PROGRAM
CALL TO ORDER AND WELCOME
Marc C. Conner
President of the College
REMARKS
Jessica Ricker
Vice President for Enrollment and Dean of Admissions and Financial Aid
Rachel Roe-Dale Director of the First-Year Experience and Professor, Mathematics and Statistics
Linda Jackson-Chalmers ’73 Former Member, Board of Trustees
ADMINISTRATION OF THE HONOR CODE
Samantha Majiedt ’27 President of the Student Government Association
CHARGE TO THE CLASS OF 2029
Marc C. Conner President
UNFURLING OF THE CLASS OF 2029 BANNER
Adrian Bautista
Dean of Students and Vice President for Student Affairs and Jessica Ricker
ALMA MATER
Performed by:
Brianna Nelson ’26, Abigail Scifres ’26, Naomi Wagner’26, Celine Xu ’26
Vocal director:
Sylvia F. Stoner-Hawkins ’94 Senior Artist-In-Residence - Voice
CONCLUSION AND SENDING FORTH
President Conner
GRAND MARSHAL
Catherine Golden, Professor of English and Tisch Chair in Arts and Letters, 2017-2022
REPRESENTATIVES FROM DEPARTMENTS AND PROGRAMS
Natalie Fuehrer Taylor, Interim Dean of the Faculty and Vice President for Academic Affairs
Paul Benzon, Associate Professor of English; Director of the Media and Film Studies Program
Ian Berry, Dayton Director and Professor of Liberal Arts; Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum
Joerg Bibow, Professor and Chair of Economics
Marta Brunner, College Librarian
Grace Burton, Chair of Music Department
Hope Casto, Associate Professor for Education Studies
Joseph Cermatori, Associate Professor of English and Director of the Periclean Honors Forum
Dan Curley, Professor and Chair of Classics
Mary Kate Donovan, Associate Professor of Spanish, Chair of World Languages & Literatures
Elizabeth Dubben, Assistant Teaching Professor; Director of Arts Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of Arts Administration
Anne Ernst, Associate Chair of Environmental Studies and Sciences Coordinator and Lecturer
Eunice Ferreira, Associate Professor of Directing, History & Theory
Amy Frappier, Department Chair; Associate Professor—Paleoclimatology
Corey Freeman Gallant, Associate Dean of the Faculty, Professor of Biology
Lisa Grady-Willis, Teaching Professor, and Director Intergroup Relations Program
Winston Grady-Willis, Professor and Director of Black Studies
Mimi Hellman, Professor and Department Chair of Art History
Patricia Hilleren, Associate Professor and Chair of Biology
Matthew Hockenos, Professor, History
Ryan Homsey, Director of Academic Advising
Becca Johnson, Professor and Chair of Psychology
Brian Lawson, Assistant Professor, Dance
Jenni Mueller, Associate Professor of Sociology; Intergroup Relations Program (IGR) Faculty Affiliate
Kendrah Murphy, Associate Professor, Physics
Peter Murray, Teaching Professor of Philosophy
Dan Nathan, Professor of American Studies; The Douglas Family Chair in American Culture, History, and Literary and Interdisciplinary Studies
Juan Navea, Professor of Chemistry
Ryan Overbey, Associate Professor in Buddhist Studies Religious Studies & Asian Studies
Tammy Owens, Assistant Professor, American Studies
Joowon Park, Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology; Director of the Asian Studies Program
Robert ParkeHarrison, Professor and Chair Studio Art
June Paul, Associate Professor and Chair of Social Work
Bernard Possidente, Program Director of Neuroscience; Professor of Biology
Aarathi Prasad, Associate Professor of Computer Science
Bernardo Ramirez Rios, Director of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latinx Studies Program (LACLAS)
TH Reynolds, Chair and Professor of Health and Human Physiological Sciences Department
Rachel Roe-Dale, Director of First Year Experience, Professor of Mathematics
Christopher Seaton, Professor of Mathematics
Mahesh Shankar, Associate Professor and Director International Affairs Program
Adam Tinkle, Associate Professor and Director of MDOCS
Smriti Tiwari, Associate Professor; Director of Quantitative Reasoning
Bob Turner, Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science
Tim Wientzen, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of English
Xiaoshuai (Sharon) Yang, Assistant Professor Management and Business