{"id":363,"date":"2010-04-28T16:14:47","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=363"},"modified":"2015-03-20T10:44:18","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T14:44:18","slug":"y2003","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1776\" style=\"width: 570px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/?attachment_id=1776\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1776\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1776\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2003.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2003.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/files\/2010\/05\/dcg_2003-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1776\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ceremony over, Pamela Conley savors the moment with a classmate.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Honoring the Class of 2003<\/p>\n<p>Fending off a threatening rain nearly until the end of its 137th annual Commencement, Bates College sent 443 graduates into the world in a ceremony that also honored a leading expert on religion and law, a pioneering cardiologist, the head of the United Nations Children&#8217;s Fund and the college&#8217;s recently retired sixth president. One of four honorary degree recipients at the event, Yale Professor of Law Stephen L. Carter offered a commencement address welcoming graduates to what he called the &#8220;reasoning class.&#8221; Joining Carter as honorary degree recipients were UNICEF Executive Director Carol Bellamy; renowned cardiologist Dr. Eugene Braunwald of Harvard Medical School; and Bates President Emeritus Donald W. Harward, who served from 1989 to 2002.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Keep Reading<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"pageChildren\"><li class=\"page_item page-item-2018\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/about\/\">About<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1041 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/baccalaureate-service\/\">Baccalaureate Service 2003<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-1439 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/honorands\/\">Honorands 2003<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2004 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/links\/\">Links<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2020\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/2003-photos\/\">Photos<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"page_item page-item-2265 page_item_has_children\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/annual\/y2003\/student-profiles\/\">Student profiles<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honoring the Class of 2003 Fending off a threatening rain nearly until&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":104,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-363","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3533,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/363\/revisions\/3533"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}