{"id":14248,"date":"2021-09-28T17:32:09","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/?page_id=14248"},"modified":"2021-09-30T14:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T18:05:07","slug":"undergraduate-ceremony-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/y2020\/undergraduate-ceremony-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Undergraduate Ceremony Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>University of Rhode Island<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Class of 2020 \u2013 Undergraduate Commencement Exercises<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><em>In the Thomas M. Ryan Center at 4 p.m.<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Friday, October 1, 2021<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Prelude and Processional<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Declaration<br \/>\n<\/strong>Audrey B. Cardany, Chair, Faculty Senate; Grand Marshal<\/p>\n<p><strong>The National Anthem<br \/>\n<\/strong>Pre-recorded and performed by Christina Nero, Daniel Caramante, and Kristin Lafferty, Class of 2021<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greetings and Introductions<\/strong><br \/>\nMarc B. Parlange, President<br \/>\nDaniel J. McKee, Governor of the State of Rhode Island<\/p>\n<p><strong>Remarks<\/strong><br \/>\nMargo L. Cook, Chair, University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees<\/p>\n<p><strong>Student Speaker<\/strong><br \/>\nJack M. Fulton, Class of 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conferral of Baccalaureate Degrees<br \/>\n<\/strong>President Parlange<br \/>\nAssisted by Laura L. Beauvais, Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alumni Welcome<br \/>\n<\/strong>Alfred J. Verrecchia, Class of 1967, M.B.A. Class of 1972, and Honorary Degree Recipient in 2004<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alma Mater<br \/>\n<\/strong>Prerecorded and performed by Elise Felker, Class of 2020<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benison<\/strong><br \/>\nPresident Parlange<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recessional<\/strong><br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Rhode Island Class of 2020 \u2013 Undergraduate Commencement Exercises In the Thomas M. Ryan Center at 4 p.m. Friday, October 1, 2021 Prelude and Processional Opening Declaration Audrey B. Cardany, Chair, Faculty Senate; Grand Marshal The National Anthem Pre-recorded and performed by Christina Nero, Daniel Caramante, and Kristin Lafferty, Class of 2021 Greetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":581,"featured_media":0,"parent":10367,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-14248","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/581"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14248"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14278,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14248\/revisions\/14278"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/commencement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}