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Page 1: The Commencement Exercises of the Academic Year 2015–2016

The Commencement Exercisesof the Academic Year

2015–2016

Dickinson College

Sunday, May 22, 2016Ten O’clock

On the John Dickinson Campus at Old West

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Those attending the Commencement exercises are asked not to smoke.Restrooms are located in Althouse Hall (handicapped access), Bosler Hall, the lobby of the Holland Union Building and the Stern Center (handicapped access). A first-aid station will be located between Old West and Althouse Hall

throughout the Commencement exercises.

The Commencement ceremony may be viewed at any time by live broadcast at the following locations: Althouse 106, Stern Great Room, Stern 102, Bosler Atrium, Bosler 208, Weiss 235, the Quarry and the HUB monitors,

including Union Station. In the event of inclement weather, additional indoor viewing locations at the following locations: Anita Tuvin Schlechter Auditorium, Rector: Stafford Auditorium, Allison Hall Great Room and Dana 110.

The ceremony will be available for viewing via live-stream on the Dickinson website at www.dickinson.edu/commencement.

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T he first Dickinson College Commencement exercises were held

in the Presbyterian church on the town square, and the occasion

was something of a public holiday. Professors and students marched

in procession, first from the college buildings in Liberty Alley and

then from our present campus. Each graduate gave proof of his

learning by delivering an address in Latin or English, a practice that

continued through most of the 19th century. In later years, music

was introduced as a restorative between orations, and as the number

of graduates increased, the final oratory was reduced to one guest

speaker, rewarded with an honorary doctorate.

The details of the Commencement procession at Dickinson have

varied, but the order has been preserved. Throughout much of the

latter half of the 19th century, Trustee William Ryland Woodward,

class of 1838, led the processions, followed by the head janitor, who

wore a tall silk hat and carried the diplomas on a silver tray. In 1897

board member Horatio Collins King, class of 1858, was named the

first marshal of the college. He led almost all of the processions

during the next two decades, holding up a small wooden baton as an

ensign of his authority. In the years since, 10 members of the faculty

have carried the same baton while officiating as marshal.

In 1950, a more imposing symbol, the college mace, was fashioned

by Mary O. Abbott. Carved in cherry and black walnut and sur-

mounted by a bronze mermaid, the mace bears the seal of the college

and bas-relief portraits of John Dickinson, Benjamin Rush and

Charles Nisbet. Two rings and the finial on the shaft were carved

from the stump of the walnut tree that grew where Denny Hall

now stands and beneath which, according to tradition, George

Washington stood as his army passed in review in 1794. Introduction

of the mace into college ceremonies led to the selection of other

professors to serve as mace bearer.

The order of procession is now the marshal, the mace bearer,

faculty, administrators, the graduating class and the presidential

party, which includes trustees and special guests.

The gowns worn by participants hearken back to the monastic

robes of the Middle Ages. The hood—worn by clergy and students

for warmth in drafty halls—was retained in specialized cases, such

as academic distinction. In the United States, an intercollegiate

commission in 1893 adopted a uniform code requiring bachelors’

and masters’ gowns to be made of cotton poplin or similar material,

while silk or rayon is used for doctoral robes. Bachelors’ gowns have

pointed, open sleeves hanging to the knee, and masters’ gowns have

closed sleeves, with the arm brought through a slit at the elbow.

Doctors’ gowns have velvet facings down the front and full, bell-

shaped sleeves, each trimmed with three bars of velvet. The black

mortarboard cap is standard in the United States; doctors may wear

a gold tassel, but all others wear black.

The hood is lined with silk in the official colors of the institution

that granted the highest degree held by the wearer, while the color of

the velvet border indicates the field of study within which the degree

was awarded. Some of the latter designations are as follows: white,

arts and letters; scarlet, divinity; purple, laws; golden yellow, science;

dark blue, philosophy; light blue, education; brown, fine arts; pink,

music; green, medicine; orange, engineering. With the duplication of

college colors, some universities have authorized the use of an entire

robe of a distinctive color, and others place an insignia on each side

of the front.

Clerical gowns were worn by the earliest faculty but disappeared

early in the 19th century. Curiously, students at Dickinson adopted

the academic robes at Commencement before faculty, who did not

appear in gown and hood until the procession of 1904. Previous

generations of graduating seniors were distinguished only by their

affiliation with one of the literary societies—the red rose of Belles

Lettres or the white rose of Union Philosophical. During today’s

ceremony, graduating seniors who studied abroad during their

Dickinson careers wear the flags of their host countries on their

academic gowns.

In the college’s early days, a Latin ritual was included in the

Commencement ceremony, beginning with an inquiry by the

president to the trustees: “Placetne vobis, viri admodum generosi, ut

juvenes, qui cursum suum in hoece collegio nuper peregerunt, ad

baccalaureatus in artibus gradum nunc admittantur?” To this one

trustee solemnly answered for all: “Placet.” The president completed

the ceremony with words similar to those used now in English. The

early diplomas also were in Latin and bore the signatures not only

of the president but of every professor under whom the candidate

had studied.

The first Dickinson honorary degree was an M.A. awarded to

Nathaniel Randolph Snowden in 1790. Through most of the 19th

century, masters’ diplomas were awarded to all alumni who, three

years after graduation, had given some evidence of being established

in life—a sort of confirmation of the first award. (Once a generally

accepted practice in American colleges, this no longer prevails.) The

earliest honorary doctorates, awarded in 1792, were in divinity.

Distinguished alumni have been so honored from an early date,

including Roger Brooke Taney, LL.D., 1831; James Buchanan, LL.D.,

1842; Spencer Fullerton Baird, D.P.S., 1856; Moncure Daniel Conway,

L.H.D., 1892; and Zatae Longsdorff Straw, Sc.D., 1937.

The Commencement Exercises

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Prelude

Fanfare ....................................................Antonio Soler (1729-1783), arr. Oliver

The President’s March ............................. Philip Phile (c. 1734-1793), arr. Fetter

“Gaudeamus Igitur” ..........................................................................Anonymous

Prelude to Te Deum ....................Gustave Charpentier (1860-1956), arr. Picher

Liberty Song........................................... William Boyce (1711-1779), arr. Pound

General Burgoyne’s March .............................................................. Bellamy Band

Ronde ............................................Tilman Susato (c. 1500-c. 1561), trans. King

Fanfare and Hymn

on “Dickinson College” .............................................. Robert Pound (b. 1970)

Processional

Fanfare ........................................................................Walter Piston (1894-1976)

Pomp and Circumstance

Military March no. 1 ..............................Edward Elgar (1857-1934), arr. Gale

Procession of the Nobles ......... Nicolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908), arr. Snell

Washington’s March .................................James Hewitt (1770-1827), arr. Fetter

Coronation March .............. Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893), arr. Gamble

Triumphal March .................................. Hector Berlioz (1803-1869), arr. Olson

Trumpet Voluntary ........................... Henry Purcell (1659-1695), trans. Corley

Recessional

Fanfare & Chorus ....................... Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707), trans. King

Psalm XIX ....................................................... Benedetto Marcello (1686-1739)

Finale ..................................Georg Friedric Händel (1685-1759), arr. Holcombe

from Water Music Suite in D Major

La Rejouissance ..................... Georg Friedric Händel (1685-1759), arr. Thomas

from Music for the Royal Fireworks

Overture ................................ Georg Friedric Händel (1685-1759), arr. Thomas

from Music for the Royal Fireworks

Earl of Oxford’s March ...............................................William Byrd (1543-1623)

Conductor: Robert Pound

Trumpet: Steven Marx, William Stowman, Vanessa Shenk, Priscilla King

Horn: Julia Balseiro, Mike Harcrow

Trombone: Greg Strohman, Mike Clayville

Tuba: Eric Henry, Matthew Gatti

Percussion: Denny Daugherty, Mike Snyder

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*The ProcessionalLed by

Charles F. Zwemer Marshal, Associate Professor of Biology

Stephen Weinberger Mace Bearer, Robert Coleman Professor of History

Alumni, representing all Dickinsonians from the decades of the 1950s and beyond, will be standing along the main walkway during the processional.

Associate Professor Emeritus Wilbur Gobrecht ’52, P’84, P’87 Holly McLaughlin Tiley ’84 Mrs. Marcia Barndt Gobrecht ’59, P’84, P’87 Colleen Thompson Shannon ’93Raymond Paul Murphy ’64 Kevin M. Shannon ’93Charles D. Ulmer ’65 Jessica Howard ’01David R. Haag ’73 Danielle Steely Bornstein ’05Joseph P. Winberry Jr. ’79 Mary Chobanian Aguirre ’12F. Edward Geiger III ’81 Anna McGinn ’14

The Remarks of the President of the College

Nancy A. RosemanPresident and Professor of Biology

The Phi Beta Kappa Recognition

Tara Vasold Fischer ’02Secretary, Alpha Chapter of PennsylvaniaAssociate Dean of Academic Advising and College Dean

The Presentation of Awards and Prizes

The Constance and Rose Ganoe Memorial Award

Presented byJohn “Mac” DinsmorePresident of the Class of 2016

The James Fowler Rusling PrizeThe John Patton Memorial PrizeThe William F. Hufstader Senior Prizes

Presented byPresident Roseman

The Announcement of the Elected Young Alumni Trustee

Jennifer Ward Reynolds ’77Chair, Board of Trustees

Order of Exercises

*Please stand as able.

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The Presentation of the Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global Environmental Activism

Elizabeth KolbertPulitzer Prize-Winning Author

Presented byNeil Leary Director, Center for Sustainability Education

The Conferring of Honorary Degrees

David SatcherPhysician-Scientist and Public Health Administrator

Presented for the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Health byMarie Helweg-LarsenProfessor of Psychology

Assisting:Marjorie A. Speers ’78 Suman AmbwaniMember, Board of Trustees Associate Professor of Psychology

Elaine Livas ’83 Founder and Executive Director of Project SHARE

Presented for the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Service bySusan RoseCharles A. Dana Professor of Sociology

Assisting:Carol Jones Saunders ’62 Donna Hughes Member, Board of Trustees Director, Center for Spirituality, Service & Social Justice

Tom WolfPennsylvania Governor

Presented for the honorary degree of Doctor of Public Service byJames M. HoeflerProfessor of Political Science

Assisting:John E. Jones III ’77, P’11 William P. Lincke ’73Member, Board of Trustees Alumnus

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The Commencement Address

Governor Tom Wolf

The Conferring of Degrees in Cursu

Nancy A. Roseman Neil B. WeissmanPresident and Professor of Biology Provost and Dean of the College and Professor of History

Assisting:Karen A. Weikel Joyce A. BylanderRegistrar Vice President and Dean of Student Life

Elena DúzsSecretary of the FacultyAssociate Professor of Russian

The Alma MaterLed by senior members of the College Choir

Noble Dickinsonia

Alma Mater, tried and true, Noble Dickinsonia,

Oft our hearts shall turn to you, Noble Dickinsonia,

How each ancient classic hall, fondest mem’ries will recall,

Sacred is each gray old wall, Noble Dickinsonia.Words by Horatio C. King, Class of 1858Mr. King, who practiced law in Brooklyn, N.Y., received the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1897.

