Harvard Commencement 2001 photo gallery
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During the calm before the storm, a worker sets up signs to direct graduates to their house seats.
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Behind University Hall, Alexandre Houck ’87 (left) and Latonya Wright ’00, contribute a clashing of cymbals to the joyful caophony.
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A graduate student takes a glimpse at what’s in store “out there”
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Lenora Rojas listens to Commencement speakers while balancing her daughter Lucia on her lap
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Emilou MacLean of the School of Public Health has her hands full with an oversize globe at the conclusion of morning ceremonies
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Commencement speaker Robert Rubin makes finishing touches to his speech on the steps of Widener Library.
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President Neil L. Rudenstine gives a round of applause.
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Two members of the class of 2001 jump from the Weeks Foot Bridge into the Charles River, a Commencement Morning tradition.
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Ian Tzeng (Class of ’98) writes a congratulatory letter to a friend while waiting in the early morning line to enter Harvard Yard.
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John Thomasson, also known as “Frisbay,” leads a group of seniors from Dudley House up to breakfast.
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Singing “My Country, ‘Tis of Thee,” at Morning services are, from left, Oliver Luisi, Dana Sprong, Roger Backes, and Rick Butters of Adams House
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Tina Hsiao (left) and Yen Liow of the Business School photograph the crowd from the stage before the Morning Exercises.
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Commencement speaker Robert Rubin, left, speaks with President Elect Lawrence H. Summers, center, and Professor Michael Porter from the Harvard Business School prior to commencement excercises.
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Commencement speaker Robert Rubin, left, chats with President Neil L.Rudenstine outside Mass. Hall before the processional into Tercentenary Theatre
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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Chief Justice Margaret Marshall chats with Professor Emeritus Elliot Forbes.
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Jaissa Feliz ’12 (left) meets with President Drew Faust, during the president’s trip to São Paulo, Brazil. Feliz is studying in Brazil.
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Marshal’s Aide Daniel Sanks helps clear the aisles for the processional.
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Students line up in front of widener library in preparation for the processional.
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President Drew Faust looks at a painting called “Mestico, 1934” by Candido Portinar in the Pinacoteca Museum.
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Kyle Freeny rests briefly on the shoulder of her friend and housemate Christine Chavez.
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A Class Marshall closes his eyes to concentrate on the Latin Oration.
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Middlesex County Sheriff James V. DiPaola presented former Vice President Al Gore and wife Tipper with a proclamation honoring Sarah Gore for her graduation. Gore and DiPaola are old friends.
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President Drew Faust visited the main building of the Pinacoteca de São Paulo, where curators guided her on a brief tour of major works from the museum’s collections.
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During her visit to São Paulo, Brazil, President Faust made a stop in the Mercado Municipal Market.
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Harvard graduate Joanne Peart holds her young cousin Yannic Williams, age 2, both of New York, as they celebrate after the morning ceremonies.
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Ruhul Abid will receive the American Heart Association’s 2011 Werner Risau New Investigator Award in Vascular Biology on April 29 in Chicago for his groundbreaking work.
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William Shurcliff ’30 and his wife Joan observe the crowds.
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Nahoko Harada (from left), Kohei Hasegawa, Takashi Shiga, city resident (and kitchen organizer) Shota Miura, and N. Stuart Harris stand outside the Kesennuma middle school that housed an ad-hoc emergency clinic.
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A wrecked fishing vessel, swept inland by the tsunami, perches on a roadway on a sea-level peninsula in Kesennuma. Before the disaster this fishing center was the shark fin capital of Japan.
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Jack Gardner ’45 (left), Joseph Minott ’45 (center), and Bill Barron ’45 listen to Robert Rubin during the Afternoon Exercises.
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Neil Rudenstine and Lawrence Summers chat after the Afternoon Exercises
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John Filios, of the Bedford Minuteman Company, Bedford, MA leadsstudents into the Memorial Church for a senior class chapel service.
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Graduating students form an expectant gauntlet through which a parade of dignitaries will soon pass.
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The gymnasium of a middle school in Kesennuma, where 500 residents made homeless by the tsunami bedded down every night. The school nurse’s office was the site of a temporary emergency room and clinic.
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Paul Smith, supervisor of landscape services and facilities maintenance operations, rings the Memorial Church bell during Morning Exercises. He is flanked by landscaper Bernie Toland (left) and horticulturalist John Caroll.
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Jen Lee (left), Haley Joel, (center) and Melissa Crandall (right) wear smiley balloons on their mortar boards, “so our parents can see us.”
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In the Buddhist temple in Kesennuma — a temporary hospital after the disaster — an elderly man lies down, suffering without his medications. To the far left is Harvard-affiliated emergency physician Takashi Shiga. To the far right is Japanese-born nurse practitioner Nahoko Harada, a pre-doctoral fellow at Boston College.
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Mud, trash, and wrecked houses were swept a mile inland by the tsunami that struck Kesennuma and a swath of coastal Japan. Nearby, a Buddhist temple stood untouched. It was on land a mere foot higher in elevation.