From the front steps of the Cedric Rucker University Center to the Lee Hall terrace and around the rim of Ball Circle, proud family and friends cheered their hearts out Saturday morning for the University of Mary Washington’s 2024 graduates.
Nearly 1,000 students from UMW’s Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business, and Education received bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the University’s 113th commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 11. Puffy clouds dotted a bright blue, sun-filled sky as the ceremony unfolded all morning long.
The culminating moment of years’ worth of work was “exciting” and “awesome,” said Veronica Namulondo, who left home in Uganda to earn an MBA at Mary Washington.
Tayin Drea Rivera-Dorazio, a transfer student from Richmond, Virginia, predicted the emotional impact of earning a degree in communication and digital studies would come to him in waves throughout the day. Read more.