Message from the Dean:

Welcome to Hamper's Annual Christmas Academy Convocation. The purpose of the Convocation is to recognize those who have demonstrated a sustained & selfless devotion to the well being of some other person during the Christmas Season.

There are over 2500 students registered at H.C.A., some have graduated, some continue to work on their graduate studies, and others persist with their undergraduate work. This day we recognize the achievements of those who have earned their respective degrees & honours.

Hamper's Academy is a specially accredited University. It was founded in 1146, as St. Nicholas College & achieved special university status in 1180. It is the largest academy in the world & an institution of higher learning with teaching & research facilities constituting a graduate school & professional school. The Academy specializes in all facets of the analysis, design, development & implementation of Christmas.

The Academy provides its students with access to extraordinary professors & a diverse array of rigorous study. As the largest university of its kind in the world, Hamper's Christmas Academy offers the widest possible range of programs with 3 facilities, 12 undergraduate, 15 masters and 3 doctoral programs. To be a student of the Academy, is to study with accomplished scholars who have a unique perspective and a very special integrity.

The Academy has facilities in toy manufacturing, magic, community services, the arts & sciences and many professional fields as well as school of graduate studies. The Academy also includes the: Northern Conservatory of Carols; Trans-species Hospital; Comet's Observatory; Dancer's School of High Latitude Ballet; Blitzen's Faculty of Sports and the University Hospital Medical School specializing in trans specie re-assignment surgery. This is the only medical school in the world that assists people with the transition from human being to part elf or part reindeer!

Through these hallowed halls leave the enlightened-'ex his muris sanctis docti egrediuntur'. Those who are light of heart, the passionate, the compassionate & the wonder filled. Christmas is a complex flow of inter related activities. It is universal kindness, unconditional peace and harmony & is a cultural domain that demands our commitment, consideration, study & respect. The Christmas Convocation is a very special and imaginative way to recognize the sustained sacrifice & the devotion people make to each other. It is at this Convocation, we award our Bachelor, Master and Philosophiae Doctor of Christmas.

Ex His Muris Sanctis Docti Egrediuntur
R.D. Murdoch PhDC Meritus.