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1:00 p.m. at Karlen Quadrangle: Pick up Your Line Ticket
As soon as you arrive at Karlen Quadrangle, pick up your line ticket. If you are receiving a master’s degree, a DPT degree, or a bachelor’s degree with a major that, alphabetically, is at the beginning of the alphabet, you will be in the MAROON line. If you are receiving a bachelor’s degree with a first major that, alphabetically, is at the middle or end of the alphabet, you will be in the WHITE line. The lineup order is alphabetical by name within each department.
*If you are a double major, your line ticket will be with the department you informed the Registrar’s Office you intend to walk with. Any changes made this week, either through the Academic Deans’ Office, Registrar’s Office, or Alumni & Parent Relations, will be written in and must be confirmed prior to 1:30 p.m.
Note: After the line tickets are distributed in Karlen Quad, the Faculty Marshals will cross off the names from Provost Behling’s reading list of students who did not pick up their tickets. These names will not be read during the Commencement Ceremony. Be sure to pick up your ticket even if you should happen to learn your lineup number and where to stand in line from some other source.
1:30 p.m. at Karlen Quadrangle: Line Up According to the Number on Your Line Ticket
At 1:30 p.m., you will hear an announcement over a loudspeaker that it is time to line up. There will be stakes along the sidewalks that correspond to the numbers on the lineup tickets. At 1:30 p.m., go to your lineup spot on the sidewalk. Maroon ticket holders form a line starting from the southwest corner of Jones Hall northward along the walkway to the library. White ticket holders form a line starting from the southwest corner of Jones Hall westward along the walkway to Thompson Hall. Not all graduates will be present. Make sure you are standing behind the next lowest lineup number and in front of the next highest lineup number.
1:50 p.m. at Karlen Quadrangle: Depart for Baker Stadium on Your Last Student Walk across Campus
Faculty Marshals will bring the maroon and white lines together to walk across campus along Commencement Walk in a double line. Leading the lines will be two graduating students serving as Standard Bearers carrying the Commencement Banner and the Class Banner. Along the way, graduates will process past an “honor guard” of faculty in front of Todd and Phibbs Halls. Once we start marching to the stadium, please keep the line moving and do not stop for any reason, particularly while marching past the faculty.
2:00 p.m. The double line of graduates arrives at Peyton Field in Baker Stadium
The ceremony begins with the playing of Pomp and Circumstance and the seating of the graduates. Graduates in the maroon line will sit on the west side of the field. Graduates in the white line will sit on the east side. The Faculty Marshals will seat you. Follow their directions. At Baker Stadium, please remain standing until the completion of the invocation. It is important that you stay for the entire ceremony. This is a matter of university tradition and courtesy to others. Leaving early for reasons other than a serious emergency is impolite and disrespectful.
Awarding Degrees
After the Commencement Address, Bachelor’s degrees are awarded. Provost Behling will ask you to stand; President Crawford will confer the degree, and then you will come forward row by row to receive your diploma cover (the actual diploma comes later after spring grades are received and completion of degree requirements is verified). Persons in the first row of bachelor’s graduates move to the platform as instructed by the Faculty Marshals. Other rows sit down until instructed by the Marshals to go to the platform.
Graduate degrees are awarded after the bachelor’s degrees. Provost Behling will ask you to stand; President Crawford will confer the degree, and then you will come forward row by row. Persons in the first row move to the platform as instructed by the Faculty Marshals. Other rows sit down until instructed by the Marshals to go to the platform.
At the platform, the objective is that when Provost Behling reads your name it is you (and not someone else) who is standing there ready to march across the platform. This objective will be realized if all graduates in attendance pick up their line tickets at Karlen Quad and then get into their correct order in line. At the platform, follow the Faculty Marshal’s direction. When Provost Behling reads your name, move across the platform, receive your diploma cover from President Crawford, pause to have your picture taken, then go down the center stairs, and return to your seat by the center aisle. It is important to be careful going down the stairs. Keep one hand on the railing, one hand on your diploma cover, and both eyes on the stairs so that you will not trip.
The Recessional
After the Alma Mater is sung at the end of the ceremony, Faculty Marshals will lead the platform party, then the faculty, and then the graduates from the stadium. Meet your family and friends at the Puget Sound Commencement Reception on the Event Lawn immediately following the ceremony.
General Information:
• It is important that you preserve the dignity and integrity of this special ceremony. To this end, you are required to wear the regalia over your regular attire in order to participate in Commencement.
• Please remove the mortarboard for all prayers and the Alma Mater.
• Wear the tassel on the left side and leave it there. Pin the tassel far enough back so that it will be out of your face when the photographer takes your picture on the platform.
• Commencement is an alcohol-free ceremony. So that the dignity of the ceremony may be preserved and so that afterwards you will remember this important event in your life, please do not bring alcohol to the campus with you this day.
Reminders & updates for this week:
"Help me pronounce your name!" with Provost Laura Behling
We want to make sure your full name is pronounced correctly as you walk across the stage to receive your diploma. If, from experience, you find that people sometimes mispronounce your first, middle, or last name, Provost Laura Behling, who reads the names during the Commencement ceremony, will be available to go over pronunciation of your name. You can find the Provost at during the following additional dates and times:
Tuesday, May 10 - 12:30 to 2 pm, Rasmussen Rotunda in Wheelock Student Center during Cap & Gown Distribution
Wednesday, May 11 - 9 am to Noon, Rasmussen Rotunda in Wheelock Student Center during Cap & Gown Distribution
Cap & Gown Distribution
Cap and gown distribution has been rescheduled to Tuesday, May 10 and Wednesday, May 11 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Rasmussen Rotunda in Wheelock Student Center due to an unexpected shipping delay with our regalia vendor.
As a reminder, a family member or friend may pick up the cap and gown for a graduate who cannot attend during these distribution hours. They will need to show a note of pickup approval from the graduate or a receipt of purchase. There will also be a last-chance distribution on Sunday, May 15 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on the garden level of Jones Hall.
If you have any questions, please reach out to Academic Affairs, academicdeans@pugetsound.edu, or Alumni & Parent Relations, alumoffice@pugetsound.edu, and check out the Commencement website for all updates.
We look forward to celebrating this momentous day with all of you.
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