{"id":618,"date":"2020-03-04T16:03:07","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T20:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/?page_id=618"},"modified":"2020-03-04T16:06:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T20:06:56","slug":"commencement-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/commencement-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement Program"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t<h1>Commencement Program<\/h1>\n\t<em><strong>Saturday, June 6 at 10:30 AM<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<b>Academic Procession<\/b><br \/>\nChief Marshal Newton P.S. Merrill and the Principals of the Exercise<br \/>\nMarshal Laurence P. Madin and the Staff and Faculty<br \/>\nMarshal Elisabeth Sikes and the 2009-2014 Alumni<br \/>\nMarshal Jean-Arthur Olive and the September 2014-June 2015 Graduates\n<b>America the Beautiful<\/b><br \/>\nAll music performed by Glenway Fripp\n<b>Opening of Exercises<\/b><br \/>\nNewton P.S. Merrill, Chairman of the Board of Trustees\n<b>Invocation<\/b><br \/>\nThe Reverend Deborah M. Warner, Rector, Church of the Messiah, Woods Hole\n<b>Recognition of Joint Program Graduates and Presentation of Degree Recipients<\/b><br \/>\nJames A. Yoder, Vice President for Academic Programs and Dean\n<b>Conferring of Degrees<\/b><br \/>\nSusan K. Avery, President and Director<br \/>\nNewton P.S. Merrill, Chairman of the Board of Trustees\n<b>Greetings from the Joint Program Alumni\/ae Association<\/b><br \/>\nElisabeth Sikes, President of the Joint Program Alumni\/ae Association\n<b>Commencement Address<\/b><br \/>\nJohn P. Holdren<br \/>\nThe President\u2019s Science and Technology Advisor and the Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy\n<p><b>Presentation of Awards<\/b><\/p>\n<b>Director\u2019s Charge to the Graduates<\/b><br \/>\nSusan K. Avery, President and Director\n<b>Closing Exercises<\/b><br \/>\nNewton P.S. Merrill, Chairman of the Board of Trustees\n<b>Benediction<\/b><br \/>\nThe Reverend Dr. Deborah M. Warner\n<p><b>Academic Recession<\/b><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/03\/holdrenbioc_379973_thumbnail.jpg\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2020\/03\/holdrenbioc_379973_thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. John P. Holdren\" height=\"450\" width=\"300\" title=\"holdrenbioc_379973_thumbnail\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\tDr. John P. Holdren is President Obama\u2019s Science and Technology Advisor and the Senate-confirmed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commencement Program Saturday, June 6 at 10:30 AM Academic Procession Chief Marshal Newton P.S. Merrill and the Principals of the Exercise Marshal Laurence P. Madin and the Staff and Faculty Marshal Elisabeth Sikes and the 2009-2014 Alumni Marshal Jean-Arthur Olive and the September 2014-June 2015 Graduates America the Beautiful All music performed by Glenway Fripp&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/618\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.whoi.edu\/site\/commencement2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}