Commencement Highlights
Ben Barnhart photo
Weather: rainy
Undergraduate degrees: c. 4,000
Graduate degrees: c. 1,300
Stockbridge degrees: 107
Isenberg School graduates: c. 400
Nurses' pins: 154
Phi Beta Kappa installees: 208
R.O.T.C. cadets: 13
Student speaker & quote: Litza J. Melendez, journalism major from Amherst - "Class of 2000, we made it through Whitmore!"
Memorabilia: tennis balls lobbed by Billie Jean King,
giant inflatable penis lofted over School of Management section.
For a virtual immersion in Commencement 2000 (minus the giant inflatable penis) check out http://www.umass.edu/commencement
