Disposition of diplomas?

I was doing some housecleaning this afternoon, which included dusting my bookshelf. I came across all my college diplomas (as well as my HS diploma), still in their leather binders, stuffed into the bookshelf. My wife wants to frame & display them, but I really couldn't care less.

This got me thinking as to where everyone else has stashed/displayed their various diplomas?


Bruce

 

What a great thread-starter!

I hang mine on a wall in my office, in standard 8x10 frames (black for Regents, cherry oak for CSUDH); the leather binders are filed away somewhere, and may be put to use again when the novelty wears off.


Cheers,

 

My 3 university degrees are stashed in the back of a closet in a spare room. I occasionally pull them out when some bureaucrat (in HR, university admissions, etc.) needs to see them or to get a copy. I have no high school records whatsoever, let alone a diploma, and this has caused me quite a few hassles over the years.

 

I have a framed version of my undergrad degree ahnging next to my PE and Contractotrs license and my patent. But not my MBA. the originals are on a shelf in our living room. Probably should get my MBA framed now that I think of it.

I have photocopies (color) that I hang at work (sometimes - move a lot (harder target to hit)).

 

Five college degrees, a high school diploma, an insurance license, a securities license, and dozens of certificates of training from Xerox, Prudential, Corrections Corporation, AT&T, and the Air Force, all stacked in a pile on a shelf in my den. I promised myself (and my wife) to remedy that when I get the big one....

Rich Douglas

 

Mine are in a box in the basement.

 

Ha.

I had my AS/BS diplomas, my academy certificate, and a few miscellaneous awards/citations matted and framed, then sprang into action and dutifully stacked them all on a shelf in my office. Hey, the edges of the frames look pretty good next to all of those books.

 

I've got the three real ones hanging on the office wall, in cheap K-mart frames, between the counterfeit Harvard M.D. (more elegant than any of the real ones), and a poster for the movie called Three for Jamie Dawn (and, what the heck, let's make it an early spring puzzler, an autographed copy of our How to Repair Food book for the first person who deduces why that movie poster is there).

John Bear
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Well, unless you have a thing for Laraine Day {g}, the tag line for the movie sure sums up the state of being the conscience of distance learning these days:

Strangers one moment .. partners in jeopardy the next!

 

My CSUDH MA diploma is in the folder thing that they sent it in, in a manila envelope, on top of my bookcase.

My SF State BA diploma is in a box in the basement somewhere.

I don't know where my 1966 highschool diploma is, or even if it still exists.

The interesting part is that I've never had any formal occasion to show any of them to anyone. I've had many applications ask about my education and I assume that the information I gave was verified. But nobody has ever wanted to see the physical diplomas themselves.

 

Bummer!

I know the answer, but having won the last two Puzzlers, I was informed that I was ineligible to participate.

 

Do I take myself too seriously? I display my University diploma's on a wall in my office for all to see.

( It makes me look more intelligent, LOL )

 

This is presumably the poster: 3 For Jamie Dawn. I will take a guess that the connection is something related to Ronald Pellar.

 

I display my diplomas in a box in my closet for no one to see...
(Heck, it's not as if I have anything to be ashamed of!)

 

OK, OK. There's no comma in diplomas.

 

Puzzler update

Yes, Gus got it within minutes. Next time, I'll try to come up with something worthy of him!

No, Gert, nothing to do with Pellar. He was married to Lana Turner, but I don't think he ever had anything to do with the movies himself.

No, Nicole. I'd never even noted the slogan on the posters. (Well yes, I have two of them, one featuring Larraine Day* and the other Ricardo Montalban.**)

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*Nothing to do with her baseball connection, or his Corinthian leather connection.

 

Hmmm... So I'll have to go with Thomas James Kirk, who had something to do with the film business, at least.

 

Mine are framed, but only the Th.D. is framed nicely. They are up on the wall in my room. I want another one. This is probably a compensatory gesture to make up for the missing high school diploma. I never graduated, because I started college instead of going for my senior year, a fairly common path, at least down in New Orleans in the early seventies.


Craig

 

John has three legitimate degrees and three daughters so perhaps the "Three for Jamie Dawn" means three degrees and/or daughters dedicated to Jamie Dawn? ???

 

Or maybe his mother or grandmother's (or father or grandfather's) name is Jamie, and he promised her/him he'd get the diplomas?

What worries me is where Gus got the John Bear's Guide to John Bear. {g}