Coming Soon: Commencement Weekend

Another academic year has come and gone, and in a couple weeks Claremont's education mills will be shipping off the 2009 product models into the job market with much attendant fanfare.

We're still very much a company town or, more precisely, a consortium town, so the pace of life in the Claremont Village will slow perceptibly with summer's approach and the departure of the colleges' students.

In the meantime, here is a list of this year's commencement events:

Friday, May 15th

• Baccalaureate Ceremony
  The Claremont Colleges
  3:30pm - 4:30pm
  Garrison Theater
  Scripps College
  231 E. 10th St.
  (909) 621-8685
  
  Speaker: Scripps Alumna Karen Tse,
  
  
  
• Baccalaureate Ceremony
  Claremont School of Theology
  4:30pm
  Kresge Chapel
  Claremont School of Theology
  1325 N. College Ave.
  (909) 447-2552

Saturday, May 16th

• Claremont School of Theology Commencement
  8:30am
  Claremont School of Theology
  Quad
  1325 N. College Avenue
  (909) 447-2552



• Claremont Graduate University Commencement
  10:00am
  Mudd Quadrangle
  Harvey Mudd College
  E. 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave.
  (909) 607-3305
  
  Commencement speaker:
  James P. Carroll, acclaimed author on religion and politics whose writings and novels include four New York Times bestsellers, two New York Times' Notable Books of the Year.
  
  
  
• Pitzer College's 45th Commencement
  10:00am
  Brant Clock Tower Lawn
  Pitzer College
  1050 North Mills Avenue
  (909) 607-2690
  
  Commencement speaker:
  David Feldman, Emmy award winning comedy writer and performer. He has written for ABC's Roseanne, HBO's Dennis Miller Live, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher and Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. He currently writes for Talk Show With Spike Feresten on Fox. David also appears frequently on NBC's Late Night with Conan O'Brien.
  
  
  
• Keck Graduate Institute Commencement
  11:00am
  KGI campus lawn
  Keck Graduate Institute
  535 Watson Dr.
  (909) 607-0135
  
  Commencement speaker:
  Myrtle Potter, President and CEO, Myrtle Potter and Company and Former President and COO of Genentech, Inc.
  



• Claremont McKenna College Commencement
  2:00pm
  Pritzlaff Field
  Claremont McKenna College
  South of 9th St. and Claremont Blvd.
  (909) 621-8117
  
  Commencement Speaker:
  Surin Pitsuwan ’72, Secretary-General of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

Sunday, May 17th

• Pomona College Commencement
  10:00am
  Marston Quad
  Pomona College
  College Ave., between 4th and 6th Streets
  (909) 621-8131
  
  Commencement speakers:
  Bob Herbert, New York Times, Op-Ed columnist, playwright Luis Valdez and Chicago Tribune columnist Mary Schmich '75.
  

• Scripps College Commencement
  10:00am
  Elm Tree Lawn
  Scripps College
  345 E. 9th Street
  On campus lawn - two rows of elm trees
  just north of the Malott Common
  (909) 607-1870
  
  Commencement speaker:
  Gabrielle Giffords, U.S. Representative (D-AZ) and
  Scripps College graduate, class of '93.
  

• Harvey Mudd College Commencement
  1:30pm
  Mudd Quadrangle
  Harvey Mudd College
  E. 10th St. and Dartmouth Ave.
  (909) 607-7924
  
  Commencement speaker:
  Dean Kamen, founder of FIRST, entrepreneur, inventor, physicist, advocate for science and technology.