[Chaplain2010] Founders' Day Convocation

[Pat Richeson]

 From the Chaplain’s Office
September 18, 2007
Attention Sophomores!

Please remember that Friday, September 21st is Founders’ Day 
Convocation, and that your class members are key participants in both 
the Convocation and the Memorial Ceremony that takes place at the Monument.

The left side of the auditorium has been reserved for you. Please plan 
on arriving early so you can be in your seats by 2:50 p.m. Please wear 
black/dark skirts or slacks and white shirts and comfortable shoes for 
the procession to the Monument.

Please attend Founders’ Day Convocation and sit in seating reserved for 
your class even if you are not escorting a member of the senior class to 
Monument Hill – be a part of the tradition of honoring our Founders!!!!

Founders’ Day Convocation will take place at 3:00 p.m. with the 
presentation of the Distinguished Alumna Award to Gay Hart Gaines, Class 
of 1959, for her work in the fields of education and historic 
preservation. Keynote speaker for Convocation will be Prudence Bushnell, 
former Ambassador to Kenya and Guatemala and current CEO of Sage 
Associates.

At the recessional, the faculty will be followed out by the seniors up 
the right aisle. The Sophomores will be led out by Chaplain White and 
your class president up the left aisle.

Following the Convocation, sophomores and seniors will be invited to 
take a white daisy from an usher outside Babcock. A bagpiper will lead 
the procession up to Monument Hill for the ceremony of the presentation 
of the memorial flowers from the sophomores to the seniors at Daisy’s 
grave. Following the ceremony, all students will be place flowers on 
Daisy’s grave. In the event of rain, the Placing of Memorial Flowers 
will take place in the Chapel.

We hope that the Class of 2010 will participate in this important and 
meaningful occasion. See you at 2:50 p.m. in Babcock on Friday, 
September 21!