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Commencement 201J /'•—^Mote commencement Volume 82, Issue 30 Web Edition clarion.brevard.edu SERVING BREVARD COLLEGE SINCE 1935 I\Aore photos, graduates favorite BC memories, and otherfeatutes inside! May 11, 2017 'We're brilliant' Largest class since the college became a four-year institution receive diplomas in BC’s 164th commencement exercises The weather Saturday morning was breezy and unseasonably cool, downright chilly in fact, but not even temperatures in the low 50s could cool the spirits on campus as Brevard College celebrated its largest graduating class since it be came a four-year college more than 20 years ago. More than 160 seniors marched in the col lege’s 164th commencement exercises May 8, dressed in traditional black gowns but adorned with colorful hoods representing the diversity of their fields of study. The Saturday morning event concluded a weekend of celebration that started Friday night in the Porter Center with the baccalaureate and hooding ceremony, during which seniors were “hooded” by a faculty or staff" member— a sign of the personal connections students make with professors, coaches, and other staff at BC en route to their degree. As is tradition, two members of the graduating class spoke as the featured speakers at Saturday morning’s ceremony; Kate Brandhuber, a busi ness and organizational leadership major and environmental studies minor from Dothan, Ala., and Tiela Smith, a criminal justice major from Pine Bush, N.Y. In her speech. Smith compared the time she and her classmates had spent at Bre vard College to caterpillars in a cocoon under going a metamorphosis into something greater. “Today, we realize we have transformed to who we are right at this very moment,” Smith said. “We no longer are those tiny caterpillars. We decided to evolve into something better. We’re brilliant.” In her speech, Brandhuber eloquently sum marized how each of Brevard College’s majors prepare students for life after college. See 'Graduation,' page 2 Tiela Smith, a criminal justice major from Pine Bush, N.Y., was one of two seniors chosen by college officials to address the graduating class at Brevard College’s commencement exercises Saturday.
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