The Ringing of the Denny Tower Bell

Wheel and Chain members of the class of 2017

*The Recessional

At the end of the recessional, the graduates will counter-march through the faculty.

Music throughout the exercises will be conducted by Robert Pound, professor of music.Opening the doors to Old West are alumni representatives John Colburn Sr. ’52, P’74, P’77, G’14, G’15 and Casey Colburn ’15.

As graduates leave the platform, each will receive a gift from Michael W. Donnelly ’02, president of the Alumni Council.Immediately following the exercises, the members of the class of 2016 and their families and friends are invited to attend

a brunch in the dining room of the Holland Union Building.

*Please stand as able.

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Honorary Degrees

David Satcher, a physician-

scientist and public health

administrator with an extensive

track record of leadership,

research and community

engagement, receives the

Doctor of Public Health

honorary degree.

Satcher is a Phi Beta Kappa

graduate of Morehouse College

and holds M.D. and Ph.D.

degrees from Case Western

Reserve University. From 1998 to

2002, Satcher served as the 16th surgeon general of the United

States and from 1998 to 2001, served as the 10th assistant

secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human

Services. He also served as director of the Centers for Disease

Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency

for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.

Satcher has held top leadership positions at the Charles

R. Drew University for Medicine and Science, Meharry Medical

College and the Morehouse School of Medicine. He has received

more than 50 honorary degrees and numerous awards from

diverse organizations and agencies. Currently, Satcher is

the founding director and senior advisor for the Satcher

Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine

in Atlanta.

David Satcher

Elaine Livas ’83, the founder and

executive director of Project

SHARE (Survival, Help and

Recipient Education), receives

the Doctor of Public Service

honorary degree.

Livas has dedicated her life’s

work to improving her

community and the lives of

thousands of low-income

families in the Carlisle region.

A native of New England, Livas

enrolled at Dickinson in 1979

and graduated cum laude with a degree in anthropology in 1983.

Inspired by the plight of people she met in Carlisle who were

struggling to feed themselves and their families, she founded

Project SHARE in 1985 to provide food to those in need.

Under her leadership, more than 65 organizations throughout

the region are working together, providing food and nutrition

classes to their neighbors—both adults and children—living

below the poverty level. More than 35 local farmers donate fresh

produce, gleaned by Project SHARE volunteers and recipients, so

that those in need have greater access to fresh fruits and

vegetables.

Livas has received numerous awards for her efforts, including

the Carlisle Area League of Voters Community Service Award, the

Jefferson Award for Outstanding Public Service and the Alexis de

Tocqueville Humanitarian Award from the United Way of Carlisle

& Cumberland County. In 2007, she was named one of the 25

Most Influential Dickinsonians by Dickinson Magazine.

Elaine Livas ’83

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Pennsylvania Governor Tom

Wolf receives the Doctor of

Public Service honorary degree

and is delivering Dickinson’s

2016 Commencement address.

Wolf was sworn in as

Pennsylvania’s 47th governor in

2015 after a successful 30-year

career leading his family’s York,

Pa.-based business, the Wolf

Organization, a distributor of

lumber and other building

products. He started with the

family business as a forklift operator. Years later, he and two

cousins purchased the business and, as CEO, Wolf turned it into

America’s largest supplier of kitchen cabinets and a leading

provider of specialty building products.

After selling the business in 2006, Wolf was tapped by Gov. Ed

Rendell to serve as secretary of revenue. During his tenure, Wolf

instituted reforms that protected and strengthened the state

lottery. He also donated his salary to charity. In early 2009, Wolf

suspended a gubernatorial bid to buy back the Wolf Organization,

which was on the brink of bankruptcy, and transformed the

business to save jobs and return it to profitability.

Wolf has served on and led the boards of numerous

organizations dedicated to education, health, welfare, economic

development, culture and the arts. He is a graduate of Dartmouth

College and earned a master’s degree from the University of

London and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of

Technology. Wolf joined the Peace Corps after his freshman year

at Dartmouth and volunteered on agricultural and irrigation

projects in India for two years.

Governor Tom Wolf

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This year Dickinson College awards the fifth-annual Sam

Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for Global

Environmental Activism. The $100,000 prize, given to an

individual or group dedicated to preserving the planet and its

resources, incorporates a short-term residency for student and

community interaction during the upcoming academic year.

The prize honors John Adams, who co-founded the Natural

Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1970, serving as the

NRDC’s executive director, and later president, from its inception

until 2006, a tenure unparalleled by the leader of any other

environmental organization. Today, the NRDC stands as a force for

nature, with more than a million members, online activists and a

staff of 400 using law, science and grassroots activism to carry out

its important mission. Adams continues to play an active role in

the organization on the local, national and international levels.

In 2010 Adams and his wife, Patricia, recounted the history of

the NRDC and the environmental movement in their aptly named

memoir, A Force for Nature. President Barack Obama awarded

Adams the Presidential Medal of Freedom, America’s highest

civilian honor, in 2011 for his lifetime of public-service

achievements.

Sam Rose ’58 and his wife, Julie Walters, established the prize

because of their deep personal regard for Adams and his work.

Rose, a real-estate developer and attorney, was a member of the

1958 Dickinson lacrosse team that made college history when it

won Dickinson’s first and only national title. A founding partner of

Greenebaum and Rose Associates, he has more than 40 years of

experience in commercial development, primarily in the

Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. He is an emeritus trustee of

Dickinson and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Philanthropy

by the college in 2013 for his support of education and environ-

mental causes.

Committed to restoring and sustaining the natural world for

future generations, Rose and Walters created this prize to focus

attention on the need to reduce the impact of human lives on the

planet, particularly given the rising population predictions for this

century.

Dickinson, a national leader and innovator in sustainability

education, challenges its students through classroom studies, living

laboratories, service learning, student-faculty research and study

abroad to build the knowledge and skills needed to create a

sustainable world. Courses throughout the curriculum examine

and seek solutions to national and global environmental problems.

Dickinson’s achievements and leadership in sustainability have

earned the highest recognition from the Association for the

Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, Sierra

magazine, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, The Princeton

Review and Second Nature.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author

Elizabeth Kolbert is the fifth

recipient of the Sam Rose ’58 and

Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson

College for Global Environmental

Activism.

Kolbert’s most recent book,

The Sixth Extinction, received the

Pulitzer Prize for general

nonfiction in 2015. She is also the

author of Field Notes From a

Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and

Climate Change and edited The

Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009.

A staff writer at The New Yorker since 1999, Kolbert writes

extensively on climate change. Her three-part series on global

warming, The Climate of Man, from which Field Notes was adapted,

won the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s

magazine writing award and a National Academies

communications award. She is a two-time National Magazine

Award winner, and has received a Heinz Award and Guggenheim

Fellowship. Additionally, Kolbert is a visiting fellow at the Center

for Environmental Studies at Williams College. She will be in

residence at Dickinson in the fall 2016 semester (dates to be

determined).

The Sam Rose ’58 and Julie Walters Prize at Dickinson College for

Global Environmental Activism

Honoring Natural Resources Defense Council Co-Founder John Adams

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Candidates for Degree

Zachary W. Abbott, B.A............................................International Studies

Anya Olga-Frances Aboud, B.A. .................... East Asian Studies, Spanish

Michael Anthony Abu, B.A. .....................................International Studies

Katherine Rose Acocella, B.A. ................................................. Psychology

Elena Kaelen Adams, B.A. .............................................................English

Frieda Adu-Brempong, B.A. ......................................Policy Management

Andrew J. Afsahi, B.A. .............................................................Economics,

International Business & Management

Theodore Deisher Airoldi, B.A. .......................................Political Science

**George Gavin Allen, B.A. .............. International Business & Management

Madison Ali Alley, B.A. ................. International Business & Management

Aaron Bernard Ammerman, B.A. ........................................... Psychology

Ethan Lowry Andrews, B.A. .....................................................Economics

Valerie Michelle Andreyko, B.A. ..........................................Law & Policy

Brandon Scott Angradi, B.A. ...........................................Political Science

Bria Symone Antoine, B.A. ......................................................Economics

Sterling Pacifica Arjona, B.S. ................................................ Neuroscience

Charlotte Ilse Armour, B.A. .................................................Law & Policy

Emilia Pirinova Atanassova, B.A. . International Business & Management

Talya Rubin Auger, B.A. ..................................Women’s & Gender Studies

Andrew Adams Babbidge, B.A. ..... International Business & Management

Leonard J. Bacon-Shone, B.S. .......................................Computer Science

Shengye Bai, B.A. ...........................................History, Middle East Studies

Grover Nicholas Bailey, B.A. ......... International Business & Management

Mamadou Aliou Balde, B.S. ........................Computer Science, Economics

Alexa Jane Balonik, B.A. ................ International Business & Management

Juliette Elodia-Ann Bastarache, B.A. ...................................... Psychology

Cynthia Louise Baur, B.A. ................................................... Anthropology

Nicholas John Baxter, B.A. .........................................Policy Management

Sally Lou Belasco, B.S. ........................................................ Earth Sciences

Alexa Catherine Bell, B.A. ............. International Business & Management

Samantha Jane Bellissimo, B.A. ....................................................English

**Adam Walker Berryman, B.A. ........................Economics, Political Science

David Charles Bertram, B.S. .............................................. Earth Sciences

Luke Alden Besse, B.A. ............................................International Studies,

International Business & Management

Alex Robert Bialko, B.A. ........................................ Environmental Studies

Brendan Thomas Birth, B.A. ....................................................... History

Tara Wallin Black, B.A. .... International Business & Management, Spanish

Baily Elizabeth Blanchard, B.A. ... French & Francophone Studies, History

Cassandra M. Blyler, B.S. .......................................German, Neuroscience

Samuel Neill Bogan, B.S. ...............................................................Biology

Gregory Wilson Boles, B.A. ......................................................Economics

Joshua Eugene Bonner, B.A. ................................................... Philosophy

Trevor Roy Bossi, B.A. ............Environmental Studies, Policy Management

Nicholas Botti, B.S. ............................................. Economics, Mathematics

Matthew Clark Boulton, B.A. .......................................................English

**Ryan Timothy Bouseman, B.A. ................................................Economics

Alexandra Christine Bove, B.A. .............................................. Psychology

Mary Isabel Boyce, B.A. .................................................................English

Claire Elise Brawdy, B.A. .............................................................. History

Madden Page Bremer, B.A. ................................... Environmental Studies

Ashley Paige Brennan, B.A. ........................................................Sociology

Isabelle Sophia Breyfogle, B.A. ................................International Studies

Matthew Carl Brinckerhoff, B.S. ............................ Mathematics, Physics

Catheryn M. Broady, B.A. ..................................................... Archaeology

