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June 14, 2000

Tears flowed freely under mortarboards as the final strains of the Stanford Hymn, sung by the chamber chorale, signaled the closing chapter for Stanford's 109th graduating class on Sunday morning, June 11, and the final time President Gerhard Casper would confer the degrees.

Photo: Kimberley Sheafe, a mechanical engineering graduate, listens to the Commencement address.

Photo by Rod Searcey

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