2,868 receive degrees at 308th Commencement
Yale College Dean Mary Miller got more than she asked for when the class of 2009 received their degrees Monday.
At Class Day on Sunday, Miller told the 1,273 undergraduates to cheer when she asked University President Richard Levin to confer their degrees at Commencement. Indeed, when the time came on Monday, they roared, and the rockets of confetti and streamers the students shot in the air were an unexpected bonus.
The sun split the morning clouds as 3,129 candidates for degrees from Yale’s 12 residential colleges and 12 graduate and professional schools marched onto Old...
Congratulations to all in the Class of 2009. Do great things -- large and small...acclaimed and visible to few if any but you...some will take a life time and some the blink of an eye -- through it all, whether in good times or bad, "to thine own self be true" and may God hold you in the palm of his hand.
For those of us who weren't there, could the YDN post the names of the rest of the people who received honorary degrees?
that list is already up
http://yaledailynews.com/blogs/crosscampus/2009/05/25/2009-honorary-degree-recipients-the-official-list/
To #3 -- look at the Cross Campus blog! The entire list is posted.
congrats class of '09!!!!!
The list of honorary degrees within this article fails to mention Gustavo Gutiérrez, the founder of Liberation Theology and defender of the poor throughout Latin America. He is incredibly well-known and so it's more than a little embarrassing that other minor details about the event are included but his appearance is not. Furthermore, on the list of honorary degrees found at http://yaledailynews.com/blogs/crosscampus/2009/05/25/2009-honorary-degree-recipients-the-official-list/, you spelled his name incorrectly.
Handsome Dan thought he saw the Rose Billing records.