White Coat Ceremony

Ron's white coat ceremony for Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine (RVUCOM) was last weekend. Most MD schools do their white coat ceremony during graduation, but the DO schools do it before the first day of class because the students start working w/patients their third years. It's a neat ceremony where the students announces their name, where they received their most recent degree (Ron was not the most educated, but pretty close) and whether or not they've received a scholarship. By a scholarship, I mean whether or not they've joined the military and received a scholarship from them to pay for school. For those of you who don't know, Ron has decided to join the Navy to pay for school. He is almost officially accepted but they have some medical paperwork left to finish and then he has to be commissioned by the Secretary of Defense. But he's as good as in. He will be receiving the HPSP (Health Professional Scholarship Program) and will have school paid in full, a signing bonus and monthly stipend. He will owe the Navy four years after his residency. Anyhow, it was a nice a day & I've posted a few pictures. He moved way too fast at the actually ceremony and the lighting was too dim to get pictures, so we took a few outside afterward.
I am definitely struggling wit their only being mountains to our west, so I made sure we had them in our picture!

He's so cute! I told him he needed a good Facebook profile picture!!