Welcome to the Class of 2009 Commencement Site

To the parents and extended families of the graduating classes of 2009, we extend to you our congratulations and our highest appreciation for the level of sacrifice and support which has placed these young people in the seats of honor which they occupy today.

To the graduating classes of 2009, the Commencement exercise has been described in many ways, but we like to think of it as that brief intermission between the act of formal academic study, and the act of real life. As your participation in this Commencement exercise attests, during the last act of four or more years' those of you in the 2009 graduating class obviously performed your parts well. You learned your lines; you mastered the meaning and significance of your subjects, the subtleties and nuances of your parts. In the process, you came to a new awareness of intellectual exchange, of social interaction, of human relationships, and of human understanding.