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Boston College James A. Woods, S.J. College of Advancing Studies Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts Commencement Commencement 2012 Bulletin May 2012 Commencement clearly marks new beginnings. It provides an excellent opportunity to gather as a member of the Boston College community and participate in a ceremony steeped in tradition. Inside: We enthusiastically invite you to celebrate the realization of a long awaited goal in a ceremony especially designed for just that Commencement 2 purpose. Day The following pages detail the ceremony and the tradition of Boston College A Great and 3-4 which you are now a part. Whether you graduate in May, August Commencement Proud Tradition or December, your commencement is in May; a day to be fully May 21, 2012 enjoyed by family, friends, relatives and especially you, The Seal of 4 THE GRADUATE. Boston College Seniors may invite as many guests to attend the Baccalaureate and Graduation ceremonies Graduation 5 as they wish. No tickets are needed. Participants 5 Formal Graduation Announcements Attire 6 Formal graduation announcements are offered on-line only. A link to the announcement was emailed to you. They are not tickets; they merely announce the general commence- Degrees and 7 ment ceremony. They may serve as an announcement of graduation to relatives or friends Honors who will not be attending. The Boston College Bookstore offers personalized announce- ments for purchase. Contact the Bookstore at 617-552-3520 or www.bc.edu/bookstore Special points of Baccalaureate Ceremony interest: Baccalaureate The Baccalaureate Ceremony will be held Sunday, May 20, 2012, at 12:00 noon in Conte Ceremony Forum. Seniors, family and friends are encouraged to participate in this Mass and Sunday, May 20. religious observance. It is a memorable ceremony of thanksgiving and jubilation. Commencement I strongly encourage you and those close to you to attend. Commencement robes Exercises Monday, (no hood) may be worn by those graduating. Immediately following the ceremony there May 21. will be light refreshments available on the O’Neill Library Plaza. Congratulations to the Class of 2012! Commencement Day The following details concerning your In the event of heavy rain, the formal WRKO (650 AM) from 6:30 to 8:30 Commencement on Monday, May 21, Commencement exercises will be held a.m. It will also be recorded on the 2012, at 9:30 a.m. will be helpful to in Conte Forum and will begin at 9:30 Boston College Information Line, you and your guests. The enclosed a.m. Graduates and two of their guests 617-552-INFO. booklet provides additional infor- go directly to Conte Forum; two rain College of Advancing Studies seniors mation. tickets will be included with your com- assemble by 8:15 a.m. in the North Candidates and their guests may use mencement gown for these two guests. side of Conte Forum, Gate C, attired in the parking area on lower campus. Everyone else may watch the general cap and gown, carrying your hood Allow adequate time to access campus exercises over closed circuit television over your left arm. It seems advisable and parking. Upon arrival, guests in the Flynn Recreation Complex. As to note that male candidates will find should go immediately to Alumni at Alumni Stadium, no tickets are nec- the best appearance is effected if a dress Stadium, the scene of the Commence- essary for entrance to Flynn Recreation shirt and dark tie are worn. Women ment exercises. Even in a light rain or Complex. The announcement, if nec- graduates should be aware that decora- drizzle the ceremony will be held there. essary, will be broadcast on the radio tive jewelry or flowers should not be No tickets are required. on stations WBZ (1030 AM) and worn on the academic gown. Procedure to be followed during the exercises Following the academic procession and the graduate student capping. When hood. Males then replace caps when upon reaching your place at Alumni the representative of the College of the recipient does. Turn your tassel Stadium you should be seated until the Advancing Studies goes to the platform when the representative does. All Cardinal’s entrance is announced. You to receive the degree you should stand. should sit when the representative has should then stand. Males should re- As the degree recipient reaches the top returned and is seated. move their caps. You should remain step, all males of the College of Advanc- At the conclusion of the exercises, you standing for the National Anthem and ing Studies should remove their caps should stand for the Benediction and Invocation. Males should replace their and place them on the seat behind males remove their caps. After the caps when the Invocation is concluded. them. Benediction, all should remain stand- You sit after the Cardinal sits. The un- When, after having