2025 Convocation Program

Overview

Prelude Music

Processional

Sheep May Safely Graze
Johann Sebastian Bach

Kristi Helfen, piano

Call to Order

Badia Ahad, Presiding
Dean, Oxford College

Invocation

Brent Huckaby
Chaplain, Oxford College

Welcome Remarks to the Entering Class

Badia Ahad

Gregory L. Fenves
President, Emory University

Lanny Liebeskind
Interim Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Emory University

Musical Selection

A Shining Star
Earth, Wind and Fire
Performed by Oxford Soul Collective

Address

Erin C. Tarver
Professor of Philosophy and Humanities Division Chair
Humanities Division

Class of 2028 Pinning

Darleny Cepin
Senior Associate Dean of Campus Life
Oxford College

Jack Steffen
Oxford SGA President

The Alma Mater

In the heart of dear old Emory
Where the sun doth shine,
That is where our hearts are turning
’Round old Emory’s shrine.

We will ever sing thy praises,
Sons and daughters true.
Hail we now our Alma Mater,
Hail the Gold and Blue!

Tho’ the years around us gather,
Crowned with love and cheer,
Still the memory of Old Emory Grows
to us more dear.

We will ever sing thy praises,
Sons and daughters true.
Hail we now our Alma Mater,
Hail the Gold and Blue!
—J. Marvin Rast 1918C

Benediction

Brent Huckaby

Recessional

Largo from Symphony No. 9
Antonín Dvořák
(The audience will remain seated.)

Chief Marshal

Susan Youngblood Ashmore
Charles Howard Candler Professor of History
Oxford College

Faculty Marshal

Brenda Harmon
Professor of Pedagogy
Oxford College