Adrienne Renee Brown, B.A. ................................ Environmental Studies

Briana Latrice Brown, B.A. .......................................... East Asian Studies

Isabel Howell Brown, B.A. ........................................................... History

Susan Sights Buckenmaier, B.S. ...........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

*Jonathon Jalen Bulick, B.A. ................................... Environmental Studies

Kendall Noel Busby, B.A. ..............................................................English

Olivia Grace Calcaterra, B.A. .................... French & Francophone Studies

Grace Elizabeth Camut, B.A. .....................................................Sociology

Tu Cam Cao, B.S. ................................................ Economics, Mathematics

**Courtney Elizabeth Capella, B.S. .........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Kathryn Elizabeth Cargill, B.A........................ Art & Art History, Spanish

Desmond Suen Carpenter, B.A. ................................... East Asian Studies

La Niece Nicole Carpenter, B.S. ...........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Mara Frances Cassidy, B.A. ..........................................................Spanish

Madison Jane Cerny, B.A. ....................................................... Psychology

Madeline Cushing Chandler, B.A. .............................Psychology, Spanish

Tiffany Lee Chin, B.S. ............................................ Environmental Science

Christine Choi, B.S. ................................................. Biology, Neuroscience

Gabriel Michael Chong-Ling, B.A. ........... French & Francophone Studies

David Richard Chow, B.S. ...........................................Biology, Psychology

Joelle Taylor Cicak, B.A. ................................................Art & Art History

Simon Gaetano Ciccarillo, B.A. ................. International Studies, Russian

Peri Rose Cirbo, B.S............................................... Environmental Science

Caroline Gallagher Clancy, B.S. ....................................................Biology

David Joseph Clemens, B.A. ......................................Policy Management

Christopher P. Clementi, B.A. ....................................Policy Management

Casey Anne Cliff, B.A. ................... International Business & Management

Michelle Elizabeth Clinger, B.A. ........................................... Archaeology

Abigail Elise Colby, B.S. ........................................................ Neuroscience

David Christian Collins, B.A. ..........................................Political Science

Kathleen Sarah Collins, B.A. ........................................................ History

David Thomas Cook, B.A. .......................................International Studies

Bridgette Markie Corbran, B.A............................................... Psychology

Lillian Sarah Corman, B.A. ................................Political Science, Spanish

Micah Corso-Phinney, B.A. ..........................................Art & Art History

Matthew Ryan Cowell, B.A. .....................................................Economics

Hattie Ingeborg Rose Cowles, B.S. ...............................................Biology

Danielle Rae Cox, B.A. ...............................................Policy Management

Arland Davis Crandell, B.A. .....................................................Economics

Blake Matthew Crinklaw, B.A. ......................................................English

Michelle René Crouch, B.A. .......................................................Sociology

Drew Elizabeth Crowley, B.A. ....................................... American Studies

Kristen Leigh Cunningham, B.A. ............ French & Francophone Studies,

Psychology

Lauren Anne Cutler, B.S. ...................................................... Neuroscience

Tayloe Murphy Braxton Dameron, B.A. ...................Policy Management

Charlayne Veta-Eleta Davis, B.S......................... Economics, Mathematics

Emily Zoe Davis, B.A. ........................................... Environmental Studies

*Graduated Summer 2015

**Graduated February 2, 2016

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Evan Ross Davis, B.A. .............................................................. Philosophy

Kathryn Davison, B.S. ...................................................................Biology

Caitlin Victoria DeFazio, B.A. ................... French & Francophone Studies

Nicholas John DellaVecchia, B.A. . International Business & Management

Jason William Denaburg, B.A. ...................................... American Studies

George Peter DeRosa, B.A. ............................................. German, History

Valencia Maria de Santos Crespi, B.A................ International Business &

Management, Spanish

Sean Stephen Deveney, B.A. .......................................................Sociology

Jacob Frederic De Wulf, B.A. .....................................Policy Management

*Courtney Ryder Dial, B.A. .........................................................Sociology

Eddy Michael Diamantis, B.A. .........Latin American, Latino & Caribbean

Studies; Philosophy

Sydney Elana Diamond, B.A. ................................ Environmental Studies

Charles Yohe Dickey, B.A. ...........................................Economics, History

Andrew Michael Kaj DiNardo, B.A. .................. International Business &

Management

John Maclin Dinsmore, B.A. ......... International Business & Management

Thomas Eric Dircks, B.S. ..............................................Computer Science

Casey Elizabeth Ditzler, B.S. .........................................................Biology

Caitlin Marie Doak, B.A. ......................................................... Philosophy

Ryan Alexander Dolan, B.A. ......... International Business & Management

Julia Stern Dolinger, B.A. ..............................................................English

Callan Elizabeth Donovan, B.S. ....................................................Biology

Paige Waxiler Wilson Dougherty, B.A. .............. International Business &

Management

Brian Jeffrey Downing, B.A. ....................................................Economics

Kevin Patrick Doyle, B.A. ........................... International Studies, Russian

Samuel Nathan Drabkin, B.A. ...................................... American Studies

Margaret Newberry Drake, B.A. ..............................................Psychology

Brianne Marie Dudiak, B.S. ................ Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,

Chemistry

Shelby Faith Duncan, B.A. .......................................................Psychology

Nikki Alexandra Kaur Dutta, B.A. ..................... International Business &

Management

Luke Zaccariah Waywood Dwan, B.A. ................. Environmental Studies

Grace Victoria Edelson, B.A. ....................................................Psychology

Jessica Nicole Edenfield, B.S. ...............Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Max Egener, B.S. .................................................... Environmental Science

Magdalena Pastore Eggert, B.A. ....................................................History

Santiago Xavier Gonzalez Elizalde, B.A............. International Business &

Management

Nadim Josiah El-Jaroudi, B.S. .......................................Computer Science

Madonna Mbomani Enwe, B.S. ........................................... Neuroscience

Danielle Sarah Epstein, B.A. ....................................................Psychology

*Adrian Magathan Evans, B.A. ..................................................Psychology

Tess Leanne Fagan, B.S. .......Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry

Anne E. Farina, B.A. .................................................................Psychology

Alexandra Elizabeth Farrand, B.A. ..........................International Studies

Hannah Rae Feinberg, B.A. ......................................International Studies

Erin Elizabeth Fenerty, B.A. .....................................................Psychology

Megan Elizabeth Fish, B.A. ........... International Business & Management

Lawrence Aidan Fitzmorris, B.A. .............................................Psychology

Jessica Lori Fleisch, B.A. ................................................ Art & Art History

Kai Yee “Amelia” Fong, B.A. .....................................................Psychology

Julie Foong, B.A. .......................................................Psychology, Sociology

Jenna Rose Forte, B.A. ...................................................................English

David Quentin Foster, B.A. .......................................... East Asian Studies

Sharaldine Francisco, B.A. .................................History; Latin American,

Latino & Caribbean Studies

Kobi Frankel, B.A. ............................................................Political Science

Jacob Jackson French, B.A. ..............................................Political Science

Gabrielle Bernstein Frenkel, B.S. ......................................... Neuroscience

Evan Marks Fried, B.A. ..............................................Policy Management

Emily Lynne Friedland, B.A. ............................................Political Science

Clara Madeline Fritz, B.A. ......................Art & Art History, Italian Studies

Nicole Elizabeth Fronsdahl, B.S. ................................................... Physics

Nicholas Akira Fukuda, B.A. ............................................Political Science

Emily Devlin Fuss, B.A. ................. International Business & Management

Michael Andrew Galamba, B.A. ................. Archaeology, Classical Studies

Bartholomew Ward Gallagher, B.A. ........................................Economics

Jiayi Gao, B.S. ........................................... Computer Science, Mathematics

Oliver Edwin Gates, B.A. ............... International Business & Management

Amanda Katherine Gautier, B.A. ...............................................Sociology

Lauren Elizabeth Gessner, B.A. ............................. Environmental Studies

Jared Michael Ginsburg, B.S. ................................ Environmental Science

*Alexandra Margaret Goodson, B.A. ..................... Environmental Studies

Wesley Adam Gottesman, B.A. ................................................Economics

Stephanie Davenport Gowing, B.A. ........................................Psychology

Zev Joshua Greenberg, B.S. ................. Biochemistry & Molecular Biology,

Chemistry

Ryan Gregg, B.A. ......................................................................Economics

Brandon Robert Griest, B.A. ......................Law & Policy, Political Science

William Foster Guinan, Jr., B.A. ......................................Political Science

Samantha Irene Gulick, B.S. ................................................ Neuroscience

Cai Guo, B.A. ............................................................................Psychology

Jason Forrest Guss, B.A. ...................................................Political Science

Andrew Connor Haab, B.A. .....................................................Economics

Tyler Charles Hanson, B.A. ...........................................................History

Elizabeth Stewart Hardison, B.A. .................................................English

Jonathan Brett Harper, B.A. .....................................................Economics

Tess Morrill Harrington, B.A. .......................................................English

Isabel Virginia Harrison, B.A. ............................... Environmental Studies

Khondokar Imran Wazir Hasan, B.A. .....................International Studies

Peter Ashbridge Hass, B.A. ............................................ American Studies

**Julia Dalton Hayden, B.S. .....................Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Samuel Thomas Hayden, B.S. .............................................. Neuroscience

Carolyn Rose Helfand, B.A. .....................................................Psychology

Courtney Elizabeth Helt, B.A. ......................................................English

Claire Louise Werner Henriques, B.A. ......................................Sociology

Alejandro Heredia, B.A. ................................................................English

Jessica Sara Herrmann, B.A. .........................................................History

Clayton Axford Hevey, B.A. ......... International Business & Management,

Spanish

Jacob O. Heybey, B.S. ....................................................Computer Science

Austin Tyler High, B.A. ................. International Business & Management

Ted Patrick Hinnenkamp, B.A. ..... International Business & Management

Molly Kathleen Hogan, B.A. .........................................................English

Cassandra Elizabeth Holbert, B.S. ................................................Biology

Gibson Finch Holland, B.A. ..........................................................History

Trevor Thomas Hollinger, B.S. .....................................................Biology

Pia Corinna Holtmeier, B.A. ......... International Business & Management

**Leanne Marie Hoppers, B.A. ...................................... Psychology, Spanish

Gregory Ryan Horne, B.A. .........................................Policy Management

*Graduated Summer 2015

**Graduated February 2, 2016

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John Dranoff Horowicz, B.A. ..................................................... Religion

Elias Everett Howard, B.A. ............................................................History

Ian Gregory Hower, B.A. ......................................................Law & Policy

Christopher David Hubbard, B.S. ........................ Environmental Science

Paris Grace Humphrey, B.A. ......................................... Art & Art History

Jun Shen Huron, B.A. ...............................................................Psychology

Csilla Glória Huse, B.A. .......................................................... Economics,

International Business & Management

Gloria Hwang, B.S. ...............................Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Alfred Hylton-Dei, B.A. ............................French & Francophone Studies,

