94-05-12 U.Va. Graduation Weekend Events Set for May 21-22

U.VA. GRADUATION WEEKEND EVENTS SET FOR MAY 21-22

     CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., May 12 -- More than 20,000 persons,
including family members and friends of the University of
Virginia's 1994 graduating class, are expected to fill the historic
Lawn for Final Exercises on Sunday, May 22.
     Weather permitting, the ceremony will begin with the
traditional and colorful academic procession from the Rotunda at 10
a.m.   Virginia Gov. George F. Allen, an alumnus of the College of
Arts and Sciences and School of Law, will deliver the commencement
address.  Approximately 4,200 degrees will be awarded.
     After President John T. Casteen III confers baccalaureate,
graduate and professional degrees, the 1994 graduates will receive
their diplomas in separate ceremonies organized by each of the
University's 10 schools at various locations around the Grounds.
     Inclement weather sites for Final Exercises vary according to
schools and departments, with University Hall serving as the rain
site for the College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
ceremony and Gov. Allen's address.  (For details on inclement
weather sites, see the enclosed schedule.)
     Following the main ceremony Sunday, U.S. Surgeon General M.
Joycelyn Elders will speak at a diploma ceremony for School of
Medicine graduates on the lawn opposite the medical school.   The
location will be the same in inclement weather.
     John Merchant, a lawyer with the Connecticut Office of
Consumer Counsel who in 1958 became the first African-American
graduate of the School of Law, will speak at the law school's
diploma ceremony in McIntire Amphitheater.  The rain site is
Memorial Gymnasium.
     On Saturday, May 21, ABC News Chief White House correspondent
Brit Hume, a 1965 graduate of the College, will speak at Class
Valediction Exercises.  The ceremony, which also features
presentation of the graduating class's gift of an endowment for
student scholarships, will begin at 11 a.m. on the Lawn. 
University Hall is the rain site.
     All ceremonies and addresses are open to the public.
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                                                     May 11, 1994

Karen A. Castle
University News Office
kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu
(804) 924-7116


[Submitted by: Karen A. Castle  (kac@uva.pcmail.virginia.edu)
               Thu, 12 May 94 09:22:24 EDT]