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Baccalaureate 2009
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Custom dictates that there are two graduation ceremonies -- Baccalaureate and Commencement. The Baccalaureate service is religious in nature and is held annually on the day before Commencement. It is an occasion for delivering a farewell sermon to the senior class whose members are prepared and qualified to enter the world of graduate and professional school as well as the world of work.

The Baccalaureate service is a reminder that the world is spiritual as well as secular, and that religion and faith play critical roles in adding meaning and depth to the human experience.

This year's Baccalaureate service will take place on Saturday, May 18, 2009 at
9 a.m. on the Spelman College Oval.

Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Ph.D. is the speaker at this year's Baccalaureate service. Gilkes, a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of African-American Studies and Sociology at Colby College in Waterville, Maine, is a scholar, author and religious leader whose teachings and writings specifically focus on the diverse role African-American women play in generating social change and more specifically, the diverse roles Black Christian women hold in the 20th century.

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"Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord"   Psalm 150