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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, the first of the academic procession has arrived!
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SPEAKER 1: Leading the procession is the University Marshall, Professor Charles Walcott. Following the University Marshal is the banner for the class of 2017. The banner bearers are Reed Stratton Geisler and Janay Saunders, Class Officers. The Class Marshalls are Alyannah Kasseem and Lauren Elizabeth Lang.
First to arrive behind the class banner are the PhD candidate of the graduate school. The symbol banner is carried by Brittany Yaesmin Jarrett. Candidates are led by Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Barbara A. Knuth. And Faculty Marshalls, Professor Nerressa Russell and Professor Yrjo [INAUDIBLE]
The PhD banner bearers are Siddarth Chandrasekaran and Amy Willis. The Degree Marshals are Washington Luis de Silva and Rebecca Katherine Helm.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the PhD degree candidates from the graduate school.
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SPEAKER 1: Next are the Master degree candidates of the graduate school. The Master banner bearers are Mara Juliana Kanbergs and Robert Barry [INAUDIBLE]. The Degree Marshals are Mauricio Cortes and Micah Alex Martin.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, for your information, degree candidates from the Weill Cornell Medical College in Cutter participated in a separate commencement ceremony in April. And degree candidates from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City will participate in a commencement ceremony on June 1st.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the Master degree candidates from the graduate school.
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SPEAKER 1: Next are the candidate from the College of Veterinary Medicine, led by Dean Lorin Warmick and College Banner Bearers, Kaitlyn Rose Briggs and Yuan Kan. The Degree Marshals are Alexandra Shay Heristofa and Noah Daniel [INAUDIBLE]. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Molly Bailey Hunt.
Next the Law School candidates are led by Dean Eduardo M. Penalver and College Banner Bearers Christina Lee and Daniel Ovadia. Degree Marshals are Krystal Anderson and Lin Chateau. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Amelia Courtney Ritz.
Next, the newly established SC Johnson College of Business, comprising the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, the School of Hotel Administration, and the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Let by Dean Soumitra Dutta. The College Banner Bearers are Helena Linna Hou and Nicholas Jordan Meditz.
MBA degree candidates from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management are led by the College Banner Bearers under the auspices of Dean Mark Naleson. The College Banner Bearers are Thevaki [INAUDIBLE] and Nikhil [INAUDIBLE]. The Degree Marshals are Walter Luis Artiagga and Alexa Ing Stern. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Helen Margaret [INAUDIBLE].
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SPEAKER 1: Now entering the stadium are the first of the college degree candidates. The School of Hotel Administration is led by Dean Kate Walsh and College Banner Bearers Sara Elizabeth Levine and Oren Weissman. Degree Marshals are Claire Christine Benninger and Ethan Joseph Gabany. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Grant Michael Behnke.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the candidates from the School of Hotel Administration.
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SPEAKER 1: Next, the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management is led to the stadium by Dean Edward McLaughlin and College Banner Bearers Parth Popatlal Detroja and Diana Wang. The Degree Mashals are Abraham Concool Mendelson and Kyle Delano Poorman. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Naveed Mitha.
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Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
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SPEAKER 1: Now entering the stadium is the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Led by Dean Kathryn J. Boor and College Banner Bearers, Wanhui Kang and Xuetong Li. Degree Marshals are Nola Booth and Jeremy Pardo. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Joshua James Elacqua.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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SPEAKER 1: Now entering the stadium led by Dean Kevin Hallock is the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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SPEAKER 1: The College Banner Bearers are Jacqueline Shea Ferri and Carly Ellen Gibbons. Degree Marshals are Emma Winters Keteltas and Daniel Harrison Stein. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Ethan Cramer Gibbs.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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SPEAKER 1: Next the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. Is led into the stadium by Dean Kent Kleinman and College Banner Bearers Samuel Howard Coons and Andrew Robert Moorman. Representing the three degree programs are Aashti Alfaz Miller, Tiffany Li, and Patrick Calmon de [INAUDIBLE]. The Symbol Banner Bearer is James Thomas Quinn.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from The College of Architecture, Art, and Planning!