International Studies

Jana Alicia Ismail, B.A. .................................................. Art & Art History

*Yeana Jang, B.S. ..............................................................................Biology

**Kathleen Margaret Jarman, B.A. ...................................................English

Emma Catherine Jenkins, B.A. .....................................................History

Mackenzie Joan Johnson, B.A. ..................... Policy Management, Spanish

**Kristin Murfee Jones, B.A. ....................................................Law & Policy

Claire Marie Jungman, B.A. .....................................................Psychology

Kyle Cheney Kachadurian, B.A. ............................ Environmental Studies

Elizabeth Helen Kahl, B.S..................................................... Neuroscience

Luke Kang, B.A. ............................................................. Art & Art History

Timoteo Teofilo Kang, B.S. ...........................................Computer Science

Emily Carolyn Kaplita, B.S. ...........................................................Biology

Alan John Karickhoff, B.A. ......................................................Economics

Rachel Ruth Karmin, B.A. ..........................................................Sociology

Caroline Elizabeth Karwel, B.A. ... International Business & Management

Emily Rebecca Katz, B.A. ........................... Policy Management, Sociology

Benjamin Charles Howard Kaufman, B.A. ... Economics, Political Science

Kimani Ashanti Keaton, B.A. .......................................Religion, Sociology

Howard Jacob Keenan, B.A. .................................................Law & Policy

Patrick Henry Keenan, B.A. .......................................Policy Management

Braeden Conrad Kelly, B.A. .....................................................Psychology

Robert Kimball Kendall, B.A. ..........................................Political Science

Samantha Kate Kennedy, B.S. ..............Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

**Kun Il Kim, B.S. .................................................................... Neuroscience

Christopher Ryan King, B.A. .....................................Policy Management

**Benjamin Wilson Klauer, B.A. ...... International Business & Management

Sarah Rachel Kleine, B.A. ................................................Africana Studies

Michael Daniel Klim, B.A. ............ International Business & Management

Jessica Etlinger Klimoff, B.A. ........................................English, Sociology

Caitlin Elizabeth Klockner, B.S. ....................................................Biology

Liza Mina Knapp-Fadani, B.A. ................................International Studies

John Anderson Kneisley, B.A. .......................................................English

William Hardy Kochtitzky, B.S. ......................................... Earth Sciences

Patricia Ann Kotrady, B.A. ............................................ American Studies

Silvana Cristina Kreines, B.A. ................................................Archaeology

Rachel Lauren Kruchten, B.A. .................................................Psychology

Molly Elizabeth Kulbaski, B.S. .............Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Garrett Evan Kurtz, B.A. ............... International Business & Management

Madeleine Claire Kushlan, B.A. ...............................................Psychology

Jenna Elise Lamb, B.A. .................. International Business & Management

Trevor Michael Lang, B.A. ..............................Women’s & Gender Studies

Elizabeth Marie Lanigan, B.A. ...........English, Women’s & Gender Studies

Casey L. LaTorre, B.A. ..............................................................Economics

Madison Sands Lawson, B.A. ....... International Business & Management,

Spanish

Megan Elaine Layman, B.S................................................. Earth Sciences

Hieu Kinh Le, B.S. .........................................................Computer Science

Cathryn Ward Ledwick, B.S. .........................................................Biology

Gyu Ho Lee, B.S. ...................................Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Jamin Lee, B.A. .............................. International Business & Management

Timothy Clayton Lehotsky, B.A. ...................................................History

Michael Kurt Lenker, B.A. ............. International Business & Management

Yuan Lin, B.A. ............................................Art & Art History, Theatre Arts

Kyle Lewis Liss, B.S. ................................................. Mathematics, Physics

*Brittany Cox Livingston, B.S. ................................................... Chemistry

**Mary Elizabeth Logan, B.A. .................................................Law & Policy

Gabriel Tantengco Lorenzo, B.S....................................Computer Science

David J. Lyness, B.A. .................................................International Studies

Hanyu Ma, B.S. .............................................................................. Physics

Jia “Majer” Ma, B.A. .............................................................Law & Policy

Cedric Jahier Madden, B.A. .....................................................Economics

Chrysanthe Maggidis, B.A. .......................Archaeology, Art & Art History

Gillian Claire Anderson Maguire, B.A.....................................Psychology

Moira Fay Mahoney, B.A. .............................................................English

**Kayleigh Elisabeth Makoid, B.S............Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Jaden Heather Makovsky, B.A. ......................................................English

Tarutr Malhotra, B.A. ............................................History, Italian Studies

Julia Barron Malloy, B.A. ...................................... Environmental Studies

Maxwell Paul Maloberti, B.S. ........................................................Biology

Dalton Jon Maltz, B.A. ..................................................................History

Mark Stephen Manganaro, B.S. ...........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Elisabeth Brooke Maranca, B.A. ... International Business & Management

John Michael Margavitch, B.S. .....................................................Biology

Abigail Olivia Marriott, B.S. .........................................................Biology

Colin Michael Martin, B.A...............................................Political Science

Jahmel Joseph Martin, B.A............................................ American Studies

Hannah Webster Matlack, B.A. ................. French & Francophone Studies

Katie Brems Mattern, B.S. ..............Earth Sciences, Environmental Science

John W. Mayers III, B.A................. International Business & Management

Brian Patrick McCloud, B.A. ...........................................Political Science

Grace Margaret McCrocklin, B.A. ............French & Francophone Studies,

International Studies

Aidan Kyle McDonald, B.A. .............................................Political Science

Brianna Margaret McFarland, B.A. ............................. East Asian Studies

Andrew Shriver McGowan, B.S. ..........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Tiffany Renee McIntosh, B.A. ..................................................Psychology

Conor James McLaughlin, B.A. ...............................International Studies

Zachary David McMullen, B.A. .................................Policy Management

Angela Emer Medrano, B.A. ......................................... American Studies

Taylor Ann Meehan, B.A. .................................................Political Science

Patrick Yuan-ming Meier, B.S. ............................................. Mathematics

Jacob Michael Meluskey, B.A. .......................................................English

Christopher Roger Menard, B.A. .. International Business & Management

Michele Amanda Metcalf, B.A. ................ International Studies, Sociology

Isabelle Pearl Minasian, B.A. .........................................................English

Marissa Lyn Mitchell, B.S. ................................Neuroscience, Theatre Arts

Tucker Andrew Mitchell, B.A. ..................................................Psychology

Georgia Ann Mohrbacher, B.A. .... International Business & Management

Katherine Nicole Mooradian, B.A. ........................... German, Psychology

**Piper Leigh Moore, B.A. ...........................................................Psychology

Rachel Lynn Moore, B.A. ..............................................................English

Andrew Robert Morgan, B.A. ....... International Business & Management

Jennifer Mary Morrissey, B.A. .................................................... Religion

*Graduated Summer 2015

**Graduated February 2, 2016

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Michael William Muehlberger, B.S. ..............................................Biology

Kathryn Alisa Mueller, B.S. ...........................................................Biology

Grace Clare Mulcahy, B.S. .............................................................Biology

Jacob Tyler Myers, B.A. .................................................................History

Julia Lynn Nadeau, B.A. ..................................................................Music

Nadia Naghedi Baradaran Hajjar, B.A...............................Italian Studies

Katharine Eileen Natoli, B.A. ........ International Business & Management

Sahil Rajivshiv Nayyar, B.S. ......Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Physics

Anh Phuong Nguyen, B.S. ................................................... Neuroscience

My Nguyen Tra, B.S. ................................ Computer Science, Mathematics

Stina Niemann, B.A. .....Economics, International Business & Management

Katherine Elizabeth Nirenberg, B.A. .......................................Psychology

William Cody Nixon, B.A. .................................................. Anthropology

Bryn Ross Nolan, B.A. ................................................................Sociology

Jonathan Ray Northridge, B.A. ................................................Economics

**Marie-Noelle Obianuju Nwokolo, B.A. ............. International Business &

Management

Catherine Merle Obrecht, B.A. ..................................... American Studies

Moriah Seline O’Malley, B.A. .............................................. Neuroscience

Megan Brayton Osborn, B.A. ....................................................Sociology

Cam Perkins O’Shaughnessy, B.A............................International Studies

Anders Eugene Overhaug, B.A. ...............................................Economics

Audrey Touhey Owens, B.A. ....................................................Psychology

Edwin Jordan Padilla, B.S. .................................Computer Science, Music

Rosemary Lillian Palmieri, B.S. ....................................................Biology

**Vincent George Pappas, B.A.......................................... Art & Art History

Ryan James Paradis, B.A...........................................International Studies

Jiyeong (Faith) Park, B.A. .......................... Self-Developed: Global Health

Graham Michael Parsons, B.A. ..... International Business & Management

Maxwell McLearn Patterson, B.S. ........................... Mathematics, Physics

Sara Grace Pattiz, B.A. ................................................... Art & Art History

Sarah Elizabeth Pelletier, B.S. ........................................................Biology

Di Peng, B.A. .............................................................................Economics

Bryton Jon Peternel, B.A. .............. International Business & Management

Jaime Nicole Phillips, B.A. .................................... Environmental Studies

Siobhan Elizabeth Pierce, B.A. .................................International Studies

Douglas Miles Piersol, B.A. ..........................................................Spanish

Carly Elizabeth Pierson, B.S. .........................................................Biology

Nicole Catherine Piet, B.A. ........... International Business & Management

Elizabeth Ann Plascencia, B.S. ........................................... Earth Sciences

Mairi Kaia Phyllis Poisson, B.A....................................... Biology, Spanish

Jeremy Robert James Pozner, B.A. ........................ Environmental Studies

Alexander James Predhome, B.A. ............................................Economics

Abigail May Preston, B.A. ................................................Political Science

Matthew Carter Primavera, B.A. .. International Business & Management

Santiago Gaspar Princ, B.S. ...........................................Computer Science

Rebecca Emerson Probst, B.S............................................... Mathematics

Ryan Robert Protter, B.A. .................................................Political Science

Rachel Elizabeth Provazza, B.A........................Anthropology, Archaeology

Joel Andrew Prushan, B.A. ...................................................... Philosophy

Anastasia Vania Putri, B.A. ............................. Anthropology, Theatre Arts

Emily Michelle Rabinek, B.A. ....... International Business & Management

Rebecca Cathleen Race, B.A. ........................................ Art & Art History,

International Business & Management

Hartwell Thomas Rainey V, B.S. ...................................................Biology

Nicholas Tate Rayder, B.A. ........................................... East Asian Studies

Colin McElroy Read, B.A. ............. International Business & Management

Stephanie Read, B.A. .....................................................................English

Julia Anne Redden, B.S. ...................................................... Earth Sciences

Victoria Alberta Reid, B.A. ........... International Business & Management,

Russian

Meghan Elizabeth Reynolds, B.A. ............................International Studies

Hannah Corrin Rich, B.A. ...........................................................Spanish

