Connecticut College To Graduate More Than 450 On Sunday

The “Centennial Class” at , mustering more than 450 students, will receive their diplomas in a ceremony on Sunday.

The college will hold commencement activities at 11 a.m. on the Tempel Green, or in the Palmer Auditorium in the event of inclement weather. The college is asking that guests arrive by 10 a.m., and the procession of students and faculty will begin at 10:35 a.m.

The keynote speaker for this year’s class, graduating during the 100th year of Connecticut College’s existence, is Cynthia Enloe. A graduate of the Class of 1960, Enloe is now a research professor of international development, community and environment at Clark University. Enloe has written 12 books, giving a feminist perspective of issues ranging from economic development to armed conflict. According to a press release, her address will discuss connections to the world at large, using the founding of Connecticut College as a women’s school and the deadly fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York that occurred two weeks earlier.

Other speakers at this year’s commencement will include the school’s president, Leo I. Higdon, and graduating senior Charles Lincoln Wesley of Spokane, Wash. The graduation will be followed by a lunch on the Library Green for graduates and guests.