Sentence examples for first commencement from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kerrey, who was presiding at his first commencement, looked completely at ease.

The 34 students who graduated on Saturday in the school's first commencement, a joint ceremony for three graduating classes, ranged in age from 5 to 18.

Mr. Obama delivered his first commencement address as president at Arizona State University, whose decision not to award him a ceremonial diploma touched off a national furor.

Mr. Bollinger, speaking at his first commencement as the university's president, referred to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and conflict around the world, saying: "You have attended the university at a remarkable and possibly even momentous period.

It was graduation redux for Public School 92, whose first commencement ceremony ended dismally last week when security guards doused unruly parents with pepper spray outside an auditorium at Medgar Evers College.

Photo: Daniel Marchionne, 22, an accounting major, filed out of the Great Hall at Cooper Union with other graduates yesterday after the first commencement ceremony for the Honors College of the City University of New York.

The university held its second black commencement last month on May 22. (This story has been corrected to clarify in the third paragraph that the court appointing the lawyer is in Arizona, not Boston).

Found on a New York soccer field: A fifth-grade commencement speech scribbled on the back of an ad for a private school admissions adviser.

But "Road to Nowhere" was an apt prelude to Byrne's speech (his first-ever commencement address), which focussed on, of all things, the financial prospects of arts-program graduates.

This is my second college commencement address this spring, and I will be doing four more.

This is the ninth consecutive commencement that has taken place at West Point with our nation at war.