One evening in June of last year, Jamaica students wearing red and blue gowns gathered with their families and teachers and with members of the school staff at Antun's, a catering hall in Queens Village, for the senior-class commencement ceremony.
Ms. Walker has reason to be satisfied these days, however, as the conservatory prepares the 160 students in its 25th graduating class for commencement.
He was asked to provide an original work for his graduating class's commencement and wrote a "light and sarcastic" poem that met with great acclaim.
With their cameras, they documented not just men wearing boutonnieres, women in dressmaker gowns and children in lace-trimmed dresses but typewriting clubs and high school cooking classes, college commencement days, businesses, Emancipation Day parades.
He carried the flag for his class at his commencement, as he did at college.
(The first notes, on a commencement class of nine, were published in 1642).
She did so well that she was named the class speaker at commencement exercises in 2009.
Mr. Iovine's daughter completed her undergraduate studies there; on Friday, he is delivering the class of 2013 commencement speech.
They were the 70th commencement class in the school's history, the latest to bear the venerable epithet of being "Rice men".
It would have been difficult to find a more fitting speaker for Vassar College's Class of 2000 commencement than Geraldine Laybourne, a former student who helped turn Vassar into a co-educational school and is among the most powerful women in television.
MSU President Jonathan L. Snyder had invited Washington to be the College's Class of 1900 commencement speaker.