Isabel Guthrie Richards, B.A. ........................................ Art & Art History

Samuel Lockrow Richards, B.A.................................... Art & Art History,

French & Francophone Studies

Kerry Ann Richmond, B.A. .............................Women’s & Gender Studies

Jacqueline Nicole Rigney, B.A. ...... International Business & Management

Robert Brooks Rinaldo, B.A. ....................................International Studies

Harris Risell, B.A. ..........................................................................English

Shivani Neha Rishi, B.A. ..........................................................Psychology

Lily Alyce Roberts, B.A. ............................................................Psychology

James Ryan Robertson, B.A. ............................................Political Science

Isaac Hillson Rogers, B.A. ........................................................Psychology

Russell Hayes Rollow, B.S. .................................. Economics, Mathematics

Charles Macalister Roos, B.A. ....... International Business & Management

John James Root, B.S. .................................................................... Physics

Nicole Marie Roque, B.A. ............................................................Spanish

Kristiana Elisabeth Roth, B.A. .................................................Psychology

Maurice H. Royce, B.S. ............................ Computer Science, Mathematics

Kevin Cassidy Rubenstein, B.A. ............................ Environmental Studies

Max Oliver Rubinstein, B.S. .................Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Clara Jean Russell, B.S. ..................................................................Biology

Hannah Amsden Sacra, B.S. .........................................Computer Science

Asir Saeed, B.S. ..............................................................Computer Science

Christian Keith Salem, B.A. .......................................Policy Management

Matthew Joseph Sansevere, B.S. ...........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Caio Felipe Cesar Santos Rodrigues, B.A. .............................. Philosophy

Ezra Rigel Sassaman, B.A. ........................................................... German

Youki J. Sato, B.S. ...................................................................... Chemistry

Brent Scardapane, B.A. .................. International Business & Management

*Isaac Joseph Schaphorst, B.A. ..........................................Political Science

Rachel Lynne Schilling, B.A. ...........................................English, German

Patrick Thomas Schlecker, B.A. ...............................International Studies

Isaac Thomas Schlotterbeck, B.A. ...Latin American, Latino & Caribbean

Studies; Political Science

Jacob Justin Schreer, B.A. .........................................................Economics

Emma Lauren Schultz, B.A. ................................................ Anthropology

Alexander Oliphant Schwartz, B.S. ......Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Joshua Tyler Schwartz, B.S. ...........................................................Biology

Anthony Scioscia, B.A. .....................................................Political Science

Rachael Anne Sclafani, B.S. ................................... Environmental Science

Madison Anne Scott, B.S. ..................................................... Mathematics

Raymond Gregory Sellhausen, B.A. .................. International Business &

Management

Stefanie Pascal Sels, B.S. ................................................................Biology

Daniel B. Shaffer, B.A. ......................................................Political Science

Mark Robert Shaffer, B.A. ..............................Economics, Political Science

Yutong Shang, B.S. ......................................Computer Science, Economics

Jared Nathan Shapiro, B.S. ....................................................... Chemistry

Michaela Frances Shaw, B.A.......... International Business & Management

Tessa Marie Sheaffer, B.A. ....................................................Law & Policy

Mackenzie Frances Shelgren, B.S. .................................................Biology

*Rebecca Louise Shenton, B.A. ..........................................Political Science

*Graduated Summer 2015

**Graduated February 2, 2016

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Nicholas Robert Shepherd, B.A. ................................Policy Management

Tsering Yanji Sherpa, B.A. ............. International Business & Management

Gregory Michael Shildkrout, B.A. ..................... International Business &

Management

Stephan Michael Sieg, B.A. ........................................... Art & Art History

Samantha Marie Siegfried, B.A. .................................... Art & Art History

Cameron Lane Siems, B.A. ............ International Business & Management

Laura Anne Silverman, B.A. .....................................International Studies

Zachary Adam Simmons, B.S. .............Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Lea Jane Simms, B.A. ................................................................Psychology

Joshua Adam Singer, B.S. ..................................................... Neuroscience

Rachel Georgia Clare Sisco, B.S. ..........Biochemistry & Molecular Biology

Kelsey Madeline Sloter, B.S. .................................. Environmental Science

Charles Ethan Slusher, B.S. ...........................................................Biology

Austen McLain Eckstrom Smith, B.A. ..........................................History

Emily Frances Smith, B.A. ......................................... Psychology, Spanish

Emily Sarah Smith, B.A. ......................................English, Political Science

Nicole Lynne Smith, B.A. .........................................................Psychology

Rachael Marie Smith, B.A. ..............................................................Music

Rebecca Anne Smith, B.A. ..................................... Environmental Studies

Rachel Taylor Smolskis, B.S. .........................................................Biology

Ayesha Zahir Solaiman, B.A. ....................................................Psychology

Evan Andrew Solomon, B.S. .........................................................Biology

Shayna E. Solomon, B.A. ..................................................Political Science

Maretta Rose Sonn, B.A. ...............................................................English

Christopher Matthew Soulas, B.A. ..........................................Economics

Derek Ryan Spanellis, B.A. .......................................................Psychology

Peter G. Stefanowicz, B.A. ............................................. Art & Art History

Sydney Margaret Stern, B.A. ......... International Business & Management

Alyssa Nicole Stillwell, B.S. ...........................................................Biology

Adrian Fitch Stone, B.S. ................................................................ Physics

Mackenzie Holland Stricklin, B.S. ................................Computer Science

Madeleine Ingrid Strömbäck, B.A. .................... International Business &

Management

Tiffany Strong, B.A. .............................................History, Political Science

Taylor Ann Sullivan, B.A. .........................................................Psychology

Thomas Michael Supinka, B.A. ...........................................Law & Policy

Rachel Heywood Suppok, B.S. ............................................. Neuroscience

Anthony Joseph Survilla, B.A. .........................................Political Science

Anine Lauren Sus, B.A. .................................................................English

Erin Elizabeth Sutphen, B.S. ................................................ Neuroscience

Jessica Anne Sykes, B.A. .......... French & Francophone Studies, Philosophy

Sarah Melvin Talmage, B.A. .....................................International Studies

Mark David Tambussi, Jr., B.A.................................................Psychology

Lyndsey Kiana Tanabe, B.S....................... Biology, Environmental Science

Juntian Tao, B.S. ............................................................Computer Science

Maria Telincho, B.A. ......................................................................English

Anthony Lewis Thayne, B.A.....................................................Economics

Hannah Danielle Therrien, B.A. ..............................International Studies

Carrita Miller Thomas, B.A. ......... International Business & Management

**Ryan Neil Thomas, B.A. ................ International Business & Management

Gianna Christine Toglia, B.S. ............................................... Neuroscience

Nicholas Holland Toole, B.A............................................Political Science

**Alexander Thomas Torelli, B.A. .... International Business & Management

Harrison Orren Torok, B.S............................................................Biology

Yessenia Tostado, B.A. ..............................................................Psychology

William Andrew Trevenen, B.A. ..............................................Psychology

Trang Ha Truong, B.S. .................. International Business & Management,

Mathematics

Eric Christian Tuder, B.A. ............. International Business & Management

Jordan James Turner, B.A. ........................................................Psychology

Sara Aubrey Tyberg, B.A. ...........................................................Sociology

Amelia Mickut Valentino, B.A. .....................................................History

Ryan Arsenio Robert Van Vleet, B.A. ......................................Economics

Andy Vargas, B.A. ........................Environmental Studies; Latin American,

Latino & Caribbean Studies

Tatiana Lubove Veres, B.A. ........................ French & Francophone Studies

Victoria Ann Vinall, B.A...................................................Political Science

Frank Charles Vitale IV, B.A. ........................................................History

George Johnston Voris, B.A. ....................................................Economics

Thao Phuong Vu, B.A. ........................................ Economics, Mathematics

Elizabeth Jeannette Vuchinich, B.S. ..................................... Mathematics

Anna Grace Wagman, B.A. ................................................. Anthropology

Joseph George Wagman, B.A. ................................................Archaeology

Edward Denney Wagner, B.A. ..................................................Economics

Sarah Francis Wakefield, B.A. .......................................................History

Amy Elizabeth Walsh, B.A. .......................................International Studies

Brendan John Walsh, B.A. ........................................................Economics

Libin Wang, B.A............................................................. Art & Art History

Miles Ward, B.A. .................................................................Italian Studies

Alyssa Pikul Wardwell, B.A. .......... International Business & Management

Jared Matthew Warzala, B.A. ......................... Economics, Political Science

Samuel David Weinstein, B.A. ...................................Policy Management

Katherine Elizabeth Wenger, B.A. ............................................Psychology

Philipp Joachim Werner, B.A. ....... International Business & Management

**Taylor Marie Wernert, B.S. ..Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Chemistry

**Hayley Erin White, B.A. ...................................................Political Science

Elizabeth Cordo Wilford, B.A. ...................................... Art & Art History

Graham Peter Williams, B.S. ................... Computer Science, Mathematics

Rachel Imani Williams, B.A. ................................................Law & Policy

Shawn W. Wilson II, B.A. .........................................................Economics

Faith Alexis Wilwerding, B.A. ............................................... Theatre Arts

**Rebecca Gould Winsor, B.A. ....................................................Economics

Zephram Cochran Wolf, B.S. ........................................................ Physics

Theodore Joseph Xenophon, B.A. ................................................English

Su Yadana, B.S. ...................................................................... Neuroscience

Di Yang, B.A. .............................................................International Studies

Shucheng Yang, B.A. ........................................................................Music

Patrick Yang, B.A. .....................................................Economics, Sociology

Shannon Hailey Zangas, B.A. ..........................................Political Science

Ketty Laure Zawarski, B.A. ............ International Business & Management

Zhuwei Zeng, B.S. .......................................................................... Physics

Xueyin Zha, B.A. ...........................................................History, Sociology

*Allen Liyan Zhang, B.A. ................ International Business & Management

Barrett W. Ziegler, B.A.................................................................. Russian

Colleen Patricia Zulty, B.S.............................................................Biology

*Graduated Summer 2015

**Graduated February 2, 2016

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Certifications, Commissions and Prizes

Baird Sustainability FellowsCynthia Louise BaurCaitlin Marie DoakMax Carlos EgenerMackenzie Joan JohnsonWilliam Hardy KochtitzkyAndrew Shriver McGowan

Jaime Nicole PhillipsElizabeth Ann PlascenciaRachael Anne SclafaniEmily Sarah SmithLyndsey Kiana TanabeSara Aubrey Tyberg

Commissioned in United States Army(ROTC Program Participants)Susan Sights BuckenmaierDavid Thomas CookLawrence Aidan FitzmorrisJacob O. Heybey

Gregory Ryan HorneTimothy Clayton LehotskyMiles Ward

Academic Prizes Earned by the Class of 2016 Prior to the Senior Year�e Atlantic Rich�eld Foundation Geology Prize

