MOUNT VERNON — Cornell College will confer degrees on 237 students at commencement on Saturday, May 28, at 1:30 p.m. in the Richard and Norma Small Multi-Sport Center.
Dennis Moore, vice president for academic affairs and dean of the college, will give the faculty address. John Feldman, an instrumental music education major from Lisbon, will be the senior class speaker.
Moore and Paul Garvin, geology professor, will receive faculty emeriti status. Moore is retiring after 18 years as Cornell’s dean. Garvin is retiring after 36 years at Cornell.
Saturday events begin at 9 a.m. with a baccalaureate service in King Chapel. The Rev. Catherine Quehl-Engel, college chaplain, will deliver the sermon. Seniors’ words of thanksgiving for family, friends and mentors will be read at the service.
Cornell’s Delta of Iowa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold a reception at 10:30 a.m. in Cole Library. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most widely respected academic honor society in the United States. There are 270 chapters in the United States, including seven in Iowa.
After a buffet luncheon from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Cornell seniors, faculty and administrators will assemble at 12:45 p.m. in the Multi-Sport Center for the traditional academic procession that begins the 1:30 p.m. commencement ceremony. The public is invited.
