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Sunday, May 25, 2008

University Baccalaureate Service
Woolsey Hall
9:30 am and 11:00 am
No procession for graduates, processional candidates or faculty.
No tickets required.

Divinity School Commencement Worship
Divinity Quadrangle
4:00 pm
Preacher:          Carolyn Sharp

[Note:  Prizes for YDS recipients will be awarded after the sermon and before the recessional.  Prizes for ISM and BDS recipients will be announced.]

This event is preceded by a procession, weather permitting. Wearing gowns, caps and hoods, M.Div., M.A.R., and S.T.M. candidates for graduating will assemble on the Quadrangle directly in front of the Chapel.  Led by your marshals, you may assemble in any order of your choosing; to sit with friends, march before or after, not side by side.  Faculty will assemble in the RSV Conference Room.

Graduate Reception
Divinity Quadrangle (Prospect Street)
5:30 pm

Monday, May 26, 2008

Light Continental Breakfast
Common Room
7:30 – 9:30 am

Divinity School Commencement Communion
8:00 – 9:00am
Divinity Quadrangle
Preacher:          Nora Tubbs Tisdale
Celebrants:       Dale Peterson and Emilie Townes

University Commencement
Old Campus
10:30 am
No tickets required.

All participants are encouraged to meet in front of the Divinity School (on Prospect Street) at 9:15am to walk to Cross Campus behind the YDS banner.

Guests will be seated until 10:15 am.  Faculty and candidates assemble at 9:45 under the Divinity School sign on Cross Campus (in front of Sterling Library); follow your marshals, in any order.  Because the Commencement exercises will be outdoors even in the event of rain, you and your guests should be prepared with raincoats and umbrellas.  All candidates for degrees are required to attend the University Commencement.

Divinity School Commencement Exercises
12:30 pm
Divinity Quadrangle

This will include a brief ceremony with a Charge to the Graduates.  Diplomas will be awarded to members of the M.A.R., M.Div., and S.T.M. classes.  In caps and gowns, graduating M.Div., M.A.R., and S.T.M. assemble by degree and alphabetically behind the appropriate student marshal.  Attendance of each member of the graduating classes is required unless a request to be excused, addressed to the Dean in writing, is granted.

Graduate Reception
2:00 pm
Divinity Quadrangle (Prospect Street)

It is your responsibility to contact the persons listed below for changes in time and/or location of Commencement events.

For Divinity events,
            Contact the offices of the associate deans
            Robert Wilson (432-5308) and/or Dale Peterson (432-5310)

For University events,
            Call 432-2310 for a recorded message or
            Visit the University website at www.yale.edu/commencement.

Further Commencement information will be posted here as it becomes available.

This following links are of interest to current YDS students. Please use the links below and to the left to navigate through the YDS site and greater Yale University website:

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Faculty/Staff Directory

M.Div Entrance Evaluation (.doc)

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Last Updated: May 7, 2008