At the 174th Commencement of Wheaton College in Norton, gallons of water awaited as the sun beat down. Below right, Daniel Hoffman of Lebanon, Maine, wore commemorative glasses, and a student summed it all up on a mortarboard. At left, Kenneth Heisler of Falmouth captured the festivities on camera.
(John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
Commencements
At the 174th Commencement of Wheaton College in Norton, gallons of water awaited as the sun beat down. Below right, Daniel Hoffman of Lebanon, Maine, wore commemorative glasses, and a student summed it all up on a mortarboard. At left, Kenneth Heisler of Falmouth captured the festivities on camera.
(John Tlumacki/Globe Staff)
May 17, 2009
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Assumption College, Worcester
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., H.L. Rocheleau Athletic Field
Graduates: 600
Speaker: Anne Lynam Goddard, president and chief executive of Christian Children's Fund
Degrees: Certificates of advanced graduate studies, associate's degree, bachelor of arts, bachelor of business administration, bachelor of science, bachelor of liberal studies, master of arts, master of business administration
Honorary degrees: Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino, the John Carroll Professor Emeritus of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center; the Rev. James V. Schall, a professor of political philosophy at Georgetown University
Babson College, Wellesley
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., Upper Athletic Fields
Graduates: 795
Degrees: Bachelor of science
Speaker: Ray Kurzweil, inventor and futurist; Erik Weihenmayer, famed blind athlete
Honorary degrees: Kurzweil and Brian M. Barefoot, senior advisor to Carl Marks & Co. LP; Weihenmayer and William Markey Jr., former chairman of Babson's board (both at the afternoon ceremony for graduate students)
Benjamin Franklin Institute of Boston
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., 41 Berkeley St., Boston
Graduates: 140
Speaker: State Senator Sonia Chang-Díaz
Honorary degrees: Chang-Díaz
Bentley University
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., south campus
Speaker: Ann Moore, chairman and chief executive of Time Inc.
Graduates: About 1,100
Honorary degrees: Moore; musician Herbie Hancock, who will speak at commencement for Bentley McCallum Graduate School of Business
Bridgewater State College
Date: Yesterday, 2 p.m., Boyden Quadrangle
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Graduates: 904
Honorary degree: Patrick
Eastern Nazarene College, Quincy
Date: Yesterday, 2:30 p.m., campus lawn
Speaker: David McCullough, author and historian
Graduates: 200
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, associate of arts, master of education, master of science in management, master of science in marriage and family therapy
Honorary degrees: McCullough
Gordon College, Wenham
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.mFrost Hall
Speaker: Dr. David Batstone, professor of ethics in the Department of Theology & Religious Studies at the University of San Francisco
Graduates: about 375 undergraduates
Degrees: Bachelor of arts, bachelor of science, bachelor of music, master of education, master of arts and teaching, master of music education
Hampshire College, Amherst
Date: Yesterday, 11 a.m., library lawn
Speaker: Bobcat Goldthwait, filmmaker, actor, and comedian
Graduates: around 300
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Wheaton College, Norton
Date: Yesterday, 10 a.m., Wheaton Dimple
Speaker: Governor Deval Patrick
Graduates: 418
Degrees: Bachelor of arts
Honorary degrees: Patrick (doctor of laws); Donna Hurd Drohan, '69, (doctor of humane letters); Sandra Ohrn Moose, '63, (doctor of letters); Anne J. Neilson, '49, (doctor of science)
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date: Yesterday, 11 a.m., quadrangle
Speaker: Ursula M. Burns, president of
Graduates: 955
Degrees: Bachelor of science, master of science, master of engineering, master of business administration, master of mathematics for education, doctor of philosophy
Honorary degrees: Burns; Helen Greiner, cofounder of iRobot Corp; John Messenger, Jr., owner and vice president of Messenger and Associates; Charles Vest, president of the National Academy of Engineering and president emeritus of MIT
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