The students at CUA celebrated the last day of classes, 29 April 2016, with fireworks. Below are some photos taken near Curley Hall.
Category: EClass
Curley Hall
Curley Hall is a residence for priests and male religious, most are faculty or staff at The Catholic University of America. Built in “Deco Gothic” style, the building consists of two sections: Curley Main, which faces west, and Curley Annex, which faces south. The two structures are connected by a stone-paved, covered walkway. My study, bedroom, and en suite bath are in the annex.
There is a dining room for residents and their guests in Curley Main, as well as the Vincent P. Walter Jr. Boardroom, a large, finely appointed room used by the university’s president for special events.
Back to the Future
I went back to the former theme, “Twenty Sixteen” for future posts. “Forefront” seemed too cluttered and limiting.
I took the photo below last night. It shows Caldwell Hall, the oldest major building at The Catholic University of America, 1888. From this low angle, it looks rather French to me.
Themes – Search
The Forefront theme also came with a Search widget that I have at the top right. There was also an option to add a “Top of page” arrow at bottom right that I used.
Themes
The current theme is Forefront, a child theme of GeneratePress. I like it’s simplicity and how it makes adding widgets easy to do.
I added a simple text widget as a Contact box at the bottom, and a widget for listing my pages, of which there is still only one.
WordPress 4.5
I updated to WordPress 4.5. I then tried to install a new theme, Sonder, but it broke the blog. Luckily I found a WordPress suggestion simply to delete the directory, Sonder/ from my blog/Themes/ folder. This worked.
For a class assignment I’m supposed to experiment with different themes.
The current theme is twentysixteen.
Remember the Titanic, 14-15 April 1912
The Patriot II took its passengers near the Women’s Titanic Memorial that commemorates the male passengers and crew who lost their lives at the sinking of the RMS Titanic so that women and children could survive. It is located on the Southwest waterfront beside Fort McNair.
The same person with whom I was taking the cruise had joined me four years earlier for a special evening ceremony honoring the sad event’s centennial in 2012.
Cherry Blossom Time
Thursday, 31 March 2016, a visitor from Minnesota and I signed on to the Cherry Blossom Cruise from National Ferry Corp. at the Washington Marina. The day was overcast and windy, but it was a pleasant diversion. The boat was about half-filled with passengers.
It’s Working!
I’m not quite sure how this installation became effective, but it seems to be working now.
I wasn’t getting permission to access the blog, but a speedy and efficient reply to a Support Ticket I submitted to FatCow, my website host, fixed the problem.
First Post – Welcome.
Welcome to Richard’s Blog. This is my first post. I also have a website.