Baccalaureate
Traditionally held the evening before Commencement, Baccalaureate was an opportunity for graduates to gather and reflect on their experiences at WPI. The ceremony, which started at 5:30 p.m. Friday, May 15, in Alden Memorial, featured inspirational messages and musical performances selected by the graduating class. Professor Jeanine Plummer, director of WPI's environmental engineering program, gave the keynote address. Seating was limited for the program, which was open to graduates, family and friends, and the campus community. A reception followed at Forkey Commons located at the lower level of the Campus Center.
Read more about Professor Jeanine Plummer.
The 141st Baccalaureate Ceremony
Friday, May 15, 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Alden Memorial
- Baccalaureate Committee
- Class of 2009 Board of Directors
- Prelude
- Processional
- Invocation
- Greetings
- Reflections - Jennifer Himottu
- Musical Performance - Kiss the Rain
- Reflections - Francis Song
- Musical Performance - Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
- Inspirational Message to the Class of 2009
- Musical Performance - For Good from Wicked
- Reflections - Nicholas Vitello
- Closing Remarks
- Benediction
- Recessional
Baccalaureate Committee
Michelle Dubuke, | Chair |
Shawn Carey | Krista Dietz |
Amanda Gurnon | Andrew Schwalbenberg |
James McLaughlin, | Committee Advisor |
Class of 2009 Board of Directors
Andrew Schwalbenberg, | Chair |
Jonathan Baldiga | Jennifer Himottu |
Belin Beyoglu | Andrew Kenoian |
Bryan Bigda | Alison LeFlore |
Derek Britton | Haiying Liu |
Michelle Carbonneau | Charlotte McAuliffe |
Elizabeth Carey | Sara Migdal |
Shawn Carey | Augustina Mills |
Michael Case | Elyssa Morrow |
Krista Dietz | Morgan Oexner |
Nicholas DiLullo | Dericc Orso |
Michelle Dubuke | Nicholas Pelletier |
Ryan Eley | Dukens Rene |
Shivahn Fitzell | Sean Seymour |
Keith Flanders | Gabriella Serrati |
Alexander Forti | Ryan Sottolano |
Andrew Gilday | Connie Tran |
Timothy Glover | Jeffrey Trost |
Karyn Gottardi | Phyllis Wall |
Amanda Gurnon | MeghanWoods |
Special thanks to Professor Douglas G. Weeks, Administrator of Applied Music, and the Senior Class Board of Directors
Prelude
Contrapunctus I from The Art of the Fugue – Johann Sebastian Bach
Largo from Xerxes – Georg Frideric Händel
Music from Cirque du Soleil – Arranged by Shawn Carey ’09
Flight – ReneDupere • ‘O’ – Benoit Jutras • La Nouba –Benoit Jutras
Great Gate of Kiev – Modeste Mussorgsky
Elizabeth Bachelder (Mass Academy), organ
WPI Brass Ensemble
Professor Douglas Weeks, Director
Processional
Allegro from Concerto for Tympani – Jaromir Weinberger
Invocation
Rabbi Irving Luchans, Congregation Sha'arei Shalom, Ashland
Greetings
Michelle Dubuke ’09, Chair, Baccalaureate Committee
Jennifer Himottu ’09
Reflections
Jennifer Himottu ’09
Musical Performance
Kiss the Rain –Yiruma
Eugene Choi ’09, piano
Francis Song ’09
Reflections
Francis Song ’09
Musical Performance
Mercy, Mercy, Mercy –Zawinul
Daniel Smaltz ’09, saxophone
Kyle Miller ’09, piano
Joshua Dick ’09, drums
Inspirational Message to the Class of 2009
Jeanine Plummer, Associate Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering
Schwaber Professor of Environmental Engineering
Musical Performance
For Good from Wicked –Schwartz
Eugene Choi ’09, piano
Krista Dietz ’09, Kelsey Graham ’09, vocal
Nicholas Vitello ’09
Reflections
Nicholas Vitello ’09
Closing Remarks
Michelle Dubuke ’09
Benediction
The Reverend Robert Loftus Collegiate Religious Center
Recessional
Gaudeamus Igitur —Traditional
Reception follows in the Campus Center, Forkey Commons
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