With speeches, sermons, songs and smiles, festooned mortar boards and crazy costumes, the Stanford community celebrated the Class of 2016's farewell to the Farm. University photographer Linda A. Cicero captured some of the festivities.
Award-winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns told graduates at Stanford’s 125th Commencement to discover the wisdom of history and understand how it shapes their lives today.
Baccalaureate speaker the Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori told graduates that the key to lifelong joy is devoting oneself to activities worthy of their full energies.
Five members of the faculty, a staff member in academic advising and three students, including an undergraduate earning a coterminal master's degree and two PhD candidates, will receive awards on Sunday, June 12, at the 125th Commencement.
The Most Rev. Dr. Katharine Jefferts Schori, head of the Episcopal Church until November 2015, will serve as the 2016 Stanford Baccalaureate speaker on June 11. Jefferts Schori graduated from Stanford in 1974 with a degree in biology.
The documentary filmmaker, who has received dozens of major awards for his work, will speak at the university's main ceremony in Stanford Stadium on Sunday, June 12.
Following is the text of the address by Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent for NBC News, as prepared for delivery at Stanford University's 124rd Commencement on June 14, 2015.
