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[MUSIC PLAYING] ANNOUNCER: Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of Cornell University, a world class research and academic institution, the first of the academic procession has arrived. Leading the procession is the university marshal, Professor Charles Walcott. Following the university marshal is the banner for the class of 2013. The class banner-bearers are Grace Sara Kaminer and Kelly Elizabeth Wilcox, class officers.
First to arrive behind the class banner are the PhD candidates of the Graduate School. The symbol banner is carried by Matthew Dominic Bucemi. Candidates are led by Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Barbara A. Knuth, and faculty marshals Professor David Gries and Professor Kathryn March. The PhD banner-bearers are John Jean-Baptiste Jeannin and Keenan Fu Valentine. The degree marshals are Grace Kim and Kimberly Rollings.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, these are the PhD degree candidates from the Graduate School.
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And next are the master degree candidates of the Graduate School. The master banner-bearers are Mandy Violeta Gutmann-Gonzalez and Caroline Elizabeth Zeilenga. The degree marshals are Mitchell Christian Paine and Bobby Joe Smith.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, these are the master degree candidates from the Graduate School, all 700 of them.
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And next are the candidates from the College of Veterinary Medicine led by Dean Michael Kotlikoff and college banner-bearers Laura Beth Pollock and Anne Marie Zollo. The degree marshals are Katie Shea Emerson and Susan Elizabeth Shaffer Sookram. The symbol banner-bearer is Shannon Marie Smith.
Again, the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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And now entering the stadium, the law school candidates led by Dean Stewart Schwab and college banner-bearers Ryan Delaney and Eliad Shapiro. The degree marshals are Jocelyn Alyssa Krieger and Omar Ibrahim Khashaba. The symbol banner-bearer is Stephanie YunJin Cho. And these are the law school graduates.
And now the degree candidates from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management led by Dean Soumitra Dutta. The college banner-bearers are Maricela Castillo, Balaji Krishnamurthy, and the degree marshals are Renita R. Cheney and Cara Dorean Petonic. The symbol banner-bearer is Emerson Wen.
Once again, these are the degree candidates from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.
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For your information, degree candidates from the Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar participated in the separate commencement ceremony earlier this month. And the degree candidates from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City will participate in a separate commencement ceremony later this month.
And now entering the stadium are the first of the undergraduate degree candidates. The Senior Class Council banner is being carried by Sean P. Malloy and Jesella Zambrano. The class marshals are Briana Nichole Fowler and Rachel Ari Schuman, also members of the Senior Class Council.
And now the first of the undergraduate group is the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Leading the group is Dean Harry Katz. The college banner-bearers are Elizabeth Anne Spivak and Jonathan Michael Weinberg. Degree marshals are Amy Rose Dreisiger and Lukas Kowalczyk. The symbol banner-bearer is Alexander William Bores.
Again, these are the degree candidates from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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And now entering the stadium, the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning led by Dean Kent Kleinman and college banner-bearers Mikhail Thomas Grinwald and Xin Meng. Degree marshals for the architecture program are Karen Chi Lin and Melanie Jean Weismiller. Degree martials for the fine arts program are Zoe beck Gutterman and Alexandra Teixeira Riggs. Degree marshals for the planning program are Kevin Yen and Wei Onn Yuen. The symbol banner-bearer is Martin Leung.
Once again, these are the degree candidates for the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
And now entering the stadium, the School of Hotel Administration led by Dean Michael Johnson and college banner-bearers Monica Minjung Choi and Lana Rose Miller. Degree marshals are Matthew Scott Rubin and Carlos Savasta. The banner-bearer is Nicholas Vincent Asoli.
Ladies and gentlemen, these are the degree candidates from the School of Hotel Administration.
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And now entering the stadium are the degree candidates from the College of Human Ecology led by Dean Allan Mathios and college banner-bearers Edi Kapetanovic and Isaac Reuven Rosenberg. The degree marshals are Benjamin Yates Andrew and John V. Boyle. The symbol banner-bearer is Kyla Rose Cretekos-Gross.
