PARTICIPANTS (IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE) Chris Lundell Gendo Allyn Field Organist Zen Practice Group Let There Be Peace on Earth Khalil Abdullah Rabbi Daveen H. Litwin Muslim Advisor to Al-Nur; Dean and Chaplain Text: Sy Miller, Jill Jackson, Jan-Lee Music DARTMOUTH COLLEGE Multifaith Advisor, Tucker Center William Jewett Tucker Center Father Brendan Murphy Sunpreet Singh ’20 Acc. by Diana Kodner Aquinas House Catholic Student Center Sikh student events and educational programs; CELEBRATING THE MOMENT: Student Director for Major Events, Tucker Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me. Rabbi Moshe Gray Center Chabad Let there be peace on earth, the peace that was meant to be. Dartmouth College Gospel Choir DARTMOUTH 2020 Rev. Amanda Lape-Freeberg Walter L. Cunningham, Jr. With love for one another, family all are we. Alpha Omega Student Group Director of Popular Ensembles Let us walk with each other in perfect harmony. The Rev. Dr. Guy Collins Mary Versa Clemens-Sewall ’20 Episcopal Campus Ministry Lutheran Campus Ministry; Episcopal Campus Ministry at Edgerton House; Student Let peace begin with me, let this be the moment now. Professor Prasad Jayanti Assistant for Alternative Spring Break, Shanti-Hindu Student Group Tucker Center With every step I take, let this be my solemn vow; Minh Phan Gabriel A. Zuckerberg ’20 To take each moment and live each moment in peace eternally! Alabaster Roth Center for Jewish Life; Student Let there be peace on earth, and let it begin with me. Mindfulness Group; Student Leader for Kent and Denise Dahlberg Alternative Spring Break, Tucker Center Integrare Kathryn J. Lively Rev. Kyle Seibert Dean of the College Dartmouth College Gospel Choir Members Lutheran Campus Ministry Michael Mina ’06, MD, Ph.D. Deacon Ambrose Powell Keynote Speaker Barbara Abraham Ben Kulp Orthodox Christian Fellowship Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Vi Alvord ’20 Lyric Lawson-Parks Rev. Rob Grabill Health; Center for Communicable Disease Racquel Bernard ’13 Cecilia Lopez ’20 Alpha Omega Student Group Dynamics, Core Member Marjie Bish Catie McCarthy ’23 Sang Wook Nam Saba N. Maheen ’20 Marica Cassidy Natalia McLaren ’20 Agape and Logos Al-Nur Muslim Student Association; Student Photographer, Tucker Center Summer Cody ’20 Chad Piersma ’13 Meg Costantini Aquinas House Catholic Student Center Walt Cunningham Bryan Robinson ’16 Ellie Danisch Matt Sawicki ’20 ABOUT THE SERVICE John Ejiogu ’23 Laurel Semprebo ’22 The Baccalaureate Service, conducted under the auspices of the William Jewett Victor Garcia Mary Ann Stanford Tucker Center for Spiritual and Ethical Life, is a formal component of the College’s Stephanie Goldsmith Diana Vizza ’20 annual Commencement celebrations. Centered in Rollins Chapel, the inclusive, Eric Hoffman Rachael Williams ’15 contemplative and joyful service is open to graduates, their families and guests, and David Horak Amari Young ’21 other members of the College community. Paul Horak Andrew Zelm Toni Hover Michael Zsoldos The Baccalaureate Service provides a reflective spiritual experience at this significant time of transition in the lives of graduates and their families. Recognizing the tapestry of faith, philosophical, and spiritual paths that are woven into the College’s contemporary life, the service reflects many different lenses and voices of the Dartmouth student journey. THE BACCALAUREATE SERVICE Music, prayers, readings, and other contributions to the service represent the breadth of questions and meaningful connections cultivated through study, dialogue, and practice. Campus religious and spiritual leaders who work with student groups begin the service with words of prayer and blessing. For more information about the Tucker Center, please visit our website: https://students.dartmouth.edu/tucker/ or email us at Tucker.Center@Dartmouth. edu VIRTUAL CEREMONY SACRED TEXTS BACCALAUREATE SPEAKER JUNE 14, 2020 10:30 A.M. Michael Mina ’06, “It is very difficult to serve the True Guru. Surrender your head; MD, Ph.D. give up your selfishness. Realizing the Shabad, one meets with the Lord, and all one’s service is accepted.” Assistant Professor of Epidemiology ORDER OF SERVICE Shri Guru Granth Sahib, page 27 and of Immunology & Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health; Prelude Musical Selection “But Ruth replied, ‘Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from Chris Lundell ‘Til We Meet Again you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your Clinical Pathologist, Brigham and Jeral Gray Sr., Writer Women’s Hospital/Harvard Medical Blessings from United Performed by the Dartmouth people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I Campus Ministers College Gospel Choir will die, and there I will be buried.’” School Ruth, 1:16-17 (NIV) Welcome Introduction of Speaker Michael is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and of Immunology & Rabbi Daveen H. Litwin Kathryn J. Lively Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health and is Dean and Chaplain Dean of the College “One who sees multitudes of Israel recites: Blessed are You, a clinical pathologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard William Jewett Tucker Center Adonai our God, Ruler of the Universe, Who knows all secrets. Medical School, where he oversees molecular virology diagnostics. He is Address Why is this? God sees a whole nation whose minds are unlike each an Associate Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard where Student Reflections Michael Mina ’06, MD, PhD other and whose faces are unlike each other, and God, Who knows Sunpreet Singh ’20 The Benefits of Existing in a Time of he has helped to develop one of the nation’s highest throughput testing all secrets, knows what is in each of their hearts.” facilities for COVID-19, which tests samples from across New England. Great Uncertainty Brokhes, Chapter 58a Musical Selection His Eye is On the Sparrow Musical Selection At Dartmouth, Michael earned his AB as a Senior Fellow studying mostly Civilla D. Martin, Lyricist I Survived It at Thayer School of Engineering and in biological sciences. In his junior Charles H. Gabriel, Composer Ricky Dillard, Writer year he moved to Sri Lanka with the support of Tucker to gain experience Arrangement by Walter L. Cunningham, Jr., Walt Whitman Lyric Revisions in a Sri Lankan medical clinic and also to experience living in a Buddhist Performed by The Dartmouth Performed by the Dartmouth “Say: Travel through the earth and observe how He began country. His time there led to a newfound practice of meditation for him College Gospel Choir College Gospel Choir creation.” which eventually led to ordination as a Buddhist monk. Surah Al-’Ankabut [29:20] - Al-Qur’an al-Kareem Student Reflections Student Reflection After Dartmouth, he completed his MD and Ph.D. degrees in the NIH Mary Versa Clemens-Sewall ’20 Saba N. Maheen ’20 Medical Scientist Training Program at Emory University and post- Gabriel A. Zuckerberg ’20 doctoral work at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School and Blessings from United residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School. In Memoriam and Silent Campus Ministers Remembrance Kathryn J. Lively Postlude As a part of his research and through a not-for-profit that he ran for eight Dean of the College years, Michael has spent numerous years abroad in a range of capacities, all related to public health and research towards the same aims. Recently, his research has taken a turn towards understanding the epidemiology and immunology relating to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) and he has been a nationally recognized scientist in In Memoriam the media and advising state, national and international governments, Kyle Janeczek, Geisel School of Medicine ’20 agencies, and financial institutions throughout the epidemic. .