RHODE ISLAND COLLEGE 2024 CAP AND GOWN CONVOCATION
PROCESSIONAL
DEPARTMENTAL AWARDS
Pomp and Circumstance No.1…Edward Elgar Royal Fireworks Music…Georg Friedrich Handel Marching Song…Gustav Holst
Carolynn Masters, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs assisted by Chairs of Presenting Department
SENIOR CLASS GIFT 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
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
CAP AND GOWN INVESTITURE
Folk Song Suite…Vaughan Williams America the Beautiful…Samuel A. Ward
Jack R. Warner
ADDRESS
BEARER OF THE DEL SESTO MACE
Arthur J. Patrie, Director Dining and Retail Food Services Introduced by Gianna Jade DelMonico
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
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
Elementary Education Award Department of Elementary Education Nathan Boisclair
Constance Milbourne Award Department of Management and Marketing Gabriella Picerno
Sister Mary Francis Ryan, R.S.M. Early Childhood Education Award Department of Elementary Education Jesslynn Biron Kayla Vadeboncoeur
John Silva Memorial Scholastic Award Department of Management and Marketing Alyson Paux
Jean Garrigue Award Department of English Melodie Goncalves Spencer and Marguerite Hall Award Department of English Thalia Guardarrama
Distinguished Student in Health Care Administration Department of Management and Marketing Katie Palencia