Once again, these are the degree candidates from the College of Human Ecology.
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And now entering the stadium, the College of Engineering led by Dean Lance R. Collins. The college banner-bearers are Guo Jie Chin and Whitney Nowak Wenger. Degree marshals our Kimberly Sydney Lynn and Adam Michael Trofa. The symbol banner-bearer is Emma Marie Lejeune.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from the College of Engineering.
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And now entering the stadium, the College of Agriculture and the Life Sciences led by Dean Kathryn J. Boor. The college banner-bearers are Mollie Rose Dillon and Jun Jie Victor Seet. Degree marshals are Linda Jacqueline Liu and Yuchao Wang. The symbol banner-bearer is Sarah Ashley MacLean.
Once again, ladies and gentlemen, the degree candidates from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
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And now, the degree candidates from the College of the Arts and Sciences led by Dean Peter Lepage. The college banner-bearers are Joshua Hruby Sperling and Peter Nicholas Telesca. The degree marshals are David Bashirian Bishop and Ryan Yeh. The symbol banner-bearer is Micah Kuuini Del Rosario.
Ladies and gentlemen, once again, the degree candidates from the College of Arts and Sciences.
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And now please, will all candidates for degrees please stand at this time, please stand. Thank you. And now, entering the stadium, the administrative staff of the university led by Provost Kent Fuchs and two faculty marshals, Professor Howard Evans and Professor Rosemary Avery.
And now, the members of the faculty are entering the stadium. They're led by the Dean of the University Faculty, Joseph Burns. The faculty marshals are Professor Steve Carvell, Professor John Hermanson, Professor Risa Lieberwitz and Professor Drew Noden. Following the faculty marshals and entering the stadium are this year's Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows. This prestigious award is given each year to tenured faculty who have distinguished themselves as scholars, and have sustained a career of effective and inspiring teaching of undergraduate students, and who have made contributions to undergraduate education.
This year's Weiss Fellows are Sheila Hemami, Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering in the College of Engineering; David Lipsky, Professor of Dispute Resolution and Director of the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations; and Karl Niklas, Professor in the Department of Plant Biology in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Our Weiss Fellows are joined by their colleagues on the Cornell university faculty who are now entering the stadium.
Let's all say thank you to the Cornell University faculty.
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Next in the procession are members of the university's board of trustees. The trustees are led by Chairman Robert S. Harrison. The faculty marshals are Professor Fred B. Schneider and Professor Donald Viands.
Ladies and gentlemen, University Marshal Charles Walcott will now escort President David J. Skorton and the mace-bearer, Professor Laura Brown, to their places on the platform.
CHARLES WALCOTT: For the 145th time, Mr. President, candidates for degrees from Cornell University have gathered for conferral of degrees and to celebrate commencement. Members of the board of trustees, the faculty, administrative staff, degree candidates, and guests are in their places. The assembly is hereby called to order. Please remain standing. Please join the Cornell University Glee Club and chorus, accompanied by the Cornell University wind ensemble, in singing the Star Spangled Banner.
[MUSIC - FRANCIS SCOTT KEY, "STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"]
SINGERS: Oh, say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming? And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. Oh, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Everyone, please be seated.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Good morning and welcome to the 145th commencement of Cornell University.
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Congratulations to all of our degree candidates, undergraduate, graduate, and professional. And to the faculty, staff, other students, friends, families, and loved ones here and back home, I especially want to recognize the families of these graduates. It has been said that behind every graduate stands a very proud and very relieved family.
Graduates, your friends and families in all their distinctive variations have been there for you. Let's take a moment to thank them.
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Let's also take a moment to remember those whose commencement this would have been, as we do every year, by keeping an empty chair in the front row to honor classmates lost during your time here and whose family and friends are in our thoughts today. We also reach out in this moment to the family and friends of Christopher Dennis, class of 2013, who today remains missing after a boating accident a few days ago. Please join me in a moment of thought to all of these.