Megan Elaine Layman 2015Elizabeth Ann Plascencia 2015

�e William Lennox Avis Prize in U.S. HistoryElias Everett Howard 2015

�e Harry F. Booth Prize in ReligionHayley Erin White 2015

�e Paul Burkholder Biology PrizeLyndsey Kiana Tanabe 2015

�e Joseph Middleton and Isabel Mullin Burns Memorial Prize

Trang Ha Truong 2014�e Henry P. Cannon Memorial Prize

My Nguyen Tra 2014�e Forrest E. Craver Mathematics Prize

Kyle Lewis Liss 2015�e Henry Hanson Research Prize in Geology

Sally Lou Belasco 2015William Hardy Kochtitzky 2015

�e Jane Hill Prize in Computer ScienceYutong Shang 2013

�e William W. Landis Memorial Prize in Mathematics

Kyle Lewis Liss 2013�e Landis-Mohler Prize in Physics

Sahil Rajivshiv Nayyar 2013

�e Ruth Sellers Maxwell Prize in English Literature

Kathleen Margaret Jarman 2015Elizabeth Marie Lanigan 2014

�e Delaplaine McDaniel PrizeBrianne Marie Dudiak 2013Tucker Andrew Mitchell 2014Thao Phuong Vu 2013

�e Charles H. Mullin PrizeShayna E. Solomon 2015

�e Wilbur Harrington and Helen Burns Norcross Prize

Tucker Andrew Mitchell 2015�e Wellington A. Parlin Science Award

Brianne Marie Dudiak 2015�e John Patton Memorial Prize

Gloria Hwang 2014William Hardy Kochtitzky 2015Frank Charles Vitale IV 2013

�e Ron Phillis Memorial PrizeCassandra Elizabeth Holbert 2014

�e Morris W. Prince History Prize for Support in Student Research

Frank Charles Vitale IV 2015�e Dr. S. Ned Rosenbaum Endowed Prize in Judaic Studies

Shayna E. Solomon 2014�e Richard M. Sia Memorial Prize in Physics

Kyle Lewis Liss 2015Sahil Rajivshiv Nayyar 2015

�e Junior Class Sophister PrizeThao Phuong Vu 2014

�e Senior Class Sophister PrizeTucker Andrew Mitchell 2015

�e Alice and F. Chapline Moorehead-Barbara Elder Timberlake Award

John Anderson Kneisley 2015�e William W. Vernon Research Prize in Geology

David Charles Bertram 2015Katie Brems Mattern 2015Julia Anne Redden 2015

�e Win�eld Davidson Walkley PrizeMichael Andrew Galamba 2013Kelsey Madeline Sloter 2013

�e Emil R. and Tamar Weiss Prize for Creative Arts

Anastasia Vania Putri 2015Rachael Marie Smith 2015

�e Angeline Blake Womer Memorial PrizeCourtney Elizabeth Helt 2013

�e Agnes Sterrett Woods PrizeJessica Etlinger Klimoff 2015

�e John David Wright III Memorial PrizeJoelle Taylor Cicak 2013Michael Andrew Galamba 2013

Teacher Certi�cation Candidates° Olivia Grace Calcaterra° Gabriel Michael Chong-Ling° Caitlin Victoria DeFazio

°† Mary Naydan°† Jason Raymond°† Sarah Rutkowski

† Continuing Education Student

° Kappa Delta Pi

Security Studies Certi�catesZachary W. AbbottBrandon Robert GriestClaire Marie JungmanMichael Kurt LenkerJia “Majer” MaColin Michael Martin

Conor James McLaughlinSiobhan Elizabeth PierceDaniel B. ShafferAnthony Joseph SurvillaCarrita Miller ThomasVictoria Ann Vinall

Health Studies Certi�catesAlexandra Christine BoveAshley Paige BrennanLa Niece Nicole CarpenterMadison Jane CernyAbigail Elise ColbySydney Elana DiamondNikki Alexandra Kaur DuttaJessica Nicole EdenfieldGabrielle Bernstein FrenkelLauren Elizabeth Gessner

Leanne Marie HoppersRachel Lynn MooreMegan Brayton OsbornLea Jane SimmsJoshua Adam SingerYessenia TostadoSara Aubrey TybergAnna Grace WagmanSu Yadana

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Academic Prizes Earned by the Class of 2016 During the Senior Year�e George Allan Prize in Philosophy

Caitlin Marie Doak�e Bruce Andrews Prize in Political Science

Shayna E. Solomon�e Paul F. Angiolillo Prize

Clara Madeline Fritz�e Art & Art History Prize

Stephan Michael Sieg�e Spencer Fullerton Baird Biology Prize

Samuel Neill BoganCassandra Elizabeth Holbert

�e David A. Baram Prize for Excellence in Molecular Biology

Zev Joshua GreenbergAndrew Shriver McGowan

�e Stephen D. Benson ’56 Senior Prize in Psychology

Cai Guo�e Marianna Bogojavlensky Prize in Russian

Mackenzie Holland Stricklin�e Heinrich Böll Prize

Rachel Lynne Schilling�e Neilson C. Bridger Memorial Art Prize

Clara Madeline Fritz�e James W. Carson Prize

Shengye Bai�e Kenneth L. Cashdollar Prize in Physics

Kyle Lewis Liss�e Class of 1875 Prize

Thao Phuong Vu�e Class of 1914 Prize in American History

Emma Catherine Jenkins�e Stephen M. Courtland Prize

John Anderson Kneisley�e John Dickinson Sabre Award

Gregory Ryan Horne�e Environmental Studies Award for Excellence in Service and Scholarship

Max Egener�e Mervin Grant Filler Memorial Prize

Michael Andrew Galamba�e C. W. Fink Memorial Economics Prize

Yutong Shang�e Grant D. Fryling ’04 Memorial Prize in International Business and Management

Madison Ali AlleyPia Corinna Holtmeier

�e Ganoe Prize in International StudiesZachary W. Abbott

�e Sergeant Harry Goldberg Dickinson College Military Science Prize

Jacob O. Heybey�e Gould Memorial Drama Prize

Michael Andrew GalambaYouki J. Sato

�e Louise Hauer Greenberg Prize for Excellence in Biochemistry

Brianne Marie Dudiak�e Charles Mortimer Gri�n Prize in Religion

Rosemary Lillian Palmieri�e Richard Howland Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science

My Nguyen Tra�e Lloyd W. Hughes Scholar-Athlete Award

Tara Wallin BlackJoshua Tyler Schwartz

�e Caroline Kennedy French Literature PrizeJessica Anne Sykes

�e John L. King Prize for Excellence in International Business and Management

Trang Ha Truong�e Lance E. Kohlhaas Memorial Prize in Mathematics

Kyle Lewis Liss�e Marion Dexter Learned Prize in German

Ezra Rigel Sassaman�e Ruth Sellers Maxwell Prize in English Literature

Elizabeth Marie Lanigan�e Joseph J. Myers Prize

Brandon Scott Angradi�e Newton Prize in East Asian Studies

Brianna Margaret McFarland�e Northeast Conference on the Teaching of Foreign Languages Award

Olivia Grace CalcaterraGabriel Michael Chong-LingAbigail Olivia MarriottMiles Ward

�e Harriet Boyer Oler Political Science PrizeAbigail May Preston

�e Gaylord H. Patterson Memorial Sociology Prize

Sara Aubrey Tyberg�e Morris W. Prince History Prize for Distinguished Work in History

Frank Charles Vitale IV

�e Morris W. Prince History Prize for Excellence in European History

Xueyin Zha�e Morris W. Prince History Prize in Support of Graduate Study

Amelia Mickut Valentino�e Margaret McAlpin Ramos Award in Spanish

Mairi Kaia Phyllis Poisson�e Dr. S. Ned Rosenbaum Endowed Prize in Judaic Studies

Jessica Sara Herrmann�e Charles A. Tasso Prize in Policy Studies

Gregory Ryan Horne�e Alice and F. Chapline Moorehead-Barbara Elder Timberlake Award

Alejandro Heredia�e William W. Vernon Prize for Excellence in Geology

William Hardy Kochtitzky�e Wieland Endowed Prize for Excellence in German

Cassandra M. Blyler�e Women’s and Gender Studies Prize

Elizabeth Marie Lanigan�e Agnes Sterrett Woods Prize

Elizabeth Marie Lanigan�e John David Wright III Memorial Prize

Catheryn M. Broady

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Honors Upon Graduation

Anya Olga-Frances AboudMadison Ali AlleyTara Wallin BlackCatheryn M. BroadyOlivia Grace CalcaterraTu Cam CaoJoelle Taylor CicakBrianne Marie DudiakDanielle Sarah EpsteinZev Joshua GreenbergCourtney Elizabeth Helt

Jacob O. HeybeyGloria HwangMackenzie Joan JohnsonLuke KangJessica Etlinger KlimoffJohn Anderson KneisleyWilliam Hardy KochtitzkyRachel Lauren KruchtenElizabeth Marie LaniganKyle Lewis LissBrianna Margaret McFarland

Tucker Andrew MitchellSahil Rajivshiv NayyarStina NiemannJaime Nicole PhillipsAbigail May PrestonRachel Lynne SchillingRachael Anne SclafaniYutong ShangTsering Yanji SherpaRachael Marie SmithShayna E. Solomon

Rachel Heywood SuppokTrang Ha TruongSara Aubrey TybergFrank Charles Vitale IVThao Phuong VuJoseph George WagmanTaylor Marie WernertXueyin Zha

Zachary W. AbbottAndrew J. AfsahiEthan Lowry AndrewsValerie Michelle AndreykoCharlotte Ilse ArmourTalya Rubin AugerShengye BaiMamadou Aliou BaldeCynthia Louise BaurCassandra M. BlylerTrevor Roy BossiSusan Sights BuckenmaierCourtney Elizabeth CapellaKathryn Elizabeth CargillMadison Jane CernyTiffany Lee ChinGabriel Michael Chong-LingDavid Richard ChowKathleen Sarah CollinsKristen Leigh CunninghamCaitlin Victoria DeFazioCaitlin Marie DoakJulia Stern DolingerBrian Jeffrey DowningKevin Patrick Doyle

Shelby Faith DuncanJessica Nicole EdenfieldMagdalena Pastore EggertMadonna Mbomani EnweLawrence Aidan FitzmorrisJulie FoongClara Madeline FritzJiayi GaoSamantha Irene GulickCai GuoJason Forrest GussElizabeth Stewart HardisonTess Morrill HarringtonSamuel Thomas HaydenAlejandro HerediaCassandra Elizabeth HolbertPia Corinna HoltmeierLeanne Marie HoppersGregory Ryan HorneIan Gregory HowerCsilla Glória HuseKathleen Margaret JarmanEmily Rebecca KatzBenjamin Wilson KlauerMichael Daniel Klim

