St. Bonaventure Graduation Sunday
St. Bonaventure University wraps up its 150th anniversary celebration this weekend with its 149th Commencement Exercises.
Commencement activities begin at 8:45 p.m. Friday, May 15, with the traditional Candlelight Ceremony for graduating seniors on the steps of Plassmann Hall; the rain site is the Richter Center.
The ROTC Military Science Commissioning Ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, in the Rigas Theater of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. That will be followed at 11:30 a.m. with the invitation-only Honors and Awards Ceremony in the Reilly Center Arena; a reception follows at Hickey Dining Hall.
Fr. Dan Riley, O.F.M., honored May 1 with the university’s Gaudete Medal, will be the homilist at the Baccalaureate Mass at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16.
Graduation ceremonies begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 17, with the processional starting at 10:08 a.m. Seniors and graduate students will wear 150th anniversary medallions specially made for the university’s sesquicentennial.
Buffalo native Wolf Blitzer, a CNN reporter since 1990 and anchor since 1998, will be the keynote speaker when the class of 2009 graduates. Blitzer is the anchor of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” a three-hour weekday political news program.
John B. “Jack” Butler, SBU class of 1951 and an all-pro defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1950s; and Marcia Marcus Kelly, a niece of renowned Olean poet Robert Lax and a champion of spiritual and environmental causes, will, along with Blitzer, receive honorary doctorates of humane letters.
Commencement activities begin at 8:45 p.m. Friday, May 15, with the traditional Candlelight Ceremony for graduating seniors on the steps of Plassmann Hall; the rain site is the Richter Center.
The ROTC Military Science Commissioning Ceremony will be held at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, in the Rigas Theater of the Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts. That will be followed at 11:30 a.m. with the invitation-only Honors and Awards Ceremony in the Reilly Center Arena; a reception follows at Hickey Dining Hall.
Fr. Dan Riley, O.F.M., honored May 1 with the university’s Gaudete Medal, will be the homilist at the Baccalaureate Mass at 4:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16.
Graduation ceremonies begin at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 17, with the processional starting at 10:08 a.m. Seniors and graduate students will wear 150th anniversary medallions specially made for the university’s sesquicentennial.
Buffalo native Wolf Blitzer, a CNN reporter since 1990 and anchor since 1998, will be the keynote speaker when the class of 2009 graduates. Blitzer is the anchor of CNN’s “The Situation Room,” a three-hour weekday political news program.
John B. “Jack” Butler, SBU class of 1951 and an all-pro defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers in the 1950s; and Marcia Marcus Kelly, a niece of renowned Olean poet Robert Lax and a champion of spiritual and environmental causes, will, along with Blitzer, receive honorary doctorates of humane letters.
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