
Commencement 2008: Summoning the Holy Spirit
When graduating student Adele Crawford led a refrain from "Veni, Sancte Spiritus" ("Come, Holy Spirit") at Yale Divinity School commencement worship services on May 25, her Metropolitan Opera-trained voice was as beautiful as ever. As she summoned the Spirit under a perfectly sunny and cloudless sky, powerful currents of air swept through Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, threatening to blow over the YDS flag. It was as if the Spirit had heard and responded. All told, there are 131 graduates of the class of 2008.