Thursday, May 17, 2012
Mandatory Commencement Rehearsal*
Aquinas Hall Theatre
1:30 pm for traditional undergraduates
6:45 pm for Continuing Education and master's degree
candidates.
*All students planning to participate in the commencement
ceremonies must attend the rehearsal.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Hooding and Awards Ceremony, 6 pm
Check-in begins at 5:15 pm. Line-up begins promptly at
5:40 pm.
Aquinas Hall Theatre
All graduates participating in the ceremony should check in to
Room 109 (AQU) unless you received prior
notification through your MSMC email account.
Description: The Hooding and Awards Ceremony is
held the Friday evening before commencement. This is a traditional
commencement ceremony where graduates are vested with their
academic hoods. The academic hood, which indicates the
degree-earned and the degree-conferring institution, is a
long-established symbol of the academic life. Awards for
scholarship and service—the tenets of the Dominican tradition—are
given to deserving graduates. The Hooding and Awards Ceremony will
take place in the Aquinas Hall Theatre,and tickets are not required
for this event.
Graduate's Reception
Immediately following the Hooding and Awards
Ceremony
Kaplan Family Mathematics, Science and Technology Center
atrium.
Family and friends are invited to join graduates, faculty, and
administration for a final gathering. RSVP by the graduate is
required.
Saturday, May 19, 2012
Commencement Liturgy, 9 am
Dominican Center Chapel
Commencement day begins with a liturgy for graduates, their
friends and families in the Dominican Center Chapel. Cardinal
Turkson, who will speak at Commencement, will celebrate the
Baccalaureate Liturgy.
Commencement, Noon
The Dominican Center field, south end of
campus.
The academic procession begins promptly at 11:15
am.
Commencement is the ceremony commonly known as graduation. At this
ceremony, degree candidates are recognized. The year 2012 marks the
49th commencement for the bachelor's degrees, and the 27th
commencement for the master's degrees. Tickets are required for
commencement.
Three accomplished guests will receive honorary doctoral
degrees:
Peter Kodwo Appiah Cardinal Turkson.
Cardinal Turkson, a native of Ghana, is president of the Pontifical
Council for Justice and Peace, located at the Vatican. Purpose:
"promote justice and peace in the world, in the light of the Gospel
and of the social teaching of the Church.” The primary work of the
Pontifical Council is to engage in action-oriented studies based on
both the papal and episcopal social teaching of the Church, and
contribute to the development of this teaching in the vast fields
of justice, peace and human rights. Ordained a priest in the Cape
Coast diocese of Ghana in 1975, Turkson was ordained
archbishop there in 1993, and elevated to Cardinal in 2003. In
2009, he was appointed president of the Pontifical Council for
Justice and Peace. Cardinal Turkson will celebrate the
Baccalaureate Liturgy and will speak briefly at Commencement.
Elizabeth Ailes A 20-year veteran of NBC
News, CNBC, and America's Talking, the forerunner of MSNBC,
Elizabeth Ailes has also brought her intensity of journalistic
focus as publisher of two newspapers: the Putnam County News
& Recorder, and the Putnam County Courier, New
York State's oldest, continually published weekly established in
1841. She began at NBC News Radio and NBC News, was the first
producer hired at CNBC when that network launched, later became
director of business programming there, before becoming vice
president of programming at America’s Talking. In 1998 she
married Roger Ailes, chair and CEO of Fox News Channel and Fox
Business Network. Mrs. Ailes will give a Commencement address.
Joseph A. Reilly. Reilly was named the
first full-time executive director of the New York State
Broadcasters Association in 1980 and became president in 1986,
representing the interests of over 750 radio and TV stations in the
state. Among his many achievements was his successful leadership to
open NY State’s courts to cameras and microphones. He retired in
2011. Reilly has served on the boards of the Broadcasters
Foundation of America; Teresian House of Albany; Capital Bank &
Trust; New York State Partnership; Chase Lincoln First Bank;
Governors Telecommunications Exchange; Governor’s Committee for a
Healthier New York; New York State Youth Advisory Board. He is on
the Advisory Board of Straus Digital Media, LLC and a Trustee of
Christian Brothers Academy.