Campus News

Congratulations Class of 2013

May 27, 2013

Communications Staff

View a gallery of photos from Oberlin's 176th Commencement Exercises.More photos of Commencement and the entire Commencement/Reunion Weekend are on flickr.

Photo Gallery

2013 Commencement

Four people laugh and jump for joy — Photo credit: Nate Parsons

A person in commencement regalia, including a cap decorated with hanging beads — Photo credit: Lilly Day

Two people in commencement regalia embrace as others look on — Photo credit: Nate Parsons

People dressed in formalwear and commencement regalia applaud — Photo credit: Lilly Day

People in formalwear and commencement regalia line up along a sidewalk — The academic procession forms outside Peters Hall.
Photo credit: Nate Parsons

A person wearing a floral headdress smiles — Photo credit: Lilly Day

Panorama photo of people seated in chairs in a field with umbrellas — Photo credit: John Seyfried

A person in commencement regalia speaks from behind a podium — Commencement speaker Tracy Chevalier ’84, a historical novelist, received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
Photo credit: Nate Parsons

A man in commencement regalia looks outward as others place an academic stole around his shoulders — Musicologist and music critic Richard Taruskin received an honorary Doctor of Music degree.
Photo credit: Nate Parsons

One man places a academic stole around the shoulders of another while a third speaks at a podium — Writer, producer, and director Jonathan Demme received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree.
Photo credit: Nate Parsons

A man in commencement regalia holds up a red rectangle — Booker Peek, associate professor emeritus of African American studies, received Oberlin’s award for Distinguished Service to the Community.
Photo credit: Nate Parsons

Two people in commencement regalia move to embrace behind a podium — Oberlin native and 1959 Oberlin High School graduate, William Robinson ’63, received Oberlin’s Alumni Medal.
Photo credit: Nate Parsons

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