The beginning of a new academic year is a very important annual event for our lecturers and students.
On the first of September the Institute yard is decorated with numerous beautiful autumn flowers and an exciting festive event is organized for the freshmen of SS NULES of Ukraine “Berezhany Agrotechnical Institute” to celebrate wisdom, kindness and humanism.
High-ranking officials and academic teaching staff of the Institute welcome young people and their parents. To the strains of the national anthem, the students of the reserve-officer training department bring a state flag of Ukraine and the flag of our Institute.
In his speech the Acting Director R.M. Horbatiuk wholeheartedly congratulated the freshmen, the teaching staff and the coworkers on Knowledge Day and the beginning of a new academic year. The teachers and the honored guests addressed the young people with warm speeches. O. Tkachova and M. Miskevych gave the gift of their brilliant songs.
The Faculty Deans L.V. Yarema, P.B. Klendii and M.B. Klendii ceremoniously tied ribbons for their freshmen and the Acting Director R.M. Horbatiuk, the Vice Director M.O. Rushyniak and the Head of Teaching Department N.D. Ostrovska traditionally handed a Key to Knowledge, a Students’ Record Book and a Students ID Card. After the initiation ceremony, the freshmen gave a students’ vow and the student amateur folk choir sang a students’ anthem «Gaudeamus».
Following a Christian tradition, this Knowledge Day involved a prayer asking for Christ’s blessing for good deeds and a successful beginning of a new academic year held by priests from different affiliations. The ceremony of flower and icon lamp laying as well as one minute’s silence was held in remembrance of our student, the Hero of Ukraine, Heavenly Hundred Hero Ustym Holodniuk and the honored historical figures, who contributed to the establishment of Ukrainian national identity.
Knowledge Day is a favorite holiday for freshmen and their parents as well as for academic teaching staff. Good luck to our freshmen in their new and exciting student’s life.