Thank you. We also acknowledge with pride and with gratitude the new officers from our ROTC programs who were commissioned yesterday, along with veterans of our armed forces and those currently serving our country in the military who are here in this stadium today. Thank you.
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You know, being a college student, whether graduate, professional, or undergraduate, is not easy easy. What is college? Work. Friends. Sleep. Pick two. That can be especially true at a place as demanding as Cornell University, the rigorous ivy.
My wife Robin and I repeatedly-- yes. Shall we say it again? Cornell, the rigorous ivy.
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My wife Robin and I repeatedly rediscover that trade-off of work, friends, sleep-- pick two-- when we spend orientation week living with first year students in Mary Donlon Hall, including during the class of 2013's first days on this campus. We made many friends, new friends, we did lots of interesting and fun things. But sleep? Not so much.
But all of you have come through superbly, and we are proud to recognize you for your achievements today. And each of you has walked your own path to this day, including Kyle Dake, Class of '13, who was just named Sports Illustrated's Male College Athlete of the Year for his accomplishments in Big Red Wrestling.
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Oh yeah.
And including our men's lacrosse team who concluded their run for the NCAA championship and a hard-fought game against Duke yesterday, and for whom we will have a special commencement celebration on Tuesday.
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And including our many international students who now have brighter prospects for remaining in this country, if they so desire, thanks to the mounting momentum in Congress to bring about comprehensive immigration reform.
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I want to make special note of one individual wearing a cap and gown today. Raymond Simon, Cornell Class of 1954, completed requirements for a Cornell degree in engineering nearly 60 years ago, but Raymond was called to serve in the Army a few days before his own commencement ceremony, and he never officially commenced.
But today, he joins his grandson, Andrew Simon, Class of 2013, as a participant in this 145th commencement. Raymond, congratulations!
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Commencements are optimistic statements about the future. And graduates, you give us good reason to believe that tomorrow will be better than today. You've already accomplished so much. And despite the very real challenges facing all of us at this time, I have confidence in your capacity for contribution and your prospects for a productive and fulfilling life.
Of course, to some, life beyond college looks uncertain right now. We all know graduates who are working at jobs that don't really require a college degree or perhaps still trying to figure out the next step. Lacking a good job or immediate career prospects and the financial stability that goes with them, they find it difficult to start families or make other life decisions.
And we face so many challenges, from climate change, to global inequalities, to violence of all sorts, that it can be difficult to look forward with confidence. How can we proceed with confidence when so many around us are losing hope? No one answer will fit every graduate, but whether you are moving from Schoellkopf this morning to a job, or military service, or graduate or professional school, or service in a non-profit, or still looking for the right opportunity, as Cornell graduates, you are well equipped for the next step and ready to make a difference.
Attitude can be as important as aptitude for navigating the waters ahead. So let me remind you of some of the qualities of mind and spirit that you've developed at Cornell and that will serve you well. First, continue to be optimistic. There is an old saying often ascribed to Abraham Lincoln, most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. Of course, we all know that life isn't quite that simple, but having a can-do attitude focusing on the possibilities instead of the problems can go a long way in achieving goals.
That's one of the messages of Sheryl Sandberg's provocative and controversial new book, Lean In. Sandberg, as many of you know, is the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook. Anybody here on Facebook? OK, me, too. And her book provides an important perspective to anyone aspiring to leadership and facing important life choices. Her message-- believe in yourself, give it your all, lean in to claim your place at the table. And don't leave before you leave. In other words, don't back off from your aspirations because you have another potentially competing life goal that you worry will make you less able to do your job.
Now David Schneider, who earned his master's and doctoral degrees from Cornell a few years ago, and is now a lecturer in operations research and information engineering here at Cornell, made a similar point in his lecture just last month to Mortar Board, a senior honor society. Schneider has been a screenwriter for Disney and an engineer for NASA. He has worked from the National Science Foundation in Intel, and been a teacher at Columbia and Cornell.
