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Summer 2002 | Volume 25, Number 3 | Campus | |||
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Commencement 2002 Graduates Celebrate Their Hard-Earned Diplomas — and Create an Endowment for the Future ON JUNE 8, GRADUATING students donned caps and gowns to join regalia-clad faculty members for Seattle Pacific University's 2002 Commencement.
Clive Calver, president of World Relief, was this year's Commencement speaker. Headquartered in Baltimore, World Relief works in 24 nations on five continents helping victims of poverty, natural disasters and war. Speaking before a crowd of 7,000 at Key Arena, Calver delivered an address titled "How Your Life Can Touch a Nation." The afternoon was the culminating event in a full weekend of graduation celebrations. On Friday morning, June 7, students earning master's and doctoral degrees gathered in Martin Square for the Graduate Hooding Ceremony. Master's degree students stood as their program directors and deans draped hoods over their shoulders. They then joined doctoral degree students, who received their hoods at Commencement, and the faculty to process with undergraduate students to the traditional Ivy Cutting ceremony. Part of Seattle Pacific's graduation rites since the mid-1920s, Ivy Cutting included a quarter-mile of ivy stretched around Tiffany Loop. President Philip Eaton, Vice President for Academic Affairs Les Steele and the seven retiring SPU faculty members cut a piece of ivy for each graduate. Later that evening, students, families and faculty members gathered in Royal Brougham Pavilion for Baccalaureate and in Gwinn Commons for a reception. Even as the graduates joined the ranks of SPU alumni, they presented their senior gift — The Class of 2002 Endowment — to the University. "The class wanted to create something that would carry on when they left campus," says Dean Carrell, associate director of development, who worked with a committee of 40 graduating seniors on the gift's creation. The Class of 2002 agreed to fund the endowment with an initial $10,000 over the next three years. In the hectic month before graduation, seniors had already raised $1,500. "It will be a challenge to reach $10,000, but they already have more than 10 percent of the class involved," says Carrell. "This gift greatly benefits SPU and is a tremendous vote of confidence from the Class of 2002."
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 From the President The Board of Trustees adopted a new SPU mission statement in May 2002. "I believe passionately in what we are trying to articulate here," says President Philip Eaton.
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Tiffany Bricks Project
Varsity Pair Rows to Gold
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