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Reunion and Commencement Weekend 2009

Friday, May 22 through Sunday May 24
(Memorial Day Weekend)

Reunion and Commencement Weekend 2008

Friday, May 23 through Sunday May 25, 2008

Bard Commencement 2008
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Congressman Charles B. Rangel received an honorary degree and delivered the commencement address as part of Bard College's one hundred forty-eighth commencement on Saturday, May 24, 2008. At the commencement ceremony, Bard President Leon Botstein conferred 338 undergraduate degrees on the Class of 2008 and 141 graduate degrees. Honorary degrees were also awarded to choreographer Merce Cunningham, Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Margaret H. Marshall, economist Eric S. Maskin, editor-in-chief of Alfred A. Knopf Publishers Ajai Singh "Sonny" Mehta, and poetry critic Marjorie Perloff.

• Commencement 2008 Address by Congressman Charles B. Rangel
• Charge to the Graduating Class of 2008 by Bard President Leon Botstein
• Click here to see the schedule of events from Commencement Weekend 2008

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at 845-758-7504, e-mail: parise@bard.edu
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