2012 Commencement weekend at Stanford
More than 25,000 family members and friends gathered for Stanford’s 121st Commencement weekend June 14-17, 2012.
The keynote of Sunday’s Commencement ceremony was an address by Stanford alumnus Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J. He spoke to the graduates who entered Stanford Stadium with the traditional Wacky Walk.
Highlights on Saturday included the Baccalaureate address by Sister Joan Chittister, founder and director of Benetvision and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women; and the Class Day Lecture by Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, as well as graduation ceremonies at the Law School, School of Medicine and Graduate School of Business.
For full coverage of the weekend, visit this website.