Gearing Up for Commencement 2025

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Class Day and ceremonies on the Green start as campus preps for Commencement on Sunday.

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Class of 2025
Members of the Class of 2025 assemble in front of Dartmouth Hall for their class portrait on the eve of Commencement. . (Photo by Robert Gill)
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Sandra Oh's silhouette onstage
Emmy Award-winning actor Sandra Oh rehearses her Commencement speech during a mic check on the Green.  (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Dartmouth College Gospel Choir
The Dartmouth Gospel Choir is always an integral part of Baccalaureate services. (Photo by Julia Levine ’23)
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Chelsey Luger
Chelsey Luger ’10 delivers the keynote address—Mitakuye Oyasin - We Are All Related—at the Baccalaureate service on Saturday. (Photo by Julia Levine ’23)
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Students sit together at Class Day
Seniors about to graduate enjoy time together in the Bema during Class Day exercises. (Photo by Julia Levine ’23)
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Students looking over the railing on the top of Baker Tower
Students peer down from the top of Baker Tower. (Photo by Sophia Scull ’25)
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Sydney Hoose and Emma Tsosie at the mic and podium onstage
Sydney Hoose ’25 and Emma Tsosie ’25, co-presidents of Native Americans at Dartmouth, rehearse their Commencement welcome. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Empty folding chairs
Folding chairs on the Green await family, friends, and supporters of graduates.  (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Sian Beilock with Victoria Page and her family
President Sian Leah Beilock poses for a photo with Victoria Page ’25, second from left, and her family during the reception for graduates and their guests at the President’s House on Friday evening. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Student societies lined up for photos on Baker lawn
Baker Lawn is awash with student societies getting group photographs in the week leading up to Commencement. Here, members of Abaris pose with their staffs while Julia Levine ’23, a former member, takes their photo. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Esmeralda Jerez hugging someone with an award in hand
Esmeralda Jerez ’25 embraces a classmate after receiving an award. (Photo by Robert Gill)
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MPG members and EJ Kiefer standing beyond a sea of chairs
Staff with the Media Production Group meet with Conferences and Events Executive Director EJ Kiefer about camera placement for the Commencement livestream. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Crew member working, seen through sets of truss
Crews work on the roof of the Commencement stage before it was raised. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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Baker Tower seen through the commencement chairs
Baker Tower, as seen through chairs set up for Commencment on the Green. (Photo by Katie Lenhart)
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OPAL staff group photo
The Office of Pluralism and Leadership staff pose with student award winners after the Special Recognition Ceremony.  (Photo by Robert Gill)
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Student standing to receive an award
Maya Bryson ’25 is applauded by her peers as she receives a Class Marshal award during the Special Recognition Ceremony in Collis Common Ground. (Photo by Robert Gill)