Grinnell College Commencement speaker and novelist Jamaica Kincaid addressed the 440 graduates on Central Campus Mon., May 21. If you missed it, you can see the complete 2012 Exercises of Commencement online.
Honorary Degrees
- Jamaica Kincaid, Doctor of Humane Letters
- Kay Bucksbaum ’51, Doctor of Laws
- Pat Irwin ’77, Doctor of Humane Letters
Charge to the Graduates
Student Award Winners
- Eric Joseph Ritter, President's Medal
- Emily Elizabeth Blythe, Andrew W. Archibald Prize for Highest Scholarship
Recognition of Faculty Members Emeriti
- Dee Fairchild, Associate Professor of Physical Education
- Christopher McKee, Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Library Science
- Helen Scott, Associate Professor of Russian
- Saadi A. Simawe, Associate Professor of English
Recognition of Faculty Moving to Senior Faculty Status
- Sigmund Barber, Professor of German
- Victoria L. Brown, L.F. Parker Professor of History
- Robert R. Cadmus Jr., Professor of Physics, Breid-McFarland Professor of Science
- Timothy Chasson, Professor of Art
- Janice R. Gross, Seth Richards Professor in Modern Languages; Professor of French
- Jennifer Michaels, Professor of German, Samuel R. and Marie-Louise Rosenthal Professor of Humanities
- Charles H. Sullivan, Professor of Biology
- Roger R. Vetter, Professor of Music