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SPEAKER 1: Now entering the stadium are the degree candidates from the College of Human Ecology.
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SPEAKER 1: Led by Dean Alan Mathios and College Banner Bearers Lauren Ilana Cantor and Joshua Douglas Miller. Degree Marshals are Matthew George Engel and Brian Scott LaGrant. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Sloan William Lynch.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidatES from the College of Human Ecology.
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SPEAKER 1: The College of Engineering is now led into the stadium by Dean Lance R. Collins and College Banner Bearers Jonlin Chen and David Ming Li. The Degree Marshals are Julie Anna Woshensky and Abigail Nora Birnbaum. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Robert Lee.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, it's wonderful we are a packed house today. In order to provide seating for everyone, please take a moment to move toward the center section in each row. Thank you.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from the College of Engineering.
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SPEAKER 1: Now entering the stadium led by Dean Gretchen Ritter are the degree candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences.
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The College Banner Bearers are [INAUDIBLE] Geng and Frederick Huang. Degree Marshals are Devon Bain and Yihong Huang. The Symbol Banner Bearer is Xiaoyue Li.
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SPEAKER 1: Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences.
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SPEAKER 1: Now entering the stadium is the Senior Class Council banner carried by Jay Harrison Feldman and Olivia Myers followed by members of the Senior Class Council. Will all candidates for degrees, please stand at this time.
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SPEAKER 1: Thank you. Now entering the stadium is the administrative staff of the University, led by two Faculty Marshals, Professor Jintu Fan and Professor David Gries.
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SPEAKER 1: The members of the faculty are now entering the stadium. They are led by the Dean of the University Faculty, Charles Van Loan. The Faculty Marshals are Professor Steve Carvell, Professor John Hermanson, Professor Lisa Nishii and Professor Drew Noden.
Following the Faculty Marshals and now entering the stadium are this year's Steven H Weiss Presidential Fellows. This prestigious award is given each year to distinguished scholars out of our faculty who have sustained a career of important contributions to undergraduate education, including effective and inspiring teaching of undergraduate students.
This year's Weiss Presidential Fellows are Andrew Lee Simitch, Associate Professor of Architecture, Steven H. Strogatz, Professor of Mathematics, and Mike Van Amburgh, Professor of Animal Science.
The Weiss Junior Fellows are Jane E. Mendle, Associate Professor of Human Development and Sara Warner, Associate Professor of Performing and Media Arts.
The Weiss Provosts Teaching Fellows are Jim Blankenship, Senior Lecturer in Molecular Biology and Walker White, Senior Lecturer in Computer Science.
Our Weiss Fellows are joined by their colleagues on the Cornell University faculty who are now entering the stadium.
Ladies and gentlemen, at this time we acknowledge and thank the Cornell University faculty.
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SPEAKER 1: Next in the procession are members of the University's Board of Trustees. The trustees are being led by Chariman Robert S. Harrison. The Trustee Marshals are Professor Fred Schneider and Professor Donald Viands.
University Marshal, Charles Walcott, will now escort the Mace Bearer, Mariana Wolfner and Cornell University's President, Martha E. Pollack to their places on the platform.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: President Pollack, for the 149th time, candidates for degrees from Cornell University have gathered for the conferral of degrees and to celebrate this commencement. The assembly is hereby called to order.
Please rise and join the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus accompanied by the Cornell University Wind Symphony in singing the Star Spangled Banner.
MUSIC: Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light. What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still there.
Oh, say does that star spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Can everyone please be seated?
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Class of 2017 and candidates for advanced degrees, wow, congratulations. What a wonderful day. In fact, I think it's a shades kind of day. I'm going to have to wear my shades here.
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you all for being here. Special thanks to the Cornell Board of Trustees and to Vice President Joe Biden, whose address yesterday set a new standard for the senior class convocation.
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: In fact, I have to tell you that when the trustees hired me for this job, they neglected to tell me that my first major presidential address would come on the heels of the one given by Joe Biden. Talk about a hard act to follow. But here we are. And I guess it won't do for me to simply reference Vice President Biden and assert what he said.
