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100th Convocation 2014 Address - Amazing Mice Light Up The Liberal Arts, Marc Zimmer

Convocation Addresses

Connecticut College Professor of Chemistry Marc Zimmer states, "I like to think of our educational system as an intellectual maze. New students, you are standing at the entrance of this fantastic maze, a lush and verdant garden maze..."

He concludes: "We are all, faculty, students and staff tremendously privileged to be sitting here at the entrance of the amazing maze of learning."

Senior Class Speaker 96th Commencement Address, Kolton Harris

Commencement Addresses

Senior class speaker Kolton Harris '14 tells his classmates and those assembled that "we are not graduating from Connecticut College to be ordinary. Now, it is our responsibility to figure out exactly what our genius is, how it looks and what its purpose is. It is now in our hands to nurture that genius.”

President Bergeron's 96th Commencement Address, Katherine Bergeron

Commencement Addresses

In her first Commencement address at the College, President Bergeron tells the Class of 2014 that she wants to call out three qualities she has witnessed that make up what she would call the Connecticut College "difference."