2024 Cap and Gown Convocation Program

RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE 2024 CAP AND GOWN CONVOCATION

PROCESSIONAL

Pomp and Circumstance No.1…Edward Elgar

Royal Fireworks Music…Georg Friedrich Handel

Marching Song…Gustav Holst

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM

(Audience will please stand, if able)

Tessa Angelina Bellotti

Holly M. Dion

Domenic Fusco

Emily A. Harris

Jose Lantigua

Jacob Scott McLane

Mira Rose Tapper

GREETINGS

Jack R. Warner President

Shihren Brower Ashley L. Godfrin

Class of 2024

CAP AND GOWN INVESTITURE

Jack R. Warner

ADDRESS

Arthur J. Patrie, Director Dining and Retail Food Services

Introduced by Gianna Jade DelMonico

DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS

Carolynn Masters, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs assisted by Chairs of Presenting Department

SENIOR CLASS GIFT

Class Officers

ALMA MATER

(Audience will please stand)

Dear Alma Mater wise and kind, To thy fair name shall e'er belong our grateful praises and our love,

The tribute of our song.

Thou guardian of the sacred shrine of truth that makes us free.

We cherish thy beloved fame and pledge our loyalty.

Rhode Island College hail to thee!

All hail to Alma Mater!

Enshrined thou art within the heart of ev'ry son and daughter.

RECESSIONAL

Folk Song Suite…Vaughan Williams

America the Beautiful…Samuel A. Ward

BEARER OF THE DEL SESTO MACE

Valerie Endress, Chair, Council of Rhode Island College

MUSICAL SELECTIONS

Rhode Island College Wind Ensemble

Joseph D. Foley, Conductor

CLASS OFFICERS

Gianna Jade DelMonico, President | Shihren Brower, Vice President | Ashley L. Godfrin, Secretary | William A. Dempsey, Treasurer

ACADEMIC ATTIRE

The caps, gowns and hoods worn at college and university functions date back to the Middle Ages. Monks and students used them to keep warm in medieval castles and halls of learning. This formal apparel now symbolizes scholarly achievement. The academic cap is a sign of freedom of scholarship and the responsibility and dignity with which scholarship endows the wearer. Old poetry records the cap of scholarship as square to symbolize the book. The cap worn almost universally in academic processions is the Oxford cap, better known as the mortarboard. The tassel may either be black or reflects the scholarly subject. Baccalaureate gowns have a long, pleated front with shirring across the shoulders and back. The gowns are primarily distinguished by flowing sleeves that are pointed at the fingertips.

2024 CAP AND GOWN CONVOCATION

Outstanding Student Award

Department of Accounting

William Dempsey

James Houston Award in Anthropology

Department of Anthropology

Haley Teodoro

Mary Ball Howkins Art History Award

Department of Art

Myra Lendrum

Studio Art Award

Department of Art

Samantha Lowder

Elvis Rodriguez

Bachelor of Professional Studies Excellence Award

Bachelor of Professional Studies

Amanda Forget

W. Christina Carlson Award

Department of Biology

Jakob Mastalerz

Theodore Lemeshka Award

Department of Biology

Madisyn Turcotte

Certificate of Excellence

Medical Imaging Program

Serena Forte (Diagnostic Medical Sonography)

Amber Dickson (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Gianna DeFusco (Nuclear Medicine Technology)

Allyson Hood (Radiologic Technology)

Eleanor M. McMahon Award

College Honors Program

Anna Vygoder

Communication Achievement Awards

Department of Communication

Raymond Baccari (Media Communication and Advertising)

Liam Clancey (Public and Professional)

Madison Floyd (Speech, Language, and Hearing Science)

Richard A. Howland Computer Science Award

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Sean Parks

Outstanding Student Award

Department of Computer Science and Information Systems

Vy Phuong Mai

Outstanding Student Award

Department of Economics and Finance

Jacob Lubic

Vy Phuong Mai

Mary Alice Grellner Educational Studies

Senior Award

Department of Educational Studies

Autumn Messier

Katherine Murray Prize

Department of Educational Studies

Rachel Sassi

Jennifer S. Cook Award in Educational Studies and English

Department of Educational Studies and English

Jessica Carreiro

Elementary Education Award

Department of Elementary Education

Nathan Boisclair

Sister Mary Francis Ryan, R.S.M. Early Childhood Education Award

Department of Elementary Education

Jesslynn Biron

Kayla Vadeboncoeur

Jean Garrigue Award

Department of English

Melodie Goncalves

Spencer and Marguerite Hall Award

Department of English

Thalia Guardarrama

Mark W. Estrin Film Studies Award

Film Studies Program

Kimberly Roxy Soto

Health and Physical Education Awards

Department of Health and Physical Education

Alexander Brown

Sandra Giraldo

Claiborne deB. Pell Award

Department of History

Dylan Kelly

Evelyn Walsh Prize

Department of History

Jacob Barnds

John E. Hetherman Award

Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

Cole Podedworny

Helen M. Murphy Award

Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

Anna Vygoder

Paul Bourget Student Athlete Award

Department of Intercollegiate Athletics

Olivia Keyes

Constance Milbourne Award

Department of Management and Marketing

Gabriella Picerno

John Silva Memorial Scholastic Award

Department of Management and Marketing

Alyson Paux

Distinguished Student in Health Care Administration

Department of Management and Marketing

Katie Palencia

2024 CAP AND GOWN CONVOCATION

Christopher R. Mitchell Award

Department of Mathematical Sciences

Christian Adams

Nelson A. Guertin Memorial Awards

Department of Modern Languages (Spanish)

Amarilys Ovalle

Tegu Polyglot Award

Department of Modern Languages

Laudi Cabrera Alvarez

Prémio Em Estudos Portugueses

Department of Modern Languages

Aleida Gomes

Peter Jeffrey Archambault Memorial Award