Claremont Insider: Commencement Weekend

Tuesday, May 8, 2007

Commencement Weekend

Another year has come to an end at the Claremont Colleges. Good luck to all the graduates!

Here is a list of commencement events:

Saturday, May 12th

  • CGU's 80th Commencement Exercises
    10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    Mudd Quadrangle at 10th St. and Dartmouth
    CGU
    (909) 607-3305

    Commencement speaker:
    Richard Atkinson,
    President of the University, emeritus, University of California


  • Claremont McKenna College Commencement
    2:00 PM
    Pritzlaff Field
    Claremont McKenna College
    South of Ninth Street and Claremont Boulevard
    (909) 607-9099

    Commencement speaker:
    Antonio R. Villaraigosa, Mayor of Los Angeles


Sunday, May 13th

  • The Interfaith Baccalaureate Service
    For graduates and families
    10:30 AM
    Garrison Theater
    Scripps College
    231 E. 10th Street
    (909) 621-8685

    Speaker: Rabbi Patricia Karlin-Neumann,
    Senior Associate Dean for Religious Life, Stanford University


  • Keck Graduate Institute Commencement
    11:00 AM
    East Lawn
    Keck Graduate Institute
    535 Watson Drive
    (909) 607-0389

    Keynote speaker:
    Dr. Stanley B. Prusiner, winner of the Nobel Prize in medicine


  • Pitzer College Commencement
    1:00 - 3:30 PM
    Bryant Tower Clock Lawn
    Pitzer College
    (909) 621-8219

    Commencement speaker:
    Journalist Eric Schlosser


  • Harvey Mudd College Commencement
    1:30 PM
    Mudd Quadrangle
    Harvey Mudd CollegeEast
    Tenth Street and Dartmouth Avenue
    (909) 607-7924

    Commencement speaker:
    Mae C. Jemison


  • Pomona College Commencement
    2:30 PM
    Marston Quad
    Pomona College
    College Avenue, between 4th and 6th Streets
    (909) 621-8131

    Keynote speaker:
    U.S. Senator Bob Graham (D-Florida)


  • Scripps College Commencement
    3:00 PM
    Elm Tree Lawn
    Scripps College
    345 E. 9th Street
    On campus lawn - two rows of elm trees just north of the Malott Commons
    (909) 621-8187

    Commencement speaker:
    Karen Tse, international human rights attorney