So let's get started. And let's start with something very important, acknowledging the many family and friends of today's graduates, those here in Schoellkopf Stadium, as well as those watching the livestream. Graduates, I know you'll agree that without their love and support you wouldn't be here today. And even though you thanked them yesterday, it's worth doing so again.
So if you know where your family are seated, please stand up and wave at them. And if not, just stand up and wave and they'll think you know.
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: On a serious note, I ask that we take a moment to remember those no longer with us whose commencement this would have been. We honor those we lost from the graduating class each year by leaving an empty chair on the field. Their family and friends are in our thoughts today.
Since I started as President here only six weeks ago, I've had just a few opportunities to get to know the graduates. But it's been a real pleasure to meet some of you individually, for example, at your senior class reception where I learned that you like your music to be very, very, very loud. And meetings of the student assembly with student leaders, and of course, at yesterday's ice cream social on the arts quad.
And you being the Instagram generation, we've posed together in these and other encounters for a lot of selfies. In fact, let's get this out of the way right now. All of you take out your phones and we on the platform are going to smile while you take your selfie with us. Go ahead, right now.
All right, now sit down because it's my turn.
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: This is a moment of transition for you, graduates. Big transitions are important. It's why we mark them with celebrations like the one we're participating in now. They're times for reflection, for looking backwards at what you've experienced and what you've learned, and looking forwards towards what you'll do next, your next adventure.
Earlier this year as he faced a different life transition, retirement, Daniel Fried took the opportunity to share his reflections with his staff. Now I suspect that most of you have no idea who Daniel Fried is. So let me tell you. Fried is a career diplomat who served in the federal government for 40 years under six presidents, Republicans and Democrats, starting in 1977.
He worked mainly in Eastern Europe, Russia, Serbia, Poland, as well as in Washington DC. He was an embassy political officer, an ambassador, a political counselor, a special envoy, and more. And he's a Cornell alumnus, class of 1974. As you can imagine with a career like that, Daniel Fried experienced many events that must have seemed quite improbable when he began in 1977, things like the victory of the Polish solidarity movement, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
As he reflected on such events in his retirement speech, Ambassador Fried said this, "I learned never to underestimate the possibility of change, that values have power, and that time and patience can pay off, especially if you're serious about your objectives." Yesterday Vice President Biden also counseled you not to underestimate the possibility of change, to recognize that while you are graduating into a world with significant challenges, so too have previous generations of students.
And they have frequently met those challenges head on and made changes the world needed to be a better place. In fact, said Vice President Biden, you, the class of 2017, have an incredibly strong basis on which to make positive change. So where do you start? Listen again to your fellow Cornellian Ambassador Fried.
Recognize, he said, that values have power. Thus, if you want to create meaningful change, a good place to start is by clarifying your own values. Cornell, like all strong institutions, has a set of core principles that informs the values it holds dear. I suspect that these principles played a role in your decision to come here. They were certainly a large part of what brought me to Ithaca. And they formed an important backdrop for your experiences as a student.
So as you leave this University, it is worth thinking about Cornell's principles and values, considering what role they've played in your education, and then making a conscious decision about whether you will carry them with you, making them the foundation of the change you will enact in the world.
A fundamental Cornell principle is its commitment to discovery that is advancing, preserving, and transmitting knowledge and culture. In a great university like this, there is a tight connection between two types of diversity, discovery. The discovery that occurs in the learning process when you discover something new to you and the discovery that occurs in research, scholarship, and the creative endeavor when you discover something new to the world.
For more than 150 years, Cornell has excelled at both types of discovery with faculty who reflect the sentiment of Andrew Dickson White, Cornell's first president, when he wrote that the power of discovering truth and the power of imparting it are almost invariably found together. Take, for example, Theodore Loewy, the John L. Senior, Professor of American Institutions Emeritus who passed away this spring.
Professor Loewy was one of the giants in political science with a specialty in American politics. He taught at Cornell for more than 35 years, mesmerizing generations of Cornell students with his deep knowledge, sharp wit, and southern drawl. But as important as Professor Loewy's scholarship is, and he was even named the nation's most influential political scientist by the American Political Science Association at one point, one of his most enduring legacies is an education initiative, the Cornell in Washington Program, which Loewy helped to create with President America's Frank Rhodes.
