Saturday, June 6
1:10-2:45 p.m.
Library Quad
Ivy Exercises is an informal event presented by the Officers of the Senior Class. Members of the Class plant ivy, read the Class Poem and the Class History, perform music and sing the College Song. The Dean of the College announces over 100 student awards. The George Olmsted Jr. Class of 1924 Prize for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching is awarded to outstanding high school teachers nominated by Williams students. The event ends with the 100-year-old tradition of dropping a watch; if the watch breaks, the class will have good luck!
Please note: In the event of forecasted rain or weather at any point over the weekend, Ivy Exercises will be held in Chapin Hall.
Order of Exercises
Processional*
Ivy Planting
Lili Carolyn Winkelman
Opening Remarks
Christopher Flores and Dylan Arya Safai
Awarding of Olmsted Prizes
Gretchen Long
Dean of the College
Olmsted Prize Recipients
James Godoy
Lee Vining High School
Lee Vining, CA
Nominated by Ellery Alice Barngrove McQuilkin
Eric Haltmeier
Pingree School
South Hamilton, MA
Nominated by Olivia Mary Robertson
Noah Lippe-Klein
Susan Miller Dorsey High School
Los Angeles, CA
Nominated by Khedija Shafi
Kristen Murphy
Hopkinton High School
Hopkinton, MA
Nominated by Vania Gautam
Class History
Tryphena Bossman
Awarding of Student Prizes
Gretchen Long
Dean of the College
Class Poem
Dylan Arya Safai
Awarding of Student Prizes
Gretchen Long
Dean of the College
Musical Performance
“Isn’t She Lovely” by Stevie Wonder
Performed by Michael Ma
Accompaniment by Sachin Kirtane, Tzevi Schwartz and Cole Chopra Whitten
Awarding of Student Prizes
Gretchen Long
Dean of the College
Closing Remarks
Qi Wang
The Mountains
1. O, proudly rise the monarchs of our mountain land,
With their kingly forest robes, to the sky,
Where Alma Mater dwelleth with her chosen band,
And the peaceful river floweth gently by.
The mountains! The mountains! We greet them with a song,
Whose echoes rebounding their woodland heights along,
Shall mingle with anthems that winds and fountains sing,
Till hill and valley gaily, gaily ring.
2. Beneath their peaceful shadows may old Williams stand,
Till suns and mountains nevermore shall be,
The glory and the honor of our mountain land,
And the dwelling of the gallant and the free.
—Washington Gladden, Class of 1859
Ringing of the College Bells
Ingrid B. Colafati, Garrett Jessen Makosky and Nathaniel James Welsh
Watch Dropping
Katherine Bai, Thomas Howard Huckans and Rem Johannknecht
* Prerecorded music by the Zambezi Marimba Band of Williams College