And, as he told his students in his lecture, you're the only person who holds yourself back. Look at all these different things that I got to do just because I put myself out there. You know positive attitude each time. If you're going to do it, give it your all.
As Cornell graduates, you bring formidable talents, experiences, and intellect to whatever you set out to do. Now you need to match that with optimism, focus, and effort. With the rigorous preparation and significant achievement that have earned you a college degree, there is no doubt that you're well-equipped for nearly whatever you set out to do. So recognize these extraordinary skills and then go out with optimism and determination to identify and then reach your goals.
Second, savor the present. Be mindful of your good fortune as Cornell graduates, but also keep your eye on the far horizon. In his classic book, Choosing the Right Pond, Robert Frank, the Henrietta Johnson Lewis Professor of Management and Professor of Economics at Cornell's SC Johnson Graduate School of Management, notes that it is often advantageous over the long-term to choose opportunities that may not yield the highest return in the short-term.
The opportunity to learn from talented colleagues, for example, what Professor Frank calls "learning effects," can provide significant benefits over time, especially to younger workers. So look at opportunities that will come your way, and I know they will, not only through the lens of your immediate needs, but also with an eye toward what you can learn and where the subsequent opportunities can take you over time.
And don't be afraid to fail. If you had studied entrepreneurship at Cornell or tried entrepreneurial ventures on your own, whether forming a new student organization or a startup business, you know that you will sometimes learn more from failures than from successes. In his book, The Geography of Bliss, Eric Weiner relates that Iceland is one of the world's happiest countries despite relative isolation and long, dark winters that make Ithaca look like a tropical paradise. Maybe let's not get carried away-- that make Ithaca look relatively mild.
Among the reasons for Icelanders' sense of well-being is that its young people are encouraged to follow their passions, to try and fail at many things, and then to regroup and try again. Is there a technical challenge or a societal problem that you began to address in an experiential learning course at Cornell and wish you had more time to investigate? Did you maybe pitch a great concept at the Big Idea competition or the Cornell Hospitality Business Plan competition that you would like to develop further? Especially at this stage in your lives, you can afford to take some risks. Not everything you try will be successful, but learn from any failures and then move ahead.
Third, have empathy for those around you. Realize that by helping others, we, in fact, help ourselves build fulfilling and meaningful lives. Events over this past year from Newtown, Connecticut to the Boston Marathon have led many of us to wonder about human nature itself. Last month, a happiness index on Twitter based on Twitter data showed that April 15, the day of the Boston Marathon Bombings, was the saddest day on Twitter in the last five years. Yet even the most horrific events often bring our best instincts to the fore as we open our hearts and we open our homes and we open our pockets to assist those in need.
You have already done a great deal in your time at Cornell to help lift the world's burdens. Members of this class have advocated on behalf of textile workers, who make college apparel, convincing Cornell and convincing me to change our procurement arrangements with certain vendors. You have worked-- you have worked to improve mental health services on this campus and to encourage healthier lifestyles. And I am pleased to report, as most of you have undoubtedly noticed, that the fencing on our bridges across our campus gorges have largely been replaced.
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Replaced by unobtrusive netting in response to suggestions that many of you and other members of our beautiful community offer to keep our campus both attractive and safe. You promoted sustainability locally and nationally and globally, and you've raised our collective awareness and spurred positive change around a host of issues.
Whether helping victims of the earthquake in Haiti, or those displaced much closer to home by Hurricanes Irene and Sandy, or working to counter bias and sexual violence on our own campus, or whether participating in courses that put knowledge into practice in communities around our world, or contributing to more than 400,000 hours of service that Cornell students give to the campus and local community each year through Cornell's Public Service Center and other organizations, in all these ways, you have already used your skills and your energy to help others in a dazzling variety of ways while meeting the demands of a rigorous academic program. I hope and I am counting on your continuing to build service and empathy for others into your long-term personal goals.
