AND FOR A LITTLE HUMOUR, A TRUE STORY

From the Baton Rouge Advocate columnist Smiley Anders today:

When the folks at St. Jude Catholic School on Highland Road opened the box of diplomas ordered for their eighth-grade graduation ceremonies, they were puzzled to find that they were in Latin.

A call to the diploma company revealed that they were supposed to go to the University of Notre Dame -- which had received the St. Jude diplomas.

Of course a swap was arranged.

But before it was made, Sylvia Kress, coordinator for religious education at St. Jude, just had to play a trick on her son Kevin -- who was graduating from Notre Dame Law School that next week.

She found his diploma and had a photo made of her holding it, beaming a proud-mom smile.

Sylvia and husband Bill went to South Bend, Ind., for the Notre Dame graduation. After the ceremony, she presented Kevin with the framed photo.

To say he was confused would be a major understatement …