August 30, 2023

Academic Processional

(All standing)    
led by Benjamin Lotto    
College Marshal and Professor and Chair of Mathematics and Statistics

Prelude for Organ in F Major         
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1805–1847)          
Gail Archer, Organ

Invocation and Land Acknowledgment

Rev. Samuel H. Speers         
Associate Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices

The Convocation Choir

Christine Howlett       
Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities

Afternoon on a Hill     
Music by Eric Barnum (b. 1970)     
Poetry by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), Class of 1917

James Fitzwilliam, piano

Daniel Allan
Olivia Barba
Emily Bearse
Helena D. Bekele
Vivian Belkin
Cora Blackwell
Sophia Blankinship
Olivia Bragitikos
Madeleine Brigman
Molly Cate Brown
Christie Burnside
Zachary Cahn
Sadie Carey Keesbury
Grace Cazzaniga
Jordan Chafe
Julianne Cuevo
Maria Cusick
Emily Doucet
Avery Duer
Iona Duncan
Milla Durfee
Sarah Dworman
Rafi Ettinger-Finley
Jacqueline Evangelista
Grace Finke
Avi Fischer-Brown
James Fitzwilliam
Allie Flanders
Abbye Friedman
Noa Gafni
Zoe Giles
Isabel Granger
Finley Greene
Sadie Hammarhead
Eric Hepp
Kyra Hoffman
Oliver Hollmann
Christine Howlett
Coleman Hunter
Sara Iglesias
Samuel Jacobs
Philippa Kennedy
Elliot Kloninger-Stever

Madison Liesching
Joseph Lippman
Anna Little
Rey Lopez-Jensen
Ada Lovelace
Maya Lubetsky
Finntan Mangalam
Karina Mangru
Eva Martinez
Charlotte Mathews
Talia Mayo
Shannon McCord
Claire McHarg
Drew Minter
Nicholas Monsion
Lanie Mussina
Alea Myers
Eduardo Navega
Elizabeth Stockton Perkins
Harrison Phipps
Julia Pols
Beatrix Postley
Katherine Powell
Kyla Putterman
Alexandra Rabiner-Pennette
Marlee Reinmuth
Braden Reynolds
Ben Ryan
Margaret Ryan-Byrne
Neave Rynne
Alassa Seedansingh
Magdalena Sharff
Michaela Shaw
Alexander Shumaker
Isaac Steinberg
Claire Suvari
Zoe Thompson
Rebecca Torres
Mattie Vandiver
Mae Walker
Jenna Wall
Shuyang Wei
Tatiana Wifall
Yidan Xu
Tianchen Sheldon Zhou
Ziqing Zhuang
James Zuckerman

Welcome

Elizabeth H. Bradley        
President, Vassar College     
Transcript of President Bradley’s welcoming remarks

Remarks

Carlos Alamo-Pastrana       
Dean of the College, Vassar College

Alumnae/i Association of Vassar College (AAVC)

Award Presentation

Brian Farkas ’10, AAVC Vice President and AAVC Trustee          
Stephanie Goldberg ’14, Alumnae/i Recognition Committee         
Priya Nair ’15, 2023 Young Alumnae/i Achievement Award Recipient

Remarks

Olivia Gross ’24          
President, Vassar Student Association

2023 Faculty Endowed Chairs Presentation

Elizabeth H. Bradley        
President, Vassar College     
Transcript of the Faculty Endowed Chairs Presentation

Convocation Address

Campus: Space and Place

Yvonne Elet        
Professor of Art History

Closing

Rev. Samuel H. Speers        
Associate Dean of Religious and Spiritual Life and Contemplative Practices

Gaudeamus Igitur

(All standing)          
Arr. Geer/Bartholomew          
Christine Howlett       
Associate Professor and Director of Choral Activities

Recessional

(All standing)          
Allegro maestoso from Sonata I.          
Felix Mendelssohn (1809–1847)          
Gail Archer, Organ

The cover for the 2023 Convocation program. It is burgundy; a predominantly typographic layout. It has the text “Vassar College Convocation 2023, Wednesday, August 30, 2023”, placed on top of a design with “2023” and the VC monogram.
2023 Convocation program