{"id":65777,"date":"2013-05-29T12:49:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=65777"},"modified":"2025-02-14T14:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T19:00:25","slug":"slide-show-commencement-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2013\/05\/29\/slide-show-commencement-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Multimedia: Commencement Weekend 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to complete multimedia coverage of Commencement Weekend 2013 at Bates College, including full video of the Commencement ceremony on May 26.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 600px;\" width=\"600\" \/>\n<h2><strong>Commencement and Baccalaureate Video Scenes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Video scenes from Baccalaureate (May 25) and Commencement (May 26). Mike Bradley\/Bates College.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Baccalaureate and Commencement 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67450414?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 600px;\" width=\"600\" \/>\n<h2><strong><strong>Commencement Slide Show<\/strong> <\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Images from Commencement 2013 (May 26). Phyllis Graber Jensen\/Bates College.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Commencement 2013\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67223099?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Commencement Tumblr<\/h2>\n<p>For more video and photographs from senior week, see <a href=\"http:\/\/batesnews.tumblr.com\/\">Bates Commencement Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Complete Commencement Video<\/h2>\n<p>Scroll down to see a selection of nine high definition video clips from Commencement 2013 on May 26.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Commencement Processional<\/h3>\n<p>The processional is led by Mace Bearer and Professor of Sociology Sawyer Frederick Sylvester<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"1. Commencement 2013. Procession.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67012413?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>2. President&#8217;s Welcome<\/h3>\n<p>President A. Clayton Spencer welcomes the gathering: &#8220;This is the moment we gather as a community to celebrate the accomplishments and aspirations of the Class of 2013, when they let us dream with them about what they will do and who they will become.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"2. Commencement 2013. President&#039;s Welcome.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67012569?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>3. Senior Address<\/h3>\n<p>As he did for his friends in the days before Commencement, Thomas James Holmberg III offers a love letter to Bates.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3. Commencement 2013. Senior Address\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67012846?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>4. Presentation of Honorands<\/h3>\n<p>President Spencer welcomes &#8220;four extraordinary individuals with whom our graduates will share the distinction of a Bates degree&#8221;: William Cronon, Elaine Tuttle Hansen, Gary Hirshberg and Vivian Pinn.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"4. Commencement 2013. Presentation of Honorary Degrees.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67014015?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>5. Commencement Address<\/h3>\n<p>Gary Hirshberg, co-founder and chairman of Stonyfield Farm Organic Yogurt, tells the graduates: &#8220;The bottom line is that many of the so-called experts have been wrong and now need to be second-guessed. And that is actually your job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"5. Commencement 2013. Commencement Address.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67015375?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>6. Presentation of the Candidates for Degrees and Conferral of Degrees<\/h3>\n<p>Bachelor\u2019s degrees are presented to 436 students: 234 women and 202 men, including 39 from Maine, 178 from the other five New England states, 171 from 28 other U.S. states, and 48 international students from 29 countries.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"6. Commencement 2013. Conferral of Degrees.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67018827?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>7. Alumni Association Welcome and Presentation of Senior Gift<\/h3>\n<p>Alumni Association President Jennifer Lemkin Bouchard &#8217;99 welcomes the new alumni: &#8220;For the rest of your lives, you and your classmates will be members of a community of 24,000 proud Bates alumni.&#8221; And, the Class of 2013 Senior Gift totals nearly $18,000 with a 92 percent participation.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"7. Commencement 2013. Alumni Association Welcome &amp; Presentation of Senior Gift.\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/67016908?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>8. Benediction<\/h3>\n<p>The Rev. William E. Blaine-Wallace urges the graduates to shun complacency and stay in touch with the inner voices that urge something better.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"8. Commencement 2013. 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