COMMENCEMENT

One Hundred Twelfth Exercises

May Twentieth Two Thousand Twenty-Three Ten Forty in the Morning

Program

Processional

Schenectady Pipe Band, selection of Scottish and Irish tunes Please keep aisles clear during processional.

Call To Celebration

A reading from Skidmore President Charles Henry Keyes’ speech to the graduating class of 1923.

Jean M. Lambert, Administrative Assistant for Records, retiree

Welcoming Remarks

Nancy W. Hamilton ’77, Chair of the Board of Trustees

GREETINGS FROM THE PRESIDENT

Marc C. Conner, President

Presentation Of Candidates For Honorary Degrees

Mary Schmidt Campbell, Doctorate of Humane Letters

Presented by Teisha Duncan, Artist-in-Residence

Hood presented by Michael T. Orr, Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs

Frederick M. Lawrence, Doctorate of Humane Letters

Presented by Catherine Berheide, Professor of Sociology and Director of Self-Determined Majors Program Hood presented by Dean Orr

Faculty Speaker

Joowon Park

Assistant Professor of Anthropology and affiliate faculty member in Skidmore’s Asian Studies and International Affairs programs

Remarks

Issy Beatriz Mejia, President of the Senior Class

Alexander Michael Lewis and Iti Singh, Senior Gift Chairs

Robert F. Resnick ’88, President of the Alumni Association

Presentation Of Candidates For Bachelor Of Arts And Bachelor Of Science Degrees

Dean Orr

Conferring Of The Degree Of Bachelor Of Arts And Bachelor Of Science

President Conner

President Conner is assisted by Dean Orr, Registrar David J. DeConno, and Associate Dean for Student Academic Affairs Michael F. Arnush.

Reading names are Associate Professor of World Languages and Literature Grace Burton and Professor of Health and Human Physiological Sciences Jeff Segrave.

Alma Mater

Henry T. Moore

Arrangement by Dr. Floydd Ricketts

Led by seniors Sabrina Alper, Christina A. Bechtel, Alison Josephine Cottingham, Douglas S. Flam, Finn Hogan, Rebecca A. Johnson, Maria P. Langford, William S. Lee, Alexandra H. Levins, Finn August Lyon, Margaret McQueston, Sarita Cecilia Padukone, Asia Raacke, Quinn Stoddard-O’Neill, Andrew E. Weinberg, and juniors Sebastian J. Caparas, Arielle Lam, Audrey A. Rudd, and Madison O. Sadler

Keyboard

Nathaniel T. Lucas

Please help salute the Class of 2023 by singing the Alma Mater. Lyrics and music are on the inside back cover of the program.

Recessional

Schenectady Pipe Band

Please keep aisles clear during recessional.

The Processional And Recessional

Led this year by Grand Marshal Mark Huibregtse, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, the processional and recessional are traditional parts of the Commencement ceremony that symbolize the relationship between faculty and students. In the processional, faculty process through the ranks of students, giving students the opportunity to show their respect and appreciation for their professors. That respect is returned to the graduates as they march through the ranks of the faculty during the recessional, receiving their congratulations.

Flags

Every year a number of students travel from their home countries to the United States to become part of the Skidmore College community. These students leave their homes, families, and friends for four years to be embraced by their new community in Saratoga Springs. Beginning with the acquisition of a student visa, and concluding with today’s ceremony, students coming to Skidmore from around the world work hard to balance their responsibilities as students and world citizens. The flags you see on stage today represent the countries of citizenship for the non-United States citizens in the Class of 2023. These flags, and those of all other countries representing the citizenship of Skidmore students, hang permanently in Skidmore’s Case College Center.