Patricia Ann KotradyMadeleine Claire KushlanHieu Kinh LeMichael Kurt LenkerYuan LinBrittany Cox LivingstonJia “Majer” MaKayleigh Elisabeth MakoidJaden Heather MakovskyAbigail Olivia MarriottAidan Kyle McDonaldAndrew Shriver McGowanGeorgia Ann MohrbacherPiper Leigh MooreKatharine Eileen NatoliAnh Phuong NguyenMy Nguyen TraKatherine Elizabeth NirenbergMarie-Noelle Obianuju NwokoloMoriah Seline O’MalleyAnders Eugene OverhaugJiyeong (Faith) ParkRachel Elizabeth ProvazzaAnastasia Vania PutriHarris Risell

John James RootKevin Cassidy RubensteinMax Oliver RubinsteinEzra Rigel SassamanYouki J. SatoBrent ScardapaneJoshua Tyler SchwartzMadison Anne ScottMark Robert ShafferJared Nathan ShapiroEmily Sarah SmithMackenzie Holland StricklinErin Elizabeth SutphenJessica Anne SykesJuntian TaoNicholas Holland TooleAnna Grace WagmanKatherine Elizabeth WengerHayley Erin WhiteGraham Peter WilliamsFaith Alexis WilwerdingShucheng Yang

Frieda Adu-BrempongEmilia Pirinova AtanassovaAlexa Jane BalonikAdam Walker BerrymanSamuel Neill BoganNicholas BottiRyan Timothy BousemanClaire Elise BrawdyAdrienne Renee BrownLa Niece Nicole CarpenterMadeline Cushing ChandlerSimon Gaetano CiccarilloCasey Anne CliffNicholas John DellaVecchiaJason William DenaburgSean Stephen DeveneyCallan Elizabeth DonovanGrace Victoria EdelsonMax Egener

Alexandra Elizabeth FarrandGabrielle Bernstein FrenkelNicole Elizabeth FronsdahlTyler Charles HansonJessica Sara HerrmannGibson Finch HollandTrevor Thomas HollingerElias Everett HowardJun Shen HuronEmma Catherine JenkinsTimoteo Teofilo KangSamantha Kate KennedyKun Il KimTrevor Michael LangGyu Ho LeeChrysanthe MaggidisMark Stephen ManganaroJahmel Joseph MartinKatie Brems Mattern

John W. Mayers IIIConor James McLaughlinPatrick Yuan-ming MeierKatherine Nicole MooradianGrace Clare MulcahyJonathan Ray NorthridgeEdwin Jordan PadillaSara Grace PattizNicole Catherine PietMairi Kaia Phyllis PoissonRyan Robert ProtterIsabel Guthrie RichardsKerry Ann RichmondJacqueline Nicole RigneyRussell Hayes RollowHannah Amsden SacraAsir SaeedCaio Felipe Cesar Santos

Rodrigues

Patrick Thomas SchleckerIsaac Thomas SchlotterbeckAlexander Oliphant SchwartzStefanie Pascal SelsMichaela Frances ShawStephan Michael SiegLea Jane SimmsJoshua Adam SingerLyndsey Kiana TanabeGianna Christine TogliaJordan James TurnerTatiana Lubove VeresAmy Elizabeth WalshMiles WardJared Matthew WarzalaDi YangBarrett W. Ziegler

Summa Cum Laude

Magna Cum Laude

Cum Laude

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Zachary W. AbbottAnya Olga-Frances AboudKatherine Rose AcocellaFrieda Adu-BrempongAndrew J. AfsahiMadison Ali AlleyEthan Lowry AndrewsValerie Michelle AndreykoBria Symone AntoineCharlotte Ilse ArmourShengye BaiMamadou Aliou BaldeAlexa Jane BalonikCynthia Louise BaurTara Wallin BlackCassandra M. BlylerSamuel Neill BoganTrevor Roy BossiNicholas BottiRyan Timothy BousemanClaire Elise BrawdyCatheryn M. BroadyIsabel Howell BrownSusan Sights BuckenmaierOlivia Grace CalcaterraTu Cam CaoCourtney Elizabeth CapellaKathryn Elizabeth CargillMadison Jane CernyMadeline Cushing ChandlerTiffany Lee ChinGabriel Michael Chong-LingDavid Richard ChowJoelle Taylor CicakSimon Gaetano CiccarilloCasey Anne CliffAbigail Elise ColbyKathleen Sarah CollinsLillian Sarah CormanHattie Ingeborg Rose CowlesMichelle René CrouchKristen Leigh CunninghamEvan Ross DavisKathryn DavisonValencia Maria de Santos CrespiCaitlin Victoria DeFazioJason William DenaburgSean Stephen DeveneySydney Elana DiamondJohn Maclin DinsmoreCaitlin Marie DoakJulia Stern DolingerCallan Elizabeth DonovanKevin Patrick DoyleBrianne Marie DudiakShelby Faith DuncanNikki Alexandra Kaur Dutta

Grace Victoria EdelsonJessica Nicole EdenfieldMax EgenerMagdalena Pastore EggertMadonna Mbomani EnweDanielle Sarah EpsteinAlexandra Elizabeth FarrandJulie FoongClara Madeline FritzNicole Elizabeth FronsdahlJiayi GaoZev Joshua GreenbergBrandon Robert GriestSamantha Irene GulickCai GuoJason Forrest GussTyler Charles HansonElizabeth Stewart HardisonTess Morrill HarringtonJulia Dalton HaydenSamuel Thomas HaydenCarolyn Rose HelfandCourtney Elizabeth HeltAlejandro HerediaClayton Axford HeveyJacob O. HeybeyCassandra Elizabeth HolbertTrevor Thomas HollingerPia Corinna HoltmeierLeanne Marie HoppersGregory Ryan HorneIan Gregory HowerChristopher David HubbardJun Shen HuronGloria HwangKathleen Margaret JarmanEmma Catherine JenkinsMackenzie Joan JohnsonLuke KangEmily Carolyn KaplitaAlan John KarickhoffCaroline Elizabeth KarwelEmily Rebecca KatzSamantha Kate KennedyBenjamin Wilson KlauerMichael Daniel KlimJessica Etlinger KlimoffJohn Anderson KneisleyWilliam Hardy KochtitzkyPatricia Ann KotradyRachel Lauren KruchtenMadeleine Claire KushlanElizabeth Marie LaniganMadison Sands LawsonMegan Elaine LaymanHieu Kinh LeGyu Ho Lee

Jamin LeeMichael Kurt LenkerYuan LinKyle Lewis LissJia “Majer” MaChrysanthe MaggidisKayleigh Elisabeth MakoidJaden Heather MakovskyMark Stephen ManganaroAbigail Olivia MarriottJahmel Joseph MartinKatie Brems MatternJohn W. Mayers IIIGrace Margaret McCrocklinAidan Kyle McDonaldBrianna Margaret McFarlandAndrew Shriver McGowanConor James McLaughlinPatrick Yuan-ming MeierTucker Andrew MitchellGeorgia Ann MohrbacherKatherine Nicole MooradianPiper Leigh MooreKathryn Alisa MuellerJacob Tyler MyersKatharine Eileen NatoliSahil Rajivshiv NayyarAnh Phuong NguyenMy Nguyen TraStina NiemannKatherine Elizabeth NirenbergJonathan Ray NorthridgeMarie-Noelle Obianuju NwokoloMoriah Seline O’MalleyAnders Eugene OverhaugEdwin Jordan PadillaRosemary Lillian PalmieriJiyeong (Faith) ParkSara Grace PattizJaime Nicole PhillipsSiobhan Elizabeth PierceDouglas Miles PiersolCarly Elizabeth PiersonNicole Catherine PietElizabeth Ann PlascenciaAbigail May PrestonRyan Robert ProtterRachel Elizabeth ProvazzaAnastasia Vania PutriHartwell Thomas Rainey VNicholas Tate RayderStephanie ReadIsabel Guthrie RichardsJacqueline Nicole RigneyHarris RisellJohn James RootKevin Cassidy Rubenstein

Max Oliver RubinsteinHannah Amsden SacraMatthew Joseph SansevereCaio Felipe Cesar Santos

RodriguesEzra Rigel SassamanYouki J. SatoBrent ScardapaneRachel Lynne SchillingIsaac Thomas SchlotterbeckJacob Justin SchreerEmma Lauren SchultzJoshua Tyler SchwartzRachael Anne SclafaniMadison Anne ScottStefanie Pascal SelsMark Robert ShafferYutong ShangJared Nathan ShapiroMichaela Frances ShawTsering Yanji SherpaStephan Michael SiegZachary Adam SimmonsLea Jane SimmsKelsey Madeline SloterEmily Sarah SmithRachael Marie SmithEvan Andrew SolomonShayna E. SolomonMackenzie Holland StricklinRachel Heywood SuppokErin Elizabeth SutphenJessica Anne SykesMark David Tambussi, Jr.Lyndsey Kiana TanabeJuntian TaoGianna Christine TogliaNicholas Holland TooleTrang Ha TruongSara Aubrey TybergTatiana Lubove VeresFrank Charles Vitale IVThao Phuong VuAnna Grace WagmanAmy Elizabeth WalshMiles WardKatherine Elizabeth WengerTaylor Marie WernertHayley Erin WhiteElizabeth Cordo WilfordRachel Imani WilliamsFaith Alexis WilwerdingShannon Hailey ZangasKetty Laure ZawarskiXueyin ZhaBarrett W. Ziegler

Dean’s List

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Anya Olga-Frances AboudMadison Ali AlleyEthan Lowry AndrewsTara Wallin BlackCatheryn M. BroadyOlivia Grace CalcaterraTu Cam CaoJoelle Taylor CicakCaitlin Marie DoakBrianne Marie DudiakMadonna Mbomani EnweDanielle Sarah EpsteinJiayi GaoZev Joshua GreenbergCai GuoCourtney Elizabeth HeltJacob O. Heybey

Gloria HwangMackenzie Joan JohnsonLuke KangJessica Etlinger KlimoffJohn Anderson KneisleyWilliam Hardy KochtitzkyRachel Lauren KruchtenElizabeth Marie LaniganKyle Lewis LissBrianna Margaret McFarlandTucker Andrew MitchellSahil Rajivshiv NayyarMy Nguyen TraStina NiemannMarie-Noelle Obianuju NwokoloJaime Nicole PhillipsAbigail May Preston

Ezra Rigel SassamanRachel Lynne SchillingRachael Anne SclafaniYutong ShangTsering Yanji SherpaRachael Marie SmithShayna E. SolomonRachel Heywood SuppokTrang Ha TruongSara Aubrey TybergFrank Charles Vitale IVThao Phuong VuJoseph George WagmanTaylor Marie WernertXueyin Zha

