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Wide Variety of Advice Marks Commencement 2012

  • 2012 Commencement Law Graduates

    More than 1,000 students graduated from the Law Center Sunday afternoon on Healy Lawn. More than 450 received LL.M degrees, with more than 600 receiving J.D. degrees.

  • 2012 Commencement Law Speaker 1

    Arthur Gajarsa (L’67) is hooded by Georgetown President John J. DeGioia, left, and Law Center Dean William Treanor after receiving his honorary degree.

  • 2012 Commencement Law Graduates Speaker 2

    Georgetown professor Gay McDougall speaks to Law Center graduates after accepting an honorary degree on behalf of her late husband, John Payton.

  • 2012 Commencement Law Graduate

    Christopher Ezekiel Nelson (L'12) is the lone recipient of the master's of studies in law during Sunday's ceremony.

  • 2012 Commencement Law Family

    Graduates embraced family members after receiving for their law degrees.

  • 2012 Commencement Med Graduates

    More than 190 Georgetown graduates received medical degrees during Sunday morning's commencement exercises at Warner Theatre.

  • 2012 Commencement Med Honorary Degrees

    Drs. Ross Fletcher and Michael Zasloff are seated after receiving honorary degrees from the School of Medicine. Fletcher is chief of staff at Washington DC VA Medical Center, and Zasloff is an internationally recognized immunologist at Georgetown.

  • 2012 Commencement Med Speaker

    Dr. Michael Zasloff tells Georgetown's newest class of medical doctors to remain curious about the "many secrets yet to be discovered" about the human body.

  • 2012 Commencement Med Hippocratic Oath

    Graduates recite the Hippocratic Oath after having their medical degrees conferred.

  • 2012 Commencement MSB Graduates

    More than 340 graduating seniors from the McDonough School of Business wait to be seated for Saturday evening commencement exercises on Healy Lawn.

  • 2012 Commencement MSB Speaker

    “Business ideas are a dime a dozen. It’s easy to have an idea, but execution is hard," Tim O’Shaughnessy (B'04), Living Social CEO and co-founder, tells graduating business students.

  • 2012 SFS Commencement 2

    Ela Bhatt, a defender of the rights of poor and marginal women for more than 60 years, delivered the commencement address to graduates of the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

  • 2012 SFS Commencement 3

    A graduate at the School of Foreign service ceremony waves to his friends and family in the audience.

  • 2012 SFS Commencement 1

    Nearly 400 students received a bachelor’s in foreign service during the Walsh School of Foreign Service commencement ceremony on Saturday afternoon.

  • 2012 NHS Commencement 2 - Graduates

    The School of Nursing & Health Studies graduated 206 students – 115 with a bachelor’s of science in nursing and 91 with a bachelor’s of science.

  • 2012 NHS Commencement 1 - Mark Green

    Mark Green, senior director of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, delivers the commencement address at the School of Nursing & Health Studies.

  • 2012 COL Commencement 1 - Jeff Green

    Jeff Green, who attended Georgetown from 2004-07 before leaving for the NBA, fulfills his goal – and a promise to his mother - to earn a Georgetown degree.

  • 2012 COL Commencement 2 - David Simon

    David Simon, creator of the critically acclaimed television dramas “The Wire” and “Treme,” receives an honorary degree from Georgetown President John J. DeGioia before delivering a commencement address.

  • 2012 COL Commencement 3 - Aerial

    Almost 900 Georgetown College students and their families and friends gather on Healy Lawn for the 2012 commencement ceremony.

  • 2012 Commencement- Scott Case

    Entrepreneur and inventor Scott Case, the founding chief technology officer of Priceline, speaks to an audience of students graduating from the School of Continuing Studies (SCS).

  • 2012 SCS Commencement Students

    Graduating SCS students pull out their cell phones to text and send Facebooks messages of gratitude at their commencement speaker's behest.

  • 2012 MBA Commencement 1 - MBA

    Barry Salzberg, global CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited, speaks to the graduates of the MBA and executive leadership program.

  • 2012 MBA Commencement 2 - Graduate

    The McDonough School of Business awarded nearly 500 MBA and 27 executive master's in leadership degrees during the Friday afternoon commencement ceremony.

  • 2012 MBA Commencement Jack and JJ

    Graduate students from the McDonough School of Business say their goodbyes to mascot Jack the Bulldog and mascot-in-training Jack Jr. before their commencement ceremony.

  • 2012 Grad Commencement 1 - Speaker

    Helen Neville, who holds the Robert and Beverly Lewis Endowed Chair at the University of Oregon, addresses students at the Graduate School commencement.

  • 2012 Grad Commencement 3 - Graduates

    More than 1,400 students – 106 who earned Ph.D.'s and 1,348 who earned master’s degrees – graduated from the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences on Friday.

  • 2012 Grad Commencement 2 - Graduates

    Newly graduated students of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences don their hoods during the Friday morning commencement ceremony.

  • ROTC Commissioning

    The 23 graduating ROTC members of the Hoya Battalion enter Gaston Hall for the 94th Annual Commissioning Ceremony.

  • ROTC Commissioning

    Newly commissioned Second Lieutenant Sean Freeh (SFS'12), son of former FBI director Louis Freeh, left, shakes hands with Georgetown President John J. DeGioia.

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May 21, 2012 – More than 5,400 students graduating over the weekend got advice from such luminaries as “The Wire” creator David Simon, brain plasticity expert Helen Neville and LivingSocial CEO Tim O’Shaughnessy.

Nine commencement ceremonies took place May 17-20:

  • College
  • School of Foreign Service
  • School of Nursing & Health Studies
  • McDonough School of Business (MSB) undergraduate program
  • MSB’s MBA and other graduate programs
  • Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
  • Law Center
  • School of Medicine
  • School of Continuing Studies

Share the Future

Simon, who spoke at the College commencement, apologized to graduates for his generation’s squandering of the opportunity to “deliver a great society.”

“My generation owes yours an apology because we definitely shanked it, we choked,” said Simon, who also created the TV show “Treme.”

“We took our eyes off the prize which was always this – there can’t be two Americas, one for the fortunate and another for the rest. All of us must share the same future, like it or not,” he said.

Find Your Passion

At the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences commencement, Neville, professor of psychology and neuroscience at the University of Oregon, told graduates to help those who are less privileged and to fulfill their career aspirations.

“Take your time in figuring out your path – the path that you really love, your passion,” she said. “And it often does take a long time, but once you find it, you never have to ‘work’ a day in your life.”

Find Smart People

Tim O’Shaughnessy (B’04), CEO of LivingSocial, advised graduates of the McDonough School of Business to make themselves “the dumbest person in the room.”

“Find the smartest people you can and latch into them,” he said. “They will push you, help you solve problems, be the yin to your yang.”

O’Shaughnessy said he decided eight years ago that he wanted to create jobs.

“I could think of nothing better than giving people a reason to get up to go to work in the morning and [have] financial security,” he said.

Honors and Recognitions

All three speakers received honorary degrees, as did several other speakers. Each school also held award-giving ceremonies for faculty and students, and 150 students were recognized for their public service in Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice, Teaching and Research.

Former FBI director Louis Freeh spoke at the ROTC commissioning ceremony, at which his son, Sean Freeh (SFS’12) and other students became second lieutenants in the U.S. Army.

For complete coverage of the ceremonies, click here.

 

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