Professor Loewy exemplified the interconnection between the two types of discovery that are cherished here at Cornell. And I'm told, by the way, that he also cherished something else that Cornell values. As a high school student, he worked part time scooping ice cream at a dairy in his hometown in Alabama, becoming a lifelong afficianado, eating a cone every day with a particular penchant for vanilla with chocolate sauce.
As a university committed to discovery and the search for truth, we also have a commitment to freedom of speech and freedom of expression. As the late President Elizabeth Garrett put it, a university is about the fullest and freest expression of ideas and arguments. There isn't any idea that ought not to be tested and questioned, because that's how we get closer to the truth.
We're about reason, rationality, debate. If you disagree with someone, the answer isn't to shut them down. A commitment to free speech can be a challenging principle--
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you.
Commitment to free speech can be a challenging principle to uphold, as doing so means that you must be willing to allow to be said things that you find offensive. And you must then be prepared, when necessary, to stand up and refute such messages and to explicitly and vigorously support those whose dignity may have been compromised by them. But it is through that vigorous defense, not through enforced silence, that you move forward.
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Beyond that, you must ensure that all voices have a chance to be heard, paying particular attention to those whose voices historically have been ignored, ensuring that they are not left out of the conversation. You must value diversity, and you must commit to egalitarianism. And indeed since its founding, Cornell has had a deep commitment to that most American of principles, which Vice President Biden also called out yesterday, that all people are created equal.
Let me quote again from Cornell's first President, Andrew Dickson White, who I can't help but mention was the first of six Cornell presidents to date to come from the University of Michigan. Writing to a potential benefactor a few years before the university was formed, White explained his intention to secure a place where the most highly priced instruction may be afforded to all, regardless of sex or color. What a radical idea that was in the 1860s.
Now despite our good intentions, we haven't always gotten it right. It's clear, for example, that it's been easier to achieve compositional diversity at Cornell than to create a fully inclusive environment. But a commitment to egalitarianism has been there from our beginning, and it remains a core value for Cornell, one that is inextricably linked with a commitment to discovery and the commitment to free speech.
Let me just mention one other Cornell value that has almost certainly shaped your time here, respect for the natural environment. I don't think many people can spend time on the Ithaca campus without being moved by this beautiful land, kept faithfully for so many generations by the Cayuga people upon whose ancestral home this campus sits.
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: Sapsucker woods, the Cornell Botanic Garden, and our spectacular gorges have been a part of your Cornell experience as they have been for generations of Cornelleons and for all those who have made these lands their homes. The [INAUDIBLE], the confederacy that includes the Cayuga people, have an ancient set of principles called the honorable harvest that requires the enjoyment of nature's bounty in a sustainable way. This same principle is also important to Cornell.
These four principles, commitment to discovery and the search for truth, to freedom of speech, to diversity and egalitarianism, and to respect for the natural environment are among the things this university cherishes most. There is more, of course, including a deep sense of community and of cooperation and personal respect.
But graduates, what I am asking you to do is to think carefully about the values that have been central to your experience over the past four years, possibly the most transformational years you will ever experience. Perhaps you will choose to carry them all forward with you, perhaps you will choose only some, almost certainly you will adopt others.
But understand what your own values are. Because as Ambassador Fried said, values have power. And you can only harness that power if you're clear about your values. And don't forget the final piece of advice from Ambassador Fried to his colleagues at the State Department, time and patience can pay off, especially if you're serious about your objectives.
Graduates, as you work towards real change, you need to be patient, patient with a pace of that change and patient with yourself. Patience doesn't mean you don't pursue change vigorously. It means that you don't lose sight of your goals and that you understand that it may take time to achieve them.
Remember that most meaningful activities are marathons, not sprints. They take sustained effort, but never, never doubt your ability to influence the world for the better. That is what Cornellians have done in ways large and small since the university's founding. And finally this, find joy in what you do.
