Convocation 2015-16

2016 Classics Convocation

(photos courtesy of David Meadows, Meghan Vaillancourt and the Classics Department)

A graduation ceremony in Grant Hall from the stages perspective — Queen's Convocation - Ceremony #20: June 20th at 10:00 a.m.

A picture of people seated in Grant Hall — Classics Graduates awaiting the call to the stage to receive their degrees

A student walking across stage to receive their degree — *A Classics graduand receives her degree from the Chancellor.*

Graduates outside a building on its steps — *Big smiles from the new graduates as they are joined by faculty post-ceremony.*

A graduate holding an award in each hand

Left:
Amelia Morris-Briggs, holds the 2016 Medal in Classical Studies, as well as the Medal in Greek from convocation in May 1925 by Isabel C. (Brown) Buchanan (who bequeathed the medal to the Department of Classics upon her death in 1996).

Right:
The 2016 recipients of the Herman Tracy Book Prize in Classics, Cassie Petersen and Meghan Vaillancourt, holding a photo of Herman Tracy, Queen's Classics professor from 1929 to 1961 and head of the department from 1934 to 1961.

The Classics Department's Convocation Reception

Graduates in line waiting to get cake A faculty member getting a piece of cake A group of people talking

A graduate next to a 175th anniversary of Queen's University banner A graduate holding flowers next to a faculty member A graduate on the right of a 175th anniversary of Queen's University banner

A group of people standing next to a 175th anniversary of Queen's University banner Student with their family and faculty

A student and faculty member laughing Two people standing next to a 175th anniversary of Queen's University banner

A student and faculty member talking while getting food A student and family member smiling A student and faculty member standing next to a 175th anniversary of Queen's University banner