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Graduation ceremonies mark, not so much an ending as a beginning, a commencement as they are also called. It was a special pleasure to attend the Commencement of the 2014 graduates of the New York School of Interior Design, not least because my friend and mentor Christopher Hyland there received an Honorary Doctorate in recognition of the founding of HYLAND and of his forty years as disseminator of great design, through textiles, interior design and authorship. Education and its muse, mentorship, form an enduring golden chain; the NYSID graduation was an inspiring embodiment of both. e achievements just past--and those to come--of all the graduates call us to spend our lives in the service of beauty through the practice and promulgation of design, arguably humankind's most primary activity. From our second row seats, designer and NYSID alumna Anne Collier and I watched what appeared to be an endless parade of high-heeled shoes (on the women, not the men!) beneath the hems of black gowns. How I wished to be walking in their HYLAND

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