Remember my earlier characterization of college, work, friends, sleep, pick two? Some argue that you need to make similar compromises in the real world, that it isn't possible to have a good job, a balanced life, and still make a difference-- and in practice, so many of us so often seem willing to settle for two or even one of these.
But as David Starr Jordan, an early college grad-- Cornell College graduate who went on to become the first president of Stanford University, once said, be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for. Class of 2013, candidates for advanced degrees, you have earned our congratulations and our good wishes. Hold fast to your dreams, include others in them, have confidence in your skills. With optimism, forward-thinking, and empathy you can create a meaningful fulfilling future and also a better world. We believe in you. We are counting on you. Congratulations to you all. Thank you.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: We will now proceed to the conferring of degrees granted in course. The first groups to be presented to the president for the conferral of degrees are the graduate candidates who have completed work in the Graduate School or in one of the professional schools. Will the Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Barbara A. Knuth, please step forward. Will the candidates for the doctoral degree from the graduate school please rise, and the degree marshals come up onto the platform.
BARBARA A. KNUTH: I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the Graduate School for the appropriate degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Doctor of Music of Arts, Doctor of Science of Law.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Vice Provost and Dean Knuth. Upon the recommendation of the faculty, and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the doctoral degree appropriate to your field of advanced study and research with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. My heartiest congratulations.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Cornell University welcomes the new doctors of philosophy, of musical arts, and of the science of law to the ancient and universal company of scholars. Will the doctors please be seated.
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Will the Dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Michael Kotlikoff, please step forward. Will the candidates for the degrees of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine please rise, and the degree marshals come onto the platform.
MICHAEL KOTLIKOFF: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Veterinary Medicine for the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine.
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DAVID J. SKORTON: Give me a chance and you guys will be finished soon. Thank you, Dean Kotlikoff. Upon the recommendation of the faculty, and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree of Doctor of Veterinary Medicine with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations, congratulations.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the doctors of veterinary medicine please be seated. Will the Dean of the Law School, Stuart Schwab, please step forward. Will the candidates for the degrees of Doctor of Law or Master of Laws please rise, and the degree marshals come up onto the platform.
STEWART SCHWAB: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Law School for the degree of Doctor of Law or Master of Laws.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Schwab. Upon the recommendation of the faculty, and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree of Doctor of Law or Master of Laws with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the doctor of law and the master of laws graduates. please be seated. Will the Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School, Barbara A. Knuth, please return to the microphone. And will the candidates for the master degree in studies that have been directed by the Graduate School please rise, and will the degree marshals come up onto the platform.
BARBARA A. KNUTH: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and are duly recommended by the faculty of the Graduate School for the master degree, be it Master of Architecture, Master of Arts, Master of Arts and Teaching, Master of Engineering, Master of Fine Arts, Master of Health Administration, Master of Industrial and Labor Relations, Master of Landscape Architecture, Master of Management and Hospitality, Master of Professional Studies, Master of Public Administration, Master of Regional Planning, Master of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Vice Provost and Dean Knuth. Upon the recommendation of the faculty and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the master degree to which you are entitled with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Heartiest congratulations.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the masters degrees graduates please be seated. Will the Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Soumitra Dutta please step forward. Will the candidates for the degree of Master of Business Administration from the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management please rise, and will the degree marshals please come up onto the platform.
SOUMITRA DUTTA: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled their requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management for the degree of Master of Business Administration.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you and welcome, Dean Dutta. Upon the recommendation of the faculty, and by the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the degree with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the master graduates please be seated. The next groups to be admitted to the fellowship of educated men and women are the candidates for bachelor degrees. Will the two class marshals representing the entire Cornell University senior class please come up onto the platform.
In a moment, each college group will be called to rise for presentation to the president, and then asked to be seated. After all the bachelor's degree groups have been presented to the president, all the groups will be asked to rise again for the awarding of the degrees. The degree marshals for the bachelor degree groups will come forward to the base of the platform as each group is called.
