May 1, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: Calvin College will hold its 2008 Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 17 at 2 p.m. at VanAndel Arena in downtown Grand Rapids with some 850 graduates expected to take part. The Commencement address will be by Christian author Philip Yancey.
Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/commencement.htm
Because of construction on campus, graduates of Calvin College will have their 2008 Commencement ceremony in downtown Grand Rapids.
The May 17 ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. at VanAndel Arena, on Fulton Street in downtown GR and will mark the 88th such conferring of four-year degrees in Calvin's 132-year history. About 850 graduates are expected to participate.
The speaker for 2008 will be author Philip Yancey, a former editor of Campus Life magazine who now is a prolific freelance writer, an editor-at-large for Christianity Today magazine and author of 16 books, including The Bible Jesus Read, Reaching for the Invisible God, Soul Survivor, and Rumors of Another World.
Also 1959 graduate Fritz Rottman and 1966 graduates David and Janice Entingh Dykgraaf will receive the 2008 Distinguished Alumni Award from the Calvin Alumni Association.
In addition to the ceremony at VanAndel Arena a number of events that weekend will take place on campus.
For example the annual department of nursing pinning ceremony will be held on Thursday, May 15 in the Fine Arts Center. The Commencement worship service will happen on Friday, May 16 at 5 p.m. in the Calvin Chapel, the celebration cookout will also be that day on the Commons Lawn, there will be a bachelor of arts exhibition and reception in the Spoelhof College Center Art Gallery, a reception for international students and their parents and much more.
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