While their Senior Week was filled with sun and warm temperatures, the Class of 2012 wasn’t so lucky on Sunday, May 13.
Fortunately, Marietta College’s 175th Commencement was inside the temperature-controlled Dyson Baudo Recreation Center and the spirits remained positive. That is where Marietta College President Dr. Jean A. Scott, who was presiding over her 12th and final graduation, and Provost Dr. Gama Perruci handed out the diplomas in a variety of 44 different majors in front of more than 2,000 family and friends.
Friends Baylee Brown and Vanessa Wilson were pumped up for class, sitting in the front row and wondering what they would learn about for the next 30 minutes.
The floor littered with fragments of colorful balloons and the smell of smoke still lingering in the air, the two fifth-grade girls knew it had to be something good.
Marietta College’s Concert Choir will begin a seven-day, six-show, four-state spring tour starting in Bristol, Va., on May 14.
