Public health graduates celebrated on the Old Campus in the morning and at a second ceremony later in the day in Battell Chapel. Above: Shalini Kapoor, Jeanna Haw and Margaret Dolin huddle for the camera on Old Campus. At right: Ferhat Kassamali, Jigar Shah and Toshio Kimura pass the time while waiting for Commencement exercises to begin.

Photographs: Terry Dagradi

Commencement speaker Mark Schoofs addresses the graduates in Battell Chapel.

Left: Megan Leaderer, Katherine Van Loon, Jigar Shah and Edward Huang gather for the morning procession. Right: Among the recipients of honorary Yale degrees at the University Commencement were women’s advocate Ela Ramesh Bhatt, film director Steven Spielberg and civil rights attorney Robert Carter, who successfully argued the Brown vs. Board of Education case before the Supreme Court a half century ago. Schoofs cited Carter in his speech.