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| Degrees of Celebration |
| Photographs by Rod Searcey |
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As the first graduates to have their degrees conferred on Elliott Field, the Class of ’06 wanted to be remembered. “Oh-Six, Oh-Six, Oh-Six” they chanted in unison every chance they could find during the 115th Commencement ceremony on June 18.
Carnegie Corporation president Vartan Gregorian, ’58, PhD ’64, addressed graduates earning 3,101 advanced degrees on Saturday, June 17. The former president of the New York Public Library and Brown University encouraged graduates to be lifelong students and said, “We cannot retreat from the big issues of society and the world and our times into the pygmy world of private piety.” |
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STRING THEORY: Graduate School of Business students Allen Arseneau and Tom Livelli make a case study in flair. |
Journalist Tom Brokaw, speaking at Sunday’s Commencement for 1,763 seniors, also spoke about today’s global challenges, noting that “a primary challenge of your time is to bank the fires of hostilities that are now burning out of control.”
While the Saturday proceedings were orderly, Sunday’s Wacky Walk lived up to its billing.
For defensive end Julian Jenkins and the other 14 graduating seniors on the football team, receiving their degrees on the field where they had put in so many grueling hours with pass-skeletons and up-downs was something of a homecoming. “You spend your whole life on the practice field,” the burly English major said, 11 hours before he boarded a plane for his first day of training camp with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “And then they bring graduation to you.” |
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JUMP IN: A growling saxophonist (left) helps the Band take the Commencement stage for one more round of ‘All Right Now,’ while some 30 friends (above) maneuver a multistory, multicolored ‘Thank you, Mom and Dad.’ |
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WARMING UP: Families and friends wait on Elliott Field (above) for the Wacky Walk to begin, while (right) Adam Harris as a bond-forming ethanol and fiancée Jennifer Huang as a formaldehyde molecule exude their chemistry. |
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STAGE PRESENCE: Vartan Gregorian, Tom Brokaw and John Hennessy (above left) sent graduates off with inspiring remarks and a rousing ‘Beat Cal.’ Twelve Pi Beta Phis (below left), chained together with hula hoops, demonstrate for four more years of life on the Farm. Iranian-born Gregorian (above right) reflects on his Stanford education as ‘a window on America.’ |
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BLOWIN’ IN THE WIND: Otter Pops on Lisa He’s mortarboard (left) melt before the Wacky Walk begins, but Paul Kreiner (right) catches a breeze to fly the Cardinal ‘S’ amid leaping dolphins. |
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