This collection is comprised of materials relating to Commencement activities at Bennington College. Materials in the collection include correspondence, memoranda, programs, speech transcripts, and photographs.
For the virtual 2020 commencement all seniors were mailed a keepsake box containing:
a cap and tassel, a "tricky chickie cookie", as a tribute to the Dining Hall’s tricked-out chicken sandwich, stickers, a key ring, a ...
Bennington College's Eighty-fifth Commencement and first-ever virtual ceremony. Commencement addresses on May 29 by Deja' Haley, '20 and Nigel Poor, '86. Remarks by faculty speaker Phillip B. Williams on May 30.
We wanted to share some ways you can engage with the 2022
Commencement process. There will be a Commencement Speaker Committee formed to make recommendations to President Walker, who will make the final decision.
For all that this class has accomplished—and under the most trying of circumstances in these final months—we are celebrating the Bennington College Class of 2020 twice, beginning with a Virtual Commencement Ceremony at the ...
"Thanks for your friendly invitation to speak at Bennington. Sorry must decline because of incurable fear of platform and young girls. I wish I were different. E.B. White"