Phi Beta Kappa

Departmental HonorsZachary W. Abbott, International StudiesAnya Olga-Frances Aboud, East Asian Studies, SpanishMadison Ali Alley, International Business & ManagementSterling Pacifica Arjona, NeuroscienceCynthia Louise Baur, AnthropologyTara Wallin Black, International Business & ManagementSamuel Neill Bogan, BiologyKathryn Elizabeth Cargill, Art & Art HistoryTiffany Lee Chin, Environmental StudiesChristine Choi, BiologySimon Gaetano Ciccarillo, RussianJason William Denaburg, American StudiesCaitlin Marie Doak, PhilosophyMax Egener, Environmental StudiesAlexandra Elizabeth Farrand, International StudiesGabrielle Bernstein Frenkel, NeuroscienceNicole Elizabeth Fronsdahl, PhysicsZev Joshua Greenberg, ChemistryCassandra Elizabeth Holbert, BiologyTrevor Thomas Hollinger, BiologyPia Corinna Holtmeier, International Business & ManagementLuke Kang, Art & Art HistoryBenjamin Wilson Klauer, International Business & ManagementJohn Anderson Kneisley, EnglishWilliam Hardy Kochtitzky, Earth Sciences

Patricia Ann Kotrady, American StudiesHieu Kinh Le, Computer ScienceKyle Lewis Liss, PhysicsJia “Majer” Ma, Law & PolicyBrianna Margaret McFarland, East Asian StudiesAndrew Shriver McGowan, Biochemistry & Molecular BiologyConor James McLaughlin, International StudiesMy Nguyen Tra, Computer ScienceMarie-Noelle Obianuju Nwokolo, International Business & ManagementEdwin Jordan Padilla, MusicMairi Kaia Phyllis Poisson, BiologyAbigail May Preston, Political ScienceRachel Elizabeth Provazza, AnthropologyRachel Lynne Schilling, GermanRachael Anne Sclafani, Environmental StudiesTsering Yanji Sherpa, International Business & ManagementStephan Michael Sieg, Art & Art HistoryRachael Marie Smith, MusicShayna E. Solomon, Political ScienceJessica Anne Sykes, PhilosophyTrang Ha Truong, International Business & ManagementSara Aubrey Tyberg, SociologyFrank Charles Vitale IV, HistoryGraham Peter Williams, Computer ScienceShucheng Yang, Music

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Kayla J. Muirhead ’15 Post-baccalaureate Fellow at the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD

Margot Cardamone ’14 2014 Corps Member at Teach for America, Charlotte, NCSeptember 2016—Beginning master’s program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

Andrew Chesley ’132016 graduate, Columbia Law SchoolJune 2016—First-year Associate at Boies, Schiller, Flexner (New York City office)

Darrell I. Pacheco ’12 Financial Advisor in Personal Advisor Services, the Vanguard Group, Malvern, PA

Laura I. Wilson ’11 Account Manager, Jewelry, Travel & Bridal, Town & Country Magazine, New York, NY

William K. BellingerProfessor of Economics (date of hire – 1981)

Young Alumni Trustees

Retiring Members of the Faculty

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Processional Route

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The Commencement ceremony may be

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the following locations: Althouse 106,

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Photo Stand Procedure

Photos of students receiving their diplomas may be taken from the photo stand on the left side of the platform. Please assist us in making sure every

family has the opportunity to take a photo by sending only one family member per graduate to the photo area well in advance of your student’s

descent down the “old stone steps.” College personnel will be stationed near the photo area to help you move onto the platform shortly before your

graduate receives his or her diploma. Please note that this area is for photography only. No video recording will be permitted, as doing so is time

consuming and does not allow other families the same opportunity to photograph their graduate.

Diplomas

At the request of past graduates and parents, we have not rolled the actual diplomas. The original diplomas will be available for pickup by the graduate or a family member on Britton Plaza (or, in the case of inclement weather, in

Biddle House) immediately following Commencement. Please be sure to pick them up by 2 p.m.

Photographs

U.S. Candids will take photographs of each graduate. Photos will be posted online within two to three days after the graduation ceremony.

You can view and purchase photos online at www.uscandids.com. If you are unable to view the photos online, please call 844-922-6343.

For additional information, questions or comments, please e-mail [email protected].

Videos

A professional videographer will record the ceremony. To purchase copies of the DVD or Blu-ray disc,

contact Bucher’s Video at 717-334-0038.

Additional Information

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Leaving Carlisle

Guests and graduates may experience heavy traffic this afternoon because of the Carlisle Import-Kit/Replicar Nationals car show at the Carlisle

Fairgrounds. To avoid traffic, people intending to go north or south on I-81 should go south on College Street, turn right on Walnut Bottom Road and proceed to the entrance ramps for I-81 (Exit 45). If you need to travel

on the Turnpike, go to I-81 (as above) and proceed north to Exit 52 (PA Turnpike signs are clearly marked), then south on the

Harrisburg Pike (Rt. 11) to the Turnpike entrance.

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Charles Nisbet ....................................................................................................1784 - 1804

Robert Davidson ................................................................................................1804 - 1809

Jeremiah Atwater ................................................................................................1809 - 1815

John McKnight ...................................................................................................1815 - 1816

John Mitchell Mason ..........................................................................................1821 - 1824

William Neill ......................................................................................................1824 - 1829

Samuel Blanchard How ......................................................................................1829 - 1832

John Price Durbin ..............................................................................................1834 - 1845

Robert Emory .....................................................................................................1845 - 1848

Jesse Truesdell Peck ............................................................................................1848 - 1852

Charles Collins ...................................................................................................1852 - 1860

Herman Merrills Johnson ..................................................................................1860 - 1868

Robert Laurenson Dashiell ................................................................................1868 - 1872

James Andrew McCauley ...................................................................................1872 - 1888

George Edward Reed ..........................................................................................1889 - 1911

Eugene Allen Noble ............................................................................................1911 - 1914

James Henry Morgan .........................................................................................1914 - 1928

Mervin Grant Filler ............................................................................................1928 - 1931

James Henry Morgan .........................................................................................1931 - 1932

Karl Tinsley Waugh ............................................................................................1932 - 1933

James Henry Morgan .........................................................................................1933 - 1934

Fred Pierce Corson .............................................................................................1934 - 1944

Cornelius William Prettyman ............................................................................1944 - 1946

William Wilcox Edel ...........................................................................................1946 - 1959

Gilbert Malcolm .................................................................................................1959 - 1961

Howard Lane Rubendall ....................................................................................1961 - 1975

Samuel Alston Banks ..........................................................................................1975 - 1986

A. Lee Fritschler ..................................................................................................1987 - 1999

William G. Durden .............................................................................................1999 - 2013

Nancy A. Roseman .............................................................................................2013 - 2013

In 1888-1889, Charles Francis Himes was acting president, and in 1986-1987, George Allan, the

dean of the college, served as acting president. During the periods 1816 to 1821 and 1832 to 1834

the college was closed.

Presidents of the College

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In 1773 the citizens of Carlisle founded a grammar school on

land donated by Thomas and John Penn, but classes were

temporarily suspended when the first schoolmaster left to serve

at Valley Forge. With an optimism buoyed by colonial indepen-

dence, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush proposed that the

fledgling school be transformed into a college that would be

“a source of light and knowledge to the western parts of the

United States”—the wilderness lands stretching west from the

Susquehanna River.

John Dickinson, governor of Pennsylvania and drafter of the

Articles of Confederation, was persuaded, and on Sept. 9, 1783,

a charter was approved by the Representatives of the Freemen of

the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The new college, founded

by Presbyterians but with an independent board of trustees, was

dedicated to “the instruction of Youth in the learned languages”

and in the “useful arts, Sciences, and Literature.”

Charles Nisbet, a Calvinist minister from Scotland, was the

first principal of the college. He insisted on rationality and high

standards of learning and encouraged the founding of two of

the nation’s oldest continuing literary societies, Belles Lettres

(1786) and Union Philosophical (1789). Chief Justice Roger

Brooke Taney, class of 1795, and U.S. President James Buchanan,

class of 1809, were among their early student members.

The college’s first permanent building, Old West, was

completed in 1805. Benjamin Latrobe, the architect of the

Capitol building in Washington, contributed both preliminary

designs and working drawings for the building. To him and to

its builders, higher education was a cause upon which the life of

their new nation depended, and Old West was built as a living

monument to their conviction. Known as the “College Edifice,”

the building was crowned by a weathervane replica of a classical

sea deity, interpreted and rendered by a local coppersmith in the

form of a buxom mermaid. Over the years, it has become a

distinctive symbol of this inland campus.

When Old West was erected, Dickinson’s trustees and donors

had the same broad objective in mind—to secure the freedom

and future of America by assuring an educated citizenry. They

agreed that liberty must be founded on learning. This aim was

inscribed on the college’s seal, a copy of which appears on the

cover of this program. Among the donors were a U.S. president

(Thomas Jefferson), a U.S. vice president (James Madison),

a chief justice (John Marshall), members of President Jefferson’s

cabinet and members of the Supreme Court—in all, more than

100 patriots and soldiers of the War for Independence.

In the early 19th century, Dickinson fell on hard times,

briefly closing twice before coming under the sponsorship of the

Methodist Church in 1833. The college was revitalized under the

leadership of its new president, John Price Durbin, a former

chaplain of the U.S. Senate.

During the Civil War, Dickinson sent her sons to fight on

both sides, hopeful “that college loyalties would bind where civil

strife separated.” In the years after the war, Dickinson leavened

its abiding commitment to liberal-arts education with several

innovations. The college became coeducational in 1884 in

response to the determination and courage of its first woman

student, Zatae Longsdorff, class of 1887. The law department,

inaugurated in 1834, became the Dickinson School of Law in

1890 but has operated independently from the college since

1917. Dickinson also introduced elective courses for its students

at this time and experimented briefly with awarding doctoral

degrees in cursu. Following World War I, President James Henry

Morgan presided over a new educational experiment that

required students to graduate with a major field of concentra-

tion as a part of their general baccalaureate.

Since 1960, under the leadership of Presidents Howard L.

Rubendall ’31, Samuel A. Banks, A. Lee Fritschler, William G.

Durden ’71 and Nancy A. Roseman, the first female president of

the college, Dickinson has developed and expanded a balanced

and diverse liberal-arts curriculum that has fostered a wide

range of distinctive multidisciplinary strengths that include

innovative programming in global and sustainability studies; a

willingness to tackle contemporary challenges through emerging

fields such as security studies; a nationally celebrated workshop/

laboratory approach to science education; abundant student-

faculty research opportunities; extensive internship, study-

abroad and service-learning options; and a distinctive first-year

seminar program.

Dickinson’s picturesque campus has always served as a park

and playing field for students, its history punctuated by major

fires, an 1863 Confederate Army bivouac and soldier parade

drills in 1917 and 1942. In the early years, professors and

students cultivated cabbages and onions on the grounds. Today,

the campus’ abundant flowers and trees are augmented by

produce, herbs and forage greens, which also thrive at the

nearby organic Dickinson College Farm. In warm weather,

classes often are held on the campus green, and as in generations

past, Commencement exercises and other ceremonious

occasions take place by the “old stone steps” of Old West.

History of the College

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