The Harvard Gazette

Commencement 2012

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You’re all right, lefty

Baseball player serves up pitches, and off the field pitches service

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DateMay 24, 2012June 19, 2019

The fruits of Charles W. Collier’s labor are visible everywhere on campus. Collier, M.T.S. ’73, will receive an HAA 2012 Harvard Medal in honor of his service. Ellen R. and Melvin J. Gordon, Harry L. Parker, and Susan S. Wallach are among the other medal recipients.

HAA announces Harvard Medalists

President Faust to present medals during the Afternoon Program

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DateMay 24, 2012July 26, 2019

To win the Centennial Medal in his 100th year seems just right for a man who “literally embodies the American studies century,” says Professor Werner Sollors of his longtime friend and colleague, the literary historian Daniel Aaron, Ph.D. ’43 (pictured), and the Victor S. Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Emeritus at Harvard University.

GSAS honors its leading alumni

Centennial Medal recognizes lasting impact, vital contributions

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DateMay 24, 2012September 11, 2019

Doctor of Laws recipient Fareed Zakaria is one of the best-known and well-respected journalists of our time. In a career that has included prominent roles at Newsweek, Time, CNN, and The Washington Post, Zakaria has interviewed world leaders ranging from Barack Obama to the Dalai Lama, from Moammar Gadhafi to former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. He has tackled issues including globalization, the Middle East, international relations, and America’s role in the world.

Eight receive honorary degrees

Recipients recognized by Harvard for their outstanding contributions

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DateMay 24, 2012July 24, 2019

O, hear the bells

Commencement marks a special tradition featuring the sweet sounds of Cambridge's bells

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DateMay 24, 2012March 20, 2019

Class Day speaker and comedian Andy Samberg's presentation included spot-on impersonations of celebrities such as Nicolas Cage and Mark Wahlberg. His “message” to the graduating class included: “So, you guys are graduating. I think that’s great. We should do a film together. What do you think? You guys are super smart, right?”

A Class Day doubleheader

Samberg, Frank address graduates with wit, wisdom, and warmth

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DateMay 23, 2012July 19, 2019

“I’m giving a speech in Latin!” said this year's Latin orator Michael Velchik, incredulous at the suggestion that he might be nervous. “If I mess up, who would know?” Photo by Jon Chase/Harvard Staff Photographer

In full regalia, and ready to regale

Three student orators carry on Harvard tradition at Morning Exercises

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DateMay 23, 2012July 19, 2019

“Harvard means a great deal to me, and I’m grateful for this opportunity to help guide its future,” said Paul J. Finnegan, A.B. ’75, M.B.A. ’82. Finnegan’s appointment, effective July 1, 2012, comes as the Corporation continues its gradual expansion from seven to 13 members, following changes approved by the governing boards in December 2010. With Finnegan’s addition, the Corporation will have grown to 11 members in all, with the expectation of adding two additional fellows in the time ahead.

Finnegan elected to Corporation

Overseer set to become the newest member of governing board

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DateMay 23, 2012June 26, 2019

Victoria Migdal (from left), Nicole Unis, Evan Roth, and Isaiah Peterson during the administering of the oath at today's commissioning ceremony in Tercentenary Theatre.

Stepping up

Challenges, adventure ahead for new officers in long line of Harvard service members

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DateMay 23, 2012October 6, 2016

“From the day you arrived on campus nearly four years ago, events conspired to make you an extraordinary group,” President Drew Faust told a group of graduating seniors in her Baccalaureate Address. The Baccalaureate Service is one of Harvard’s oldest traditions, held on and off since 1642.

Lessons for the lucky few

At Baccalaureate, Faust challenges seniors to make good on their good fortune

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DateMay 22, 2012

Former Harvard president Derek Bok greets current president Drew Faust at the Phi Beta Kappa Exercises inside Sanders Theatre. Two-time Poet Laureate of the United States and 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner Kay Ryan (not pictured) read 12 poems at the ceremony.

Sharp messages

Poetic lessons and a call to action at Phi Beta Kappa Literary Exercises

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DateMay 22, 2012April 22, 2019

In front of a festive Widener Library 70 years ago, alumni from a 19th-century class file past Harvard President James B. Conant, 1942 Commencement dignitaries, and members of the University's governing boards. "The chain of graduated classes," said Conant in his June 7, 1942 Baccalaureate sermon, "now spans exactly 300 years."

Commencements, from 1642 onward

In 1642, there were just nine graduates, and in other years even fewer

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DateMay 22, 2012

Jessica Bloomgarden, Tiffany Niver, Andrew Rosenthal, and Daniel Rumennik (pictured) are this year's Dean's Award winners at Harvard Business School. Bloomgarden, Rosenthal, and Rumennik were among the founders of Startup Tribe, an ad hoc group of HBS students who met weekly to brainstorm ideas, offer support, and pick the brains of local venture capitalists, serial entrepreneurs, and others on the tactical aspects of starting a business.

Four from HBS win Dean’s Award

Students honored for service to the School, society

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DateMay 22, 2012

Harvard student, Mexican politician

When Aguilar returns home, she’ll ramp up congressional campaign

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DateMay 18, 2012June 19, 2019

Matt Aucoin '12 has been engulfed in an intense love affair with music since the age of 6. While at Harvard, Aucoin blazed his own artistic trail. An English concentrator, he wrote and directed two operas, including “Hart Crane,” and served as poetry editor of The Harvard Advocate, even winning a Thomas T. Hoopes Prize for his poetry thesis, "Aftermusic."

A maestro and a wordsmith

Aucoin immersed himself in Harvard’s rich worlds of poetry and music

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DateMay 17, 2012July 22, 2019

“My experience playing for Harvard will stay with me for the rest of my life,” said basketball star Keith Wright '12. “I was part of the team that took Harvard to the NCAA tournament for the first time in 60 years. I was the captain of the best team in Harvard history, the one that won its first Ivy League title. It was a great honor that I won’t forget.”

The right place, the Wright time

Basketball forward helped team win first Ivy title, reach NCAAs

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DateMay 17, 2012June 14, 2019

“The Senior Class Committee is thrilled to bring both Andy Samberg [left] and Congressman Barney Frank [right] to this year’s Class Day ceremony,” said Matt DaSilva, chair of the Class Day subcommittee of the Senior Class Committee.

Class Day speakers cover comedy, politics

Andy Samberg and Barney Frank to speak at Harvard Class Day

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DateMay 3, 2012July 25, 2019

Harvard’s 361st Commencement

Important information for May 24 ceremonies

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DateApril 24, 2012

“Harvard has been truly foundational for me and is a thread in everything I do,” said Raphael Bostic, who is assistant secretary for policy development and research for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Raphael Bostic named chief marshal

Will greet classes as they process at Harvard's 361st Commencement

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DateApril 17, 2012April 23, 2019

Harvard’s 361st Commencement

Thursday, May 24, 2012

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DateMarch 8, 2012

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