked "the Western College Alumnae Association for continued generous support of the Western College Program." For a firsthand appreciation of Beth's work, look at her young people's book, The Ghosts of Westbury College, which she wrote and illustrated as her senior project. On May 8, the year climaxed with the dramatic candle-lighting ceremony at graduation in Kumler Chapel.

Hurray! WCP soph Chelsea Dorman makes it across the Duck Pond with her boat still intact.

Professor Muriel Blaisdell, a member of the WCP faculty since 1976, toasts the Class of '04 at the Senior Dinner.

WCAA director Judy Waldron (left) and president Ann Gingrich Kuehn '60 welcome WCP dean Bill Gracie at an informal dinner break during one evening of senior project presentations.

Sally Harrison-Pepper, WCP professor in Creativity and Culture, is the proud advisor of senior Sean Boda, who has just presented his "activist operetta," Noventa Millas, written entirely in Spanish.

Former Western Program dean Curt Ellison assists senior Ross Meyer in donning the honorary cap and gown donated by Betty Ann Koons Miller '32. His class voted Ross the senior who best exemplifies the Western spirit.

Betty Sipe Gerber '52, who spoke of Western tradition and excellence at the graduation ceremony, congratulates senior Christian Ratterman on becoming the fourth person to be named on the Jacqueline S. Wallace plaque for contributing most to the cooperative spirit of the Senior Workshop. The Jacqueline Wallace Fund, made possible by gifts from many alumnae through the 1999 Reunion/Class Gift, provides support to seniors who need financial assistance to do their senior projects.