received the degree, ing for the singing of the Alma Mater. dergraduates capping ceremony is fol- the representative is hooded by the At the end of the Alma Mater, males lowed immediately by the graduate President, you should put on your should replace their caps. representative being called forward for College of Advancing Studies Presentation of Degrees Presentation of degrees to individual Church. There will be a professional the rental company will collect caps and candidates of the College of Advancing photography service available at St. gowns at St. Ignatius; hood and tassel Studies will take place in St. Ignatius Ignatius Church capturing the moment may be retained. Church immediately after the general you receive your degree. You will be university exercises: this will be about contacted by Commencement Photos 11:45 a.m. (In the event of extreme with the opportunity to purchase weather, the College of Advancing prints. The Dean will also be happy to BC Studies’ ceremony will begin at approxi- pose with any graduate immediately 2012! mately 11:30 a.m. in St. Ignatius following the ceremony. Light refresh- Church.) Candidates should arrange to ments will be available to the graduates accompany their guests to St. Ignatius and their guests. A representative from Page 2 Boston College A Great and Proud Tradition As a graduate of the Woods College of second Bishop of Boston. and an admirer of Oxford University, Advancing Studies, you are now a part In the early years of our republic the Father Gasson dreamed of combining of a great and proud tradition. It Roman Catholic population was rela- the excellence of the Jesuit academic should be a source of pride to you for tively small. This changed dramatically tradition with the style of Oxford. It the rest of your life. in the first half of the last was he who selected the Chestnut Hill land that had formerly This tradition dates back to the mid- century, when the potatoes been the Lawrence fami- 1500s in Europe, when the Society of rotted in the ground in ly's farm, enabling Bos- Jesus was founded and began its work Ireland. A horrendous fam- ton College to move to of education. It was not long at all ine devastated the popula- the stunning landscape before the Jesuit's students included tion. Many who were some- now known as the some of the brightest and most promis- how able to survive sailed Heights. The beautiful ing young people of the time. Long across the Atlantic to the Gothic towers of the before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, United States and Canada. original three buildings -- for example, the Jesuits were operating This was no mere trickle, Gasson Hall, the Bapst academic institutions all over Europe but a flood of the dispos- Library, and Saint Mary's and in Latin America as well. Among sessed. By the mid-1880’s Commencement 2012 Hall -- are due mainly to the students were members of royalty Boston had become a prin- Father Gasson's desire to and the clergy, and also young men ciple gateway into America create a new Oxford in from more ordinary backgrounds, for the Irish. Father John McElroy, America. There is hardly a visitor to many of whom were to become intellec- S.J., who had as the first official Catho- our campus who does not come away tual and social leaders. But the Jesuits lic chaplain of the United States Army, impressed and inspired by the physical were not only excellent teachers and determined that success for these new beauty of Boston College, which is only pioneering scientists; many of them immigrants depended on access to further enhanced by our newer campus became missionaries who courageously higher education of the finest quality. construction. entered, explored, charted, and won to Father McElroy raised money and Christ previously unknown parts of bought land for a new college in the The roots of the Woods College of Africa, the New World, and the Orient. South End of Boston. Boston College Advancing Studies go back to the 19th was chartered by the Commonwealth of century, to what was known as the The first Jesuits to come to this part of Massachusetts in 1863. Young Men's Catholic Association of North America were French. Their Boston College. Father Robert Fulton, task was to educate both the white set- The first president of the new college S.J., realized attending college full-time tlers and the Indians of New France, or was Father John Bapst, S.J., a native of was an unaffordable luxury for most what we now know as Canada. Much Switzerland and a person who had pre- immigrant children. Evening courses of the West was opened and mapped viously shown uncommon courage in represented the best opportunity for for the first time by Jesuits, who were missionary work among the Indians ambitious individuals to prepare for also the first white persons to travel the and white settlers of rural Maine.