Perhaps when you were a child, someone read you books about Winnie the Pooh. I saw at least one graduate walk by with a big Winnie the Pooh doll, so that was great. I don't know where you are, but wave that Winnie the Pooh doll. There it is. Pooh is one of my favorite characters for literature. And in part, it's because of this conversation that he had with his friend, Piglet.
"What day is it?" asks Pooh. "It's today," squeaked Piglet. "My favorite day," said Pooh. Graduates, I hope you take the knowledge you've gained, the habits of mind you've developed, and the values you've acquired while at Cornell and you use them to live a life in which, because you're making a difference, nearly every day is your favorite day.
And one more thing, I hope you come back to campus as often as you can to reconnect, to recenter, to re-energize, and to eat ice cream. Class of 2017 and candidates for advanced degrees, congratulations. Cornell will always be a part of you, and you will always be part of Cornell.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: We will now proceed to the conferring of degrees granted in course. The first groups to be presented to the president for conferral of degrees are the graduate candidates who have completed work in the graduate school or in one of the professional schools.
Will the Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Barbara A. Nuth, please step forward. Will the candidates for the doctoral degree from the graduate school please rise, and the Degree Marshals come up onto the platform?
BARBARA A. KNUTH: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these outstanding candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the graduate school for the appropriate degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Musical Arts, Doctor of the Science of Law.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Senior Vice Provost and Dean Knuth. Upon recommendation of the faculty and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the doctoral degree appropriate to your field of advanced study and research with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining there to.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Cornell University welcomes the new doctors of philosophy, doctors of musical arts, and doctors of the science of law to the ancient and universal company of scholars. Will the Doctors please be seated?
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Lorin Warnick, please step forward, and the candidates for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine please rise and the Degree Marshals come up onto the platform?
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LORIN WARNICK: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates who've fulfilled their requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank Dean Warnick. Upon the recommendation of the faculty and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining there to.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the Doctors of Veterinary Medicine please be seated? Will the Dean of the Law School, Eduardo Penalver, please step forward? And will the candidates for the degrees of Doctor of Law or Master of Laws please rise, and the Degree Marshals come up onto the platform.
EDUARDO PENALVER: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty, the Law School, for the degrees of Doctor of Law and Master of Laws.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Penalver. Upon recommendation of the faculty and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree of Doctor of Laws or Master of Laws with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining there to.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the Doctor of Law and Master of Laws graduates please be seated? Will the Senior Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Barbara A. Knuth, please return to the microphone. And will the candidates for the Master degree in studies that have been directed by the graduate school please rise. And will the Degree Marshals come up onto the platform?
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BARBARA A. KNUTH: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these outstanding candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the graduate school for the Master degree, be it Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Health Administration, Master of Industrial and Labor Relations, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Professional Studies, Master of Public Administration, Master of Regional Planning, Master of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Senior Vice Provost and Dean Knuth. Upon recommendation of the faculty and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the Master degree to which you are entitled with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining there to.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the Masters graduates please be seated? Will the Dean of the SC Johnson College of Business Sumatra Duta please step forward? And will the Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Mark Nelson, please step forward. Will the candidates for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come up onto the platform.
MARK NELSON: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management for the degree of Master of Business Administration.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Nelson. Upon the recommendation of the faculty and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the Master of Business Administration degree with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining there to.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the Master of Business Administration graduates please be seated? Included among the graduates upon whom we have just conferred advanced degrees are those who carried out their studies at Cornell Tech. Will the degree recipients who earned degrees at Cornell Tech and Dan Hutton Locher, founding Dean and Vice President of Cornell Tech, please stand?
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Also included among the graduates upon whom we have just conferred advanced degrees, and also among the undergraduate students soon to be recognized, are those who completed their studies through the faculty of Computing and Information Science. Will the degree recipients and degree candidates in Computing and Information and Dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, Greg [INAUDIBLE] please stand?
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CHARLES WALCOTT: The next groups to be admitted to the fellowship of educated men and women are the candidates for Cornell degrees. Will the two class marshals representing the entire Cornell University senior class please come up onto the platform?
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CHARLES WALCOTT: In a moment, each college group will be called to rise for presentation to the President, and then asked to be seated. After all college degree groups have been presented to the President, all the groups will be asked to rise again for the awarding of the degrees.