Will the Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Harry Katz, please come forward. Will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the School of Industrial and Labor Relations please rise, and will the degree marshals please come to the front of the platform.
HARRY KATZ: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the school of industrial and labor relations for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Katz.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. Will the Dean of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning, Kent Kleinman, please come forward. And will the candidates for their degree of Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Science from the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning please rise, and will the degree marshals please come to the front of the platform.
KENT KLEINMAN: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these extraordinary candidates who have fulfilled their requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning for the degrees of Bachelor of Architecture, Bachelor of Fine Art, and Bachelor of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Kleinman.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. Will the Dean of the School of Hotel Administration, Dean Michael Johnson, please come forward. Will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the School of Hotel Administration please rise, and will the degree marshals please come to the front of the platform.
MICHAEL JOHNSON: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these most hospitable candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the School of Hotel Administration for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Johnson.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. Will the Dean of the College of Human Ecology, Alan Mathias, please come forward. And will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the College of Human Ecology please rise, and will the degree marshals please come to the front of the platform.
ALAN MATHIOS: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Human Ecology for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Mathios.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. Will the Dean of the College of Engineering, Lance R. Collins, please come forward. And will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the College of Engineering please rise, and will the degree marshals please come to the front of the platform.
LANCE R. COLLINS: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Engineering for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Collins.
CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. Will the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Kathryn J. Boor, please come forward. Will all the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Science from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences please rise, and will build the great marshals come to the front of the platform.
KATHRYN J. BOOR: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences for the degree of Bachelor of Science.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Boor.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will the candidates please be seated. Will the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Peter Lepage, please come forward. And will the candidates for the degree of Bachelor of Arts from the College of Arts and Sciences please rise, and will the degree marshals please come to the front of the platform.
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PETER LEPAGE: Mr. president, I have the honor to present these candidates who have fulfilled the requirements and who are duly recommended by the faculty of the College of Arts and Sciences for the degree of Bachelor of Arts.
DAVID J. SKORTON: Thank you, Dean Lepage.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will all bachelor degree candidates please rise at this time.
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DAVID J. SKORTON: It is my privilege to recognize the candidates recommended by the deans and the faculties of these several schools and colleges for the appropriate bachelor degrees. By the authority vested in me by the trustees of Cornell University, I hereby confer upon each of you the bachelor degree appropriate to your field of study with all the rights, privileges, honors, and responsibilities pertaining thereto. Congratulations to everyone.
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CHARLES WALCOTT: Will all the bachelors degree marshals please come up onto the stage to shake hands with President Skorton.
Will the assembly please stand for the singing of the evening song and the alma mater.
SINGERS: When the sun fades far away in the crimson of the west, and the voices of the day murmur low and sink to rest. Music with the twilight falls o'er the dreaming lake and dell; 'tis an echo from the walls of our own, our fair Cornell. Welcome night and welcome rest, fading music fare thee well! Joy to all we love the best, love to thee our fair Cornell! Music with the twilight falls o'er the dreaming lake and dell; 'tis an echo from the walls of our own, our fair Cornell.
Far above Cayuga's waters, with its waves of blue, stands our noble Alma Mater, Glorious to view. Lift the chorus, speed it onward, loud her praises tell, hail to thee, our Alma Mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell! Far above the busy humming of the bustling town, reared against the arch of heaven, looks she proudly down. Lift the chorus, speed it onward, loud her praises tell; hail to thee, our Alma Mater! Hail, all hail, Cornell!
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CHARLES WALCOTT: This concludes the 145th Cornell University commencement. We thank you for being with us and congratulate our new graduates. Please remain standing during the recessional until the faculty have left the field. Thank you.
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Commencement procession and ceremony for Class of 2013 undergraduate and graduate students, May 26, 2013 at Schoellkopf Stadium.
