- Prelude/Processional
- Brass Quintet: “Gloriaâ€
from Lord Nelson Mass, arr. Walter Barnes
- Opening
- George Moose ’66
- Welcome
- Keith A. Jantzen ’80
- Reading
- Iris Mackenzie: “Wild Geese†by Mary Oliver (2004)
- From the Students
- Eva Hill ’22
- From the Faculty
- Vida Praitis
- From the Alumni
- Lester Alemán ’07
- From the Staff
- Sarah Smith
- From the Community
- Julie Gosselink
- Reading
- Roman Mackenzie: Two Old English Riddles, Exeter Book
author unknown (late 10th century),
trans. Craig Williamson in A Feast of Creatures (2011)
- Choral Selection
- 51²è¹İapp Singers: “Hold Fast to Dreamsâ€
Written by Langston Hughes; Music by Joel Thompson
Conductor: John Rommereim; Pianist: Marlys Grimm
- Reading
- Oliver Mackenzie: Excerpts from Gaston Bachelard
- Poetics of Space (1964), trans. Maria Jolas from La poétique de l’espace (1958)
- Investiture of the President
- Michael Kahn ’74
- The President’s Response
- Anne F. Harris
- The Inaugural Address
- Anne F. Harris: “The Future of a Shared Pastâ€
- Closing
- Trish Fitzgibbons Anderson ’80
- Recessional
- Brass Quintet: “Humanitas et Veritasâ€
- composed by John Rommereim
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