The Degree Marshals for the college degree groups will come forward to the base of the platform as each group is called. Will the Dean of the SC Johnson College of Business, Soumitra Dutta, please step forward? Will the Dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Kate Walsh, please come forward?
Will the candidates for the degree of Master of Management in Hospitality and Bachelor of Science from the School of Hotel Administration please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform.
KATE WALSH: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these outstanding candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the School of Hotel Administration for the degree of Master of Management in Hospitality and Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Walsh.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated? Will the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kathrine J. Boor, please come forward and join Dean Dutta in recognizing the graduates of the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management.
The Dyson School is a shared program of the SC Johnson College of Business and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
SOUMITRA DUTTA: Will the Dean of the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Ed McLaughlin please step forward?
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates for the Degree of Bachelor of Science from the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform?
EDWARD MCLAUGHLIN: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates who've fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Science and the Charles H Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management for the degree Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean McLaughlin.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will candidates please be seated? Will the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kathryn J. Boor, please come forward to the microphone?
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences please rise, and will the Degree Marshals come to the front of the platform?
KATHRYN J. BOOR: President Pollack. We love him, too. I have the honor to present these magnificent candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Boor.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated? Will the Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Kevin Hallock, please come forward?
Will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform?
KEVIN HALLOCK: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Hallock.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated?
Will the Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Kent Kleinman, please come forward? And will the candidates for the degree of Master of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Arts, and Bachelor of Science from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning please rise. And will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform.
KENT KLEINMAN: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these tireless candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning for the degrees of Master of Architecture, Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Art, and Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Kleinman.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. And will the Dean of the College of Human Ecology, Alan Mathios, please come forward? Will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the College of Human Ecology please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform?
ALAN MATHIOS: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Human Ecology for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Mathios.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated? And will the Dean of the College of Engineering, Lance Collins, please come forward? And will candidates for the degree of Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science from the College of Engineering please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform?
LANCE R. COLLINS: President Pollack, I have the honor to present these amazing candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Engineering for the degrees of Master of Engineering and Bachelor of Science.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Collins.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated? And will the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Gretchen Ritter, please step forward? And will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the College of Arts and Sciences please rise, and will the Degree Marshals please come to the front of the platform?
GRETCHEN RITTER: President Pollack, I have the distinct honor to present these extraordinary candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences for the degree Bachelor of Arts.
MARTHA E. POLLACK: Thank you, Dean Ritter.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will all college degree candidates please rise at this time?
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MARTHA E. POLLACK: It is my privilege to recognize the candidates recommended by the deans and the faculties of the several schools and colleges for the appropriate college degrees. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the college degree appropriate to your field of study with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining there to.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will all college Degree Marshals please come up onto the stage to shake hands with President Pollack?
Will the assembly please stand for the singing of the evening song and the alma mater?
MUSIC: When the sun fades far away in the crimson of the West. And the voices of the day murmur low and sink to rest. Music with the twilight falls o'er the dreaming lake and dell. 'Tis an echo from the walls of our own, our fair Cornell. Welcome night and welcome rest fading music fair thee well. Joy to all we love the best, love to thee our fair Cornell. Music with the twilight falls o'er the dreaming lake and dell. 'Tis an echo from the walls of our home, our fair Cornell.
Far above Cayuga's waters, with its waves of blue, stands our noble alma mater, glorious to view. Lift the chorus, speed it onward, loud her praises tell. Hail to thee, our alma mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell! Far above the busy humming of the bustling town. Reared against the arch of heaven, looks she proudly down. Lift the chorus, speed it onward, loud her praises tell. Hail to thee, our alma mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell!
[CHEERING]
CHARLES WALCOTT: This concludes the 149th Cornell University Commencement. We thank you for being with us, and congratulate our new graduates. Please remain standing during the recessional until the faculty have left the field. Thank you.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
MUSIC: [INAUDIBLE]
Commencement procession and ceremony for Class of 2017 undergraduate and graduate students, Sunday, May 28, 2017 at Schoellkopf Stadium.
