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Students, Families, Friends To Celebrate Spring Commencement

May 9, 1997
For Commencement information, call the Commencement Hotline at 262-9076.

White House corespondent Rita Braver, Stein Drugs and Stein Optical founder Martin Stein, and business executive Oscar C. Boldt will speak to 4,000 eligible undergraduate, graduate and professional students celebrating commencement May 16-18.

Graduates with Bucky
Bucky will join more than 4,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in annual commencement activities May 16-18. Over the weekend, six ceremonies, starting Friday evening and winding up Sunday afternoon, will take place in the UW Field House.

Braver will speak at all three Saturday ceremonies. Chief White House correspondent for CBS News since 1993, she has covered a waterfront of issues, including last summer’s bombing at the Olympic Games and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin.

Stein, who graduated from the UW School of Pharmacy, founded Stein Drugs in 1961 and Stein Optical in 1979. His civic and philanthropic activities encompass local, state, national and international organizations. Stein will speak May 18 at 9:30 a.m.

Oscar C. Boldt will take the podium May 18 at 1 p.m. Boldt chairs the Boldt Group, the parent company of the family’s Oscar J. Boldt Construction Company. Active in a number of Fox Valley civic organizations and on boards of directors for many businesses, he holds a degree in civil engineering from the UW.

Six ceremonies will be held in the UW Field House during commencement weekend:

  • Friday, May 16, 5 p.m.: Doctorate, professional and master of fine arts degrees. Honorary degrees will be presented. (See related story.)
  • Saturday, May 17, 9:30 a.m.: Master’s and bachelor’s degrees from the College of Letters and Science, in majors from African Languages and Literature through English. (Multiple majors should attend the ceremony of the earliest lettered major: e.g., an economics/political science major should attend this ceremony.)
  • Saturday, May 17, 1 p.m.: L&S master’s and bachelor’s degrees, from French through Music.
  • Saturday, May 17, 4:30 p.m.: L&S master’s and bachelor’s degrees, from Philosophy through Zoology.
  • Sunday, May 18, 9:30 a.m.: All bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences; the schools of Education, Human Ecology, Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy; and the Institute for Environmental Studies.
  • Sunday, May 19, 1 p.m.: All bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the College of Engineering and the School of Business.

The ROTC also will commission 28 students in the Air Force, Army, Navy and Marine Corps in a ceremony May 18. Air Force Maj. Gen. Lance Lord will be guest speaker at the event, which begins at 7 p.m. in the State Capitol’s Assembly Chambers.

Commencement ceremonies are free; no tickets are required. Degree candidates are asked to arrive 20 minutes before their ceremony begins.